The DSM is NOT a case of "been there, done that."

[Stevendsmith]

I'm so pissed off by the spin that the DSM simply restates what we already know and thus has no real impact. The addition of new evidence in an already strong case should not be dismissed in this manner. The accumulation of evidence matters. Shit, this is a basic principle of jurisprudence. It’s called circumstantial evidence.

I guess we're nowhere until we have a true smoking gun (e.g., Bush confessing on national TV that he lied the country into war).

[shraby]

1. * confessing on national TV still would

be called old news..we already knew he lied.

[mpendragon]

2. Every few weeks there is a story in the news about a house . . .

with hundreds of cats or dogs or birds or whatever. The Humane Society or some other group of people goes into the house, which is typically full of feces and dead animals, to clean it up and they take pictures. We all get to see the least horrible of those pictures in the news. We read those stories and wonder how someone could live in a place like that. How could they ignore the smell and noise and the death.

That's a lot like what we are doing now. The Whitehouse is full of the rotten stench of lies, corruption, and death. They are capable of hearing the noise of dissent. We sit here seeing some small portion of the horror and wonder how the people associated with it can stand to work there and continue to do the things they do.

I think, like the poor crazy person with the animals, that they've gotten accustom to the smell even as horrible as it is and they can ignore the noise of dissent. Like the crazy person they've convinced themselves that they are doing something good even when the bodies start to pile up. They will never be convinced otherwise.

[Doomy]

3. The Media

conspired to keep DSM out of the public eye - on orders from bu$h.