I have to admit that my legal ears perked up when Obama said during his press conference last night that in fact waterboarding is torture, and our government did waterboard. He was per se admitting, as the president of the United States, that our country committed torture. I started to wonder if legally he might [...]
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Makes Bush look like a class act, doesn’t he? From the Committee to Protect Journalists, comes the 10 worst countries to be a blogger, unless of course you enjoy being harassed, arrested, tortured and killed. Do a Twitter Search for swine flu and you’ll find more than a little hysteria and misinformation coupled with the inevitable wackos trying to sell you on their conspiracy theory. Sigh. Instead, wash your hands. Be healthy. Don’t worry. And as for the mocking joke I made yesterday about companies putting logos on face masks, [...] Soot, also known as black carbon, is the second-leading cause of global warming after carbon dioxide, and it’s totally preventable. We already have the technology to avoid producing it; it’s just a matter of using it. Soot is harmful to lungs, causes deaths, and heats up polar ice. It comes from diesels, smokestacks and [...] Why? Because they want to stop pirates stealing their boats at gunpoint. So, they’ve fought back. This should put an end to the mistaken meme that the pirates are selfless warriors fighting against the despoiling of the waters by outsiders. If that were true, they wouldn’t be stealing their compatriot’s boats, now would they? Coming [...] Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) has been battling the banks the last few weeks in an effort to get 60 votes lined up for bankruptcy reform. He’s losing. On Monday night in an interview with a radio host back home, he came to a stark conclusion: the banks own the Senate. “And the banks — hard [...] The Wind Energizer is a donut-shaped structure, customized for each wind turbine depending on its siting, that diverts more wind into them, thus increasing output. “We’re shaping the flow so that the highest velocities hit the blades. By increasing velocity at exactly the right point we’ve been able to make serious advances in the [...] They now have 410,000 members. Many are new, young, and disaffected. The ruling LDP by contrast has about a million members. By dispensing with ideological rhetoric and focusing on welfare and jobs, the JCP has struck a chord with students, the unemployed and the estimated 10 million Japanese earning less than 2m yen (about £14,000) [...] I trusted my subordinates but tragically they betrayed me The filing by court-appointed receiver Ralph Janvey [for Allen Stanford's crumbled empire] describes a gaggle of businesses with bloated payrolls, high overhead and dozens of different accounting systems “seemingly designed to obfuscate holdings and transfers of cash and assets.” Gosh, now why would anyone [...] |
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