Good Is Lots, More Is Better

The title of this posting is an axiom of mine that describes how I like my Mexican cuisine.

And apparently it’s what those in the Bush Regime thought in reference to how one should administer a waterboarding,

Or more to the point, how many hundreds of times.

Now I distinctly recall when all of this was discussed a couple of years ago that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, a guy we have in custody who was one of the 9/11 planners, was waterboarded exactly once. It was this, they said, that underlined just how effective waterboarding is in getting information from “high value” terror targets.

The story spun back then was that when he was tortured there was a woman present to witness the act, and this was something that humiliated him. It was for that reason, the CIA claimed, that he stuck it out for a phenomenal 2 minutes.

And then was never waterboarded again. From ABC News (9/13/2007)

“Then KSM started talking, in idiomatic English he learned as a high school foreign exchange student and polished at a North Carolina college in the 1980s, sources said.”

“‘It was an extraordinary amount of time for him to hold out,’ one former CIA officer told ABCNews.com. ‘A red-headed female supervisor was in the room when he was being water-boarded. It was humiliating to him. So he held out.’”

“‘Then he started talking, and he never stopped,’ this former officer said. KSM was never water-boarded again, and in hours and hours of conversation with his interrogators, often over a cup of tea, he poured out his soul and the murderous deeds he committed.’”

Well I guess it’s “Liar, liar pants on fire” isn’t it?

Now we find that instead of getting waterboarded only once, and this resulted in our getting tons of valuable information from a guy who became so highly motivated not to get waterboarded again, he was actually waterboarded 183 times.

In a single month.

Lies. So many lies.

Revealing to us that not only is waterboarding so NOT an effective tool of torture, but we had people who were committing these heinous acts of terrorism actually spreading anecdotal lies about how superior it is, and what great results you get from it.

Think of it. These people knew about the ineffectiveness of the tool and not only kept on doing it, but spreading bald-faced lies about it all.

And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

Revelation 12:9

Is anyone still wondering why America is referred to in the Islamic world as “The Great Satan?”

HB 109 Passes - Kids Get CHIP

It took awhile and a second reading, but Sylvester Turner’s HB 109 which would restore health insurance to children of the poor passed by 126 to 16, Craddick not voting.

As written in the El Paso Times:

“The bill, which passed with a vote of 126-16, would reduce restrictions on Children’s Health Insurance Program enrollment and allow more than 100,000 additional Texas children in the program, according to a legislative analysis. It would undo some changes legislators, trying to save money because of a nearly $10 billion shortfall, made to the Childrens Health Insurance Program in 2003.”

I didn’t see it but I heard the amendment war was strident, with 28 amendments put forth. Of the 28 only 6 were adopted. Amendments by Sylvester Turner and Yvonne Davis were procedural and corrected wording. Ones by Dan Flynn, Patrick Rose made sure there was sufficient wording to keep aliens from being covered by CHIP. Gattis and Corte tried to amend by including wording that would require people in the program to reapply for eligibility every 6 months rather than every 12. That didn’t work and from that point it looked like passage was going to happen. Trey Martinez Fischer’s amendment to ensure that the information provided by section 2 of the bill be available in Spanish and English was passed, and finally Larry Taylor to strip the 90-day waiting period for a newborn under 90 days old.

They say that most of the children that lost their coverage in 2003 will regain their eligibility. Not as many as they wanted, but 100,000 children will get their health benefits restored.

The 16 Nay votes were from the following:

Leo Berman, Joe Crabb, Robert Eissler, Dan Flynn, Linda Harper-Brown, Charlie Howard, Carl Isett, Jodie Laubenberg, Nathan Macias, Sid Miller, Tan Parker, Ken Paxton, John Phillips, Debbie Riddle, Robert Talton and Larry Taylor.

Was this a vote based on religious values? You can bet. Who on God’s Earth would be against children’s health? Jesus loves little children.

Sixteen Republicans in safe districts, that’s who. Being from a safe Republican district allows you to do things that Jesus would not approve.

But Satan most certainly would.