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sysprog: However, I'm flexible, and after seeing her a couple of times, I'm willing to make an allowance for the term, "The Noron."
Some nicknames are just natural (Red, Slim, Curly) based on some physical characteristic. Such would seem to be the case in the matter of Noron. Actually, the official designation goes back to February of 2006 (WARNING for shooter "hate site": http://firedoglake.blogspot.com/2006_02_05_firedoglake_archive.html#113920338235243739). The suggestions at the time were:
As I remember, Noron was a hands-down winner.
L.W.M.: I will be opposed to any group that tries to infinge upon the right of free speech today.
Yea, verily, yea. The First Amendment makes no exception for "hate speech" ("Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech"). I sincerely hope that any "hate speech" law passed by a misguided Congress would be declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. As shooter has shown us, letting ideologues decide what "hate speech" is (according to shooter, criticizing the Bush administration) is a recipe for repression one would not like to see associated with the United States.
Imus will have no problems. I imagine Rudy will snaffle him up as a campaign advisor. If he has John Bolton advising him on foreign policy, Imus could only help him.
Something completely different: the Greasemonkey script for showing all Salon letters on one page seems to have stopped working. Anyone else notice this? Of course, it might have been addressed in some letter already, but I confess to being too lazy to search through the dozens of pages of letters that have appeared since it stopped working...
Mepex updated his script when Salon changed the letter format. The revised script can be installed at (http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/7680).
Unfortunately the script does not work for me. Apparently it collects all the pages of letters but then is unable to put them on the page. For each page of letters I get an error message from the java console that says "insertLetterSpot.parentNode has no properties". Wherever mepex is, if he has a fix for this I would be overjoyed to know.
The folks beating up on Nora O'Donnell would do well to consider that not only does she know more about DC than they do, the man you are defending had to resign his intelligence committee post for leaking secret documents.
In 1987, Sen. Patrick J. Leahy, D-Vt., admitted that he showed an NBC News reporter a draft of the Senate intelligence committee's unreleased Iran-Contra report. Leahy, today chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, was blasted by then-Rep. Dick Cheney, who served as ranking Republican on the House intelligence committee.While no classified information was leaked in that case, Leahy resigned from the Senate intelligence committee amid the flap.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/org/news/2002/020703-fbi1.htm
No secret documents involved in Leahy's resignation from the Intelligenc Committee. But thanks for playing, shooter — what do we have for the losers, Johnny?
shooter: I'd say this is a good demonstration of hate speech. Alluding [sic] Republicans to Nazis is vicious.
L.W.M.: Tom DeLay's new book contains a passage which reads: "liberals have finally joined the ranks of scoundrels like Hitler."
No, no. It is only alluding [sic] Republicans to Nazis that is vicious. Alluding [sic] Democrats or liberals to Nazis is not vicious or hate speech — it is the natural right of the master race. I thought shooter made that clear.
