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Lately I have heard some analysis of the embargo. The thesis was that we are not going to have the effect we are hoping for by lifting it.
Nevertheless, it's repugnant that my government tells me where I can and can't travel.
So, I would lift the embargo for two reasons: 1) it doesn't work and 2) it limits the freedoms of americans
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He basically reiterates Scalia's points and says, I concur. He's an absolute moron.
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He's also an originalist, which is an ideologically, practically, and dare I say morally bankrupt method. Barf.
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A**hat.
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"That was a curious aside" in the NYT article made me LOL. "Clarence Thomas, you are a wackadoo" is what that said to me. He's acknowledged that he doesn't speak to the media much, and we've established that he falls asleep during oral arguments: perhaps this is why. Because when he opens his mouth, everything he says is either offensive or off-the-wall bananas.
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Illinois, Alaska, Rhode Island, Texas. It never ends.
According to someone who yelled at me yesterday, though, is HOW do these jerks end up in office? As if all of this were a simple equation.
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Becky told me she saw you texting Iran last week.
Baby, we were just trying to work out some stuff about nuclear weasons. It wasn't personal.
I've seen the way you look at Ahmadinejad. Don't lie to me. This is Kim Jong Il all over again.
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But just a reminder to all those wingnuts who harp on about other people's rights and are constantly infringing on them, try not to forget that those rights are also your rights. You want to try to stamp out my freedom of speech? Fine, then you don't get yours either.
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So very, very weird.
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RAMRAS: She was wearing Arctic Cat gears and leathers--
ROSS: She was provocative. She looked really good didn't she?
RAMRAS: Yes...[beat]...Well no, not to a lot of Alaska she didn't. To a lot of Alaska she looked like a walking billboard.
[www.huffingtonpost.com]
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Coleman also wants to run for Governor in 2010. Jesse Ventura, you are our only hope.
If you will excuse me, I am off to watch the Youtube video of Susan Boyle. It's more uplifting and cheaper than Bourbon.
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If enough countries do as Spain is about to (and Germany and France have played with the idea of), the Obama Administration will be able to say it "had no choice" but to push for prosecutions here at home, to maintain good relations with our important allies.
I really do believe that many people within the Obama Administration would like to see Gozalez, Yoo, Bybee, Addington, etc in the dock, but lack the political will to make that happen...right now. Enough of a push from the outside, and I think they'd do it.
So, in short, the idea here is not that these guys will be hauled before a Spanish judge, or a French one, or an Italian one, or a German one, etc --it's that they'll one day soon end up on trial HERE, in the good old US of A.
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And Bush is neither a sitting head of state nor being talked about seriously as a potential indictee, unlike his former high-ranking torture-happy underlings.
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"Not that any other nation would attempt to invade Washington, D.C. and spirit the President away to put him on trial[...]"
What I mentioned: Future trials here in the US of a number of poeple, *none of whom* are our current or former president.
"[...] but then he does travel quite a bit and we'd like to avoid the idea that you can attack our President at a whim to charge him with war crimes. "
At a whim? Like, just for LOLz? ::headdesk:: That's. Not. What. We're. Talking. About.
Again, *not the president, or former president,* and not out of spite or European snootiness or partizanship or any other bullshit reason the GOP will cry about, but based on a hell of a lot of hard EVIDENCE, including an awesomely incriminating paper trail. Also, see our laws + international law.
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So, in the end, it doesn't matter how strong Spain's case is -- they will not get any member of the Bush Administration from us for any reason, no matter what the court says. The United States has spent years flouting International law and is not about to stop, because we do not wish to expose members of our government to the possibility of being seized by a foreign country and charged with crimes, any crimes. We reserve the right to prosecute such crimes in our own courts, subject to our laws. And we're not going to do that either, because we are not going to admit the mistake.
It's not my intention to frustrate you, only point out the futility of the exercise. The United States talks out of both sides of its mouth -- we want everyone to follow the rules, rules which don't apply to us.