Besides my life.

The following post: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024653914

has 21 recs now about 90 minutes old, and should be tied for second on Trending Now as I understand things. It *was* on Trending Now before, but went away.

Glitch?

If you haven't, please grab a beverage, take a deep breath, and spend ten minutes reading:

Statement on Intel Committee’s CIA Detention, Interrogation Report

It's way, way worse then you think it is.

This is history: make sure that you don't miss it. Oh, and you oughta see what we're up against. Because we're up against it, right here, right now. And it's not going away under its own power - we'll need to do some heavy lifting, I fear.

Thanks to DUer CJCRANE for pointing me to it this morning.

Yay! The Transparency President™ strikes again!

"Ooohh, if you Liberals encourage Bernie or Elizabeth to run, the Republicans will take the White House! Ralph Nader! Ralph Nader!"

#%^* you. I'm just trying to defend myself from more attacks on us little people.

Hey, how 'bout you guys telling the Third Way to get the #%^* out of the way so real Democrats can run without a bank-funded shitstorm coming down on their heads? It's *their* fault, not ours, talk to them, not us.

Did you not think that you were part of Everyone?

Did you still think that Congress was somehow special when you saw the Executive branch lie to you so easily and without remorse? That Congress would be the only group in the world not subject to unlimited surveillance and disruption without meaningful oversight?

Really?

Let this be a lesson. Now go out there and start doing your job. Working with the Judicial branch, there's still some time, but perhaps not much.

Do. Your. Job.

Your house is fabulous enough; your bank accounts are bursting at the seams.

Now. It's. Time. To. Do. Your. #%^*ing. Job.

He took an oath to uphold the Constitution. Apparently he took that oath seriously.

We all should take it seriously.

If supporting Ed Snowden's exposure of Operation Spy on Everyone (and the the UK's Operation Spy on Everyone's Junk), makes me a Paulite, then let it be.



Regards,


This-is-growing-tiresome Manny

No, of course I know a variety of parts and places they can go, I mean the process leading up to the deed.

A friend of ours is getting divorced, a former fraternity brother. Nasty divorce after decades, I guess it happens but a head scratcher. He'll do fine, as will his ex, both lovely high-functioning people.

He's starting to date again which has me thinking back to our fraternity days (Carl Sagan's next-door neighbors, coincidentally). Back then, the process normally consisted of dancing, alcohol (and sometimes other state-enhancers), kissing, yadda yadda yadda... Then

No real discussions beforehand, and yes, no meant no.

(NB: As far as I know we were all nice guys, we had a great reputation with normal women although the high-end sororities were not fans. Our campus had 50 fraternities, half of men lived in frats, so it wasn't one of these situations where all the frat guys are jerks. Also, this was right before AIDS became a big issue so STDs were in a whole different place.)

In any case, my buddy's new situation has me thinking... how do people move from "nice to meet you!" to "um, I'm having trouble with this clip thing"?

I eventually married my college sweetie, so I never really lived the evolution of courtship and mating in modern times. I'd imagine that it's roughly the same as a few decades ago, but it seems like it would be more deliberative. Are there discussions that should/must be had? Papers to sign (I doubt it, but...?). Other? Or does nature still tend to do its thing rather effortlessly?

If this question is offensive I'll be happy to take it down, if it's inappropriate the hosts will save me that trouble.

That's my guess.

There's a good chance she doesn't run anyway, she's smart enough to know that America's temperment is no longer for Third-Way shenanigans.

But if Bernie runs... If he gets media attention, he'll unrelentingly go after her record, her years of service to Wall Street and the millions they've showered upon her, her (still-unapologetic) vote to attack Iraq, her standing against same-sex marriage for almost a decade after it became legal in Massachusetts, and the rest.

Unrelentingly.

And I think Bernie *will* get media attention because America's searching for a different voice, and Bernie *is* a different voice, yet one with authority.

I still think Elizabeth will run, but I think Bernie's rarin' to go and will hop in sooner. And once he does and gets a little traction, Hillary will bow out. She wants to go out with people thinking she coulda been a contender rather then out for the count*.


*Attention nitwits: "out for the count" is a metaphor. It will not help one bit if you start posting nonsense about my wanting Bernie to actually strike Hillary in any way. I don't. At all. Don't do it.

Two allegations. Only one prompted the immediate forced resignation of the head of the respective agency (who wasn't in charge of the agency when it happened and had zero to do with it), announced by the President as a way to [strike]keep Fox News from being mean[/strike] maintain public trust, .