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), seconds can be days if trying to make a flight especially if you have a child to be concerned with. What is truly sad is that she was required to unzip her pants, in public, in the presence of men, whi...

It always makes them so happy to be pampered. :hi: (Image)

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 interest and "at least misdemeanor assaults" on detainees because of his link to the prison companies. Megan Mitchell, a spokeswoman for Cheney, declined to comment on Tuesday, saying that the vice president had not yet receive...

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 common folks and tell 'em how common they are.

After reading this thread about the City of 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 the website and discovered that of the $787 billion federal stimulus money appropriated by congress to the states, $4,448,759,130 was awarded to Pennsylvania. Of that money, $69.5 million was allocated to Philadelphia to build new libraries and to renovate and expand existing libraries or library services. Library ...

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. 04/16/04 LARCs Saved Hundreds Of Lives The amphibious vessel LARC, to be dedicated Tuesday, sits in front of Biloxi's seafood museum. During Hurricane Camille, the building was the headquarters for the Mississippi National Guard's 138th Transportation Battalion. Wallace Farragut, the logistics officer, says, "We kinda gauged what we were supposed to do ba...

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. The difference was in the manner in which the detainee’s breathing was obstructed. At the SERE School and in the DoJ opinion, the subject’s airflow is disrupted by the firm application of a damp cloth over the air passages; the interrogator applies a small amount of water to the cloth in a controlled manner. By contest, ...

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 this article on CERT (Link) (Image) The video linked at this forum gives you a "vague" understanding. (Link) What it sounds like to me is they (the interrogation staff over the detainees) perverted the ...

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POWs = enemy combatants enhanced interrogation techniques = torture choking to death = compression of a detainee’s carotid artery :argh: :cry:

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.) (Link) Well, it didn't take long for Jill Simpson to respond. Dear Mr. Murdoch and all the editors at the Wall Street Journal My Response to the article "Closing in on Rove" I want to thank you from the very bottom of my heart for ...

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 wound to the head while working for Gen. David Petraeus training Iraqi security forces in Baghdad in 2005. He was at the time the highest-ranking officer to die in Iraq. Colonel Westhusing’s death was r...

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. He knew the area and he knew that houses on Ware were Harvard houses. When dispatch sent him on that call he should have asked the dispatcher to call the Harvard PD and ask if that address was one of thei...

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-police, having family on the force makes me that way as I know what they deal with. I once wore the polyester with the ugly stripes down the legs and the tin on my chest and the collar brass and the gun. I'v...

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 light possible. Crowley reported that initially, Gates refused and then he gave his ID. That means that he did comply. And that is when this whole thing should have come to an end - when Crowley sh...

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 private outburst into disorderly conduct. The defendant was charged with disorderly conduct for yelling and pacing on private property that was set back from the road in a secluded area. There was no one around at the time except police officers. While the statute requires that the disturbance be such that it had or was likely to have an impact upon people ...

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. 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 private outburst into disorderly conduct. The defendant was charged with disorderly conduct for yelling and pacing on private property that was set back from the road in a secluded area. There was no one around at the time exc...

(Image) Cedarhill Animal Sanctuary (Link)/ Here is the Sanctuary's youtube page with video tours. (Link) and videos of the cats. (Link) Look at all the cats (Link) Here is an article on Cedarhill Animal Sanctuary and Kay McElroy, the lady that founded the place and that takes in the big cats and just about any animal that needs a place to call home. (Link) It all started with a newspaper ad in the local Sunday paper in 1987. "Six-month-old cougar cub for sale. $1,000.00." Out of curiosi...

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:

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: (Link) (Link) (Link) (Link) If you need the video on the February 2001 offer go to this thread (Link)

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 this and other issues concerning equal rights. Perpetuated by you and others that take their words and quote them as gospel and as if you understand them. And yes, by the likes of Barney Franks who li...

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 evoke emotion and to upset people. If you take the time to research each case you would find they are not what the authors claim they are. I'll save you the trouble this time, but next time try to veri...

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 believe he had to follow the laws passed by congress and he got some of the DOJ attorneys to write opinions that said he didn't have to. The number one thing you and others tend to overlook as you co...

The DOJ does not create the law, they cannot sign it, they do not write it, they are, by statute, required to defend it until the court holds the law to be unconstitutional or until it is repealed. Basic civics lessons - the legislature writes the laws, the executive branch enforces it and the judiciary interprets it.

To explain to you how the justice system works and how litigation of this type is handled is not an attack on you or the LGBT community. I'm one of those folks that believe knowledge is power and it is empowering to understand how the system works so that you can learn how to use it to your advantage. (though there are no guarantees that it will be advantageous) Let this get you out and protesting, let the crowds met Obama at every public appearance he makes. He needs to know that this is im...

US Supreme court cases that upheld state laws restricting marriage were quoted. Those state laws outlaw the marriage of an adult to a minor of a certain age and the marriages between members of the same family. If you are going to quote the brief, get it right and understand the reason why the cases were cited. They were cited for the legal precedent - that SCOTUS had upheld laws restricting marriage. Now, if you want to get into the falsehoods in the brief, you might want to notice the auth...

and sell it with the profits going to the family of his victim. You know that now that he has his "fame", folks will pay like crazy for his art. (Link) (Image)

Mark your calender, there is a court hearing on the Motion for Preliminary Injunction and the Motion to Intervene filed by Proposition 8 Official Proponents (Alliance Defense Fund - ProtectMarriage.com) Motion Hearing set for 7/2/2009 10:00 AM in Courtroom 6, 17th Floor, San Francisco. ============== U.S. District Court California Northern District (San Francisco) CIVIL DOCKET FOR CASE #: 3:09-cv-02292-VRW Perry et al v. Schwarzenegger et al Assigned to: Hon. Vaughn R. Walker Demand: $0 Cau...

Bush didn't write the opinion. I'm smart that way. Would it be better that Jackson survived? I suppose that depends on which state you live in, the circuits were split on the interpretation and use of same - that's why SCOTUS decided to hear the pet for cert. As Scalia explains, Edwards and Peterson provide the protections. The guarantees of the 5th and 6th amendment remain in tact. The accused has the right to remain silent and he/she can ask for a lawyer at any time during questioning an...

not commenting in the media on it, but that does not equate to ignoring it. The issues raised in this article were argued on appeal by Siegelman's co-defendant, Scrushy, and the 11th Circuit held that it was not timely raised, that the failure to recuse was not error. Holder's hands are tied, he cannot dismiss this case now, it is out of his hands and in the hands of the courts. I would think he could get the US Attorney in Alabama to drop that request that the sentence be increased, I think ...