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Ralph Nader, RE: Jello Biafra, RE: Jerry Brown

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Registered in Massachusetts?

Don't forget to vote.

It looks like it's turned into a close race. A disturbingly close race, you might say. Depending on your point of view, of course.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_palin_fox_news

Good for her. Good for the USA, I can't imagine she'd be electable after spending more time on TV. Look at Fred Thompson.

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/12/leaving-the...

This is what writing for The Atlantic does. Welcome to the Establishment, Andrew.

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/11/to-our-read...

Gaah! What will I talk about @ Q this evening?

I'm the first to agree that the health care bill before Congress is a stinkin' pile. However, I think the GOP is being a bit "objectionable". If the health care bill is that odious, let the Democrats hang themselves.

Americans, turn over your rocks, and make your own decisions.

I admit, I have always been mystified by the number of people gulled by the Kennedy glamour, but the glob has reached an all time high of obsiquity with this piece of drivel:

With Massachusetts having paid its final respects to Senator Edward M. Kennedy, the politics of succession begins in earnest this week - candidates will emerge, a race will take shape, and the Kennedy clan will have to reveal whether it wants to keep the seat in the family.

I applaud Eric Holder for starting an investigation into the CIA's torture of detainees.

Regardless of whether or not the CIA's rules were legal, they certainly overstepped the line in the sand drawn for them by John Yoo et al.

If what these agents did was so necessary, then they should be able to convince a federal judge of it. I disagree with Alan Dershowitz here. Keep torture illegal. Allow a judge and/or jury to decide if the agent's actions were justified. It's a very //Jack Bauer// approach.

Anyone else find it strange that the very "dissonance" that some Republican senators are so confused about is exactly the thing they say they want: a judge who is able to separate personal biases from application of the law.

Unless her plan has been to spend 17 years in the judiciary hewing a mainstream record in the hopes of making it to the SCOTUS so as to blossom as a fire-breathing Latina liberal.

Which seems more plausible?

Did I use "hewing" correctly?