A dog has been caught on camera breaking out of his kennel at Battersea Dogs Home and freeing other animals for regular midnight feasts.

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A bunch of the reviews just got hosed. The ann rice post and all reply's are gone. Like it never happened.
dmv wrote:
] ] Seldom do I really answer those who criticize my work. In
] ] fact, the entire development of my career has been fueled
] ] by my ability to ignore denigrating and trivializing
] ] criticism as I realize my dreams and my goals. However
] ] there is something compelling about Amazon's willingness
] ] to publish just about anything, and the sheer outrageous
] ] stupidity of many things you've said here that actually
] ] touches my proletarian and Democratic soul. Also I use
] ] and enjoy Amazon and I do read the reviews of other
] ] people's books in many fields. In sum, I believe in what
] ] happens here. And so, I speak. First off, let me say that
] ] this is addressed only to some of you, who have posted
] ] outrageously negative comments here, and not to all. You
] ] are interrogating this text from the wrong perspective.
] ] Indeed, you aren't even reading it. You are projecting
] ] your own limitations on it.
]
] Anne Rice doesn't like people trashing her latest novel on
] Amazon.
]
] But really, she should know that regarding criticism -- and
] the inevitable trolls -- the only way to win is not to play at
] all
] (hers is comment between 211-220 when sorted oldest-first if
] this link doesn't work)

RE: Amazon.com: Books: Blood Canticle (The Vampire Chronicles)

k wrote:
] ] For the first time, MIT researchers have incorporated a
] ] plant's ability to convert sunlight to energy into a
] ] solid-state electronic %u201Cspinach sandwich%u201D
] ] device that may one day power laptops and cell phones.
] ]
]
] [ Cool science... -k]

The world needs Popeye physics.

RE: PhysOrg: Spinach May Soon Power Mobile Devices

] BERLIN (Reuters) - A German woman thought she had been
] robbed by sedative-toting thieves when she returned to
] her car to find 380 euros ($470) missing and her dog
] vomiting, only to discover the pet had eaten the cash,
] police said on Thursday.

Yahoo! News - The Dog Ate My Euros

Here are links to two fun sites! Lara Roxx was the French-Canadian porn star who got AIDS from doing a double anal sex scene with Darren James. She is sometimes called Lara Coxx, and other times, Lana Roxx and other times Laura Roxx. If you care to see the Anus that launched 1,000 AIDS tests, it can be viewed (along with the rest of her) at

www.lanaroxx.com

For those of you who care to realize this sites promise of shooting the shit with the self-professed "HIV infected porn star," and aspiring filmmmaker, visit

www.lauraroxx.com

A grand old time is to be had by all, and remember, AIDS is not transferrable over the net!

the anus that launched 1,000 AIDS tests

] LOS ANGELES (AP) - Julia Child, whose warbling,
] encouraging voice and able hands brought the intricacies
] of French cuisine to home cooks in North America through
] her television series and books, has died. She was 91.

Why is there not a death category in memestreams?

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k wrote:
] ] "Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so
] ] are we," Bush said. "They never stop thinking
] ] about new ways to harm our country and our people, and
] ] neither do we."
]
] [ Oh wow... i know it's just a mis-speak, but it's just too
] good to pass up. Ha! -k]

"You're either with us or against us"
Uh-oh...

RE: MSNBC - A new 'Bushism': We're gonna get us

Ouch.

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Having finally had time to sit down and read Hamdi v. Rumsfeld its clear to me that the press reports so far have been confusing at best and misleading at worst. While I am heartened that the court has decided that there are some limits to the power of our executive, their decision is far from the stalwart defense of our traditional understanding of civil liberties that it has been presented as. I must express that I share the cynicism of the Russian commentator whose article I posted in spite of that commentator's hypocrisy.

My (apparently incorrect) understand of how things work in this country is that the legislative branch makes the laws (within the framework of the constitution), the executive enforces them, and the judicial interprets, applies, and upholds them. In this case the legislative passed a vague authorization for the use of military force against Al'Q and the T. From this the executive invented an entirely unprecedented and undefined legal status for prisoners. We'll call this "legislating from the Oval Office." In this decision the judicial has upheld the existence of this undefined status and invented a vaguely defined and unprecedented legal standard to go along with it. We'll call this "legislating from the bench."

From now on, as long as Congress has authorized the President to use "force" against an "enemy" the President may name any citizen an "enemy combatant" and place them in prison. The President is required to present its case against these individuals to a neutral decision maker (which need not be a civilian court), but the standard in these cases is "guilty until proven innocent." This is an enormously important precedent that will continue to impact our history forever.

I do not recall "guilty until proven innocent" ever being a part of how Americans view justice. Nor do I recall that the Supreme Court has the power to invent standards like this for cases of this sort. Missing from every event leading up to this moment (the solidification of a new legal standard for certain prisoners in our justice system) is the explanation of why. Why won't standard POW processes work for "combatants" in Afghanistan? Why do we need a new standard? Why is this situation so significantly different from any we've faced in the past? Justification is what you'd get if this new creation was the product of a normal legislative process. Instead what we have is the technical assertion of power by the executive and the judicial, with no more explanation then "these are bad people."

Maybe the court has reached the right balance here and this is the standard we ought to have. Its certainly preferable to me then Justice Thomas's unsaid statement that the only recourse that you have against unreasonable executive detention is to Impeach him. (If Thomas's well referenced dissent is correct, then I would say we are in need of new laws immediately!) However, I think it ought to have gone through the legislature, and that it ought to have been birthed in the open, with the traditional discussion of ends and means that is typically afforded a democracy when creating a new basic legal framework.

Repeating my basic point to ram it home: A new legal standard has been created in our justice system. It applies to enemies of the state. The standard is guilty until proven innocent. Its use requires Congressional authorization, but that authorization need not be specific. This is a watershed event that will inform future generation's basic understanding of what the Constitution means.

Hamdi v. Rumsfeld - Now THATS legislating from the bench!

"The e-mails actually never went through, but I was able to...send them to her" via instant messenger, said Johnson, who wrote about the incident on his Web log, Gizmodo.

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