You are incorrect. Calder V. Bull deals with Article 1 Section 10 which deals with STATES. Article 1 Section 9 deals with CONGRESS of the US.
Of course that doesn't stop any court, including the supreme from changing the meaning of words in the constitution.
Don't you remember when Scalia recently went on ABC saying that not all torture is cruel and unusual punishment?
If you don't think that giving retroactive immunity to corporations who spied on American citizens wasn't what the framers had in mind when they wrote in Article 1 Section 9, "No bill of attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed." you must be smoking something.
Please go read what Thomas Jefferson had to say about the judicial branch and maybe you'll be able to get a somewhat clearer picture.
Also remember that the supreme court has ruled that how much wheat you can grow on your own land is "interstate commerce" and can be regulated by congress. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v._Filburn
However, the Constitution specifically forbids Congress from writing any ex-post-facto laws, which includes retroactive immunity.
That means anyone who voted for the telecon (no typo) immunity bill has broken their oath of office to defend the Constitution against enemies foreign and domestic.
I'm sure plenty of people will still vote for Obama even though he willfully voted for an unconstitutional bill (not that McCain is any better). It just shows you that neither party is a true opposition party when it comes to screwing over the American people.
They didn't vote for nor conduct the program in its current form. They just voted for the a bill that didn't hold telcom companies accountable for being duped by the government. (Obama didn't even like that part, but felt it was a necessary compromise to get the otherwise beneficial bill through.)
In other words, he compromised his alleged principles and voted for a completely unconstitutional bill.
Conversely, a form of ex post facto law commonly known as an amnesty law may decriminalize certain acts or alleviate possible punishments (for example by replacing the death sentence with life-long imprisonment) retroactively.
This would seem to be an impossible desire. In Orwell's 1984, the whole idea of Big Brother was that everyone knew they were under constant surveillance.
How can you know that 'Big Brother is Watching You', and at the same time not know it?
Doublethink.
Obviously you can't be a member of the inner party because you can not engage in it.
It was possible to watch protesters live at the DNC and RNC at justin.tv.
The police in Minnesota arrested dozens of journalists during the RNC, many with legitamite press credentials (not that you need them to be protected by the 1st amendment). Of course they weren't arrested for engaging in a protected right, but the police arrested them all on bogus charges anyway.
Because then when the DHS lost their data it would not only include your name and address, but also a meaningless RFID serial number? I don't understand how this increases the threat of DHS stupidity.
Thanks to Bill Clinton and a Republican congress all SS#'s are in our drivers lisences.
Check out the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act, and the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reform Act (known as welfare reform) passed in 1996.
The illegal immigration law prohibits the use of state driver's licenses after Oct. 1, 2000 unless they contain Social Security numbers as the unique numeric identifier "that can be read visually or by electronic means." (Section 656(b)) The act requires all driver's licenses to conform to regulations promulgated by the Department of Transportation, which published its proposed regulations on June 17. (Federal Register, vol. 63, no. 116, pp. 33219-33225)
Now the agenda of the DHS should be clear for everyone. It isn't about catching terrorists, its about tracking every citizen. Most of their money goes to putting up cameras in cities across the US, big and small and putting up "fusion" centers which track everything.
Call me crazy or whatever you want. It isn't hard to verify everything I said via google.
Tag it Republicans too. They are two sides of the same coin. It doesn't matter who is in control of what, nothing significant changes.
Nothing big changed in the 90's when the Republicans were elected with their contract with america.
Nothing changed when the Democrats came into power in 2006. they gave bush just about everything he wanted.
The two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can 'throw the rascals out' at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shift in policy."
Quote by Georgetown Professor, Carroll Quigley from his book "Tragedy and Hope." He was also a mentor of Bill Clinton.
The Expert Panel expressed some concern that exposure to Bisphenol A causes neural and behavioral effects. The Expert Panel had expressed minimal concern that exposure to Bisphenol A potentially causes accelerations in puberty.
In addition to effects on survival and growth seen at high dose levels of bisphenol A, a variety of effects related to neural and behavior alterations, precancerous lesions in the prostate and mammary glands, altered prostate gland and urinary tract development, and early onset of puberty in females have been reported in laboratory rodents exposed during development to much lower doses of bisphenol A (⥠0.0024 mg/kg bw/day) that are more similar to human exposures.
Recognizing the lack of data on the effects of bisphenol A in humans and despite the limitations in the evidence for âoelowâ dose effects in laboratory animals discussed in more detail below, the possibility that bisphenol A may alter human development cannot be dismissed
Why should I be modded down for other peoples laziness to do a simple google search to see if the the article is correct?
Just because you or others don't like the source or hate the fact that a source tries to make money to continue their profession doesn't mean the source is biased. I don't see anyone bashing CNN for having advertisements on their websites.
Since you were too lazy to type "BPA NIH" into google I'll do it for you.
The Expert Panel expressed some concern that exposure to Bisphenol A causes neural and behavioral effects. The Expert Panel had expressed minimal concern that exposure to Bisphenol A potentially causes accelerations in puberty.
That is because children have much better nutrition than there used to be. As a result, they are able to reach puberty sooner because of better health.
I wonder if they will compare the instances of disease to those from food poisoning from earlier methods of food storage?
Using glass jars sure caused a lot of food poisoning!
Or how about not using BPA in plastics used to store food? Is that so hard to ask? There are probably thousands of plastics that don't use BPA. Why even risk it?
Nice links. Can't imagine why Natural News would have such articles. Couldn't be anything about their bias to get people to buy "natural" products, is it?
You know, like Kevin Trudeau claiming the government is keeping cures for arthritis, cancer and other afflictions from the people and how he miraculously has all these cures, but only if you buy his book and visit his web site to buy the products.
Do you have any proof of this bias? No
Did Kevin Trudeau write any of those articles I posted? No
Do you have any links or proof that he is providing miraculous cures? No
Good job at attacking a source you don't like instead of trying to prove anything they said wrong. Very intelligent!
Translation: I don't like the conclusion so I'll make a baseless assumption and attack the article without any knowledge of it. Sounds like a severe case of cognitive dissonance to me.
The National Toxicology Program of the National Institutes of Health concluded in April that there is "some concern" that BPA may cause problems in fetuses, babies and children, including breast or prostate cancer, early onset of female puberty, attention deficit disorder and other problems of the reproductive and neurological systems.
A University of Cincinnati (UC) research team, headed by Scott Belcher, PhD, reports in two articles in the December 2005 edition of the journal Endocrinology that BPA shows negative effects in brain tissue "at surprisingly low doses." http://www.naturalnews.com/020334.html
Need I go on?
Keep using BPA products. And people wonder why girls are hitting puberty so much earlier now.
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I wasn't sure of the actual year, but I knew it was in the 80's and approximated. :)
WoW PVP != WHOnline PVP.
Higher level characters are forbidden to go into lower level zones.
Although if you like PvE better you would probably be better off waiting for the Wrath of the Lich King.
WHOnline may have some good PvE, eventually. It is hard to tell.
My least-favorite part of WoW. I guess I won't be spending my money on Warhammer.
Is that because the PvP aspect in WoW isn't fun or just because you prefer the PvE aspect of MMO's?
I never enjoyed WoW's PvP once they implemented the BG system. Tarren Mill v. Southshore fights were quite fun for awhile.
The only time I had much fun PvPing in the Burning Crusade was following around a well geared friend as a healer.
Don't assume that because PVP is bad in one game that it will be in another.
...best idea if they're trying to dethrone WoW.
Someone should have told them that 20 years ago when they came up with the name!
You are incorrect. Calder V. Bull deals with Article 1 Section 10 which deals with STATES. Article 1 Section 9 deals with CONGRESS of the US.
Of course that doesn't stop any court, including the supreme from changing the meaning of words in the constitution.
Don't you remember when Scalia recently went on ABC saying that not all torture is cruel and unusual punishment?
If you don't think that giving retroactive immunity to corporations who spied on American citizens wasn't what the framers had in mind when they wrote in Article 1 Section 9, "No bill of attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed." you must be smoking something.
Please go read what Thomas Jefferson had to say about the judicial branch and maybe you'll be able to get a somewhat clearer picture.
Also remember that the supreme court has ruled that how much wheat you can grow on your own land is "interstate commerce" and can be regulated by congress.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v._Filburn
No, they gave the telcos (AT&T, etc.) immunity.
However, the Constitution specifically forbids Congress from writing any ex-post-facto laws, which includes retroactive immunity.
That means anyone who voted for the telecon (no typo) immunity bill has broken their oath of office to defend the Constitution against enemies foreign and domestic.
I'm sure plenty of people will still vote for Obama even though he willfully voted for an unconstitutional bill (not that McCain is any better). It just shows you that neither party is a true opposition party when it comes to screwing over the American people.
They didn't vote for nor conduct the program in its current form. They just voted for the a bill that didn't hold telcom companies accountable for being duped by the government. (Obama didn't even like that part, but felt it was a necessary compromise to get the otherwise beneficial bill through.)
In other words, he compromised his alleged principles and voted for a completely unconstitutional bill.
No bill of attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed.
Conversely, a form of ex post facto law commonly known as an amnesty law may decriminalize certain acts or alleviate possible punishments (for example by replacing the death sentence with life-long imprisonment) retroactively.
This would seem to be an impossible desire. In Orwell's 1984, the whole idea of Big Brother was that everyone knew they were under constant surveillance.
How can you know that 'Big Brother is Watching You', and at the same time not know it?
Doublethink.
Obviously you can't be a member of the inner party because you can not engage in it.
All of this has already come to pass.
It was possible to watch protesters live at the DNC and RNC at justin.tv.
The police in Minnesota arrested dozens of journalists during the RNC, many with legitamite press credentials (not that you need them to be protected by the 1st amendment). Of course they weren't arrested for engaging in a protected right, but the police arrested them all on bogus charges anyway.
This is just a ruse by the Bavarian Illuminati to distract from their real weapon: Skype-induced hallucinations!
No, the Bavarian illuminati just like to run around naked at Bohemian Grove.
Because then when the DHS lost their data it would not only include your name and address, but also a meaningless RFID serial number? I don't understand how this increases the threat of DHS stupidity.
Thanks to Bill Clinton and a Republican congress all SS#'s are in our drivers lisences.
Check out the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act, and the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reform Act (known as welfare reform) passed in 1996.
The illegal immigration law prohibits the use of state driver's licenses after Oct. 1, 2000 unless they contain Social Security numbers as the unique numeric identifier "that can be read visually or by electronic means." (Section 656(b)) The act requires all driver's licenses to conform to regulations promulgated by the Department of Transportation, which published its proposed regulations on June 17. (Federal Register, vol. 63, no. 116, pp. 33219-33225)
Now the agenda of the DHS should be clear for everyone. It isn't about catching terrorists, its about tracking every citizen. Most of their money goes to putting up cameras in cities across the US, big and small and putting up "fusion" centers which track everything.
Call me crazy or whatever you want. It isn't hard to verify everything I said via google.
Tag it Republicans too. They are two sides of the same coin. It doesn't matter who is in control of what, nothing significant changes.
Nothing big changed in the 90's when the Republicans were elected with their contract with america.
Nothing changed when the Democrats came into power in 2006. they gave bush just about everything he wanted.
The two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can 'throw the rascals out' at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shift in policy."
Quote by Georgetown Professor, Carroll Quigley from his book "Tragedy and Hope." He was also a mentor of Bill Clinton.
Or maybe you can ask the NIH itself:
http://cerhr.niehs.nih.gov/chemicals/bisphenol/draftBPA_MtgSumm080807.pdf
The Expert Panel expressed some concern that exposure to Bisphenol A causes neural and behavioral
effects.
The Expert Panel had expressed minimal concern that exposure to Bisphenol A potentially causes
accelerations in puberty.
http://cerhr.niehs.nih.gov/chemicals/bisphenol/BPADraftBriefVF_04_14_08.pdf
In addition to effects on survival and growth seen at high dose levels of bisphenol A, a variety of effects related to neural and behavior alterations, precancerous lesions in the prostate and mammary glands, altered prostate gland and urinary tract development, and early onset of puberty in females have been reported in laboratory rodents exposed during development to much lower doses of bisphenol A (⥠0.0024 mg/kg bw/day) that are more similar to human exposures.
Recognizing the lack of data on the effects of bisphenol A in humans and despite the limitations in the evidence for âoelowâ dose effects in laboratory animals discussed in more detail below, the possibility that bisphenol A may alter human development cannot be dismissed
Yes I did. It said the causes is indeterminate, then they quoted some people who for all we know made up something off the top of their head.
Why should I be modded down for other peoples laziness to do a simple google search to see if the the article is correct?
Just because you or others don't like the source or hate the fact that a source tries to make money to continue their profession doesn't mean the source is biased. I don't see anyone bashing CNN for having advertisements on their websites.
Since you were too lazy to type "BPA NIH" into google I'll do it for you.
http://cerhr.niehs.nih.gov/chemicals/bisphenol/draftBPA_MtgSumm080807.pdf
The Expert Panel expressed some concern that exposure to Bisphenol A causes neural and behavioral
effects.
The Expert Panel had expressed minimal concern that exposure to Bisphenol A potentially causes
accelerations in puberty.
I've never been modded troll for posting links to articles that can easily be verified with a simple google search before.
Maybe people really don't like information that is contrary to their beliefs.
That shouldn't be a surprise. Just about every University only teaches Keynesian Economics which goes well with the Democratic platform.
If Universities instead primarily taught the Austrian School of Economics you'd see more economists being Libertarian or Republican.
That is because children have much better nutrition than there used to be. As a result, they are able to reach puberty sooner because of better health.
You're kidding right? I guess all healthy girls should be hitting puberty at 3.
Or this study showing that more girls from age 6 to age 9 are hitting puberty instead of from 10 - 11.
I really pray you were joking!
I wonder if they will compare the instances of disease to those from food poisoning from earlier methods of food storage?
Using glass jars sure caused a lot of food poisoning!
Or how about not using BPA in plastics used to store food? Is that so hard to ask? There are probably thousands of plastics that don't use BPA. Why even risk it?
Nice links. Can't imagine why Natural News would have such articles. Couldn't be anything about their bias to get people to buy "natural" products, is it?
You know, like Kevin Trudeau claiming the government is keeping cures for arthritis, cancer and other afflictions from the people and how he miraculously has all these cures, but only if you buy his book and visit his web site to buy the products.
Do you have any proof of this bias? No
Did Kevin Trudeau write any of those articles I posted? No
Do you have any links or proof that he is providing miraculous cures? No
Good job at attacking a source you don't like instead of trying to prove anything they said wrong. Very intelligent!
http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/petbottles.asp
Didn't you realize that the snopes article in the summary talks about a completely different chemical?
tag: badsummary
I haven't even rtfa but here goes
Corelation. Is. Not. Causation.
Translation: I don't like the conclusion so I'll make a baseless assumption and attack the article without any knowledge of it. Sounds like a severe case of cognitive dissonance to me.
The National Toxicology Program of the National Institutes of Health concluded in April that there is "some concern" that BPA may cause problems in fetuses, babies and children, including breast or prostate cancer, early onset of female puberty, attention deficit disorder and other problems of the reproductive and neurological systems.
Bisphenol A Chemical in Plastic Bottles Harms Children, Feds Conclude
The FDA declared that BPA is safe based on two industry funded studies.
Chemicals in Plastic Shown to Cause Reproductive and Neurological Disorders
A University of Cincinnati (UC) research team, headed by Scott Belcher, PhD, reports in two articles in the December 2005 edition of the journal Endocrinology that BPA shows negative effects in brain tissue "at surprisingly low doses."
http://www.naturalnews.com/020334.html
Need I go on?
Keep using BPA products. And people wonder why girls are hitting puberty so much earlier now.
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Isn't there a pill he can take for that?