Ever grow a bacteria in a Petri dish in an agar-agar culture?

It always ends the same way . . . with the bacterial colony drowning in its own toxic wastes.

The Earth is a closed system. As no less an authority than Stephen Hawking points out, if we don't get off this planet, we die.

Continued development and economic growth only hasten the day . . .

p[lease go to Freeperville and leave sentient beings in peace.

And Greenwald is right . . . BUsh, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice et alii should be in prison right now for their crimes against humanity.

the way I understand it, classified information about:

"enhanced interrogation techniques that were applied" to Mr. Ghailani, "including descriptions of the techniques as applied, the duration, frequency, sequencing, and limitations of those techniques."

will be kept secret from him? It seems to me - unless the torture techniques used on him were so blessedly heinous as to strip him of all memory - Mr. Ghailani could probably tell the Court a thing or three about the enhanced interrogation techniques that were applied to him.

Just let me say, I am so proud of our legal system and the brave defenders of the Rule of Law at the DoJ and in the Obama WHite House.

wherein he must restrict his public appearances to prayer breakfasts, motivational presentations in crappy hotels and the occasion right-wing get-together . . .

she drives more sentient humans away. Her inability to tell the truth about ANYTHING is not going to endear her to anyone except the 20% who make up the Republican Christian right . . . and you can't get elected to a national office with those odds.

It leads to the criminalization of policy matters.

100 Detainees have died in custody. 30-40 have been ruled homicide by medical examiners. At all times relevant, torture is a felony in the United States, with punishment up to and including the death penalty. Failure to prosecute torture and murder is very bad policy.

gives a lie to all of Obama's promises to restore the rule of law. In my mind, their actions are so ethically bereft they constitute aiding and abetting the Bush felons' crimes, making them accessories after the fact, morally, if perhaps not legally.

Bauer's rationale re Libby is self-serving and highly representative of the exceptionalistic thinking of the power elite.

and she isn't going to fall for the trap of allowing her mental condition to be scrutinized by the Judge and his Nurse Blodgett.

Even tho it's hard to imagine that a nice healthy regimen of electroshock therapy wouldn't help her condition, whatever the fuck it it.

Since she was (is) apparently unaware that paying for personal legal bills with campaign funds is out of bounds . . . can we re-examine who paid for that $500,000.00 lake house in Dogpatch North? The house built with the same materials as the $15,000,000.00 hockey rink. By some of the same contractors and suppliers who worked on Ted Stevens' house.

a cure for "old guy butt"??

You know . . . if a teenage girl dies in a tragic car accident . . . perhaps her vagina could be donated to a more mature individual. Or, if after exhaustive study to find the PERFECT™ vagina, perhaps it could be cloned in laboratory facilities so that all could benefit.

Then again, shy-of-the-knife ladies could allow their husbands to frequent surrogate vaginas . . . usually available at titty bars and crack cocaine neighborhoods . . .

QED.

is United States v. Reynolds. In that case, the Air Force intervened when families of dead airmen sued the manufacturer of B-29's. The Air Force said the accident report contained secret information that would damage our national security if admitted in court. The Supreme Court agreed.

The accident report was later inadvertently released, and it turned out to have contained no secret information whatsoever, so the leading case is based upon a fraud upon the court.

I keep reading the Constitution to see where it mentions state secrets . . .

so nice to hear from the hydrocephalic Silenced, wgsalter and zorkna. Why don't you warwimp creeps just go over to Strata-sphere and enjoy the delusional cognitively dissonant chatter there so reminiscent of your own?

Second thing is, perhaps before this self-aggrandizing dweeb disses someone for disregard of human life, he might care to consider the Muslims have killed, what 8,000 Americans total? Which is about how many Americans die EACH MONTH due to medical mistakes. Or handguns plus automobiles.

On the other hand, at last count, the US has proximately caused, according to Opinion Research Business, the deaths of approximately 1.2 million (1,220,580). This estimate is the highest number published so far. From the poll margin of error of +/-2.5% ORB calculated a range of 733,158 to 1,446,063 deaths.

Not to mention Afghanistan, of course.

In the mid-80's I had a consulting job in Michigan and was put up by the company at the Hillsdale Conference Center. The campus was awash with the most appalling right-wing brats of privilege, and is the proud alma mater of Erik "Mr. Blackwater/Xe" Prince . . . a known war criminal.

then I suggest he should have hired a lawyer, showed up for the trial, and demonstrated his innocence. Otherwise he can shut his fucking pie hole.

In this case, the defendants had ample notice, but they refused to show up, and the US refused to extradite them for trial.