Republican Majority for Choice's position (non-position) on Alito
 

11:30pm, Tue. HBOS. Check it out.

freekee laydeez
 

they appreciate honesty? Pictures=truth in advertising. [hi hank!] there is a lot of self-serving hyperbole on the internet.[/hi hank!]

the pictures separate the wheat from the chaff, sts.

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what are the names of some newer magazines? I'll go back and edit.

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I note that I have 53 , so your play is one below mine. I'm thinking of changing to 51 (which, of course, can be either a 51-50 or a 51-49), but it doesn't leave much room for error. I feel trapped.

I agree on the Guantanamo issue; Bush's greatest fear right now has to be that ten years from now he is seen as the President who got us into a still-deepening Iraq quagmire and who cheapened the constitution and dirtied America's image.

He needs to find some other significant accomplishment in his second term, such as a shift in the Supreme Court or a significant revision of the tax code, while finding a way to disengage from Iraq and sweep Guantanamo under the rug, simply to preserve his legacy and to leave the Republicans in a position to win the next election.

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Spanky, you hurt me -- and do no justice to several fine posters. In any event, as to Penske it depends on how his meds are working that day and for Hank, the lunar cycle.

S_A_M

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I, too, am deeply hurt.

Republican Majority for Choice's position (non-position) on Alito
 

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"Scalito's America is a land in which women would be forced into back-alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizens' doors in midnight raids, children could not be taught about evolution........"

After that he is going to smash a succession of watermelons with his penis.

The dems have a highly refined sense of satirical humour.

freekee laydeez
 

Wait, I thought you were being mean for the rest of the year.

But even if I said I love them like lollipops and have a piuc of one as my screensaver, that still wouldn't mean I'd have to be a girl, now, would it?

freekee laydeez
 

It's all internet based. Most of the guys in my lockerroom like trannysurprise.com, firsttimemanlove.com and their sister sites.

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Fine, fine, but that's still "honesty" (aka, bragging, aka, sometimes delusional) about something men (generalizing) think is the most important, not necessarily women.

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Of what benefit is it to hide the existence of interrogation prisons other than to avoid international scrutiny? This isn't covert ops, which are, understandably, covert. Once you've caught them and are interrogating them all but the information gleaned can be public without serious threat to intelligence gathering efforts.

But maybe what you're saying is that torture is justified in these circumstances.

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Sure, as would I. But I take a somewhat longer view that the lex talionis perhaps is quite costly in the long run. As much as I'd like to kill anyone who raped my wife immediately, I recognize that as a civilization of civilized people we actually are better off by committing that responsibility to the state.

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Not having engaged in the commercial opportunities that Craigslist offers, my guess is that for a "nsa afternoon delite asap" the contents of those pictures are more relevant than "favourite colour" and "hobbies/interests".

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Some things, yes, but I think not this thing.

I called this on the Board over a year ago, and am glad this is getting more publicity now. [The revelation that we ("the OGA") hid some prisoners at Abu Ghraib from the ICRC was a huge clue.] I'm also very glad that this stuff makes some members of the Agency (and many members of the FBI and the military) upset and uncomfortable.

In order to ultimately preserve the freedoms we cherish -- and to avoid the sort of dictatorship that Penske babbles about -- we must have our ideals (democratic and human rights, etc.) instilled in those who serve in our nation's military and security organs. After all, it is ultimately that self-restraint, and the acceptance of civilian oversight and control, among those agencies which prevent such a dictatorship.

This is not what my family members and I served and/or fought for. If it continues unchecked, the day will come when I no longer recognize my country.

S_A_M

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what's the benefit, other than Q ratings in France?

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In war, if an enemy combatant shoots your wife on the battlefield, it's okay to shoot back.

Also, I am fairly certain that it is the State that is running the black sites.

Republican Majority for Choice's position (non-position) on Alito
 

Actually, I was referring to Carlin's unforgettable role as Eddie in The Prince of Tides. From what I can tell, Hank is divining Democratic talking points from the rich fabric of Tom Wingo's tortured psyche.

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Good point, sts, npi.

Though I really can't imagine looking at one of those pictures and thinking, oh, I want *that* and who cares what it's attached to.

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Much as the Founders would not recognize our country of today after generations of liberal defilement and destruction of our institutions and ideals.

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Wouldn't recognize the country -- true. But some of them would like that we abolished slavery.

I keep telling you P -- two blue pills and one red in the morning. ONE red.

S_A_M

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Maybe Fringie can [npi] weigh in [/npi] on her review criteria for ads/pictures.

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These aren't terrorists shooting on teh battlefield, and we're not shooting back. When was the last time we were in Thailand in battle? (and I'll even let you count Viet Nam)?

As for the State, sure, so why not make it public like we do with all trials?

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I thought she was anti-stand-alone*-penis pictures, but maybe I skimmed too quickly.


*sts, etc.

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Yes, thank God and his son, the babyjesuschristsuperstar, that we had a Republican President with moral strength during the Civil War.

Although Kleagle Byrd is probably still cursing history over that one.

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Even under the most narrow reading of the constitution as understood in 1789, the founders would not likely have thought that the principles embodied in the 5th, 6th and 7th amendments were advanced by foreign, covert prisons.

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Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

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I work in healthcare, as have a lot of members of my immediate family and I have to say that it is really uncool and insensitive to make jokes about mental illness, especially since there are probably a couple of unhinged liberals here who actuallywrestle with med compliancy on a daily basis, as evidenced by their posts.

I thought you had more class than that S_A_M.

freekee laydeez
 

You are correct.

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We are following local custom at the sites' locale.

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I have her on ignore, so I don't actually know.

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Sweet! Race to the bottom!

Can we reopen the gulags to take create some more room in the Texas penal system?

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I'm not sure that they would have thought that the constitution applied in the locales in question.

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Why do you hate Texas?

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As John Adams said, the Declaration of Independence was just the seed of a Democracy that would grow. Many of the Founders would be very heartened to see us today, even if a bit amazed by many of the changes.

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I now "BBW" but what's (NS)?

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I like Texas, although I prefer the pork barbecue to the beef.

I was using it as an example. Substitute your choice of state with a prison system and a rich tradition of incarceration for Texas if you prefer.

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So the idea of spreading U.S.-style democracy to the rest of the world is a dead end?

Remind me why we're in Iraq again? Is it because we thought that their totalitarian government was the way the world should be run?

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The City Meat Market in Giddings, Texas has the best barbeque in the whole wide world* and it is primarily pork based.



*I can produce two other GAs who can back this claim up. And I'm not sleeping with either one of them.

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We are talking pulled pork, yes? That stuff (generally - I'venever been to the place you mention) is a gift from God.

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So you think the Founders believed in limited government up to our borders, and unlimited government beyond?

I suspect the Founders would have had differing views on the topic; remember, some, like Hamilton, believed that the acts of several states in seizing and selling assets (including in some cases assets on the high seas) of Tories who fled the country and claimed no US citizenship were improper and, once the constituion existed, unconstitutional. So they would have applied the constitution to protect assets of aliens abroad from the federal government.