Organizations usually display a certain consistency of competence.

As you probably have no experience within an organization of any measurable size, I would not expect you to know this.

The people who post here make a very poor analogy to a corporation or government organization.

A zoo would be a better example...and yes, some animals are better than others.

Who has been posting under your name?

yes I know

Depending on how the air was circulating....the fire could have been pretty hot. And lead melts a low temperature, for a metal anyway.

but I'm just a lowly civil servant, not an engineer. If I'm going to take someone's word for how it went down, why don't I just take the government's word?

presumably I remind you of Steve. Is this a trick question?

But Steve better look at my letters...he might mind being me.

From what I've read, when the President takes office the CIA is presented as a sort of "toolbox" of items that he has the power to use, if he can get away with it.

There is an implicit understanding that this include illegal activities.

So to hammer away at the illegality of torture is to miss the point. The power of the CIA to be used and misused takes place in the context of a relationship, not a legal agreement.

And because this relationship is secret, it is hard to pin down. Obama could certainly go on tv and say: my adminstration will never conduct illegal operations...but of course he doesn't do this. Because nobody just throws away power.

she didn't give us much to work with this weekend.

I mean how many "Army" jokes can you do?

But without terrorists to hate, my life is not worth living!

not sure about the practice though

I need a martini but all I have is lemon-lime soda

like said said...I'm an astronaut! And I post in my spacesuit!

some of us got our cynicism the old-fashioned way: we earned it!

are you sure she didn't say: "my words are weighted"?

the thinking long ago was that cars went "too fast", unnaturally fast actually. Which turned out not to be the case...but cars destroyed our culture anyway.

but "thanks for playing"...whatever that means

The simplest explanation for an event is often the correct one, regardless of the government's official position.

I do statistics in real life and thought Teresa might like the idea that her words were "weighted" i.e. given a fixed increase in value.

Or maybe not!

oh wait no they're trolls

is it the wave of the future?

what happened to the challenging targets such as Elephantman?

OMG somebody help me I can't breathe...

COMMIES!

Eman has been nowhere

He never really posted ban-worthy stuff, as far as I could tell...maybe he just got sick of this crap ;-)

maybe Salon has enough viewers to make it worthwhile

except for his weighty posts, of course

he tried to do some Catholic bonding with me once.

he probably blew a gasket

unless his posts are good

I'm the six-hundred dollar astronaut.

I've never been near an atomic blast, but I think I get some radiation from my computer monitor...

but I like sci fi better than westerns

with groundzero

so I'm probably getting zapped here in the happy home...luckily at work I have a flat panel.

once I was convinced that the city was experiencing "red rain"...then I sobered up.

he can hold it a long time because he's manly

anything is possible

maybe as number thirteen

was a pretty good western...

I was talking about the original Mad Max (no Tina), when Mel Gibson looked like he was about 22 and there were lots of freaky bikers (the outlaws).

Blade Runner was great...there were some parts that were a little weak but overall it was one of the best "new generation" sci fi movies.

I thought The Year Of Living Dangerously with Gibson and Sigourney Weaver was really good...again, this was before Mel turned into a nut.

"I've seen the style before."

"Terminal psychotic."

it's all very interesting

just remember that your hero secretly has the hots for Joan.

The Lives of Others...from a few years ago...a Stazi agent spys on some actors who are political. More interesting than it sounds...

after I saw it I was checking my smoke detector for little cameras because I'm the paranoid type

I want you to stay away from them. Those mondo-weirdo video guys. You know, in some countries, like Argentina, making subversive video is considered a criminal act. They execute people for it. In Pittsburgh... WHO KNOWS?

I think Brian Oblivion is writing for Salon now.

with their moose-fur and health care and stuff

from our usual routine of insults and unsupported opinions

I've noticed that the trolls won't go anywhere that they can't score "points"...and Sister P probably isn't going to start talking about her favorite movies...

women like poets

old guys too

all ideas must be expressed in less than 5 seconds

news you can trust

But I thought better of it when I realized that I only wanted to hang out with a pretty 29 year old woman.

the question was, what's the correct response?

would you suggest Team America: World Police?

The initial response to 9/11 was correct: pinpoint targeting of Taliban and Al-Qaeda forces. Disrupt their lines of communication. Make it impossible for them to regroup. Destroy their leadership structure.

I thought that the CIA did 9/11...

then we would all get TRICARE

sounds good to me

"...union thugs unleashed to beat up conservative protestors in St. Louis..."

The way you characterize this really says a lot about the lack of integrity you bring to your posts...

http://www.seiu.org/a/healthcare/reality-check-false-claims-debunked-about-last-weeks-town-hall-in-st-louis.php

I will admit nothing