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20101130
Joe Rehyansky: Allow Lesbians To Serve In Order To Give 'Straight Male GIs A Fair Shot At Converting' Them
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WikiLeaks Cablegate LIVE Updates
as i have stated elsewhere, the definition of a 'sex crime' varies from place to place, even in the United States.
for instance, in some states a person is a legal adult at 17 instead of 18.
sex prior to the age of 18 in most states could be considered statutory rape, but not where the adult age is 17. and there are exceptions
they'll have to be changed in time, because puberty is hitting girls earlier and earlier. . .and i believe the current median age is 9. biology will tell, and lawmakers should start thinking about it.
the concept of adolesence is only 100 years old or so, itself.
now. . .Sweden's laws are even less like ours. while Scandinavi
as i understand it, for instance, one could be charged with rape in Sweden for not wearing a condom.
in this country--a
our prisons are already crowded enough.
please realize that in many cases, our defintion of 'criminal' may differ from that of another country.
they can be entirely different, depending upon the time and place.
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Wikileaks Cables Reveal Deep Repercussions of Bush Torture Policy
yes, i remember the separation of powers.
and Congress, while they can investigate, MAKES law.
the Execeutive Branch, which is under the authority of the President, EXECUTES and ENFORCES the laws.
Congress can find out any little thing they want to, but it is ultimately the President and his Branch which has to make sure the laws are enforced.
THEY put people in jail. not Congress.
i learned that decades ago. so much for 'knee-jerk'.
please read the Constitution. carefully.
there are very few things i blame Obama for, but this is one of them.
i stand by my words.
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and Congress, while they can investigat
the Execeutive Branch, which is under the authority of the President, EXECUTES and ENFORCES the laws.
Congress can find out any little thing they want to, but it is ultimately the President and his Branch which has to make sure the laws are enforced.
THEY put people in jail. not Congress.
i learned that decades ago. so much for 'knee-jerk
please read the Constituti
there are very few things i blame Obama for, but this is one of them.
i stand by my words.
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20101129
WikiLeaks U.S. Embassy Cables: New Documents Released
better than being a hypocrite.
and he's no criminal in the eyes of many, including some government
i know this country has done wrong in the past. if it does wrong, i don't want talking points. i don't want partisansh
i want the truth.
guess you just don't like truth.
that way your pretend view of the world is protected.
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WikiLeaks: Israel Iran Stance Vindicated, Says Netanyahu
The documents also said officials in Jordan and Bahrain have openly called for Iran's nuclear program to be stopped by any means and that leaders of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt referred to Iran "as `evil,' an `existenti
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it's my ignorant and uninformed opinion that an unspoken factor in the assessment of other Arab states toowards Iran derives from its being the only Shia Muslim state.
Iraq, while mostly Shia, shares its borders with Sunni Muslims and Kurds.
virtually all other Muslim states are predominan
the danger in Iran becoming a regional power--wit
i've said before that one of the reasons Iran might seek nukes is protection from the Sunni states. while there's no direct confirmati
especially if Israel or the United States were to do the 'dirty work', so that Sunni Muslim states could remain 'clean' in the eyes of the world. let the infidels destroy the heretics, etc, etc. . .
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WikiLeaks U.S. Embassy Cables: New Documents Released
there's nothing cowardly about it.
when government
keeping secrets from the people is, in my opinion, a crime, when it comes to a nation's leadership and what it does 'in the name of the people'.
only the most very sensitive and important informmati
back in the 70's in the Marines, my MOS was working with classified info, so i can say that much is true. it's gotten far, far worse since then.
and a very large part of classifica
Wikileaks, whether its motives are good or bad, exposes the hypocrisy of government
these people being exposed are being exposed for being human: they not always right, they're not always wrong. they're as confused and misinforme
some of them have never grown up.
if you prefer to believe fantasies, then Assange and Wikileaks are 'criminals
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20101128
A giant has died this day: Leslie Nielsen of the 'Forbidden Planet', 'Airplane' and 'Naked Gun' movies. . .
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TSA, DHS Label Anyone Who “Objects, Interferes” With Screenings as “Domestic Extremist” in New Directive - Truth is Treason http://ping.fm/OCY0z
U.S, South Korea War Games To Go On After Deadly North Korea Shelling [UPDATE: South Korean Military Reports Artillery Fire]
this doesn't seem to jibe with what i've read of the PNAC plan. its focus was on the MidEast, Central Asia and their oil, among other things.
i think North Korea's a wild card where they're concerned.
but the country (North Korea) is unstable, with an unstable leadership, and the ultimate instability. . .nukes. they don't need a fictional Jack D Ripper; their leader has the role.
this is like having to deal with Vietnam Vets having violent flashbacks. also like dealing with an MPD, never knowing if there's a violent personality locked inside.
i've dealt with both, and it's a problem. instability means anything can happen, and i doubt the neocons have had a contingency plan for this kinda thing.
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U.S, South Korea War Games To Go On After Deadly North Korea Shelling [UPDATE: South Korean Military Reports Artillery Fire]
to be honest, i wouldn't know. one of the unstated geostrateg
and, from what i've read recently via the Strategic Studies Institute, it'd appear that India is no longer as strong on its 'No Nukes First' policy as it had been.
parts of Pakistan are underdeveloped, and people live as they have for millennia. yet there are other places which are modern. . .although it is a nuclear country, there are still territories which are trbal and beyond the direct influence of the national government. i'd suspect that, in those places, tribalism is more important than Islam, as it is in Afghanistan.
Musharraff might have been a result of military rule in Pakistan, but his successor seems to have a weaker hold on the population. regardless of their protestations, i still believe segments of the ISI are actively working against the Pakistani government, and to our detriment.
one thing is for sure. . .these continued, unauthorized attacks into Pakistan, killing civilians, is not endearing us to the Pakistani population. by those actions we're breeding new terrorists, as surely as we did during the Cheney-Rumsfield years.
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'Decision Points' Review: 'New Yorker' Blasts George Bush Book
i don't doubt some things have gotten worse, but it started with the pretend cowboy from Connecticut.
the nature of power is that is very grudgingly given up voluntarily. by anyone, including you or me.
after the Revolution, some people wanted George Washington to become king. he declined, though he would have had the whole army behind him. no one could have stopped him. but he rejected it.
before the election, a friend of mine expressed how much he hoped Obama would win, and how everything Bush had done would be reversed.
i told him at that time that Obama was human. one of the things about being human is that, if you are given a certain amount of power, you are naturally loathe to give it up. there are very, very few people who are capable of rejecting such power as Bush took for himself and any successors.
and i reminded him that Obama might be a good guy, but he wasn't George Washington.
it'd seem i was proven right on that, so your 'hypocrisy' comment makes no sense.
you assume i'm for one or the other.
a choice between cattle and sheep isn't my way.
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Mike Huckabee wants First Family to be TSA screened. His son got caught bringing gun on a plane
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Tom DeLay GUILTY: Jury Convicts Republican In Money Laundering Trial
Can't touch this
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Can't touch this
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Break it down
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STOP:
SLAMMER TIME !
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20101124
Minn. Pol With Gun Outside Abortion Clinic Says He Was Just In Area 'Checking On' His Girlfriend
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(i guess the DOJ is more homophobic than the DOD) Obama DOJ Appeals Margaret Witt's Reinstatement To Air Force, But She's Back In For Now
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20101123
Sarah Palin Reportedly Lobbying To Get Christine O'Donnell On 'Dancing With The Stars'
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Robert Decheine, Rep. Steve Rothman's Chief Of Staff, Fired After Arrest For Soliciting Sex From Minor
DAE, i agree with the biological basis, but in this matter, i believe it has to do more with power and dominance rather than sex. among 'normal' (heterosexual) rapists, there's a subset called the 'power rapist'. they don't get sexual pleasure out of rape, but instead get a rush, a feeling of power and a reassertion of their importance. . .an ego boost. this is often the case with rapists who prey on older women.
i suspect it's the same thing in this nut's case. i speak from personal experience with some of these jerks. a child , even an adolescent, is weaker than a grown man, and in many cases could be rendered personally powerless, just as an elderly woman could.
the same thing's seen in other species when an upper member of the hierarchy mounts--sy
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I Wanna Be Scanned and Groped
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'nuff said.
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20101122
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The Two Most Essential, Abhorrent, Intolerable Lies Of George W. Bush's Memoir
according to the Constitution, any treaties we've signed into are also 'the law of the land', on an EQUAL basis of the Constitution:
"ARTICLE VI: This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the Supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding."
BushCo committed crimes virtually every day of the Administration. if investigations proceeded here, Democrats would be at fault as much as Republicans, since in the panicked aftermath of fear they rubberstamped almost everything presented in the beginning. (the late Sen Robert Byrd was virtually the lone dissenting Democratic voice.) such investigations would empty the Capitol and probably most of the White House.
on the other hand, if another country were to prosecute Bush et.al., it wouldn't necessarily lead to information that would also damage Democrats. . .that is, unless BushCo dragged them into it in self-defense.
American justice has been distorted in the past ten years. i'd welcome trials in an international court.
About George Bush Book
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Glenn Beck Instructs Viewers To Start Selling Their Unused Items To Prepare For Rising Prices
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(well, it IS a fact) Speaker: US Seeking to Dominate Region under Pretext of War on Terrorism
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20101121
Los Angeles Times: 'Invasive' airport pat-downs not going away for the holidays http://ping.fm/tbl2U
Cedric Miller AFFAIR: Facebook-Banning Pastor Admits To Threesome With Wife And Male Church Assistant
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Al-Qaida Bomb Plans Published On Web Site: Editors Boast About $4,200 Cost Of Attack
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GOP Looks To Defund NPR Over Williams Firing
yes, intelligent reporting and information is rather a waste of one's limited and important personal time, which could be better spent listening to talking points, watching celebrities and pointless sports matches. . .isn't it?
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PUT UP OR SHUT UP: Democrats Ask Republicans Supporting Health Care Repeal To Forgo Their Own Coverage
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Cardinal Says U.S. Morally Obliged To Protect Iraqis
i feel for the victims. all of them.
Hussein was a dictator, but overall he protected his Christian Iraqis. he kept a diverse, multiethic, multicultural and multireligious country together, however brutally.
then we invaded. the people fell to the tender mercies of the Shia and Sunni. we didn't care. at least a third of the 300,000 Iraqi Christians left Iraq, and the others were subject to danger day and night.
but so were the remaining Kurds, Shia and Sunni. they were all subject to being terrorized by our military (ex: Abu Gharib, Fallujah), our mercenaries (Blackwater/Xi, et.al.); and, most of all, from their own countrymen: organized crime, militias, insurgents, fundamentalists, etc.
the invasion, as most people are aware now--and many were aware in the beginning--was unneeded, except for the need of the United States to expand its hegemony and take control of Iraq's resources.
except for John Paul II, where were the representatives of the Catholic Church speaking out against invading Iraq? why only do so now? Christian Iraqis are no different from Muslim Iraqis; they all suffer worse than they did before the invasion.
so why the sudden pointing of the finger at the United States?
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Cardinal Says U.S. Morally Obliged To Protect Iraqis
"Cardinal Says U.S. Morally Obliged To Protect Iraqis"
. . .and the Catholic Church has an obligation to protect children.
when you point your finger at someone, look and see where the other fingers are pointing.
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The Christian Right in Context: Building a Christian America
if there is a God, She/He/It doesn't play favorites.
more important things going on. more important things to do.
why should i 'beg' for anything? if you want to be a masochist, that's your lookout.
if there is a God, She/He/It respects someone who is unafraid to ask questions, and even to doubt the existence of God. we weren't given brains and mouths to be parroting someone else's words for eternity.
and a God who would invent a Hell is the most sadistic of gods. we create our own Hells.
thank you for showing us yours.
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This Was Actually The <em>NY Times</em> Homepage Just Now (PICTURE)
lighten up. politicians are human, too.
as far as 'growing up' goes, i've been to the other side of the world. in all my decades (i'm retired), i've met less than ten people i'd consider 'adults'.
on the whole, people don't grow up: their bodies just get older. they're as fun-loving and spoiled and childish and greedy and egotistical and attention-getting as they were at three or thirteen.
a look at any newspaper, the people around you, or in the mirror should prove that.
and yeah, i include myself.
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20101113
And now for the best conspiracy theory of the year. . . GOP's Gohmert Warns TSA About Tampon Bombers
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Obama’s Claiming More Power Over Americans Than King George III, Says Virginia Attorney General
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20101112
Amy-Erin Blakely Claims She Was Fired After Being Told Her Breasts Were Distracting (VIDEO)
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Hijacking of a very middle class protest: Anarchists cause chaos as 50,000 students take to streets over fees
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20101111
TX: Proposed education bills include campus carry, affordable textbooks, abolishing THECB
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Jon Soltz, VoteVets Founder, War Critic, Called Up For Military Service In Iraq
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20101110
African-American Voter Forced to Swear on Bible Before Casting Ballot in Midterm
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Joyce Kaufman, Allen West's Chief Of Staff, Advocated Hanging Illegal Immigrants Who Commit Crimes
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20101109
To Questions He Can't Answer, Bush Has A New Response: Buy My Book
actually, it's one of the few real things i do blame Obama for. they're refused to look into the crimes of his predecessors, let alone prosecute.
one reason for this is that the late Senator Byrd was virtually the only Democrat who refused to join the stampede of fear Congress felt after 911.
this is understandable, of course, since Congress was the target of the last plane. we have a habit of replacing Presidents from assassination, fatal illness, etc.(of, course, he wasn't there then); but to take out 535 representatives and senators would have put a hurt on everybody.
known and unknown legislation was passed without anyone reading it, or without giving any thought to its implications.
Democrats voted for it as much as any Republican.
if the full story of that alone ever got out, it'd do what the Tea Party failed to do: take out a lot of the Obama Administration (including Obama), while emptying out a large amount of Congress (both houses) as well.
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Al Qaeda is here: How a U.S. branch of the terror organisation is 'now our biggest threat'
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The Weapons That Kill Civilians — Deaths of Children and Noncombatants in Iraq, 2003–2008
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Robert Gibbs Fights With Indian Security Over White House Press Corps Restrictions
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Bush's Opposition To Abortion Grew After Mother Showed Him Dead Fetus In A Jar
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Subversively move George W. Bush's memoir to crime section in book shops
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20101108
CIA To Investigate Wikileaks Documents
last night, i found a link to an FOIA reply to the CIA concerning the possible assassination of Assange. i downloaded the PDF reply, but failed to keep the link.
i don't know if this will work (cut & paste), but this is the text of the letter. . .
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Cental Irtelligence Agency
Washington, D.C.20505
27 October 2AIA
Reference: F-201 1-00 07 8
Dear
This is a final response to your 11 October 2010 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, received in the offrce of the Information and Privacy Coordinator on 12 October 2010, for copies ofall records current orprevious plans to assassinate Julian
Assange, Australian national and spokesman for Wikileaks.org. We have assigned your request the reference number above. Please use this number when corresponding so that we can identify it easily.
In accordance with section 3.6(a) of Executive Order 13526, the CIA can neither confirm nor deny the existence or nonexistence ofrecords responsive to your request. The fact ofthe existence or nonexistence ofrequested records is currently and properly classified and is intelligence sources and methods information that is protected from
disciosure by section 6 of the CIA Act of 7949, as amended, and section 102A(i)(l) of the National Security Act of 1947, as amended. Therefore, your request is denied pursuant to FOIA exemptions O)(1) and (b)(3). I have enclosed an explanation of these exemptions
for your reference and retention. . . .
Sincerely,
Scott Koch
Acting Information and Privacy Coordinator
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Debt Collection Company Was Using Fake Sheriffs, Judges and Courtroom To Scare Debtors
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With ‘Sovereign Citizen’ Movement Growing, New SPLC Video Promotes Law Enforcement Safety
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“Ending States that Sponsor Terrorismâ€: Dismantling the Iraqi State, Destroying an Entire Country
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20101107
Keith Olbermann: 'Greetings From Exile!"
The Isley Brothers - Fight The Power (Part 1 & 2) (1975)
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