Put all that together and you really do have the danger of taking emergency measures for wartime and transforming a peace-time constitution into an essentially martial system, where every citizen or non-citizen can be apprehended at will and detained without charge. I repeat: this is a huge deal. It really should be a huge deal for conservatives who care about restraining government power. Its vulnerability to abuse is enormous; sanctioned torture, history tells us, never remains hermetically sealed. It always spreads. It eats away at decency and law and civility. If the president sincerely believes that torture is our most potent weapon in this war, and that habeas corpus is a quaint relic from the past, then we are in far greater peril than even the most dire pessimists believe.
There goes my good nights' sleep for...well...ever.
Which only me and root can do.
Don't your superusers know that with great power comes great responsibility?
Zombie Rights March Protested by Pirates
And who will speak for the poor zombified pirates?
And who will speak for the poor zombified pirates?
It's their fault for being fence-sitters.
eta: It's like when Spock was growing up - he had to choose between the Vulcan way and the human way. There comes a time in every zombie-pirate's non-life, where he or she has to choose between the zombie way and the pirate way.
And who will speak for the poor zombified pirates?
You mean the log canoe pirates?
Don't your superusers know that with great power comes great responsibility?
As well as great opportunity to be asshats.
Hey Nilly! I'm glad one of my rare appearances in Natter coincided with yours. No offense here, just happiness at seeing your name in pixels. And thank you for the e-card.
I intended to stopp by and say congratulations to beautiful Matilda (when will they teach her to waltz?) and her lovely, exhausted parents.
Then I saw this article in the morning paper and knew I had to share it with Tep.
"He has gigantic hands,'' Luca Congi, the Riders' rookie kicker and Fantuz's roommate, said after Wednesday's practice at Mosaic Stadium. "I've shaken his hand and they just wrap around mine. If you ever watch him hold a glass ... With most people their hand just comes halfway around. Andy's hand wraps all the way around.''
I may have new pictures of mac. I will know at lunch. HEE!
Put all that together and you really do have the danger of taking emergency measures for wartime and transforming a peace-time constitution into an essentially martial system, where every citizen or non-citizen can be apprehended at will and detained without charge. I repeat: this is a huge deal. It really should be a huge deal for conservatives who care about restraining government power.
I think there is a big problem right now in what I like to call cheerleader politics where people defend the policies of people on their team even if they don't agree with the policies themselves. How many people (on both sides) would take a 180 degree turn in their stance on issues such as the war in Iraq if it was Al Gore as president instead of George Bush? The same people who criticized Clinton non-stop during his use of the military in the Balkans now demand that everyone support the president when our troops are in the field. (I'm sure there were those on the left who have done just the opposite but it's they don't have national TV and radio shows so they aren't very visible).
