IconoclasT wrote:
] Laughing Boy wrote:
] ] ] A federal appeals court has agreed to hear a request from
] ] ] the woman formerly known as "Jane Roe" to reconsider the
] ] ] 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade that
] ] ] legalized abortion.
] ] ]
] ] ] Norma McCorvey, who joined with anti-abortion activists
] ] ] nearly 10 years ago, is seeking to have the decision
] ] ] overturned, citing what she says is more than 30 years of
] ] ] evidence that abortions are psychologically harmful to
] ] ] women.
] ] ]
] ] ] A federal district judge threw out her initial request in
] ] ] June, saying it was not made within a reasonable time.
] ] ] But the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of
] ] ] Appeals has agreed to hear McCorvey's arguments March 2.
] ] ]
] ] ] "It's something that I've wanted ever since Day One, and
] ] ] it's happening," McCorvey said from her Dallas home.
] ] ]
] ] ] Dallas County District Attorney Bill Hill, whose
] ] ] predecessor Henry Wade who was named in the original
] ] ] lawsuit, has not filed a response to McCorvey's appeal.
] ] ] That may put the appeals court in the unusual position of
] ] ] hearing arguments from only one side.
]
] Why do the left and the right hop on this so stongly? You'd
] think we have much larger issues to concern ourselves with in
] this troubled planet. Do I like the idea of abortions? No. Am
] I gonna take a position and protest for or against? No.
] Frankly, I have more important things to worry about.

Yea, well we also have people protesting till they are red in the face about flags... "you can't desecrate the American flag..." "the Confederate battle emblem has to go...". The time and money wasted on these matters is insane.

LB

RE: Court to hear case to reopen Roe V. Wade

] A federal appeals court has agreed to hear a request from
] the woman formerly known as "Jane Roe" to reconsider the
] 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade that
] legalized abortion.
]
] Norma McCorvey, who joined with anti-abortion activists
] nearly 10 years ago, is seeking to have the decision
] overturned, citing what she says is more than 30 years of
] evidence that abortions are psychologically harmful to
] women.
]
] A federal district judge threw out her initial request in
] June, saying it was not made within a reasonable time.
] But the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of
] Appeals has agreed to hear McCorvey's arguments March 2.
]
] "It's something that I've wanted ever since Day One, and
] it's happening," McCorvey said from her Dallas home.
]
] Dallas County District Attorney Bill Hill, whose
] predecessor Henry Wade who was named in the original
] lawsuit, has not filed a response to McCorvey's appeal.
] That may put the appeals court in the unusual position of
] hearing arguments from only one side.

Court to hear case to reopen Roe V. Wade

inignoct wrote:
] Elonka wrote:
] ] To be honest, even if it was true (and I don't believe it
] is),
] ] it wouldn't have an impact on my opinion. Someone cut
] school
] ] for a day? Big whoop.
]
] [ With all due respect, this isn't about skipping school.
] It's about reneging on a sworn promise to serve in the United
] States Armed Forces. If this is true, it means that the
] President is a man who couldn't find it in himself to commit
] fully to the National Guard, an honorable position that
] nonetheless was a gift from god compared with fighting in a
] foreign war. For such a man to talk to *anyone* about
] patriotism, honor, or duty, much less command this generation
] of soldiers to wage war is outrageous.
]
] I'm as skeptical as anyone about this situation... it seems
] to me like much ado without much data, but it's not about
] nothing. If it comes out as fact, then we're talking about
] hypocracy of the worst sort -- the kind in which people die
] under orders from a false leader. If it comes out to be
] nothing, then we can reprimand the accusers, demand their
] apology, and then move on. But to claim it's unimportant is
] completely absurd and does a disservice to those who don't
] equivocate their dedication to the oaths they take. -k]

The repubs lambaseded Clinton as a "draft dodger" then crucifided him for becoming commander in chief. Turn-a-bout is fair play.

Kids - don't believe what the history books tell you. Go ask someone - ANYone that served in 'Nam. They will tell you someone drafted into the Guard dodged the draft as well, because you had to have big political connections to get into the guard.

Now if W not only got favored into the NG because of daddys political connections, but went AWOL for an extended period of time, we have a SERIOUS problem...

LB

RE: Spokesman Defends Bush's Military Service

] Some 400 pages of President Bush's military files were
] made public Friday amid questions about whether he
] fulfilled his required service in the Air National Guard.
] None of the documents relate to service between May 1972
] to May 1973, when Bush transferred from Texas to Alabama.

BURN!!!

CNN.com

Elonka wrote:
] To be honest, even if it was true (and I don't believe it is),
] it wouldn't have an impact on my opinion. Someone cut school
] for a day? Big whoop.

[ With all due respect, this isn't about skipping school. It's about reneging on a sworn promise to serve in the United States Armed Forces. If this is true, it means that the President is a man who couldn't find it in himself to commit fully to the National Guard, an honorable position that nonetheless was a gift from god compared with fighting in a foreign war. For such a man to talk to *anyone* about patriotism, honor, or duty, much less command this generation of soldiers to wage war is outrageous.

I'm as skeptical as anyone about this situation... it seems to me like much ado without much data, but it's not about nothing. If it comes out as fact, then we're talking about hypocracy of the worst sort -- the kind in which people die under orders from a false leader. If it comes out to be nothing, then we can reprimand the accusers, demand their apology, and then move on. But to claim it's unimportant is completely absurd and does a disservice to those who don't equivocate their dedication to the oaths they take. -k]

Spokesman Defends Bush's Military Service

] The Defense Department announced Wednesday it has decided
] to grant "dirty bomb" suspect Jose Padilla access to a
] lawyer "subject to appropriate security restrictions."
]
] The FBI arrested Padilla in Chicago, Illinois, in May of
] 2002 on suspicion of being part of a plot to detonate a
] so-called dirty bomb. He was designated an "enemy
] combatant" by President Bush a month later and was
] transferred to the military brig in Charleston, South
] Carolina, in June.
]
] He has been held there ever since and has not had access
] to any legal counsel or been formally charged.

Nice. A U.S. citizen is finally getting due process of law (well, "conditionally" FWIW) after being incarcerated for nearly 2 years? And I suppose its *purely coincidental* that this is happening in an election year too. Of course this isn’t an effort to soften Bush and Ashcroft’s Gestapo image.

LB

'Dirty bomb' suspect gets conditional lawyer access

] CEDAR LAKE, Ind. (AP) %u2014 Some parents and students
] said they were concerned about children's privacy as a
] northwestern Indiana school district prepares to use
] fingerprints to identify students while buying school
] meals.
]
] The Hanover Community School Corp. plans to use a new
] cafeteria cash register system, which uses fingerprints
] instead of meal cards to charge students.
]
] Some parents and students questioned how else the
] fingerprints might be used, but school officials say the
] system would make the cafeterias more efficient and does
] not infringe on privacy.

Call me crazy... but my highschool had I think a magstripe or barcode reader for scanning student photo IDs. It seemed to work really well at keeping track of who bought what in the cafeteria without conjuring scary Orwellian "Big Brother" images. I fail to see why a biometric system is necessary in a school cafeteria.

Moral of the story... your civil liberties are not taken away in one foul swoop - they are chipped away little by little so not enough people notice to raise any red flags with a large percentage of the population.

LB

Some question using student fingerprints for school meals

] In the rush to hire more than 55,000 airport baggage
] screeners, the Transportation Security Administration
] swept up a few people that didn't belong in security
] positions, according to the inspector general of the
] Department of Homeland Security.
]
] Among them, some 85 screeners had felony convictions, 503
] failed to disclose an arrest or conviction, and 338 had
] financial or similar disqualifying problems, according to
] Inspector General Clark Kent Ervin.

Your tax dollars at work.

LB

Report: Felons hired in rush to fill airport security jobs

] What is clear is that al Qaeda is at a crossroads and --
] like the United States in the spring of 2002 -- it does
] not have really good choices, and therefore, must choose
] the best of a bad lot. Al Qaeda's original war plan is
] obsolete. The straight line it drew from Sept. 11 to the
] Caliphate has hit a wall. Bin Laden knows it. He doesn't
] have a good Plan B, but he will have to cook one up
] anyway. The war is not over, but for the moment, it is al
] Qaeda's turn to sweat out a solution to a difficult
] strategic problem. If they can't do that, then the war
] could very well be over, at least for this generation.

!!!

Cook 'em all - let Allah sort 'em out.

LB

Al Q might be cooked...

The step was described by some military officials as a sign that the administration might have lowered its sights and no longer expected to uncover the caches of chemical and biological weapons that the White House cited as a principal reason for going to war last March.

US Withdraws Weapons Hunters From Iraq