Letters to the Editor
Published Letters: 1824
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Whiners and Losers
[Read the article: A beautiful mosaic of anti-blogger hatred]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]["RealName", to me]: Asshole. This ISN'T a blog. Only self absorbed tools like you think it is. That's really the core of the problem; asshole like you.
Cheers to you too & air kisses.
[Kitt]: I'll bet you used to throw yourself on the floor and kick your legs and scream at your mommy when you didn't get your way. Maybe you still do that. Seems like it.
Oh, no, don't get the ironically nom de plumed "RealName" wrong. He was thanking me. He knows (or will find out) that in fact what I was showing him was real politeness ... well, yeah, at least for me. ;-)
Now if he'd get the hint and "make like a tree...."
In the "good news" department, "Jake" seems to have gone away. Maybe "Jake" figured out that he'll get the same treatment here he got at ThinkProgress ... only from a set of sharper knives.
Cheers,
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@ Paul Dirks
[Read the article: A beautiful mosaic of anti-blogger hatred]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]One wonders whether the troll has ever set foot in New Orleans.
He has his standards. He lives across the Hudson, in the lovely state of New Joysey.
John Roberts and Tony Barrand do their own updated version of the classic Matt McGinn song, "The Rolling Hills of the Border"
http://sniff.numachi.com/pages/tiNJMILLS;ttROLLBORD.html
When I die, bury me low
Where I can hear the petroleum flow.
A sweeter sound, I never did know
The rolling mills of New Jersey.
Down in Trenton, there is a bar
The bums, they come from near and from far
They come by truck, they come by car
The lousy bums of New Jersey
Down in Hoboken, there will be
Garbage as far as the eye can see.
There's garbage for you, there's garbage for me.
The garbage dumps of New Jersey.
When at last, I decided to roam,
Far away from my home in Bayonne.
I sat down, and wrote this poem.
I wrote an ode to New Jersey.
Cheers,
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Relevancy and materiality
[Read the article: What Fred Thompson means by the "rule of law"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Glenn [from the post]:
Back then, Thompson solemnly insisted that the lack of an underlying crime or even the lack of anything meaningful to be covered-up was irrelevant....
Not "meaningful". "Material". As in Kungys and Gaudin.
... That is because Our Respect for The Rule of Law demanded real punishment for such behavior:
President Clinton has committed a pattern of acts of obstruction of justice. The record demonstrates that the President, when his misconduct became relevant to a civil court proceeding in which he was a defendant, used all the methods at his disposal, including his status as President, to obstruct these proceedings and to keep the truth from emerging....
Thompson (as did all the other Republican hacks, and also Starr) elided "material" into this "relevan[cy]" (mostly because they could then use Judge Wright's statement to pretend her ruling of "relevancy" was dispositive. They are not the same. Something that is relevant may not be material, but something that is irrelevant is not material. And there's a good argument to be made that the facts in question were not relevant to Jones's case despite Wright's off-the-cuff remarks (not to mention the restrictions of FRE Rules 412-414 which would/should have been grounds for exclusion of such.
Cheers,
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Clinton's legacy
[Read the article: What Fred Thompson means by the "rule of law"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here][Glenn, quoting Fred Thompson]: "And in years to come, in every court house in every town in America, juries, judges, and litigants will have the President's actions as a bench mark against which to measure any attempted subversion of the judicial process."
I would hope that the legacy is this: That if you're asked a question that has no relevance to a legal procedure, you know enough to tell them to FOAD, or tell them the moon is made of bleu cheese, particularly when the question is of a personal nature and is being used for extrajudicial ends, hijackng the power of the judiciary to embarrass you.
Cheers,
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@ mattrhames
[Read the article: PBS's "Frontline: Spying on the Home Front"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"May 14th is the official deadline for cable modem companies, DSL providers, broadband over powerline, satellite internet companies and some universities to finish wiring up their networks with FBI-friendly surveillance gear, to comply with the FCC's expanded interpretation of the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act."
Yeah, but there's some stragglers out there. They just risk $10K a day if they're asked for a tap and can't do it.
This equipment is under the control of the operators (ISPs, telcos), and the FBI (or whoever) needs to ask them to institute a warrant. Hopefully they will check with their lawyers as to company liability, and insist that the requesting gummint agency comply with the paperwork requirements (you know, like a warrant?). Maybe they'll bow to NSL requests too, though; I hope that someone stiffs the gummint on this and says "no warrant, no tap", and it gets to court. To my mind, there's no constitutional exception for NSLs.
Cheers,
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"shooter042" is an eedjit
[Read the article: PBS's "Frontline: Spying on the Home Front"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"shooter": I believe it also restricts said surveillance to specific phones leaving large gaps in communication from that person.
You believe mistakenly. Your problem, not ours.
Moussaoui's laptop was kept closed because of difficulty fulfilling then FISA requirements, and you know what happened next.
WTF does Moussaoui's laptop have to do with FISA?!?!?
But a clarification: One midddle manager put the kibosh on the criminal search warrant of the laptop (see http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,249997,00.html for more). Guess what happened to that middle manager? (you'll never believe it...) Dubya gave him a merit bonus (at a time when federal salaries had been frozen because of the sh*tty federal financial situation).
Better trolls, please. Or at least more sober ones.
Cheers,