If the political winds shift

* "I am the egg head, I'm the Commander, I'm the Decider. Koo-Koo-Kachoo" (link)
(via rimone)

* driftglass:

"Safe in their basements, shielded by layers of greasy ass-fat and whistle-clean, fraidy-cat arsenals they will never use, kept Mommy’s-womb-safe by the gangsters and hucksters they elect and re-elect over and over and over again from having to spend a single dime or shed a single drop of blood, they have been given their heart's darkest, fondest wish: to kill brown people by remote control and have someone else pick up the tab.
Every day they push the button.
Every. Single. Day."

* and if you need a silly laugh, read this by drifty - for no particular reason.

* Harpers:

" But what's been little noted thus far is what looks to be a similar revolt brewing at the CIA. An ex-senior agency officer who keeps in contact with his former peers told me that there is a “a big swing” in anti-Bush sentiment at Langley. “I've been stunned by what I'm hearing,” he said. “There are people who fear that indictments and subpoenas could be coming down, and they don't want to get caught up in it.”
[snip]
The attorney concluded that such actions were designed to circumvent American laws against torture and that anyone even discussing such a plan could be found criminally liable. If the political winds shift, some “bad apples” in the CIA could find themselves indicted for torture."

* comparea & contrast with drifty:

"In politics, forget all the “Omerta” and blood-oath crap, except in the most whacked-out, Gordon Liddy/Joseph Goebbels cases. Politcos are mostly just like normal people, except they have a freakishly more highly developed nose for which way the prevailing wind is blowing and whether it’s laden with the perfumes of exotic spices and distant lands...or loser stink with a side of feces .

They are lightening, Rain Man calculators when it comes to figuring out the cost/benefit of knowing -- moment-by-moment -- when to jump and which way."