Deep Thought of the Day

This is Delaware Liberal, where liberal moderators post articles or links that may be of interest to other liberals in or around Delaware.

Bush Lawyers to Be Held Accountable?

This article from Michael Isikoff in Newsweek provides a glimmer of hope:

“An internal Justice Department report on the conduct of senior lawyers who approved waterboarding and other harsh interrogation tactics is causing anxiety among former Bush administration officials. H. Marshall Jarrett, chief of the department’s ethics watchdog unit, the Office of Professional Responsibility(OPR), confirmed last year he was investigating whether the legal advice in crucial interrogation memos “was consistent with the professional standards that apply to Department of Justice attorneys.” According to two knowledgeable sources who asked not to be identified discussing sensitive matters, a draft of the report was submitted in the final weeks of the Bush administration. It sharply criticized the legal work of two former top officials — Jay Bybee and John Yoo — as well as that of Steven Bradbury, who was chief of the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) at the time the report was submitted, the sources said. (Bybee, Yoo and Bradbury did not respond to multiple requests for comment.)”

This report — started under AG Mukasey (and he has objections to this report, but keep in mind when this report got underway for the inevitable charges of partisanship) — will be submitted to AG Holder:

Anyone Here Speak Islamic?

I honestly didn't realize how much I missed Rick Santorum. “A democracy could not exist because Mohammed already made the perfect law,” Santorum said. “The Quran is perfect just the way…

DelawareLiberal In The News

You have to read between the lines, but Governor Markell did not initially invite Castle to the press conference on the economic recovery package money coming to Delaware. Carper had…

Ohhhh, this is gonna be huge!

I can't wait to read this list of true American Patriots! UBS, the largest bank in Switzerland, agreed on Wednesday to divulge the names of well-heeled Americans whom the authorities…

Some Google Numbers

Some yahoo on this blog has been saying that the left has been comparing Bush to a chimp for 8 years. True that. As a matter of fact Google shows…

Talking Back

So what if it is snowing out and you are passing through an area where you know there is a camera monitoring your activity?

Well, you talk back and tell its minders what you think about it:
(Warning: Picture after the jump may be NSFW!)

The Cartoon

Roland Martin:

To the editors who approved the cartoon, as well as the cartoonist, the piece was clearly all fun and laughs. But anyone with half a brain, especially someone knowing the history of African-Americans being called monkeys and gorillas, would have said, “We need to rethink this.”

First, mixing the two stories is ridiculous. Yes, the chimpanzee incident and the passage of the stimulus bill have a lot of folks talking, but to put them in the same element just doesn’t make sense.

Second, the cartoonist didn’t hang a sign around the neck of the chimp, so he left it up to the reader to determine exactly who the cops were referring to.

We all know that the stimulus bill was the first priority of the new president, so when reading the caption, it was easy to infer that the cartoonist was implying the president of the United States.

You know, the black guy.

And that’s where the problem comes in.

When you read stories like this, you will realize that it is really just a crapshoot as to whether someone will take a shot at our President, just because he is black. Seeing a cartoon depict that brings home that reality. And no one should be laughing.

EDIT by cassandra_m: I’ve added some pictures after the jump that should remind everyone where they’ve seen these same monkey references in the last 6 to 8 months.