Dance Camp Ends, Blog lives anew

You did well, you and Niki!

Thaks for the upgrade.

girlie worly! she is adorable Sam!

comes thornless.

Did Sam get a new camera? That picture is different than others on various levels.

they go by fast. another fifteen years or so and you'll discover you have become the stupidest man on earth. but don't worry, about six years later you'll find out how much you've learned.

...but what a way to go! Thanks for the tune-up Sam, and Incubus of course.
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Big flippin' deal! New technology my ass!

It's a Ford project, that they dumped years ago. I believe the Th!nk is a 10 year old design.

And lithium-ion batteries have been around far longer than that...

McCain needs to play a little catch-up it seems; any Google search would reveal...

Oh wait! I forgot, ol' man McCain doesn't even know how to use a computer!

*****

"Enjoy these years..."

Yup. My oldest nephew just called, thrilled that he just (finally) passed his driver's permit test. (only took him 5 or 6 tries)

He'll be 16 next month. He hopes to take the big test soon after...

...no matter how hard I tried, they both turned out great.

dan's right. They get to the age where you'd really like to spend time with them and they want absolutely nothing to do with you. "OK dad you can drive us to the movie but PROMISE you won't say a word!" I got that one a lot! ;-)

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via GottaLaff

What an awful insult to the artist.

the kid is obviously coasting on her father's name.

Oil climbs hits
new record, above $142

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U.S. crude and Brent crude surged to new record highs above $142 a barrel on Friday, extending gains from the previous session.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080627/bs_nm/markets_oil_dc;_ylt=ApdegdHeXr...

Rise in Taliban in Afghanistan
attacks worries US

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An increase in attacks by Taliban fighters operating from Pakistan is a "real concern" in the nearly 7-year-old war in Afghanistan, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday.

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/06/26/afghan.fighting/?iref=hpmo...

Dude...lighten up.

I mean...really, Madonna is such an artist that's she's above being part of a parody?

give me a break!

She's lucky to be remembered at this point in her career, w/the video at least she'll get some attention for a week or two..

Whole bunch of $5.00 downloads today (Fridays only) and a daily download deal, too.

Today's album is especially good: http://www.amazon.com/Picaresque/dp/B000UTXGWA/ref=pd_bbs_sr_8?ie=UTF8&s...

Decemberists' Picaresque for $2.99 !

No way dude.

The King of Parodies, Weird Al Yankovic, has done a Madonna song.

According to him, it's the only parody he's ever done that was first someone else's idea.

"Like a Surgeon" was reportedly Madonna's idea, bantered about at a party in the 80s, until she finally said, "Hey, Weird Al should do that!"

So by Weird Al's account, she's definitely NOT 'above' parodies.

treated like a wall for spray paint of John McCain, Chubby? Associating the two just makes Madonna look like granny dancing. I'm pretty sure that's not what she's going for. Madonna has more virtue than McCain. Sure, she sang The Material Girl but she is in little league compared to McCain's love of lobbyist.

perhaps you misunderstand my point.

I've never really been impressed at all with her pop music or her slutty self-promotions, so to see someone suggest that she, of all the artists in the world, is above being parodied just seemed totally absurd.

I hope Fernando was being ironic when he said "What an awful insult to the artist."

I mean...really, the woman's career consists entirely of acting like a whore...

>>How would you like your work?

Watch the Colbert Report.

you'll see that Madonna in only one of many, many parodies made lately.

Suggesting Madonna is somehow above participating in a parody of McCain seems ludicrous to me, especially considering all the other artists whose works are being used.

Officials: 30,000 troops heading to Iraq in 2009
By LOLITA C. BALDOR, Associated Press Writer
2 hours, 25 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - The Pentagon is preparing to order roughly 30,000 troops to Iraq early next year in a move that would allow the U.S. to maintain 15 combat brigades in the country through 2009, The Associated Press has learned.

The deployments would replace troops currently there. But the decisions could change depending on whether Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, decides in the fall to further reduce troop levels in Iraq.

Several officials familiar with the deployments spoke on condition of anonymity because the orders have not yet been made public.

According to the officials, three active-duty Army brigade combat teams, one Army National Guard brigade and two Marine regimental combat teams are being notified that they are being sent to Iraq in early 2009. Officials would not release the specific units involved because the soldiers and Marines and their families have not all been told.

The Guard unit, however, is the 56th Brigade Combat Team, 28th Infantry Division, from the Pennsylvania National Guard. Members of that unit — a large brigade with heavily armored Stryker vehicles — were told last October that they should be prepared to deploy to Iraq early in 2009. The order this week is the formal notice that includes a more specific time frame.

Currently, the final brigade involved in the military buildup in Baghdad last year is pulling out of Iraq. That departure will leave 15 combat brigades there — compared to a high of 20 for much of the past year. Other smaller units are also there, including troops doing security, logistics, air assaults, intelligence and medical aid.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080627/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_iraq_troops_3

Ok, Grandpa...

simply a vehicle with which to parody McCain.

Most people would get that.

I'll give you the bennefit of the doubt and assume you didnot know that Stephen Colber put the greenscreen footage up on his website and invited the whole world to make videos.

http://www.colboard.com/cn/greenscreen.php

Once agaiin, I feel that at this point in her career she's lucky to be remembered...

and I'd be surprised if she didn't sell more CDs than normal with the little bit of free attention she got.

US checks if tomatoes caused Salmonella outbreak By LAURAN NEERGAARD, AP Medical Writer
57 minutes ago

As salmonella cases continue to climb, the government is checking if tainted tomatoes really are to blame for the record outbreak — or if the problem is with another ingredient, or a warehouse that is contaminating newly harvested tomatoes.

The widening outbreak — with 810 people confirmed ill — means whatever is making people sick could very well still be on the market, federal health officials warned on Friday.

Tomatoes remain the top suspect and the advice on which ones consumers should avoid hasn't changed, stressed Food and Drug Administration food safety chief Dr. David Acheson.

However, he said it is possible that tomatoes being harvested in states considered safe could be picking up salmonella germs in packing sheds, warehouses or other facilities currently under investigation.

Most worrisome, the latest victim became sick on June 15 — long after the outbreak began on April 10 and weeks after government warnings stripped supermarkets and restaurants of many tomatoes.

"The source of contamination has been ongoing at least through early June. And we don't have any evidence that whatever the source is, it's been removed from the market," said Dr. Patricia Griffin of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Disease detectives at the CDC in Atlanta are double-checking their own probes just in case some other type of produce is really the culprit.

"We have also kept an open mind about other possibilities and are looking into other ingredients," Griffin said.

She wouldn't identify other potential suspects, except to say that from the beginning some patients have told the CDC they ate raw tomatoes in fresh salsa and guacamole. Officials have previously cleared jarred salsas.

For now, the FDA continues to urge consumers nationwide to avoid raw red plum, red Roma or red round tomatoes unless they were grown in specific states or countries that FDA has cleared of suspicion. Check FDA's Web site — http://www.fda.gov — for an updated list. Also safe are grape tomatoes, cherry tomatoes and tomatoes sold with the vine still attached.

But FDA's Acheson made clear that consumers should stay tuned in case that advice changes.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080627/ap_on_he_me/med_salmonella_tomatoes&...

>>Ok, Grandpa...

Dude...in her book (of photos), "Sex", she "simulated" having sex with a dog.

What part of that isn't whorish?

Delegate who said she'd vote for McCain in fight By JAMES A. CARLSON, Associated Press Writer
Fri Jun 27, 10:42 AM ET

A Democratic National Convention delegate pledged to Hillary Rodham Clinton says she hopes to fight off an attempt by Wisconsin Democrats to take away her credentials because of her past statement that she would vote for John McCain if Clinton wasn't the nominee.

"Keeping national delegate status is very important to me," Debra Bartoshevich said Thursday. "I believe that Hillary is the better candidate of all of them."

She declined to comment on her previous comment, quoted in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, that she would vote for the Republican McCain in November if the Democratic Party nominated Barack Obama for president.

Wisconsin Democratic party chairman Joe Wineke said Friday he's confident Bartoshevich won't be at the national convention. Wineke said it's clear Bartoshevich violated party rules by failing to honor a pledge of intent to vote for the party's presidential ticket in the fall.

Wineke added that Bartoshevich would not have been chosen to be a delegate if people had known beforehand that she would vote for McCain if Obama were nominated.

Bartoshevich told the newspaper she felt Clinton was being treated unfairly and she questioned Obama's experience. She also said she had signed up with "Citizens for McCain," encouraged by her sister, who has served in Iraq and backs the Republican.

That report came out just as Wisconsin Democrats were gathering for their state convention in Stevens Point on June 13, and the convention quickly approved a resolution to challenge Bartoshevich's status as a delegate to the Democratic convention in Denver in August.

"It's extremely important that we send a message that Democrats in the state of Wisconsin will never support somebody who supports John McCain for president," Wineke said at the time, to cheers from the hundreds of party activists.

Bartoshevich, 41, a registered nurse and mother of two from Waterford, said she got a copy Wednesday of the formal credentials challenge filed by the state party.

Among other things, it said she violated party rules by expressing support for the presumptive nominee of the opposing party and failing to honor a pledge of intent to vote for the party's presidential ticket in the fall.

Bartoshevich said she is new to the process and was never provided a list of rules that she is accused of violating, although she knows she signed a declaration that she intended to vote for the Democratic candidate.

Bartoshevich said Thursday she has always voted Democratic and would be open to considering all options once the party's nominee is selected, but no one from the state party contacted her to discuss her feelings.

Bartoshevich said she has 10 days to reply to the credentials challenge.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080627/ap_on_el_pr/delegate_dumped&printer=...

...can be a good thing.

I know, I know, but that's what he just pitched. Can't wait till this break is over.

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Exclusive: Supreme Court Decision Derails Federal Fraud Suit Against Voting Machine Company
Complaint Against Hart InterCivic Withdrawn Following Adverse Ruling Limiting Whistleblower Claims
VIDEO: Brad on This Weekend's 'Ring of Fire' Discussing Latest Case Developments with Attorneys Papantonio and Schultz...
Reported by Brad Friedman, from the road...

The whistleblower lawsuit against voting machine company Hart InterCivic, as filed in federal court on behalf of former employee William Singer, has been withdrawn following a decision by the Supreme Court that makes pursuing the case nearly impossible, according to the law firm who originally filed the complaint.
The suit had been sealed for nearly two years as the Dept. of Justice asked for extension after extension during their decision on whether or not to join the case. Earlier this year, they ultimately decided not to join the case, as we reported last March, leaving the firm of Levin Papantonio Thomas Mitchell Echsner & Proctor, P.A to proceed on their own. The DoJ declines to join some 76% of such cases.

http://www.bradblog.com/

She's got $600 million, and is doing fine. Except she is now going through a divorce.

That's it! End of Madonna!

Move on to important things.

we should say goodbye to McCain before Madonna.

Yes, she has been a total whore. Yes she has promoted some real bottom dwellers. BUT.

She is in a different league than McCain. She leaves her men with money and a good time. What did McCain's first wife get? And Cindy being called a trollop by a the McCain whore is beyond the pale.

I continue to maintain that the video smears Madonna. That's not easy to do, I grant you that. But it does. No whore deserves to be put along side McCain. Whores don't put peoples lives at risk and crash planes and send their clients jobs to France. Whores don't call other whores trollop either.

What say you Chubby Bubba?

Olbermann jousts with Salon's Greenwald on Obama FISA support
Nick Juliano

Barack Obama has upset key elements of his base with his indication that he will support what critics say is a deeply flawed surveillance bill that would undermine Americans' constitutional rights.

The Democratic presidential candidates' support for an update to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act has caused some contortions among progressive commentators seeking to justify Obama's decision while a few others are willing to criticize the Illinois senator for making what they say is the wrong choice.

The two sides of this debate have come into sharp relief in the last few days in a tete-a-tete between Salon.com blogger Glenn Greenwald, a former constitutional lawyer and leading critic of the FISA deal, and MSNBC host Keith Olbermann.

It started Wednesday night, when Olbermann praised Obama for "refusing to cower even to the left" by supporting FISA.

Greenwald pointed out that just a few monhts ago, Olbermann had referred to a similar FISA deal going through the Senate as a "textbook example of fascism." The biggest difference between February and now was that then Olbermann could slam President Bush, one of his favorite targets for scorn, whereas now in the cross-hairs was Obama, who generally garners nothing but praise.

"Grave warning on Olbermann's show that telecom amnesty and FISA revisions were hallmarks of Bush Fascism instantaneously transformed into a celebration that Obama, by supporting the same things, was leading a courageous, centrist crusade in defense of our Constitution," Greenwald wrote.

"Is that really what anyone wants -- transferring blind devotion from George Bush to Barack Obama?" he asked. "Are we hoping for a Fox News for Obama, that glorifies everything he says and whitewashes everything he does?"

Olbermann responded to the criticism in his own DailyKos diary. He said his praise for Obama relied on the analysis of the FISA bill from John Dean, a reformed Watergate figure turned Bush administration critic.

With that preamble out of the way, here goes. John said his reading of the revised FISA statute suggested it was so poorly constructed (or maybe so sublimely constructed) that it clearly did not preclude future criminal prosecution of the telecoms - it only stopped civil suits.

I have repeated his observation each night since. Maybe I didn't sell my conviction of its conclusiveness. I think John Dean is worth 25 Glenn Greenwalds (maybe 26 Keith Olbermanns).

Thus, as I phrased it on the air tonight, obviously Obama kicked the left in the teeth by supporting the bill. But anybody who got as hot about this as I did would prefer to see a President Obama prosecuting the telecoms criminally, instead of seeing a Senator Obama engender more "soft on terror" crap by casting a token vote in favor of civil litigation that isn't going to pass since so many other Democrats caved anyway. [...]

Seriously, there is little in the polls to suggest McCain has anything to run with other than terror.... So why hand them a brick to hit him with - Obama Voted Against FISA - if voting Aye enhances his chances of getting himself his own Attorney General to prosecute FISA?

More here:

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Olbermann_jousts_with_Salons_Greenwald_on_...

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/06/27/9929/

[excerpt]

For his part, Addington provided little specific information on his role in pressing for controversial interrogation tactics at the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and with CIA prisoners. At the same time, he made it clear that he had played a central role in the matter.

And he lectured the committee on the continuing nature of the terrorist threat. “No American should think we’re free, the war is over, Al Qaeda is not coming and they’re not interested in getting us,” Addington told the Constitution, civil rights and civil liberties subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee. “Because that’s wrong.”

Yet when Democrats tried to pin him down on the moral and legal issues they considered crucial, Addington brushed them aside with barely concealed disdain.

Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), who later characterized Addington’s attitude as “smug,” asked whether, if the interrogation program was found to be illegal, he would bear any responsibility.

“Is that a moral question or a legal question?” Addington asked, then said he bore no responsibility, legal or moral.

Was President Bush constrained by laws against torture? Addington refused to offer an opinion. Putting the question in extreme terms, Nadler asked Addington if torturing a detainee’s child to get information would be legal.

“I’m not here to render legal advice to your committee,” Addington shot back. “You do have attorneys of your own to give you legal advice.”

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) tried to press Addington on whether he had pushed interrogators at Guantanamo to utilize tougher techniques. When Addington said he did not recall, Wasserman Schultz said she found that “hard to fathom.”

“Is there a question pending, ma’am?” Addington responded.

[end excerpt]

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Get a load of Addington lecturing us on that terror thing, again!

Someone as weak-and-wormy as Addington would only be so nasty if he felt assured he is safe.

Is it possible the Bushworld Crime League have actually stolen so much money by now and built such a formidable private armed forces that they themselves can conduct major terrorist actions and that their 'warning' to us is actually a THREAT? Is it possible these guys know that the worst danger we in America and the World face is the further economic collapse which, it seems, they timed to match the coming presidential election?

This is the kind of scenario that would embolden a worm like Addington to puff and strut on camera.

Something is up. Just got word from a friend who is in the military stationed in Japan. She is a paralegal and going to Iraq. The post is near the Iran border. A client who is also in military has been called to special training for three months and will be going on to Iraq immediately afterward. Both are pretty shaken up by the orders.

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That's what I was afraid of.

I'm still worried that Iran is going to happen!

Me too! I was hoping it was just rotation until your post.

I have that "Vogue" song on a cassette single. I am going to search for it and listeN to it. That's all
*TLL*

What a crock.

After all this hype, they're still not sure if Tomatoes are even the source?!?

Just over 800 people sick, out of how many hundreds of millions of tomato eaters?

What is that, 1 in 4 million? Odds on some lotteries are better.

How much ya wanna bet this little scare has something to do with major fast food companies' issues with tomato prices? Both Taco Bell and McDonalds were willing to let workers strike over a 1 penny per pound rate increase.

Now tomato growers will be lucky to get a penny a pound for their crops...

today. Fantastic stuff. I can't believe it's low sodium - at least compared to pickles.

Ron Regan on Verdict with Michael Smerconish said McCain is pro-torture and pro-choice on MSNBC.

..much as I hate to admit it, there are larger forces at work here that will not always play to my left field logic. I'm glad to see such a heated, yet civil debate on this matter between two respected guys from two different fields.
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Politics are a lot like hockey or soccer.
It's fun to watch,
but you're never really sure of the rules

Submitted by Fernando on Fri, 06/27/2008 - 7:22pm.
...Anyone want to speculate what infirmary is holding War Dog?
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A collision with a truck while bicycling resulted in a months long drug-induced coma until the swelled brain had safely returned to its original kumquat size.

On his third day of consciousness he was permitted to watch television. The NBC news program led with a story about Tim Russert's widow, then reported that diesel fuel prices had risen to $4.80 per gallon followed by a clip of President Bush stating that he is eager to continue diplomatic negotiations with North Korea and has removed it from his list of state-sponsored terrorism and the Axis of Evil.

War Dog is now being treated for a stroke.

Submitted by Chubby Bubba on Fri, 06/27/2008 - 8:28pm.
Dude...in her book (of photos), "Sex", she "simulated" having sex with a dog.

What part of that isn't whorish?
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The dog's?

I bought pickled Asparagus
Submitted by Fernando on Fri, 06/27/2008 - 9:11pm.
today. Fantastic stuff. I can't believe it's low sodium...
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--Low sodium brine--

Contents: water

HA!
night!
gotta study her IP (word i learnt here) to get to know her!
HA!--shoooot her!!

who is Lucille?

ha! joke!

Lucille told you exactly who she is butt stoopid wants to believe someone else!

FUCK OFF!

Can I ask a question here?

Thanks.

Who gives a flying fuck what Ron Reagan has to say anyway? What are his fucking credentials?

A Rhodes Scholar?
Years of government experience?
Written great academic works on anything truly political?

I know the other guy has some cred, but geez they're all celebrities, not experts really. All they try to do is take an iota of a fact and turn it into an emotionally charged issue that they can milk to death until the next newscycle.

The one thing I noticed this week from avoiding M$M news was the experts you get on shows like Democracy Now! and GRITtv leave out the emotional drivel and use that space to educate and inform. To his credit KO's guests like Rachel, John Dean, Derrick Pitts et.al. try to educate, not titillate.

Soapbox mode off.

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don mean to be mean!!

Dance Camp Ends, Blog lives anew
Submitted by SEDER on Fri, 06/27/2008 - 7:09pm.

"Who can say where the something goes, where the blah blah goes? Only time"

www.sigzone.blogspot.com

Here is a fun article in June 30th edition of newsweek.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/142658

Any idea if that is likely to boost McCain support?

One of John McCain's most celebrated achievements in recent years was his crusade to block a Pentagon contract with Boeing for a new fleet of midair refueling tankers. Incensed over what he denounced as a taxpayer "rip-off,"

they made me feel like nothing--WHY???

coz they could not READ ME???

i work in a fucking library----i sed so from jump!

butt i am SOMETHING!!

IT HURT!!

i will recover---

as usual!

do i really care about them? do they really have something i want?
nothing*
i am jez a poor girl hanging out with rich honkies---

thus crucify ME!
coz i love listening to SAM! guess dont belong!!

HA! not in a month of mondays!

never dat!

DON!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O558BjozCOw&feature=related

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/26/AR200806...

[excerpt]

In a 5 to 4 decision, the court said the "Millionaire's Amendment" to the law imposes an "unprecedented penalty" on candidates who sought to underwrite their own campaigns.

Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. wrote in the majority opinion that Jack Davis, the wealthy New York industrialist who brought the lawsuit, was forced "to choose between the right to engage in unfettered political speech and subjection to discriminatory fundraising limitations" and that "the resulting drag on First Amendment rights is not constitutional."

Campaign finance lawyers pored over the decision yesterday, and they concluded that while the Millionaire's Amendment represents only a small and discrete component of the McCain-Feingold law, the justices' opinion could have lasting significance.

[end excerpt]

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Fat Cats can now chant: "Nya-nya-nya! I can buy more First Amendment rights than you 'cause I have more money than you!"

The World Needs More SEDER!!!

Listening to Mike Malloy:

Citing Need for Assessments, U.S. Freezes Solar Energy Projects

DENVER — Faced with a surge in the number of proposed solar power plants, the federal government has placed a moratorium on new solar projects on public land until it studies their environmental impact, which is expected to take about two years.

The Bureau of Land Management says an extensive environmental study is needed to determine how large solar plants might affect millions of acres it oversees in six Western states — Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah.

But the decision to freeze new solar proposals temporarily, reached late last month, has caused widespread concern in the alternative-energy industry, as fledgling solar companies must wait to see if they can realize their hopes of harnessing power from swaths of sun-baked public land, just as the demand for viable alternative energy is accelerating.
more

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/27/us/27solar.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&oref=slo...

IT HURTS..
AND I DONT GIVE A FLYING FART WHO YOU ARE

it hurts!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTtfBJiVVfo

it's not who said it. It's what was said.

McCain is Pro-torture and Pro-choice. How does he sell that to a Republican base?

After watching the torture hearings, I thought that was a poignant foreboding. You know pinning the Pro-torture lapel pin on McCain. Not too many bring that up in the M$M

Looks just like joe liebermann

Outkask, Thanks

Do you like Three Six?

should be Baracks theme song...from Joe Biden

When he's on every side of every issue?

My point about Ron Reagan et. al. is they turn the news into popular culture and I'm sick of it.

As for the Republican base, what is it? Better question is "Where is it?". Who are they now? Small government fiscal conservatives? Religious fundamentalists? Billionaire hedge fund managers? I'm sure Tweety would know.

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There's not enough of their base left to send trolls to this blog anymore! ;-)

cause I had a glitch in my eye after cataract surgery a year ago. He had to dilate both eyes so I couldn't cater with Steve...I stayed home and babysat Iris all day. We had a blast even though I was half blind. The eye is just an old age thing

Now I am watching dog wisperer and there was a little terrier(gak) who was blind and i just started crying...jeese babies and helpless animals just get to me. sniff sniff...

on the blog....must be a new thread coming on...

love your work Bill

http://www.samsedershow.com/node/3362

Submitted by mhappenow on Fri, 06/27/2008 - 11:22pm.
...helpless animals just get to me.
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Yo, Chubby! This is our "in."

,

be put on paid leave until the war crimes around Yoo's so-called advisories to the Bush Administration are addressed.
I like the idea. It means that Yoo wouldn't be allowed to pollute any more young minds while we go after those who rubber stamped Yoo's advisories -- from the White House to the Justice Department to the Pentagon.

http://chronicle.com/blogs/footnoted/index.php?id=2022

Piece titled "Should John Yoo Be Fired?" (has good links)--

[excerpt]

The disclosure of the Yoo memo has led to numerous calls for his dismissal from the law school at Berkeley. The New York Times ran a scathing editorial in which they characterized Yoo's employment at Berkeley as inexplicable. (Yoo received tenure at Berkeley in 1999.)

On April 10, Christopher Edley Jr., dean of the law school, released a statement in which he affirmed that "because this is a public university, [Yoo] enjoys not only security of employment and academic freedom, but also First Amendment and Due Process rights."

Philip Carter, an attorney and former Army officer who edits Slate's Convictions blog, argues that Edley "gets it exactly wrong -- and epitomizes why people deride the 'Ivory Tower' as insulated from reality. ... Academic freedom should not be a dodge for personal or professional responsibility."

Brian Leiter, who thinks that "Bush and his gang of war criminals deserve to have their status confirmed by a court of law," nonetheless thinks efforts to oust Yoo from Berkeley are a "disgraceful attack on the academy and tenure."

[end excerpt]
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Listen up, all you potential treasonists and traitors. It looks like all you have to do is go for a university teaching post and then go into active traitorous mode. The bizarre read they have there on 'academic freedom' will allow you to do just about anything now since John Yoo has set the standard with destroying adherence to international treaties, habeus corpus, and human decency in general all for the Unitary Executive. I mean, anything anybody can possibly do can hardly be worse than those.

At least one academic seems to refuse to demean 'academic freedom' by including torture-mongering as part of what academic freedom allows an academic to do!

[more excerpt]

Henry Farrell, a political scientist at George Washington University who blogs at Crooked Timber, argues that the dispute is not, in the end, an issue of academic freedom because "it doesn’t concern Yoo’s ideas about the laws or communication of same; it concerns credible allegations that Yoo acted directly and deliberately, in his capacity as an employee of the US government to facilitate war crimes." The Yoo case, Farrell writes, is an instance "where traditional academic freedoms don’t and shouldn’t apply."

[end excerpt]

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John Yoo did not 'interpret the Constitution'. No, because he did not START his advisory process from the Constitution. John Yoo began his process from his desire to justify the Unitary Executive and institute the Unitary Executive in place of the Constitution, and proceeded from there. John Yoo is a Straussian Neocon in style, willing to use every obfuscation and twist of illogical thought to confuse the opposition and attain the goal.

Isn't it just like these cowards to hide from the Rule of Law behind academic freedom/intellectual freedom?!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKySbfgvyVw