Bush Pardons 19 More After Questioning

Wouldn't it be rather stupid to pardon someone who hasn't been charged with anything as yet?

What will George do, create a pardon for any future charges against Cheney, Rove, Rumsfeld, etc.? Were the framers of our constitution possibly that misdirected?

On the other hand, if Dubbya can't pardon because there are no charges to date, perhaps someone will grow a pair and begin indicting some of these criminal minds after the inauguration.

One can only hope. Otherwise, all this talk of change is pure rhetoric.
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Muntadhar al-Zeidi: Who Is The Bush Shoe-Thrower?

Well, you order an invasion/occupation and a regime change in a foreign country for unfounded purposes and reasons that (allegedly) cause over 600,000 civilian deaths and obliterates that nation's infrastructure and people are likely to get a little testy when you say you're giving them a "gift".

But a 15 year sentence? Well, so much for the "liberation", free speech and democracy.
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Youthfulness: An American Obsession, At Any Cost

Human growth hormone and testosterone injections...to mention but a few things Dr. Life can prescribe for himself and you or I can not. Given these opportunities and the availablility to the right drugs, how many of the rest of us could and would extend our lives with a youthful appearance? Hell, for that matter, how many people could be cured of a shopping list of things and extend their lives to puberty in impoverished and starving third world villages?

Dr. Life happens to be a part of the elite few. People who are first in line for organ transplants and the most advanced surgical techniques while the unwashed masses are limited to HMOs and health care programs that won't provide any allowances for basic preventative medicines in an effort to spare the cost and increase their profit margins. But again...that's just the you and I kinda' people. And we're much, much luckier than so many others.

Well, good for Dr. Life.

While billions go without food or medicine on the planet he can somehow with good conscience remain to look like a phreak of nature and PhotoShop.

A great accomplishment for medical science. Ask any Liberian or Ugandan.
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Pay Raise For Judges Tucked Into Auto Bailout Plan

It's official. There is no shame on Capitol Hill.

Read from the Huffpo article:

"The raise _ an annual cost of living adjustment, or COLA _ would bring U.S. District court judges up to par with members of Congress, who will receive an almost $5,000 boost on Jan. 1. District judges and lawmakers now earn $169,300 a year but are expected to be awarded a 2.8 percent raise next year..."

And mean while, American workers making the minimum wage (or approx. $17,000.00 per year) are lucky to get bupkiss and their taxes for generations to come will be used to pay down the more than $1 trillion in "bailouts for corporate America and COLAs for high level civil servants. Ah, the land of opportunity.
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