The move represents the first public position by the administration on the issue. Obama's position mirrors that of President George W. Bush, whose aides found themselves in the cross-fire after the agent, Plame Wilson, was outed by conservative columnist Robert Novak.
http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/05/21/obama-plame-lawsuit/
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As with a number of other principles, changing this insidious policy has been put on the back burner by the Obama Administration. Fehrenbach, who was born on an Air Force base and calls the Air Force his life, has been told that he is a danger to his unit and its morale. Of course, the soldiers who he protected from an ambush by attacking that enemy position were not particularly interested in the time who he dated. The military now appears to believe that it would have been better not to have him in the airplane at all so heterosexual soldiers could die without the corrupting influence of a homosexual.
His career and those of other gay soldiers, sailors, and air personnel is simply not a priority at this time.
For the full story, click here.
"Ida" is being called the "eighth wonder of the world" — except in Texas where it is being called a dead monkey.
Bill Nye might want to be consulted before the bring Ida to the Lone Star state.
There's nobody more weak-kneed than a chicken-hawk. The former Vice Capon and his nattering nabobs of knee-knocking prove that aplenty with their Chicken Little worldview. They whimper that if Guantanamo closes or the internees are granted actual non-simian trials, democracy as we know it is done for.
After the last 8 years, I'd say that fear comes a little late, but why quibble?
The GOPissTheirPants is worried about terror suspects coming to the US? Come on! We imprison more people than anyone other than China fer chrissakes. We have had actual cannibals in our state lockups. We have prison gang members with more access to firepower than the entire Coalition of the Inept. Where was all this hue and cry when our own criminals were locked up? I thought the Republican party was the "law and order party". What would St. Ronnie of Reagan say if he saw this disgraceful display of pants-wetting cowardliness?
More: http://www.teambio.org/2009/05/19/the-nattering-nabobs-of-knee-knocking/
And another thing from Wisco:
Wait, we can't even try them in the US? Why? If you think they'll build a mass accelerator cannon and escape with their army of robots, you're confusing a religious lunatic with Lexx Luthor. And we don't even know if they're all religious lunatics. Why? Because we haven't tried them yet!
But hey, we can't expect the criminal justice system to deal with a bunch of crazy cultists. Putting dangerous people in American prisons is just crazy talk. They're designed for pillars of society like serial killers, neo-nazi gangmembers, and child rapists. There's no way they could handle terrorists -- well, other than American terrorists like anti-abortion nut Eric Rudolph or Unabomber Ted Kaczynski. But I'm sure that -- all the random killing and mayhem aside -- Rudolph and Kaczynski are wonderful people and harmless as bunnies.
At the heart of this is an attempt by the right to embarrass Obama. Only extremely stupid people are worried about putting a member of al Qaeda in a US prison -- let alone trying one in a US court. And we aren't going to release someone who's actually guilty. Show of hands -- who thinks we ought to keep innocent people in custody forever? Who thinks that's justice?
Harry Reid says, "You can't put them in prison unless you release them."
What the hell is he talking about? "Can't put them in prison unless you release them?" Since when? Was Dahmer released, was Rudolph, was Kaczynski, was Tim McVeigh? Seriously Harry, if you could clear up what the hell you're talking about, that'd be great. Because right now it looks like shameless and stupid bullshit worthy of Rush Limbaugh or Ann Coulter.
If we can deal with guys who eat human hearts and shoot acid into people's brains, we can deal with terrorists. We have before. This whole issue is either people being stupid or pretending to be stupid. I won't make the distinction in the case of Harry Reid, because it doesn't make any difference.
As Kurt Vonnegut once wrote, "You are who you pretend to be." If Reid and Wisconsin State Rep. Dean Kaufert are pretending to be stupid, I say we take them at their word -- they're stupid.
Update: They voted overwhelmingly to support George Bush invasions of two countries without 'comprehensive plans', but now the lily-livered pantywaists have decided comprehensive plans are necessary to close Gitmo, so they have voted 90-6 against it. The 6 non-cowards were Democrats: Durbin, Harkin, Leahy, Levin, Reed, Whitehouse.
Can we finally put to bed the pipe dream that 60 Democratic votes in the Senate will matter?
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Colleen Hauser has flown the coop. She has defied a court order to bring her sick son, Daniel Hauser, to a qualified doctor for essential medical care: http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2009/05/modern_day_isaacs.php
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The Rude Pundit wonders about the craven Republican he-whore who exclaims about the Gitmo detainees "They get better health care than the average American citizen does" and then proudly stands in the way of Americans getting health care coverage. What's the real threat to the United States? What and who do we really need to be afraid of? What's an actual national security issue?
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Four men have been arrested and charged in a plot to detonate explosives near at least one synagogue in the Riverdale section of the Bronx and to shoot down military aircraft, authorities said Wednesday night.
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Three of the suspects are U.S. citizens and one is Haitian, Gov. David A. Paterson said last night, adding that the plot was considered "a serious threat."
Newt Gingrich, the hated former Speaker of the House and noted serial adulterer turned Catholic (and I bet Friday confession at his Parish is a rollicking good time!), says that current hated Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi is making the troops less safe and will be responsible for the next terrorist attack if they are not allowed to waterboard, or something.
Speaker Pelosi has damaged America's safety.
She's made America less secure by sending a signal to the men and women defending our country that they can't count on their leaders to defend them.
And every day they spend worrying about being politically persecuted is a day we are made more vulnerable to a nuclear attack on one of our cities, a biological attack on one of our subways, or a bomb going off in one of our malls.
Little Newtie fails to note that the killer pig death flu is probably the terrorists' biological weapon, and is her fault, too. Don't know how he could have missed that one. The man's game is clearly slipping.
Our socialist magic negro overlord and re-education camp councilor is about to sign a bill that will allow concealed weapons in National Parks, because, woo-hooo, everyone needs a gun when liquered up camping and the tent next to you is making too much noise, or something.
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If you want to know what a progressive Democrat with a spine sounds like, check out this gem of a statement from Rep. Alan Grayson, a Democrat elected from a very Republican district in Florida, on why he voted against funding for the Afghanistan war.
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Even as Secretary of Defense Robert Gates was being raked over the coals in Congress for the decision to cut funding to America's missile defense systems, Israeli defense officials have revealed that Israel's own Arrow 3 missile defense system will be "fully funded" by the United States yet again this year: http://news.antiwar.com/2009/05/20/us-promises-to-fully-fund-israeli-missile-defense-system-while-cutting-their-own/
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With the June 30 deadline for US troops to leave Iraqi cities rapidly approaching, the US desire to stay and the Iraqi government's desire to look like they're making the US adhere to the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) seem clearly at odds. Yet, it seems, the two sides have found a rather clever loophole. Deciding that neither side really wanted the 3,000 US troops to leave southern Baghdad, the two have decided southern Baghdad really isn't part of the city of Baghdad, indeed not a city at all, and therefore not subject to the deadline.
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From Anti-war Law Professor to Warmonger in 100 Days: http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/47696,opinion,barack-obama-from-anti-war-law-professor-to-warmonger-in-100-days
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The Senate voted to confirm David Hayes as Deputy Interior Secretary last night, after Sens. Robert Bennett (R-UT) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) had blocked Hayes's nomination because Secretary Ken Salazar "had canceled oil and gas leases." Hayes became the first Obama pick to be rejected in a floor vote.###
Ahmed Ghailani, a Guantanamo prisoner and al Qaeda suspect, will be tried in the US for helping with the African embassy bombings in 1998. So far, none of his terrorist cronies have tried to break him out of prison. Reuters
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