Pius XII Memorial Library Government Documents

The infamous Bush torture memos have been released and it seems that water boarding (NYT link) was just one of the heinous methods used to elicit information from captives. But since this started I have wondered why the following statement from 100 years ago was not circulated more widely …

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Arrgh — can’t upload the picture!!! (but this links to Flickr).

Saw this recruiting tool tooling down Forest Park and had to wonder — why? Why is the local Marine Corps recruiter driving a $35,000 Hummer H3 with U.S. Government license MC  295393 ?   Why, when we have a trillion dollar deficit, is the military throwing [...]

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One of my colleagues has suggested that Mound City residents set aside April first to send a semi-positive message to the local leader of the fourth estate and subscribe.  If we give the Post-Dispatch support (a kind of mini stimulus package) for a finite time,  perhaps the paper can rise up, improve, and avoid the [...]

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Wow.  Rational thought prevails and a definitive decision made. Yucca is yuck according to Secretary of Energy Steven Chu as directed by the new oval office occupant — dare I say it again — WOW. Here is the story per Science…

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The history will be written, but not with the benefit of the historical record.  In the latest fit of pique the OUTGOING administration is suppressing FRUS series , the Foreign Relations of the United States; see the Federation of American Scientists report.

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Looks like the current administration is looking for an Orwellian re-write before they vacate; you know, mission accomplished and all.  From the latest “press gaggle” we have Ms. Perino spinning—
Q Do you think he’s likely to hear the report out of London that the Taliban now control 72 percent of Afghanistan, whereas [...]

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No I am not making this up — headline in a USA Today article, “Pentagon envisions spaceship troopers.” Of course the DOD has been ramping up for space warfare (dominance is their term of choice) for years. However, given the current financial situation perhaps the money would be better spent tilting at windmills.

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You could post these numbers, but then we would have to kill you!  The Conference Board holds their data rather tightly, for instance you can view the U.S. leading index at the website, but you Web 2.0 freakazoids had better not post!  To wit:
Latest Press Release
THESE DATA ARE FOR ANALYSIS PURPOSES ONLY. NOT FOR [...]

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Click on this link to the Commerce Department where you will find  a weird web gadget in the upper right corner to countdown/countup the tarriffs from Columbia– then click on it and notice how it links to more nothingness. E-government ephemera.

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OK, completely fouled up comparisons —
Clarence Thomas and Thurgood Marshall
And
Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton

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