Hmm.
 

can they take us out to their driveway and use visual exhibits?

Hmm.
 

Because God wants it to work. How difficult is that?

Fourth Circuit bitchslap
 

• Colin Powell's former Chief of Staff Lawrence Wilkerson estimates that the US administration has arrested between 30,000 and 50,000 suspects during the past year. Eighty-five percent of them were innocent, according to Wilkerson. "We really have created a mess here. A terrible mess," Wilkerson says. "This has been incredibly damaging."

http://www.spiegel.de/international/...488149,00.html

Fantastic!
 

• The Connecticut for Lieberman Party is calling on Senator Joseph Lieberman to resign from the U.S. Senate following his remarks made Sunday on CBS' Face the Nation regarding military action against Iran.
  
  Lieberman said on the national television program that, "we've got to be prepared to take aggressive military action against the Iranians."
  
  The Connecticut for Lieberman Chair, Dr. John Orman, called for Lieberman's resignation saying that he "crossed the line" and "no longer represents the views of the citizens of Connecticut."
  
  Orman, a longtime critic of Lieberman, took control of the minority party back in January.

link

Fantastic!
 

so is there talk that Joe won't get the party's nomination in 2012?

Fantastic!
 

IIRC, that guy seized control of the party by being the only person to register to vote with it. If Joe can persuade a couple of his Republican lobbyist pals to re-register, he should be OK.

Hmm.
 

Yes.

Hortatory Subjunctive
 

It all comes down to grammar.

• When In Trouble, Blame The Hortatory Subjunctive
  By Laura McGann - June 13, 2007, 4:35 PM
  
  In Lurita Doan’s defense, she has trouble with tense sometimes. That’s why members of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform think she planned to punish her employees at the General Services Administration for cooperating with investigators, not because she actually planned to sanction anyone.
  
  Lurita Doan explained her grammatical shortfalls in her testimony today. But Democrats on the committee had a hard time buying it. Rep. John Yamuth (D-KY) took her to task on her tense mincing over a statement Doan made about GSA employees that had cooperated with the Office of Special Council in its investigation into her conduct. When pushed, Doan claimed she meant to invoke the "hortatory subjuctive" when she said:
  
  Until extensive rehabilitation of their performance occurs, they will not be getting promoted and will not be getting bonuses or special awards or anything of that nature.
  Son of a Latin teacher, Rep. John Sarbanes (D-MD) disagreed. He called her statement the common "future" tense. He also spotted a connection between her grammatical defense and an accusation that she encouraged her employees to help out Republican Congressional races. At a presentation given by Karl Roves' deputy she asked her GSA employess: “How can we help our candidates?”

http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/003427.php

The video is worth watching just to catch the smirk on the face of the audience member when the Hortatory Subjunctive Defense is invoked.

Hortatory Subjunctive
 

Much like I can't tell if rp and Burger are smacking or patting, I can't figure out what this hortatototototory thing is.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hortatory_subjunctive didn't really help.

Hortatory Subjunctive
 

when do the Hatch act hearings start?

Why did the Soviet Union collapse? Falling oil prices.

pathetic.

Well, the leaders of the USSR were doing the best they good.

Hmm.
 

It's funny that the fear and idiocy at the base of the thing Darwin proved an intellectually infantile method of understanding our origins turns out to be the mechanism that enforces the law of natural selection most effectively. If it wasn't for the religious, how would we ever come to be ignorant and senseless enough to kill one another at the rate we do? It isn't much of a stretch to suggest that if Religion were made irrelevant, Darwin might also lose some relevance.

Hmm.
 

Is this fueled solely by alcohol, or are other drugs and/or sleep deprivation contributing?