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McCain team actions seem to confirm the message of an “offensive” sign that led to its carrier, 61-year-old librarian Carol Kreck, to be expelled from John McCain’s town hall meeting in Denver, CO, today. What did this sign say?

“McCain = Bush”

I can see why that would be considered so offensive to warrant expulsion from an event billed as “open to the public.” You can watch the video of law enforcement dealing with the “threat” to John McCain.

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Says Amanda at Think Progress:

McCain has apparently taken a page from the Bush playbook. In 2005, the White House had three activists expelled from a Denver public forum with President Bush because it was the administration’s policy “to exclude potentially disruptive guests from Bush’s appearances nationwide.”

Speaking of vacations, Australia’s Sunday Herald Sun recently published a story about a little known vacation spot with a quite notorious “attraction”:

The sand is white, the sea laps gently and crowds of bronzed Americans laze in the Caribbean sunshine.

There is a cinema, a golf course and, naturally, a gift shop stocked with mugs, jaunty T-shirts and racks of postcards showing perfect sunsets and bright green iguanas.

Only the barbed wire decoration, a recurring motif, hints at anything unusual.

Welcome to “Taliban Towers” at Guantanamo Bay, the most ghoulish tourist destination on the planet.

Apparently, this resort is open to U.S. service personnel and Guantanamo’s 3,000 workers, the paper reports. And it only costs $42 per night “for a fully equipped, air conditioned unit.”

While there, visitors can buy souvenir T-shirts, including one decorated with a guard tower and barbed wire that reads “The Taliban Towers at Guantanamo Bay, the Caribbean’s Newest 5-star Resort”.

Says Zachary Katznelson, a lawyer representing 28 detainees, who exposed the “Guantanamo holiday trade”:

“Pretending that Guantanamo Bay is essentially a Caribbean resort is grossly offensive. The idea of relaxing in the sun while close by many individuals are robbed of their rights, tortured and abused is repugnant and ridiculous.”

How far we, as a nation, have sunk.