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!"
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I've gots to get me some of these!
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"F yoo", LMAO !!
Yoo who? Teaching constitutional law at Berkley is like teaching safe sex to a nun--useless.
I do like those cards though, and I still have two decks of the DoD "wanted" cards.
Finally this collection has been made public. I can't wait to my hands of Ramziz, the nail puller.
I'll give you two Yoos, for one Dick Cheney.
I think I'll stick with Garbage Pail Kids!
"Ball of Rights"!!!!!!
Awesome.
I think I'd rather get into something that won't piss me off every time I take them out to play with. (I'm talking about the cards now, not the balls)
They come up with trading cards for everything these days. This is pretty funny though.
Interesting trading cards. I suppose it's one way to get people to learn a little about what is really happening in the world today. Although if news anchors were actually allowed to tell the news people wouldn't have to go to such length to find things out. Just a thought :)
I'm hoping to get a Rummie card.
Kathleen... This is so right on I cannot find the words to tell you how proud I am. You hit the nail this time, a nail that deserves exactly the pounding you give it. Keep this up. Yours is a voice worth listening to again and again.
Wow! There is no way I can top that last comment. Just....wow.
Do they still make that wicked cool sound if you stick them in the spokes of your bicycle?
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