Meanwhile, a prison officer at Guantánamo is busy trying to continue defending a crock of lies. The lawyers challenge the officer’s wild claim that blood transfusions and forced feeding have put emaciated hunger strikers in “stable condition” in the prison hospital. This, the lawyers declare, is a total fraud.

Will we hear it from Pinocchio?—With the prospect of some of the truth about Guantánamo leaking out, Vice President Pinocchio Cheney will no doubt bluster and brazen it out from last June when he gave a statement to the French press agency that “prisoners at the detention camp in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, had everything they could possibly want and were well fed as they lived in the tropics.”

Stay tuned.

‘This is your home!’—Both major parties try to look like they’re doing their bit to provide shelter for Katrina and Rita refugees. Not so with Arizona Democratic Governor Janet Napolitano. Apparently she would like to please some of the right-wingers from both parties.

Before the arrival of Katrina refugees in Arizona she refused to tell reporters where the shelters would be. Publicize locations, she sourly said, and people “will start dropping things off.” She added a caution: “They could be here for six months.”

Not dragging the kids?—More schools in California get an F. The listing of schools in the state failing to meet federal standards (“No child left behind”) grows again this year.

Lean back, etc.—“7 Airbus Jets Had Landing Gear Trouble”—News headline.  
 
 
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