though I'm online constantly, I must have gone to the bathroom when this came up and I'm tired of seeing it with absolutely no hint of what it means, and I can't find it on Google or in Wikipedia

I will be much happier when I know (it doesn't take much these days...)

Bush and company need to be before the Hague. Any one who thinks otherwise is delusional.

What we DO know warrents that .... think of what we don't.

I believe it means "hat tip."

Hat Tip: Acknowledgment to a contributor toward an effort. Often used on blogs to let people know where the idea for the blog post originated

See: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hat+tip

You said, re David Hicks,

John Howard, may there be a special place for him in hell. You can also add Dick Cheney to that short list.

If there is a hell, it's got a special place in the lowest circle for Howard, Blair, Cheney, Bush, Lieberman, Rockefeller, and all their co-conspirators. The lights are always on there. For all eternity.

I am also angry at the president elect who has indicated that he will hold no one responsible for these present crimes against humanity.

Do you have any direct evidence for this, other than previously reported rumor?

You really nailed it for me regarding the influence of the entertainment media and the distinctions on fault (blame).

It comes down to who and what people view as scary based on their life experiences and cultural education. Bill Cosby’s TV show was extremely influential in making blacks less scary because it destroyed the stereotypes for thinking people with at least partially open minds. Ellen Degeneres and numerous dramas and reality shows have revealed the obvious- LGBT people are like anyone else, except in who they want to have as a loving, live-in partner.

Violence has been made to seem unreal and unscary through all medium in different ways for millenniums. Religions to separate themselves from others have used shame and denigration or worse. Unfortunately, there have been far too few cultures like Native Americans who taught the concept of walking in others’ shoes.

The perception on fault has to do with defining individual responsibility. If the culture teaches that people are viewed as either good or bad and that mistakes are bad, then people are unwilling to accept their part in the problem or conflict. Thus if you are not part of the problem you will not want to be part of the solution for the larger community outside of yours. You will find something or someone, or some group to blame.

It is this kind of thinking and a capitalistic view of life that only begets winners and losers that created our economic crisis. A lot more communication and successful brainstorming for effective solutions for the individual and community would happen if people just adopted the concept expressed by Rabbi Herschfield that you don’t have to be wrong for me to be right and if the problem solving group's goal was to find a win-win outcome.

Human rights violations and unnecessary wars will continue to happen until almost everyone in the world lives a life free of constant struggle and people see the success of the community as important as the success of the individual. That’s provided the community is defined as everyone on earth.

thanks for the h/t - and for the Urban Dictionary link! I bookmarked it, now on my dock.

I've got fifty bucks that says these guys are still sitting in Gitmo when Obama is sworn in. Any takers?