...certainly not television.

Jack Bauer. is. a. fictional. character.

Somehow, we have to get the M$M to report that the rumors of Jack Bauer's existence have been greatly exaggerated... along with the tales of his exploits.

And the odds of making that happen?

Zilch. Zero. Nada.

You're reminding me of a (religious studies) class I took... seems like ages ago, but it must have been in the fall of '94.

Wish I had the notes handy, but I do remember that Love or Agape was what the professor considered an "absolute." Everything else (truth, justice, etc.), was, more or less, a "principle," and the priority given to each of them depended upon what would be the best overall good ("Love") in a particular situation.

I just googled Fletcher, though, and I don't think my professor really followed him, though he may have been an influence.

Interesting coincidence...

Thank you to Bebop-o, RMP, Garry O, and any others whom I might have forgotten, for your service to our country.

And to those of us who were too young to serve, but were "drafted" into the military life anyway... Cheers!

And to RMP... congratulations on marrying off your son. The Cycle of Life goes on...

I can see how my short comment might have blended in with Beth's. That sort of thing sometimes happens here.

But the maladministration made these demands before 9/11, and except for Qwest, the telecoms happily complied. Despite the lack of warrants.

as well as other posts about his account.

One question that I haven't seen asked yet is: what about the doctors who are (supposedly) present?

How much of this the victim is to endure depends on the desired result (in the form of answers to questions shouted into the victim's face) and the obstinacy of the subject. A team doctor watches the quantity of water that is ingested and for the physiological signs that show when the drowning effect goes from painful psychological experience, to horrific suffocating punishment to the final death spiral.

A few months ago, the APA banned psychologists from participating in interrogations involving torture.

http://psychcentral.com/news/2007/08/22/apa-bans-psychologists-from-torture-interrogations/

What about the AMA? Haven't they done something similar? And, if not, why not? (We already know that (many) physicians have an issue with assisting with capital punishment... )

Perhaps someone reading/lurking here might know... ?

That is what I would have expected (AMA's position against torture), but if so, then where are "they" getting these doctors who supposedly oversee waterboarding to make sure it's safe?

As for the APA, I knew they had some disagreement among their ranks, even though the organization's official stance is against.

The whole thing just boggles the mind.

The LA Times hiring Jonah Goldberg was the reason I cancelled my decades-long subscription to that paper.

I didn't have a paid subscription, but I did cancel my free, online registration. It was the only "statement" I could make.

And then I requested updates and emails from Scheer's new venture, "TruthDig."

...alternating between schools that were populated with military dependents (mostly on SAC bases), and schools that weren't (near my mother's family).

In general, the schools receiving the extra money from the government to cover the cost of educating the children of (non-property-taxpaying) military personnel were better.

And they weren't necessarily standardized. Just better.

If this maladministration really wanted to support both the troops and the educationally disadvantaged, they would not have been trying to cut funding intended to benefit the schools of military brats, but would be funding them better, and funding other public schools (that needed it) similarly. NCLB has been a real bust.

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I'm tired of reading threads devoted to Paul... but to repeat: Yes, he's very engaging and makes an excellent impression whenever I happen to catch him on TV. And RMP made an excellent point about how much more effective Paul's supporters would be if they were to adopt his genial manner themselves...

But like many others, the only issue on which I completely agree with Paul is the invasion of Iraq.

I know there are women who support him, but I honestly suspect that most of his support comes from men. As the husband of a blogger/commenter somewhere in cyber-space (I don't remember where) asked his wife (after an epiphany)... (I'm paraphrasing) "...so, the abortion issue is really about whether or not women will be able to participate fully in our society?"

Bingo!

[Count me among those for whom life really begins with the first breath.]

And contraception would probably not be available (to the degree it is) without government support and intervention. And that's very recent. Wasn't so long ago, that one's health care provider might have been willing to pay for Vi*agra or C*alis, but not for contraception. Go figure. And I wouldn't be surprised to find it's still true of some providers.

Full Disclosure: Sometime last month I saw a news story correlating spacing of births with a mother's mortality. Too many children born too close together often means an earlier death for women. I was not surprised, since my own mother had six of us in ten years and died prematurely in her mid-fifties. So, yes, family planning-- in all of its forms-- really is a life and death issue. You'd think an ob/gyn of Paul's generation might have noticed such a trend, too, if only anecdotally. And that it might have had some influence on his notion of the proper care due to women of child-bearing age.

I should have been more specific:

[Count me among those for whom human life really begins with the first breath.]

...deserves to be trademarked.

No arguments from me about Glenn's fairness. It's one reason to keep coming back.

However, these posts inexorably attract other posters with whom many of us do disagree.