allows the author of a comment to edit it up to ten minutes after posting it. Now that would be a real boon. I hope it becomes universal.

We had the opportunity to delete our own comments. My SOP used to be to post - proofread - repost corrected then delete the original.

Time magazine is the first out of the gate with a "poor Libby got a raw deal" article.

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1628373,00.html

So how is it that an offense that may never have happened — and that at one point the prosecutor argued was largely irrelevant to the case — has now increased Libby's criminal sentence?

So now its all the fault of voluntary sentencing guidelines!

I'm not going down this "both parties are equally to blame" road with you. It's not about that, anyway.

It is about how the Hell do we pull away from endless war AND a Constitutional crisis all at the same time. Today, the answer is to elect Democrats. Ten or fifteen years from now, maybe the answer will change.

Why am I suddenly reminded of Dick Cheney's hunting accident? hmmm......

Oh yeah!

When you blindly shoot at anything that moves, bad shit is likely to happen.

in which WT gets referred to as a neocon has clearly been derailed.

I always find it dismaying when people who gather here because they share an agenda get sidetracked into finding fault with the various reasons that drew others to the table. Of course none of that applies to the folks we know well who only pop in long enough to stink the place up and then abruply leave.

shrink to the point where it may be drowned in a bathtub?

for the crime of being honest

Americans hate that......

That would be to much like accountability

And we all know how toxic that is to these folks.

sorts of Conservatives who are willing to break with Bush. There are those who have objected all along to his big-spending and military adventurism and they have lots of writing under their belt available not only at American Conservative but also at Antiwar.com and LewRockwell.com.

On the other hand, the folks who are trying so hard to repudiate Bush now are the ones who object to the fact that he doesn't hate Mexicans and other brown foreigners with sufficient fervor for their taste. The fact that racism is at the core of the movement is obvious to anyone with eyes.

Is that because he's incapable of formulating an independent thought other than the ones he's spoon-fed, when he actually encounters one it creates confusion. He's incapable of understanding that a group of individuals can think independently and yet join together voluntarily in order to achieve a common purpose. His us/them dichotomy is so ingrained that he's literally blind to any other way of thinking.

Other's may object to his presence but I find it enlightening to have a specimen of RWA at a conveniently observable distance.

Case in point.

Bucky is not a liberal. He's more conservative than you are. As is prunes. As is Mona. As is Ron Paul. Your ignorance of what "conservative" even means proves my point.

All I'm trying to do is prevent liberalism do the same thing. As the BushCo barge continues to disintegrate, there will be opportunities for alliances to form that would have seemed impossible 3 years ago. Especially with the Corporate media still reliably in the administrations pocket, I don't think it pays to demand ideological purity from anyone who's going to vote your way.

For the smallest meaning/syllable ratio ever encountered in an otherwise grammatically correct paragraph.

Congratulations to Mr PoliticalSurrealityMainline!

You've got friggen GANDHI in your quadrant. What would you expect?

Speaking of getting along though, I'll reiterate that I think the biggest enemy we face isn't people who come by incorrect opinions honestly, but rather those who put self interest before any opinion whatsoever.

Opinion is the EXPRESSION of self-interest.

The statement is false but the fact that you would say such a thing speaks volumes. I happen to have MANY opinions that run counter to my self interest. I beleive a minimum wage is appropriate even though I work for a small company that could easilty find people to work for less; I beleive people should have a right to collective bargaining even though in my role as a manufacturing manager, Union elections were a constant pain in my ass; I beleive that everyone has a right to be secure in their persons and effects against unreasonable search and seizure even if that means I am slightly less safe when I walk down the street.

I could keep typing all night but the point is clear. One's opinions are an expession of what is RIGHT not necessarily what will get you ahead. That you don't realize that speaks volumes about why you continuously fail to understand what takes place here!

It's all about self interest Uber Alles.

This is of course the direct result of there being a mind-boggling number of individuals!

One of the parameters by which people vary is the degree to which they view society as a collection of individuals or individuals as members of society. They also vary in the level of detail they're willing to discern when creating groupings.

I personnaly feel that the greatest danger we face in this country today is that our course grained groupings are causing us to alienate people we might otherwise find common cause with.

By analogy, I can then argue that LWM's attacks on Bucky1 are like the US's attack on Iraq. Just as not all brown-skinned ME residants are Al-Qaeda, not all Lew Rockwell fans are closet fascists! (which isn't to say that some aren't....in both cases)