Array Velvel [mailto:velvel@mslaw.edu]Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 11:52 AMTo: Undisclosed-RecipientSubject: boiling people alive courtesy of George Bush and companyMay 3, 2005Re: Boiling People Alive Courtesy Of George Bush And Company.From: Dean Lawrence R. But although not one single person has said the view expressed on March 17th is incorrect, neither the mainstream media nor Bushâs political opponents have had the courage to come out and say that the leaders of the American government have been committing serious, impeachable crimes.As someone had the guts to say on a recently taped program that was shown on CSpan this weekend (was it Mark Danner?), torture is now American policy, and it was to protect the President against criminal charges that John Yoo and Jay Bybee wrote a now-withdrawn memo claiming that obvious torture supposedly was not torture. That memo also said, though this has been largely forgotten, that the President, i.e., George Bush, can, as Commander-in-Chief, order torture, and thereby override and be completely exempt from the laws of Congress — a theory of the Commander-in-Chief power which represents the end of the rule of law in this country in favor of rule by presidential fiat. Better, therefore, that we should send people to possibly be boiled in real hot water in Uzbekistan than that liberals or the media should be boiled in political hot water at home.I think it was Hemingway who said that Cowards die a thousand deaths. Just as cowards die a thousand deaths, so too there are a thousand reasons for cowardice — as when The New York Times, during World War II, was too cowardly to print front page stories of the holocaust taking place under the Nazis because of fear that such publication would cause The Times to be seen as a Jewish newspaper, or as when liberals and the mainstream media decline to discuss the real truth about torture today because of fear of political hot water.**This posting represents the personal views of Lawrence R.
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âLonger-term inflation expectations remain well contained.â Understand that it positions were put on based on this statement that was in the original report: Pressures on inflation have picked up in recent months and pricing power is more evident, which heavily implies that the Fed is no where near finished with the rate hikes. The omitted sentence heavily modifies this short-triggering sentence and since it was issued after the close a lot of shorts are likely to get caught in a bad position today.
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-ne Good news for diabetic reproductive-age women: using the progestin-releasing IUD (Mirena) does not adversely affect blood sugar levels in women with type 1 diabetes.Contraceptive options for women with type 1 DM [diabetes mellitus] are limited because of concerns about the effect of hormones on glucose [sugar] metabolism and cardiovascular outcomes. For example, one study found that 95% of women with fibroids who were anemic and who used this method were no longer anemic after one year of use.When it comes to menstrual management, the particular disadvantage associated with using Mirena is bleeding and spotting, sometimes heavy, mostly during the first three to six months of use….Currently being developed is Femilis T [scroll to bottom of page for picture], a framed hormone-releasing IUD that releases 14 micrograms of the progestin levonorgestrel per day (compared to 20 micrograms for Mirena). The end result is that this model will likely have fewer troublesome side effects such as disturbed bleeding patterns, including amenorrhea, and hormonal side effects.As with any hormone-releasing IUD in general, the main disadvantage is that, if you’re interested in active period control, the hormone-releasing IUD wouldn’t be your first choice.This new type of IUD looks promising for women who suffer from heavy and painful periods, or other period-related medical problems, and who might not be able to tolerate the available IUDs.And speaking of being unable to tolerate existing IUD brands, more from the book about frameless IUDs:GyneFix [click on this link for a good review of some of the IUD brands available outside the U.S.]A frameless IUD, as the name implies, is an IUD that doesn’t have the rigid, or semiflexible, plastic frame seen in the framed brands. However, if you’re a woman who wants or needs to use menstrual management, but prefers to have a monthly episode of bleeding, this is clearly an advantage for you.The main disadvantage of the frameless hormone-releasing IUD is that you won’t be able to use it for active menstrual management.The frameless hormone-releasing IUD will be particularly useful for women who have tried to use an IUD but were unable to tolerate other types of IUD in the past.
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Baghdad. The U.S. military announced Saturday that four U.S. soldiers were killed and two wounded Thursday when a Task Force Freedom convoy was hit by a roadside bomb in Tal Afar.Baghdad. Four U.S. soldiers in a convoy were wounded when their Humvee rolled into a ditch late Friday night near Abu Ghraib prison.23:52 London. OT: 23:52 London. British Prime Minister Tony Blair agreed in July 2002 to the participation of the UK in the invasion of Iraq led by the United States, according to a Foreign Office memorandum leaked to the Sunday Times. The publication of the secret document will provide more ammunition to Mr. Blair’s enemies just before the legislative elections next week. The Prime Minister and his advisors discussed the question of the invasion of Iraq on 23 July 2002 during a foreign intelligence meeting presided by Sir Richard Dearlove. Military action was now seen as inevitable…We should work on the assumption that the UK would take part in any military action…The CDS (Admiral Michael Boyce) should tell the US military that we were considering a range of options…. Admiral Boyce should prepare all the details necessary concerning the British military contribution…We should not ignore legal questions. We must not ignore the legal issues: the Attorney-General would consider legal advice with FCO/MOD legal advisers Read the memo as published in The Sunday Times - Britain.23:46 Washington. The US miltiary has published a report confirming that it will not sanction the patrol responsible for the shooting of Major-General Nicola Calipari. Meanwhile, Italian Minister for Reforms Roberto Calderoli saidthe time has come to talk about accelerating Italy’s timetable for pullout from Iraq. If the US patrol really observed the rules of engagement, given what happened it means that committing such mistakes is part of those rules. In any case, with the divergences surfacing in the report of the Joint Commission of Inquiry, the time has come for the majority government for careful and deep reflexion on the timetable for the withdrawal of our troops deployed to Iraq in a peacekeeping mission. In my house we say, Whats good for the goose is good for the gander.” 23:34 Istanbul. Iraq has asked its neighbors to support the new government in Baghdad and to increase border security.22:18 Mosul. Six carbombings in Mosul. Five are dead and twelve wounded, including two US soldiers. 19:46 Khalidiyah: Marine killed.18:58 Rome. Unable to find consensus on the conclusions of a joint US-Italian commission, the Italian authorities have asked the Rome prosecutor to accelerate its own investigation on the shooting of Nicola Calipari. 18:50 Washington. The US general staff confirmed that the troops responsible for the shooting of Nicola Calipari will not be disciplined.17:42. Teheran. Iran opens new international airport. Imam Khomeini airport has been opened and welcomed its first flight from Dubai. Meanwhile, the British Foreign Offices says the runways are unsafe.17:38 Baghdad. 30 people are wounded, including soldiers and police commandos, in car bombings around Baghdad. 17:26 Baghdad. Three booby-trapped cars targeting military convoys killed four and wounded 16 in Baghdad. Insurgents blew up a car when a joint Iraqi-US convoy passsed by near a police station in the Zayouna district in east Baghdad. Two passers-by, including a child, were kiled and ten others wounded. A second car exploded in west Baghdad, near a US military convoy. A third vehicle killed two civilians and wounded six others near a US patrol in east Baghdad. 17:05 Baghdad. Carbomb explodes near the headquarters of a Sunni group, the Council for National Dialog, killing 5 civilians and wounding 26 in the Khadra district of west Baghdad. Near Chaab Stadium a carbomb killed two civilians and wounded six others. It also destroyed several automobiles. 17:02 Baghdad. The Committee of Iraqi Ulema says police commandos raided several mosques, residences and Islamic institutions and arrested 30 clerics and worshipers. 16:53 Beirut. Hundreds of supporters of General Michel Aoun, a Lebaneses opposition figure in exile, gather to celebrate his return planned for 7 May. The celebration caused a monstrous traffic jam on the Beirut-Damascus highway. 16:50 Cairo. Tourists killed and injured attacks. Iab Yassin, 47, jumped off the Sixth of October bridge holding a bomb into Abdel Muneim Riad square, near the Ramses Hilton and the Egyptian Museum at 3:00 pm. The bomb decapitated Yassin and wounded a Swedish physician returning from Darfur and his Italian fiancee, two Israelis and four Egyptians. One of the victims is dead. Two hours later, his sister and his wife, dressed in niqabs, opened fire on a tour bus in the Sayeda Aisha quarter near the Saladin District at the entrance into Cairos Old City, wounding three persons. One woman shot her companion then shot herself after being surrounded by police. 16:29 Baghdad. Two soliders of Task Force Baghdad were killed by a bomb.
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-ne I have no idea how I missed this but a delightful American Prospect article from back in December of 2002 puts the lie to the standard right-wing wanker party line of massively disproportionate (for you wankers, really, like, large) liberal representation on academic faculties.As we all know (and by know I mean that the right-wing wankerverse has lied about it for years), the ideological composition of your average academic faculty is ridiculously skewed to the left. (Independents, who would seem under Zinsmeister’s labeling scheme to merit a C for centrist, were ignored.) The overall ratio of L’s to R’s reflected in the story’s bar graphs was dramatic: 11-to-1…At none of the campuses — which ran the gamut from Harvard, Brown, Stanford and Cornell universities to 10 state schools and a smattering of smaller colleges — did the parties of the left prevail by a ratio of less than 6-to-1. In the University of Texas sample, for example, 28 of the 94 teachers came from women’s studies — not exactly a highlight of any school’s core curriculum or a likely cross section of its faculty.
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-ne From CNN via Atrios:Poll: Most in U.S. say Iraq war not worthwhile WASHINGTON (CNN) — A majority of Americans do not believe it was worth going to war in Iraq, a national poll reported Tuesday. Fifty-seven percent of those polled said they did not believe it was worth going to war, versus 41 percent who said it was, according to a CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll of 1,006 adults.
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Turner is also an innovator with an eye for detail - who can forget his use of a dustbin umpire in the nets to get Richard Hadlee to subtly change his approach to the bowling crease in Brisbane in 1985/86? Who can forget that Hadlee went out after that session and took 9-52?While unconventional methods of communicating count against his appointment, Turner’s perfectionism and experience still make him a good choice.
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