Here we go again...

Back several months ago Rodger Shultz, over at the infamous "Crumudgeonly and Skeptical", posted this pic under the title "A Machine Too Far", to which nobody chose to comment on.

I, however, felt differently and so I commented as follows...

Ok, since nobody else is choosing to tackle this one, I'll be honored to do so.

What have we got here?

Let's see. We have a bunch of spineless crustaceans wandering around aimlessly in a public venue, bumping into and climbing over top of each other, spewing their excrement all over the place, charging you money while tricking you into believing you will get something out of them and then spending the remainder of their lives avoiding getting caught.

Not for nothing, it kind of reminds me of a session of the US Senate on CSPAN.

Well, for those of you who don?t know, today marked the first day of the 109th session of the United States Congress and with a 435 to 232 republican majority in the House, and a 55 to 45 republican majority in the Senate (and yes, for all intensive purposes Jumpin' Jim Jeffords(I) might just as well be counted as a Democrat), you?d think we?d be hearing news of how the right side of the isle is rolling up their sleeves and laying down the groundwork for their game plan to put America on a stronger course, but nooooooooooooooo. Instead what we here from the MSM is the same old partisan donk windbags spewing their usual excrement. It's like listening to a bunch of spoiled children having temper tantrums 'cause they ain't gettin' their way. In this Fox report, for example...

[Senate Judiciary] committee's ranking Democrat, Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont, and others of his party plan to question [Attorney General nominee Alberto] Gonzales, in particular, on his involvement in crafting U.S. policy regarding torture and coercion of detainees.

..."The upcoming hearings are a chance for some accountability and for some answers that have been lacking from the administration about its policies on torture and about the prison-abuse scandals," Leahy said in a statement Monday. "There is much to answer for."

Answer for what, for getting vital information out of terrorist combatants who seek the slaughter of anyone that doesn't subscribe to their facist views of Wahabism and who chose not to qualify for kid-glove treatment under the Geneva Conventions? Hmmmmmmm... lets see here;

Geneva Convention (III) Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War; August 12, 1949

ARTICLE 4

A. Prisoners of war, in the sense of the present Convention, are persons belonging to one of the following categories, who have fallen into the power of the enemy:


(1) Members of the armed forces of a Party to the conflict, as well as members of militias or volunteer corps forming part of such armed forces.


(2) Members of other militias and members of other volunteer corps, including those of organized resistance movements, belonging to a Party to the conflict and operating in or outside their own territory, even if this territory is occupied, provided that such militias or volunteer corps, including such organized resistance movements, fulfil the following conditions: (a) that of being commanded by a person responsible for his subordinates; (b) that of having a fixed distinctive sign recognizable at a distance; (c) that of carrying arms openly; (d) that of conducting their operations in accordance with the laws and customs of war.


(3) Members of regular armed forces who profess allegiance to a government or an authority not recognized by the Detaining Power.


(4) Persons who accompany the armed forces without actually being members thereof, such as civilian members of military aircraft crews, war correspondents, supply contractors, members of labour units or of services responsible for the welfare of the armed forces, provided that they have received authorization, from the armed forces which they accompany, who shall provide them for that purpose with an identity card similar to the annexed model.


(5) Members of crews, including masters, pilots and apprentices, of the merchant marine and the crews of civil aircraft of the Parties to the conflict, who do not benefit by more favourable treatment under any other provisions of international law.


(6) Inhabitants of a non-occupied territory, who on the approach of the enemy spontaneously take up arms to resist the invading forces, without having had time to form themselves into regular armed units, provided they carry arms openly and respect the laws and customs of war.


B. The following shall likewise be treated as prisoners of war under the present Convention:


(1) Persons belonging, or having belonged, to the armed forces of the occupied country, if the occupying Power considers it necessary by reason of such allegiance to intern them, even though it has originally liberated them while hostilities were going on outside the territory it occupies, in particular where such persons have made an unsuccessful attempt to rejoin the armed forces to which they belong and which are engaged in combat, or where they fail to comply with a summons made to them with a view to internment.


(2) The persons belonging to one of the categories enumerated in the present Article, who have been received by neutral or non-belligerent Powers on their territory and whom these Powers are required to intern under international law, without prejudice to any more favourable treatment which these Powers may choose to give and with the exception of Articles 8, 10, 15, 30, fifth paragraph, 58-67, 92, 126 and, where diplomatic relations exist between the Parties to the conflict and the neutral or non-belligerent Power concerned, those Articles concerning the Protecting Power. Where such diplomatic relations exist, the Parties to a conflict on whom these persons depend shall be allowed to perform towards them the functions of a Protecting Power as provided in the present Convention, without prejudice to the functions which these Parties normally exercise in conformity with diplomatic and consular usage and treaties.


C. This Article shall in no way affect the status of medical personnel and chaplains as provided for in Article 33 of the present Convention.

That's odd, it appears that according to the third Geneva Convention, these suicide bombing, head chopping murderers fail to meet the requirements necessary to qualify as enemy prisoners of war.

Awwwwwwwwwwww... tooooooo baaaaaaad. What a shame:(

*violins playing sad music in background*

Oh, and if I remember correctly, doesn't Senator "Leaky" have his own set of ethics baggage to worry about?

And as usual, beauty queen *gag* Nancy Pelosi was front and center with her own little temper tantrum as cited by the AP in the New York Post...

"The proposed changes [to GOP House ethics rules] are destructive and unethical," evidence of Republican arrogance and pettiness, charged Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi of California.

Poor baby. She better be careful. All that whining is just gonna add more wrinkles to that precious Miss America face of hers. Besides, if she keeps up spewing that excrement while swimming in that tank, the other lobsters just might start to avoid her altogether, making her an easy target for dinner.