Letters to the Editor
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I'm here, Orbitboy:
I was just reading up / posting about Yau-Man from Survivor. What did Gonzales do that you think was illegal now?
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Firefox
Didn't someone once write something for Firefox under old Salon comments that would a) put all comments on one page and 2) allow exclusion of comments by certain posters? It would be nice for an updated script.
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@ Politically Lost
I think many of them simply wanted to avoid the smear machine. Any hint of disloyalty and they'd get Plame-d or swiftboated.
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@ Bryan
In other words no principles.
And, no fealty to the oath that any lawyer or public servant is supposed to uphold the constitution.
Fear mixed with an authoritarian mind set. Ugly, that.
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Greasemonkey...
Firefox
Didn't someone once write something for Firefox under old Salon comments that would a) put all comments on one page and 2) allow exclusion of comments by certain posters? It would be nice for an updated script.
-- Fraud Guy
1) Get greasemonkey (google is your friend)
2) Go back to greasemonkey and follow link to scripts
3) Search for salon
4) Pick one of the couple that are there
They collect on one page, but so far as I know there is
not one with an idiot filter as yet. I have been asking
though. I will check again though.
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I need 3- days to comment publicly about the Attorney Generals.
OP (Oscar Papa) o, pea! {op} ! If the colour is safe and green, break the bunch squelch, twice. Jungle lingo.
That's was how, dumb drafted-grunts, talked in a rainy, beautiful, a jungles triple, a lush canopy! Gila rainbow monsters! Wow! They would seem to peep, "Gook-You, or Loooove yuze." I was never positive what those cute lizards were trying t6o get screeched our Way?
Screech.
One night it was so dark in Vietnam's monsoon season, smack in the dank jungle, a likable peer draftee...O, Cranky is now long-ago, O, Cranky is scattered as dead-dust, a'-blow-in' in the breeze, ever smell him, Cranky was a sweet ole hillbilly too. Now Sniff,...Yes. Thanks.
Hey, OT- ("off topic") from this post, but relevant to the Refugio-class talk, earlier today.
O, "billy" T.!?- Was that you sitting in the Arkansas church's last usher's pew? Poo! You had your cane hanging out in the aisle. Then, as I went to the "Billy Graham Revival Alter Call Invitation" alter call, YOU appeared sleep-drunk!
I never made it to the alter to be 'saved.'
Damn. Now I am into perdition? Do I need to count sea share waves via all eternity? 1,2,3,...
...I tripped over your cane and now I want the offering collection money I tossed in the gold-coffer plate back!
I donated $2:50 caddy savings for your rye-Drink AAA habit? I want My money back to buy a pint of Southern Comfort. O, Walfoxwich's!
Passed out from the wind passed out from me, You-Yoo led me to the nursery center! No-body fanned me with a "god love yoo gospel' Tract from a funeral parlor advertisement. I sweat in that baby nursery, feeling abandoned in blue bootie's, sucking my bloody thumb, and feeling despair and great, enormous, murderous, strangling, simple 'ole disMay. Dammit!
You evangelical Arizonans. I am confused. Was I on my Way to pearly gates and you tripped me? Forgive me o lard Gog, i no-knot what voodoo say about a good Ta-coo sauce or what to mutter about misery Arizonian or misery Missourians in the fashion of the holy Hume ghost of senior-Mr. Ashcroft?
My neighbor? Whoop! Will a letter writer go across the road and tell him (ANYONE) i luv "his" dear grandmother? How did "he" or ANYONE make such a big-mess of his/her dear life?
Hey, O, Go skinny dipping with a bare breasted Justice stone Statue! Forget it! Or, forgive me, for I did not write any of asrsecrapstuff like this...Honest. Ashcroft? hush.
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My point has just been underscored.
The trolls have nothing to say, because no one has told then what to say. Yet.
The LAST thing they are going to do right now, though, is pass judgment on the behavior of Card and Gonzales, like they would have for a Democrat.
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Orbitboy:
Not sure if you just don't think I'm a "troll" now, but I asked you a question above in case you missed it. I've reviewed the "offending" portion of the Comey testimony over at ThinkProgress and don't see anything that Card or Gonzales did that was illegal. The "Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act" is NOT the "exclusive" authority for all electronic surveillance -- not as long as the President is Commander-in-Chief -- regardless of what OLC determined, a good faith argument for extending the law could have been made. I hereby certify, under penalty of perjury, to not reading any talking points on the issue. Is that enough "judgment passed" for you?
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@Mona
You're absolutely correct.
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It warn't me, B
Last time I ushered in a church was about the time Jake got his PhD. Kids do what they're asked to do. Then one day they ask themselves what they ought to do. From that point on, it's Katie bar the door -- in a democracy, anyway.
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Americans
From another part of the press conference quoted above:
SNOW: Yes, he does. But he also thinks that the will of the American people is to be safe and secure, and that's his foremost concern.
Actually, as one who came to this country over 20 years go (and loves it), I have to say that the foremost concern of most Americans (especially conservatives) is that they remain American, far above concern for their safety and security. After all, those ideals are what our founding fathers pledged their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor to not all that many years ago. If we were to give up those ideals so eagerly for the questionable promise of "safety," we've truly lost our way. And it should be shameful that this administration, of all administrations, should be suggesting that we do just that.
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Ashcroft's legal acumen
Glenn,
One thing strikes me as really strange about Comey’s story. He seems to be saying that the events described were put in motion by an internal review that questioned the legality of the program. That is, after others in the department started a review, it became clear to those doing the review (and Comey himself) that the program was illegal as executed. In Comey’s telling of the story, he alerts Ashcroft to the illegality and Ashcroft heroically stands up for the rule of law.
What’s strange to me is that Ashcroft had already signed off on this program many times before he was hospitalized. Are we to believe that Ashcroft really didn’t know the program was illegal? I don’t know anything about his legal background, but it doesn’t look like it takes a legal genius to realize the program was illegal. Glenn, do you think Ashcroft really didn’t know about the illegality of the program until told about it by Comey?
I’m guessing that a more likely scenario is that Ashcroft knew the program was illegal, but signed off on it anyway. However, once someone on the inside called him on it, he professed ignorance. In this case, he was just covering his behind by his actions in the hospital. I think perhaps Comey (who really seems to be sincere, as evidenced by his refusal to sign off on the program) was just being naïve about Ashcroft.
I would like to know whether there really were changes introduced after this incident (or whether they simply told Comey that the changes were put into effect), and if so, whether those changes were reversed upon Gonzales’ taking office.