Well, all I can say is, it's about time! All my life, I've felt left out of the trading card craze. Baseball, Pokemon, even the Garbage Pail Kids never floated my boat.
Then patriotism got thrown into the mix with Topps' Operation Enduring Freedom cards and the Pentagon's own visual aid, Iraq's Most Wanted.
I wonder how much an Osama bin Laden would fetch on eBay these days? Oh, silly me: he didn't have one. Maybe if he'd been "important" enough to put on a card, we would have caught him by now?
Finally, the Center for Constitutional Rights has come out with trading cards that are right up my alley. Torture Team cards are available free in packs of 10 for stingy liberals--you know who you are--and cost $5.00 for the complete set of 20. Only 20? A whole lot of deserving folks didn't make the cut.
Buy five packs for $20 and trade them with your friends. My personal favorite is John Yoo, author of the infamous memo which declared the Bush Administration above the law and the Geneva Conventions a fusty relic. He has been punished for his war crimes with a position teaching Constitutional law at Berkeley. I wish I were kidding.
Flip the card over for fun facts such as his answer to the question of whether it would be okay to crush the testicles of a detainee's child: "I think it depends on why the President thinks he needs to do that."
Since he believes torture is limited to intentional infliction of pain equivalent to major organ failure and death, I'm guessing he won't mind if we hang him by his nut sack on live TV. That's got to be more than okay by his definition. We're not even asking him for information. We just want to be entertained. I know I would be. Maybe we could call it, "Ow! My Ball of Rights!"Labels: Center for Constitutional Rights, George W. Bush, Iraq war, John Yoo, kathcom, magick sandwich, Osama bin Laden, sarcasm, satire, stupid shit, torture, trading cards
Buy five packs for $20 and trade them with your friends. My personal favorite is John Yoo, author of the infamous memo which declared the Bush Administration above the law and the Geneva Conventions a fusty relic. He has been punished for his war crimes with a position teaching Constitutional law at Berkeley. I wish I were kidding.