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[novapsyche]

New Yorkers are ticked that Homeland Security cut their anti-terrorism funding by 40%. Can you blame them?

Keith Olbermann takes O'Reilly several notches down for desecrating the memories of American soldiers massacred by SS troops: O'Reilly suggests it was the Americans who committed atrocities at Malmedy. This was, hands down, the angriest I've ever seen Keith, and he was rightly angered. I couldn't stop gasping as he recounted fact after fact. (Video available off the link.)

Alabama Supreme Court hopefuls: State not bound by federal precedent. No, really, you must read this to believe it. (Found in ljdemocrats.)

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[chimalis.livejournal.com]

Reading friendsfriends: nice icon.

[novapsyche.livejournal.com]

Thanks. :) Trying to find more reasons to use it. I think I have three M:tG icons (Teysa, Joyous Respite, & Timewalk). I'd like more.

[dionysus1999.livejournal.com]

One of my newer LJ friends has a Wanderlust icon.

[chimalis.livejournal.com]

I made a Joyous Respite when the set first came out. The card wasn't that great, but I loved the art.

[timiathan.livejournal.com]

Of all the myriad things to get angry about, I don't know... Beating the current war drum as kids march off to be mangled by IEDs pisses me off a lot more than stepping on the toes of people who've been dead for 60 years. Or just the brush-off comparison of slaughtering pregnant women and children...that's what we should be getting pissed about. This seems kinda misplaced to me.

[novapsyche.livejournal.com]

No, Olbermann and O'Reilly have been feuding for a while.

Olbermann's fury was on display because O'Reilly had said this misinformation once before, last October, and the context was to excuse what went on in Abu Ghraib. Now, again, he mangled history (in even more detail--he made black white) in order to absolve the killings in Haditha.

He took O'Reilly to task for not just telling a Big Lie (and that is a huge misrepresentation of fact), but telling it twice. And not only telling it twice, but for the undercurrent of doing so. (Because what was he saying? Because Americans had done so before, then it's okay? But, untwisting the facts, you have him saying it's okay that Americans slaughtered these civilians because Nazis did it to us. So is he saying that our troops should behave like Nazis?)

Besides that, FoxNews scrubbed O'Reilly's transcript to read "Normandy" instead of "Malmedy". Instead of reprimanding this man who influences millions of viewers, they abet his hit on history. Olbermann has every reason to go after O'Reilly about this, especially since Olbermann used to be a Fox employee.

Olbermann hits all sorts of balls out of the park as far as dissecting the right-wing paradigm. This one just had fire on it after he knocked it off his bat.

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[blackwinterbyrd.livejournal.com]

wait...so it's unconstitutional to follow the constitution where it says "supreme court is the final word" because they think that the supreme court is being unconstitutional in a particular case *cough**abortion*cough* *cough*religious legislation*cough*? Isn't that the entirety of the supreme court's job? determining constitutionality? or is my 8th grade political education oversimplifying things?

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[novapsyche.livejournal.com]

Isn't that the entirety of the supreme court's job?

Exactly. If the Supreme Court is not the absolute law of the land, then we really are in for dark times.