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In a mental world far far away – that bygone scent of neoboneheadedness wafted through the air like the heady old days when Bush thought it was hysterical to look for WMD under his desk; preconceived notions, urban myth like version of world events were confirmed by a serial liar…burp…and so excuse the liars that lead your sons and daughters to premature deaths and wounds, if that that was not a remarkable series of knock out punches, The 10 punches Dick Cheney landed on Barack Obama’s jaw. I’ve read that confronting people with deep delusional disorders may cause reactions that range from flinging applesauce against the wall, to chewing on one’s toe nails to thumb sucking. Never the less the Grand Emperor of Desk Jockey Machismo lied and then lied some more. These are the bloody patriots Mark Twain warned us about.

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What, No Waterboarding?

The Irish government has released a report detailing the vicious beatings, rape, and emotional abuse inflicted on tens of thousands children entrusted to the care of Catholic orphanages for 60 years, until the 1990s. The Times pulls out this description: “Punching, flogging, assault and bodily attacks … burning, scalding, stabbing, severe beatings with or without clothes, being made to kneel and stand in fixed positions for lengthy periods … beaten while hanging from hooks on the wall, being set upon by dogs …” Not to mention relentless sexual assault. In response to the report, the Vatican is silent, and the government names none of the abusers—a result of Church pressure and lawsuits. An apology and some cash is what is being offered to the victims. But how is it the perpetrators get to decide they will not be prosecuted? And how can this chapter be closed until every rapist and sadist still alive is tracked down and tried?

Torture, abuse and a general tendency toward sadism is the new hipper then thou deviance – just ask Dick or George or Sean or Rush. The victims and society are all the better for it. The excuses, the rationale are the stinking  bile scraped from garbage bins. Our grave and oh so serious guardians of national insecurity, values and political thought will find a twisted song and dance to differentiate themselves. Those Catholics did it for fun, neonconservatives did it to save lives? It has worked before. There is no sense facing reality now. Maybe its for the best, think of the expense for the rest of us, having to pay to have so many heads removed from so many asses.

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