...but I can't stand that douchenozzle. Here he is on the Diane Rehm show. [My comments @ ~ 38:15 in were with respect to the NIE reassessment, Admin. war-mongering, and Corp. media enabling] I was literally shaking w/ rage listening to the show that day, so I come across as borderline incoherent, but there you have it. My mic was off after my comment, so I couldn't rebut the f*cking assh*le.

http://wamu.org/programs/dr/07/12/07.php#18236

or touch sig

I really appreciate this little bomblet.

http://www.aclu.org/drugpolicy/medmarijuana/38300prs20090112.html

On Eve of Obama Presidency, DEA Blocks Privately-Funded, FDA-Approved Medical Marijuana Research

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Bush administration struck a parting shot to legitimate science today as the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) refused to end the unique government monopoly over the supply of marijuana available for Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved research. DEA’s final ruling rejected the formal recommendation of DEA Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) Mary Ellen Bittner, issued nearly two years ago following extensive legal hearings.

"With one foot out the door, the Bush administration has once again found time to undermine scientific freedom," said Allen Hopper, litigation director of the American Civil Liberties Union Drug Law Reform Project. "In stubbornly retaining the unique government monopoly over the supply of research marijuana over the objections of DEA’s own administrative law judge, the Bush administration has effectively blocked the proper regulatory channels that would allow the drug to become a wholly legitimate prescription medication."

The DEA ruling constitutes a formal rejection of University of Massachusetts at Amherst Professor Lyle Craker’s petition, filed initially June 24, 2001, to cultivate research-grade marijuana for use by scientists in FDA-approved studies aimed at developing the drug as a legal, prescription medication...

More @ linky

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2009/01/in-final-legal.html

more @ linky or click sig

With a mere 64 minutes left in its last full day in office, the Bush administration asked a federal judge to stay enforcement of a ruling that would keep alive a lawsuit which tests whether the president can bypass the Congress and eavesdrop on Americans without warrants.

The request was lodged with U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker of San Francisco at 10:56 p.m. EST on the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday -- about 13 hours before the inauguration of President Barack Obama. The filing was among now former President George W. Bush's final legal acts in office.

While I'm beginning to be cautiously optimistic that OS may attempt to at least partially rectify the most egregious of the Bush regime's crimes, it's really disheartening to have somebody (GG) lay bare how truly awful they were.

Minor error: That one of this very first acts as President was to do everything in his power to put a stop to the ongoing military commissions --

"this" should be "his". Or "His", maybe?

I hear "feverish typing on keyboards", but it sure as hell ain't coming from terrorists.

Unless you and your ilk qualify.

I'm (still) going w/ "Messiah" of the US

yeah, and EVERYBODY knows the proper appellation is OS...

Now I don't mind it being a poor reflection on my patriotism, but are you sayin' the use of OS is a poor reflection on my character?

Seriously. Hell, I don't want practically anybody in here thinking any less of me than they already do. Should it be POTUS for me from here on?

Thanks, I guess. Until now I'd been blissfully aware of the Limbaugh/MOTUS connection.

Since my chances of a successful suit against Limpballs for stealin' my material are virtually nil, I'll have to give up one of my pet coinages. Oh well, POTUS it is.

I've been shamed into using POTUS.

But he'll always be SLOTEO to me!

http://uk.reuters.com/article/usTopNews/idUKTRE50K4CF20090121

I think I read Jawad's judge also acceded to the request, but I can't find the linky now

My buddy sent me this YouTube clip of his daughter today.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbsZxh0Z7W4

You might like it.

Hold your tongue(s), I held her in my arms when she was a baby...

Yeah, she wrote it. Both sides of the family are fairly talented, musically. Loony, but talented. Sweet kid, growin' up. Sexy's not how I'd ever think of her, but objectively I recognize she certainly is. I didn't pick up on the Rickie Lee thing initially, but yer right.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAYDiPizDIs

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Whistleblower_Bushs_NSA_targeted_reporters_0121.html

or click sig

HOPEfully, the whistleblower floodgates will open...

Former National Security Agency analyst Russell Tice, who helped expose the NSA's warrantless wiretapping in December 2005, has now come forward with even more startling allegations. Tice told MSNBC's Keith Olbermann on Wednesday that the programs that spied on Americans were not only much broader than previously acknowledged but specifically targeted journalists.

Glenn, are you sure this was a poll of citizens of the United States of America?

I literally find it difficult to believe. But then again, the vast majority of the people I interact w/ are Texans, so my views on what others "think" is undoubtedly colored by that.

I'd call most of the phraseology in the WaPo poll pretty decent. The only question I have a real issue with is the "do you call yourself a conservative or a liberal" question. Idiotic. My understanding is that a significant percentage of respondents who self-identify as conservatives will nonetheless favor the "liberal" position on a fairly broad range of policy issues when presented with specifics.

N/T

Why, I offered up a prayer to the Northwest just this morning, petitioning that a certain someone wouldn't be such a "humorless scold".

I think it worked! Hail to the Chief!