I'MMA LET YOU FINISH

GravatarTweet is good for something then?


GravatarThank you Tweetheart!


GravatarAnd my plea did bupkis.


Gravatartweety


GravatarTweet Tweet!


GravatarAll Hail Libby's Tweet!


GravatarLibby's a kiss-up!


GravatarShe tweeted? Sounds like prison has not been kind to Scooter.


GravatarLibby Libby Libby Libby Libby Libby Libby Libby Libby Libby Libby Libby
/Woody from Cheers


GravatarThen you dissed her and dismissed her now she's jocking Jay...


Gravatarso, hypothetically, congress learns of bush admin torturing people and is outraged, orders him to stop. he refuses. they get an injuction, it goes to the sup ct. the sup ct cant refuse it for being a political question, can it?
pretzel | 07.10.09 - 2:59 pm | # [kill]​[hide comment]


Federal courts would throw that case out because COngress does not have standing and/or the issue is not justiciable as a political question.

a victim could bring a case.


GravatarSequel to BJ and The Bear...Ali and the Bear


GravatarHow else do you propose to resolve a standoff between Congress and the President? Thumb wrestling?
C/T, translator | Homepage | 07.10.09 - 2:48 pm | #


Impeachment.


Gravatarso, hypothetically, congress learns of bush admin torturing people and is outraged, orders him to stop. he refuses. they get an injuction, it goes to the sup ct. the sup ct cant refuse it for being a political question, can it?
pretzel | 07.10.09 - 2:59 pm | # [kill]​[hide comment]

they cant get an injunction. the president cannot be enjoined in his official duties. that case would never be heard anyway as it is not justciable. Congress cant be a party in taht case.
euphronius failure | 07.10.09 - 3:00 pm

but he's acting outside of his official duties. and if he's violating treaties and the constitution, why wouldn't it be justiciable?


GravatarLibby's a kiss-up!
AndyG | Homepage | 07.10.09 - 3:00 pm


Ha! I did it for the greater good of the community. xxJayAckroyd


GravatarFrom below:

It's a patronizing contempt. "Well, WE know she's an idiot, a liar and a thief, but the rubes seem to like her."
Gummo

Well, I'm not a rube.

Because I can't stand the bitch!


Gravatarthat was me, pretending to be Anonymous.


Gravatarwhen it says
libby libby libby
on the
title title title
you will like it like it like it
at least you
might'll might'll might'll


Gravatarchange those two "ee"'s to an "a" and you've got my attention.


Gravatarbut he's acting outside of his official duties. and if he's violating treaties and the constitution, why wouldn't it be justiciable?
pretzel | 07.10.09 - 3:03 pm | # [kill]​[hid



someone could sue if they were injured. it wouldnt be COngress.


GravatarOh Libby

you gave us a thread without taking

but you had to get Jay...


GravatarHow else do you propose to resolve a standoff between Congress and the President? Thumb wrestling?
C/T, translator


Easy, call the Butterball Turkey Hotline.


Gravatarbut he's acting outside of his official duties. and if he's violating treaties and the constitution, why wouldn't it be justiciable?
pretzel


In that case, the remedy is impeachment.

---


GravatarI'm gonna be a bachelor for 18 hours, or so. Not feeling up for fast-paced, rural, west-central Wisconsin this weekend.


Gravatari thought the political question doctrine applied to actions that were within the normal scope say of the executive or congress. bush was clearly acting outside of the law. it just kind of blows my mind that the only remedy would be impeachment.


GravatarBoth Lincoln and Andrew Jackson got away with out and out defying the court and FDR scared the shit out of them.

The fact is that if Congress is too crappy to assert its own rights, the courts can't do anything.


GravatarImpeachment.
Anonymous | 07.10.09 - 3:02 pm | #


off the table. it's too divisive.


Gravatarimpeachment. yeah.

and elections.


GravatarSequel to BJ and The Bear...Ali and the Bear
olexicon, mike sass


in the sequel, the bear is smarter than the human.


GravatarOne of Harper's chief communications aides, Dimitri Soudas, said he had mistakenly informed the prime minister that comments by an academic about Canada's irrelevance in the G8 were actually Ignatieff's.

The academic said Canada is at risk of being shut out of such international councils.

Harper took those comments and ran with them in both official languages during his closing news conference at the Group of Eight summit.

He accused Ignatieff of being "irresponsible," saying the Liberal leader is "supposed to be a Canadian."

Shortly after the 45-minute news conference ended, Soudas rushed to inform Canadian media that he'd misread an email, wrongly attributed a quote to Ignatieff and then advised the prime minister to comment publicly on the matter.

Liberal foreign affairs critic Bob Rae said that the matter showed Harper's true character.

"I think all Canadians have to recognize that we have the smallest man on the world stage that it's possible to imagine, and that's Stephen Harper," Rae said in an interview.

"He never misses an opportunity to stoop. Not to conquer, just to throw mud."

again


Gravatarbut he's acting outside of his official duties. and if he's violating treaties and the constitution, why wouldn't it be justiciable?
pretzel | 07.10.09 - 3:03 pm | # [kill]​[hid



someone could sue if they were injured. it wouldnt be COngress.
euphronius failure


Congress doesn't have standing. The remedy then is impeachment, not recourse to the courts.


GravatarLibby does have a beautifully plaintive tweet.

Like Obama, I would definitely ogle it.


Gravatarin the sequel, the bear is smarter than the human.
Ali


He is obviously after your pick-a-nick basket


GravatarIt's like a freekin' country bear jambaroo around here!


Gravatarok, bbl.


GravatarHey peeps!!!! My solar panels are ON! I'm generating power! Since 11 am I haven't used any utility power, and my inverter says I've saved 16 lbs of carbon already today.


Gravatar3 hours until opening night


Gravatarhe's acting outside of his official duties. and if he's violating treaties and the constitution,

The torture was in violation of signed and ratified treaty law.


Gravatar"Posted by" distracts from the headlines. No sir, I don't like it!
Waaah


GravatarAnonymous,

I never heard your solution.


GravatarI have yet to pack my suitcase

but I have all my stuff ready

just gotta focus tomorrow, after my manicure and pedicure



Gravataryou guess is as good as mine as to wwhat the "political question" doctrine is.

the SC uses it with "smelly" cases it doan want to touch.


Gravatar My solar panels are ON! I'm generating power!

excellent!


GravatarIt's like a freekin' country bear jambaroo around here
AndyG


"Immigints, even when it was da bears I knww it was dem":


GravatarHey peeps!!!! My solar panels are ON! I'm generating power!

Nice, SoBe!

As if you needed yet another way for your life to be more exciting than mine.


Gravataraslo, not mentioned: the AG could prosecute the president.

LOL i know .. . but that is an option.


GravatarUnite: membership, bank balance down


GravatarMy solar panels are ON!

How did the arrangement with the utility co work out?


GravatarSorry, Anon,

I missed your post.


Gravatar"Immigints, even when it was da bears I knww it was dem":

Get Eurass back to Eurasia!


GravatarBTW, if anyone wants to follow me...

Feeling kind of lonely over there. Half my followers are spam bots.


GravatarMy solar panels are ON! I'm generating power! Since 11 am I haven't used any utility power, and my inverter says I've saved 16 lbs of carbon already today.


That completely rocks.


GravatarThis just in:

9th Circuit Court rules that pharmacies MUST stock & sell emergency contraception!!

http://bit.ly/gCGjc


GravatarI never heard your solution.
C/T, translator | Homepage | 07.10.09 - 3:06 pm | #


Impeach and/or cut off funding.

Bush was able to unconstitutionally exercise power because the Congress was supine. Congress was supine because it's a deeply corrupt institution. Court decisions, even if we could expect that Alito court to act with any morals or insight, can't remedy that.


GravatarTwitter is great for finding barely legal studs!


GravatarLike Obama, I would definitely ogle it.

Me, I'd be checking out SoBeale's solar panels...


GravatarHer plaintive tweet called to me....


Languorously.
-


GravatarThis is like...low-grade stand-up comic fodder going on here ^_^
Nim, ham hock of liberty

Hopefully not the beginning of a long comic weekend for you. The picture Vicki posted of the cabin looked like there was no parking and you'd have to hike in a mile.


Gravatar"Immigints, even when it was da bears I knww it was dem":

Get Eurass back to Eurasia!
AndyG


"Your Parents are Herb and Judy Nahassapimapetalon"


Gravataryou guess is as good as mine as to wwhat the "political question" doctrine is.

the SC uses it with "smelly" cases it doan want to touch.
euphronius failure


The courts have no enforcement powers. For that, they rely on the executive.

The legislative (federal, anyway) can take away their jurisdiction. So they have to be even handed to both, and stay out of their business as much as possible. Or at least not be seen to directly involve themselves in matters traditionally left to the other two.

Hence the "political doctrine."


Gravataroff to Cairo on Sunday!


yippie


Gravatarfor southern beale.


Gravatar9th Circuit Court rules that pharmacies MUST stock & sell emergency contraception!!


Sotamayor, don't fail me now.


GravatarThey only impeach when it's a Democrat.

And just for blow jobs.


GravatarThe torture was in violation of signed and ratified treaty law.
Yogi | 07.10.09 - 3:06 pm | #

yeah i know. i guess the president could be removed quickly if he or she were somehow determined to be not competent. but damn, impeachment can take years. what if it were somebody worse than bush? palin, maybe, if she ever got in, decides to invade russia cause russia looked ominous that day.


Gravatar
Me, I'd be checking out SoBeale's solar panels...
jayackroyd


"She's got 'uuuuge ... solar panels."


Gravatar"Impeachment."
Anonymous | 07.10.09 - 3:02 pm | #

"off the table. it's too divisive."
--dirk gently, antiskeptic

Well, it was for Bush. Im not sure about Obama. I'm thinking they'll try anything.


GravatarThey only impeach when it's a Democrat.

And just for blow jobs.
Terry C - Castrating B*tch*


Turns out they were disgusted because the sex was so boringly normal.

Who could have guessed....


Gravatar"nice rack...of solar panels"


GravatarYay SoBeale. Solar rocks.


Gravataraslo, not mentioned: the AG could prosecute the president.

special prosecuter? or was that a clinton-only thing?


GravatarThey only impeach when it's a Democrat.

And just for blow jobs.
Terry C - Castrating B*tch*



Now they're going to get the black guy for checkin' out some ass.


GravatarMe, I'd be checking out SoBeale's solar panels...
jayackroyd


It need not be an either/or situation.


GravatarThe legislative (federal, anyway) can take away their jurisdiction. So they have to be even handed to both, and stay out of their business as much as possible. Or at least not be seen to directly involve themselves in matters traditionally left to the other two.

Hence the "political doctrine."
Rmj, Love Stupid Theologist | 07.10.09 - 3:09 pm | # [kill]​[hid

======================


Congress cant take away jurisdiction explicitly mentioned in teh constitution. cite some old case i forgot. also they cant take away the SC appellate power on federal issues. again some smelly case.

needless to say though, COngress could make their life very mean and nasty.


Gravatara house just outside of our cul de sac had solar panels fitted


GravatarBlue-ribbon panel, bitches!


GravatarBTW, if anyone wants to follow me...


I'm folliowing you!


Gravatarspecial prosecuter? or was that a clinton-only thing?
dirk gently, antiskeptic | Homepage | 07.10.09 - 3:11 pm |

sure. it was before clinton too.


GravatarThe right to freely exercise one's religion "does not relieve an individual of the obligation to comply with a valid and neutral law of general applicability," the 9th Circuit panel wrote.

"Any refusal to dispense -- regardless of whether it is motivated by religion, morals, conscience, ethics, discriminatory prejudices, or personal distaste for a patient -- violates the rules," the panel said.


Good language, although they were just overturning an injunction and there are other issues below


GravatarThe world's oldest dinosaur burrows have been discovered in Australia.

Three separate burrows have been found in all, the biggest 2m long, each built to a similar design and just big enough to hold the body of a small dinosaur.

The 106-million-year-old burrows, the first to be found outside of North America, would have been much closer to the South Pole when they were created.

That supports the idea that dinosaurs living in cold, harsh climates burrowed underground to survive.

The only other known dinosaur burrow was discovered in 2005 in Montana, US.

Described two years later, this burrow dated from 95 million years ago and contained the bones of an adult and two juveniles of a small new species of dinosaur called Oryctodromeus cubicularis.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/e...000/ 8144199.stm


GravatarCongress cant take away jurisdiction explicitly mentioned in teh constitution. cite some old case i forgot. also they cant take away the SC appellate power on federal issues. again some smelly case.

needless to say though, COngress could make their life very mean and nasty.
euphronius failure


GravatarBilly b, you still around?

Just heard from the missus that we do indeed have mail today....

Thanks!


Gravatarneedless to say though, COngress could make their life very mean and nasty.
euphronius failure | 07.10.09 - 3:11 pm | #


They could add 10 members and make the salary minimum wage.


GravatarHer plaintive tweet called to me....


Languorously.
-
QuentinCompson, Retributionary


Some would call it mellifluous.
As opposed to SoBe's diaphanous panels.


GravatarTags are telling me it's time to go:

Congress cant take away jurisdiction explicitly mentioned in teh constitution. cite some old case i forgot. also they cant take away the SC appellate power on federal issues. again some smelly case.

needless to say though, COngress could make their life very mean and nasty.
euphronius failure


Congressional control over the courts is limited, but they have enough control to mess 'em up good. Likewise the executive wouldn't want to ignore court directives, but they can mess 'em up in carrying out directives to detain people, execute court orders (directed at others, I mean), etc.

It's a balance.


GravatarBlue-ribbon panel, bitches!
AndyG


In Canada we call them "Royal Commisions"


GravatarThey could add 10 members and make the salary minimum wage.
rootless-e, anti-chaos-math | 07.10.09 - 3:13 pm | #

the new ones, yeah. not the old ones. they keep same salary.
cite some old case i forgot.


Gravatarfor southern beale.
dan mcenroe


THANKS I WAS LOOKING FOR THAT!!!!


GravatarI think our British MPs should be on the minimum wage


Gravatarthe new ones, yeah. not the old ones. they keep same salary.
cite some old case i forgot.
euphronius failure | 07.10.09 - 3:14 pm | #


Congress appropriates.


GravatarA good fraction of the universe's first stars may have been born in pairs, a new study suggests.

Since each star in a pair is likely to be smaller than a single star created from the same natal material, the work may help explain why so far no evidence has been found for exotic physical processes thought to occur in super-heavy stars from the early universe.

It may also mean the star pairs could be detected by the gravitational waves they would emit at the end of their lives.

Not much is known about the universe's first stars. It is theoretically possible to see them with telescopes by looking for objects that are extremely far away, since their light takes billions of years to reach Earth. But today's telescopes are not powerful enough to see the dim objects.


http://www.newscientist.com/arti...been- twins.html


GravatarI think our British MPs should be on the minimum wage
Moonbootica, Avout


Then you'd have the Texas Lege. Believe me, you don't want that, either.


Gravatardoan make me look up the case rootless.


Gravatarthe fundamental problem is that the congress does not function very well - and the fundamental problem there is the senate which has an average IQ of 30, maybe 50 if you don't count Inhofe.


GravatarGallup Management Journal
It’s Time to Brand Yourself
July 9, 2009


no, thank you

.


GravatarThen you'd have the Texas Lege. Believe me, you don't want that, either.
Rmj, Love Stupid Theologist | 07.10.09 - 3:15 pm | #


true, I do think they need to learn some humility tho

knock the swagger and arrogance outta them

they aren't better than us and they should follow the rules they fucking make

otherwise whats the point of a political class?


Gravatarah no case it is in the constitution!!

receive for their Services a Compensation which shall not be diminished during their Continuance in Office.

Art. III


Gravatarobama could appoint a bunch of stoner slackers, if congress added 10 members and made the salary minimum wage.

"hey clarence how come you never say anthing, dude? and tony, man you need to lighten up, hey, want some pizza?"


GravatarImpeachment I think, is a less than ideal solution, for a number of reasons. Yes, the Supreme Court is bad because of Cruikshank and Bush v Gore, but Congress has its own 200 yr non-blemish free track record, not to mention their recent impeachment of Bill Clinton.

So while imeachment favor the President, given the hurdles, it puts the final decision in hands of Congress. Which has it pluses and minuses.

If the President and Congress cannot decide whether a given law is Constitutional, I would still prefer to give the Court the final say, but I would also recommend they avoid questions purely involving power struggles between the two other branches.


Gravatarno I don't like politicians these days

they are lower than estate agents


Gravatardoan make me look up the case rootless.
euphronius failure | 07.10.09 - 3:15 pm | #


So you think the SC could compel congress to pay its salary?

Sorry dude, Congress appropriated $3. Take it or leave it.


Gravatarinteresting you know that the Constitution gives Congress the power to try an impeachment, and not the SC. though i suppose the CJ presides.


Gravatarthe senate which has an average IQ of 30, maybe 50

Max Baucus is no prize.


GravatarHIGH-ENERGY laser weapons have been hailed as the future of anti-missile defence, but they may be further from being battle-ready than military chiefs hoped.

In recent tests, several prototypes have suffered serious damage to their optics at intensities well below the expected levels of tolerance. "Optical damage has been quietly alarming upper management in most major programmes," Sean Ross of the US Air Force Research Laboratory in New Mexico told a meeting of the Directed Energy Professional Society in Newton, Massachusetts, last week. There are also big problems managing the waste heat generated by high-intensity beams.


http://www.newscientist.com/arti...-to- handle.html

what about sharks with frigging laser beams?


Gravatarits in eh constitution rootless.
art. iii.


GravatarIn Canada we call them "Royal Commisions"


We fought a revolution so we wouldn't have to do that.


Gravatarah no case it is in the constitution!!

BarBri FAIL


GravatarNone of this would be an issue if we had President Harold Stassen.


GravatarWhat is the point of things like treaty law, when it's not enforced?


GravatarMmm. Microwaved enemy eyes!


GravatarMax Baucus is no prize.
Yogi | 07.10.09 - 3:17 pm | #


Chuck Schumer is in the top 10% of smarts and integrity in the US senate, a ranking he could not attain in the average county jail.


GravatarHey Jay -- you put me in touch with your brother, didn't you? For help on the solar issue? Or was that another Atriot?

Hard to believe I've been working on this for an entire year!


Gravatarloved Public Enemies


GravatarJust in case you're dying to know:

Today's listening:

it's been all old old stuff:

Motown No. 1s, disks 1 & 2.

Blondie live at the Old Waldorf, 9/77.

That's so far....


GravatarIf the President and Congress cannot decide whether a given law is Constitutional, I would still prefer to give the Court the final say, but I would also recommend they avoid questions purely involving power struggles between the two other branches.
C/T, translator | Homepage | 07.

well sure, but basically bush was acting like the other two branches didnt exist.


Gravatarnot all law is enforced. International law, for example.


If the President and Congress cannot decide whether a given law is Constitutional, I would still prefer to give the Court the final say, but I would also recommend they avoid questions purely involving power struggles between the two other branches.
C/T, translator | Homepage | 07.10.09 - 3:


thats how most laws are figured out. if they apply to individuals they can sue and take it to fed court.


Gravatarof course, congress COULD stop cost-of-living raises etc to scotus. when was the last time they got a raise?


GravatarIn Canada we call them "Royal Commisions"


We fought a revolution so we wouldn't have to do that.
Southern Beale


That's why we still have things like "Prince Edward Island" and in my hometown "The Windsor Hotel"...best dive bar in Humboldt


GravatarScientists are attempting to discover exactly what makes cheetahs the fastest running animals on the planet.

A Royal Veterinary College (RVC) team is using high-speed cameras and a sensitive track to monitor the big cats as they sprint.

Cheetahs can reach speeds of at least 104km/h (64mph) and they can achieve their top speed in just a few paces.

The study is being carried out with North African cheetahs from ZSL Whipsnade Zoo.

Professor Alan Wilson, head of the structure and motion laboratory at RVC, said: "The cheetah is fascinating because it can run 50% faster than any of the other animals we are familiar with, so in terms of understanding what limits how fast you can run, the cheetah is a wonderful animal to study."


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/t...ech/ 8137962.stm


Gravatarneedless to say though, COngress could make their life very mean and nasty.
euphronius failure

Turn the Scotus building into a tourist food court and pay SCOTUS judges the median wage in th countryy?


Gravatar9th Circuit Court rules that pharmacies MUST stock & sell emergency contraception!!

I had
a few words for the fundie pharmacists about that...


Gravatarinteresting you know that the Constitution gives Congress the power to try an impeachment, and not the SC. though i suppose the CJ presides

House charges via articles of impeachment.
Senate sits as jury during trial (House managers act as prosecutors).
Chief Justice does preside.


GravatarThe calls by Congressional Dems for investigations into this "secret CIA program" even Director Panetta did not know about for 4 months are somewhat heartening.


Gravatarbut basically bush was acting like the other two branches didnt exist.
pretzel | 07.10.09 - 3:19 pm | #


congress took itself off the table, and hid under it.


Gravatarok its in the constitution. the congress and the president both agree the sup ct gets $3. so how does the sup ct enforce it?


GravatarThe calls by Congressional Dems for investigations into this "secret CIA program" even Director Panetta did not know about for 4 months are somewhat heartening.
plantsman, mad google skillz


And even Harry Reid is urging Congressional Dems not to worry about Republican votes on the health care bill.

But of course the Blue Dogs are still wringing their hands....


GravatarScientists are attempting to discover exactly what makes cheetahs the fastest running animals on the planet.

Meth.

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Gravatarok its in the constitution. the congress and the president both agree the sup ct gets $3. so how does the sup ct enforce it?
pretzel


Start over with a grownup country?


Gravatartee hee - French tourists are the worst in the world, coming across as penny-pinching, rude and terrible at languages, according to a new survey.

The study by travel company Expedia asked 4,500 hotels worldwide to rank tourists on their behaviour.

Japanese tourists - seen as clean and tidy, polite, quiet and uncomplaining - came top for the third year running.

French travellers made amends on elegance - classed third - as well as for their discretion and cleanliness.

But the French were the least ready to try a new language, unlike US tourists who were most likely to swallow their pride and order a pizza, baguette or a paella in the local lingo.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world...ope/ 8143780.stm


GravatarHIGH-ENERGY laser weapons have been hailed as the future of anti-missile defence

Oh, I've already seen that movie. TWICE.


GravatarOh, I've already seen that movie. TWICE.
Southern Beale


I know, they almost got Bond in the balls!


GravatarHIGH-ENERGY laser weapons have been hailed as the future of anti-missile defence

If we'd just Raise the Titanic we'd get this AMD thing nipped in the bud.


GravatarThen you dissed her and dismissed her now she's jocking Jay...
olexicon

RUN - DMC!!!


GravatarFrench tourists are the worst in the world, coming across as penny-pinching, rude and terrible at languages, according to a new survey.

All the more reason why I say Pfooey to Pfrance.


GravatarScientists are attempting to discover exactly what makes cheetahs the fastest running animals on the planet.

I thought it was the extreme flexibility of their spines, which serves like a spring to lengthen their stride. IIRC cheetahs have an extremely long stride for their body size compared to other animals.


GravatarIt did annoy me that my recommndation of the court, ideally as the institution to resolve legal questions, with such incredulity, because of Bush v. Gore, as if the other branches were problem-free. Ideally, it would be the court, and ideally it would be right and the other branches would follow. If Congress is a "deeply corrupt institution" then impeachment is hardly better.


Gravatarok its in the constitution. the congress and the president both agree the sup ct gets $3. so how does the sup ct enforce it?
pretzel | 07.10.09 - 3:21 pm | # [kill]​[hide

bitch and moan?

who knows.


GravatarSoBeale

Yeah that was me. I will tell Rok that you succeeded. Family get together at the end of the month. Whole lamb on a spit. Spinakopita. Swarms of mosquitoes the size of small birds, given the amount of rain we have had.


GravatarAwesome: Gil Thorp's on Twitter, too!


Gravatarcongress could pass a law requiring justices to wear ithcy woolen longjohns under their gowns.


GravatarI don't know exactly how fast Widget runs, but he can reach full speed in a step or two.

http://thumbsnap.com/v/p4RcxTh6.jpg

But having been a stray I guess this helped him survive.
It's dammed hard to catch him.


GravatarHIGH-ENERGY laser weapons have been hailed as the future of anti-missile defence

Unless it's cloudy.


Gravatarthe senate which has an average IQ of 30

i know "stupid people deserve representation, too", but why is politics such a klown kollege?

.


Gravatarteh SC could just refuse to work.
lol

go on strike. HAH!
/crabapple.


Gravatarer, robes. the cat distracted me.


GravatarIf Congress is a "deeply corrupt institution" then impeachment is hardly better.

i dont know what the solution is, but bush sure highlighted a lot of potential faults in the system.


GravatarHer plaintive twhat called to me?


Gravatarunlike US tourists who were most likely to swallow their pride and order a pizza, baguette or a paella in the local lingo.

We will proudly butcher your native tongue in the name of peance, freeance and goodwill toward ferners!


GravatarI'm folliowing you!
Southern Beale | Homepage | 07.10.09 - 3:11 pm


Thanks. Am I following you? Can you send me a msg at FB with your user name if I'm not?


GravatarHIGH-ENERGY laser weapons have been hailed as the future of anti-missile defence

Unless it's cloudy.


Or raining. Or snowing.

What a bitch.


GravatarPower doesn't corrupt. It draws the corrupt.


GravatarFamily get together at the end of the month. Whole lamb on a spit. Spinakopita.

A big fat Greek barbecue? Yummmm!!!!


GravatarObama tells Pope he wants to reduce abortions in the U.S.


GravatarIf Congress is a "deeply corrupt institution" then impeachment is hardly better.
C/T, translator | Homepage | 07.10.09 - 3:23 pm | #


They all suck, but when the public gets upset Congress changes faster than the SC.

I think that there is a tendency to overrely on the courts. If the executive is evil and congress is under the table having a few cold ones, we're fucked. Proof: 2000-2008.


GravatarAndyG, is Marty Moon one of his followers?

And I'm very excited to see Margo finally take on the Dalai Lama.


GravatarPower doesn't corrupt. It draws the corrupt.
B1 Bummer


A koan from the Bummerman.


Gravatarteh SC could just refuse to work.
lol

go on strike. HAH!
/crabapple.


so then obama appoints 9 progressives. i wish.


GravatarAm I following you? Can you send me a msg at FB with your user name if I'm not?

I don't think you are, I will IM you ...


Gravatarleibniz

Dood, we were worried.


GravatarHIGH-ENERGY laser weapons have been hailed as the future of anti-missile defence

Otherwise known as Redbull.


GravatarObama tells Pope he wants to reduce abortions in the U.S.

Did Ratzo tell him some camps might help with that?


GravatarTwitter is painfully slow this afternoon btw ...


Gravatarok its in the constitution. the congress and the president both agree the sup ct gets $3. so how does the sup ct enforce it?
pretzel


SCOTUS doesn't enforce anything. That's up to the executive.

If Congress passes a spending bill that allocates just $3 to the SCOTUS, and the president signs the bill, then that's that. The SCOTUS has to tighten its belt and start clipping coupons...

---


GravatarSometimes court decisions don't take effect until the executive decides to send in the troops to enforce them, like Brown v. Board of Ed.

I also recall a lot of calls from the republican legislators for the sherrif to not enforce the court decision in the Schiavo case.


Gravatari know "stupid people deserve representation, too", but why is politics such a klown kollege?

.
tacitus volt bear


Stupid folks are definitely overrepresented in Congress. Baucus comes from a state where the prairie dogs outnumber the people 5:1...


Gravatarsometimes I ponder why we have a political class in the first place


GravatarObama tells Pope he wants to reduce abortions in the U.S.
Hesiod


Then he'd better do something about birth control and family planning.


Gravatarteh SC could just refuse to work.

Galt for Chief Justice?


GravatarHigh energy space lasers are also great for making popcorn.


GravatarIf Congress passes a spending bill that allocates just $3 to the SCOTUS, and the president signs the bill, then that's that. The SCOTUS has to tighten its belt and start clipping coupons...

The SCOTUS could, though, rule that to be an unconstitutional violation of the separation of powers. Assumming they did not all recuse themselves first.


Gravatargo on strike. HAH!
/crabapple.
euphronius failure | 07.10.09 - 3:25 pm | #


It seems like under article 3, the congress can say, there is an inferior court with jurisdiction over armenian maritime law we designate the current SC as that court and ask the prez to nominate a new SC.


GravatarHIGH-ENERGY laser weapons have been hailed as the future of anti-missile defence

... because they're really, really expensive.


Gravatarsometimes I ponder why we have a political class in the first place
Moonbootica, Avout | Homepage | 07.10.09 - 3:27 pm | #


where else are you going to learn this stuff?


Gravatarwhy we have a political class in the first place

This makes it easy to know who to hang.


GravatarHIGH-ENERGY laser weapons have been hailed as the future of anti-missile defence

Unless it's cloudy.


Or if the missile's moving...

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Gravatar
Then he'd better do something about birth control and family planning.
pie


Federally funded daycare and a living wage for all fulltime jobs.


GravatarHigh energy space lasers are also great for making popcorn.

One of my favorite 1980's movies!


GravatarIf I had the keys, this blog would be exciting again.


GravatarUltimate birth control: You can have all the sex you want so long as Ratzo gets to stand there and watch.


Gravatarwhat could happen is Roberts as himself could sue the US Treasurer to force him to cut a check for the guaranteed monies.


Gravatar"Obama tells Pope he wants to reduce abortions in the U.S."
--Hesiod

Who does not want to reduce abortions? But that might include sex education and contraception, so no deal with the pope. Right?


Gravatar... because they're really, really expensive.
dan mcenroe


Wait . . . I know: lets put them IN SPACE!


GravatarFederally funded daycare and a living wage for all fulltime jobs.

Oh, yes. Put your money where your mouth is, as it were.


Gravataris Marty Moon one of his followers?

I'll bet he is.

Me, I'm more enthralled by the current Mary Worth storyline. Those guys with bad haircuts are no good. Time for some non-descript salmon squares!


GravatarBaucus comes from a state where the prairie dogs outnumber the people 5:1...
Duane V, pissed


and score higher on standardized tests


GravatarHigh energy space lasers are also great for making popcorn.
trifecta | 07.10.09 - 3:27 pm | #

if only we were invaded by popcorn


GravatarLibby, I can't IM you on Twitter for some reason, your name doesn't show up on my list. You must not have enabled e-mail on your Twitter account or something.


GravatarIt seems like under article 3, the congress can say, there is an inferior court with jurisdiction over armenian maritime law we designate the current SC as that court and ask the prez to nominate a new SC.
rootless-e, anti-chaos-math | 07.10.09 - 3:28 pm | # [kill]​[hide co
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no, theyd have to be impeached to be moved off the supreme court.


GravatarMe, I'm more enthralled by the current Mary Worth storyline. Those guys with bad haircuts are no good. Time for some non-descript salmon squares!
AndyG


Mary is vibrating with rage over the thought of some joker with a bowl cut horning in on her meddling!


Gravatarcan scotus rule on something if no ones brings the case before them?


GravatarOr they could, you know, paint a mirror finish on their missiles or something.


Gravatarsometimes I ponder why we have a political class in the first place
Moonbootica, Avout

When you figure that out, please let me know.


Gravatarcan scotus rule on something if no ones brings the case before them?
dirk gently, antiskeptic | Homepage | 07.10.09 - 3:30 p

no


Gravatarand score higher on standardized tests

And you thought No Prairie Dog Left Behind would be a failure.


Gravatarcan scotus rule on something if no ones brings the case before them?
dirk gently, antiskeptic


Wow. Talk about "activist judges."


GravatarWhat we really need are some X-wing fighters n' shit.


GravatarWekk, props to Greta at Fox for calling out that picture of Obama checking out a girl's ass as a lie.


GravatarOr they could, you know, paint a mirror finish on their missiles or something.
B1 Bummer


DISCO BALLS OF DOOOOOOM


GravatarPLAIN SPOKESPERSON SNARKS AT LEVI

"“It is interesting to learn Levi is working on a piece of fiction while honing his acting skills,” Palin family spokeswoman Meghan Stapleton said in an e-mail to The Associated Press.'


GravatarSome excellent snark
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TPM Reader BD:

Remember how during the 2008 campaign a lot of people suggested that Obama could prove to be an excellent role model for African-American men who have often been deemed less than responsible as husbands and fathers? Wouldn't it be great if white Evangelical Republican men could come up with a role model like that too?
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Heh.


Gravatari thought the supreme ct could take a case under some circumstances


Gravatarcan scotus rule on something if no ones brings the case before them?
dirk gently, antiskeptic | Homepage | 07.10.09 - 3:30 p


state supreme courts can though. which is oodles of fun.


GravatarDISCO BALLS OF DOOOOOOM
dan mcenroe



"Woot! Woot!" is the disco call


GravatarI like advisory opinions. They're a good time.


GravatarOh, man, the Palin bunch has so much class they should start a university.


Gravatarif a case was filed in teh forest, and no one was there to see it, who would have jurisdiction?


Gravatarno
euphronius failure | 07.10.09 - 3:30 pm | #


that's what i thought. so if the pres and congress passed a bill cutting their budget to $3, how could they rule it a violation of the separation of powers? they can't bring their own cases.


GravatarOh, man, the Palin bunch has so much class they should start a university.
B1 Bummer


Barber or Clown?


GravatarWell, gotta do some reasearch on pantry and kitchen cabinet inserts. Laterz, peeps.


GravatarOff to fetch the kid and start working on my thermonuclear disco ball death star. Have a good weekend, bats.


GravatarLaser weapons require mirrors and lenses to focus powerful beams onto distant moving targets, and to compensate for atmospheric perturbations that can reduce the power they deliver. The higher the intensity of the beam, the more likely it is to damage the surface of its optical components.

Optical surfaces are designed to withstand powers up to a specific damage threshold, but tiny flaws or irregularities - which can be extremely difficult to spot - reduce this threshold by making them more vulnerable to heat. Contaminants deposited on the surface can also reduce this threshold by forcing the surface to absorb energy.

These problems have begun to stall the development of laser weapons. Earlier this year in the US, engineers halted tests of the $4.3 billion megawatt-class Airborne Laser short of full power to avoid damaging "a handful of optics in the turret", according to Mike Rinn, a Boeing vice-president who manages the programme. They realised that the optics, designed years ago, would be "frail" in the presence of any contamination, which would be virtually inevitable in flight. In the next week or so, Boeing engineers will install replacement optics and test them on the ground before running the laser at full power in flight.


http://www.newscientist.com/arti...-to- handle.html


Gravatartechnically the SC COULD render advisory opinions, but they decided way back when they wont.

so there.


Gravatarthey can't bring their own cases.

Sure they can, when they're aggrieved parties.


Gravatar
state supreme courts can though. which is oodles of fun.
euphronius failure


Really? I was always under the impression a court couldn't do anything unless a party with standing brought an issue before them.

Then again, IANAL...

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Gravatareven if a low court ruled in their favor, how would that decision be enforced. the executive just says nope, suffer.


GravatarClown Barber. Somebody has to do those bizarre stick uppy hairdoes the clowns all have.


Gravatarthe just recuse themselves and sue as an individual.


GravatarSure they can, when they're aggrieved parties.
Jay C. | 07.10.09 - 3:34 pm |


before themselves? wouldn't they have to recuse themselves?


GravatarYou can get your clown/barber/MBA in 4 years instead of the usual 5 to get all of them individually.


GravatarClown Barber. Somebody has to do those bizarre stick uppy hairdoes the clowns all have.
B1 Bummer


Or is that Red Barber's lesser known brother


GravatarUS tourists also got top marks for generosity, as the biggest spenders and tippers.

But they fell short on other counts as the least tidy, the loudest, the worst complainers and the worst dressed.

Britons came second for their overall behaviour, politeness, quietness and even elegance - second for dress sense only to the Italians.

But in Europe, the British were seen by the hoteliers as the worst behaved.

Jonathan Cudworth, the head of product marketing at Expedia.co.uk, said: "Being voted the worst tourists in the world by our closest neighbours highlights the fact that the 'Brits Abroad' moniker is a label we still haven't managed to shrug off.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world...ope/ 8143780.stm


Gravatarthe just recuse themselves and sue as an individual.
euphronius failure | 07.10.09 - 3:34 pm | #


and if it went to the scotus?


Gravatarstate supreme courts have a whole trunk full of magic tricks. they are super fun.


Gravatarand if it went to the scotus?
dirk gently, antiskeptic | Homepage | 07.10.09 - 3:35 pm |

same deal.


Gravatarbefore themselves? wouldn't they have to recuse themselves?
dirk gently


If it got that far. They'd bring it in DC or wherever the case could be heard.

This is all kind of spinning off into college dormroom talk, though....


Gravatarsame deal.
euphronius failure | 07.10.09 - 3:35 p


but who would hear the case?


Gravatarhere's the list

WORLD'S BEST TOURISTS
Japan
Britain
Canada
Germany
Switzerland
Holland
Australia
Sweden
USA
Denmark
Source:Expedia.co.uk


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world...ope/ 8143780.stm


GravatarThis is all kind of spinning off into college dormroom talk, though....
Jay C. | 07.10.09 - 3:36 pm | #


what if there was like, a whole univers in my fingernail?


GravatarThis is all kind of spinning off into college dormroom talk, though....
Jay C. | 07.10.09 - 3:36 pm | #

is it too early to talk about supper?


Gravatarthey dont even have to recuse themselves, but im sure they would. nothing says the SC has to be impartial.


GravatarClown Pube Barber.


GravatarBring an action in USDC for DC, or MD/VA if that's where the justices live, I imagine.


GravatarWORLD'S BEST TOURISTS
Japan
Britain
Canada


TAKE THAT GERMANY!!!!


GravatarWekk, props to Greta at Fox for calling out that picture of Obama checking out a girl's ass as a lie.
Southern Beale | Homepage | 07.10.09 - 3:31 pm


I was surprised to see that on Fox. Especially from Greta.


GravatarClown Pube Barber.
B1 Bummer


All clowns have Brazilians


Gravatarwhat if there was like, a whole univers in my fingernail?
dirk gently


Could Atrios write a post so pithy even he couldn't read it?


GravatarCanada
Germany
Switzerland


The Eschaton equivalent of "open sesame".


GravatarWORLD'S BEST TOURISTS

nonsense. four of the top five don't even speak english.


GravatarFederal district Jay C . claim against the gov for money.

right?


GravatarThe Eschaton equivalent of "open sesame".
AndyG




GravatarThe Eschaton equivalent of "open sesame".

Say it three times--


Gravatarnonsense. four of the top five don't even speak english.
dirk gently, antiskeptic


And Canadians speak French sometimes, also


GravatarBodensee bodensee bodensee!!


GravatarI was surprised to see that on Fox. Especially from Greta.
Libby, | Homepage | 07.10.09 - 3:36 pm | #

yeah, it seems like she is such a right wing tool, normally. i'm not sure she's always been that way, or just saw it as a good career move.


GravatarThat was good of Greta to call bullshit on that idiotic story. She will no longer have to be official clown pube waxer for at least a week or so.


GravatarAnd Canadians speak French sometimes, also
olexicon, mike sass | 07.10.09 - 3:38 pm | #


right! so that's all five.


GravatarI was surprised to see that on Fox. Especially from Greta. - Libby,

unfortunately for the little-minds of their viewers that bell (or 'clang' as the case may be)cannot be unrung...


Gravatarright! so that's all five.
dirk gently, antiskeptic


Damn Foreigners visiting Foreign Countries!


GravatarFablous Friday Cat Blogging


GravatarSean Hannity, however, remains in his position as anal shaver.


Gravatarvan susterren will probably get hate mail for exposing the lie.


GravatarHeh. My borg are currently discussing me on a conference call. The good news is they said, "...the only one in the office I'd trust to handle that and do it correctly is doncjesuis." The bad news is, it means they're scheming to dump even more work in my lap. My competence is a curse.


GravatarDamn Foreigners visiting Foreign Countries!
olexicon, mike sass | 07.10.09 - 3:39 pm | #


next thing you know, they'll be ordering kippers and pasties. why can't they just eat at kfc like everyone else in the world?


GravatarIsn't Anal Shaver the sister of Helen Shaver?


GravatarWell, if it's matter of rapidity, waiting for a Congressional election, and then impeachment, sounds kind of slow.

In any case, my original post was in context of signing statement, and Presidential and Congressial abiities / duties to judge an action unconstitutional. Ideally, in a nation of laws, the institution set up to settle that very question would be the one doing it.


GravatarI am off work for the next two weeks!

holiday!


GravatarI'm not Swiss.


Gravatari hope i'm never served fried chicken with mayonaisse


GravatarCH Roberts could put a lien on teh White House.



Gravatar. My competence is a curse.
doncjesuis, Tina Fey fan |



IF you were sucky at your job you could be President of the United States (2001-200


GravatarOMG IT WORKED!!

it was summoned!!


Gravatarthey'll be ordering kippers and pasties

I made pasties the other night and brought one in to work for lunch.

The other people there said "what is that"?


Gravatar/runs down to the OTB


GravatarOMG IT WORKED!!

it was summoned!!
euphronius failure


Euph is our new dark lord


GravatarBeatlejuice just appeared. "It's show time!"


GravatarCH Roberts could put a lien on teh White House.


Go after 'em in small claims court for each individual paycheck!


GravatarSomebody's got to shave those baboons' butts, and Hannity is the man for the job.


GravatarOMG IT WORKED!!

it was summoned!!
euphronius failure


Watch out if it starts demanding to go to Satan's birthday party.


GravatarI'm telepathic but I'm also hungry so bye


Gravatar"While we are in second place in the global best-tourist rankings, we clearly have a job to do to convince our European counterparts and those at home that we can be better behaved on holiday."

The model Japanese were followed by Canadians as the least likely to whinge when a trip goes wrong.

France's rivals for the world's "worst tourist" tag, Spaniards and Greeks, came near the bottom of the pack in almost every category.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world...ope/ 8143780.stm


Gravatar/runs down to the OTB

Go, you little horse!


GravatarWekk, props to Greta at Fox for calling out that picture of Obama checking out a girl's ass as a lie.
Southern Beale | Homepage | 07.10.09 - 3:31 pm

I was surprised to see that on Fox. Especially from Greta.
Libby,

From earlier:

Once again, Obama proves himself a better man than me. I doubt that even fear of Michelle could have
stopped me from at least taking a look.
~


GravatarCH Roberts could put a lien on teh White House.

I think Carter tried that but Reagan just took it off again.


GravatarCH Roberts could put a lien on teh White House.


euphronius failure | 07.10.09 - 3:41 pm | #

the right wingers used to do this, file these bullshit liens, really screwed up the system in some places iirc.


GravatarOMG IT WORKED!!

it was summoned!!
euphronius failure


POSTED BY JAC

"Success." I do not think that word means what you think it means.


GravatarGo, you little horse!

Now with "E-Z Tear" tickets!


Gravatardid somebody turn around thrice in front of a mirror?


Gravatar"says here this house has a mechanics lein on it for "emoluments and rights of office due the undersigned""


GravatarOil prices fell below $60 a barrel today, putting them on course for their worst week since January, as traders worried about the uncertain global economic outlook.

US light crude for August delivery dropped $1.54 to $58.87 a barrel this afternoon, a fall of 2.6%. Crude oil futures are heading for their biggest weekly fall since the start of the year.

In London, Brent crude was down $1.35 to $59.75, a drop of 2.2%.

The International Energy Agency predicted today that oil consumption would rebound by 1.7% next year but expected it to stay negative this year. The organisation said demand for OPEC oil will be limited this year.

It forecast world oil consumption next year would reach 85.2m barrels per day, up from 83.8m this year.

The prediction for this year remains at a fall of 2.9%, or 2.5m barrels per day from last year.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/busine...w-sixty- dollars


Gravatari wish that drop in oil prices would hit the gas pumps.


Gravataryeah but you know the president has it in her interest not to piss off teh sc so much.


GravatarIf I could, I would pick up this entire comment section, full of Atriotistas, and transport it directly into Digby's comment section.
Why is it always so tail-bitingly glum over there? It's like a meeting of marxist literary critics trying to argue over the finer points of the book of Revelation, only someone forgot to pay the light bill so they can't actually read the text.

-America is doomed for this reason!

-You are full of it! AmeriKKKa is obviously doomed for THIS reason".

-I am afraid that you, my friend, are letting your Barack-blinders blind you into not seeing the creeping over-ness of the AmericaNNN experiment, which was so over, years and years ago, like before Reagan!"

-Ohh, we are doomed! That's it, better move to Canada!

-Canada? Canada is for corporate oligarchs!

...and so on.

What a hairball-inducing pile of whiny creeps.
I swear to furry fuck, why would you even want to participate in blogs if all you see are doom and gloom? Just go stick your head under a truck, already.


GravatarPaul Broun (R-GA) is such an embarrassment.

Health savings accounts for Medicare and Medicaid?

Yes, Medicaid.


GravatarI tried some emoluments the last time I had a heat rash, but the hydrocortizone cream still worked better.


Gravatar/runs down to the OTB
AndyG




GravatarHeh. Slapping a lien on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue for failure to pay the full cost of toilets and fixtures in palatial new bathroom.


GravatarLong a center of pilgrimage in the Ferghana Valley, in recent times Osh’s Sulaiman Too mountain has been subject to both Soviet revisionist history and picnickers keen to leave their mark.

Now, the spot -- where pre-Islamic rituals are blended with formal Muslim worship -- has been declared Kyrgyzstan’s first UNESCO World Heritage Site. The 295-hectare complex, including the mountain, surrounding cemeteries and old residential districts, was chosen at a meeting on June 26 in Seville, Spain, for its historical and cultural significance to the Ferghana Valley.

First appearing in the region in the 17th Century, the name refers to the prophet Sulaiman of the Old Testament. Some say Sulaiman -- better known in the West as King Solomon, builder of Jerusalem’s first temple -- is buried on the mountain. ’Too’ means mountain in Kyrgyz.

Sulaiman Too "dominates the Ferghana Valley and forms the backdrop to the city of Osh, at the crossroads of important routes on the Central Asian Silk Roads," reads a UNESCO statement.


http://www.eurasianet.org/ depart...eav071009.shtml


Gravatari wonder if the deed is even recorded for the White house. or if there is a deed. must be.


GravatarI swear to furry fuck, why would you even want to participate in blogs if all you see are doom and gloom? Just go stick your head under a truck, already.
¡El Gato Negro!


Because blog comments are important, and it's important to get everything on the record no matter how inane. History commands us!


GravatarI tried some emoluments the last time I had a heat rash, but the hydrocortizone cream still worked better.
Gummo


Self-Emoluation?


Gravatari ordered emoluments for lunch, but the damn restaurant put mayo on them.


GravatarCheese us.


Gravatarit would be hilarious to claim the back, wooded corner of the rose garden through adverse possession.


GravatarWhich goes first - teh ban on teh gays or the ban on tobacco?

I'm betting Bruno will make General before the last camo Camel goes out.


GravatarWell, it's an old government building in between a lot of other old government buildings. It's not like there was a ReMAX sign out front that said SOLD! WELCOME, PRESIDENT ADAMS.


GravatarIf reports coming out of Astana are to be believed, corruption and mismanagement are eating away at the core of the Kazakh state. According to official information, bureaucrats -- from ministers on down -- have either been helping themselves to government funds or, at the very least, making ill-informed decisions that have incurred billions of dollars in losses. But some opposition figures believe the proliferation of corruption cases in Kazakhstan is an outgrowth of a behind-the-scenes power struggle.

A bevy of former officials are now confronting corruption charges. The most senior official to be arrested in the current drive has been Nurlan Iskakov, a former environment minister who went on trial on June 16 charged with embezzlement. Iskakov and his co-defendants -- who include two former deputy ministers, Alzhan Braliyev and Zeynulla Sarsembayev -- deny the charges.


http://www.eurasianet.org/ depart...av071009a.shtml


GravatarCheese us.

Lettuce pray.

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Gravatarwell Maryland gave the land to the US. it must be there somewhere.

maybe there is some arcane restrictive covenants. wouldnt that be fun.


GravatarCheese us.

Lettuce pray.

nacho fast


GravatarANNE ALTHOUSE BRINGS HER ANALYTICAL SKILLS TO OGLE IN ITALY-GATE

"Althouse, the most ridiculously puerile analyzer of still photographs ever*:
The foot closest to the woman, like Sarkozy’s, is planted and aimed forward, but the other steps off in the direction of the woman, bending the knee upward into a bit of a crotch-squeeze and forming the base of a dramatic tilt of the entire body into a flexible S-shape that leans toward the woman...His mouth is open as if to say: That’s what I want."


Gravatarmaybe there is some arcane restrictive covenants. wouldnt that be fun.
euphronius failure | 07.10.09 - 3:51 pm | #

no papists allowed


GravatarTired of getting paid in boring ol' cash? Or an even more boring electronic transfer?

Tell your boss you want to get paid in EmoluMints, the new candy/breath freshener/currency!

EmoluMints! Your currency may be collapsing, but you don't have to smell bad while it's happening!


Gravatar gummo


GravatarThe history of the Presidency is quite fascinating. If I were Presnit's kid I would get a PhD is presnital history and tell my profs, dood did you live in the freakign white house? didn't think so.


Gravatarmaybe there is some arcane restrictive covenants. wouldnt that be fun.
euphronius failure | 07.10.09 - 3:51 pm | #

no papists allowed


No pets.

No loud parties.

No overnight guests.

---


GravatarHey peeps!!!! My solar panels are ON! I'm generating power! Since 11 am I haven't used any utility power, and my inverter says I've saved 16 lbs of carbon already today.
Southern Beale

Congrats, SB! Mine have been operational since '03, and I finally 'crossed the Rubicon,' so to speak, this summer, my production outpaces my use, grid-tied. My e-bills are now about $5/month, and I'm about to raise hell with SoCal Edison about even THAT. We share our power with our local neighbors. My array, they said, is the eqivalent of planting about an acre of trees...


Gravatarno papists allowed

No pets.

No loud parties.

No overnight guests.

---
MasterD, damn yankee


IF the Oval Office is-a-rocking don;t come-a-knockin


Gravatarthis just in: the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania just ruled that blog comments are banal, dipshitty.


GravatarBujos.


Gravatarthis is horrible - An Afghan law which legalised rape has been sent back to parliament with a clause letting husbands starve their wives if they refuse to have sex.

President Hamid Karzai ordered a review of the legislation after The Independent revealed that it negated the need for consent within marriage.

President Barack Obama described it as "abhorrent", Gordon Brown said Britain would "not tolerate" it, and other Nato countries threatened to withdraw their troops unless the legislation was drastically re-written.

The amendments were passed to the cabinet this week and signed by Mr Karzai on Wednesday, Human Rights Watch said last night.

The women's rights activist Wazhma Frough, who was involved in the review, said that conservative religious leaders had pressured the Justice Ministry to keep many of the most controversial clauses.

"There have been a few little changes, but they are not enough," she said. "For example, if the wife doesn't accept her husband's sexual requirements then he can deny her food."


http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m5584...&hd=&size=1& l=e

jeebus


Gravatarmaybe there is some arcane restrictive covenants. wouldnt that be fun.
euphronius failure

"No Indians, Negroes or members of the Irish Race."


.


Gravatarstupid supreme court. unconventing our racial covnanting.


GravatarAn Afghan law which legalised rape has been sent back to parliament with a clause letting husbands starve their wives if they refuse to have sex.

Wow, it's great we kicked the Taliban out.


GravatarAccording to civil society groups, the law, which regulates the personal affairs of Afghanistan's minority Shia community, still includes clauses which allow rapists to marry their victims as a way of absolving their crime and it tacitly approves child marriage. The law sparked riots in Kabul. Hundreds of Shia women took to the streets in protest. They were attacked by mobs of angry men who launched counter demonstrations outside the capital's largest Shia madrassa.

It is due to be ratified by parliament, which first passed the legislation in March with hardly any debate.

"Violence against women is already endemic," said Razia Jan, who is building a women's community centre in Afghanistan's Shia heartland, Bamiyan. "Men pay thousands of dollars for young girls and they are treated like slaves. Women here are already so vulnerable."

Critics claim that Mr Karzai signed the law to appease Shia leaders, ahead of the presidential polls on 20 August.


http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m5584...&hd=&size=1& l=e

uh so what exactly r we doing in Afghanistan again? beside bombing wedding parties and keeping prisoners in Bagraham that is oh and seizing Mung beans thinking they were opium


GravatarAn Afghan law which legalised rape has been sent back to parliament with a clause letting husbands starve their wives if they refuse to have sex.


Cue Laura Bush telling us what wonderful things her husband's war did for Afghan women in 3, 2, ....


Gravatarwe made teh world safe for democracy, Moon.

manifestly.


GravatarSo does that mean, if a husband refuses to take out the garbage or mow the lawn, she can deny him sex?


Gravatarsupertrain SHEETS


Gravataruh so what exactly r we doing in Afghanistan again? beside bombing wedding parties and keeping prisoners in Bagraham that is oh and seizing Mung beans thinking they were opium

I'm for just killing every grown man who supports this shit. Really.


GravatarSUPERTRAIN SHEETS


GravatarWheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

"The Great War Primary Documents Archive seeks a three year NEH grant in the amount of $136,000 to complete a long term project which digitises and makes freely available public historical records of the Great War and its time."

Just say straight out what you want.  Don't make 'em work for it.....



GravatarMy competence is a curse.
doncjesuis, Tina Fey fan


Only if the rest of the team is incompetent.

Clearly, you need to find another place to work.

Many of the Baby Blue Beelzebub Brigade suffer from the same malady. I'm happy to say that most of the folk I work with are quite competent. There are, of course, a few others.

In programming, 10% of the code does 90% of the work. In life, 10% of the work force does 90% of the work as well, and 10% of the jerks create 90% of the problems.


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