Still Hating America.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
Nice try.

They are "quaint" when you're talking about non-uniformed combatants who weren't meant to be protected.

A world different from members of Her Majesty's Royals.

I won't dispute that you can find formalistic distinctions to use the Geneva Conventions as both a sword and a shield, but I'm a little surprised that you seem to complete miss that doing this undercuts the principles of the thing. I would have ascribed to you a sort of noble, Bolton-like aim of trashing international law by rendering it meaningless. Sadly, your success in that department seems unintentional.

[SlaveNoMore]

Tyrone Slothrop
I won't dispute that you can find formalistic distinctions to use the Geneva Conventions as both a sword and a shield, but I'm a little surprised that you seem to complete miss that doing this undercuts the principles of the thing. I would have ascribed to you a sort of noble, Bolton-like aim of trashing international law by rendering it meaningless. Sadly, your success in that department seems unintentional.

Don't worry, once the busy second quarter starts (and baseball and hockey playoffs serve as my primary distraction), you and your other American-loathing pals here can have the moonbat echo chamber that you've been championing for years.

Have fun, Hank.

[Adder]

Originally posted by Diane_Keaton
You know, Adder.....The world is questioning whether she actually wrote the note and, if so, whether she did it under some awful threat. Nobody, except you, is debating whether it's okay for a service person to publicly make statements against their country's rightful position at war. What a total retard you are.

Try reading next time.

You called her a traitor at the first Iranian assertion that she said something you disagreed with. Where in your post did you ask whether she had been tortured into it?

That's right, it was me that suggested maybe, if she even wrote it, it may have been the result of torture.

Nice try though, but you are still a dipshit.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
moonbat echo chamber

Next board title?

[Diane_Keaton]

Originally posted by Adder
Try reading next time.

Adder: "But I think this is a good example of the different definition of "supporting our troops" held by the left and the right. The right's defition is to send them to war, never question that decision, and condemn then if they ever raise questions."

So...Turney is "raising questions" in her letters about the war and the "right wing" is uncaring because it "condemns" troopers like Turney from "raising questions". Brilliant.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
Don't worry, once the busy second quarter starts (and baseball and hockey playoffs serve as my primary distraction), you and your other American-loathing pals here can have the moonbat echo chamber that you've been championing for years.

Which would be worse? That you think anyone here loathes America, or that you think it's a funny thing to say?

[Tyrone Slothrop]

WTF?

This morning, I wrote about Julie MacDonald, the Bush appointee at the Fish and Wildlife Service, who, when she isn't ignoring agency scientist recommendations about endangered species, spends her time emailing copies of internal documents to industry lobbyists. MacDonald, in my humble opinion, is vying with General Services Administration chief Lurita Doan for Hack of the Week.

Just for an extra special view into MacDonald's mind, here's another highlight from the inspector general's report (pdf). In this episode, MacDonald unwinds by sharing internal agency documents with a virtual friend and demonstrates that she trusts the feedback of her fellow gamer, who's apparently quite young, and her child over agency scientists:

• MacDonald confirmed that she also sent the Delta Smelt document [the Delta smelt fish is an endangered species] to an on-line game friend through his father's e-mail account. MacDonald said she is acquainted with the on-line friend through internet role-playing games. She said she engages in these games to relieve the stress created by her job; however, she said she has not played while at work. When asked why she would e-mail an internal [Department of Interior] document to a private citizen, MacDonald replied, "I was irritated [with what was happening regarding the subject of the document] and tried to explain my irritation over the phone; however, I sent it to him to read for a better understanding."
  
  MacDonald could offer no explanation as to why she sent her child an e-mail containing an internal DOI/FWS document other than she feels frustrated at times and likes to have third party reviews of these documents. MacDonald opined that she sent FWS documents to the on-line game friend and her child to have another set of eyes give an unfiltered opinion of them, negative comments included.

linky

[Adder]

Originally posted by Diane_Keaton
Adder: "But I think this is a good example of the different definition of "supporting our troops" held by the left and the right. The right's defition is to send them to war, never question that decision, and condemn then if they ever raise questions."

So...Turney is "raising questions" in her letters about the war and the "right wing" is uncaring because it "condemns" troopers like Turney from "raising questions". Brilliant.

Right. Just leave off the operative part. Which was:

• You: Member of British service is a traitor.
  
  Me: "You have no idea what sort of experience this person has had, and unless you have been a prisoner of war yourself, I think you have no place critizing an of these people unless and until we know something about the kind of treatment they have experienced."
  

But moreover, you do realize that there are other current and former members of the service? And that the right has condemned for raising questions about this and other wars, right?

[LessinSF]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Aw come on. I'm trying to be consistent here. It dosn't skeeve you out a little bit when people say "Oh, globalization is inevitable" when it applies to factory workers, then flip it out when it applies to their fat, chair warming, middle management asses?

Fuck them. We should all eat cake. We deserve it. We're a country overpopoluated with fat, lazy, apathetic, uncreative people.

I should be on a street corner, panhandling. It's pathetic I was able to squirrel away any amount of money with my years of shystering. I've been a boil on society's ass, stealing from business one way, then another. I have no business having drinks with my doctor friends.*

*Excepting those times I did criminal defense, which were laudable.

I represent/ed insurance companies. I win.

LessinBA

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Just read it. It's dense, but worth the read. Don't post some shit taking apart the authors or accusing me of offering a flawed study. I'm not saying it's flawless. All I'm saying is this thing describes in simple numbers something I've seen from both sides of the aisle, and should concern us as a society. Click on the March 27, 2007 story (its a PDF doc).

http://www.americanjusticepartnership.org/

[Secret_Agent_Man]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
When i was biglaw, one of the tax guys calls me with a great cross sell client- this guy lives in his parents basement. he had taped Star Wars episodes and was selling the bootlegs on the internet. the Feds raided and seized the tapes and also his mom's computer. Tax guy thinks we should represent him in the copyright case!!!!! Hint there is no case, just a determination of how much he owes- great potential client though- what can we get for a retainer, maybe have his mom make us lunch for a month?

For the life of me, I can't see the point in this one.

S_A_M

[Secret_Agent_Man]

Originally posted by Diane_Keaton

I don't think we know nearly enough to make a judgment on that.

S_A_M

[Secret_Agent_Man]

Originally posted by Adder
But I think this is a good example of the different definition of "supporting our troops" held by the left and the right. The right's defition is to send them to war, never question that decision, and condemn then if they ever raise questions. The lefts is to, you know, actually care what happens to them.

You were doing fine with the first paragraph, Adder . . . but then you posted this. Whether or not you think its true, this seems a bit off point.

S_A_M

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Secret_Agent_Man
For the life of me, I can't see the point in this one.

S_A_M

they're not all insightful parables. sometimes I just storytell.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
they're not all insightful parables. sometimes I just storytell.

Little-known fact: Homer turned out his share of potboilers, and the Illiad and the Odyssey weren't critical successes until long after he was dead.