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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    10/31/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Biden was the most inscrutable choice, ever, for VP. Instead of "change" Obama brought out an old hack, who had trouble with both truth telling, even during the campaign, and with inserting his foot into his mouth. Oh, to know what kind of negotiation that was, to get him on the ticket---except, perhaps to allay terrified old white guys who feared a woman and a (half)black man on the ticket would bring on the apocalypse. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Joe Biden is everything thats wrong and fucked up with congress. This dope won his seat in the Senate when he was 29 and has never had another job until being VP. He has learned about as much about how the country works from his perch in DC as Palin learned about Russia from staring at it. He is walking proof we need term limits.

    And he doesn't drink. I don't trust people who don't drink, unless they've already been alcoholics. #joebiden
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    Image of Motoko Kusanagi Motoko Kusanagi
    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Why is it that I feel compelled to defend Gawker's subject matter against the editors/writers at least once a day lately?

    Either this new crop of staff writers is utterly fucked, or the editorial direction has taken a nosedive, or both.

    Is there some negative correlation between the quality of stories and the quality of AJAX/CSS? #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    @Motoko Kusanagi: From where I'm standing, it would appear to be a positive correlation. It's a good day when I get tripped up by fewer than five unresponsive scripts, infinite waits for comments to load or what have you. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    @romulus: The site gets prettier, and the content gets lamer. Just callin it as I see it. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    @Motoko Kusanagi: Oh yeah, I didn't mean to quibble. I agree that the site gets fancier all the time, but features seem to break often. I should have added before that it could well be my OS and browser causing headaches most readers don't experience. And in all fairness, I haven't been reading long enough to judge contemporary content against the past. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Not sure what point you're trying to make, Amrita... that you think Cheney's worldview makes some sense? That Cheney was initially popular, before everything he did brought his popularity rating to a low of 28%? I love it that Biden is willing to call a moron a moron. This is a ridiculous post. #joebiden
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    Image of Conchie Birdie Conchie Birdie
    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Oh, and if you're trying to poke fun at Vice Prez Biden for weeping during the debate when he spoke about his first wife and baby daughter who died, well then, that's just messed up. #joebiden
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    10/31/09

    @Conchie Birdie: One might argue that it was the worst kind of political hackdom for him to bring them up expressly to show his "empathy" side and try to squeeze a tear out of his plastic-surgeryized eye slots. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    I'm absolutely NOT a supporter of ANYTHING Dick says... but, Good Lawwd, Biden, Bin Laden will always BE a part of the issue. I'm sorry, I guess if you had the prez saying this I could understand... but, uh, Joe? Nope.

    That being said, why are we posting crap from Fox News anyway - I thought we weren't supposed to take this stuff seriously?
    #joebiden
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    04/17/09

    In reply to Bush Officials Explain Why We Shouldn't Admit Torture: Because Then They'll Know We Torture!
    What method has been shown to reveal reliable evidence? Has someone presented a more effective alternative, and if so, why aren't we using it? The government tries to gather information via wire tapping and people are up in arms about that as well. I want to get behind an alternative method that has been *proven* to work. So please....anyone... give me one example.
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    Image of Mediahohoho Mediahohoho
    04/17/09

    @pooks: Will this suffice?


    [www.amazon.com]


    Actually, this is the most disgraceful chapter in American history. These memos reveal a depraved indifference to what America is and what we stand for.


    As for wire tapping, we've had FISA, which is a perfectly workable way to legally wiretap threats to National Security, in place since the 1970s. It's not a question of whether we wiretap. It' a question of whether we do it according to the constitution.


    Also...Mukasey has proven himself to be a partisan hack once again. He was a joke as Attorney General, and he's being embarrassed by someone who does the job half right.


    Finally, it's only half the job. By choosing not to prosecute, the Obama administration comes dangerously close to endorsing the Bush administration's crimes. I'll remember it at election time.

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    04/17/09

    @pooks: I would really like to know that you were asking that in earnest and not in that rightwing way of saying "prove something to me that I believe in my heart can't be proved." Because the link I provided you to the book How to Break a Terrorist not only answers your question and goes one better to explain--from the point of view of an interrogator in Iraq--how many US military deaths the torture that was done actually caused. It would be nice if people took seriously the point of view of people who actually have experience with things like interrogating terrorists. Thanks.
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    04/17/09

    In reply to Bush Officials Explain Why We Shouldn't Admit Torture: Because Then They'll Know We Torture!
    hey good piece!
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    Image of sirjohnoldcastle sirjohnoldcastle
    04/17/09

    In reply to Bush Officials Explain Why We Shouldn't Admit Torture: Because Then They'll Know We Torture!
    I just don't understand why real life isn't more like 24.
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    Image of badasscat badasscat
    04/17/09

    @sirjohnoldcastle: And neither do these guys, apparently.
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    Image of RheaPollstry RheaPollstry
    04/17/09

    In reply to Bush Officials Explain Why We Shouldn't Admit Torture: Because Then They'll Know We Torture!
    I love the term "enhanced interrogation". You know, like the way a sexual encounter is enhanced by a coke-fueled beating. It's just enhanced, y'all.
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    Image of bytememehard bytememehard
    04/17/09

    @RheaPollstry: Like Robert Chambers enhanced Jennifer Levin's orgasm with strangulation play.
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    Image of HiredGoons HiredGoons
    04/17/09

    In reply to Bush Officials Explain Why We Shouldn't Admit Torture: Because Then They'll Know We Torture!
    Are they really still considered 'officials'?
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    Image of ThreeWiseMen ThreeWiseMen
    04/17/09

    In reply to Bush Officials Explain Why We Shouldn't Admit Torture: Because Then They'll Know We Torture!
    Is there a way to screen out the the half-baked "news analysis" stories from my default Gawker page layout? For the same reasons I don't read the WSJ or the Economist for their witty Gossip Girl updates and fameball takedowns, I don't read Gawker for its attempts to analyze the economic crisis and foreign policy. Let's all stick to the topics we're good at, shall we?
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    04/17/09

    @ThreeWiseMen: I'm amazed it took all three of you to write that.
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    Image of Mediahohoho Mediahohoho
    04/17/09

    @ThreeWiseMen: Yeah. It's called Jossip.
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    Image of bytememehard bytememehard
    04/17/09

    In reply to Bush Officials Explain Why We Shouldn't Admit Torture: Because Then They'll Know We Torture!
    Well, smack my ass and call me Agnes! Serious, smack it. Like you mean it. Go ahead, do it.
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    Image of The Recession Is Over The Recession Is Over
    04/17/09

    In reply to Bush Officials Explain Why We Shouldn't Admit Torture: Because Then They'll Know We Torture!
    Every time Jack Bower tortures someone he seems to get really reliable intelligence right in the nick of the time. In fact, almost invariable any intel he gets that doesn't come from torture is flawed.
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    Image of BadUncle BadUncle
    04/17/09

    @xyu: Shin Bet stopped employing it years ago for exactly that reason. And they serve a country regularly menaced with the "ticking bomb scenario."
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    Image of badasscat badasscat
    04/17/09

    @xyu: But don't you see? Jack Bauer knows when you're lying. So you may as well not even try it. He's like Santa Claus that way.
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    Image of pepelicious pepelicious
    04/17/09

    In reply to Bush Officials Explain Why We Shouldn't Admit Torture: Because Then They'll Know We Torture!
    Everybody got a free pass. STFU and get over it Bushies.
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    04/17/09

    @pepelicious: Seriously, these guys should be glad they're not rotting in jail right now for war crimes and subversion of the US Constitution and the Geneva convention. What a bunch of spoiled brats that they think they can actually complain about releasing these memos.


    How about this deal, jerkoffs: you keep talking and eventually we get mad enough to stop being nice. Either that, or shut your goddamn traps and maybe this eventually becomes part of history. An embarrassing, awful part of history, but at least not one that we keep wondering if anybody should be sitting in a cell over.


    These people just still aren't getting it.

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