Facebook is divorce lawyers' new best friend Whatever you share online can (and will) be used against you in court ... Oversharing on social networks has led to an overabundance of evidence in divorce cases. The American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers says 81 percent of its members have used or faced evidence plucked from Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and other social networking sites, including YouTube and LinkedIn, over the last five years. "Oh, I've had some fun ones," said Linda Lea Viken, p...

Facebook users 'are insecure, narcissistic and have low self-esteem' By Mail Foreign Service Using Facebook is the online equivalent of staring at yourself in the mirror, according to a study. Those who spent more time updating their profile on the social networking site were more likely to be narcissists, said researchers. Facebook provides an ideal setting for narcissists to monitor their appearance and how many ‘friends’ they have, the study said, as it allows them to thrive on ‘shallow’ ...

Human Occupied Vehicle Alvin WHOI operates the U.S. Navy-owned Deep Submergence Vehicle Alvin for the national oceanographic community. Built in 1964 as one of the world’s first deep-ocean submersibles, Alvin has made more than 4,400 dives. It can reach nearly 63 percent of the global ocean floor. The sub's most famous exploits include locating a lost hydrogen bomb in the Mediterranean Sea in 1966, exploring the first known hydrothermal vent sites in the 1970s, and surveying the wreck of RMS ...

a tortuously slow death of all that we love. At least with Katrina the destruction came fast and when it was over we knew we could rebuild, we could make things right again. This is slow and cruel, we know the inevitable, we know about the unspeakable. The government keeps saying "it's not so bad" but we know that it is and our lives and our gulf, all that made rebuilding after Katrina worthwhile, will never be the same. :cry:

Palin, rubbing her face and her legs with the hand with the crib notes, leaving ink stains as she goes and smearing the words so that her garble is even more garbled. :rofl:

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: =================== Couric: What other Supreme Court decisions do you disagree with? Palin: Hmmm, Well, let’s see. There’s — of course in the great history of America there have been rulings that there’s never going to be absolute consensus by every American. And there are those issues, again, like Roe v. ...

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 are because of the war. They never expected him to loose it before he was shipped out.

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...