Yesterday was the day!

Bill O'Reilly and President George W. Bush ... is it only me, or does the decor look a lot like ... Christmas ???

Well, it's now official (torture, loss of Habeas Corpus, etc.) and Bill O'Reilly even had the opportunity to gloat with the President as they opined (O'Reilly's word) about how absolutely necessary the bill was.

Reading the transcript of Bill O'Reilly's and President Bush's conversation on the matter is worth reading, I think. O'Reilly actually asked a few worthwhile questions and the President's answers were as lame as one might expect from him, considering the surprisingly excellent wording of a couple of O'Reilly's questions.

But the bottom line is simple and (for me) gross. It ranks with the interment of the Japanese-Americans during World War II and the importation, buying and selling of African slaves prior to our Civil war. Even the two stolen elections (2000 and 2004) and Bush's (and all of our) dropping the ball during and after Hurricane Katrina aren't as repugnant as America's legalization of torture, hidden prisons in "secret" countries (Poland is the only one so far named), and loss of Habeas Corpus.

I've written plenty already in previous posts, but I strongly recommend that all of you read the bill itself ... and, when it's available to read, the signing statement that will probably rival the Da Vinci Code in length! And oh yes, the final bill included the "get out of jail free" clause that overturns past decisions by the Supreme Court and the District Court in Detroit ... as well as numerous other laws broken by Mr. Bush and his neocon gang ... e.g., the Geneva Conventions and the Constitution of the United States of America.