I have here in my hand a list of 242 card-carrying members . . .
 

Just below disco and tab collars.

I have here in my hand a list of 242 card-carrying members . . .
 

You may want to go back and read my early days on the PB when I would actually engage with these twits. Wouldn't use Dewars for anything other than rinsing my mouth though.

I have here in my hand a list of 242 card-carrying members . . .
 

I hear about the Japanese all the time but never about the Germans. The Japanese was clearly bad because all Japanese were thrown in. Not all Americans of German decent were thrown in but many were thrown in without a trial. I have never heard anyone condemn that.

I have here in my hand a list of 242 card-carrying members . . .
 

The issue in Korematsu etc. was not that it was done without a trial but that it was done solely on race, and a presumption that someone of a particular race posed a threat. If not all Germans were put in camps, presumably someone was being selective. And presumably they had a non-arbitrary basis for selection.

The issue of no trial is of course a fair one. We're still trying to figure it out today with respect to gitmo.

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He'll appease all the conservative types and is very confirmable.

And yes, it is preferable to go younger.

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A set of steak knives.

Third prize is you're fired.

I have here in my hand a list of 242 card-carrying members . . .
 

This may be because the Germans of concern were predominantly on the East Coast and you live in the middle of the area from which the majority of the Japanese-Americans were removed.

There's also some difference of scale -- a quick google reveals 11,000 German-Americans interned and 120,000 Japanese-Americans.

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Depends. If Fitz indicts, then Bush may not go with Alberto, because he won't want the controversy/fight. If Fitz acquits, I think Alberto gets the nod, and Bush enjoys a hhuge fucking resurgence from the depths. Expect a press conf with a smiling Bush saying "Its a new day," and patting Gonzales on the back.

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Do they seriously think that having the withdrawal today will in any way distract people from indictments, if any are issued? Sheesh.

ETA what a disappointment -- when I posted this, I thought today was Friday already. Damn.

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Interesting take, but doesn't it go the other way? If Rove/Libby is indicted, Bush's "political capital" is further diminished. Gonzalez apparently is palatable to the Senate, and so would be more confirmable (and he had nothing to do with the leak). If no indictment, the cloud is lifted and Bush may have renewed energy to fight for someone like Owen or Clement, or one of Penske's wackos.

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No, but better today before the indictments than after when it looks like she was pulled for that reason rather than the fig leaf of executive privilege and documents.

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Alito, Luttig, McConnell, Brown, Jones et. al. are "wackos"???

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Brown yes. And the rest of them were down around 10-15 on his list.

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FWIW, I completely agree with this reasoning.

I have here in my hand a list of 242 card-carrying members . . .
 

What was done to the Japanese sucked and was wrong. No question. But that is a side issue.

The point is that during WWII, any German that might have Nazi sympathies was thrown into a concentration camp by the US government. In addition, Nazi sympathisers were interviewed and asked their political views during the 1930s when we were not at war. Not a complaint from the liberals.

During the Korean War, when American fighter planes were being shot down by Soviets, and we were fighting the Chinese communists on the ground and there was a massive espionage campaign by the Soviets in the United States, some hollywood employees had to face a committee and lost their jobs because of their affiliation with the communist party. A party that was siding with the North Koreans against the United State and was being run by Moscow. And this was the crime of the century? This was a witch hunt?

Nothing happened to these people. If they had worked for me I would have fired them and told everyone I knew not to hire them.