Letters to the Editor
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Didn't somebody suggest this earlier?
[Read the article: What can and cannot be spoken on television]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Sharter28% really needs the "Clockwork Orange" treatment...
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Update errata
[Read the article: Fred Kagan on Monday: "The civil war in Iraq is over"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here](b) no full well that what they are saying is baseless and false.
Virtually all of our revered experts -- including the Great and Honorable Commanding General David H. Petraues
That's "know" and "Betrayus".
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New Post Up
[Read the article: What can and cannot be spoken on television]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]N/T
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Meanwhile...
[Read the article: Bush and McCain's shared foreign policy approach]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Fresh fighting flares in al-Sadr stronghold"
NOT Basra, BTW.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/03/28/iraq.main/index.html
The U.S. Embassy warned employees to remain indoors until the bombardments cease.
"Personnel should only move outside of hard cover for essential reasons. Essential outdoor movements should be sharply limited in duration," an embassy statement read. "Personal protective equipment is mandatory for all outside movements."
In Washington, U.S. State Department official Richard Schmierer said the rocket attacks appear to be coming from fighters affiliated with al-Sadr who were "trying to make a statement" about the government offensive in Basra. He blamed the violence on "marginal extremist elements" who have associated themselves with the Sadrist movement.
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Derbig
[Read the article: Bush and McCain's shared foreign policy approach]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Take it from one who usually doesn't even bother to try - sometimes fully articulating your position via the tubes is an onerous task. I'd venture to say most posters w/ (OK, I'm about to characterize you) your (perspective? sense of "irony"?) are routinely misconstrued.
I'm pretty sure you don't take it personally. FWIW, I think Digby's FU was a bit... gratuitous.
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This is one of those "required reading" posts
[Read the article: Michael Mukasey's tearful lies]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I forwarded it to my "political" distribution list via email, "Buzzed [it] Up" via the linky on the post, and tried like hell to "Digg" it, unsucessfully, until I read scientician's post.
Man, that Digg functionality is unwieldy. I don't know how J K's conscience does it...
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Way, way O/T, but it's the week-end, right?
[Read the article: Michael Mukasey's tearful lies]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I felt like crying when I watched THIS.
Yes, I know, that makes me a girlie man.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=He7Ge7Sogrk
Not sure which blog I initially found it on...
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The final panel of today's Tom Tomorrow
[Read the article: The John McCain "centrism" fallacy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]http://www.salon.com/comics/tomo/2008/03/31/tomo/
makea me laugh. McCain's in it...
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@HRH - your scores?
[Read the article: The John McCain "centrism" fallacy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]-6.75, -7.08 relatively unchanged from 4 years ago, when it was -6.25, -7.13
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WATB ElephantDung calls for mommy!
[Read the article: "Great American Hypocrites: Toppling the Big Myths of Republican Politics"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]FOAD. You and the pachyderm you rode in on.
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sysprog
[Read the article: "Great American Hypocrites: Toppling the Big Myths of Republican Politics"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]thanks for the linky. Air America down?
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Question
[Read the article: John Yoo's war crimes]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What do you mean by this?
"Respectfully debating the legality and justification of torture regimes, and treating systematic torture perpetrators like John Yoo with respect, isn't all that far off from what Yoo and his comrades did."
Are you alluding to the fact that we're ALL guilty of War Crimes if we let this abomination continue? Where does the culpability stop?
errata: Fisrt sentence - ACLU "performed"
Apropos of nuthin', Americablog has a clip of Rachel Maddow taking down Joe Scarboraough. She ROCKS!
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New Post up
[Read the article: "Great American Hypocrites: Toppling the Big Myths of Republican Politics"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]N/T
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Marty Lederman all over this http://balkin.blogspot.com/
[Read the article: John Yoo's war crimes]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The Admin, knew absolutely, what they wanted (a torture regime) and did what they had to in order to see it come to fruition.
On Friday, March 13, 2003, Jay Bybee resigned from his Office as the Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel, to become a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. The very next day -- a Saturday, mind you -- John Yoo, merely a Deputy AAG in the Office, issued his notorious memo to the Pentagon, on behalf of OLC, which effectively gave the Pentagon the green light to disregard statutory limits on torture, cruelty and maltreatment in the treatment of detainees...
...Think about that: Either Jay Bybee -- who actually signed the August 2002 torture memo concerning the CIA -- did not know of this explosive memorandum, or it was so implausible that Bybee refused to issue it to the Pentagon. And as soon as he was quite literally out the door, John Yoo did not hesitate to issue the opinion on a weekend, presumably bypassing the head of the office (Acting AAG Ed Whelan) and the Attorney General. (I am assured that Ed had no involvement in this matter.)
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How did I miss this?
[Read the article: John Yoo's war crimes]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Doesn't Yoo's entire "it's not torture unless it shocks the conscience" argument boil down to "we're good guys, and we have good reasons for doing what we're doing, so despite the fact that we just pulpified this man's legs and killed him, the U.S. doesn't torture"!?
Damn, I've been in a vile mood the past couple of days, and this ain't helpin'.
OTOH, did everyone but me know Rachel Maddow is a Rhodes Scholar? And somebody mentioned it already, but KO directly quoted GG last night. I'll bet Rachel Maddow insisted upon it, given she'd just done (was about to do?) her interview w/ Glenn.
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Please elaborate
[Read the article: Book news and media campaign coverage]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So one has to find ways to achieve visibility for the book and its arguments without relying on the book's targets in the establishment press.
Your "minions" are open to suggestion.
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New (Book event-related) post up, BTW
[Read the article: John Yoo's war crimes]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The discussions likely to remain far more intriguing in here, so y'all come back, now, heah?
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Re: AMC
[Read the article: Book news and media campaign coverage]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Glenn, FWIW I wouldn't characterize your discussion w/ AMC as acrimonious in any way... If anything, it reminded me of any number of conversations I've had w/ my wife (NO COMMENTS FROM THE PEANUT GALLERY!). Especially the bit about "I wasn't ASKING you for a SOLUTION"... I think that's just a male/female thing.
Anyway, I'd concede AMC's point that is is theoretically possible to have an probing, honest relationship w/ someone you like. The question then becomes, in the case of McCain and the MSM, why the hell isn't it happening?
Hey! Firefox underlines my misspellings on the fly!
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Proximate Wanker
[Read the article: Book news and media campaign coverage]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Why don't you go hunting w/ Cheney, you asshole?
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Elephant Dung, that's the reek of your own smell filling your nostrils.
[Read the article: Book news and media campaign coverage]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Like I've said before. FOAD.
@'Bop. I'll pay you a dime NOT to look, OK?
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I'm up too late, but this is new to me. Anyone?
[Read the article: Book news and media campaign coverage]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]http://www.rawstory.com/news/mochila/Memo_justified_warrantless_surveill_04022008.html
Secret Memo That Justified Warrantless Domestic Surveillance Comes to Light
The 37-page memo is classified and has not been released. Its existence was disclosed Tuesday in a footnote of a separate secret memo, dated March 14, 2003, released by the Pentagon in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union.
"Our office recently concluded that the Fourth Amendment had no application to domestic military operations," the footnote states, referring to a document titled "Authority for Use of Military Force to Combat Terrorist Activities Within the United States."