Big Ol' Smitty

Suriname was actually known as Dutch Guyana for a minute.

This blog is teh suq.

Or how empty their lives must be.

Haha...look at this country. You are gay! Also, Suriname.

ZGangsta, I don't know where the hell I got that 52%. Another question: Could somebody summarize Adscam for me in 43 words or less?

I don't understand parliament-style politics well at all, but I read that the Greens and NDP combined for about 52% of the vote. Wouldn't they, along with the Liberals and the (leftist?) Bloc be able to basically prevent Harper and the Conservatives from doing anything?

You'll go blind! ...and grow hair on your palms.

Yeah just be a dumbshit instead of, ya know, actually defending ya boy. Also, Clinton conferred with the Republicans in Congress and Ginsburg was a name submitted to him by Sen. Hatch.

If Roberts' ruling in the recent Oregon assisted-suicide case is any indication, he's just going to be another Scalia puppet. In a prior case in which a state banned assisted-suicide, he wrote that he thought "it's important not to have too narrow a view of protecting personal rights. The right that was protected in the assisted-suicide case was the right of the people through their legislatures to articulate their own views on the policies that should apply in those cases of terminating life, and not to have the court interfering in those policy decisions. That's an important right." Yet he somehow voted against the state of Oregon's law. According to Roberts, it's fine for states to legislate bans on terminally ill patients rights to end their lives because of state's rights to legislate on this issue. But it's not okay for states to legislate allowing certain terminally ill patients to ask their doctors for medication to end their lives because states do not have rights to legislate medical practices. Apparently states' rights to legislate only apply if the state's legislature is right-wing?

Guys like Scalia & Thomas are *actually* decidedly out of the mainstream of American legal theory, but now it looks like they're going to make up 4/9 of the SCOTUS.

I don't know if the words ever left his mouth, but I know his whole deal was trying to be a man of integrity above all the partisan bullshit that everyone could agree on. Logical platform when you run against Alan Keyes. That's not the same thing as being a moderate. It implies that he's not going to be heavily left- or right-wing. You can't gain respect from everyone if you're a liberal nut or conservative nut, can you? Reagan was a conservative ideologue. LBJ was quite liberal. There have been very popular politicians who have leaned quite far one way or the other.

When did Obama claim to be a moderate?

1. I teach special ed. Social Studies. I'm student teaching right now and the mainstreaming thing is fucking me up badly. A couple of the kids in my classes are impossible to even converse with. I'm supposed to somehow teach them history and civics?

1. Lincoln 2. Washington 3. FDR 4. Jefferson 5. Truman Honorable Mention: Ike

Can't wait to see what teacher Y2Jerk posts! Oops, I mean Mr. Jerk.

I don't recall anything about sanctions...we were too busy planning failed rescue attempts for the hostages. So long as we don't deal with the Iranians the way Eisenhower did. That's what got us into this mess in the first place. I'm not to knowledgable on the exact information, but seeing the word Eisenhower and the phrase 'deal with' automatically triggers this response: Don't you mean 'didn't deal with'? Or 'ignored'? Or 'brushed over'? Or 'forgot about'? There was, in the 50s, a CIA-led coup (under Kermit Roosevelt, I think) that overthrew their democratically elected leader and put in the pro-western Mossadegh (spelling?), who was eventually overthrown in favor of Ayatollah Assaholah in the 70s.

mwahahaha Hey, Democrats are asking tough questions, just asking poorly. A for effort, F for execution. Before you making any sweeping generalizations about conservative judges always favoring corporations, New London, Conn. says hi Hardly a "sweeping generalization" about ALL conservative judges when he BY NAME mentioned only Judge Roberts. Sorry, to pop your balloon pit pigs. But you know what happens when you assume. Actually she started crying when Republican Senator Graham was defending her husband. The same Lindsay Graham that helped prep Alito for the hearings. Staged, anyone? Ex-f'n-actly. I didn't anywhere say "all conservative judges" I simply said Judge Roberts himself. And the wonderful corporate media, who love to NOT cover the rea meat and potatoes of a story, have been going on and on about Alito's wife breaking down and crying, and suprise suprise, INCORRECTLY report that she was crying because of the democrats questioning her, which is an outright lie, as when you watch the tape, she starts crying when a conservative judge is talking about how awesome Alito is. Actually, she started crying when Republican Senator Lindsey Graham was defending her husband. The same Sen. Graham that helped prep Alito for the hearings.

He's stealing my gimmick! No.

I had some nachos w/ tofu in Jamaica Plain, MA that were the best goddamn nachos I've ever had in my life.

Chuck actually has already written several autobiographies under various pseudonyms. Bible Torah Bhagavad Gita Koran Tao De Ching The Analects of Confucius Book of Mormon

Brilliant analysis. I wasn't commenting on the wisdom of exporting democracy, I was commenting on the incompatibility of the military strategy in Iraq with the policy of democratization.

They sat Palmer against KC.

I provided links to the full text of the statements and provided quotes that I thought supported my argument. I recognized that part of the AMS statement was a call for further research, but the AMS also said that human activity was causing climate change. All of these organizations support the notion of anthropogenic climate change. And the fact that they raise questions about the magnitude of the human effect in no way weakens my argument. I never said that there was no debate over the extent of the human effect on climate change.

Yeah why did the ending suck so much? The last level was really lame too.

Statements on climate change from several scientific organizations: IPCC American Meteorological Society American Geophysical Union National Academy of Sciences Joint Statement on Science of Climate Change (several academies of science) Geological Society of London IPCC: AMS: AGU: Joint Statement: GSoL: