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Natter 47: My Brilliance Is Wasted On You People  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Consuela - Sep 28, 2006 6:37:41 am PDT #790 of 10001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

The NY Times finally finds its spine:

Last week, the White House and three Republican senators announced a terrible deal on this legislation that gave Mr. Bush most of what he wanted, including a blanket waiver for crimes Americans may have committed in the service of his antiterrorism policies. Then Vice President Dick Cheney and his willing lawmakers rewrote the rest of the measure so that it would give Mr. Bush the power to jail pretty much anyone he wants for as long as he wants without charging them, to unilaterally reinterpret the Geneva Conventions, to authorize what normal people consider torture, and to deny justice to hundreds of men captured in error.

[link]


tommyrot - Sep 28, 2006 6:44:40 am PDT #791 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Still more on that incredibly crappy legislation (Salon link):

"Everything we don't believe in"

As he prepared to vote against the Bush administration's detainee legislation Wednesday, Ohio Rep. Dennis Kucinich put it about as well as anybody could. "This bill," he said, "is everything we don't believe in."

That's the short version.

In a letter sent to members of Congress this week, 609 law professors offer the long one:

"Taken together, the bill’s provisions rewrite American law to evade the fundamental principles of separation of powers, due process, habeas corpus, fair trials, and the rule of law, principles that, together, prohibit state-sanctioned violence. If there is any fixed point in the historical understandings of constitutional freedom that help to define us as a people, it is that no one may be picked up and locked up by the American state in secret or at an unknown location, or without opportunity to petition an independent court for inspection of the lawfulness of the lockup and of the treatment handed out by the state to the person locked up, under legal standards from time to time defined by Congress. This core principle should apply with full force to all detentions by the American state, regardless of the citizenship of detainees."

The professors cite three specific objections to the legislation: its denial of habeas corpus review for detainees who aren't U.S. citizens; its empowering of the president to "to decide which techniques violate the Geneva Conventions for purposes of criminal sanction under the War Crimes Act, so long as they do not fall within the category of 'grave breaches'"; and its abandonment of "our longstanding constitutional protections against punishing people on the basis of coerced testimony and against denying individuals the opportunity to defend themselves through access to exculpatory evidence known to the government."


Consuela - Sep 28, 2006 6:55:27 am PDT #792 of 10001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

That federal judge who ruled in the Dover Intelligent Design case? The Republican appointed by Bush?

Received death threats. [link]


tommyrot - Sep 28, 2006 7:00:45 am PDT #793 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

I'm not at all surprised.


DavidS - Sep 28, 2006 7:06:24 am PDT #794 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I wanna see Mac pictures!


Tom Scola - Sep 28, 2006 7:08:28 am PDT #795 of 10001
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500

I wanna see Mac pictures!

Pffft! One to talk.


P.M. Marc - Sep 28, 2006 7:09:30 am PDT #796 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

What Scola said!

Sheesh, I wish I made more money so I could be a digital camera fairy for you guys. Want baby pictures!


msbelle - Sep 28, 2006 7:09:47 am PDT #797 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

RIGHT!!!

is it weird that I am afraid of putting his pic in any unlocked web place?


§ ita § - Sep 28, 2006 7:12:23 am PDT #798 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

non-US citizens are required to digitally scan in their fingerprints before entering the country

For nitpickiness's sake--it's non-US residents that are required to scan fingerprints digitally before entering.


Gudanov - Sep 28, 2006 7:12:43 am PDT #799 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping

Received death threats.

Well, I guess some Christians are more into the "bring them hither and slay them before me" parts of the Bible than the "love thy neighbor" parts.