The torture issue is too serious to be swept aside. The AG must not condone torture, and the nominee's staements are equivalent to that.

"It is really only when the Democrats starting rhetorically pulverizing the Bush administration with regularity, and when those punches are landing square, that Republicans will consider cutting losses and backtracking on their positions."

i too saved someones life - though not in such a dramatic and heroic a fashion. i saw a guy climb down onto the tracks, three tracks over. there was a crowd there - they said nothing, natch. i put on my best cop's voice and said "That's no place to go to sleep! Get up out of there!". amazingly, he sheepfacedly complied. later, (this is 16 years ago, not 30), when i'd sometimes feel i'd done nothing with my life, i'd remember that. the young woman who saved you has that too. now, you might not think this "on topic", but if you think again, deeper, you'll realize it's at the heart of it.

on the MSNBC report.

George Bush- I heard you on the pick-up radio talking to "trained" soldiers you are maybe sending to their death.

I wish I could sit with you to drink a German Warsteiner or a Belgium Leffe Abbey bier. A Friar way-back-when, has said: It a 'sin' to be a cranky killer. GWB- you are not-good-spirited within, and inwardly clothed with goat apparel.

O, a La, la, la, la, la, la , a la la la. You in on a GOP's real goofy La-la-Killer Land mentality? Despicable. YeP. and yes sirree, Honestly!

George W. Bush- To be not merry and of good nature is a sad mortal perdition. A soul situation-condition like that is perdition. A Monk-Friar did say that, long ago. You got a problem? Me too. The neighbor Mennonites are sowing barley grain seed and my son needs assistance sowing purple flowering fescue.

Gads. My own family fescue-son-seeder can't seem to understand me, and I say, "rats" but gads, you keep sermoning to a world that to go-ahead killing everybody, and sending green-naive-soldiers to die for your pal-CEO's is the right-on thing to do! NO!

When the family farm-fescue seeder "reject" or rather, misunderstand me- I p-odd! irked @ White House rancid hypocrisy!

jayackroyd @ 12;12- I say, "When the hard-turtle-shell falls on the noggin', it is then time to kick the bucket, NOT before, and then will come a person's sole/soul finality.

Glenn is okay. No worry. M. de' M. said: @ the right time, the "libs" can scoop the money that is tossed on the Wall Street, GOP's table. Have no-respect for a scribe who pigs-out there, or anywhere. I met a young twerp who worked for the Wall Street Journal 'rag' in Waynesboro, Pa., and he became a crooked lawyer, and I've NO respect for those-type... who are into-Theft! It is stupid. It is betrayal. It is to sell the soul for a bowl of soup.

If a red-tail Hawk that will fly overhead in the sky and decides to drop a hard-shell coconut on a Wall-Street-Chef, the soaring high above bird, will do it @ the proper time.

No Worry.

If so- O, that is eternal blessed rest, peace, quiet, and blessed sleep. The neo-con can betray, but, only so long. Boo-coo money? The exchange rate: O! Justice's scale is weighed, okay, and I believe that for some good reason.

Yellow Dog- You a smiling golden good lab retriever.

Cheesemonkey- the Barbie's new DVD is about ballerina's.

O, caryinbeth- to me, and after reading Glenn, @ 10:01, I feel like wearing Pink-Googlies. huh. I pretend. o, so sorry.

O, ondelette- @10:10- O, never ondelette does let us all down- okay, Please. O, At ease.

O, Svensker- O, kiss me?

Amity- Please have, or rather, extend to me some kind amnesty?

O, Spartacus- a bright light! Tempos- a pot of steaming tea?

No tuckered in bow-tie on me.

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I wish my books were not so yellowed from mice urine and chewed-up so badly.

Jayackaryd- @ 10:50 gracious. It is only because everybody is so pee-'ed-off at me @ Blueberry Hill, that I'm here again.

I am trying to compete as most-intolerable as Gary Owen.

sysprog! At-@-1052 sharp, the turnip soup i'M OFFERING mR. bUSH- it's yours! It has purple top turnips, misso paste, and My-delicious blends of green, such as: kamatazuna's and various other green fall hardy, brassica. It is a delicious soup-brew. It is now ready to be served, immediately.

@ 10:01 GG, does he wear Pink-Goggles?

I'm working at being short/concise.

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La, la, la, la , la La, La La Land?

okay- I admit- stooped. Mud stoopid.

By MATT APUZZO, Associated Press Writer 28 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and more than a dozen other current and former intelligence officials must testify about their conversations with pro-Israel lobbyists, a federal judge ruled Friday in an espionage case.

Lawyers for two former American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobbyists facing charges have subpoenaed Rice, National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley, Deputy National Security Adviser Elliott Abrams and several others to testify at their trial next year. Prosecutors had challenged the subpoenas in federal court.

Lobbyists Steven Rosen and Keith Weissman maintain the Israeli interest group played an unofficial but sanctioned role in crafting foreign policy and that Rice and others can confirm it.

If they ultimately testify in court, the trial in federal court in suburban Alexandria, Va. could offer a behind-the-scenes look at the way U.S. foreign policy is crafted.

http://tinyurl.com/yusbjg

It was obviously going to happen, so why do I feel like weeping?

Well, the shooters of the world can inherit what's left of the U.S. For those of us who used to care, there's not much left on the carcase.

will be the first.

Did anyone else by chance see the reports of Rumsfeld hightailing it into Germany after some intrepid Frenchmen filed charges of torture against him?

Gave me a chuckle, that did. Maybe somebody should inquire whether or not Mukasey has a vacation cottage in the Dordogne.

I'd just like some clarity on this subject: If torture is illegal as a result of U.S. being a signatory to a number of treaties banning torture, CAN (which is not to say WILL) any person who orders, allows, or commits torture be held liable by the next Administration? (Assuming the next administration abides by the Constitution).

Is there any chance that this nation will return to the rule of law and arrest and prosecute any person(s) who assented to and used torture? How can we ever expect any American to respect the rule of law EVER AGAIN, if the perpetrators of torture (and we know who they are) are never brought to account for their crimes?