sweet, sweet irony
 

The article about Sunstein's book is here. What you linked to is a bunch of Salon readers' comments on his article.

I'm a Ford, not a Lincoln. And Ford has a better idea.
 

The mind of a republican.

Look, I just report the news. I find it odd that all the sexual deviants who get elected seem to be bible-belt Republicans.

Has anyone else seen the move "The Naked Kiss"?

sweet, sweet irony
 

thank you. the link was in what i posted though. It is sort of the phenom I wrote about WRT reading, say lgf every day. I have broken away from the constraints. Anyone else?

Misinformation about purported chemical weapons links between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda in Colin Powell's speech to the UN was obtained by tortured following rendition to Egypt:

• In a CIA sub-station close to al Libi's jail cell, the CIA's "debriefers," who had been talking to al Libi for days after his return from Cairo, were typing out a series of operational cables to be sent Feb. 4 and Feb. 5 to the CIA Headquarters in Langley, Va. In the view of some insiders, these cables provide the "smoking gun" on the whole rendition program -- a convincing account of how the rendition program was, they say, illegally sending prisoners into the hands of torturers.
  
  Under torture after his rendition to Egypt, al Libi had provided a confession of how Saddam Hussein had been training al Qaeda in chemical weapons. This evidence was used by Colin Powell at the United Nations a year earlier (February 2003) to justify the war in Iraq. ("I can trace the story of a senior terrorist operative telling how Iraq provided training in these [chemical and biological] weapons to al Qaeda," Powell said. "Fortunately, this operative is now detained, and he has told his story.")
  
  But now, hearing how the information was obtained, the CIA was soon to retract all this intelligence. A Feb. 5 cable records that al Libi was told by a "foreign government service" (Egypt) that: "the next topic was al-Qa'ida's connections with Iraq...This was a subject about which he said he knew nothing and had difficulty even coming up with a story."
  
  Al Libi indicated that his interrogators did not like his responses and then "placed him in a small box approximately 50cm X 50cm [20 inches x 20 inches]." He claimed he was held in the box for approximately 17 hours. When he was let out of the box, al Libi claims that he was given a last opportunity to "tell the truth." When al Libi did not satisfy the interrogator, al Libi claimed that "he was knocked over with an arm thrust across his chest and he fell on his back." Al Libi told CIA debriefers that he then "was punched for 15 minutes." (Sourced to CIA cable, Feb. 5, 2004).
  
  Here was a cable then that informed Washington that one of the key pieces of evidence for the Iraq war -- the al Qaeda/Iraq link -- was not only false but extracted by effectively burying a prisoner alive.

ABC News. But we've got to keep torture legal in case we ever find someone who knows where there's a nuclear bomb about to go off in Manhattan!

sweet, sweet irony
 

I like this board because I know I will encounter people with whom I disagree.

eta: My web-browsing habits similarly include sites with a variety of views, particularly including people who do a good job of aggregating stories from a range of places, and generally not including sites like Kos or LGF with a partisan raison d'etre.

I'm a Ford, not a Lincoln. And Ford has a better idea.
 

I didn't realize that South Dakota and Idaho were in the so-called Bible Belt.

Or is this some strange side-effect of "global warming"?

I'm a Ford, not a Lincoln. And Ford has a better idea.
 

I think from his ivory tower, all of flyover land is the bible belt.

sweet, sweet irony
 

Poll: is this the most unbelievable statement ever on the PB?

I'm a Ford, not a Lincoln. And Ford has a better idea.
 

I stand corrected.

I find it odd that all the sexual deviants who get elected seem to be mainstream Republicans.

I'm a Ford, not a Lincoln. And Ford has a better idea.
 

Who are the deviants? The guy who liked pageboys matches up favorably with Barney Frank. Larry Craig isn't deviant (He is not a deviant and has never been a deviant). He's gay, and closeted, so looks for sex where lots of closeted gay people do--anonymously in bathrooms. If you want to call that deviant, go ahead, but I suspect that's a pissing match few democrats would want to get in.

I'm a Ford, not a Lincoln. And Ford has a better idea.
 

Go back. Click the link. Start there.

I'm a Ford, not a Lincoln. And Ford has a better idea.
 

If he was in his early 20s and not morbidly obese, I don't believe you would be calling him deviant. The most appalling thing about what he did was that he was abusing foster kids entrusted to him, but that doesn't make him deviant.

I'm a Ford, not a Lincoln. And Ford has a better idea.
 

I did. It sort of ends there. Or at least somewhere around slave's follow-up post.

I'm a Ford, not a Lincoln. And Ford has a better idea.
 

Wanting to do gyno-type exams on women/girls significantly younger, when he's kind of a father figure, is not an entirely harmless kink. Late 40s with 16-y-os?

I'm a Ford, not a Lincoln. And Ford has a better idea.
 

Look at him. Do you think it's a kink? Or the fact that a guy with his looks is getting some play only through major deception of innocents too unaware to figure out the ploy?