Thank God the GOP Has the Guts to Stand Up For the Torture, Rape and Murder of Women, the Things That Make America Great!

When Minnesota Sen Al Franken (D-MN) proposed the defunding of contractors whose employees entertain themselves with gang rape and hide behind contract rules that could expose them, the GOP went apeshit crazy with outrage.

The neomedievalists of the GOP who are dedicating every ounce of their strength to the dismantling of western civilization and to destroying the gifts of enlightenment saw something very important to hate in the bill.

The recognition of women as human beings, perhaps?

Limits on the extent to which the military-industrial-organized-crime complex can be encouraged to indulge in cackling barbarity, possibly?

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Guess what happens when you dance with Republicans? You die in a hail of gunfire apparently.

Amanda Ross’s neighbors heard the screams of the slain woman as shots rang out across the Lexington, KY condominium where her gun-shot ridden body was found in the parking lot, setting off a man-hunt for the only conceivable suspect in the case, Kentucky GOP icon Steven Nunn who’d been ordered by a court to stay away from Ross after the judge found that he’d smashed her across the face at her home on February 17, 2009.

It is clear from the statements of Ross’s friends in the local rag that the 29 year old Ross lived in quaking fear of her former fiance Nunn, son of late Gov. Louie B. Nunn, former GOP state rep and failed candidate for governor in 2003, and that everyone in town knew of her mortal terror that he would again break the restraining order, having gone to the cops to complain of a breach this summer.

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Bank of America, the most hated, incompetent and wanton financial institution to ever steal from, extort and blackmail American consumers reaches new lows every day as the 21st Century financial catastrophe grinds on to full-bore cannibal anarchy, this summer demonstrating a cackling, contemptuous diabolical disregard for the handicapped, literally flinging demands for a thumbprint at a man with no arms.

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Now that everyone’s out of town, the CIA torture report has finally been released, and Eric Holder will apparently appoint John Durham, “a career Justice Department prosecutor from Connecticut” who’s also looking into the missing torture tapes, to hang the Bad Apples by their seeds:

Durham’s mandate, the sources added, will be relatively narrow: to look at whether there is enough evidence to launch a full-scale criminal investigation of current and former CIA personnel who may have broken the law in their dealings with detainees.

Remember, “I was only following orders” is no defense. Unless you were. Or unless you gave them.

Holder to Appoint Prosecutor to Investigate CIA Terror Interrogations [WaPo]

CIA Inspector General Report [WaPo, PDF]

Sick and Twisted GOP Fucktard Ted Bathurst Allegedly Robs from the Dead

The Republican instinct for looting knows no limits, no boundaries of decency, as demonstrated by the new low in GOP ethics demonstrated by Delaware County, PA GOP thug Theodore Bathurst, recently arrested for embezzling the burial escrow accounts of his funeral home’s clients.

The Republican mayor of Glenolden, PA was arrested on Friday, August 21, for looting some $78,ooo in burial escrow accounts from a funeral parlor operation he sold in 2007, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.

The Inquirer reported today:

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The Prince of Darkess is gone.  ThinkProgress:

Novak will be remembered for outing the identity of undercover CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson in 2005, as part of the Bush administration’s battle to spin the American public on the Iraq war (even though Novak himself was a skeptic of the Iraq war). Last year, Novak said that while he had been thinking “about my life and what I’ve done right and not done right,” he wouldn’t have done anything differently. In 2007, he explained what he envisions heaven to look like: “I’m going to a place where there are no blogs.”

I predict Tweety will be a fawning, blubbering mess.

Robert Novak Passes Away [ThinkProgress]

For the umpteenth time, Babe Ruth calls center field:

The wife of Doug Manchester, the San Diego developer who helped finance the 2008 fight against same-sex marriage in California, has filed for divorce after 43 years of marriage.

Doug’s Catholic, of course. But alas, that $125,000 he spent to defend his marriage (or what remained of it, after the missus left him last October) doesn’t count toward Indulgences.

Still, there’s a silver lining: California beastiality proponents may be putting off a Prop 8 rematch until 2012. Surely Doug can cough up another 125 large by then. After the lawyers get paid.

Manchester’s wife files for divorce [SD Union-Tribune]

Key group to push repeal of Prop. 8 in 2012 [SFGate]