Sunday Morning Talk Show Circuit

Is anybody as tired of seeing Dick Cheney on TV as I am? Truth be told I thought we saw

the last of Dick Cheney in January yet there he is, every Sunday morning, bloviating, on how

unsafe we have all become, now that no one’s being tortured. Give it a break Dick, Obama said

he wanted to move forward, (thats code for, your not going to jail) man up already.

If you feel the need to talk about something meaningful on Sunday Morning. Why don’t you

explain to the American people how you let a 5′-1” North Korean Dictator, get his hands on a

nuclear devise? Now that would be some interesting television.

Kim Jon Ill didn’t just wake up one day and pull a nuke out of his shorts. No, he built it

while you and your buddy the “Crawford Crusader” spent 8 long years deciding who you were

and weren’t going to talk to? Does this remind anyone else of an elementary school

playground?

Maybe you should have been paying a little less attention to torturing Afghani’s and a little

more attention to protecting us from rouge states with nuclear aspirations.

So, word to the wise Dick, you have absolutely no chance of getting a Democratic

administration to torture prisoners. None, what so ever. Now I know what you were thinking, if

Barack tortures too, they won’t try both of us for war crimes , and that would have been a

beautiful plan, if we were all still in 6th grade. But were not Dick and you need to go home now

cause it’s big people time.

Enhanced Interrogation Technique’s

Enhanced Interrogation Technique’s

Why is there a debate about whether enhanced interrogation is torture? Do the people who

engaged in these activities really think that if they call it something else it will indeed be

something else? Or do they believe that we as a culture, have become so insipidly simple

minded that merely altering the name is all that is necessary to legally engage in such

activities? Words as it turns out are not only tools to communicate thoughts and ideas but also a

way to provide cover for those of us who don’t wish to (for whatever reason) act or react with

civility.

I remember a story I heard as a child and although I can’t recite it exactly (it was a long time

ago) I won’t lose the meaning, it went kind of like this.

God calls the Archangel Micheal before him to reveal his latest creation, Man. God says to

Micheal, behold Man is cleaver and I need to conceal the ultimate truth from him until he is

ready. Micheal contemplates this for a while and finally says we should put it at the bottom of

the deepest ocean. God quickly dismisses this as to achievable for man. Micheal counters, we

should put it on the top of the tallest mountain. God pictures this in his mind for a moment but

dismisses it also. Then Micheal said, we should hide it inside of him, because only when man

truly knows himself would he have access to the truth.

Deep down underneath the masks, the houses, the cars and the clothes each and every one of

us needs to be honest with ourselves. The real question here isn’t, were people tortured, the

question here is what are they hiding behind the words? A rose by any other name, is just a

rose.