and I concur Glenn, w/ your characterization of what Ignatius did.

I presume you're pointing to Ignatius as an example of the CW rather than due to his influence. I guess I don't pay too much attention to the Beltway media, which begs the other obvious question. Is the "influence" of these pundits waxing/waning why/how? Topic for a number of books I guess.

Now I have to go purge. I think of all the people I'd like to choke the crap out of, Joe Scabs is probably #1 on my list.

I read it more as "insufferable douchenozzle who really needs his ass kicked mocking 'libruls' while posturing as warrior-hero".

Speaking of which, I'm going to email something to your Salon addie you might find amusing.

As a relative newcomer, you're almost certainly unaware that you're trash-talkin' somebody's (Kitt's?) girl here...

http://letters.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/01/15/ignatius/permalink/497cae607882fb37023b3311d1d9418c.html

No making fun of Woodstock. Or Santayana. Unseemly. Wouldn't be prudent.

Do you know the old joke about the highly successful stuttering Bible salesman?

segue to the punch-line re the secret to his success [Embellish beyond human tolerance]

W-w-w-w-would y-y-y-you l-l-l-l-like t-t-t-t-o b-b-b-b-buy a B-B_B_B_B_Bible, or w-w-w-w-would you l-l-l-l-like m-m-m-m-me t-t-t-to READ IT to you?

Pls collect Paul Daniel Ash's (a/ka PDA) IP addie and summarily eject him for his last post. Yes, I clicked.

kegbot - gotta close 'em. Use the / key. [/block...]

Furthermore, I don't know how to properly root for Israel's destruction.

GG hasn't told me yet.

As here:

http://letters.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/01/08/nuremberg/permalink/8222a9f91c1e051fff839b5f9f66be27.html

And feels the Palestinians are worth less than rabid dogs to be gunned down in the street. As clearly stated here :

http://letters.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/01/14/friedman/permalink/4ab6339d0654d25457b8d5c300ba1be6.html

No point in engaging it.

http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2009/01/15/barack-obama-selects-the-dead-for-inauguration-ball-it-was-quite-an-honor/

or click sig

I have a present for you. I've got some extra corbon +p 115 gr ammo I can send you to use.

On yourself.

I don't know how overwhelmed your inbox gets on Sundays, but I just dropped an email to your Salon addie I hope you'll take a peek at.

h/T Raw Story

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hsG0My2Q3Eu9Sj2PSupnj4xeQXxAD95P24BO0

or click sig for linky (more there)

White House opposes court order in e-mail case

By PETE YOST – 22 hours ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Bush administration is aggressively pushing back against a federal court order instructing the most important offices in the White House to preserve all of their e-mail.

In court papers late Friday, the administration argued that a federal court has no authority to impose such a requirement on the offices of President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and the National Security Council.

It's tough for me to interpret wingnut, but I think fattagut is saying he holds Lincoln responsible for inciting the Civil War.

In the U.S. Senate Ratifications document to which you linked (your first linky) submitted to the U.N - it also appears the Senate ruled out many forms of psychological torture from the def. of torture.

(1) (a) That with reference to Article 1,

the United States understands that, in order

to constitute torture, an act must be specifically

intended to inflict severe physical or

mental pain or suffering and that mental pain

or suffering refers to prolonged mental harm

caused by or resulting from: (1) the intentional

infliction or threatened infliction of

severe physical pain or suffering; (2) the

administration or application, or threatened

administration or application, of mind altering

substances or other procedures calculated

to disrupt profoundly the senses or the

personality; (3) the threat of imminent death;

or (4) the threat that another person will imminently

be subjected to death, severe physical

pain or suffering, or the administration or

application of mind altering substances or

other procedures calculated to disrupt profoundly

the senses or personality.

Stevie Wonder rocking out @ OS' inaugural concert live on hbo.com

Whoever Shakira is, she looks, as they say, "bangin' HOT!"

Wow. That girl make me want to see Spanish.

H/T TPM

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/19/washington/19gitmo.html?ref=us

or click sig for linky

Excuse me now, while I go back on "Pardon Watch".

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/B/BUSH_PARDONS?SITE=OHLIM&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

Bush commutes sentences of former US border agents

WASHINGTON (AP) -- In his final acts of clemency, President George W. Bush on Monday commuted the prison sentences of two former U.S. Border Patrol agents whose convictions for shooting a Mexican drug dealer ignited fierce debate about illegal immigration.

I'll swallow the "final acts" bit Tuesday afternoon.

I've got $100 that says Bush commutes the two Border Guards.

I'll even give you even money!

Shame on you for cock-blocking me that way.

Fact of the matter is, we should torture EVERYBODY taken into custody.

You never know who might actually BE a terrorist, and tell us about the nuclear bomb behind door #3, thus saving millions of lives. Right?

Go back and reread the post. Then reread Greenwald's questions.

HINT: The Geneva Convention is not pertinent to either.

Nitwit.

See if you can guess what THIS is...

http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/450432/Monarch%27s_top_100

or touch sig

Hint: I "made" it

Hint: GG, you might find it "interesting"

Kiss those records G'BYE!

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Court_Puhttp://rawstory.com/news/2008/Court_Public_VP_records_to_be_0119.htmlblic_VP_records_to_be_0119.html

A federal district court judge has ruled that outgoing Vice President Dick Cheney, who leaves office on Tuesday with an approval rating of just 13 percent, will be the sole determining authority on the public release of his vice presidential records...

re: "acted like a real blogger"

Some people find phraseology like that pretty funny, actually. It's one of the reasons they keep coming back.