I agree with you. For some reason I thought you were responding to Ty. I think I was distracted by all the tit pics on the FB. 'Tis my only excuse.

Ha! You THINK you are disagreeing with me. I was only disagreeing with Ty's implicit assertion that Frist had ever considered, one way or another, that these things were Constitutional before the Man put him in charge. Its simply implausible.

There are all kinds of Senate rules like this that I'm sure nobody ever really thinks about challenging. Seriously, who would sit around and daydream "I'm voting to filibuster this mutha, but I wonder if...".

No way.

Fast forward by a few years though, and suddenly in a leadership position (much like the D leaders are doing), he's gotta start thinking up all kinds of ridiculous justifications and soundbites for the masses.

Bottom line here, as in almost anything else, is might makes right. If the Dems wanted to spin this more, they should have either screamed a LOT more about whatever complaints they had for the judges, or they should have let it go through to the up or down votes. Right now, nobody in this country really knows what they objected to (on a "mass" level), and nobody really cares if Teddy Kennedy doesn't get to keep talking.



Hello

Ahem...yes, I was just over at the FB...yeah, um...(straightening tie)...what were we talking about again?

Frist, and mushroom-shaped . . . ummm . . . nevermind.

Clouds? Nuclear options? I can't keep up with this board, let alone that one too.

Say, did you see Galloway made your Senator his beeeyotch yesterday?

You have to hand it to the Catholics.......
 

Who is the new guy?

You have to hand it to the Catholics.......
 

BA degrees don't carry much weight w/o more Sidd. About 1/3 of the secretaries at my shop have them- and we do what? pawn shop law.

Damn! No, I missed that!

I did watch all the hearings, though.

Bilmore - here is where to send your money.......
 

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Wasn't it exactly like Episode 37 of the original Star Trek "The Drunk of Laguvulin"?

After 30 years of failed missions, the USS Enterprise is invesitgated by a group of government mechanics. A lengthy digital trail implicates Mr. Scott in wholesale, illegal sales of hyperdrive technology to the Klingons.

In hearings before the Interplanetary Council, Mr. Scott gets all pissy. "Scotty" ignores all questions of illegally sellling warp drives and questions the legitimacy of the Council in light of their ban on Romulan dichlorium. He then places blame at the feet of Captain Kirk, saying he should have never banged the green lizard girl.

What is with you people?
 

Congressional total* ban on women in combat? Party-line vote in committee? WTF? Some guy in your party talking about "our mothers and daughters" -- yeah, mothers and daughters who have volunteered.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...nse_bill_women

*I think there is grandfathering

Defending Clinton? I'm shocked.

I'm also shocked that you are giving away that Anakin is both Darth Vader and Luke's daddy.

You have the time to do that?

If you missed it, it may have been because Fox cut away at that point for a Minuteman HQ pledge break.

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I read a soldier's blog while she was in Iraq, and she saw some combat. (She's home now. I think she was there for a year, and I started reading her shortly after she got there.)

At any rate, she's been saying for quite a while now that it's impossible to pull women out of combat areas because there is no front line in a war like Iraq. At any moment any place in the country could become a battlefield. Inadequately preparing women for the possibility of combat puts our soldiers at risk in situations like that, and with recruiting down for the thrid (?) month in a row, it seems patently ridiculous to pull women out because they may be put into a combat situation.

Word of warning, ginmar is quite a militant feminist,* no pun intended, so her views on the subject (among others) may be extreme.

I think that the ambush she faced last year was in early April. It was pretty horrific to read about, and I think she's since locked the relevant post due to concerns about security, but you can sort of get an idea here of one woman's life in a combat zone last year.

* Not to mention a feminist militant. -- T.S.

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