I hope this family gets some legal assistance.

Cheney is noting that the Obama administration is following the Cheney doctrine on the war on terror (only more so), but using rhetoric to say that they are not doing so and repudiating Cheney. He offers reasons as to why he thinks this is damaging to the effort beyond the personal insult to himself (Cheney).

The blogger doesn’t seem to be able to understand this, and somehow implies that Cheney thinks Obama is “wrong” in his pursuit of the terrorists. It sounded to me like he was saying that Obama’s rhetoric was full of crap and that the rhetoric could actually have consequences (if the government actually chose to follow the rule of law). It sounded pretty reasonable to me (if twisted).

If we are no longer engaged in a war – then the President’s commander in chief authority doesn’t apply and he cannot use the machine of war to drop bombs on people in foreign countries. That’s a pretty obvious and straightforward conclusion. I’m not sure where the snarky blogger thinks Cheney is being a hypocrite.

Particularly when the real story here is “Obama out-does Cheney on the evil-meter” if you are on the ‘Cheney is evil’ team.

http://news.yahoo.com/dna-helps-free-texas-man-convicted-wifes-death-215859107.html

Yeah, reality would tend to disagree with you.

When it comes to science, every generation makes the same mistake. They forget that they don’t know what they don’t know.

It’s criminal mutilation by default, because it’s criminal mutilation when people do it to any other body part, regardlesss of religious belief or potential prophylaxis.

It remains criminal mutilation unless and until the disagreeing provide a valid and supportable explanation for why such a special, unique, extraordinary exception to the normal laws and standards must — not just should, but MUST — be allowed ITFP.

Brice Wilson may not be guilty of anything more than DWB. In Georgia, and practically every other state, that’s probably cause.

In 2002, Farrar was found guilty by an Arapahoe County jury of multiple counts of sexual assault on a minor, his stepdaughter Sacha, who accused him and her mother of forcing her into sexual encounters from the age of eleven until she was fifteen. There was no physical evidence in the case and minimal investigation by authorities, who relied almost entirely on Sacha’s testimony. But a few months later, after refusing to testify against her mother, Sacha returned to court and recanted her story, saying she’d fabricated the entire tale in order to go live with her grandparents.

Judge John Leopold refused to grant Farrar a new trial, concluding that Sacha’s recantation wasn’t any more credible than her original testimony. (Colorado case law urges courts to regard recantations in sex abuse cases skeptically, since victims might be pressured by family members to withdraw allegations.) But Sacha has stood by her recantation for the past eight years and wasn’t living with family at the time she admitted perjury. A narrowly divided Colorado Supreme Court upheld the conviction in 2009.

[more at link]

No disrespect intended, but if you’d been buggered at infancy you probably wouldn’t remember that either. I’m all for circumcision, by the way.

A natural consequence of greenhouse gas build up which traps heat close to the surface, cooling the upper atmosphere. This cooling of the stratosphere by greenhouse gases was predicted by the climate scientists 2 decades ago, but hey everyone knows global warming isn’t real!

Well looks like the US isn’t the only country with morons calling for blood against people who are rather clearly innocent…

Glad they got out, although that insane prosecutor probably has more pain in store for Amanda and Raffaele before this is over.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/8803239/Amanda-Knox-verdict-live-updates.html

Well, jeez, you got off lucky. I got a circumcision and couldn’t walk for TWO YEARS!

Just pass a new law (we’ll give it a catchy name like the USA S.T.A.G.N.A.T.I.O.N. Act) prohibiting any other new laws which conflict in any way with the status quo. Mission accomplished. All the legislators can go home and retire on their padded pensions.

I love the ending of the article- ‘Chicago is better than that.’ No it isn’t.

You could sue your parents for having had it done.