History will be the judge of that

"Even my worst days as attorney general have been better than my father's best days," Gonzales said.

Wiseacre?

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The German ambassador to the Vatican at the end of WWII. While working for Germany, he was involved in saving 7000 of the 8000 jews in Rome.
Also see book: Special Mission.

''Don't hate me cause I'm beautifulWhy the fuck not?''

The story of the first designer drug for women, called Roulette!, written on an electric-diesel typewriter.
Out of the meat grinder into solitary.

Elizabeth Wurtzel's previous book was Prozac Nation.
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The Taco Bell terrorist

Padilla to be sentenced Wednesday.
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Judge Michael Mukasey concluded that “[t]he duty to disclose knowledge of crime rests upon all citizens” and “is so vital that one known to be innocent may be detained, in the absence of bail, as a material witness.”
In re Application of the United States for a Material Witness Warrant, 213 F. Supp. 2d 287, 299 (S.D.N.Y. 2002).
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"In the absence of bail" means "if bail cannot be arranged".
In Mr. Padilla's case, unfortunately, it could not be arranged.
And he can be cuffed and hooded, as appropriate...

What

Extreme Makeover

Red Scare

Nervous?

Break-up

Cf: Nine nations, 1981.

Senseless

Jose Padilla, in the control of US agents, deprived of his senses,
in solitary for 43 months.
We are a bad country, soon to go the way of the dodo.
Leave now, before you have to take the debt with you.
Is he still even in there?

Where are they now?

H Rap Brown. Jailed for life.

Rachael Stantons blog

Bitterness is like swallowing poison
and then waiting for the other person to die.
Citation

One more war-time president

Lincoln fought to save the union, not to free the slaves. Is it ok to kill so many to save the union? Probably not.

Does a country have a right to exist, despite the will of its people? No.
Can it constrain the right to secede?

The Declaration of Independence was an act of secession. And isn't it self-evident that when a government "becomes destructive of those ends", the people may alter or abolish it,
or try to.

Scarves are in

Laila Al-Arian.
Her dad.

Ghost Dance

The War is Over

The war in Afghanistan is over.
The war in Iraq is over.
Time to release the POWs.

Cindy Sheehan

talks about the USA becoming a fascist state.
definitions:
Communism: politics run the economy.
Fascism: corporations run politics.

A patriot

Giving lawyers a bad name

Anti-War Czars

How powerful is the Comander in Chief?

The commander-in-chief is not more powerful than the President. It is only a part of the presidential duties. The point is not to make the president a soldier. The point is to make the military responsible to a politician in terms that they can understand.

Attorney General

Chris Hedges,
foreign reporter
and good man


2003 talk

Which came first, the chicken or the egg?

Eggs have been around a long long time. Since fishes.

Statute of Limitations

If we didn't get around
to enforcing our borders,
whose fault is that?

Unwed Mom

Flight into Egypt

Refugees.

A hybrid going 60 in the HOV lane

Is being powered by the gasoline engine, like everybody else.

The Two DIFFERENT Energy Crises

1) No oil = no gasoline
2) CO2

To achieve your dreamsyou must wake up

Getting out of bed wouldn't hurt either.

Don't Watch This Movie

PG-99, for sadness

Privatizing Social Security

If you want to make it a private program, why should the Federal Government be involved at all? And if you expect to have a private system at some time in the future, why should not the first step be to cut the social security tax to eliminate the yearly surplus amount that you won't be needing.

Social Security is not a self-insurance program

It institutionalizes the help children give parents.

Lost Works of Art

Many works of art have been lost,
to say nothing of abortion, war, and oppression.

The Boston Massacre, 1770

Five killed, six wounded. [wiki]
The Alamo, a two week battle in 1836, killed 250 Texans.
Fallujah, 2004, one week, 600 Iraqis.
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Kent State, May 4th, four.

I am a crook.

Is torture .. illegal? Quaint.

Guns and Butter

Butter makes everything more palatable.

Environmentalist

A precedent.

Bumper stickers

Attribution at carryabigsticker.com

Homeland Security

Q: If the job of the Department of Homeland Security is to defend the homeland,
what is the job of the Department of Defense?
A: Defend the empire.

John Walker Lindh, first torture victim

Reprisal against Jesselyn Radack.
Most evidence is,
of course, secret.

James Madison

A popular government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy.
Nemesis p245

Why are gas prices going up?

Demand exceeds supply?
Officials wonder...

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Wise in their own eyes

Almost Volunteer Army

Ehren Watada
Professional standing army.

Conference talk is cheap

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The "Liberty" clause of the 14th amendment

Also called the "due process" clause.
"nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law"

Secretary of State

Bert Sacks on Iraq mp3
Interfaith Network site on Iraq. Associated with Bert.
google Bert

Secretary of Commerce

Steven Gaskin of The Farm, Summertown, TN.

Secretary of Transportation

Burt Rutan