Spelling Yiddish with Roman letters (i.e. transliteration) is an inexact science.

I'm totally farblondzshet.

Anyway, wait till we start dropping science in Ladino or Italkian. Oy!

I've always seen Yiddish written with traditional Hebrew characters, even though it's a Germanic language.

fwiw

a gute nakht velt

Scotty always seemed like the insecure fat kid that the thugs running the White House gave the shit work of talking to the press. I remember him standing up there repeating the talking points he was handed, without conviction.

So, he carried their water and cashed their checks, and now when it's obvious to everyone what a crock of shit he was selling, he's going to make some $$$ on a book. What a Profile in fucking Courage.

He seems really Robotic. Like he's powered by Electricity.

You know?

...my now pretty-much-constant outrage that our national discourse has become so debased that it is unremarkable to be having debates as to whether the president should have "dictatorial" or "near-dictatorial" powers - or whether drowning someone really qualifies as torture, or whether warrantless surveillance is really a violation of our Costitutional rights...

the view that the President has vast latitude on foreign policy

I hope you don't really think that's what's under debate.

The question that's been rather laboriously discussed seems to me, rather, to be whether "vast latitude on foreign policy" has any semantic relationship to "near-dictatorial powers."

It's that "near" that's the detail-devil. History is replete with dictators, but near-dictators are rare as hen's teeth.

To me, it's like being a little pregnant: either you dictate or you don't.

What Glenn said.

Please, for the sake of the children: define "dictator" for us? Is a dictator, in your mind, a role that contains gradation, ranks, such as "near-dictator," "lieutenant-dictator," "dictator-associate," etc., each of which has differing levels of the quality of "dictation?"

Or is being a "dictator" an black-and-white matter: one who dictates, and many who do not?

Sadly No's take on McCain's green screen, via John Cole: http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/9642.html and at sig.

chickachickamaomao

it is the left's willingness to invade and occupy one country while denouncing the same for another

Your definition of "left" and mine bear little resemblance to each other.

Put another way: when a term has been broadened to the point where it includes both Hillary Clinton and Noam Chomsky... it might be worth considering if it's a totally fucking meaningless term.

You're up to 3?

You're like Wile E. Coyote without the rocket skates...

Click on sig for a link to all the & codes for cool things like trademarks™ and ♥s...

Who knew OPEC, Chavez and the "Whahabe" were in cahoots? There had to be SOMETHING about George Soros and Al Franken in that filing...

...what this country needs is more relaxed, self-satisfied liberals, convinced the political winds are blowing their way.

cause that's worked out so well up till now...

kind of tough talk, you know, that sent the wrong signal to people...

Cause it was the talk that bothered people, right?

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The article provides no evidence of either "increasing popularity" nor the "growing prevalence" (or for that matter a "disturbing increase") in the procedure. It's just an anecdote. With extra icky, to sell papers.

So glad you linked it here. Thanks.

Greenwald paints himself as this fearsome pursuer of truth

Does he?

Rilly?

I must have missed that post...

You might want to watch that, Max. It's called projection.

After the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan toppled the Taliban government, American and Iranian diplomats met together in Bonn, with a handful of representatives from other UN members, to form a new government and constitution for Kabul. “None was more [helpful] than the Iranians,” said James Dobbins, the U.S. special envoy to Afghanistan at the time, writing in the Washington Post.

http://www.cfr.org/publication/12806/timeline.html#8

I hesitate to use the term "unimpeachable" to describe anyone in Bush's administration, but in the sense you meant, I think it's appropriate here...

Neither of you is correct.

After K-1's commissioning on 10 November 1951, Carter served as Executive Officer, Engineering Officer, and Electronics Repair Officer. During this tour he also qualified for command of a submarine. [...] Carter was preparing to become the engineering officer for the nuclear power plant to be placed in USS Seawolf (SSN 575), one of the first submarines to operate on atomic power.

http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq60-14.htm

It's called Google, gentlemen... :-P

The Royal Deluxe II:

http://www.hulu.com/watch/2323/saturday-night-live-royal-deluxe-ii

It rides smooth because they're built right.

I think of it like skeet shooting: there's nothing, really, to be gained, but you can practice your skills and while away some time...

What about the word of George Bush's hand-picked emissary to Afghanistan:

“None was more [helpful] than the Iranians,” said James Dobbins, the U.S. special envoy to Afghanistan at the time

Does that also count for nothing?

There's something to be said about the desire to believe that is so strong that you ignore even what your allies say if it contradicts your dogma.

I'm really not sure what, though.