Rolleyes News of The Day

[AMDScooter]

And the fishing expedition continues...

White House, Cheney's Office, Subpoenaed by the Senate

[jimzinsocal]

^^Similar

http://www.floppingaces.net/2007/06/...here-it-belon/

[jimzinsocal]

Oh give me a break wee wee pants.

Two years ago it was called "smart politics" and "protecting the minority"

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/27/senate-obstruction/

[SteveW]

Well, now that I've seen the video.

The car owner/driver should be jailed for negligent homicide.

A total phuk up and complete disregard for life and safety.

This stupid MF did a full-up wide open pass with the tires smoking - not evel close to a burnout.

A burnout runs about 25-30 mph - this a$$hole had to be hitting near 100mph when he totally lost it - rear wheel speed when it shifted was probably 200mph.

A burnout is pretty easy to control for an experienced driver.

What he did isn't easy to control - obviously.

Pure Stupidity

Unleashing a ~3000hp alchohol funny car in front of an unprotected crowd is simply lame.

[Fluff n Stuff]

Not really a 'rolleyes' moment, but I'd just like to point out that when they 'Swear You In' in certain courtrooms, it is a good idea to pay attention to the Oath.

"So help me, God" may seem old fashioned, but "Or I hope I die where I'm sitting" is not really a good idea...

Especially so close to the Vatican. Touchy up there.

[jimzinsocal]

via reynolds this morning

FREE SPEECH UPDATE:

Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold of Wisconsin got his long overdue comeuppance in the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday. The court ruled the senator is not above criticism before an election, no matter what law Feingold may author.
And three justices even reminded him that Wisconsin is not Morocco. . . . A key provision of this "reform" is a restriction on political ads just before an election.
Oh, not on the ads of the politicians. Senators can run all the TV ads their fat-cat supporters are willing to buy.
No, the politicians restricted what ads the citizenry may run on TV before an election.
This "campaign reform" is like a drunk "curing" his alcoholism by telling his wife she cannot imbibe.

I hope that there's a lot of publicity in this vein, as I fear we're about to see another bipartisan effort by the inhabitants of Incumbistan to shut down criticism.
posted at 10:19 AM by Glenn Reynolds

[Dutchcedar]

^^^ "Incumbistan"... I like that...

[Nate]

Not really a 'rolleyes' moment, but I'd just like to point out that when they 'Swear You In' in certain courtrooms, it is a good idea to pay attention to the Oath.

"So help me, God" may seem old fashioned, but "Or I hope I die where I'm sitting" is not really a good idea...

Especially so close to the Vatican. Touchy up there.

Poor kid stuck in the middle of it again. It's very rollseyes in that respect, I'm sick of hearing these stories of irresponsible parents.

I'll say it again - you need a license to drive a car, go fishing, go hunting, own certain guns, etc etc.

But any idiot can go off and have a kid. *shakes head*

[AMDScooter]

Another previous Gitmo guest in the news.... apparently killed at a mosque.. go figure.

Two suspected militants killed in downtown Nalchik

Verified... ex-gitmo guest dies in shootout.

Russia: Ex-Guantanamo detainee killed

By JIM HEINTZ, Associated Press Writer Wed Jun 27, 3:06 PM ET

MOSCOW - A man formerly held in the U.S. facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was killed Wednesday in a shootout with security agents in a restive North Caucasus republic, Russia's top security agency said.

Ruslan Odizhev was killed amid gunfire that erupted when agents tried to arrest him and another man in Kabardino-Balkariya, a region near Chechnya that is plagued by violence linked both to crime and to religious tensions, the Federal Security Service said in a statement.

The service, known by its Russian acronym FSB, said Odizhev had been held at Guantanamo Bay and was believed to have been a supporter of the Taliban. Odizhev was one of seven Russians released from the detention facility in 2004; his whereabouts recently had been unknown.

The FSB did not specify why agents were trying to detain him, but said he was a suspect in the 1999 bombings of apartment buildings in Moscow and Volgodonsk and that he took part in a 2005 insurgent attack on police and government facilities in Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkariya.

That attack left 139 people dead, including 94 militants. Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev, who was killed in 2006, claimed credit for planning the attack.

The FSB said Odizhev was the "spiritual leader" of Yarmuk, an Islamic extremist organization connected to an array of violence in the region.

The office of the republic's top prosecutor, Oleg Zharikov, said Odizhev was killed in Nalchik and that three homemade explosive devices were found on his body. It said he and a rebel named Anzor Tengizov were cornered by agents in the courtyard of an apartment building across the street from a mosque in the city.

Odizhev and six other Russians who had been detained in Afghanistan were released from Guantanamo in 2004 after investigators said they found no evidence of their involvement with the Taliban. Several, including Odizhev, were briefly jailed after returning to Russia.

It was not clear why the men were released then, especially if Odizhev had been considered a suspect in the 1999 bombings.

U.S.-based Human Rights Watch said in a statement that Odizhev's mother had said her son had been kidnapped and tortured by security agents in 2000 in connection with the bombings. He fled the country thereafter, she said, according to the statement.

The bombings were blamed by Russian authorities on Chechen separatists and cited as justification for resuming the fight against insurgents in Chechnya.

However, some critics, including ex-KGB operative Alexander Litvinenko, claimed the agency carried out the bombings in order to create a pretense for resuming the war. Litvinenko was fatally poisoned in London last year.

In March, Human Rights Watch charged that the seven former Guantanamo detainees had been tortured or harassed and abused by Russian law enforcement agents since their return.

Another of the detainees, Rasul Kudayev, is in custody in Nalchik on charges of participating in the 2005 attack. His mother told The Associated Press this spring that he had been repeatedly beaten.

Two others, Ravil Gumarov and Timur Ishmuratov, were sentenced last year to prison terms of 13 and 11 years for blowing up a natural gas pipeline even though they had been acquitted of the charges in an earlier trial.

[jimzinsocal]

The last decisions of the term have been handed down by SCOTUS.

Dont fall for how some media will portray the decisions.

Here is a great place to start to understand

http://www.scotusblog.com/movabletype/

Particularly this one

Parents Involved v. Seattle School District (05-908) & Meredith v. Jefferson County Board of Education (05-915)
Mark H. Anderson has this article in the Wall Street Journal on the Court's decision striking down voluntary integration policies in two school districts and Jess Bravin answers questions on the school assignment decision here at the WSJ.com Washington Wire blog; David G. Savage and Joel Havemann have this article in the LA Times on the ruling declaring "unconstitutional the use of racial guidelines to integrate public schools"; CNN's Bill Mears reports here on the "bitterly divided" Court's opinion; Mark Sherman of the Associated Press has this story on the ruling that "left the door open for using race in limited circumstances"; James Vicini reports here for Reuters on the "significant civil rights decision that may affect millions of students nationwide"; and Bloomberg's Greg Stohr has this story on the Court's ruling that "public school districts can't try to foster integration by considering race in making pupil assignments." The NAACP Legal Defense Fund's SCIntegration Blog has various posts discussing the decision and collecting news coverage and comment, including these thoughts from Professor Samuel Bagnestos and this post from Nicole Dixon on the immediate aftermath.


Of course the ultimate resource is here. Good place to bookmark as everything is available in regular format should you hate pdf as much as I do

http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/index.html

[jimzinsocal]

Now this is revealing

http://www.riehlworldview.com/carniv...porting-a.html

[AMDScooter]

Now this is revealing

http://www.riehlworldview.com/carniv...porting-a.html

Might be an eye opener to some... me... naw.

[AMDScooter]

Moonbat wars...

PETA blasts Michael Moore for eating meat

The animal-rights group is blasting the filmmaker as a hypocrite for criticizing the U.S. healthcare system in his new documentary, “Sicko,” because they say he’s in such poor health himself.

“There’s an elephant in the room, and it is you,” PETA president Ingrid Newkirk wrote in a letter to Moore.

[AMDScooter]

We interrupt the Islamic Rage Boy Retrospective to bring you this brief Rosie O’Donnell Interlude

Even though she’s left The View, Rosie O’Donnell continues to offer her insightful worldly perspectives via a video blog featuring her family members in candid moments.

Using our special top-secret “Photo Mind Reader” technology, TNOYF is delighted to present this photo essay.

[Dutchcedar]

All of these are legitimate companies that didn't spend quite enough time considering how their online names might appear .... and be misread.

These are not made up. Check them out yourself!

1. Who Represents is where you can find the name of the agent that represents any celebrity. Their Web site is whorepresents.com

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4. Need a therapist? Try Therapist Finder at therapistfinder.com

5. There's the Italian Power Generator company, powergenitalia.com

6. If you're looking for IP computer software, there's always ipanywhere.com

7. The First Cumming Methodist Church Web site is cummingfirst.com

8. And the designers at Speed of Art await you at their wacky Web site, speedofart.com