I didn’t watch the Prez’s speech last night, but I gather he announced that we were getting out of Afghanistan by not actually getting out of Afghanistan. Or something. So if you were planning on holding your wedding reception somewhere outside Kabul, I advise you postpone your plans until 2024 or something.
Congratulations to working people in this country. According to this chart, productivity per hour has increased about 150% since 1970. And as a reward for all that hard work, compensation per hour has risen, well, pretty much not at all.
The Supreme Court has its lowest ever favorability rating, coming in at 52%. I’m surprised it’s that high. Of course, since they’re appointed for life, they really don’t give a shit. Especially Fat Tony and Clarence the Clown.
Oh well, time to try and make it through another day.
Palemale and Zena are working hard to feed their hatchling(s) but still no fuzzy white eyas head has made it above the nest edge for a baby picture.
An appeals court on Wednesday tossed out a convicted terrorist’s lawsuit accusing a high-ranking Bush administration lawyer who wrote the so-called “torture memos” of authorizing illegally harsh treatment of “enemy combatants.”
Former Deputy Assistant Attorney General John Yoo is protected from such lawsuits because the law defining torture and the treatment of enemy combatants was unsettled in the two years after the Sept. 11 terror attacks, when the memos were written, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/02/john-yoo-torture-bush-administration-jose-padilla_n_1471587.html