An uncharitable person might suggest that when you dress up as cowboys and roam the desert borderlands aiming to fend off a "slave-labor" invasion of "alien lawbreakers" who bring "rising crime rates" and the "degradation of property values" in their wake, you are entitled to exactly the paranoia-driven nightmare you deserve.

If you're feeling too charitable, I'll happily volunteer.

I don't get what his point is: the solution to overpopulation is more population growth in the place where there wouldn't be any if it weren't for immigration?

Not a bad summation. What aren't you getting?

Where are all these easy girls who just open their legs for anybody? I'm sure as heck not finding them.

Did they find any effects from other routes of intake?

More than anything else, the American people don't want to be inconvenienced.

I suspect the only reason this issue is starting to heat up (pun intended) is that more and more Americans are getting the notion that global warming might become... Inconvenient.

The 9/11 hijackers deliberately attacked icons with other icons - they weren't going to ram the WTC with Delta if they could do it with United! If they consider the irony at all, they probably approve of it.

I don't see any lies, here, nor any gross distortions in Broadsheet or Feministe on this particular release. I do see some pretty gross distortions in Anonymous's characterizations thereof, though.

What's all this bullshit about his statements "invalidating" this relationship or that?

Well, if it's not invalidating them, then he shouldn't be against them getting married, right? It's a basic test of truthfulness; by being against gay marriage but still in support of other marriages that don't involve raising children, he's proving that his argument is not his motive.

I also see "hypocracy" popping up on the boards, as if being hypocritical is a form of government.

It sure seems to be.

The Democrats DID stand up to Fox news - by boycotting them. I'm frankly rather amused at the very notion that doing what your enemy wants is "standing up to" them. At least it's consistent with Bush's policy of "standing up to" Osama Bin Laden by giving him what he explicitly wanted: a quagmire war in the Middle East.

...unless adultery violates the UCMJ...

My recollection is that the military is indeed the one jurisdiction in the U.S. where adultery is literally illegal.

I read the first part. I found it very disturbing that a magistrate actually placed the burden of proof of innocence on Al Marri. How far have we fallen?

I'm really curious if China's censorship megalith can meaningfully withstand having all of its citizens connected.

I now fast forward my life 16 years and after many sessions of therapy and paying my own way through school with two little kids my life has made a 360 degree change. -- Xanado

I hope not. A 360 degree change means you're back to going the same direction you started.

The sound of dirge's point sailing completely over tiberius' head...

Sure it's unethical and breaks all of the DOJ "rules" to politicize appointments, hiring and firing, and even performance evaluations, but is it actually illegal?

Yes, it is actually and specifically illegal.

But when they guess badly -- oh, dear Lord in Heaven, watch out! Ukranian collectivization by the Soviets, anyone? Over six million dead! (http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/archives/ukra.html).

While I think your general point is valid, the specific example you choose is thought by most historians I've read to have been a deliberate form of massacre by Stalin rather than an accident of a bad guess.

...but careful analysis will show that these are all realistic and achievable goals, given the full development of a few new technologies.

Hmm. That "qualification" - "full development of a few new technologies" - could be used to support the development of the Starship Enterprise.

...in 2007 most of them are sent home with an ankle bracelet as soon as they report to the jail?

Proving nothing. If anything, the story should be why can't California actually carry out its sentences any more... A serious issue.

I guess if you only care about pop culture, then it doesn't really matter if Paris is doing 23 days in solitary for no real reason.

She's doing the time to which she was convicted and sentenced. The sentence specifically excluded home confinement.

McCain...said it to the man's face. Reid sais it under the cover of his blog buddies. - tiberius

Wrong as usual:

Pace is also a yes-man for the president and I told him to his face, I laid it out to him last time he came to see me, I told him what an incompetent man I thought he was. - Harry Reid

And thus:

"This does not include stories told merely for amusement"

does mainstream condescension for comics and the comic book medium perpetuate.

Wow, you've got this whole argument cooked up to rebut a quote which as far as I can tell you made up yourself. I even googled it, and the only hit I got was your letter. What the heck was that all about?

Yum! I'm off to buy a plane ticket...

Seriously, we probably think this is funny, but I'll bet the Palestinians and other Arabs are going to get ahold of this and have some weird field day. It'll hypocritically involve both condemning the Israelis for showing skin in the holy land and promising those same women to their guerillas as war prizes.

I like how Cannon tries to distinguish between "corrupt purposes" and "political purposes". A political purpose for removing one of those attorneys is by definition corrupt.