p.s. Pimpalicious?

Karen Joy Fowler is awesome.

For some this subject matter is one of the most distressing of events in the world;

in paticular, any and all people on the planet concerned with the over-reaching arm of influence and power of skeptisism, ridicule and dismissive contempt against the continuing disgrace of The Iraq War and Americas complicity in human rights abuses by the elected leaders of our country.

Far to many people have been desensitized and sheltered by idealism and frank disbelief that our Constitution and the freedoms that this countries inhabitants were born into and died for could or would ever be allowed to degenerate to the level of denial and ongoing retractions and re-classifications of public testimony and explanations for policy decision made in defense of obvious transgression of law and authority.

Today's story in the Seattle Times April 11th, 2008 page 1 and continued on A6:

'Cheney OK'd CIA's harsh tactics,
Says ex-official'

is further evidence of the calamity facing America as the supposed leader of the free world.

In contrast, the large type of the headline story front and center page of today's Seattle Times is worthy of further contemplation giving the state of tension in Aisa and the resposibility of America as a nation to not only honor our citizens and the traditions of our immigrants and heritage, but to rise above the failed lessons of previous mistakes made in history to further enlighten human beings to the real value of life on this planet....

and that I believe is the perpetuation of life, not the destruction countries and the individuals or populations of people determined by changeable policy review.

What America and it's citizens should be calling for today is the release of the October 2001 memo describing

"novel ways the military could be used domestically to defend the country in the face of attack."

The excuse of The Justice Department has refused to release the October 2001 for attorney-client privilege should make us all pause for a moment and ask "which" attorney-client is being privileged....

the faces of the unseen detainees, or the face in the picture of the article in the associated press story by Lara Jakes Jordan and Pamela Hess.

I see STM didn't get that brevity patch slapped on danieletc. last night. On the other hand, his post is related to the topic, sort of.