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Administration Ordered To Divulge Legal Basis For Killing Americans With Drones
An anonymous reader writes "In a claim brought by The New York Times and the ACLU, the Second US Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the administration must disclose the legal basis for targeting Americans with drones. From the article: 'Government officials from Obama on down have publicly commented on the program, but they claimed the Office of Legal Counsel's memo outlining the legal rationale about it was a national security secret. The appeals court, however, said on Monday that officials' comments about overseas drone attacks means the government has waived its secrecy argument. "After senior Government officials have assured the public that targeted killings are 'lawful' and that OLC advice 'establishes the legal boundaries within which we can operate,'" the appeals court said, "waiver of secrecy and privilege as to the legal analysis in the Memorandum has occurred" (PDF).'"
Maybe, but if anti-Obamacare, what are you in favor of? Are you in favor of just rolling things back to what they were? Or are you in favor of trying to fix it, or move to single-payer, or something like that?
Everybody can be anti-Obamacare but that doesn't mean that people agree on what comes next. Nobody could have gotten elected in 2008 without being anti-2008-healthcare.
Those questions weren't directed at you. My point is that being "anti-Obamacare" doesn't really tell you anything.
Bullshit. The so-called "drug problem" is 99% caused by prohibition itself. Prohibition has consistently failed to even influence overall addiction rates; much less drop them. It has consistently created perverse markets for low quality unsafe manufacture. It CREATED the problem of meth labs, and thus created the situation where we have half the people in burn units around the country in there for cooking meth. You asshole prohibitionists did that...its on your head.
Never mind that the next 3 major drugs of abuse combined don't have HALF the users of fucking pot...one of the most innocuous drugs ever, safer than alcohol. But I know you prohibitions are the kind of scum who lament that we gave up on that crudade too. So what if it cost lives as long as they are lives you can discount for being users and addicts.
"I opened my eyes, and everything went dark again"
In other words, the answer is a truly universal system with no insurance middlemen.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
I'd like to see the return of "major medical", or catastrophic care insurance as the norm. For day-to-day health needs, just pay cash up front. Insurance is there for the unexpected, rare, insanely expensive events, not for the stuff we all need every year.
Socialism: a lie told by totalitarians and believed by fools.
No Obamacare is the fault of republicans. it should have been single payer and kicked the insurance companies and big pharma in the nuts. the Repubs demanded it be the corporate welfare for insurance companies it is today.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.