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AitchD commented on the blog post Media Matters Offers Odd Apologetic For Press Spying
Our own nation, the one Lincoln described at Gettysburg. Isn’t that self-evident?
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AitchD commented on the blog post Media Matters Offers Odd Apologetic For Press Spying
In a republic like ours, indiscriminate and targeted spying (and worse offenses) on anyone has always been legitimated during wartime. In the brief hiatus between Korea and Vietnam, we had spying’s inversion from HUAC and McCarthy’s hearings, then the Watergate discoveries as counter-balance attacks. After Vietnam, we had the purgatives from the Church committee. After the Iran-Contra performances, we got Desert Shield/Desert Storm, and then PNAC’s blueprint for the present permanent wartime republic. It doesn’t matter if you’re informed or naive.
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AitchD commented on the blog post Anwar Al-Awlaki Finally Gets A (Show) Trial
Don’t forget the most important part of the oath, its weasel phrase, “to the best of my ability”.
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AitchD commented on the blog post Fox News Journalist Pursued by Obama Justice Department as ‘Co-Conspirator’ in Leak
As drafts, the negotiating proposals go through all parties, which include affected private-sector parties, in all the nations. Then revisions may be suggested or demanded, circulated in secret, so new meetings for assent or dissent follow, and so on. It’s more like attorney-client privilege than national security protected information. The Doha Development Round has yet to conclude after more than ten years (maybe because the proposals were widely reported).
The TPP is an Agreement, not a Treaty as such. Unless Congress acts, the agreement can be fast-tracked for an up-or-down vote, meaning, unlike a treaty, it won’t require the Senate’s supermajority approval and won’t become part of the US Constitution. That is, Congress and staff will have 2-3 hours to read the 200,000 — more or less — pages of the agreement.
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AitchD commented on the diary post Bipartisan Privacy Caucus Asks Important Privacy Questions About Google Glass by Consumer Watchdog.
Along with leashes in public, dogs should be required to wear Google GLASS so everyone will know if you’re a dog or not on the Internet.
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AitchD commented on the diary post ‘…and I did Not Speak Out, but Then They Came for… the AP’ by wendydavis.
Anderson was Drew (“Washington Merry-Go-Round”) Pearson’s protege, not Winchell’s. (Winchell narrated The Untouchables for Desilu Productions.)
Are you familiar yet with Strongbox?
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AitchD commented on the diary post Stirring the Pot: Authorities Leak More of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s “Confession” by E. F. Beall.
Are you referring to all the explanations for why he conceded the 2004 election early and wouldn’t challenge the Ohio results? It no longer matters that conspiracy theory long ago became a stock cliché by means of over-saturation. The original term of art had been ‘crackpot theory’, but through rhetorical drift that snotty phrase morphed into [...]
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AitchD commented on the blog post NOM Wants To Know What You Would Do
Any marriage equality education for 8-year-olds is unethical if the curriculum doesn’t include a unit on pre-nupts and how to share the TV remote.
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AitchD commented on the blog post Court Finds FBI-Issued National Security Letters ‘Significantly Infringe Upon Speech’
The “unnamed telecommunications company” is CREDO.
Sometimes it’s not so horrible that a corporation can assert its first-amendment personhoodness.
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AitchD commented on the diary post Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement News and Overviews by wendydavis.
Why wouldn’t the full text be made public when it’s submitted for adoption?
If its adoption leads fairly rapidly to total nuclear weapons disarmament and abolition, would you support its adoption?
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AitchD commented on the diary post Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement News and Overviews by wendydavis.
At this hour, it’s still on the Fast Track, meaning it’s a congressional-executive free-trade agreement, i.e., the POTUS negotiates, the Congress needs only majority yeas in each chamber for passage (within some 90 days). Sure, there’ll be hearings. You’ll hear from disgruntled citizens-cum-consumers who in good faith unwittingly purchased pirated and counterfeited DVDs because IP [...]
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AitchD commented on the diary post Time for Outrage! Indignez-vous! by wendydavis.
Those guys think of everything. Otherwise he would have invoked the fifth.
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AitchD commented on the diary post Time for Outrage! Indignez-vous! by wendydavis.
Hasn’t anyone pointed out that when Holder wrote his letter he wasn’t under oath, like when he testified? I didn’t go to law school, but I lived about ten blocks from one.
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AitchD commented on the diary post Time for Outrage! Indignez-vous! by wendydavis.
But in English it means something like betrayal, and machine translators tend to betray syntax. The word hasn’t been coined yet for what they do to idioms.
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AitchD commented on the diary post Time for Outrage! Indignez-vous! by wendydavis.
Seems to be the same. With Safari, the Google.com page link — to a PDF — sublink “translate this page”, was so slow that it seemed not to load at all. Google of course read my mind and offered Chrome’s browser for lickity-split translating. I dinnae tell wendydavis the French-to-English translations are funny like all [...]
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AitchD commented on the diary post Time for Outrage! Indignez-vous! by wendydavis.
The Bing of yours it does not make the traduction, no? I made a download of the browser called Chrome of the Google for the traductions fast like a Le Mans. (Th’occasion was an essai of M. Edward Said, who was denouncing with breaths of fire M. Albert Camus.)
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AitchD commented on the diary post How to Learn to Love the March of Jackboots or… Hear Music Instead [Updated] by wendydavis.
Oops — MacArthur’s lethal force threat was 1932 (sorry, FDR, it was Hoover).
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AitchD commented on the diary post How to Learn to Love the March of Jackboots or… Hear Music Instead [Updated] by wendydavis.
The POTUS has always been ready, willing, and able to “use lethal force against Americans on US soil”. POTUS George Washington — in person — led a militia force of some 10,000 troops in 1794 (there was no ‘standing army’) to put down the Whiskey Rebellion in Western Pennsylvania. No lethal force was necessary since [...]
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AitchD commented on the diary post How to Learn to Love the March of Jackboots or… Hear Music Instead by wendydavis.
Minnie wasn’t her daughter. (My only and her least successful album. One of these days I’ll get around to digitizing it.)
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AitchD commented on the diary post How to Learn to Love the March of Jackboots or… Hear Music Instead by wendydavis.
Great Caesar’s Ghost — I started with a full tank, but my scroll bar started flashing red cuz it was low on petrol, and it hadn’t scrolled 1/8th of an inch yet!
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