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Fixing intelligence
October 24, 2007 — Mahakal / מהכאלAn interview, about 35 minutes long.
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Hat-tip Jerome Doolittle @ Bad Attitudes.
In a nutshell.
September 16, 2007 — Mahakal / מהכאלThis is how it goes endlessly with people like [Washington Post editorial page editor Fred] Hiatt: (1) If X does not happen, there is no justification for staying; (2) X has not happened; (3) we must stay. That is why nothing they say has any meaning. Staying in Iraq is always the only real goal. Everything else is just pretext and blather to continue to do that.
Brief address
September 12, 2007 — Mahakal / מהכאלThe US is a powerful country that does not need to prove itself by beating up smaller countries.
There was no casus belli in Iraq.
Occupation will not pacify Iraq, nor should we have any right to expect a reward for our illegal invasion.
As a brave American once said, “You know, this war is so fucking illegal.”
Barack Obama is a member of the reality-based community.
August 18, 2007 — Mahakal / מהכאלMitt Romney is not.
Hat-tip Ellroon @ Rants from the Rookery.
Meet the College Republicans
July 20, 2007 — Mahakal / מהכאלExtraordinary detention, extraordinary treatment, extraordinary disappearance
June 17, 2007 — Mahakal / מהכאלHat-tip Monkeyfister.
Saturday afternoon movie
June 16, 2007 — Mahakal / מהכאלMedical marijuana round-up
June 14, 2007 — Mahakal / מהכאלThehim summarizes:
Already Legal: California, Oregon, Alaska, Washington, Hawaii, Colorado, Maine, Rhode Island, Vermont, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, and the District of Columbia.
New Hampshire: A bill failed in the House.
Connecticut: A bill has passed the legislature and is on Governor Rell’s desk. It’s not known whether she’ll sign.
New York: A bill may be passed by the Assembly this week.
New Jersey: Hearings have been held in the legislature but no bills have been voted on.
Maryland: A 2003 bill allows for an affirmative legal defense for medical marijuana users, but it’s still technically illegal.
Michigan: The Michigan Coalition for Compassionate Care is collecting signatures to force a vote in the legislature.
Illinois: A bill failed in the State Senate.
Wisconsin: A bill is expected to be introduced this summer.
Minnesota: A bill died in the State House.
Texas: Legislators failed to get a bill introduced.
Even in the states where it’s been legalized, though, the federal prohibition on any use of marijuana still exists and puts medical marijuana users across the country in a state of legal limbo. You can check here and here for updates.
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Withdraw, now.
June 1, 2007 — Mahakal / מהכאלIowa poll of likely caucus-goers (hat-tip Andrew Sullivan):
Do you favor a withdrawal of all United States military from Iraq within the next six months? (Republicans Only)
Yes 54%
No 37%
Undecided 9%Do you favor a withdrawal of all United States military from Iraq within the next six months? (Democrats Only)
Yes 81%
No 5%
Undecided 14%
Late show
June 1, 2007 — Mahakal / מהכאלThis is a six part series, one episode per day.
Previous episode:
This is episode six.
Late show
May 31, 2007 — Mahakal / מהכאלThis is a six part series, one episode per day.
Previous episode:
This is episode five.
Even “reasonable conservatives” forget the first half of the second amendment
May 30, 2007 — Mahakal / מהכאלJon Swift has an idea:
It is the Second Amendment that makes our country free. A Global Second Amendment would make the world free. Nuclear proliferation could be the key to making the world safe for democratic proliferation.
We’d have to accept a Nuclear Regulatory Body, being necessary to the security of a free World.
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Late show
May 30, 2007 — Mahakal / מהכאלThis is a six part series, one episode per day.
Previous episode:
This is episode four.
Late show
May 25, 2007 — Mahakal / מהכאלThis is a six part series, one episode per day.
Previous episode:
This is episode three.
It didn’t harm Bob Dylan’s performance
May 24, 2007 — Mahakal / מהכאלNew York, NY: Experienced marijuana users perform tasks as accurately after having smoked cannabis as they do sober, according to clinical trial data published in the Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology.
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Late show
May 24, 2007 — Mahakal / מהכאלThis is a six part series, one episode per day.
Previous episode:
This is episode two.
Monica Goodling admits breaking the law
May 23, 2007 — Mahakal / מהכאלShe didn’t mean to do it.
Remember, she has immunity. Whatever acts she undertook they were not of her own devising, she was working for people who wanted it done.
Hat-tip Paul Kiel.
Late show
May 23, 2007 — Mahakal / מהכאלThis will be a six part series, one episode per day.
This is episode one.
I do recall
May 16, 2007 — Mahakal / מהכאלComey explained yesterday:
COMEY: Mrs. Ashcroft reported that a call had come through, and that as a result of that call Mr. Card and Mr. Gonzales were on their way to the hospital to see Mr. Ashcroft.
SCHUMER: Do you have any idea who that call was from?
COMEY: I have some recollection that the call was from the president himself.
Hat-tip Space Cowboy.
Here is the testimony of (former) acting attorney general James Comey to the senate judiciary committee.
And Attorney General Ashcroft then stunned me. He lifted his head off the pillow and in very strong terms expressed his view of the matter, rich in both substance and fact, which stunned me — drawn from the hour-long meeting we’d had a week earlier — and in very strong terms expressed himself, and then laid his head back down on the pillow, seemed spent, and said to them, But that doesn’t matter, because I’m not the attorney general.
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Tuesday night movie
May 15, 2007 — Mahakal / מהכאלMajor General Paul Eaton: George Bush does not listen to commanders
May 15, 2007 — Mahakal / מהכאלHat-tip Think Progress.
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Congress has exclusive authority to issue letters of marque and reprisal
May 12, 2007 — Mahakal / מהכאל“Congress owes it to the American people to take down the curtain of secrecy surrounding these shadow forces that often act in the name and on the payroll of the people of this country.”
Hat-tip Cookie Jill.
Major General John Batiste left the army in protest in order to speak out
May 9, 2007 — Mahakal / מהכאלHat-tip Monkeyfister.
Jon Stewart with Bill Moyers
May 5, 2007 — Mahakal / מהכאלThe man who saved America.
April 28, 2007 — Mahakal / מהכאלSouma yergon, sou nou yergon
April 18, 2007 — Mahakal / מהכאלIf we had known, if we had only known — how to speak to one another.
Hat-tip Egalia.
Short reminder
April 13, 2007 — Mahakal / מהכאלThe American constitution proclaimed democracy with the words, “We, the people.” Despite it having been drafted by some small number of men, and consecrated many injustices in the name of compromise, these opening words gave acknowledgment to the authority of the people to exercise sovereignty.
Advice from Kurt Vonnegut
April 12, 2007 — Mahakal / מהכאל
Update: I have been hoaxed, as Ombudsben points out in the comments below. The commencement address was never given, and it was not by Kurt Vonnegut. Here is one account of the story.
Still, it’s good.
Numbers
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My Unitarian Jihad Name is: The Sword of Desirable Mindfulness.
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A musical offering and other observations
October 18, 2007 — Mahakal / מהכאל[odeo=http://odeo.com/audio/17137793/view]
NTodd is wicked smart.