From The Daily Kos:
How long will it take until the Shia clerics pick up their weapons and give the order for an uprising?
From the Whisky Bar at closing time:
So how long will it be before the administration and/or its apologists start telling us that “this war was never about democracy in Iraq”?
Got answers?
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is selling like magic in India. The cover
suggests this might be a different version then the UK or US version.
Via Al Sessions at FultonChain.
The senate is confirming folks like Nathan Chertoff for judicial positions 88-1. From Nate Hentoff:
In his book After, Steve Brill, based on his sources, reports that in the strategy sessions at the Justice Department, Chertoff, agreeing that the detainees should be held for long periods of questioning, said that even if some got a hearing, “the hearings could not only be done in secret, but also could be delayed, and that even after the hearings were held and they were ordered deported [usually for only minor immigration violations], there was nothing in the law that said they absolutely had to be deported immediately. They could be held still longer.”
As for the detainees’ right to contact lawyers, Chertoff and the others in the room, reports Brill, knew that under INS rules, the prisoners “were entitled to call a lawyer from jail, but the lists the INS provided of available lawyers invariably had phone numbers that were not in service.” (Emphasis added.)
Yea, I know what follows isn’t perfect logic. However, if this guy with such callous views of our rights is so easily approved then imagine just how bad the ones currently being filibustered must be.
Via Talkleft.
John at Catallarchy has found some entertaining, though out of context, snippets from the new Harry Potter.
Now, I’m sure most of you have not been looking for this type of thing as you read the Harry Potter stories but have you found other examples? Rowling was not adverse to sneaking in a bit of off color humor in the earlier books.
The talking dog reads Pravda and praises bush:
The man has built himself into an infinitely better athlete than I’ll ever be. For that, he has my unqualified admiration.
But this is quite out of context. Go read the entire post especially the strong raised leg of the next to to last paragraph.