Obama has publicly stated he's not releasing pictures that show illegal activity. Regardless of what it is, it is a factual statement beyond refute that Obama is covering up photos.

Also did I not just read somewhere that Gen. Taguba (ret.) the investigator of the Abu Ghraib abuses claim that rape occured and that is in the photos?

Given Obama's embrace of Bush's policies towards secrecy, using 'national security' as an excuse for anything, and no willingness to prosecute criminals who tortured, and of course, congress' acceptance of all that, the 'bush sucks' strategy will become less and less viable rather quickly.

Since this pick won't actually change the make up of the court (a lib for a lib, hopefully), and Sotomayor isn't really all that objectionable despite her horrid empathy and probable pro-abortion support, AND the fact that probably can't stop her from being confirmed anyway, RNC realizes its counterproductive to blow whatever juice they have now.

If at some point in the future Obama has a chance to replace, one of the 5 reliably conservative judges, it'll make whats going on now look like a garden tea party with nice people in comparison. It'll be pure raging white hot insanity.

I fully support wording that protects religious institutions from performing same-sex marriages. After all this fight is about equal rights before the law, not equal rights before the invisible pretend old man in the sky.

HOWEVER any religious institution that receives any tax-payer funding better operate in accordance with all non-discrimination legal requirements.

Since the loser is liable for the legal fees of BOTH parties, and they can run insanely high for an appeal to the SCOTUS, I'm sure Coleman never really had it in mind to push it, if it looked particularly bleak, but of course it would make no sense to let the dems off easy by letting them know that.

In Kevin Smith's "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back" Will Ferrell played a federal wildlife marshal with a last name of Willenholly, referred to as Marshal Willenholly, or to those of us who got it at the time, Marshal Will & Holly, and the theme song went off in our heads. So when I heard this was coming out, it made me think that this might have been something in Will Ferrell's head for a while and perhaps it might have been a project of passion rather than another soulless attempt by Big Media to mine bad tv shows of the 70 to make bad movies of today.

Still, once bitten, twice shy, and fool me once and all that, it's a rental.

Breasticles

Snatching someone off the street, smuggling them away, holding them with no charges, no recourse to the law for years on end and as far as they know, to be held for the rest of their lives is torture in and of itself.

Regardless of the methods of interrogation, most of these people are victims of torture even if no one laid a hand on them.

Setting aside the cases where struggling parents have no choice (and hats off to them for doing whatever it takes to care of their families) the idea that some people, without having to, would choose to have a stranger take care of their child is mind-boggling.

People think that merely giving birth to a child is the end-all/be-all of the parenting experience. Its not. Having a child means raising your child. I understand why people would rather do something else than raise a child, hey, parenting isn't for everyone, no big deal. I just don't understand why these people choose to have kids.

Let me be clear: I'm referring specifically to people who decide to have kids, knowing in advance that neither of them plans on quitting work to stay home full time, even though they could afford to, though it might mean making some changes.

I understand why people don't want to stop working. My point, is I don't understand why people who don't want to stop working, want to have kids.

I know across the breadth of the America the focus of my bafflement is narrow in scope however, I'm specifically referring to people who COULD afford, even with some change and/or sacrifice to stay home to be a full time parent, yet choose not to, know they won't and yet CHOOSE to have a kid.

Not talking about people for whom parenthood was unexpected. I'm talking specifically about those that say "You know what? Lets have a kid! And even though we could get by with one salary, perhaps with change/sacrifice, nonetheless, as soon as its born and all our paternity/maternity leave is up, we're putting it in the full time care of a stranger."

I'm from NYC too, so it seems like a larger phenomenon to me than it really is.

Ask her, given America has the best judicial system in the world (probably doesn't but she wont deny that) and the most advanced penal system and military system, and that the president's 'military tribunals' could still take place here, how exactly does closing gitmo hurts us?

Its the idea that a free market is good that has been dealt a serious blow. Unfortunately that blow has been dealt by people seeing the results of an unregulated market.

because they equate 'capitalism' as being the same as 'unregulated free market'. That can only mean they're trying to scam us

You would accept gay organs? Wow, you are progressive! /snark_off

Glock45:

In the USA the first curse on our society was abortion on demand

No, the first curse exterminating the natives and destroying the lives of those we missed, followed by slavery, but thanks for playing!

Then you'd be gay. Plus what if it was something like a kidney! Then you'd be gay and the gay guy would be around too. You'd probably date.