How Will This Play and What is Going on Here?
 

torture
 

Your dim law school memories are better than mine, apparently, and I have less intervening time as an excuse.

Bilmore Outed?
 

I would be willing to put my hours worked per year up against that guy's.

Although I would like to know how to get the job he describes....

frivolous lawsuits
 

The thing that gets me about the tort reform crowd is that their attention is horribly misdirected. The major frivolous costs to society are not in personal injury and med mal, where at least there is an injured person being compensated, even if we feel sometimes excessively.

The big drain is the class action bar. The miniscule injury that gets blown out of proportion due to lawyer with no clients and nothing but a fat contingency on their mind. Not to mention the possibility of punitive (products liability) and treble (antitrust damages). And then there is Milberg...

Anyone have more information on this:

• The new movement has urgency: Because of a December court ruling, Johnsson and other attorneys contend, women convicted of indecent exposure [toplessness] could find themselves listed as sex offenders under Megan's Law, alongside rapists and child molesters.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la...=la-home-local

Nope. Although I am curious about why this has such urgency for you.....

All the better to see me, my dear.

you know how a Megan's law guy on a street normally hurts property values? Well this might actually increase them, you know?

How Will This Play and What is Going on Here?
 

The last time I posted on politics, I think I posted the precursor to this. Basically, google "abortion" and "Roemer" in the google news section and you'll get the background over the last 6 weeks. Lots of surprising names come up in support of tolerance on the position.

I'm not positive, but I think part of the impetus was Kerry's people saying he was surprised at the number of conflicted D constituents who would be a lot less conflicted if the party's position was a bit less strident on this issue.

And then there is the pro-life D Senate minority leader. Its gonna be interesting to see who comes out as the DNC chair.

Hello

Empty promises... the story of my life...

Ukraine
 

This has been bugging me for days, but only just got around to tracking down the post. How could Russians, whose language has no articles, have tacked "the" in front of anything?? Did they deliberately do it in languages other than Russian, but not Russian itself?

Does Ukranian have articles?

There's no "the" there.

That is all.

Ukraine
 

FBOTD.

Look, the whole "jury service" incident itself isn't a big deal, but lying to Congress (if he did so) is supposed to be a big deal.


It seems hard to believe that Gonzales would have so faulty a memory of the only time he went to Court for Bush, but it was years ago -- and in any event he is undoubtedly smart enough that everything he said was literally true.

I think, however, that "misleading" a Congressional committee who is reviewing your nomination should itself be grounds for defeat as a nominee.

If you think that lies to Congress (or misleading Congress) to protect the President from embarassment are OK so long as they match with the "record" you're endorsing a remarkably low standard of conduct for our public servants. Some Clinton nominees were sunk for allegedly lying to the FBI (Cisneros was one -- though he lied to protect himself from embarassment, not out of loyalty to his "padrone"). Any Bush nominees who mislead Congress or the FBI should suffer the same fate.

Of course, given the track record of this Administration . . . .

S_A_M

P.S. Hear about the new request for another $80B for Afghanistan & Iraq? Looks like Larry Lindsey was right in the ballpark about the cost of the war, just as Shalikashvili was about the numbers of troops which would be required for the aftermath. They were, however, way off of the party line. God Bless the USA.

How Will This Play and What is Going on Here?
 

There is certainly a movement in the DEM party away from the absolute pro-choice position, which is a good thing for both the DEMs and the country, but I don't think this will become the party orthodoxy without a fight.

Here's what I think happened. They asked him about it. It was ten years ago, so he had to refresh his memory by reading the transcript. The in chambers stuff was not in the transcript and he forgot it happened.