Posting Towards Gomorrah

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by Spanky
I don't understand this one:

:mcqueen:

Think "The Great Escape."

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by Spanky
I don't understand this one:

:mcqueen:

The ball is bouncing off the imaginary Gorelick Wall.

The coding says "mcqueen." I think Steve McQueen was in a movie where he was in a German POW camp. When he got sent to the cooler, he'd pass time by bouncing a ball against the wall.

eta: Thanks, RT!

[SlaveNoMore]

Shape Shifter
So they found the WMDs in Iraq?

Better question - if we did, would it matter? Would the Dems be supporting this Administration?

[SlaveNoMore]

Spanky
Spanky will not participate, even if a gun is held to his head. :violin: :cheers: :hug: :band:

He's an atheist, not an Islamist

[Spanky]

Organizations on the list I wouldn't mind having my money go to:

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS
THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION


I know that this is going make Slave and Penske blow a gasket :brick: but I wouldn't really mind my money going to the ACLU. I disagree with 95% of the suits they bring, but the five percent I do agree with more than make up for the other 95%. Even if I don't like their lawsuit, it is nice they are getting the courts to make decisions.

[SlaveNoMore]

Tyrone Slothrop
Suppose that we take a prisoner in the war on terrorism, and later determine that he's innocent. But for whatever reason, we keep holding him. Shouldn't he be able to petition for a writ of habeas corpus?

Is he a citizen?

Where are we holding him?

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
Better question - if we did, would it matter? Would the Dems be supporting this Administration?

I wouldn't think that they were the biggest pack of thugs, criminals, and liars assembled since the Nixon White House.

[Spanky]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
The ball is bouncing off the imaginary Gorelick Wall.

The coding says "mcqueen." I think Steve McQueen was in a movie where he was in a German POW camp. When he got sent to the cooler, he'd pass time by bouncing a ball against the wall.

eta: Thanks, RT!

That was the "Great Escape" and he was known as the "cooler king". What is a Gorelick Wall?

[SlaveNoMore]

Spanky
Organizations on the list I wouldn't mind having my money go to:

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS
THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION


I know that this is going make Slave and Penske blow a gasket :brick: but I wouldn't really mind my money going to the ACLU. I disagree with 95% of the suits they bring, but the five percent I do agree with more than make up for the other 95%. Even if I don't like their lawsuit, it is nice they are getting the courts to make decisions.

Amnesty International? Drinking early today?

WaPo

IT'S ALWAYS SAD when a solid, trustworthy institution loses its bearings and joins in the partisan fracas that nowadays passes for political discourse. It's particularly sad when the institution is Amnesty International, which for more than 40 years has been a tough, single-minded defender of political prisoners around the world and a scourge of left- and right-wing dictators alike. True, Amnesty continues to keep track of the world's political prisoners, as it has always done, and its reports remain a vital source of human rights information. But lately the organization has tended to save its most vitriolic condemnations not for the world's dictators but for the United States.

That vitriol reached a new level this week when, at a news conference held to mark the publication of Amnesty's annual report, the organization's secretary general, Irene Khan, called the U.S. detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the "gulag of our times." In her written introduction to the report, Ms. Khan also mentioned only two countries at length: Sudan and the United States, the "unrivalled political, military and economic hyper-power," which "thumbs its nose at the rule of law and human rights."...

But we draw the line at the use of the word "gulag" or at the implication that the United States has somehow become the modern equivalent of Stalin's Soviet Union. Guantanamo Bay is an ad hoc creation, designed to contain captured enemy combatants in wartime. Abuses there -- including new evidence of desecrating the Koran -- have been investigated and discussed by the FBI, the press and, to a still limited extent, the military. The Soviet gulag, by contrast, was a massive forced labor complex consisting of thousands of concentration camps and hundreds of exile villages through which more than 20 million people passed during Stalin's lifetime and whose existence was not acknowledged until after his death. Its modern equivalent is not Guantanamo Bay, but the prisons of Cuba, where Amnesty itself says a new generation of prisoners of conscience reside; or the labor camps of North Korea, which were set up on Stalinist lines; or China's laogai , the true size of which isn't even known; or, until recently, the prisons of Saddam Hussein's Iraq....

[SlaveNoMore]

Spanky
What is a Gorelick Wall?

Something that kills Americans

[Spanky]

why is this one called e/o?

:e/o:

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by Spanky
why is this one called e/o?

:e/o:

The ghost in the machine.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
For years now, the Dems (and Ty for that matter) have suggested that Rove, et. all, were shopping this story around to everyone and anyone that would listen. Ty said as much 2 days ago, even though it is clear this was not the case.

I don't recall what I said that you're reacting to, but I think Rove has frequent enough conversations with reporters. He can want to get something out there without being the one to place the call.

[Spanky]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
Amnesty International? Drinking early today?

WaPo

Yes I was going to mention the fact that they extremists took it over. Idiot liberals always screw stuff up. I use to give money to Green Peace until they started ignoring whales and started going after nuclear stuff.

Amnesty International has gone to the dark side, but I still write letters on their behalf. :mixed:

Its absurd, because no where in the world are defendents rights more vigorously defended than in the United States. We are the only country with an exclusionary rule and yet they still give us bad grades. Pathetic. If we got rid of it they would scream bloody murder even though no one else has it.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
Better question - if we did, would it matter? Would the Dems be supporting this Administration?

It's a strange little world that you live in where whether the Democrats would support the President in a counterfactual world is a more compelling question than whether there actually are WMD in Iraq.