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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
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it boggles the mind to think about what they managed to sweep under the rug when they were running things. I think we only saw the tip of the iceberg.
How anyone could fail to see that our Justice Department has been fully and illegally politicized is beyond me. The fact that they continue to deny that anything is wrong is simply indecent,
At this point, I'm looking forward to reading my grandchildren's history books about this entire gang -- should be a great read. Too bad it won't be historical fiction.
This entire spectacle is so absurd it defies belief.
Our entire government has descended into a flurry of ass-covering that is so complete that we cannot even find a candidate for Attorney General that can "define" an accepted form of torture as torture. It all comes down to accountability and it is more than clear that the Bush Administration and it's enablers are dead set on not being held accountable for anything they have done.
I would love for McCain to stand up and read Nance's letter from the NY Daily news today in the Senate chambers and then just state that he agrees--- and ask the rest of those hopeless, spineless congressmen and women to join him in refusing to vote for this AG nominee. Joan is right-- if he can't call waterboarding for what it is, he needs to go back to retirement.
It's an amazing thing, my late father was a constitutional attorney, he died suddenly a few years ago at a relatively young age and for the first time I am somewhat at peace with losing him because what is happening in this country would have killed him in a much more painful fashion. Disgusting.
JT
sounds realistic --- somehow we have actually grabbed *the* terrorist mastermind that knows exactly where the bomb is placed and the exact time that it is going to go off --- and we managed to do this ahead of time. Sounds like a first.
So, we take this mastermind and torture him for awhile and assume that he will tell us the truth --- of course he would never, ever concoct some fake locations (maybe a few that they originally discarded, perhaps) --- or hey, maybe as he became progressively *hypoxic* from having water in his lungs he transposed a few numbers in that Manhattan or DC address.
No, instead, you and your neocon heroes would magically obtain the exact right answer and save the world just in time.
Maybe it's time to stop watching 24 and come back to the real world, you know, the one filled with "virtuous" far-right commentators and pundits...
to *assume* that all women need to spend more time "thinking" about having an abortion. Of course there is nothing "wrong" with waiting and thinking about such a decision as you so disingenuously suggest --
Because that is what these prescribed/enforced waiting periods are based on, this insulting and ultimately diminishing assumption that women are prone to less-than-rational, snap decisions regarding their health and well-being. Have you ever been treated as a simpleton and incapable of making your own decisions? Would you like to have that codified into law? That's what these rules do, period-- and only to women.
Oh, and try reading the passage you quoted very carefully -- she wasn't suggesting that *all* women need enforced "thinking time", she was talking about cases when the patient is clearly still struggling with her decision. Because, even though we are fragile, and in desperate need of strong, manly men like you to force us to stop and think about these difficult decisions that we usually take so lightly -- in the end, at least for now, it is our decision.
I certainly hope that you do your part by sticking to your vow of chastity-- the very best way to stop unwanted pregnancies, right? Then you don't have to worry about irrational women making these snap decisions to terminate pregnancies on a whim.
She was the woman's physician at the time, they have a "doctor-patient" relationship. It seems that you think that your judgement regarding this procedure should supercede this professional interaction.
You seem very vested in this issue of dictating other people's approach to making medical decisions. If the chastity approach doesn't work for you, try this. When your PSA is found to be elevated -- try thinking about your next step for awhile and pretend that the law dictated that since you were incapable of understanding what it meant for you to have your prostate biopsied you had to sit tight, say for a month or two or so. Hopefully it won't matter, maybe it won't metastasize or grow to a point that a more radical procedure will be required. Who knows, but at least the government made sure you didn't do anything rash. And that's the point, right?
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
219 Democrats and one Republican join in favor of the legislation, which passed by a narrow margin
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
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