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“Know This If Nothing Else: This Was A Hate Crime”
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Our radio hate talkers incited a man to commit an act of terrorism. Just sit a minute and take that in. And the next time you hear them foaming on about how liberals are “soft on terrorism,” reflect on the fact that they’d better hope to hell we don’t get any more serious about it — because if we do, their asses are going to be the first ones in the dockets.
House Approves Whitelist of People Who Aren’t Terrorists
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The House overwhelmingly adopted legislation this week mandating the creation of a new kind of terrorist watchlist: a database of people who aren’t terrorists, but are routinely flagged at airports anyway.
The U.S. government maintains a list of about a million names of suspected terrorists that is crosschecked with passenger names ahead of airline boarding. The list has been dogged for years by sloppy name matches that have ensnared innocent travelers, children, prominent politicians and government officials, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ secretary of education and all men named David Nelson.
Under the new plan, approved late Tuesday 413-3, innocent victims of the terrorist watchlist must prove to the Department of Homeland Security, through an undetermined appeals process, that they are not terrorists. They would then get their names put on what the legislation calls the “Comprehensive Cleared List.”
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No word yet about what they’re going to do about people who are on the whitelist, but shouldn’t be. Perhaps they’ll create a second blacklist for them. Then we’ll all be safe from terrorists, for sure.
I’m pretty sure Cantor would be on the list of lists that doesn’t contain him.
Icicles of Brick
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This abandoned Russian fortress is probably one of the creepiest places I have seen.
The reason for it to have such a strange look is because it was used later by Russian army to test the influence of Russian alternative to napalm inside of the brick houses.
Due to very high temperature of napalm the bricks started melting just like ice melts in the spring forming the icicles, but those icicles are of red brick.
(more pictures at the link)
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Binyam Mohamed torture evidence ‘hidden from Obama’
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US defence officials are preventing Barack Obama from seeing evidence that a former British resident held in Guantánamo Bay has been tortured, the prisoner’s lawyer said last night, as campaigners and the Foreign Office prepared for the man’s release in as little as a week.
Clive Stafford Smith, the director of the legal charity Reprieve, which represents Ethiopian-born Binyam Mohamed, sent Obama evidence of what he called “truly mediaeval” abuse but substantial parts were blanked out so the president could not read it.
In the letter to the president [PDF] , Stafford Smith urges him to order the disclosure of the evidence.
Stafford Smith tells Obama he should be aware of the “bizarre reality” of the situation. “You, as commander in chief, are being denied access to material that would help prove that crimes have been committed by US personnel. This decision is being made by the very people who you command.”
It is understood US defence officials might have censored the evidence to protect the president from criminal liability or political embarrassment.
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Before Losing $15 Billion, Merrill Lynch Quietly Made 696 Employees Millionaires
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New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo wrote a letter yesterday to Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), head of the House Financial Services Committee, (which is currently holding hearings Washington on how banks are spending bailout funds.) In the letter, Cuomo expresses concern that Merrill Lynch moved up their bonus schedule so that they could make sure that taxpayers would get the bill.
Couple wrongly accused of abusing their baby cannot have their children back because it is ‘too late’, court rules
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A judge yesterday ruled that a couple will never see three of their children again even though he accepted they may have been wrongly accused of abusing them.
Mark and Nicky Webster’s three eldest children were taken into care in 2004 after doctors claimed that six tiny fractures found on the middle child had been inflicted deliberately. All three were adopted.
Yesterday, in a failed attempt to have the adoption order overturned, the couple were told that even though they could be victims of a miscarriage of justice it was ‘too late’ for them to be reunited with their daughter and two sons.
I believe the, ah technical terminology for an item such as the list characterized as of a securitized nature of being, as it were, pertaining to the, ah suspect names a-said forementionedable, is, in the “Industry” would be, ah, known as a “Grey List,” or a “Gray List” across the big wet ponderosa, if I am to be mistaken, I do believe. (But yez didn’t sees it here! ;*)
You seem to be suggesting that Cantor is some *sort* of list. I think Cantor would argue that the MOAL would be a “inconsistent multiplicity” but modern mathematicians would call it a “proper class”: the set of all things considred “human”.