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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
just john
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It's the same reason behind abortion bans, the War on (some other) Drugs and laws against suicide: The Government owns your body!
They just graciously allow you to use it for a while.
Air Force Office of Special Investigations? Neat! When I was in the Air Force, I worked in the HQ of AFOSI at Bolling AFB in the 80s.
Most of the mission was busting druggies and gays within the Air Force. What your guy is describing doesn't sound like the way the OSI does things. I'm just saying ...
Thanks to Hiatt, we've already completed part one of "Declare victory and leave."
I've been wondering if the congressional investigations could piggyback onto the DOJ ones. I mean, could the Senate committee simply subpoena the DOJ investigators' papers, etc. as they were generated?
We now have an example of how Alberto Gonzales feels an Attorney General should be treated.
Good to know, next time he complains about being questioned.
But I can never pass up a good buffet.
It's actual spin.
But what's being spun is phony, as the content of spin often is.
My guess is that the set of issues that might get a woman to decide to have surgery might overlap the set of issues that might get a woman to commit suicide.
And just a hunch, but I doubt many women have had the surgery and only afterwards started contemplating the other action.
Open Cheney's Vault! Vote Democratic
2008: Accountability Moment
Vote Dem or you'll NEVER know!
Why Does GOP Want Government-Run Churches?
OverSIGHT, not OverLOOKED
YOU CAN'T AFFORD ANY MORE REPUBLICANS
HELP! ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM! HELP!
My first reaction, when I heard of the resignation, was, "Isn't he supposed to be in Iraq?"
So, until he speaks in a couple minutes and shatters this dream, I have this fantasy: Gonzales, having finally witnessed what this Administration has wrought in Iraq, denounces Bush and tells us THAT's why he's quitting.
Jon Stewart? Stephen Colbert? Dan Froomkin?
All on break.
Sounds like what my older sisters would say to each other when discussing which blouse to wear to a party. IE: Do you have the skirt to match that?
I know it's nigh irresistible for writers to show how far they are above us proles by making asides about pro wrestling.
But the "World Wrestling Federation" hasn't been named that for well over half a decade.
To paraphrase from Season One, he's not here about the dope, he's here about the bodies.
I just bought season one of Dexter and watched it over two days. It kept reminding me of Profit.
I have the DVDs, and one thing I noticed was that the character Jim Profit was trying to convey to the rest of the company was like a classic clip-art drawing of plucky enterprise personified.
They should revive this as a musical.
Something I noticed about George W. Bush in early 2001 is that much of his on-camera persona and mannerisms seemed to be based on Johnny Carson. I have to suspect his handlers had noticed a resemblance, and trained him to play it up, because people still missed Johnny.
I wrote a few years ago that it's in states' interests to host hard-fought primaries.
The candidates raised, what, sixty million dollars in February? Think of all the local businesses that goes to! Normally, only Iowa and New Hampshire get this sort of economic stimulus.
Don't get me wrong; I agree with all of this.
But when you posted it as Ten Commandments, and started with such a good first commandment, that works in all instances, I was hoping for a set of principles that could work everywhere. But #2 started giving that away by specifying terrorism. A simple "D not exaggerate threats" would have worked better. And then you get to things -- "Talk to Iran" -- that, while being wise now, might not come into play in some future encounter with, say, Venezuela.
So I guess I fell for the premise a bit too hard. Perhaps another time?
As a member of the boomer generation, I've noticed something that worries me.
One thing that the big innovations in pop music -- jazz, rock and hip-hop -- had in common was that the establishment started out by saying "That stuff isn't music!" Not that it was bad music, but that it wasn't music at all.
Then, eventually, the establishment caved in and accepted it.
So where's the new not-music, now? As a middle-aged guy, this worries me.
My big hope is that today's kids have something truly amazing, and they're just really good at hiding it from us oldsters.
I hit "Publish" too soon.
What I meant to say was that, as a middle-aged guy, everything new I hear sounds like music (often lame music; after hearing Slipknot touted a couple years back, I bought Iowa and fell asleep while listening to this allegedly fierce music) and that worries me.
Some satellite service is running ads which make lots of fun of cable TV in general. In it, either Ed Begley Jr. or somebody who looks just like him sits at the head of a meeting table.
The reason I bring this half-remembered ad up is that it would count as applicable to Glenn's letter. I don't have Comcast, but other readers who do have Comcast might know if these ads are running.
Re: "Needless to say, if you don't believe humans are the cause of global warming, you're not going to believe that humans are the solution to global warming."
Huh?
Do you say "Needless to say" because even you know that that assertion makes no sense?
For instance, as something like a converse to that, I tend to believe that humans are the primary cause of global warming, but I suspect that humans will NOT solve it. (It may well "solve" us!)
In a broad understanding of the term "science," logic is also a science. And you don't seem to be on logic's side, here. Must you also be stopped?
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
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