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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hz01hN9l-BM

Cassel: If the President deems that he’s got to torture somebody, including by crushing the testicles of the person’s child, there is no law that can stop him?

Yoo: No treaty.

Cassel: Also no law by Congress. That is what you wrote in the August 2002 memo.

Yoo: I think it depends on why the President thinks he needs to do that.

How does your "I can devise scenarios where torture is justified" position differ from Yoo's "it depends"?

I really hope you weren't reading tombstones this early.

I'm so relentlessly pissed, thought I'd inject a little levity.

I think my own appendage looks rather undersized in that linky, but otherwise it's a pretty decent rendering. ;)

click the linky

http://www.venganza.org/card.php?id=13041&un=4016

or touch sig

Missed this yesterday. Another notch on Condi's bedpost.

http://chris-floyd.com/component/content/article/3/1665-abandoned-by-the-world-un-declares-open-season-on-somalia-.html

"...being treated at a government psychiatric hospital in Texas."

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Bush_shoethrower_appears_before_Iraqi_judge_1217.html

BAGHDAD — The Iraqi journalist who became an instant media star for hurling his shoes at US President George W. Bush appeared on Wednesday before a judge investigating the incident.

Muntazer al-Zaidi, 29, a television reporter who relatives and colleagues said acted because he "detested" Bush and America, was brought before the judge in the high-security Green Zone in the heart of Baghdad, his brother, Dhargham, said.

Al-Zaidi appeared before the judge in his jail cell "because he is too injured to appear in a courtroom," Australia's Herald Sun quotes the brother as saying.

This guy is taken into custody for throwing a shoe @ Bush, then, by several seemingly credible accounts, thoroughly beaten. And all Bush has to say is [paraphrasing] it's up to the Iraqis to handle it?

This typo?

Scarlett "A's

made ME think of Scarlett Johannsen. MMmmmmm. Shows how my mind works.

Thanks for puttin' up the new post. Hopefully the sex-police will stay down here.

Are you suggesting we ought to apply to the U.S. Gov't standards of morality, legality, acceptability, JUSTICE, that are identical to those we purport to apply to others?

That's just...

UNAMERICAN!

A Defender of the Rule of Law Waits in Legal Jeopardy, While Abusers are Doing Well

Brian Tamanaha

Mr. Thomas Tamm, a former employee of the Department of Justice, has lost everything and lives under the threat of criminal charges. He is in trouble for defending the rule of law.

http://balkin.blogspot.com/2008/12/defender-of-rule-of-law-waits-in-legal.html

WTF is wrong w/ you people? YOU'RE DOING THE EXACT GODDAMN THING GLENN IS TALKING ABOUT!! (Feel the unbridled wrath of the CAP LOCK)

You're worrying about prostitution (victimless or not? Discuss) instead of effing War Crimes!

Dennis Perrin makes a similar point while contrasting the reaction to Muntathar al-Zaidi's (the shoe-thrower) "crime" (assault on a World Leader!) vs. the War Crimes of Bush.

http://dennisperrin.blogspot.com/

and don't even click Perrin's linky to the story about Canadian soldiers traumatized by the ongoing rape of Afghan boys.

But don't worry. No crimes have occurred.

"No crimes were committed" say the utterly inhuman and totally deranged.

What's most striking is not that we have zero intention of prosecuting the serious crimes committed by our leading establishment figures. It's that we don't even recognize them as crimes -- or even serious transgressions -- at all.

I can understand the inclination to engage/refute an actual argument. Shartstain offers nothing other than talking points. It is reason/reality proof.

And I overstated my position. I understand that some might take a small bit of satisfaction in debunking the inanity, perhaps for the benefit of the lurkers. But T3 has been around for more than a day. So I find his "like hitting my head against a wall" comment a little surprising. No offense, T3.

And I'm obviously in no position to serve as the comments arbiter. But the absolute, immutable, DENSITY of the shartstain, I find extremely annoying.

Now I'll just pull a 'bop, and refrain from additional commentary for a little while.

For the life of me, I cannot fathom why anybody wastes their time w/ that execrable bit of excrement.

I not-so-secretly harbor hopes you'll revert back to clownsense. ;)

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-pellicano16-2008dec16,0,6208677.story

Pellicano gets 15 years in wiretapping case

The private investigator's sentence was longer than the five-year, 10-month term recommended by the Probation Department. Four co-defendants are scheduled to be sentenced

Former Hollywood private eye Anthony Pellicano was sentenced to 15 years in prison Monday for running an illegal wiretapping operation that gathered information for a list of well-to-do clients, including celebrities, attorneys and business executives.

U.S. District Judge Dale S. Fischer condemned the once-famed investigator for "reprehensible" conduct that went on for many years as she handed down a sentence that significantly exceeded the five-year, 10-month term recommended by probation officials. "He did this eagerly, sometimes maliciously, and with pride," she said.

"He did this eagerly, sometimes maliciously, and with pride,". Remind you of anyone?

OS answers the single most popular question he received:

http://change.gov/newsroom/blog/

Q: "Will you consider legalizing marijuana so that the government can regulate it, tax it, put age limits on it, and create millions of new jobs and create a billion dollar industry right here in the U.S.?" S. Man, Denton

A: President-elect Obama is not in favor of the legalization of marijuana.