All Things in Moderation

Bits & Pieces (Thursday Afternoon Open Mic)

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   jnc4p, on July 5, 2012 at 12:53 pm said:

   Worth a read:

   “Can the Democrats Catch Up in the Super-PAC Game?

   By ROBERT DRAPER
   Published: July 5, 2012”

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   jnc4p, on July 5, 2012 at 1:20 pm said:

   Worth a read:

   “After America
   Will civil war hit Afghanistan when the U.S. leaves?
   by Dexter Filkins July 9, 2012”

   http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/07/09/120709fa_fact_filkins?currentPage=all

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     markinaustin, on July 22, 2012 at 9:35 pm said:

     http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18882996

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   Michigoose, on July 5, 2012 at 2:53 pm said:

   Before I go and click on the links, my knee-jerk reactions are:

   (1) No
   (2) Yes

   So now off to read the analyses. . .

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   yellojkt, on July 6, 2012 at 5:23 am said:

   John Yoo, known for some novel constitutional interpretations himself, in the Wall Street Journal:

   But if it enforces the mandates with a financial penalty then suddenly, thanks to Justice Roberts’s tortured reasoning in Sebelius, the mandate is transformed into a constitutional exercise of Congress’s power to tax.

   Now he’s just messin’ with us.

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   yellojkt, on July 6, 2012 at 5:33 am said:

   Who knew Charles Schultz was so political?

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   Troll McWingnut or George, whichever, on July 6, 2012 at 7:30 am said:

   Yello. I don’t understand your reasoning in regards to the Yoo piece. Will you elaborate?

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   yellojkt, on July 6, 2012 at 4:05 pm said:

   The joke isn’t funny if you have to explain it. John Yoo wrote the legal justification for torture while with the Bush Administration. For him to call Roberts’ reasoning ‘tortured’ is to mock his own role in destroying constitutional protections.

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     ScottC, on July 6, 2012 at 4:10 pm said:

     yello:

     The joke isn’t funny if you have to explain it.

     I don’t think a need for explanation made it any less funny. It was plenty unfunny even without the explanation.

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   Troll McWingnut or George, whichever, on July 6, 2012 at 9:55 pm said:

   I thought Yoo wrote a brief on enhanced interrogation. What American’s Constitutional protections were “destroyed” by waterboarding KSM? Now I really don’t understand.

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   yellojkt, on July 7, 2012 at 4:07 am said:

   Now I really don’t understand.

   Nor will you ever.

   Yoo is also a proponent of unlimited executive power. Talk about tortured logic.

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     quarterback, on July 7, 2012 at 8:05 am said:

     Yoo is also a proponent of unlimited executive power.

     Now that is a straw man.

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    Fairlington Blade, on July 7, 2012 at 10:09 am said:

    Yellow – That did bring a smile to my face.

    BB

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    Troll McWingnut or George, whichever, on July 7, 2012 at 11:46 am said:

    So, you (yello (see what I did there?)) wrote this: “John Yoo wrote the legal justification for torture while with the Bush Administration.”

    I answered with this: “I thought Yoo wrote a brief on enhanced interrogation”

    Then you (yello, not Yoo) wrote this in reply: “Yoo is also a proponent of unlimited executive power. Talk about tortured logic.”

    I’m going to leave aside your insult to me (and I will readily accept your apology when you’re prepared to offer it) and focus on a new area of confusion, what does one (Yoo’s legal reason justifying enhanced interrogation) have to do with another (your understanding of what Yoo’s belief in what “unlimited executive power” really means) in answer to my questions?

    Again, no need to rush on the apology, my acceptance of it is here when you’re ready.

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    yellojkt, on July 7, 2012 at 7:27 pm said:

    I will readily accept your apology when you’re prepared to offer it

    I know when I’m being trolled. I may be ignorant, but I’m not stupid.

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      ScottC, on July 7, 2012 at 9:34 pm said:

      yello:

      I may be ignorant, but I’m not stupid.

      Don’t sell yourself short yello.

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    Fairlington Blade, on July 7, 2012 at 9:18 pm said:

    You’ve gotta admit, wasp, that at least this particular scorpion is honest about his intentions.

    BB

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    yellojkt, on July 8, 2012 at 3:47 am said:

    You’ve gotta admit, wasp, that at least this particular scorpion is honest about his intentions.

    You have to appreciate truth in advertising.

    Don’t sell yourself short yello.

    …you really don’t understand the nature of the federal system…

    You should also understand, as I suspect you do not…

    Lastly, you obviously do not understand the law under question in Griswold

    I hope to keep earning your faith in my ignorance.

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