It has been a long time coming, this ruling-and it is a big deal, because all the other courts (excepting the SC) have held that the enemy combatants do not have any rights of appeal or habeus corpus.

To rule that it is illegal for Bush & co. to indefinitely hold anyone (let alone enemy combantants) puts a check, if not a total stop to this entire shameful episode.

Finally, judges are standing up for the Constitution, instead of hiding behind it.

The saying goes: "What goes around, comes around".

The LW informed the supervisor of this young woman about her "inappropriate attire". This is as far as he gets to go with his personal opinion-after that, it's all ego-busting.

He should stop looking at the T-shirt and just get on with his damned work. The bosses will take care of "kitty" soon enough.

I hope his wife knows that he is a sexist pig, too. Sounds like a real winner to me-and I hope she slaps him up side the head next time he thinks he's the only person in the universe who has sartorial taste.

Lots of us belabor under dress codes-and for those who break them, all hell comes down soon enough. Let the girl alone!

The DC Court of Appeals will probably not block Libby from going to prison.

The reason?

The CoA's do not have to kiss anyone's ass-judgeships are for life; judges are appointed by the president and approved by Congress. They have nobody to please, except perhaps the SC, who can review their decisions.

It is very rare that the SC reverses any CoA decision unless the government has a very compelling reason to appeal it-it usually has to be a constitutional or very important statutory ruling thing to get their attention, too.

Individual appeals are rarely heard, and the vast majority are rejected before the next court sits.

Good-bye Scooter, it was a nice job while you had it.

As "grumpy" as Mr. Rose is, (although in a half-hearted way, and not altogether funny, either) I wonder what his second batch of kids will think of their father when they grow up?

"ah, Dad was always bitching about not wanting to play with me"

"He was such a damn grouch"

"Gee whiz, couldn't spare a minute for me".

"He was always so old!"

If he's complaining about being a father for the second time around, he should have thought twice and gotten his surgery. He knew what he was in for.

It is true though, that our culture is so kid-obsessed that if one criticizes any aspect of kids or child rearing they're automatically called a grump, when in reality they're telling it like it is.

No, I don't have kids...thank god.

Hillary Clinton has one distinct advantage over all the other people in this race, Democrat or Republican.

She's a woman runnning for president, which is extraordinary enough-a refreshing change from all the other candidates who look and act the same-including Obama; the men in this race assume they'll have a better chance of winning simply because they're men and this country has been run by men from the start.

Perhaps it's time for a change of gender and outlook, which might do us some real good.

She might not win, but I doubt that she won't do her damnedest to give it the best shot she has.

Isn't it time just to stop thinking of her as "Bill Clinton's wife", and start talking about her as person in her own right?

If elected, she'll be the president, not him.

Bush did not get to be president in a vacuum. He took power by pandering to a set of people who think just like he does-in terms of "good" and "evil", and that everyone else is a "traitor" if they question the moral basis of every act this administration does.

These people think in very literal terms, in a mind-set that defies change, and longs for tyranny disguised as power. These people are as dangerous and evil as the leader they so ardently revere.

Bush is their leader, and god. The rest of America is as shamed and humiliated about the abuses we have committed, but we are the minority, too.

We, the minority, are praying and waiting for the end of this horrible, corrupt and morally bankrupt presidency to end. It cannot end soon enough for most of us.

Your excerpt was excellent. Your book should be required reading for those of us who still have independent minds to think with.

If one starts at the top, the mortgage mess is going to hit some very big pocketbooks very hard. That means the big investment banks will start laying off people, which means these people might not have enough to pay for their mortgages...and so on down the line.

The pain is going to get very real for some very rich people soon. It isn't over, and it hasn't even begun.

I'm not worried, because I'm at the bottom. Those at the top should be, and making sure they have enough real money to live on for a few years, because that's how long this whole situation is going to take to resolve, because it took over 10 years to get this bad, and it will take 10 more to get better.

Maybe by that time I'll be able to afford a house, though!

I remember not that long ago he was in the Republican debates, and was one of the three candidates that did not think evolution was a valid theory-and did not believe in it.

In other words, he is a fundie posing as a moderate candidate. Haven't we had enough of these people to last a lifetime?

When all the fundies can adopt every single baby that is born from a overturned Roe v. Wade decision, then I will listen to these people telling half of the voting population what to do with their bodies.

Let's not go back to the stone age, ok?