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'bout sums it up in my book
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]If I may be so bold as to pick a money quote, THIS
George Bush really believes -- and is outright telling us -- that when he orders private citizens to do something, and they obey, then it means that -- even if what they're doing is illegal -- they are acting "patriotically" and should be protected from all consequences. Are there any monarchs left anywhere in the Western World who even claim such a power -- to be able to order citizens to break the law? That's been a discredited "principle" since at least the Nuremberg Trials, yet this warped assertion of monarchical powers really is the central premise of the case for telecom amnesty.
needs to be spread far and wide.
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Yes folks, we have a winner!
[Read the article: The principled, honest House Republicans]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Inane comment of the week!
(See nasalbarfer, below)
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@sysprog, point taken and back atcha
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]For those not in the know, "Marcy" refers to the emptywheel affiliate of the firedoglake blog. Lotsa knowledgable FISA type discussion over there.
http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/
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O/T, sorry, but why isn't this a big deal
[Read the article: High-level right-wing discourse]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Isn't this shite ILLEGAL?
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/13/bush-11th-hour-ozone/
According to the LA Times, President Bush personally intervened to overrule EPA staff who were pushing to protect forests and crops:
President Bush intervened at the 11th hour and turned down a second proposal by the EPA staff that would have established tougher seasonal limits on ozone based on its harm to forests, crops and other plants, according to documents obtained by The Times. Federal scientists had recommended those growing-season limits as a way to keep vegetation healthy and capable of trapping carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas linked to global warming. […]
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It's worse than it sounds at first
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Better article on the Bush EPA law--breaking here...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/13/AR2008031304175_pf.html
Bush overruled EPA officials and on Tuesday ordered the agency to increase the limit, according to the documents...
...The president's order prompted a scramble by administration officials to rewrite the regulations to avoid a conflict with past EPA statements on the harm caused by ozone.
Solicitor General Paul D. Clement warned administration officials late Tuesday night that the rules contradicted the EPA's past submissions to the Supreme Court, according to sources familiar with the conversation. As a consequence, administration lawyers hustled to craft new legal justifications for the weakened standard.
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@Bill_H
[Read the article: High-level right-wing discourse]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think if you read Glenn Greenwald often enough, some fairly obvious themes recur. He rails against hypocrisy in its myriad forms, and he is a scathing critic of much of what passes for mainstream "journalism" and "political discourse".
And he doesn't seem to really give a damn about what you, I, or anybody else thinks he OUGHT to be writing about. So, if you don't like the topic of the day, you're free to move on. Or talk about how you think it's not important. Just don't be surprised when you don't get too much mileage out of that tack.
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Well, I'll be damned...
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]I had to call Pelosi's and Reyes' offices, retract some of the vituperation I'd directed their way over the past few weeks, and offer them instead a hearty thank you.
I couldn't be happier about it.
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Yo bucky
[Read the article: High-level right-wing discourse]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Your personal vendettas detract from the amm bee ants.
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Well, I'll be damned...
[Read the article: House Democrats reject telecom amnesty, warrantless surveillance]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I had to call Pelosi's and Reyes' offices, retract some of the vituperation I'd directed their way over the past few weeks, and offer them instead a hearty thank you.
I couldn't be happier about it.
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Where the hell is the BOUNCER!?
[Read the article: House Democrats reject telecom amnesty, warrantless surveillance]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You assh*les, take it down the street!
Or, get a room. Whatever. Just spare the rest of us. Please.
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Check your previous posts.
[Read the article: House Democrats reject telecom amnesty, warrantless surveillance]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Say, the 5 previous that I can see on this page alone.
I can't detect a single iota of rational discourse in any of them. It's all "L.W.M. is this", and "WT is that".
You add nothing, NOTHING.
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Random thought popped into my head this a.m.
[Read the article: House Democrats reject telecom amnesty, warrantless surveillance]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I had been firmly convinced that if HRC won the Dem nomination, I would stay home in Nov.
Realized I can't do that. The goddam Dems have me where they want me as a result of the preceding 7 (15?) years.
My only option is to support a "More and Better [Candidates]" strategy, in whatever way, shape or form I can.
Carry on, folks.
That thing in Tibet is BAAAAAD.
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Apropos of jokey-time
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]I lack enough good sense that one time I decided to tell a joke to a few Irish fellas that actually entailed me attempting to imitate an Irish accent. (I forget the joke, it's beside the point anyway, so take yer pick - an Irishman, Eliot Spitzer, and Jesus go walking into a bar...)
Si there I am, attempting my best Irish Brogue, and Feargal, the bartender looks at me and says w/ a quizzical lilt -
"Was he an Irish PIRATE?"
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GG, a request
[Read the article: Time magazine invents facts to claim that Americans support Bush's domestic spying abuses]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]One can only hope Calebrisi (or somebody on his behalf) will take issue w/ this post and offer a hearty "defense". Please share?
And may I offer a pre-emptive "it takes two to tango" (see? I didn't say STFU) to a certain twosome?
PEACE!
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O/T, Sorry, but look at THIS
[Read the article: The difference between Jeremiah Wright and radical, white evangelical ministers]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]H/T Americablog
http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_8603419
The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed the guilty verdict in the criminal insider trading case of former Qwest CEO Joe Nacchio and ordered a new trial before a different judge.
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Ain't it the truth
[Read the article: The difference between Jeremiah Wright and radical, white evangelical ministers]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Theology made simple
Not bombing angers God.
-- Baldie McEagle
Thanks, Baldie. Funny cuz it's true?
Vis-a-vis vis-a-vis Iowa Democrat - does my snark detector need a tune-up?
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All y'all are f*cked up!
[Read the article: The difference between Jeremiah Wright and radical, white evangelical ministers]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Those commenters who have their grundies in a bundle about Wright's "God damn America" comment are miscontruing commentary on the U.S. and A's abject lack of moral standing with an epithet so overused it has lost all meaning.
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I'll buy what he's sellin'
[Read the article: The difference between Jeremiah Wright and radical, white evangelical ministers]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Check around for Obama's speech today.
The man is gooooooooooooooood!
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Maybe I should eat my words?
[Read the article: Obama's faith in the reasoning abilities of the American public]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I've been known to comment that "Anybody who would NOT vote for Obama simply on the basis of his race, would never vote Democratic in any case."
Should I be rethinking that postulate?