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Bush Commutes Libby's Sentence
An anonymous reader notes that President Bush has decided to commute Scooter Libby's sentence after numerous appeals failed. Libby was convicted in March of obstruction of justice in connection with the Valerie Plame affair. The President's action spares Libby from 30 months behind bars."
No, didn't you learn in history class that the proper way to do it is to wait until the last couple days of your term then pardon like EVERYONE lol. I think just about every president pardoned multiple ppl in the last couple weeks in office
I'm Australian. Queen Elizabeth doesn't have a "term".
I am government man, come from the government. The government has sent me. -- G.I.R.
Now that would be something Nifong could use to stop Duke's character assassination cold. There's something about a pardon that humbles the recipient and tells some affluent people to back off.
Twitter supports and protects racists - by smearing their critics with the "Hate Speech" label.
The "fool us once" bit doesn't work when your entire post is false. Marijuana is the buds of the cannabis plant, not the leaves.
I don't know how this kdawson person is, but every single one of their stories of late has been about how evil Republicans are, and how pure and innocent Democrats are. I for one am voting with my preferences page, and turning off all stories posted by this DNC shill.
God invented whiskey so the Irish would not rule the world.
I fail to see how reddit is "stupider" than Digg. Perhaps that's because I generally stick to the programming, science and infosec subreddits, but I find it hard to believe that any site has Digg beat when it comes to blatant stupidity. Even when you stay strictly in the programming section, the comments are atrocious and the stories are on the same level I'd expect from someone who just started learning to program earlier in the day.
programming.reddit.com is definitely one of the sites I've been visiting most lately. Sure, it's not perfect, but I still find a lot of very interesting articles there.
"A Lisp programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing." - Alan Perlis
When you post under "Richard McBeef" you are pissing on the graves of all of these people. Nice job, troll.
... and we've worked it out little by little, until this happened."
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Ross Abdallah Alameddine, 20, of Saugus, Mass., according to his mother, Lynnette Alameddine. Friends described the sophomore majoring in English, business information technology and French as "an intelligent, funny, easy-going guy."
Christopher James "Jamie" Bishop, 35, taught German at Virginia Tech and helped oversee an exchange program with a German university. According to his Web site, Bishop, a Fulbright scholar at Christian-Albrechts University in Kiel, spent four years living in Germany, where he "spent most of his time learning the language, teaching English, drinking large quantities of wheat beer, and wooing a certain fraulein" -- the "fraulein" being Bishop's wife, Stephanie Hofer, who also teaches in Virginia Tech's German program.
Brian Bluhm, 25, a master's student in water resources, received his undergraduate degree in civil engineering at Tech and was getting ready to defend his thesis. He already had accepted a job in Baltimore. Bluhm grew up in Detroit and was an avid Detroit Tigers fan; his death was announced before Tuesday's game against Kansas City, which Detroit went on to win 7-6. "He went to a game last weekend and saw them win, and I'm glad he did," said Bluhm's close friend, Michael Marshall of Richmond, Va. Marshall said it was his faith and work with the Baptist Collegiate Ministries that his friend would foremost want to be remembered by.
Ryan Clark, 22, a student from Martinez, Ga., was a fifth-year student working toward a triple-degree in psychology, biology and English and carried a 4.0 grade-point average. He was a member of the Marching Virginians band. He was a resident assistant at Ambler Johnson Hall, the dorm where the first shootings took place. "He was just one of the greatest people you could possibly know," friend Gregory Walton, 25, said. "He was always smiling, always laughing. I don't think I ever saw him mad in the five years I knew him."
Austin Cloyd, 18, a freshman, was an international studies major. She moved to Blacksburg for her senior year in high school; her father is C. Bryan Cloyd, a professor of accounting and information systems at Virginia Tech. She was so inspired by an Appalachian service project that helped rehab homes that she and her mother started a similar program in their Illinois town, her former pastor said. The Rev. Terry Harter of First United Methodist Church in Champaign, Ill., described Cloyd as a "very delightful, intelligent, warm young lady" and an athlete who played basketball and volleyball in high school. But it was the mission trips to Appalachia that showed just how caring and faithful she was, he said.
Jocelyne Couture-Nowak, a French instructor at Virginia Tech, was instrumental in the push to create the first French school in Truro, Nova Scotia, where she lived in the 1990s with her husband, Jerzy Nowak. He is the head of the horticulture department at Virginia Tech.
Peruvian student Daniel Perez Cueva, a 21-year-old international relations major, was killed while in his French class, said his mother, Betty Cueva. He grew up playing soccer on a potholed street outside his family's apartment in the crime-ridden Bellavista neighborhood the port district of Lima, Peru. He came to the United States with his mother and his sister Vanesa, who is married to a soldier now fighting in Iraq. "He dreamed of coming to Virginia Tech because of its prestige and he did it," his mother Betty told Peruvian radio station RPP by phone from Virginia. "For my children, I've made it through the good times and the bad in this country
Prof. Kevin Granata, 46, researched muscle and reflex response and robotics. Ishwar K. Puri, head of the engineering science and mechanics department, called Granata one of the top five biomechanics researchers in the country working on movement dynamics in cerebral pal
Can you imagine, for a second
Doing anything just 'cos you wanted to?
Well, that's just what I do
So hooray for me, and fuck you.
-- "Hooray for Me", Bad Religion.
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