Letters to the Editor
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Sysprog posted this
[Read the article: The al-Marri decision]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]link on the prior thread but I think it deserves renewal....
http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/2007/06/bad_facts_dont_always_make_bad_law
It will probably surprise many, but one of the panel’s best arguments against the Government’s position is that indefinite detention of al-Marri as an enemy combatant is prohibited by the PATRIOT ACT.
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FYI
[Read the article: The al-Marri decision]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]America's Fragile Republic
By Robert Parry
June 13, 2007
By a two-to-one margin, a federal appeals court has repudiated George W. Bush’s right to snatch a civilian off the streets of America and hold the person indefinitely without trial. But the makeup of the three-judge panel was a fluke, with two Clinton appointees comprising the majority.
The proportion of Republican appointees to Democrats on the full U.S. Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia, is the opposite, eight-to-four Republican. So, the Bush administration retains high hopes that the full court will agree to review the case of Ali al-Marri and grant the President the authority he wants.
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2007/061307.html
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I swear....
[Read the article: The al-Marri decision]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]the trolls only exist to remind us
in those instances when the thought strikes us that no one could be that stupid.
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Well that would presume he made a point.
[Read the article: The al-Marri decision]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The discussion concerns whether its proper to pull someone out of the criminal justice system and throw them into a military brig and subject them to enhanced intarrogation techniques when they are basically guilty of money laundering.
No one has suggested that's its not appropriate to track terrorist suspects by all means necessary. To suggest otherwise is to lie.
tiberius=liar.
point=addressed
you may now STFU.
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@bucky1
[Read the article: The al-Marri decision]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I stand corrected. Ron Paul did indeed distinguish himself from the balance of the pack on that particular question. I apologize for over-generalizing to make a point.
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Careful PW.
[Read the article: The al-Marri decision]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'd hate for a snark detector failure to disrupt the thread.
You've pretty much nailed the way quite a few Americans think.
Several of whom post here regularly.
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the only resolution I can see is a Soviet-style breakup.
[Read the article: The al-Marri decision]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Who'd get to keep the nukes?
Luxembourg is next to go
And, who knows, maybe Monaco
We'll try to stay serene and calm
When Alabama gets the bomb
Tom Lehrer
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Shooter's paranoid delusions come to the fore...
[Read the article: The al-Marri decision]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That's what you get for thinking he was kidding!
I understand that we'll all be required to face Mecca to pray as well.
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I think CarolynC might be on to something fundemental...
[Read the article: Chris Matthews on Fred Thompson's sexiness and smells]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Archtypical masculinty has always been admired and sought after but I'm wondering if the reason that the tendency is reaching such tragically comic proportions is as a reaction-formation against the empowerment of women in our society. In a world where we could very soon end up with a female Commander in Chief! anyone who feels a need to worship masculinity might be feeling a little bit more than a little threatened.
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It's probably not related
[Read the article: Chris Matthews on Fred Thompson's sexiness and smells]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]but as I was reading the post I could help but thinking about the photo's here:
http://bagnewsnotes.typepad.com/bagnews/2007/06/its_not_a_hand_.html
Be sure to check out all three installments.
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Reading the post also reminded me of this
[Read the article: Chris Matthews on Fred Thompson's sexiness and smells]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Rush Limbaugh's Dominican Stag Party
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0706062rush1.html
And then for some reason, I had a vision of the Vice President on a bird hunt. I'm not sure the connection but I'll think of it. hmmmm.....
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I hereby introduce the amazing unprecidented SELF-ILLUSTRATING Blog post:
[Read the article: Chris Matthews on Fred Thompson's sexiness and smells]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]In a world where we could very soon end up with a female Commander in Chief! anyone who feels a need to worship masculinity might be feeling a little bit more than a little threatened.
-- Paul Dirks
On the other hand, the toughest guy you folks have is Hillary. Is everyone ready for the Mommy-fication of America?
-- shooter242
Order now. Supplies are limited. Operators are standing by.
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A Link for shooter
[Read the article: Chris Matthews on Fred Thompson's sexiness and smells]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Even though i doubt he'll understand the implications.
Short version: he's full of it.
http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge206.html
On the scale of decades, comprehensive data again paint a shockingly happy picture: Global violence has fallen steadily since the middle of the twentieth century. According to the Human Security Brief 2006, the number of battle deaths in interstate wars has declined from more than 65,000 per year in the 1950s to less than 2,000 per year in this decade. In Western Europe and the Americas, the second half of the century saw a steep decline in the number of wars, military coups, and deadly ethnic riots.
Zooming in by a further power of ten exposes yet another reduction. After the cold war, every part of the world saw a steep drop-off in state-based conflicts, and those that do occur are more likely to end in negotiated settlements rather than being fought to the bitter end. Meanwhile, according to political scientist Barbara Harff, between 1989 and 2005 the number of campaigns of mass killing of civilians decreased by 90 percent.
The decline of killing and cruelty poses several challenges to our ability to make sense of the world. To begin with, how could so many people be so wrong about something so important? Partly, it's because of a cognitive illusion: We estimate the probability of an event from how easy it is to recall examples
Steven Pinker
First published in The New Republic, 3.19.07.
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The most telling phrase....
[Read the article: More warnings about a U.S.-Iran war]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Republican presidential candidates this side of Ron Paul are already lining up in loyal support, because they have to.
This is where it becomes clear that our country is suffering from an illness. No one is allowed to speak the truth because its politically imprudent. Instead, the public has to be fed a succession of comforing lies all based on the ridiculous assumption that there's really anything we can do about events in the world other than the nation-state equivalent of throwing a temper tantrum.
Shooter in the last thread asserted that history is shaped by the aggressive use of force. He has it exactly backward. History has been shaped by the world uniting in it's effort to counter the aggressive use of force. There's no percentage in becoming a rogue state but it would appear that that's the way were heading.
There are enough antecedents in history to show that this is the direction we are heading and it's only our exceptionalism which blinds us to what's obvious to everyone else on the planet.