best thing since Sandwiches:
September 2006
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30 September 2006
30 September 2006
one day we will make love to the replicants
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even if, instead of being like in Blade Runner, they’re more like this:
adriana lima unavailable for comment:
30 September 2006
http://abcnews.go.com/images/WNT/02-02-03b.pdf
http://abcnews.go.com/images/WNT/foley_excerpts4.pdf
just another day on teh hot male-on-male chat channels on the great wide internets…
remember kids, it’s not the gayness, or that the target was mid-to-upper teens (oh noes!!1!1!! EVERYBODY PANIC!!1!!!1!!!), or that someone his age could get such young tail while in a position of power (which sure makes the blood of envy boil).
no, the crux here is what he stood for and the laws he enforced. karmic payback’s a bitch, innit?
30 September 2006
30 September 2006
i wouldn’t, but i know the rest of you totally would
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i have my reasons… and no, i am not this fellow:
29 September 2006
move over cinema vérité and hustler magazine…you can’t step to The Book.
29 September 2006
safe for work? mostly…but not so much if you click on the picture…
suddenly, i’m reminded: Master W., i still gotta take you out someplace fancy for that all you can eat sashimi…with release, of course.
29 September 2006
Bush Grants Self Permission To Grant More Power To Self
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You can read the bill for yourself, starting with Section 7, page 81, cleverly titled:
REVISIONS TO DETAINEE TREATMENT ACT OF 2005 RELATING TO PROTECTION OF CERTAIN UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PERSONNEL.
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someone on fark extracted some of the particulars:
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Ok, so here are the changes being referred to in the video. Proposed revisions are in red, notes in brackets, proposed material to be struck is struck; relevant hyperlinks included. Can anyone put this into plain English?
<—SEC. 7. REVISIONS TO DETAINEE TREATMENT ACT OF 2005 RELATING TO PROTECTION OF CERTAIN UNITEDSTATES GOVERNMENT PERSONNEL.—>
SEC. 1004. PROTECTION OF UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PERSONNEL ENGAGED IN AUTHORIZED INTERROGATIONS [AKA DETAINEE TREATMENT ACT OF 2005].
(a) Protection of United States Government Personnel- In any civil action or criminal prosecution against an officer, employee, member of the Armed Forces, or other agent of the United States Government who is a United States person, arising out of the officer, employee, member of the Armed Forces, or other agent’s engaging in specific operational practices, that involve detention and interrogation of aliens who the President or his designees have determined are believed to be engaged in or associated with international terrorist activity that poses a serious, continuing threat to the United States, its interests, or its allies, and that were officially authorized and determined to be lawful at the time that they were conducted, it shall be a defense that such officer, employee, member of the Armed Forces, or other agent did not
know that the practices were unlawful and a person of ordinary sense and understanding would not know the practices were unlawful. Good faith reliance on advice of counsel should be an important factor, among others, to consider in assessing whether a person of ordinary sense and understanding would have known the practices to be unlawful. Nothing in this section shall be construed to limit or extinguish any defense or protection otherwise available to any person or entity from suit, civil or criminal liability, or damages, or to provide immunity from prosecution for any criminal offense by the proper authorities. This shall apply with respect to any criminal prosecution that–
(1) relates to the detention and interrogation of aliens described in this section;
(2) is grounded in section 2441(c)(3) of title 18 [viz. War Crimes defined as conduct “which constitutes a violation of common Article 3 of the international conventions signed at Geneva, 12 August 1949, or any protocol to such convention to which the United States is a party and which deals with non-international armed conflict”], United States Code; and
(3) relates to actions occurring between September 11, 2001, and December 30, 2005.
(b) Counsel- The United States
Government may provide Shall Provide or employ counsel, and pay counsel fees, court costs, bail, and other expenses incident to the representation of an officer, employee, member of the Armed Forces, or other agent described in subsection (a)–whether before United States courts or agencies, foreign courts or agencies, or international courts or agencies–with respect to any civil action or criminal prosecution or investigation arising out of practices described in that subsection, under the same conditions, and to the same extent, to which such services and payments are authorized under section 1037 of title 10, United States Code.
<—end SEC. 7. REVISIONS.—>
SEC. 8. RETROACTIVE APPLICABILITY.
This Act shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act and shall apply retroactively, including–
(1) to any aspect of the detention, treatment, or trial of any person detained at any time since September 11, 2001; and
(2) to any claim or cause of action pending on or after the date of the enactment of this Act.
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The Onion channels the future once again, this one on 1 August, 2 months ahead of time.
29 September 2006
90-second imperial history of the middle east
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awesome. just awesome. roughly accurate, but still so fun. click on pic to activate. the only winning move is… ?
via Maps Of War
27 September 2006
breakfast soup recipe turkish style
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Hakan taught me how to make his ultra-simple and super-duper nutritious “breakfast soup” yesterday. here’s the recipe:
2, 2.5 cups of water
1 tblspn of olive oil
seasalt to taste
1 teaspoon of cayenne pepper (that’s coughing hot—half of that is already quite spicy, and definitely DO NOT confuse teaspoon with tablespoon)
1 potato cut up fairly fine
1 carrot cut up somewhat fine
2 tblspns of red lentils, chopped if possible
(a bunch of fresh dill) XOR ((a bunch of fresh mint) OR (a teabag of mint tea))
bring water and olive oil and salt and cayenne to boil, drop everything else in, bring back to boil, then reduce heat to medium and simmer for 10-20 minutes depending on the optimum reduction level aka soup thickness vs. mushiness of potatoes and lentils. makes one decent-sized serving of soup with all the major nutrients a body needs.
Hakan has it for breakfast very often. i’d prefer it for any other time of day—it’d take a few flips of a few switches for me to make that into a breakfast dish.
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