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| 2006/6/29-7/3 [Reference/BayArea, Academia/Berkeley, Recreation/Sports] UID:43522 Activity:nil |
6/29 Anyone know of a place around berkeley to buy Replica Soccer Jerseys? |
| 2006/6/29-7/3 [Reference/Celebration] UID:43523 Activity:nil |
6/29 Happy Birthday sony! |
| 2006/6/29-7/3 [Politics/Domestic/911, Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:43524 Activity:nil |
6/29 Hamdank decision big news for Constitution and rule of law, bad news for
Bush:
http://www.scotusblog.com/movabletype/archives/2006/06/hamdan_summary.html |
| 2006/6/29-7/3 [Reference/History/WW2] UID:43525 Activity:nil |
6/29 Pretty cool Axis & Allies clone; allows for local & net play:
http://triplea.sourceforge.net/mywiki -John |
| 2006/6/29-7/3 [Politics/Domestic/President/Clinton, Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:43526 Activity:kinda low |
6/29 Supreme Court rules 5-3 that Dubya-installed GTMO military tribunals
violate Geneva Conventions and U.S. Uniform Code of Military Justice
http://tinyurl.com/fmkxg (findlaw.com)
\_ Sure, the court interprets laws, but... our new government,
a different type of executive and the legislature will make
the law.
\_ John Yoo must be having a bad day....
\_ Christopher Yoo is ready to bat
http://judiciary.senate.gov/testimony.cfm?id=1969&wit_id=5481
"First, I believe that the use of Presidential signing statements
as legislative history is inherent in the system of checks and
balances embodied in our Constitution. Second, I believe that
Presidential statutory interpretation is also inherent in the
President's role as Chief Executive. Third, I suggest that
recognizing Presidential signing statements as legislative
history would better promote the democratic process."
http://law.vanderbilt.edu/faculty/yoo.html
"A History of the Unitary Executive: Executive Branch Practice
from 1789 to 2005" (Yale University Press, forthcoming 2007)
\_ This would put an inordinate amount of power to ignore two
branches of goverment in the hands of the Executive Branch.
I agree that the Pres. needs power to make commentary on
legislation passed by Legislative, but to go beyond this
to dictating law is dangerous.
\_ Note also that the Executive is obliged to execute
faithfully the laws of the land. His signing statements
have stated explicitely that he has no intention to do so.
People should be fucking pissed. Some are. Not enough.
\_ Don't worry. This will all be corrected forthwith as
soon as a Democrat is elected as head of the Executive
Branch of govt.
\_ go look up the phrase, "stroke of the pen, law of the
land. cool!" then come back and tell us how dems are
morally superior and the great protectors of the
constitution. power corrupts. period.
\_ go look up the phrase, "stroke of the pen, law of the
land. cool!"
\_ Why do you hate Paul Begala?
\_ Go look up Washington Times, UPI, Moonies.
The quote is solid, yes; the implication that what Bush
has done through Exec Orders and signing statements is
somehow mitigated by Clinton's use of same is asinine.
\_ Bullshit. You're putting words in my mouth. Go
see all of 3 lines up where I made it perfectly
clear that "power corrupts". The implication is
that this crap has been going on and will always go
on so long as there is power to be had. If you don't
want abuses of power then there has to be less power
to abuse which means smaller government with less
federal control. Having a Dem in office will change
absolutely nothing regarding power abuses. What is
asinine is believing that members of the one party
are somehow saintly while the other party is full
of devils out to kill and eat people's children.
\_ While I will gladly apologize for mischaracter-
izing your use of a quote oft-used by GOP flacks
to demonize Clinton as an attempt to do just that,
I think your solution to shrink government is
short-sighted and will cause more problems than
it will fix. My original point (the one you
replied to with your quote) was that Bush has
used Exec Orders and signing statements to
place himself above the ability of the other
two branches to contradict him. This is much more
dangerous than what previous presidents have
done.
\_ Corruption builds upon itself over time. One
guy gets away with X because we like him or we
like X that makes it ok, so the next guy does
X+1. I don't think any one branch should be
put above any other beyond what the const. says
about checks and balances. Thus, one abuse of
power is no 'better' or worse than any other.
It is an abuse of power. As far as a large or
small government goes, the less there is to
abuse the less abuse there will be. That seems
obvious to me. If you're saying that there are
other problems a weak federal system would
cause, maybe so, that would have to be weighed
against the harm a strong federal system
causes.
\_ The problem with absolutes is that they're
absolutely fallible. While I would agree
with you that 99.9% of power abuses are bad,
I think it's simplistic to say that there
are no degrees of better and worse in
regards to abuses of power. But better and
worse are utterly subjective, so here's a
clarification: Bush's abuses of power have
done more to weaken oversight of the Exec
Branch by the other two Branches than prev.
abuses of power. In my mind, this is worse
than prev. Admins' abuses of power because
it robs the citizenry of a mechanism to
ensure that such abuses are stopped; YMMV.
\_ As for smaller/no government (new thread),
sure, the current fed system has problems,
but I don't think those problems outweigh
its benefits. I have yet to see an alterna-
tive suggested that wouldn't lead to either
anarchy, plutocracy, or corporate robber
barons; if you have one that benefits all,
I would be very receptive.
\_ He will get spanked by the USSC, too. |
| 2006/6/29-7/3 [Computer/SW/Languages/Perl] UID:43527 Activity:nil |
6/29 Visual Programming in Perl:
http://search.cpan.org/dist/Acme-EyeDrops/lib/Acme/EyeDrops.pm |
| 2006/6/29-7/3 [Uncategorized] UID:43528 Activity:nil |
6/29 Esquire has an article on the fate of John Walker Lindh which is
quite good: http://www.csua.org/u/gar |
| 2006/6/29-7/3 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iraq] UID:43529 Activity:nil |
6/29 If I hear "as the iraqis stand up, we can stand down" one more time,
I'm going to scream. This zero sum expectation is ludicrous when
the country is falling apart. When the iraqi military is a loose knit
group of militias, each with their own agenda, us standing down only
makes for freer reign for pursuing their agendas. The happy talk
about "N brigades trained" makes me ill.
\_ "as the iraqis stand up, we can stand down"
\_ Dubya's strategy can be summed up as: Bravely running away.
\_ So, the "before" "bring it on" Bush:
Bravely bold Sir Robin rode forth from Camelot.
He was not afraid to die, O brave Sir Robin!
He was not at all afraid to be killed in nasty ways,
Brave, brave, brave, brave Sir Robin!
He was not in the least bit scared to be mashed into a pulp,
Or to have his eyes gouged out, and his elbows broken;
To have his kneecaps split, and his body burned away;
And his limbs all hacked and mangled, brave Sir Robin!
His head smashed in and his heart cut out
And his liver removed and his bowels unplugged
And his nostrils raped and his bottom burned off
And his pen--
after?
Brave Sir Robin ran away.
Bravely ran away, away!
When danger reared its ugly head,
He bravely turned his tail and fled.
Yes, brave Sir Robin turned about
And gallantly he chickened out.
Bravely taking to his feet
He beat a very brave retreat,
Bravest of the brave, Sir Robin! |
| 2006/6/29 [Uncategorized] UID:43530 Activity:nil |
6/29 http://www.instructables.com/ex/i/3C61E5B2FF42102880EC001143E7E506/?ALLSTEPS |
| 2006/6/29-7/3 [Health/Men, Reference/Military] UID:43531 Activity:nil |
6/29 How Silicon Valley men fight:
http://cbs5.com/watercooler/local_story_059005903.html
\_ Are you interested in joining? I know one of the guys in that
video.
\_ Holy stupid. "Hey look I cut my arm I'm cool!" Martial arts classes
already have sparring. So this is just play fighting on concrete for
no particular reason and vague rules. They seem to think this has
something to do with a real world fight without rules. I'd like to
see them fight this guy:
http://thatvideosite.com/view/2414.html
Or someone who doesn't abide by these rules:
http://www.ufc.com/index.cfm?fa=LearnUFC.Rules
\_ Of course it has something to do with it. Slightly more
than sparring. I don't think anyone there thinks this is
real fight where you get hurt. That's the whole point.
\_ Well one of them says something like "we want to see how
martial arts work against someone who is fighting back".
Obviously if they are not wearing pads and avoiding hurting
each other then well, it's probably less than sparring
other than that they getting more injuries.
other than that they get more injuries.
\_ Umm.. most of the sparring I've seen and done you're
wearing pads, not hurting each other, stuff ends in
points, and you're restricted to one martial art.
That sparring is less like a real fight that what they
are doing. What sparring do you do? You use real
knives or something?
\_ Protective gear at lets you do more without being
as concerned about hurting them. At least they use
that headgear but still. Is that enough to protect
head vs. concrete?
Sparring isn't really better but this doesn't
seem to add anything other than pointlessly
getting hurt. (why not have a padded floor?)
Their knife fight looks like it has little to do with
knives beyond their first stabs at each other.
Maybe ending in a point is better than just play
hitting each other with no result.
\_ This is why grappling is so much better than
striking arts. You can go full contact with no pads
using judo or jiujitsu tournament rules and no one
gets hurt, but in a no-holds-barred fight against
karate and boxing fighters you do better because
you're used to the real thing. Don't belive me?
Watch the early UFC fights when boxers and karate
people would get their asses handed to them in
seconds by grapplers many pounds lighter than them.
And the last judo tournament I went to had something
like 100 people in it, including little kids, with
zero injuries. Grappling: more fun, more effective,
more interesting, safer.
\_ can I do curbing on a nerd? |
| 2006/6/29-7/3 [Uncategorized] UID:43532 Activity:nil |
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