Mom! Dead people are talking to you. Do the math!

Buffy ,'Showtime'


Natter 56: ...we need the writers.  

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.


Sparky1 - Jan 30, 2008 7:09:31 am PST #6239 of 10001
Librarian Warlord

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."


tommyrot - Jan 30, 2008 7:14:07 am PST #6240 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.

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.


Laura - Jan 30, 2008 7:17:37 am PST #6241 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.

dream on tommy


Sparky1 - Jan 30, 2008 7:18:34 am PST #6242 of 10001
Librarian Warlord

Russ Feingold is taking his turn now, and we're off waterboarding and onto wiretapping.


hippocampus - Jan 30, 2008 7:19:28 am PST #6243 of 10001
not your mom's socks.

and we're off waterboarding and onto wiretapping.

they're doing this alphabetically?


Pix - Jan 30, 2008 7:21:41 am PST #6244 of 10001
The status is NOT quo.

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.


Sparky1 - Jan 30, 2008 7:23:19 am PST #6245 of 10001
Librarian Warlord

Orrin Hatch's turn -- has everyone seen OH's music website: [link]


Jesse - Jan 30, 2008 7:26:36 am PST #6246 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

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!


Fred Pete - Jan 30, 2008 7:28:29 am PST #6247 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.

I could live with lows of 37 in the middle of winter.


tommyrot - Jan 30, 2008 7:52:53 am PST #6248 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.

Quote of the day:

"Rudy didn’t even care enough about conservatives to lie to us," - Republican consultant, Nelson Warfield.

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