You are forgiven.

You mentioned LBJ a few posts ago.

Have you ever been there?

I just am testing the neighbors computers. I pretend my part time job is determining

what the daily color and flavor should be based on if there are jumping beans or peanuts in peoples computers.

Today's color code:

Lime Lie Green.

Pisstaschip-o

Al-Scream-0.

ice-creme-o. Cheerer-o

As digital photos improve, and we have the bandwidth to transmit higher-quality recordings, who's to say that the digital trade-offs we now accept won't go the way of Wonder bread as well.

Please excuse a bit of criticism, you two can express ideas orders of magnitude better than I can, but there is a bit of the luddite in both of you, in different ways. Digital video may have been pushed into the market a bit early, but it is certainly vastly superior to film in its potential and even in practice now in some ways. The digital revolution in audio was about 25 years ago, and the instant superiority of CDs was apparent, but we still have folks who worship scratchy plastic records, and highly (but pleasantly) colored tube amplifiers. (OK, guitar amps need the coloration, but not stereo HiFI, and the compression in audio recordings for transmission is unacceptable, but this is, as WT says, temporary.) How much of the superiority of film is just in being keyed to its particular limitations and strengths?

You make a valid and worrisome argument. Just because Hillary and Barack promise they will start getting out immediately after taking office, doesn’t mean it will happen. McCain is going to call his opponent weak, traitor, un-American and anything else he can come up with to force our candidate into backing off some on his/her primary promise. The genius Petraeus will be called on to explain how leaving when the surge is working and after all those sacrifices have been made just can’t be an option. McCain will say that his military comrades can’t be made to watch all their sacrifice go down the drain. McCain is a one trick pony on the war just like Rudy was on 9/11.

Since he has no other real selling point, McCain will try to take over Obama’s main selling points that he can unite and stop the division and represents real change. As long as he remains tied to the Busheviks because of his war support and he doesn’t drop 20 years in age, we can tie him to all the major Bush disasters and unlawful conduct.

The larger the margin of victory for the Democratic candidate, the easier it will be to try and hold to the War promise. That is why we all need to do what we can to trounce the Repugs in the congress as well as the executive branch.

Well, Bucky, you'll have to tell me what it is that sets William and I apart from RMP, Anonymust, Ondelette, Aych in a lot of categories, and Bebop-o, Gordon, Jim White and whole batch of regular folks who comment on here. Cause, you know what, I don't see it.

No little one, I do not 'have to tell' you a damn thing.

If Timberman ever wants to talk over this issue, then I will accommodate him, but you are no William Timberman. He stands accused of 'ironic evil' while you are just slime. Since I have told him that he is guilty of ironic evil, he stands accused of being a good man trying to do good. You? Not so much.

But thank for proving on the same page as I wrote last that you are hiding behind others every time you want to start this mud slinging crap. I wrote that Glenn got a good review and you used that to attack; fine we all know you only care about yourself. But little coward, the names you mention are not the ones that are having a disagreement over LBJ with me. Nor you.

Go play in the yard.

Q [...] For five centuries it's been known as torture, American prosecutors actually obtained convictions against Japanese after World War II because of what they did to American captives. What about it makes it not torture now? Is it just the circumstances?

MR. FRATTO: I don't think that's a question I can answer. [...]

I think I can explain the 'reasoning' ... here:

http://tinyurl.com/ysz2rv

(or click my sig).

Yes, it's the "circumstances"....

I believe they are wrong and the Republicans will be trounced in the November election.

Retired Military Patriot

Let's hope so! But how do you get from a Dem Pres to the end of the War On Iraq? I don't see the connection. And I have not heard anything from Hilary, and little from Barack, which leads me to believe the election of Dems and the end of the war are automatically connected. If you have, pass along a link, please. I'd be eager to read it.

One thing I think hasn't been explored yet is the "illegal" listening to US persons from a wiretap on a foreign person. From what I've been able to tell, anyone contacting a legal wiretap in the US is legally listened to as well. If it's legal here, it should certainly be legal there.

As I've explained in the past, your conversations in the U.S. may be recorded and listened to ... if you call someone on whom a wiretap warrant has been issued. This means theres some preliminary reason to suspect foul things afoot in the conversation. We don't require that all participants in domestic calls have individual warrants on them, or wiretap only conversations between valid "targets".

The same should go for the FISA snoops, no? So if you have a FISA court order, you should be able to wiretap to your heart's content, even if they're talking to the effin' preznit of the Yoo-nited States. Oh.... Right, I forgot.... In fact, that is what the FISA act of 1978 did allow.

OTOH, if we're allowing "free sniffs" of foreign people without a warrant, we really don't want to use these sniffs absent probable cause (on anyone) to be a "backdoor" to listen to U.S. persons absent the requisite FISA warrant.

Cheers,