Support The Detainee Basic Medical Care Act of 2008

Via Valtin, the Physicians for Human Rights organization is launching a campaign to support the Detainee Basic Medical Care Act of 2008 on its website. SR 3005 and HR 5950, sponsored by Senator Robert Menedez (D-NJ) and Representative Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), will reverse the alarming inhumane treatment of immigrant detainees. The letter [...]

Daily Constitutional: Spring Divertissements, Torture and Illegal Propaganda

[UPDATE] The links list about the illegal Iraq War propaganda campaign will be updated as I discover new stories and evidence. Please add your own gems in the comments, and I’ll get them inserted into the post pronto. Thanks.
I’ve neglected the Constitution, instead lured by the scents, sounds and sights of Spring [...]

Reach Out And Touch The Toobz

Skippy is showin’ his roo.  Embrace the roo, and use the contact info to professionally and intelligently express how far afield from the public interest and public trust veered the ABC debate:

bc new york newsroom: (212) 456-5100 newsradio@abc.com newsroom fax machine 212.456.5150
peter salinger (the man in charge of election coverage) director, special events & sports [...]

Daily Constitutional: Torture and Torturous

Military.com reports about the Pentagon’s detailed evidence of abuse of Afghan prisoners.
The LA Times addresses the horrendous state of prison health care.  And yet, no mention is made of the widespread criminalization of people with mental illness.  over 50% of all inpatient psychiatric care is delivered in prisons.  The answer isn’t in adding to the prison [...]

Rice Chaired Torture, but states, “Nobody Condones Torture”

Act to remove Condoleezza Rice as US Secretary of State.  She is a war criminal. She is an enemy of the United States.

Torture News Sources, New Media: Rejection, Repudiation and Resistance

George W Bush and Dick Cheney readily admit to planning, implementing and directing the systemic and intentional use of torture.  ABC News reports it, and promptly buries it.  No other major news media in the US report about it.  Torture is being extraordinarily renditioned to a black site, and the public goes on, largely unaware [...]

Expelled Expulsion

 [UPDATE: Darwin's Works are now online. Read and enjoy.]

 
Now, help with the cause to promote science, reason and evidence by linking to expelled.

Torture: “Never Let Your Skill Exceed Your Virtue” - “Say No, Instead Of Here’s How”

Torture:  it will never roll off the tongue without a gagging in the back of my throat. I can’t take in that George W. Bush bragged about approving torture, and that the evidence is leading to a picture of at least sixteen people inside the White House meeting again and again and again to discuss, [...]

Is This American Justice?

 
Habeas corpus was eliminated.
Defendants will not be able to see secret evidence against them.
Hearsay evidence and confessions coerced as a result of torture will be used to convict.
Is this American justice?

Help the ACLU Spread the Truth About the Trials at Guantánamo Bay.
Dear ACLU Supporter,
Last week, the ACLU stepped forward. This week, we need [...]

Wall Street Journal Shows Its Backside

[UPDATE]  My comment on the offending post didn’t appear for some time and then was inserted between prior published comments.  I am adding it at the foot of this post.
[UPDATE DEUX]  Right on cue, right wing med blogger, Kevin Pho, chimes in with his own brand of anti-nursing, conflation of issues screeching.
The WSJ Health Blog [...]

A Responsible Plan To End The War In Iraq

The Take Back America conference in Washington unveiled its national multipart plan to steer the US in a fundamentally restorative direction.  From the website executive suumary of the plan:

Executive Summary
The United States invaded Iraq in March 2003. Since then, nearly 4,000 American troops have lost their lives and nearly thirty thousand more have suffered serious [...]

The F Words: Free Is Not Fair

I recently came upon the blog of Ken Levine, a comedy writer.  I am having a ball reading about his stories in writing for television shows, but today’s post is bittersweet.  In the course of enjoying a M*A*S*H writers reunion, he explains how Fox’s NewsCorp has in essence stolen the syndication of M*A*S*H and is [...]

Free Don Siegelman!

cross posted from The Dream Antilles

photo and above text by OPOL
Today I spent several hours reading about a travesty of justice. I am thoroughly enraged.
Sometimes travesties of justice aren’t based in significant part on race or national origin or poverty or bad lawyering. No. Sometimes, powerful and good people, people who are well defended but [...]

Science Debate 2008: We Built It; Will They Come?

Today’s email brings an update from the organizers of Science Debate 2008:
Every Nobel laureate we’ve spoken to has said the same thing: the next four to eight years are critical and the next president has the potential to determine the future health of all life on earth.
Last Tuesday Bill Gates testified before Congress saying that [...]

Pakistan Black Flag Week Ends Today

The NY Times lead editorial speaks to the forward movement toward governance under a participatory democracy thus:
Parliamentary elections in Pakistan last month delivered a verdict that was just clean enough to be credible — a stern rout of President Pervez Musharraf’s party. Now, rivals Asif Ali Zardari and Nawaz Sharif, the leading opposition politicians, have [...]