Comments on: Ad Praesens Ova Cras Pullis Sunt Meliora1

By: Tootle

Tootle — Sun, 03 May 2009 01:20:34 +0000

See those books on the shelf in back of this poorly educated Princetonite? Those are display books whose sole function is to impress the foolish. My guess is that Ramesh lifted those from Pat Robertson.

By: Smut Clyde

Smut Clyde — Sat, 02 May 2009 21:22:46 +0000

if a president does it, it’s not a crime.
Yes, but Nixon was claiming the power to over-rule the law-book. Rice was claiming that Presidental statements over-rule the entire dictionary.*

Nixon: Certain acts defined as torture aren’t illegal if the President says so.
Rice: Certain acts defined as torture aren’t torture if the President says so.

* Possibly including ‘the’ and ‘and’.

By: Lawnguylander

Lawnguylander — Sat, 02 May 2009 17:20:49 +0000

Stanford students pwn Condi.

By: Leon Trotsky, Exile-in-Mexico

Leon Trotsky, Exile-in-Mexico — Sat, 02 May 2009 16:44:53 +0000

Condaleeza Rice:
“And so by definition, if it* was authorized by the president, it did not violate our obligations under the Convention Against Torture.”

I believe I remember this… was in a movie just recent… Frost/Blitzen? Frost/Vixen (how is that not a porno yet)? Something like that, where the guy with a ‘x’ in his name says that if a president does it, it’s not a crime.

Based on a true story, apparently! Maybe from one of those crazy dictatorships in Latin America.

By: tigrismus

tigrismus — Sat, 02 May 2009 14:37:04 +0000

Obese Panther Nog? I hope the people force-feeding the panthers get all their fingers bitten off.

So, is abortion OK if the fetus tells us everything it knows?

By: Sirius Lunacy

Sirius Lunacy — Sat, 02 May 2009 13:36:24 +0000

Since we’ve brought Terry Pratchett into this thread, I must now quote Commander Sam Vimes’ postion on torture. Yoo! Listen up!

“If you are willing to do it for the ‘right’ reasons you will be willing to do it for the wrong ones.”

By: MzNicky

MzNicky — Sat, 02 May 2009 12:58:57 +0000

Smut Clyde: That’s no baby godzilla in that pickle jar! That’s … that’s Kermit the Frog!!! Oh My GOD what have they done now, those bastards!

By: Smut Clyde

Smut Clyde — Sat, 02 May 2009 12:29:00 +0000

I’m just trying to imagine the future applications of Rice’s Dico-ego-est argument-by-redefinition.
“And so by definition, if victory was declared by the president, subsequent movements of our troops were a timely demobilisation rather than a retreat.”
“And so by definition, if an economic boom was announced by the president, we are not currently in a depression.”

By: ron

ron — Sat, 02 May 2009 12:22:46 +0000

abortion works. isnt that the new standard of whats moral these days?

By: hypothetical intellectually honest wingnut

hypothetical intellectually honest wingnut — Sat, 02 May 2009 07:56:51 +0000

If enhanced interrogation techniques used against John McCain may have provided any useful information that could have saved one life. Certainly it was worth it.

By: Andrew A. Gill, SLS

Andrew A. Gill, SLS — Sat, 02 May 2009 05:36:00 +0000

“And so by definition, if it* was authorized by the president, it did not violate our obligations under the Convention Against Torture.”

If the president jumped off a bridge, it would be our solemn obligation to jump off as well.

By: Righteous Bubba

Righteous Bubba — Sat, 02 May 2009 05:21:50 +0000

And so by definition, if it* was authorized by the president, it did not violate our obligations

Does not apply to the Transnational Intern Blowjob Prohibition.

By: Smut Clyde

Smut Clyde — Sat, 02 May 2009 05:17:10 +0000

Condaleeza Rice:
“And so by definition, if it* was authorized by the president, it did not violate our obligations under the Convention Against Torture.”

* “It” = any action, but waterboarding in this case.
I am not sure whether this applies to ex cathedra.

By: OneMan

OneMan — Sat, 02 May 2009 05:14:06 +0000

“I am more concerned about the pickled baby godzilla in a jar, up in the top left corner of the picture.”

That’s not Gojirra, that’s a fetus.

Research, y’know.

By: Smut Clyde

Smut Clyde — Sat, 02 May 2009 05:07:54 +0000

Chuck “The German Hammer” Krauthammer’s medical license is most desperately in need of immediate revocation.

The American Psychiatric Association has an ethics code. Hard to believe, but true.
Somewhere in that code is a clause that enjoins the members of the APA not to abuse their Godlike Powers or damage the brand by throwing around diagnoses of mental illness willy-nilly, e.g. without actually meeting the person being diagnosed. This way psychiatrists can convince themselves that they are more ethical than their Breshnev-era Soviet counterparts, who were prone to have dissidents committed for the mental illness known as ‘dissidence’.

Section 7, that’s it:
However, it is unethical for a psychiatrist to offer a professional opinion unless he/she has conducted an examination and has been granted proper authorization for such a statement.

Krauthammer’s membership was not revoked for coming up with the diagnosis of “Bush Derangement Syndrome” and applying it to a large sector of the US population. More honoured, breach, observance, etc.

By: Rightwingsnarkle

Rightwingsnarkle — Sat, 02 May 2009 05:01:32 +0000

I am more concerned about the pickled baby godzilla in a jar, up in the top left corner of the picture.

Snacks.

By: Righteous Bubba

Righteous Bubba — Sat, 02 May 2009 05:00:25 +0000

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Righteous Bubba — Sat, 02 May 2009 04:45:26 +0000

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By: John O

John O — Sat, 02 May 2009 04:43:35 +0000

Off to go night-night.

You are all a boon to society. Have a great weekend.

By: Righteous Bubba

Righteous Bubba — Sat, 02 May 2009 04:37:59 +0000

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