Your “life experience” shouldn’t influence judicial decisions. The law and the Constitution should. The Constitution says the same thing, no matter what race or background the person who is happening to read it has.

This is the Supreme Court. Not Oprah or Dr. Phil, people.

Samuel Alito sez:

Because when a case comes before me involving, let’s say, someone who is an immigrant — and we get an awful lot of immigration cases and naturalization cases — I can’t help but think of my own ancestors, because it wasn’t that long ago when they were in that position.

[. . .]

When I get a case about discrimination, I have to think about people in my own family who suffered discrimination because of their ethnic background or because of religion or because of gender. And I do take that into account.

Salon

Tigrismus wins a new Intertube — but wait, there’s more! — and also a whole new artificial language for commenting within it.

Cripes, I thought teh ghey gettin’ married was.

I was working for Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders in Boston when the first gay marriages were going on. There was a flood of binational couples who called, hoping that they had finally found an escape from the constant fear of immigration agents. We had to tell them, not only that their marriages still wouldn’t be valid for immigration purposes, but that the Bush administration was actively seeking out and deporting people who tried to take that route, even if they had temporary legal status.

Several of our attorneys wanted to test this in court, but it was decided that the combination of teh gheys and teh illegals was too politically potent.

It just makes socialism harder when you get these “free thinkers” roaming around.

Cripes, I thought teh ghey gettin’ married was. Will you wingnuts please coordinate your bigotries better so we can be more efficient at making fun of your sorry asses.

That’d be a pretty good band name.

Which nation is that, Hairy? The “white men can’t cum without Viagra” nation? The one with the Confederate Flag?

So if a ticking time bomb somewhere out there is reason enough for us to torture, is the potential for another Abu Ghraib reason enough for others to torture us? Because let me tell you, I’m just about mad enough to waterboard the truth out of some people in the Pentagon.

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I wonder how he feels about Korean Taco Trucks.

The only question is whether those who ordered torture will be held to account.

He made a funny.

It’s nice of Obama to protect our troops by suppressing those photos, but I think they would be much safer here at home, where they won’t be raping children be torturing for the pure joy of it be lynched.

It’s funny how “liberating oppressed people” always seems to come to this place.

You may find it a great opportunity for a joke, but the more you help conflate those two ideas the more you enable torture, which isn’t really funny if you think about it.

After all, remember, Saddam had the rape rooms. We had patriot chambers:

A former U.S. general said graphic images of rape and torture are among the photos of Iraqi prisoner abuse that President Barack Obama’s administration does not want released…

…Retired Major Gen. Antonio Taguba, who oversaw the U.S. investigation into the abuses at Baghdad’s Abu Ghraib prison, was quoted as telling Britain’s Daily Telegraph in an article Wednesday that he agreed with Obama’s decision not to release the pictures…

According to the Telegraph, the new photos depicted much more serious abuses than previously documented. One photo reportedly showed an American soldier apparently raping a female prisoner and another was said to show a male translator raping a male detainee, the paper reported.

The Telegraph said the photos related to 400 cases of alleged abuse between 2001 and 2005 at Abu Ghraib and six other prisons…

…Although Taguba’s 2004 report detailed incidents of rape of detainees, it was not revealed that photos existed of the shocking abuses, until now. Some of the unreleased photographs show detainees being raped and sexually abused with objects, such as a truncheon, wire, a phosphorescent tube and a policeman’s baton.

One photo also shows a female prisoner with exposed breasts after her clothing was forcibly removed.

Maj. Gen Taguba saw the horrors first hand during his Abu Ghraib investigation and he believes the Bush administration is guilty of war crimes.

In a preface to a report by Physicians for Human Rights on prisoner abuse and torture in U.S. military prisons Taguba wrote: “There is no longer any doubt that the current administration committed war crimes. The only question is whether those who ordered torture will be held to account.”

The Federal Government’s Contract with the American People is to provide for Our Common Defense. But not securing our Nation’s Borders and Enforcing Our Nation’s Immigration Laws, the Federal Government has violated it’s contract with the American People. The only reason the Federal Government exists is because We the People have consented to said government to provide for our Common Defense. The Defense of These Fifty United States.

The Federal Government must act immediately or the militia, all able bodied male citizens between the ages of 18 and 45 have the responsibility to secure our Nation’s Borders and Enforce Our Nation’s Immigration Laws ourselves. What we need is a larger, more organized and better equipted Minute Man Project which will work with the U.S. Border Patrol which has failed at it’s job miserably.

We the People may enventualy have to solve this Immigration Crisis Ourselves unless our government acts.

You have to make sure that the desired extension (say Greasemonkey) gets downloaded as an XPI file, so go to somewhere like download.com to save the file rather than have Firefox install it.

Then you can bring up the MR Tech Toolkit options, enable the menus, enable the “Install Extensions” etc menus, and then whenever you pull up the “Add-On’s” window for an incompatible extension, look up to the “File” menu and choose “Install Extension”.

As the prompt to install comes up, just check the box for overriding the version compatibility check.

Then you can install and use your Greasemonkey scripts (say, killfile) again with 3.5b4.

If you’re using the regular Firefox (not Beta, say 3.0.10), then you can just click “Add-Ons”, search for Greasemonkey, install it, restart Firefox, then install the script (such as killfile linked above). Then reload the webpage and apply the script as desired.