@alamy42: Meryl Streep was in Fatal Attraction? Someone might want to let her know that.
@Titch: Apparently, the head continues to be animate, snapping and biting at anything that comes near it. The bodies? Dead.
@ShaunTKennedy: Rule of law is always a priority in a country dedicated to that.
Nor would investigating the Bush administration - fairly and responsibly, and only prosecuting if justified - prevent getting people back to work, getting people back in their houses, getting the educational system straightened out, etc.
You make assumptions about priorities and how allowing investigations would or could have made the Republicans any more rejectionist/obstructionist than they already were. Why? How could they have been? You're making these assumptions - on what basis?
But just to sum up - for a country that constantly chides other countries for failing to investigate past governmental crimes, for failing to root out corrupt influences, etc. - failure to do so reflects the height of hypocrisy, a lack of commitment to what should be a fundamental American value (no one is above the law), and confusion about what's possible.
If investigations by the proper authorities - that is to say, career civil servants in the DoJ - led to anything, then open trials would have established guilt or innocence, ESPECIALLY since multiple members of the Bush administration admitted to felony violations of FISA publicly, admitted to condoning or approving torture publicly, and otherwise made a regular, normal, criminal investigation/prosecution a slam dunk.
Nor would investigating the Bush administration - fairly and responsibly, and only prosecuting if justified - prevent getting people back to work, getting people back in their houses, getting the educational system straightened out, etc.
You make assumptions about priorities and how allowing investigations would or could have made the Republicans any more rejectionist/obstructionist than they already were. Why? How could they have been? You're making these assumptions - on what basis?
But just to sum up - for a country that constantly chides other countries for failing to investigate past governmental crimes, for failing to root out corrupt influences, etc. - failure to do so reflects the height of hypocrisy, a lack of commitment to what should be a fundamental American value (no one is above the law), and confusion about what's possible.
If investigations by the proper authorities - that is to say, career civil servants in the DoJ - led to anything, then open trials would have established guilt or innocence, ESPECIALLY since multiple members of the Bush administration admitted to felony violations of FISA publicly, admitted to condoning or approving torture publicly, and otherwise made a regular, normal, criminal investigation/prosecution a slam dunk.
@ShaunTKennedy: I'd reject a bullshit metaphor because a government with separate Justice and Treasury Departments filled with hundreds of people is fully capable of doing both.
For that matter, the President wouldn't be involved in those investigations directly. He shouldn't be.
But please, keep using those oversimplified metaphors (just like the stupid one about credit cards/balanced checkbooks which completely ignore the huge qualitative differences between government debt and personal debt) like they mean something. Or that they allow you to score points.
For that matter, the President wouldn't be involved in those investigations directly. He shouldn't be.
But please, keep using those oversimplified metaphors (just like the stupid one about credit cards/balanced checkbooks which completely ignore the huge qualitative differences between government debt and personal debt) like they mean something. Or that they allow you to score points.
@screemname: Are you fucking kidding me? The biggest reason I (a bleeding-heart liberal) am pissed at Obama is his utter and complete failure to hold anyone in the Bush administration accountable for past actions - felony violations of FISA, torture, rendition, etc.
There's no TAT here. Democrats don't do TAT. Republicans, meanwhile, have proven that they love to waste time, money, and energy on TIT. Or tits, if you're David Vitter.
There's no TAT here. Democrats don't do TAT. Republicans, meanwhile, have proven that they love to waste time, money, and energy on TIT. Or tits, if you're David Vitter.
@WookieCookies: Might've given the readers the benefit of the doubt that they weren't so fucking stupid that it needed to be spelled out for them.
@Vulcan Has No Moon: Yes and no. She's as Esme was, but with no wicked sister, and Tiffany's not going to end up a 60+ year old virgin.
Also, the Discworld is different from when Esme grew up - at least taking Ankh-Morpork as a barometer for how the rest of the Disc is changing.
Also, the Discworld is different from when Esme grew up - at least taking Ankh-Morpork as a barometer for how the rest of the Disc is changing.
@Kulei Pickles: I think Tiffany's a pretty decent split between Esme and Nanny (who's just about as tough as Esme, but who doesn't need to broadcast because Esme's there, and it's a different sort of toughness anyway).
I also think it makes sense, because Tiffany's not going to go the monastic route of Esme - Tiffany's not going to be taming unicorns as a senior citizen, for example - but she is of the flint as Nanny clearly isn't.
She's a happy blend - kind of like Magrat and Agnes are, in their own way.
I also think it makes sense, because Tiffany's not going to go the monastic route of Esme - Tiffany's not going to be taming unicorns as a senior citizen, for example - but she is of the flint as Nanny clearly isn't.
She's a happy blend - kind of like Magrat and Agnes are, in their own way.
@marrec: I didn't think Reaper Man was that pessimistic.
@The_Geb: Sort of off topic, but while I wasn't a huge fan of Terry's soccer/Ankh-Morpork book, I absolutely loved the newest Tiffany Aching tale.
Screw Fox News. Do a post when they take down the Koch brothers. Those assholes deserve it more than Murdoch.
@lostarchitect: The American President. Consider it Aaron Sorkin's prequel to The West Wing.
@NotChoinski: According to my friends in DC, the gays moved out of Dupont a while ago. So it's more like Lincoln Park in Chicago - full of yuppies.
@Platypus Man: She was also in Sky High as the senior/technopath. Has managed to get hotter with age.
@Arken: Just watch her as the ballerina - you'll get all the Portman cheesecake you want.
Nathan Fillion seems to think Whedon wasn't remotely serious.
"Joss' comment: Funny and very clearly a joke. People hear: Whatever they wanna hear."
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"Joss' comment: Funny and very clearly a joke. People hear: Whatever they wanna hear."
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@elvisml2: I always assumed Cap was ambidextrous, made so by the Super Soldier formula, and equally skilled with any weapon in either hand.
@Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.: I see no problem with that whatsoever.
