When the house was built, Palin wasn't even officially running for governor yet, and there was no guarantee she'd win once she did.

Sorry, that is a totally stupid statement, as the hockey rink project was controlled by Palin as Mayor of Wasilla, a town of 4,000 that didn't really NEED a 13.7 MILLION DOLLAR ICE RINK.

As Mayor, Sarah was also able to kill a bill requiring building permits for home construction, which would have ID'd the contractors on the project.

'Scuse me - is there some view other than it was a miserable mistake made by fucking pinheads leading to the loss of 58,000 American lives after we betrayed our best WWII ally against the Japanese in Indochina by allowing the French to re-colonize?

Is there any doubt whatsoever we promised in the Geneva Accords to hold elections in 1956, and then when John Foster Dulles found out Ho Chi Minh would get 80% of the vote we called off the elections?

Is there any doubt that the pretext for this illegal undeclared war was the rigged Tonkin Gulf incident - an attack that NEVER happened?

WTF, Lind, are you retarded?

200 ft. crosslay hoses pushing water at 95 gallons a minute mean her nomination is going on the rocks?

Similarly, do these fire dept lunkheads know anything about legislative intent or full faith and credit provisions between the states?

Or are they merely happy to be a tool of Republican imbeciles?

Wonder if Michell's buying the lame excuses . . .

I'm betting Ricci is a Catholic. How convenient then that the 5 (count 'em FIVE!!!) Catholic justices on the Supreme Court all decided to back a Catholic firefighter over African-American firefighters, who are, shall we say, a lot less likely to be taking their orders from the Vatican.

Have to be careful with that argument, hwoever, as Sotomayor's confirmation would make 6 Catholics justices, or 67% of the court. That seems a little strange, doesn't it?

Talk about selling newspapers and upping your cable ratings - if MSNBC carries the trial of Dick Cheney for torture and murder, I guarantee the ratings will be off the charts?

Watergate created whole cottage industries . . . and Watergate was a Sunday School picnic compared to this stuff:

A burglary uncovered by duct tape . . . a break-in to a psychiatrists office . . . a bagman with $50,000 in cash . . . a shadowy deep throat figure in a parking garage. How quaint; how nostalgic for small-town America.

Doesn't Todd see we're talking international hit teams, silencers, outed CIA blondes, torture, TORTURE!!

Seems to me the shareholders of GE/RCA/NBC should DEMAND the 24 hour cable news cycle gear up and make some friggin' money for the shareholders.

Let justice be done, though the heavens may fall.

The latin phrase is attributed to Lucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus, but is also often attributed to William Murray who used it during the famous Somersett's Case in which he ruled that there was no legal basis for slavery in England.

Todd's idiocy is beyond comprehension.

the depths of chickenshitedness the Obama Administration has sunk to amazes me daily. Is it simply impossible to be a fully cognizant functioning human with a rational brain and a modicum of integrity and courage in politics?

If I had been elected president, at 12:30 on inauguration day a Special Ops team would've seized Bush and Cheney, slipped black burlap over their heads and shipped the bastards to Gitmo, where they would have been informed they'd been named enemy combatants and stripped of all legal rights.

Ashton Kucher would've been there broadcasting live video to all channels and we could've watched the pukes.

Instead we get this kind of shit.

Due to political expediency . . .

we cannot prosecute torturers...

we cannot prosecute warrantless wiretappers...

we cannot investigate Bush & Cheney

Pushed it = got uppity.

And the fact this guy teaches a course on racial profiling to other Cambridge cops just shows how bad things are in Cambridge Mass.

Once Crowley had ascertained Gates lived in the residence what further business did he have there?

If Gates tells him to get the fuck out of my house . . . then just like any other uninvited guest, Crowley needs to get the fuck out of Gates' house.

Instead, Crowley let his anger get the better of him. The most telling fact is all charges were dropped, no doubt on advice of counsel seeking to mitigate the city's potential damages if they arraigned Gates.

Final note: Gates is a taxpayer. He pays Crowley's salary. It's about time citizens get some respect from the cops, who as a result of two decades plus of the War on Drugs now view all citizens as their enemies, rather than as their employers.