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Friday, January 23, 2009 07:14 AM

And whose fault is that?

Bush Admin is directly responsible for putting people who may be terrorists in a position where they can't be held liable for their supposed crimes. If terrorists go free, its Bush's fault for not doing his job properly catching them.

As far as the consequences go, what do you expect? Kidnap and torture people, holding them with no recourse to the law for 7 years, there gonna be some consequences. Whats the rational here, 'these people are gonna be mad at us for fucking them over so royally, our only recourse is to fuck them over forever?' If there are consequences then we've earned them. I don't enjoy saying that, nor do I wish pain on anyone but in this case, the best we deserve is to move these people immediately into our criminal court system, try the ones where charges can be made, free everyone else and let the chips fall where they may.

As Obama pointed out in his inauguration speech, our founding fathers were braver than us by several orders of magnitude. All of the leaders faced death for treason and our entire fledgling country faced dissolution and in that environment they created the ideals that Republicans and right-wingers seem willing to throw out because of fear of a terrorist attack. Come on conservatives, now is the time to show us lefties how brave you are and put your lives on the line to uphold the values and principals that made this country what it is. And statistically speaking the risk you run is actually almost negligible compared to those of our founding fathers.

Friday, January 23, 2009 11:59 AM

Wow... 3.5mil eh?

Ok, I'm auctioning off my ass-cherry. *Reserve price: 2mil.

* GOTTA have a reserve price ;-)

Friday, January 23, 2009 04:09 PM

The bottome line and the real question.

Despite her highly intellectual justification she's going to be a prostitute if she's going to go through with this. The justification is a judgment call, being a prostitute would be a matter of fact.

The question is, does her justification mitigate the fact that she is going to be a prostitute?

I.E. does she say, 'because of my justification, I'm not a prostitute'? If she does, regardless of the correctness of her justification, she's wrong. She's a prostitute. Or does she say 'because of my justification, its ok that I'm a prostitute'? That would a lot more honest.

Personally I think more power to her. If I could make 3.5mil to take a shot in the pooter, I'd sitting on a soft cushion in my mansion right now.

Friday, January 23, 2009 08:33 PM

Definitely a narcissistic element.

Guys know what I'm talking about. You GOT to make her feel unique and special. Of course I think that kinda would work on anyone.

Of course this also explains why jumping up and down on the bed screaming and throwing feces gets my girl hot too.

Monday, January 26, 2009 10:23 AM
Original article: Barnum and Blago

Not quite...

"I'm talking to Americans to let them know what's happening in the land of Lincoln. If they can do it to a governor, they can do it to you."

Its BEEN happening to us. Its the rich and powerful that tend to get away with their crimes.

Tuesday, January 27, 2009 09:40 AM

The need to differentiate reporters

I have no problem with reporters only reporting with permission of their subjects, but there needs to be some kind of acknowledgment between reporters who 'get' information and reporters who merely 'receive' information. Reporters who are giving information on the basis that their subject approved the release of that information need to disclose it.

Wednesday, January 28, 2009 06:38 AM

No shit asshole!

Thats what pissed me off about Blago, when he made his comment about, if they can do it to him, they can do it to us. Wake up asswipe, they've BEEN doing it to us. Welcome to the club.

Wednesday, January 28, 2009 02:11 PM

Wait a min...

First of all, can I assume the savings will come in the form of labor cuts? How is that going to help the economy?

Secondly, if the 6th day is 'voluntary' couldn't it end up costing us more than before if these voluntary hours count as overtime?

Thursday, January 29, 2009 07:45 AM
Original article: Quote of the morning

I don't know

I support the research but shouldn't it be in some health bill? I understand in saves money down the line but how does it stimulate the economy?

Make a health bill, put this and the birth control item in it. Why is non-stimulus stuff being put in the stimulus bill?

Thursday, January 29, 2009 08:16 AM
Original article: Quote of the morning

@ Tukla in Iowa

I think this may be a little niche to stimulate the economy in any meaningful sense. Not to mention the money compared to the sums being discussed is almost negligible.

Friday, January 30, 2009 12:49 PM

Duncan's a loser

"Obviously the winds of change are blowing at the RNC,"

REALLY?!?! Figure that out all by yourself? Been workin it out since 2006 and finally come to that conclusion?

"At this time I wish to withdraw my nomination as chairman of the RNC. I want to thank President Bush ... It has truly been the highlight of my life."

The way I was reading that it sounded like he was, especially in light of the previous quote, blaming Bush and thanking him sarcastically.

Saturday, January 31, 2009 05:52 AM

Good

Copyrighting isn't a bad idea in itself but its been so corrupted in its application to benefit big business and actually stifle creativity, I'd be glad to see it go.

Monday, February 2, 2009 05:47 AM

@ moondogger

There was a booth review. It happend real quick but Al Michaels announced it that call came from upstairs that the play stood as called on the field.

The way I saw it, was Warner's arm was going forward, Woodley caught it and pulled it back, and then what looked like Warner's arm going forward again, was merely Warner trying to free his arm from Woodley. It looked that way to me because Warner's arm goes forward and down and then inward as if he's trying to shrug Woodley off as opposed to passing.

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