OT - Innocent men held as Guantanamo Bay prisoners

The "the second one which was dropped after the surrender"??

You've just lost any small amount of credibility you ever had.

Just found the stats: 75% of last year's 9th Circuit Court of Appeals decisions were overturned by the Supreme Court.

...Jim Thompson

Yep, sorry, I erred... I believe you are right... I heard the number while half-listening to the radio.

But I find it hilarious how the blue-nosed tree-hugging leftist weenie socialists complain that it is Conservatives packing the courts when Liberals couldn't get ANY of their agenda into law without activist courts... the public/legislative/administrative process won't pass ANY of their crap.

...Jim Thompson

Carter had a big hand in creating the 9th Circuit.

'Cept it never works... most of the conservatives are realists.

...Jim Thompson

Oh, my! I didn't know they had green weenies. Aren't they concerned it'll fall off ?:-)

...Jim Thompson

Actually, it was JFKs fault.

John

"We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."

The Declaration of Independance does not say that "Americans" are endowed with inalienable rights. It says that "all men" are endowed with these rights. If human rights are not universal then our Declaration is built upon a foundation of sand. But as an American I maintain that it rests upon a foundation of stone. These truths are self-evident; they're not up for revision by Bush, Inc., nor can they be placed "on hold."

Holding non-Americans captive without according them the same rights as we claim for ourselves stands cross-ways to the essence and marrow of the noble idea that is America. If a Muslim yanked off a street in Iraq is not endowed with these rights then neither are any one of us.

Mike

Minor nit (I believe): 75% of the decisions that were appealed were overturned. BTW, I understand that's down from the high 80s a couple of years ago. Either way, it demonstrates why it's called the "9th Circus Court of Appeals".

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I thought that was Nixon's fault. ;-)

Cheers! Rich

Um, Federal Court appointments are for life.

Homework assignment: How many judges on the 9th Circus Court of Appeals were appointed by Democrat Presidents?

Soe were just stupid appointements (Souter, anyone?)

Exactly as it should be. Nowhere in the Constitution does it mention SCotUS in the amendment process.

Growing up to be a green-weenie leftist? No thanks!

You bet I do.

The act you advocate here is called, "premeditated murder". As in, "I killed him because I have decided that he intends to kill me."

You are nothing but a common murderer. A criminal. A coward. Or, perhaps merely a dupe.

Feh. Rich

Do they all have name tags, so you can tell which is which? Or do you have some special magic repugnacrat telepathy or something? Or are you simply going to kill everybody who _looks_ like they _could_ be one, just to be on the "safe" side?

Feh. Rich

But, but - wasn't he Our Greatest President Since Lincoln? ;-p

The way I understand it, he solved the "Cuban Missile Crisis" and spearheaded Humankind's Exploration of Space.

But I was having puberty at the time, so don't remember a lot of World History from those days. ;-)

Thanks! Rich

Well, Thompson claims to be "ironic", and just "pulling your chain," but the narrow-minded hatred does show through his thinly-veiled "jokes".

Maybe Jim's the kind of guy who would tell Polak jokes in Nordeast Minneapolis.

Thanks, Rich

But, of course, incinerating tens, maybe hundreds of thousands of innocent women and children and condemning thousands of others to life as cripples or worse, is honorable?

I shudder when I realize that you murder-lovers have the power to vote.

Thanks, Rich

Interesting. Where did you find those stats?

Um, no, it was the emperror who needed help in persuading the army and navy.

Hey, hey, JFK,

How many kids did you kill today?

John