http://www.democraticunderground.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:12:16 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:12:16 opinion and she couldn't name one - not even the Valdez opinion which was handed down in June of 2008 and the interview was had at the end of September, beginning of October, 2008. :rofl:

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Couric: What other Supreme Court decisions do you disagree with?

Palin: Hmmm, Wel... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/merh/191 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:57:21 He was going to be tracked, they figured he would join up with AQ once he got to Afghanistan. That's why they promoted him, they wanted him to be a coveted recruit. What better propaganda for AQ than a turned army major who could tell the world and the islamic people how mentally damaged our troops... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/merh/190 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:57:40
You don't either, especially if you are relying on the video.

There are missing time periods not captured on the video. The time clock jumps and seconds are left out of this video Sure, it appears that it wasn't more than seconds, but for someone prone to anxiety (she had her xanac with her),... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/merh/189 Sat, 17 Oct 2009 15:09:50 It always makes them so happy to be pampered.

:hi:

http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e338/determinedafterstorm/ui2ik34ed40673cviewattth12417c8f694.jpg
... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/merh/188 Fri, 02 Oct 2009 20:18:10 [div class="excerpt"]Cheney's indictment on a charge of engaging in an organized criminal activity criticizes the vice president's investment in the Vanguard Group, which holds interests in the private prison companies running the federal detention centers. It accuses Cheney of a conflict of interes... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/merh/187 Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:56:31 if you can pass the membership review committee and get the required number of votes, then you get your gold sealed invite.

Kinda like a country club or yacht club - keep the undesirables out and when you want to get drunk and rowdy and do some trashing, drop into the neighborhood bar with the co... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/merh/185 Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:42:47 After reading this thread about the City of [link:www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6556565|Philadelphia closing libraries] in October, I did a quick google search to find out how much federal stimulus money was awarded to the State of Pennsylvania.

I found... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/merh/184 Wed, 16 Sep 2009 01:01:52 the refusal to rescue is so easily accepted.

This was the same mindset during Katrina.

Thank god is wasn't the the mindset during Camille.

[div class="excerpt"]04/16/04
[b]LARCs Saved Hundreds Of Lives[/b]

The amphibious vessel LARC, to be dedicated Tuesday, sits in front of Biloxi's se... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/merh/182 Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:34:48 [div class="excerpt"][b][u]OIG’s review of the videotapes revealed that the waterboard technique employed at was different from the technique as described in the DoJ opinion and used in the SERE training.[/u][/b] The difference was in the manner in which the detainee’s breathing was obstructed. At t... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/merh/183 Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:04:53 inmate. Ideally, the technique is used in cell extractions, when the inmate has posed a threat to himself and will not leave his cell.

CERT (Corrections Emergency Response Team) is called in to control the inmate, the idea is to subdue with minimal risk to the inmate and the guards.

Read t... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/merh/180 Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:36:37 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LBmUwi6mEo

http://z.about.com/d/politicalhumor/1/0/H/8/2/ted-kennedy-sb0523d.jpg



http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e338/determinedafterstorm/largeimagejd090826.gif... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/merh/181 Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:25:34 POWs = enemy combatants

enhanced interrogation techniques = torture

choking to death = compression of a detainee’s carotid artery


:argh:

:cry:

... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/merh/179 Mon, 24 Aug 2009 17:15:51 LOL - apparently Rove's OPed piece "'Closing in on Rove'
Why John Conyers, the New York Times and the Washington Post owe me an apology" was published in the WSJ last week and Jill Simpson has taken issue with his version of the facts (and his description of her.) http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/merh/178 Sun, 23 Aug 2009 14:08:28 The cost cannot be measured only in lost opportunities, lives and money. There will be a long hangover of shame. Its essence was summed up by Col. Ted Westhusing, an Army scholar of military ethics who was an innocent witness to corruption, not a participant, when he died at age 44 of a gunshot wou... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/merh/177 Tue, 04 Aug 2009 21:31:29 Gates did cooperate, at first he hesitated, but then he gave the man his identification that proved he belonged at that address.

You want to discuss this from the LEO standards that cops I know would have applied?

Crowley was a Harvard University cop before he went to work for Cambridge PD. H... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/merh/176 Sun, 26 Jul 2009 04:27:33 The Blue Wall that went up, the unions that defended him, the wagons that were circled across the nation.

The cop screwed up and has yet to admit to his mistakes or offer an apology and the pro-police faction refuse to admit that he made mistakes and unlawfully arrested this man.

I'm pro-polic... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/merh/173 Sun, 26 Jul 2009 02:39:24 reasonable the request. The home is my refuge, it is where I can be who I want to be and I don't care what you think of how I am behaving, it is my right.

You keep saying he didn't comply - Crowley's own report doesn't support that and bear in mind, Crowley wrote this to put himself in the best... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/merh/175 Sat, 25 Jul 2009 17:08:13 [div class="excerpt"][b]Commonwealth v. Mulvey[/b]
57 Mass. App. Ct. 579 (March 14, 2003)

[b]Police presence in and of itself does not by itself turn an otherwise [u]purely private outburst into disorderly conduct.[/u][/b]

The defendant was charged with disorderly conduct for yelling and paci... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/merh/174 Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:32:42 he should keep a grip on his own emotions and not allow his anger to govern his behavior. He had no authority to make the arrest.

[div class="excerpt"]Commonwealth v. Mulvey
57 Mass. App. Ct. 579 (March 14, 2003)

Police presence in and of itself does not by itself turn an otherwise purely p... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/merh/172 Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:49:55 http://www.freewebs.com/cederhill/brochurecrouch.jpg

Cedarhill Animal Sanctuary http://www.cedrhill.org/

Here is the Sanctuary's youtube page with video tours.
http://www.youtube.com/user/cedarhillsanctuary

and videos of the cats.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1soV5Wp9uFU&feature=channel... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/merh/171 Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:15:22 If you have an old link, isn't there a site that you can go to where you can try to recover what has been moved or deleted?

Any help any one can give will be most appreciated.

thanks :hi:... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/merh/170 Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:05:02 The Taliban is not AQ, you do know that, don't you?

Please tell me I don't have to prove to you that the Taliban is not AQ.

Relative to the offers to hand over OBL - here is plenty of reading for you:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15046240

http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn11012004.html
... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/merh/169 Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:12:51 this brief rather than see it for what it is. The ones that twisted the words and alleged bigotry that wasn't there, that gave power to the DOJ that they don't have and that ignore the rule of law to place the blame on Obama for what is a just a legal argument filed in one of many cases filed on th... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/merh/168 Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:10:40 You could go pull those cases and read them for yourself rather than rely on some article, that would help you understand the legal process a little better and it might help you appreciate the fact that this article (and most on this topic) is not written to be factual as much as it is written to ev... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/merh/167 Tue, 16 Jun 2009 02:04:26 Bush/Cheney asked their AG to give them a legal out so they could torture. Bush and Cheney used the DOJ to be their flunkies and to write them opinions which would justify torture and would override the laws as enacted by congress which outlaw torture. Bushco was president, the CnC, he didn't beli... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/merh/166 Mon, 15 Jun 2009 12:27:09