LA March
 

This IS the Politics Board.

Juan!!! Mi amigo!!

S_A_M

Williams Act
 

Totally off topic, but if anyone has Williams Act expertise, please PM me. Thanks. Carry on.

Buying a new Laptop
 

I decided not to screw around anymore and I pull the trigger. I followed your adviced and upgraded everything. It turned out to be 3600 instead of 2500. But here is the imprtant stuff:
Qty Part # Description
--- -------- ---------------------------------------------
1 222-1328 Inspiron E1505, Intel Core Duoprocessor T2500 (2MB/2GHz/667MHz)
1 320-4652 15.4 Inch UltraSharp TrueLife Wide-screen WSXGA+, for Inspiron 6400/E1505
1 311-5778 2GB, DDR2, 533MHz 2 Dimm for Inspiron 6400/E1505
1 320-4655 256MB ATI MOBILITY RADEON X1400 HyperMemory, for Inspiron 6400/E1505
1 341-3316 120GB 5400RPM SATA Hard Drive for Inspiron 6400/E1505
1 420-4770 Microsoft Windows XP Professional, Service Pack 2, English, for Inspiron
1 430-0493 Integrated 10/100 Network Cardand Modem, for Inspiron
1 465-0930 8X DVD+/-RW Drive for Inspiron 6400/E1505
1 430-1627 Intel PRO/Wireless 3945 802.11a/g Mini Card (54Mbps), for for Inspiron 6400/E1505
1 465-1661 Dell Wireless 350 Bluetooth Module (2.0+EDR) for Inspiron 6400/E1505
1 312-0403 85 WHr 9-cell Lithium Ion Primary Battery, for Inspiron 6400/E1505
1 412-0488 Microsoft Office 2003 Small Business and EducateU(includesPowerpoint,and Business Contact Manager)
1 312-0405 85 WHr 9-cell Lithium Ion Additional Battery, for Inspiron 6400/E1505



Thanks for the help.

Buying a new Laptop
 

I thought you retired?

Buying a new Laptop
 

Case settle?

Buying a new Laptop
 

It's confusing him saying he got authorization because I thought he worked for himself, but maybe there's a real Sybil thing going on here. I'm scared to ask.

Buying a new Laptop
 

Marriage. Once the ring is on the finger, you never work for just yourself again.

Given the run-up over budget, he owes the Serb a pound of flesh.

Should be an interesting fight
 

George Will

This Marine just won't back down

http://www.NewsAndOpinion.com | As usual, Jim Webb is spoiling for a fight. As usual, he has found one. He is seeking the Democrats' senatorial nomination in Virginia against the incumbent, George Allen, a Presidential aspirant.


Webb, a varsity boxer at Annapolis, was wounded twice as a Marine officer in Vietnam where he earned the Navy Cross, the Silver Star, two Bronze Stars and two Purple Hearts. His six novels include the best written about Vietnam, "Fields of Fire."


In 1988 he resigned — more feistiness — as President Reagan's secretary of the Navy to protest a reduction of the Navy's force structure. He is a product of the turbulent Scots-Irish diaspora that has given America Kit Carson, two scrappy Jacksons — Andrew and Stonewall — Robert E. Lee and Reagan. The title of Webb's history of America's Scots-Irish? "Born Fighting."


Now he has picked a fight with a fighter. Allen, a former governor running statewide for the third time, is a terrific political talent. Even if Webb wins the Democratic primary June 13 (his opponent, Harris Miller, is a former lobbyist and longtime Democratic activist), Allen will be heavily favored. But Virginia will have a contest of heavyweights, and Allen will be a better Presidential candidate for having gone 12 rounds with Webb.


Webb, who says he was "pretty much" a Democrat until President Carter "pardoned the draft evaders," endorsed Allen over Democratic Sen. Chuck Robb in 2000, after supporting Robb — another Marine veteran of Vietnam — in 1994. In 1992, Webb supported the Presidential campaign of another Vietnam veteran, Nebraska Democrat Sen. Bob Kerrey, who now is national finance chairman of Webb's campaign. Webb says, "I wouldn't shake John Kerry's hand for 20 years" because of Kerry's anti-Vietnam activities but "I voted for him" in 2004.


"It was Iraq," Webb says, "that convinced me the Republican Party has gone crazy." He says: "I warned them early, they went in precipitously. We need to get out carefully, we do not need to be an occupying force." Carefully, but within two years.


Almost seven months before the invasion of Iraq he warned (Washington Post, Sept. 4, 2002) that before moving from "containment to unilateral war and a long-term occupation of Iraq" we should remember that the Soviet Union was defeated by patient, intense containment. As for the flippant calls, before the 1991 Gulf War, for taking Baghdad and installing "a MacArthurian regency:"
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"Our occupation forces never set foot inside Japan until the emperor had formally surrendered and prepared Japanese citizens for our arrival.


Nor did MacArthur destroy the Japanese government when he took over as proconsul. . . . Nor is Japanese culture in any way similar to Iraq's. The Japanese are a homogeneous people. . . . The Iraqis are a multiethnic people filled with competing factions who in many cases would view a U.S. occupation as infidels invading the cradle of Islam."


Long convinced that invading Iraq would "empower Iran, the long-term threat," Webb thinks the administration's neoconservative nation-builders "are so far to the left they seem to be on the right."


His challenge will be to harvest financial support, much of it from outside of Virginia, from antiwar liberals, without forfeiting his appeal to Virginia's moderate Democrats and many military families. He is being endorsed by some of the retired generals now denouncing Don Rumsfeld.


And he will attract attention if he continues to charge that the Bush administration is "deliberately miscounting the casualties in Iraq," minimizing them by "counting only those evacuated out of theater."


Webb says, "I'm pro-choice, pro-gay rights, pro-Second Amendment."


Two out of three might not suffice, given that Democratic primary voters — disproportionately, liberal activists — often have little tolerance for heterodoxy. And he says, "I'm not saying what antiwar people want to hear — 'Get out last Tuesday.'"


Although Webb has concentrated his fire on Allen, Miller attacked Webb until Sen. Chuck Schumer, who is head of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and hates primaries, told him to desist. Over the years Webb has made impolitic pronouncements opposing women in combat and warning that some affirmative action had become "state-sponsored racism."


Today, Webb endorses affirmative action but not for mere "diversity" reasons. He says that as secretary of the Navy he tripled the number of women in "operational billets" and that he has been endorsed by the only woman to make it through the Special Operations course.


He campaigns in combat boots given to him by his son, who was a year from graduating from Penn State but now is a Marine lance corporal. He is due in Iraq in September.

Hmm.
 

Texas Democratic State Representative Trey Martinez-Fisher held a conference call yesterday with bloggers to explain his gas tax cut proposal. As reported by Charles Kuffner: Alaska gets its bridge to nowhere out of last year's transportation bill. Texans get cheaper gas. I like this proposal.

Wow.

Moussaoui not a martyr

Smart jury.

Perhaps. At least he no longer has a platform for his views. He goes to a cold cell in Denver, where we aren't likely to hear from him again.

Exactly.

dissent. It's good for people to hear from him. His side is already focused and angry- he ain't going to make them more so. it's our side that needs to remember.

edit: jury verdict form-

http://coop.vaed.uscourts.gov/mou1852.pdf

interesting point, preventing him from becoming a martyr was a factor to NO jurors in the sentence. Rough childhood and abusive daddy were factors to 9 jurors.

I wonder what this lady's childhood was like.

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/webl...1/falling2.jpg

stolen from lgf

Driving Lessons from Teddy?
 

Here's a softball for the artist formally known as penske:

• 9 News has learned U.S. Capitol police officers are concerned about the handling of an accident involving Congressman Patrick Kennedy (D-Rhode Island) about 3 a.m. this morning.
  
  Rep. Kennedy was reportedly behind the wheel of a green Ford Mustang when it crashed into a security barrier at 1st and "C" streets Southeast.
  
  There are no reports of injuries. Sources say Kennedy told officers he was late for a vote. We are told police drove him home, after conferring with higher ups in the department. So far, Kennedy HAS NOT been charged. A spokesman for his office told CNN that alcohol was NOT involved.
  
  The head of the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 1, Lou Cannon, told 9 News that he’s concerned that Kennedy may have received special treatment and this could be a case where “rank has its privilege.”
  
  9 News reporter Stacey Cohan spoke to Kennedy's press secretary at his congressional office in Rhode Island, who said she is looking into the situation, but does not have any information right now.
  
  Congressman Patrick Kennedy is Ted Kennedy's son. He is currently serving his sixth term as the Democratic Congressman from Rhode Island. He sits on the powerful House Appropriations Committee.

POTM

One thing not to want to martyr him - but mitigating sentencing because he had a rough childhood????

What is it going to take for morons like this to ever get it??

Not(He's right - We lost)yS

So is your issue with the result, or with the jury's reasoning for getting there, or both? How important to you is it that Moussaoui would get the death penalty?

Did you know Hitler's father was cold towards the children and somewhat abusive to his mother?

1) If his case doesn't merit a death sentence, whose would?? You may as well remove the penalty from the books. It's meaningless.

2) And FWIW, yes, I'm more concerned about how they got there. Aren't you?

You're talking about the jurors? Because I've been informed that calling ordinary folks like those who serve on juries, or vote in presidential elections and suchlike "morons" just because they arrive a different conclusion than the one you might prefer is the mark of a condescending liberal elitist. You want to watch out for that - very bad. Even worse if you happen to live in New York or San Francisco. Just ask Bilbo.

And since we're talking about childhoods now and posting graphic images, do I get to post pictures of Iraqi kids all torn to shit by Operation Ooops There Really Wasn't Anything In Those Winnebagos and Operation Hussein And Osama Were Tight Like That, No Really? Because there are a few out there that might make you wonder exactly what kind of death you might prefer, for yourself and for your family, or at least how it is that some kinds of dead people are so much more valuable than others when the rhetorical knives come out.

I could give a shit whether Moussawi dies or rots the rest of his useless life in prison. If anyone thinks either option is going to make a ball hair's worth of difference to The Global War On/Of/For Terrorism or whatever it's called this week you give that asshole more credit than he's worth.

I would've been fine with the jury giving Moussaoui the DP, but I didn't see that particular goal (instead of life in prison) as the burning issue that the Justice Department did.

I understand that there are many others with more direct links to 9/11 than this asshole, and they appear to be held overseas. Some speculate that the US Govt can't or won't bring them here for trial because they might've been tortured or some such shit, and evidentiary problems result.

And yes, I'm concerned about how the jury reaches its decision, too, but I couldn't distinguish one from the other in your post, so I asked.

I thought it was interesting that 3 of them wrote in that they didn't feel he was all that connected to the attacks. And, I think if somehow some of the guys who flew the planes had survived, and Moussaoui had been on trial at the same time as they were, they would have gotten the death penalty but Moussaoui would not have, because he doesn't seem to have been nearly as involved. I don't see why the result should be different just because the others weren't on trial.

Mayday, May Day
 

Are we back to Iraq? I thought this week was dedicated to the Mexicans?

Not("Are you a Mexican, or a Mexi-can't")yS

Mayday, May Day
 

Moussaoui is Mexican? Go figure. Or maybe the woman who jumped was Mexican? Please clarify.

I'm not sure what all the commotion is about on this. Frankly, if I had the choice between life in prison and death I would chose the latter.

what's most confused is your strained ability to distinguish the 2 situations- expected, but confused.

what's most confusing is that (and i was watching) it took you a half an hour to compose this nonsense- you know your breezy NYC hipster "I'm all in control" attitude? That's a front, huh?

The bus you took to middle school- how many rows of seats- 10 or so?

(1) That's interesting. I'm pretty much anti-death penalty (usual rant about Cafeteria Catholics like Jeb Bush and Antonin Scalia deleted), so take this with a grain of salt, but I would say that this is not a case where the death penalty is warranted. It just seems that he was too far removed from the conspiracy, despite his wishful thinking.

(2) Yes and no. Interesting article in Slate on that very point -- which boxes the jury checked, and possible explanations of why they did. And I am occasionally troubled by how juries reach their decisions, but I think that the rare odd/stupid verdict is the price we pay for having a jury of our peers make these sorts of decisions.

The Slate article gives the impression that there was a box given to the jurors for "limited involvement" but the NYT article said that 3 jurors wrote it in. Anyone know what the story is on this?

ETA because I could see some jurors not wanting to check the made-up, unofficial box.

am i on ignore again? I posted the actual form. they did write that in- and mentioned that 3 found for it.

Via our former landlords, here's the actual form. http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/m.../jv2phase.html

As you can see, there's a printed one that says his role in the operation was minor, and a handwritten one that says his knowledge of the attack plans was limited.

So, they're sorta different factors -- I'd guess probably the same people voted for both of these, but who knows.

ETA: Sorry if the link was already posted, hank -- I don't have you on ignore, but I don't remember actually looking at the form. Maybe I just like fringey better.

hmmmmm

Ah. I remember the pic, don't remember the link to the form. Perhaps fringey and I read your post before the edit adding the link.

I meant that posting that picture was cheap, like your suits.

And it's hippy, not hipster.

Hmmmm, Yourself
 

Perhaps it was the disturbing photograph you posted that urged others to simply scroll past your post as quickly as possible?

Yes, in that 18-hour window between posting and editing, I think. :rolleyes:

got me. i was just trying to increase my oil profits.

and Wonk, yes the picture is disturbing. but the answer isn't to put out of our minds it happened- saying Mousarria(sp?) will now go away quietly and we can move on- that's more disturbing.

Hey, I wasn't playing "gotcha" -- I just honestly didn't remember seeing the link when I saw your post.

Apropos of nothing, Slate's dialog this week has Robert Kagan, and in his entry yesterday, he made the most cogent and lucid defense of invading Iraq that I have seen.

one. it was 16 hours, and that was a second minor edit- the edit that added the verdict form was earlier and also added the photo.

Dow Hits 6 Year High
 

Dow Hits 6 Year High
 

Sometimes I doubt my decision to invest my retirement fund exclusively in the fine products issued by the Franklin Mint. But only for a moment. This bubble will burst, mark my words.