Well, for a Wednesday, I've been remarkably productive. I did three loads of laundry this morning (there was no one in the laundry room at 6:30, which was helpful), came in for a 9:00 meeting (no job reductions announced, thank God, it was just an announcement of the newly formed group's mission statement and 2008 goals--thanks for the job~ma, everyone!), and have mowed my way through 250 Illinois tax regulations that are all old and not needed by us (the delete key is my friend!).
Now, I just have to get through some UI regs and then go to work at the bookstore tonight.
From Mukasey's Justice Dept oversight hearing today:
"Would wateboarding be torture if it was done to you?" Kennedy asked.
"I would feel that it was," Mukasey answered. He paused before continuing. "You say waterboarding is obviously torture," Mukasey said. The attorney general then disputed the bank-robbery analogy, saying that many intelligent people have taken opposite sides in the debate over the method's legality.
"I should not go into…the detailed way in which the department would apply general knowledge to a specific situation," Mukasey told him.
"Under what facts and circumstances would it be lawful to waterboard a prisoner?" Kennedy tried again.
Mukasey declined to take up hypotheticals: "I would be imagining facts and circumstances that are not present...Those eventualities may never occur."
"Are there any interrogation techniques that you would find to be illegal—fundamentally illegal," Kennedy asked.
.There are specifically barred techniques, Mukasey said. "We may not maim. We may not rape..."
"But waterboarding is not on that list," Kennedy cut in.
"It is not."
Well, if he says that waterboarding
is
torture, then he's saying that Bush, Cheney,
et al
are guilty of war crimes. With, you know, a possible death sentence.
Russ Feingold is taking his turn now, and we're off waterboarding and onto wiretapping.
and we're off waterboarding and onto wiretapping.
they're doing this alphabetically?
It's 37 degrees in LA.
It's just so WRONG.
Well it's in the 50s now and supposed to be in the 60s for the rest of the week, if that helps.
Harry Potter and the Obvious Shortcomings of the No Child Left Behind Act
LOVE.
Orrin Hatch's turn -- has everyone seen OH's music website: [link]
I'm sorry you guys, but I really need today to stay Wednesday. I have a ton of shit due tomorrow and Friday, and can use all the time I can get!
I could live with lows of 37 in the middle of winter.
