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Incidentally, the problem of what to do with our domestic prison population has been solved by a guy named Thomas Edison.

Can we ever expect anything less from NEWSREEK

As the old saying goes, "No good deed goes unpunished".

The Guantánamo detainees are only a problem because they exist - if it were not for the compassion, fairness and military restraint that is almost uniquely American, a lot of these men would have simply been shot.

As Stalin once said, "Death solves all problems - no man, no problem".

We don't do things that way, and that's a good thing. Gitmo needs to stay open.

who will report on this

Obama uses food taster in Paris!!!!

has any other Dear Leader used a food taster???
Did Bush use one?
It seems like only the worlds dictators & despots have used food tasters.....hmmmmmm

gessshh

the missing link

Obama uses food taster in Paris 2nd try

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.0caa9f66f64d2c5c70c0d8ddb18f1a5b.821&show_article=1

wonder who the "Official Obama Food Taster" is???

Joe Biden?
Nancy Pelosi?
Hillary?
Bill?

No eat me it was his daughter Sasha.

Did I type that insensitive remark?

Hell Yea!!!!!

Come all ye stupid liberals and thrash me for saying something about the child of King Obama!

We have a Pratt for a Prez.

"Incidentally, the problem of what to do with our domestic prison population has been solved by a guy named Thomas Edison.
"Posted by: PabloD at June 7, 2009 11:51 AM"

[BZZZT!] I'm sorry, the correct answer is "George Westinghouse".

According to the rules of war and nations, at least half of those prisoners should have been shot after capture.

Me again

Is the taste tester checking to see if the food is "yummy enough" or if it's "poisoned"? It wasn't really clear from the article. But if he/she is checking for poison, that has to rate as one of the worst government jobs you could have.

Oops, you got me, KHarn, it was Westinghouse. Maybe I was thinking of Edison due to the police vernacular of calling the Taser the "Edison Medicine."

Why didn't he just have his personal pizza chef flown in from Kansas City?

Did he take his personl food taster with him on his $250,000 date with Misshell to NY last week?

The Punk in Chief, what a guy!

"Maybe I was thinking of Edison due to the police vernacular of calling the Taser the "Edison Medicine."
"Posted by: PabloD at June 7, 2009 3:07 PM"

Oooo! Cool name!

Presidents generally have food tasters, and yes, Bush had one too, Bush even had people who would collect his feces after he was done. As far as escaped prisoners, the US has low rate of escapees, and we need to look no further than Colorado. It's ironic to see such "pro-America" and patriotic folks like yourselves have such little confidence in our own justice system. What a bunch of tiny little whiny men some of you are. "Oh my God! A food taster?!" It is common among leaders of countries. Further, some these leaders are helping with the Gitmo nonsense by taking some prisoners.

I just wanna say keep up the great work on this site! It is the most hilarious conservative parody site I've ever seen! XD

let's be honest that the dangers of a handful of Guantánamo prisoners rejoining the battlefield is far more remote than the dangers festering in our own jails and prisons. Americans worried about what's happening in their own backyards would be well advised to recognize that the U.S. prison system is one burgeoning backyard that won't be contained, ignored or walled off forever.

Easy. Throw a tent over each prison, then fumigate like a house. Problem solved. It’s not like a bunch of sonnets won’t get written.

It's ironic to see such "pro-America" and patriotic folks like yourselves have such little confidence in our own justice system.

We have zero confidence in the criminal justice system, and frankly that’s because it’s infested with liberals who share your views. Anyone convicted of first-degree murder should be executed within a year, as was the practice in Victorian times. I happened to read about Wild Bill Hickok last night. Murdered August 2, 1876; his killer, Jack McCall, was hanged March 1, 1877. That’s what I’m talking about.

Further, some these leaders are helping with the Gitmo nonsense by taking some prisoners.

Correction: taking one prisoner. One effing prisoner. Thanks for the help!

Just for clarity, it was Edison, not Westinghouse.

Edison developed the electric chair to scare people away from "dangerous" AC current. Edison's work was all with DC.

It's also no at all common (or heard of before) for an American President to have a food taster. That is a job for people in leftist countries run by dictators.

It's particularly odd considering he was in France. I might have some issues with French politics, but I hardly think that they are going to poison the President.

Bush had a food taster recuse no on liked him...
Obama has a food taster because everyone like him?????????

What a bunch of tiny little whiny men some of you are.

The 'Ghost of Whalesperm' gets the prize for the day! A silly little liberal challenging the manhood of those who would fight for even HIS right to squeak like the mouse he is.

Now - THAT is "ripe"! LOL!

Now - go confer with Candyass, err... Brandie and call the FBI on me! LOL!

BOO!!

Ha-HA! The little liberal trolls here are just TOO entertaining. They definitely keep me coming back!

And no answer to my question: 'Why didn't he just have his personal pizza chef flown in from Kansas City?' Surely he could make a thin-crust combination snail/frogleg pizza w/horsemeat and maybe a little puppy meat, topped with lots of goat cheese and served with a white flag!

NEWSFREAK deserves to go completly bankrupt its nothing but a liberal left-wing secular news rag a waste of money

The Washington Improbables (With apologies to Paul Henning)

Come and listen to my story about a man named Barack
Poor community organizer, barely kept his family feed
Then one day he was planting some Acorns
And up through the ground come a bubbling ballots
Votes, that is, black gold, Texas tea
Next thing you know ol’ Baracks the president
Kin folk said, Barack, lets move away from here
Said the Capital is the place you ought to be
So they loaded up the truck and moved to Washington
D C, that is, swimming pools, movie stars

The Washington Improbables
Starring:
Barack as Jed
Michele’s momma as Granny
Michele as Jethrine
The Democrat Party as Jethro
Sonia Sotomayer as Elly Mae
Harrey Reid as Mr. Drysdale
Nancy Pelosi as Miss Jane
Hillary as Mrs. Drysdale
Zeituni Oayango as Aunt Pearl
Bo as Duke
Ted Kennedy and Robert Byrd as Flatt & Scruggs
Mary Jo Kopechne as Janet Trego (if you look this one up you will realize how warped I am)

Episode 1 – Jethro enrolls in the 7th grade
Episode 2 - Elly Mae rassles with the secret service
Episode 3 – Granny lets slip a family secret about Barack

4 seasons later, series canceled

Looking on the bright side of a lousy situation, any terrorists that end up getting released are most likely to hit a liberal-infested area (NY, DC, SF, LA, Seattle, Chicago). Since they'll be the people most responsible for turning terrorists loose, that seems only fitting. If someone should suffer from their stupidity, it's only right that it be them.

And if a terrorist that Obama released from Gitmo is involved, even liberal moonbats will be hard-pressed to blame Bush. Not that they won't try.

Oh Jimbo, your a tough guy, huh? Blue, you asked about food tasters, and you got an answer. Carter, Reagan, Bush 1& 2, Clinton, and now Obama all have had food tasters. However, it seems Dubya was the only one with a "pooper scooper" so to speak.And him, it is nice to hear you think Great Britain, Austrailia, Canada and other allies are leftist dictatorships. Jay, as far as America and Gitmo goes, we have a little something called due process. To stay within US and International law. You do not hold someone for years without charging them w/something. We have held people that have turned out to be innocent, and they were held for 3-6 years, so by your standard, you wish to execute innocent people?

come on Ghost - tell us what you really think

ABC does PR for Hamas. Terrorists get more sympathetic media than Tea Party participants.

Oh Jimbo, your a tough guy, huh?

You'll make damned certain you never give yourself the opportunity to find out, huh? Your the one who said "What a bunch of tiny little whiny men some of you are." Pussy.

And I think the article at the top just demonstrates how Newsweek is nothing any more but a propaganda organ that shills for Obama's policies.

"Ted Kennedy and Robert Byrd as Flatt & Scruggs"
-blue

That is blasphemy!!! Like piss christ is to a catholic kind of blasphemy.

Please don't insult my heritage. j/k

Obama Seeks Tax on Wealthy to Fund Health Overhaul...

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aj5HHIKfogR8&refer=worldwide

can we stop calling him a progressive yet and move right to communist?

It's true- Ghost of Wellstone is a pooper-scooper.

"it seems Dubya was the only one with a "pooper scooper"

Not to get too nosy, GoW, but where does one "catch wind" of details like that? Do you subscribe to the "Feces Lovers" trade journal, or something?

"Michele as Jethrine"

Ha, Ha, Ha

Ghost of Wellstone, haven't you got a gay-nazi pride meeting to go to? At least go hang around a star bucks with the rest of your mouth breathing ilk. Not to mention the street lights are on and Mommies waiting for you, or maybe your sister in the tool shed.

"Ahhh yes she must be the conservative you mentioned"

In other words, your brainless, halfassed comments, although humorous, are poorly thought out and would be more at home at the DU, or some other scum bag liberal site.

So don’t leave Mad Just leave…..

It's true- Ghost of Whalesperm is a pooper-scooper.

Yep - shit eater with an insatiable appetite.

I wonder if any of the soon to be former GITMO terrorists will be relocated to, say Hyannis Port, near the Obama Compound in Hawaii, or Stoplight NV?

Wait! I know where they can send them! Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood. I hear they are very receptive to unrepentant terrorists there!

ROFLMAO!

I love this GOW! Man, you actually make me think all these people are real! XD

The only thing is tone down the hate these supposed people are spewing. Real people don't actually hate this much! Plus, you make them sound too stupid to be real.

Otherwise, this is a great satire site!

Newsgeek this is americas version of PAVDA

& if liberals are so good why did the conservatives have a resounding win in the EU???

foreshadowing???

RE: Posted by: Robert at June 7, 2009 8:34 PM

Wow....and all this time we never knew that Wellstone guy had any friends.

Interestingly enough, he's not actually AT the GOW blog.....he's over here at Moonbattery!

Jay, as far as America and Gitmo goes, we have a little something called due process. To stay within US and International law. You do not hold someone for years without charging them w/something. We have held people that have turned out to be innocent, and they were held for 3-6 years, so by your standard, you wish to execute innocent people?

Comrade, read the Geneva Protocols. Anyone captured out of uniform is a spy/saboteur, and subject to summary execution. So they're hardly innocent.

But to answer your question, yes, at the margin, I'd execute every mother-lovin' one of 'em. But let's compromise: I agree to let them go, if they agree only to kill liberals, and no Americans. Then I'd encourage them to kill as many as possible. Deal?

Would it not be fair to locate a Gitmo terrorist in the district of each Congressman who voted to close Gitmo?

Why is it fair that they be released into districts that voted against their relocation?

That a baby, Robert - dismiss liberty and those who live by it, moron.

Tell us, Robert - do you deny the Holocaust, also? Would you have been one of the “innocent Germans” who “ignorantly” stood by while old men, women, and babies were being shipped in railroad cattle cars to the gas chambers? I'm sure you would.

OH! But the Obama-führer would NEVER do that, huh? No - of course not! Killing babies and keeping people of color in the “cast” system so they are permanently indebted to you, doesn’t bother you a bit, huh? Tell us what the difference is, Robert.

How is your beloved Obama-führer better (or different) than the German’s führer? Both require absolute devotion – such as you give. Hitler made it illegal to disagree with, or speak against him – just as you want for your little brown god.

How are you better than a Nazi, Robert? How about you Whalesperm? How are you better than a Nazi? Fez/HLF/Dino; how are you better than a Nazi? You all want to murder anyone who believes in God, or are too young or too old to defend themselves – what makes you better than Hilter and his murderers?

I don’t believe that Obama-nazis are any different. You all march to the Obama-führer without question. You will worship him all the way to hell.

Now – go call the FBI and accuse me of threatening you. THAT is the Nazi way, is it not? People like me who consider you and your little brown god worthless should be silenced, huh?

Silence me, jerks.

I know that Hiram Maxim is the father of the machine gun as we know it. But I am a fan of one John Moses Browning and that wonderful M2 in .50.

RE: Posted by: Glenn Cassel AMH1(AW) USN RET at June 8, 2009 4:38 AM

Ma Deuce rules! The .50 BMG round is pretty awesome in it's own right.

As the old phone company asd used to say, "Reach Out and Touch Someone"

Newsweek, what a waste. My guess would be they are trying to set up the voting rights of all prisoners for the mulatto mendacity to collect another election.

"It's ironic to see such "pro-America" and patriotic folks like yourselves have such little confidence in our own justice system."
We have little confidence in our justice system because it is rapidly becoming overtaken by wussy leftists who are more concerned with preserving the civil rights of murderers and rapists than with ensuring justice is served for the sake of their victims' families and ensuring such crimes do not happen again. Ultra- liberals tend to care much more about criminals than about their victims.
To quote Batman Begins (Which I think can be seen as an indictment of the effects of liberalism on our justice system), "Criminals thrive on the indulgence of society's understanding."
For just one example, consider the Denver church shooting in December of 2007. After it happened, the members of the ultra- left web forum Democratic Underground made a multitude of threads discussing it, almost all of which had them showing A LOT more sympathy for the killer (Especially when it was revealed that he was gay) than for his victims (Whom the DU posters portrayed as evil, intolerant "Fundies" who got what they deserved), and portrayed the brave church security guard who risked her own life to stop his rampage as a vicious, bloodthirsty lunatic!
Do you want those kinds of people in charge of our courts?

Adam, there's copious outpouring of sympathy and adulation for cop-killers over there, too.

Adam, I could almost hear you blubbering like John Boehner there. Many of you are continually wrapped up in hypothetical situations and conspiracies. What rulings has Democratic Underground ever had any say on? Further, who DU is in the running to be a judge? The point with GITMO, is these men have not been charged with anything! Some are guilty as sin, and some are innocent. In both cases, they should be given due process and either sentenced and released.And to say the courts are being taken over by "wussy leftists", umm, the right has been whining about judges for 50 years, and you guys have spent more time in charge than the left.

Yappy yappy do! I'm a stupid fool! All I do is drool! Yappy do do do!

The point with GITMO, is these men have not been charged with anything! Some are guilty as sin, and some are innocent. In both cases, they should be given due process and either sentenced and released.

Nonsense. They’ve evaluated by a military tribunal consisting of three officers, or they wouldn’t be in Gitmo now. In the war context, that’s due process. Furthermore, please note that Constitution affords Constitutional protections to ...American citizens and legal residents. It affords zero protection to foreign nationals on foreign soil. Surely that’s obvious.

Foreign nationals outside the U.S. are no more afforded the protection of American law than they are subject to it. Which is why on one hand they don’t pay taxes, for example, and on the other have no protection from the Constitution.

It’s also why establishing Gitmo was brilliant. Zero chance of escape (the choice: crossing minefields to enter communist Cuba or take a 100 mile dip in shark-infested waters), and it’s leased from Cuba – not part of the U.S., and so remain outside the U.S. Perfect. Please note that despite the Messiah’s campaign promises and His recent posturing, Gitmo remains open for business. Care to bet that He’ll find some excuse move back the closure date by next January? You’ve been conned, comrade.

And to say the courts are being taken over by "wussy leftists", umm, the right has been whining about judges for 50 years, and you guys have spent more time in charge than the left.

More nonsense. Evidence? And furthermore, please note that Federal judges are appointed for life, or until they’re impeached and convicted, as Alcee Hastings was (he’s now a proud member of the Democratic caucus – color me surprised). The comings and goings of judges is not related to the electoral cycle. We’re still working off the toxic legacy of Carter, for example.

In any case, please note how long it takes to, e.g., carry out a death sentence. Should be done within a year, but commonly decades pass, vitiating the point of the whole exercise. That’s an example of wussy leftists in action/inaction. Ask yourself this question: how much crime exists in Singapore, and why?

Jay, back in March, Lawrence Wilkerson suggested that out of the 800 detainees that have through Gitmo, only about a dozen have been actual terrorists. 61 of them released by the Bush Admin. became terrorists after Gitmo. What does that tell you? There is now 240 there, and you have officials in both Michigan and Montana who are willing to jail them, and both states have pretty good records on escapes. You have no regard for human rights, and buy into this GOP propaganda that we are going to house terror suspects on your block or get them a Condo, Gimme a break! In addition, you have Chinese Muslims were declared innocent and still remain at GITMO, what should we do with them? Execute?

Jay, back in March, Lawrence Wilkerson suggested that out of the 800 detainees that have through Gitmo, only about a dozen have been actual terrorists. 61 of them released by the Bush Admin. became terrorists after Gitmo. What does that tell you?

It tells me that we shouldn’t have released the 61. Now if instead of catch and release we’d hanged them, as I propose, we wouldn’t have had this problem. And I couldn’t care less what Wilkerson thinks. He’s a modern day Ramsey Clark, and has been mumbling leftist talking points for years.

Ghost, you don’t get it, and apparently don’t see the problem. Once they’re in the US, they’re subject to American legal protections as accused criminals, rather than as illegal combatants – which is what they are. Your argument about the record on prison escapes is beside the point. On what basis would these terrorists be imprisoned? It is illegal to hold someone in the US without trial, and yet the battlefield conditions under which these terrorists were captured do not lend themselves to criminal investigation, and so prosecuting them criminally would be difficult to impossible. (You can hardly cordon off an active battlefield with crime scene tape and go over it inch by inch for evidence.)

So what happens if – as it almost inevitable, for the reasons pointed above – they’re acquitted? No one is going to take these guys. We know that already. The Europeans have agreed to take a grand total of.. one. So if they’re acquitted, they’ll be turned loose in the US. That’s when someone will have a terrorist on his block. Surely you can see that?

And think about what happens if a released terrorist later commits another terrorist atrocity (which is very likely indeed). Americans will place a bounty on liberals, and quite rightly. So be careful what you wish for – you might get it. That’s why the Messiah is caviling on this issue – he doesn’t want to be on the hook for this.

"Robert at June 7, 2009 8:34 PM"

Wait, you mean I'm a FICTIONAL CHARACTER??

That explains a lot!

This just in: I believe we were discussing the soundness of the criminal justice system, and faith in it: Prisoners Run Gangs, Plan Escapes and Even Order Hits With Smuggled Cellphones.

"buy into this GOP propaganda that we are going to house terror suspects on your block or get them a Condo, Gimme a break."
1. For all Obama's sanctimonious prattling about closing Gitmo, he hasn't said very much AT ALL about what he intends to do with the prisoners there once it's closed, so it's understandable that we are a little nervous about it.
2. It has been said that Obama has desired for several Gitmo terrorists to not only be released into America, but also be given taxpayers' money to help support them!