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Texas Rep Gets Schooled by Energy Secretary


Not sure if you saw this or not.

Representative Joe Barton (R-TX) looked like an idiot this morning. He asks "where does oil come from?" to the Sec of Energy, then gets shown up by someone who actually knows. Chu gives a short, to the point, accurate description of how oil is formed. Barton then gloats on Twitter: "I seemed to have baffled the Energy Sec with basic question - Where does oil come from? Check out the video."

He went so far as to post the video on YouTube himeself under the title: "Energy Secretary puzzled by simple question"

WOW! What a moron. He has no idea what plate tectonics and continental drift are, then say its Energy Secretary who doesnt know anything.

Cheney CIA Request - Accessory to Torture?


Today we learned the details of Dick Cheney's request to release information regarding the success of obtaining information through use of torture.

Ok, so let me try and extrapolate this out and ask a question.

So, Cheney had a file of all the detainees in his office. Or at least, a file containing what info they have received from the detainees and presumably the methods by which this info was received.

That would mean, we have documented proof that Cheney knew exactly what methods where being used. Now, we have crimes for accessory to murder, is there accessory to torture? (Maybe on an international level?) If so, Cheney could be very easily be charged and convicted of approving, or at the very least, not trying to stop torture.

Just a thought.
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