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Pentagon releases memo on harsh tactics
By LARA JAKES JORDAN, Associated Press Writer
7 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - The Pentagon on Tuesday made public a now-defunct legal memo that approved the use of harsh interrogation techniques against terror suspects, saying that President Bush's wartime authority trumps any international ban on torture.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080402/ap_o...

John Yoo is an evildoer like his friends Cheney and Bush.

Linda wrote "I do agree, there are more and more Dean folks on mydd and supporting Hillary."

People here are aware of it.  What kind of lowlife would stand silently by while Clinton supporters trash Howard Dean for his role in keeping illicit primary results out of Florida and Michigan from vitiating the delegate count?  It's beneath contempt.  There certainly are ex-BFA backstabbers at myDD promoting Clinton.  What a sleazy group of vermin.

Test:

Howard is on first. 

Were the triplet bovines an april fools' joke?

"...there are more and more Dean folks on mydd and supporting Hillary."

< ^ I find ^that^ so hard to fathom.  

But, that said (and, this is not an endorsement...it is just what I like to say to Repug Clinton-hating honkies), "I am not afraid of Hillary Clinton"

Seriously though, former people for Dean dis'ing Howie proves they were fair weather pecker-woods. 

The theme of Atlas Shrugged is the role of the mind in man's existence and, consequently, presentation of the morality of rational self-interest.[3]

The main conflicts of the book surrounds the decision of the "individuals of the mind" to go on strike, refusing to contribute their inventions, art, business leadership, scientific research, or new ideas of any kind to the rest of the world. Society, they believe, hampers them by interfering with their work and underpays them by confiscating the profits and dignity they have rightfully earned. The peaceful cohesiveness of the world disintegrates, lacking those individuals whose productive work comes from mental effort. The strikers believe that they are crucial to a society that exploits them, denying them freedom or acknowledging their right to self-interest, and the gradual collapse of civilization is triggered by their strike.

The novel's title is an allusion to the Greek Titan Atlas who was described as literally holding the world on his shoulders, discussing what might happen if those holding up civilization suddenly decided to stop doing so

3.

Fox Mulder
Tue, 04/01/08

Wikopedia

What's up, Bob...hahaha

Petraeus linked to Colonel's suicide. This just makes my blood boil.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/4...

Got it, fox. LOL

Seems to me, Fox, that people like W are parasites on the genius of this nation and the world.

W would enslave John Galt. 

Mary vb, thanks for that link. 

"Westhusing, 44"

OMG but war sucks 

Olbermann destroyed Hillary tonight by reading the entire endorsement of her by "vast right wing" conspirator Richard Mellon Scaife -- in the voice of C. Montgomery Burns.

Olbermann destroyed Hillary tonight ...-- in the voice of C. Montgomery Burns.

^I saw a bit of that, which was a hoot!  But one thing that stuck me was the steel-gonads she has.  She's like David (in a sense) going into the Lion's Den.  

opinions... 

What a sleazy group of vermin.

That's stretching it a bit. They're just misguided fools choking on their own bile.

She's like David (in a sense) going into the Lion's Den.

I think it was Daniel who did that.

And there's nothing brave about going into the lions' den when you know they won't eat you, but instead want to praise you in order to hurt your party in the fall election.

President Bush's wartime authority trumps any international ban on torture.

^That is W speaking to his base. They elected him.  Don't like it?  Vote 'im out next time you enter the voting booth.  Repugs elect princes and Kings who do as they will.  That is republican democracy.

Elect a Dem and turn up the heat in the Press, because Dems listen to the people ...after election day. 

I think it was Daniel who did that.

< It either was or was not. 

 It was Daniel.

You thought right. 

Elect a Dem and turn up the heat in the Press, because Dems listen to the people ...after election day.

You've apparently forgotten The Clintons' last 6 years --  not to mention the half of the party that gave Bush almost everything he demanded in his first term -- and DCDems near complete failure to live up to their promises in the 2006 election.

Elect a Dem and turn up the heat in the Press, because Dems listen to the people ...after election day.

By ^that I mean the Dems can be manipulated.

  Repugs, by my assertion, couldn't give $v@K what The People say

(because they got their say on election day). 

Quick hello before the sleep train.

I'm sorry to have missed Keith Olbermann.  It seems legitimate to me to read
Scaife's endorsement.  If anyone for a minute thinks that Hillary and McCain have a hair's worth of difference between them, not for what they say, but for what they do, their ethics, they are deluded.

What we are finding out is that the people who support Barack Obama support him for the quality of his thinking and experience.  He is different, is what we need.  When I hear over and over how much people want peace; yet, they want a fighter, I have to ask myself, do they really not see the disconnect?  War doesn't bring peace; a fighter is not a peace maker.

I can't help but compare this country to Rome in its demise.  Over 600 plus military bases, the resources of wealth and power going to the very few; more and more middle class people and poor people without resources, options, or support while the military gets ever bigger; more and more weapons are taking the major resources in the budget, and anyone who talks of peace or conciliation (willing to visit people who are considered our enemies) is derided as weak.  

As long as this race goes on, more and more people are beginning to learn about Obama and to see through the sound bytes and propaganda of Hillary Clinton and John McCain. This is a good thing.  We have one chance, perhaps the most important vote in my entire life, and if we don't vote for Obama, we are voting to continue the same policies, the same collusion between government and corporations, the same destruction of infrastructure, and the same disillusion and decay represented by opportunists who are greedily, wantonly destroying the ideals that we have held so dear for the life of this republic, even when we have violated them.

I think the mentality is interesting that sees no difference between Hillary Clinton and Bill and Barack Obama.  I'm puzzled, wonder what it is people are seeing at all.  Our only chance for a change, for ethics, for the people of this country to truly participate in their government is to vote for Obama.  Will the people be wise enough to do this?  Our future is in the balance. 

Our only chance for a change, for ethics, for the people of this country to truly participate in their government is to vote for Obama.

Is the DNC asking it's supporters to do a neighborhood effort to influence the public. 

All of us ... talking to people we come across (who may trust us more than the media)? 

Yep, I need to locate my slipper before midnight.

the clinton moment by kid oakland.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/4...

No need to ever comment when kid oakland writes a diary - he is so fabulous.

This part of kid oakland's diary isn't sitting well with me --

If Hillary decides to push to Denver, in particular if she picks up John and Elizabeth Edwards' endorsement--

does kid know something the rest of us don't? Why the heck would Edwards endorse a ship that's sinking so fast? After reading about Hillary's campaign money issues (not paying the little guys) - I think she's running on fumes. Makes no sense to me.

Nite folks.

Obama keeps cash lead over Clinton.

http://www.time.com/time/politics/articl...

does kid know something the rest of us don't?

How could he? If you had juicy piece of inside campaign news would you give it to him or a real political reporter?

MoDo: the Hillary Waltz.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/02/opinio...

Now I'm really gone!

Hillary's Man Says Voters Should Be Heard Ignored

Harold Ickes:

When I asked Ickes if the Hillary campaign would still try to woo super-dels even if she was behind in the popular vote counting Florida and Michigan, he said: "I think being ahead in the popular vote is an important factor. I don't think it's dispositive...if at the end of the process she's running very slightly behind in the delegates overall, the popular vote vote will be important. I don't think it's absolutely critical." .....

Ickes also said that it was possible that Hillary supporters on the convention credentials committee would bring a minority report to force a floor vote if the committee's solution on Florida and Michigan wasn't to the campaign's liking, but he predicted it likely wouldn't come to that and said Hillary doesn't want that to happen.

"My sense is it'll be resolved before then, but if it goes into the credentials committee we can always bring out a minority report and take it to the floor of the convention. Hillary does not want that. We don't think it's good for the party. We don't think it's good for the nominee.

In summation, Hillary wants the votes of MI and FL counted because she "doesn't want voters disenfranchised," but will ignore them if she winds up with less than Obama. 

She also doesn't want a floor fight at the convention, but will do it anyway if it's in her political interests.

And she wonders why she's gone from inevitable nominee to life support candidate? 

Ventura on Larry King show. 83% vote that he should run for president. That certainly says a lot for all the billion dollars that will have been spent on fancy pretense, when what we need is the plain truth

BTW, Howard's still the firstest with the mostest. . . .

Good morning, everybody

There is a season for everything and at the moment we're in wait and see mode.

our link meetings have also shrunk.  But then, we've got at least nine who are now elected officials and in NH that means lots of meetings. 

i just love how some people manage to feel constrained to do what they don't want to do because it will get them what they want.  It's that paternal posture which forbears giving a beating, but will do so, if that's what it takes to get commands obeyed.

Remember Bush telling us he didn't want to go to war? 

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