there are plenty of alternative media outlets:

http://portland.indymedia.org/

http://www.indymedia.org/en/index.shtml

http://www.indybay.org/

also, I wonder if "conservative self-victimization remains central to their mythology"...it may just be a pr tactic.

should be careful with his turnips!

but it's never enough

he's a prick

that's his effect

a kind of neglect

a failure to connect

Beck has his fans

his posse and his band

the illness he projects

it makes him the man

give the man a hand

here at Salon

In Hamdan v. Rumsfeld (2006), the Supreme Court gave no weight to a signing statement in interpreting the Detainee Treatment Act of 2005, according to that case's dissent (which included Justice Alito, a proponent of expanded signing statements when he worked in the Reagan Justice Department — see "Presidential Usage" below).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signing_statement

ie not very dramatic. For me the story resembles reality, unlike something such as Sex and the City.

where are the Battlestar Gallactica fans?

no, thanks.

Obama and the DOJ seem to be making the case that 24 hour electronic surveillance is reasonable. Which it is, from their perspective.

in order to believe that they support a surveillance state?

the Stazi operated under a Marxist-Leninist regime, which is about as left as you can get.

my point was that the left/right axis is not useful when judging whether or not a state will engage in surveillance.

it might be better to look at the authoritarian/non-authoritarian axis...or maybe the statist/non-statist axis.

I for one would appreciate a style guide.

would it live up to the fantasy? suppose one of the following happened:

-your new $750,000 house needs foundation work, but you've spent most of the advance

-your new gorgeous husband...the one you met at the book signing and honeymooned in Paris with...is he sleeping with your neighbor?

-one of your kids (she's in a really great private school now) just got hit by a car

Even a great life is not a fantasy. And how are you going to be happy if your life is not a fantasy? Is it possible?

the constitution is like that USDA sticker on the hot dogs...wonderful, if everything is working right.

the fact that Bush and Obama have gone to these lengths to legally justify what they're doing is encouraging, in a way...it means they still think there's some chance of getting caught.

The idea that someone might take exception to something at this site, but still find it a worthwhile blog to visit overall, is not acceptable to some of the posters here.

You are either for Glenn, or against Glenn...just as you must be either for Calamine, or against Calamine.

Obama is at least trying to get the paperwork right first, which seems like an improvement.

no I didn't read the article

it's true

I think that the disappointment in Obama comes from the fact that these arguments are even being made, regardless of whether or not they'll stand up to scrutiny.

no thanks

One of them is reasonably aware of politics; the other less so. Anyway, neither of them knew what I was talking about.

Sully has already made the cut.

I read it on the internet.

deal

the stores are planet weird.

or BAD

I guess.

rest assured that these extra women will not be forming rape gangs. they will probably just go shopping.

my apartment is the size of your garage...and I hate you for it.

when they go to war with us over oil.

is a "mainframe" a cloud? I use a terminal inside windows to do my timecard.

The terminal looks sort of like a cloud, to me.

UT places constitutional issues first; other blogs do not.

That someone who posts here complains about being dismissed someplace else is highly ironic.

the work involved cold-calling a phone book full of mortgage holders, making a deep personal connection, and then getting them to refinance. all the other brokers in town had the same phone book.

the guy who was interviewing me said that most of the money, at least initially, comes from getting friends and family as customers. "Frankly", he said,"I'm not really interested in hiring you...but I'm interested in the people you know".

In the end, he was interested in hiring me, but I didn't take the job.

american exceptionalism comes in many forms...one form is the idea that the constitution somehow protests us from the larger forces of history. Forces that are tending towards a reduction of freedoms, not an increase.

the government simply makes secret deals with a few giant providers, avoiding rummaging through millions of individual hard drives.

the ads said "one million dollar producer". I guess in this movie you are the star, and you certainly do want to get a "one million dollar producer" on your side. I guess.

his existence is constitutionally protected.

The polity scale is a widely used measure of democracy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Number_of_nations_1800-2003_scoring_8_or_higher_on_Polity_IV_scale.png

The graph increases dramatically over time. However, since this metric ostensibly includes the Bush regime as a "democracy", we can see how it actually proves the opposite of what is intended.

I'm not a political scientist and so am not familiar with attitudes towards the Polity Project. However, I had trouble finding any criticism of it on the internet. This paper, on page 27, has a minor quibble with one aspect of the rating system:

http://www.essex.ac.uk/ECPR/events/jointsessions/

paperarchive/edinburgh/ws9/Urdal.pdf

you go girl

Let's see...70,000 showed up for Obama in Portland...today, 1,000 showed up downtown for the "tea party".

You do the math.

a meaningless number pulled out of your ass.

Are they Ron Paul voters? That would explain last November.

no wonder Obama won.

multiply all your numbers by 10,000. So if your withholding went up $28, that's really...$280,000!!! Wow, I'd be upset too.