As far as I can tell, from literature in polygamist cultures, the jealousy gene is 100% present in females and males of the species. Therefore, it would seem that a barter system would evolve. The higher your wealth is above the mean of the society that you live in, the more likely that you will be able to entice potential partners into a 'mutually beneficial' relationship. The wealth assuages the greater portion of the jealousy, while other services alleviate the remainder.
Hrmmm. Does it also seem like the conclusion from the first article linked is a little over the bounds for a flint-knapping treatise?
From personal experience the "blade" is more resilient when used as a weapon or hunting implement. Given that we are using the same terms.
Even if it were not more efficient at cutting down trees, cleaning hides, working wood, or digging holes wouldn't the superior hunting implement win out?
I think your oversimplifying the perceived problem.
My wife and I agree that a stay at home parent is paramount in our strategy to raise children. Anecdotally we've noticed the difference the quality of life experienced by the children, to the point where my wife cares for my little cousins until my uncle (a single dad) gets home.
Their grades and behavior immediately improved.
There are several studies that hint toward children with a stay at home parent having greater social empathy and stronger self-image. Not to mention better performance in just about every area that can be measured.
It could easily be argued that the studies are skewed in conception or missing another factor, such as wealth, but they might not. My family wasn't wealthy, and sometimes we were destitute, but someone was always home. Seems like it might give a child solace, don't you think?
My dad ran a consulting business out of his home office while my mom worked for the USPS. (Chiefly due to her lack of patience for children over the age of five.)
It worked out very well, except I think Dad did spoil that youngest. Isn't that always the case?
Sometimes the male member of the relationship is more suited to childrearing. My spouse and I have plans in case this turns out to be the case with us.
The Open events are the most contested in PowerLifting in federations that have the option.
I won several events and regionals because I am lifetime drug-free and lift raw(no compression suits) and there were only two or three other competitors.
It's sad but the winners wants not only to be a winner but also the baddest mutha out there. The consequences be damned.
Luckily, I'm ok with maintaining my ability to process lipids normally because my liver is okie-dokie, and being able to walk up several flights of stairs because I didn't get fat so that the equipment has more surface area to push against.
I wear out a pair of Adidas Samba's ($30) every other month, but I am the ultimate bad guy. My shoe size is 10.5(4E) but the 11 is the closest fit. I will split the side out of the shoe in 6 wks.
I have a pair of Ecco's for nearly 10 years. They are my everyday (when not in the yard) walkabout shoes. I have walked the shoes through to the black rubber 4 times but the leather still looks good.
Oh, and I have a pair of Adidas Acenzo WF soccer shoes, size 11, that have done well for six months as an outdoor soccer, indoor soccer, and highland games heavy athletics shoe. Cheap shoe, great wear.
I know my example is an fringe that will not apply to many if any of the respondents, but it's a good example of how this guy was an irresponsible jackass.
My wife is a published author and some of the work that she writes is erotic. A lot of it incorporates BDSM, D/S, swinging, and/or other 'fringe' sex. To do research on some of these activities we often will make contact with people who live that particular 'lifestyle' to get greater insight into jargon, and/or context.
However, we are always careful to disclose early on in the discussions that we are researching a book, and that none of the correspondence will be documented in any fashion, unless it has been scrubbed to insure anonymity.
His "project" requires a bit more deceit, but could have been handled with the same level of integrity, but it wasn't. I'm guessing copyright infringement might apply, in the same way that using someone's image or writings without consent and/or attribution could. I have no clue though, that's the wife's department.
Ummm. Wrong. The Bakken formation is _under_ the shale, not IN the shale.
Hence the reason that several oil companies are gearing up for more drilling there as we speak. The difficulty actually has to do with the nature of the horizontal fractures in the formation and the low porosity of the shale.
I know several engineers working on projects to increase the yield for similar projects right here in Tulsa, OK. My great uncle (May he rest in Peace) had several patents for horizontal drilling equipment. If it's there someone will figure out how to get it, economically. Look at the Oil sands projects... Even if we drilled in the manner that we do today it's good for 3.6 billion barrels of oil, in North Dakota. That does not include the portions extending into Manitoba and Saskatchewan.
From Wikipedia
"It is estimated that there are significant reservoirs of oil spread beneath the Bakken's shale. As the oil is beneath the shale rather than in it, these reservoirs are not considered oil shale.
The flurry of drilling activity in the Bakken, coupled with the wide range of estimates of in-place and recoverable oil, led North Dakota senator Byron Dorgan to ask the USGS to conduct a study of the Bakken's potentially recoverable oil. In April 2008 the USGS released this report, which estimated the amount of technically recoverable, undiscovered oil in the Bakken Formation at 9800 to 4.3 billion barrels, with a mean of 3.65 billion.[11] Later that month, the state of North Dakota's report [12] estimated that of the 167 billion barrels of oil in-place in the North Dakota portion of the Bakken, 2.1 billion barrels were technically recoverable with current technology.
That's cool. I guess you didn't know about the Bakken reserves. Those reserves alone with aggressive horizontal drilling could produce 174 billion BOE.
Perhaps Obama hiring a political director whos is under investigation for hiring felons to Get Out The Vote? During which time those felons were charged with collecting private data, including SoSec numbers of voters.
I am sure there are several things that I have missed. From what I understand Barack was a typical Chicago politician, which means more than a little soiled.
I would have never voted for Obama anyway, so it's not a big loss, but the things I think he's got going against him:
1. Politically expedient religious ties. He makes political hay in Chicago by attending the right churches, even though those same churches supposedly conflict with his personal goals. (Racial harmony, equality regardless of sexual orientation. The church Obama attended has published a great deal of anti-gay material)
2. Questionable dealings with questionable people: Tony Rezko, Bill Ayers, et al
3. Blatant two-facedness. Please refer to many of his statements over the last few weeks.
4. Hubris. The observations are many, from the "guns and religion" comment to the logical matriculation to avoid saying that a troop surge and change in tactics have created an atmosphere of success when reviewed by generals and local political and religious leaders.
5. Everybody loves me! I am not concerned with Europeans regard for our leader. I am more concerned with taxation, gov't subsidies, and energy policy.
No... They did it in an era where information has become vastly more accessible. This sort of story during most of the Clinton years would have been published and maybe played on the Friday newcasts. By Monday, it's dead.
I think overall this is a sign of good things to come for thinking people. The main problem that I have at this moment are the memory lapses that everyone seems to have regarding their own personal favorites.
When the Dems are in the Whitehouse, maybe we'll see more of their scandals get longer play time.
So, without some sort of magic bean, how do you propose that Vista accomplishes the below without using the CPU?
Please refer to the links below for even more ways that Vista uses your CPU against you.
n order to prevent users from copying DRM content, Windows Vista provides process isolation and continually monitors what kernel-mode software is loaded. If an unverified component is detected, then Vista will stop playing DRM content, rather than risk having the content copied. The Protected Environment is implemented completely in software, so software-based attacks such as patching the Windows kernel are possible.
Just so you know, there is some argument over whether Kufic script was the original medium for the Quran. It seems the gents in the link below have a pretty good argument against Kufic being the initial written version of the Quran.
Given the difficulty of reading Arabic scripts at the time and the duty of the qurra to preserve it's continuity, the Quran has many translation issues as well.
For a great deal of the work, it could be be compared to the Catholic version of the Bible as presented in Latin. The Quran in Arabic is considered to be the authoritative translation... but is it?
Readability Average sentences per paragraph: 1.00 Average words per sentence: 3.00 Average characters per word: 7.67 Average words per page: 1.50 Flesch Reading Ease: [?] 6.39 Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level: [?] 13.00 Automated Readability Index: [?] 16.00 Done
The FISA court in 2002 in sealed case number 02-001
The Truong court, as did all the other courts to have decided the issue, held that the President did have inherent authority to conduct warrantless searches to obtain foreign intelligence information. It was incumbent upon the court, therefore, to determine the boundaries of that constitutional authority in the case before it. We take for granted that the President does have that authority and, assuming that is so, FISA could not encroach on the Presidentâ(TM)s constitutional power. The question before us is the reverse, does FISA amplify the Presidentâ(TM)s power by providing a mechanism that at least approaches a classic warrant and which therefore supports the governmentâ(TM)s contention that FISA searches are constitutionally reasonable.
All of that drilling, pumping, shipping, and refining doesn't happen for free. (energy or money)
Perhaps this could be a step in the decoupling of energy from mining and shipping. The money that you save in drilling or digging and pumping is used to cook this garbage.
15 yrs ago oil shale and oil sands were questionable. Right now, there are a lot of big companies making big money out of sands and drooling at the thought of open use of shale.
Do you want to question this, or try to get it off the ground so that someday we cook our poo to make more gas to run our car?
No, actually the courts as appointed by 'the people' of the United States have concluded that the rights of the Constitution apply to 'the citizens' of the United States on several different occasions.
Your attempt to syntactically butcher the Constitution is as irrelevant as the attempted butchery on the 2nd Amendment.
What I would like to see is the review of certain issues that were before Roberts and Scalia were on the Court. They have a very clear view of what the Constitution says and means, even when it disagrees with their political leanings, i.e. legalization of marijuana and the federal gov't role in enforcement.
If you want more liberty, then you want more Constitutional originalists. They will dissolve great portions of Federal power over time, and make it easier for you to push your local gov't toward something that you would like to see.
The problem is that the right to restrict certain types of wiretaps are not within the power of Congress to restrict, specifically those involving foreign intelligence. Please refer to my earlier post in this thread for citations.
Sure. I get your point. So the evidence becomes tainted and useless when used in a court of law against an American citizen. However, in the case of the NSA wiretaps, one of the parties was a foreign national. That foreign national does not have the protection of the 4th Amendment shielding the identity of that person nor protecting those communications.
In United States v. United States District Court, 407 U.S. 297 (1972). the court held that warrantless surveillance within the US against US citizens was clearly illegal, that it could not rule on the legality of surveillance regarding a foreign power.
In United States v. [Cassius] Clay, 430 F.2d 165 (5th Cir. 1970)
Weâ¦discern no constitutional prohibition against the fifth wiretap. Section 605 of Title 47, U.S.C., is a general prohibition against publication or use of communications obtained by wiretapping, but we do not read the section as forbidding the President, or his representative, from ordering wiretap surveillance to obtain foreign intelligence in the national interest.
Also United States v. Butenko, 494 F.2d 593 (3rd Cir. 1974) In sum, we hold that, in the circumstances of this case, prior judicial authorization was not required since the district court found that the surveillances of Ivanov were âoeconducted and maintained solely for the purpose of gathering foreign intelligence information.â
And in United States v. Buck, 548 F.2d 871 (9th Cir. 1977) Foreign security wiretaps are a recognized exception to the general warrant requirementâ¦.
So, in the Clay decision you can see that the use of the intelligence against an American citizen would be illegal but the gathering the intelligence in and of itself would not be a crime. In the other decisions you can see that the courts recognize that a foreign national has no such protection.
In 1999 he was the only Illinois State Senator to vote against a bill barring early release for (criminal) sex offenders.
He voted against filtering pornography on school and library computers.
In 2003, as chairman of the next Senate committee to which BAIPA (Born Alive Infants Protection Act) was sent, Obama prevented it from even getting a hearing. BAIPA, by the way, stated that all live-born babies were guaranteed the same constitutional right to equal protection, whether or not they were wanted.
BAIPA was to protect partial birth abortion failures where the child popped out of the birth canal before they suffocated.
In 1997, Obama twice voted âoepresentâ on an Illinois partial-birth abortion ban.
The present vote is an implicit no.
In a fundraising letter ostensibly penned by Michelle the view of partial birth abortion as a needed right of women was used to display Barack's point of view on the topic.
The few that will read the entirety of the post will recognize that it seems that he wanted an exception for health related issues for the mother. The problem is that the medical records were being requested as a means to codify what qualifies as a medical procedure. One solution proposed by Barack during one of his sit-ins was that the medical exception be allowed to anyone who asks for it, essentially neutering the ban. I'm not religous at all, I never had the knack for faith, but partial-birth abortions are a horrendous tale of humanity's selfish nature.
The text of that email is included below
From: email-list@obamaforillinois.com Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 7:41 AM Subject: A Message from Michelle Obama
February 17, 2004
Dear Friends:
We have all been concerned lately with the rise of conservatism in this country, especially as it relates to women. Youï½ve read the alarming news about the Justice Departmentï½s request for hospitals to turn over the private medical records of dozens of patients. This cynical ploy is designed to intimidate a group of physicians and force them to drop their lawsuit seeking to have the so-called partial birth abortion ban ruled unconstitutional.
The fact remains, with no provision to protect the health of the mother, this ban on a legitimate medical procedure is clearly unconstitutional and must be overturned. Attorney General Ashcroft and president bush believe so zealously in their cause that the privacy rights of patients are under assault. They believe we have no federal right to privacy when it concerns our medical histories.
On March 16th, we have a chance to nominate a candidate who will be tireless in the fight to protect women. It isnï½t simply about the right to choose, or privacy rights. It is about pay equity, about ending domestic violence, promoting health care around the world, and letting doctors decide treatment options, not federal judges.
It goes without saying that we must win back the U.S. Senate and hold our ground as a check against the right-wing executive branch. Illinois will be a key battleground and your vote is critical.
My husband has stood up for women time and again, and I am proud of his record. He understands that casting a vote on the floor of the Senate takes greater courage than issuing a position paper. Oftentimes, a well intentioned law is in fact a flawed law. Thatï½s why it is critical we nominate someone who has faced these tough choices. Thatï½s why nominating an experienced legislator is so important in this race. It takes courage to cast a vote.
Who among the Democrats running has a proven record? Who among the candidates running for the Senate in Illinois has stood up to the right wing politicians and voted against their agenda? Who can we count on to keep the Bush/Ashcroft team from appointing the Supreme Court Justice that will vote against Roe v. Wad
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Hrmmmm...
As far as I can tell, from literature in polygamist cultures, the jealousy gene is 100% present in females and males of the species. Therefore, it would seem that a barter system would evolve. The higher your wealth is above the mean of the society that you live in, the more likely that you will be able to entice potential partners into a 'mutually beneficial' relationship. The wealth assuages the greater portion of the jealousy, while other services alleviate the remainder.
Ask and ye shall receive.... Askeladden
http://everything2.com/e2node/When%2520Askeladden%2520and%2520the%2520Troll%2520had%2520an%2520Eating%2520Competition
Hrmmm. Does it also seem like the conclusion from the first article linked is a little over the bounds for a flint-knapping treatise?
From personal experience the "blade" is more resilient when used as a weapon or hunting implement. Given that we are using the same terms.
Even if it were not more efficient at cutting down trees, cleaning hides, working wood, or digging holes wouldn't the superior hunting implement win out?
I think your oversimplifying the perceived problem.
My wife and I agree that a stay at home parent is paramount in our strategy to raise children. Anecdotally we've noticed the difference the quality of life experienced by the children, to the point where my wife cares for my little cousins until my uncle (a single dad) gets home.
Their grades and behavior immediately improved.
There are several studies that hint toward children with a stay at home parent having greater social empathy and stronger self-image. Not to mention better performance in just about every area that can be measured.
It could easily be argued that the studies are skewed in conception or missing another factor, such as wealth, but they might not. My family wasn't wealthy, and sometimes we were destitute, but someone was always home. Seems like it might give a child solace, don't you think?
Absolutely,
My dad ran a consulting business out of his home office while my mom worked for the USPS. (Chiefly due to her lack of patience for children over the age of five.)
It worked out very well, except I think Dad did spoil that youngest. Isn't that always the case?
Sometimes the male member of the relationship is more suited to childrearing. My spouse and I have plans in case this turns out to be the case with us.
Hah... I took three months off to start a business and to backpack the Sierras...
I forgot my password, and which email the damn account was linked to...
And thus I became a high UID plebe.
Take care lest this fate befall you.
Not really.
The Open events are the most contested in PowerLifting in federations that have the option.
I won several events and regionals because I am lifetime drug-free and lift raw(no compression suits) and there were only two or three other competitors.
It's sad but the winners wants not only to be a winner but also the baddest mutha out there. The consequences be damned.
Luckily, I'm ok with maintaining my ability to process lipids normally because my liver is okie-dokie, and being able to walk up several flights of stairs because I didn't get fat so that the equipment has more surface area to push against.
Depends mostly on the user.
I wear out a pair of Adidas Samba's ($30) every other month, but I am the ultimate bad guy. My shoe size is 10.5(4E) but the 11 is the closest fit. I will split the side out of the shoe in 6 wks.
I have a pair of Ecco's for nearly 10 years. They are my everyday (when not in the yard) walkabout shoes. I have walked the shoes through to the black rubber 4 times but the leather still looks good.
Oh, and I have a pair of Adidas Acenzo WF soccer shoes, size 11, that have done well for six months as an outdoor soccer, indoor soccer, and highland games heavy athletics shoe. Cheap shoe, great wear.
I know my example is an fringe that will not apply to many if any of the respondents, but it's a good example of how this guy was an irresponsible jackass.
My wife is a published author and some of the work that she writes is erotic. A lot of it incorporates BDSM, D/S, swinging, and/or other 'fringe' sex. To do research on some of these activities we often will make contact with people who live that particular 'lifestyle' to get greater insight into jargon, and/or context.
However, we are always careful to disclose early on in the discussions that we are researching a book, and that none of the correspondence will be documented in any fashion, unless it has been scrubbed to insure anonymity.
His "project" requires a bit more deceit, but could have been handled with the same level of integrity, but it wasn't. I'm guessing copyright infringement might apply, in the same way that using someone's image or writings without consent and/or attribution could. I have no clue though, that's the wife's department.
Ummm. Wrong. The Bakken formation is _under_ the shale, not IN the shale.
Hence the reason that several oil companies are gearing up for more drilling there as we speak. The difficulty actually has to do with the nature of the horizontal fractures in the formation and the low porosity of the shale.
I know several engineers working on projects to increase the yield for similar projects right here in Tulsa, OK. My great uncle (May he rest in Peace) had several patents for horizontal drilling equipment. If it's there someone will figure out how to get it, economically. Look at the Oil sands projects... Even if we drilled in the manner that we do today it's good for 3.6 billion barrels of oil, in North Dakota. That does not include the portions extending into Manitoba and Saskatchewan.
From Wikipedia
"It is estimated that there are significant reservoirs of oil spread beneath the Bakken's shale. As the oil is beneath the shale rather than in it, these reservoirs are not considered oil shale.
The flurry of drilling activity in the Bakken, coupled with the wide range of estimates of in-place and recoverable oil, led North Dakota senator Byron Dorgan to ask the USGS to conduct a study of the Bakken's potentially recoverable oil. In April 2008 the USGS released this report, which estimated the amount of technically recoverable, undiscovered oil in the Bakken Formation at 9800 to 4.3 billion barrels, with a mean of 3.65 billion.[11] Later that month, the state of North Dakota's report [12] estimated that of the 167 billion barrels of oil in-place in the North Dakota portion of the Bakken, 2.1 billion barrels were technically recoverable with current technology.
Back at ya bub.
Oops... Apparently I shouldn't type and talk.
The actual revenue numbers were 40.6billion net on 406billion last year, and $22.57 billion net on 254.9 billion in the first half of this year.
Hardly evil profit margins. Given that their production capacity is falling (3% this year), things are going to get even tighter.
Which was a lower percentage of the total 406 billion in revenue than they made last year.
So, 11% profit is evil? I hope you never buy a soda.
That's cool. I guess you didn't know about the Bakken reserves. Those reserves alone with aggressive horizontal drilling could produce 174 billion BOE.
Oops.
Perhaps Obama hiring a political director whos is under investigation for hiring felons to Get Out The Vote? During which time those felons were charged with collecting private data, including SoSec numbers of voters.
http://politickeroh.com/republicans-take-new-obama-political-director-task-04-efforts-ohio
Or perhaps Barack's funny deal with Tony Rezko to buy property that Barack could not buy on his own?
http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/124171,CST-NWS-obama05.article
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/04/04/opinion/main3994002.shtml
Or perhaps Obama calling off his visit to troops based on the fact that he couldn't use them as a political backdrop?
http://www.blackfive.net/main/2008/07/obama-landstuhl.html
More of the whole story with Bill Ayers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ayers_election_controversy
I am sure there are several things that I have missed. From what I understand Barack was a typical Chicago politician, which means more than a little soiled.
I would have never voted for Obama anyway, so it's not a big loss, but the things I think he's got going against him:
1. Politically expedient religious ties. He makes political hay in Chicago by attending the right churches, even though those same churches supposedly conflict with his personal goals. (Racial harmony, equality regardless of sexual orientation. The church Obama attended has published a great deal of anti-gay material)
2. Questionable dealings with questionable people: Tony Rezko, Bill Ayers, et al
3. Blatant two-facedness. Please refer to many of his statements over the last few weeks.
4. Hubris. The observations are many, from the "guns and religion" comment to the logical matriculation to avoid saying that a troop surge and change in tactics have created an atmosphere of success when reviewed by generals and local political and religious leaders.
5. Everybody loves me! I am not concerned with Europeans regard for our leader. I am more concerned with taxation, gov't subsidies, and energy policy.
No... They did it in an era where information has become vastly more accessible. This sort of story during most of the Clinton years would have been published and maybe played on the Friday newcasts. By Monday, it's dead.
I think overall this is a sign of good things to come for thinking people. The main problem that I have at this moment are the memory lapses that everyone seems to have regarding their own personal favorites.
When the Dems are in the Whitehouse, maybe we'll see more of their scandals get longer play time.
So, without some sort of magic bean, how do you propose that Vista accomplishes the below without using the CPU?
Please refer to the links below for even more ways that Vista uses your CPU against you.
n order to prevent users from copying DRM content, Windows Vista provides process isolation and continually monitors what kernel-mode software is loaded. If an unverified component is detected, then Vista will stop playing DRM content, rather than risk having the content copied. The Protected Environment is implemented completely in software, so software-based attacks such as patching the Windows kernel are possible.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_and_safety_features_new_to_Windows_Vista#Digital_Rights_Management
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PVP-OPM
Just so you know, there is some argument over whether Kufic script was the original medium for the Quran. It seems the gents in the link below have a pretty good argument against Kufic being the initial written version of the Quran.
Given the difficulty of reading Arabic scripts at the time and the duty of the qurra to preserve it's continuity, the Quran has many translation issues as well.
For a great deal of the work, it could be be compared to the Catholic version of the Bible as presented in Latin. The Quran in Arabic is considered to be the authoritative translation... but is it?
http://www.debate.org.uk/topics/history/bib-qur/qurmanu.htm
Where's my real-time word count and spelling checking?
From Google Docs
flibbertigibbet is the correct spelling and the count info is below.
Counts
Words: 3
Characters (no spaces): 23
Characters (with spaces): 25
Paragraphs: 1
Sentences: 1
Pages (approximate): 2
Readability
Average sentences per paragraph: 1.00
Average words per sentence: 3.00
Average characters per word: 7.67
Average words per page: 1.50
Flesch Reading Ease: [?] 6.39
Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level: [?] 13.00
Automated Readability Index: [?] 16.00
Done
The FISA court in 2002 in sealed case number 02-001
The Truong court, as did all the other courts to have decided the issue, held that the President did have inherent authority to conduct warrantless searches to obtain foreign intelligence information. It was incumbent upon the court, therefore, to determine the boundaries of that constitutional authority in the case before it. We take for granted that the President does have that authority and, assuming that is so, FISA could not encroach on the Presidentâ(TM)s constitutional power. The question before us is the reverse, does FISA amplify the Presidentâ(TM)s power by providing a mechanism that at least approaches a classic warrant and which therefore supports the governmentâ(TM)s contention that FISA searches are constitutionally reasonable.
Probably. But how much higher?
All of that drilling, pumping, shipping, and refining doesn't happen for free. (energy or money)
Perhaps this could be a step in the decoupling of energy from mining and shipping. The money that you save in drilling or digging and pumping is used to cook this garbage.
15 yrs ago oil shale and oil sands were questionable. Right now, there are a lot of big companies making big money out of sands and drooling at the thought of open use of shale.
Do you want to question this, or try to get it off the ground so that someday we cook our poo to make more gas to run our car?
No, actually the courts as appointed by 'the people' of the United States have concluded that the rights of the Constitution apply to 'the citizens' of the United States on several different occasions.
Your attempt to syntactically butcher the Constitution is as irrelevant as the attempted butchery on the 2nd Amendment.
What I would like to see is the review of certain issues that were before Roberts and Scalia were on the Court. They have a very clear view of what the Constitution says and means, even when it disagrees with their political leanings, i.e. legalization of marijuana and the federal gov't role in enforcement.
If you want more liberty, then you want more Constitutional originalists. They will dissolve great portions of Federal power over time, and make it easier for you to push your local gov't toward something that you would like to see.
The problem is that the right to restrict certain types of wiretaps are not within the power of Congress to restrict, specifically those involving foreign intelligence. Please refer to my earlier post in this thread for citations.
Sure. I get your point. So the evidence becomes tainted and useless when used in a court of law against an American citizen. However, in the case of the NSA wiretaps, one of the parties was a foreign national. That foreign national does not have the protection of the 4th Amendment shielding the identity of that person nor protecting those communications.
In United States v. United States District Court, 407 U.S. 297 (1972). the court held that warrantless surveillance within the US against US citizens was clearly illegal, that it could not rule on the legality of surveillance regarding a foreign power.
In United States v. [Cassius] Clay, 430 F.2d 165 (5th Cir. 1970)
Weâ¦discern no constitutional prohibition against the fifth wiretap. Section 605 of Title 47, U.S.C., is a general prohibition against publication or use of communications obtained by wiretapping, but we do not read the section as forbidding the President, or his representative, from ordering wiretap surveillance to obtain foreign intelligence in the national interest.
Also United States v. Butenko, 494 F.2d 593 (3rd Cir. 1974) In sum, we hold that, in the circumstances of this case, prior judicial authorization was not required since the district court found that the surveillances of Ivanov were âoeconducted and maintained solely for the purpose of gathering foreign intelligence information.â
And in United States v. Buck, 548 F.2d 871 (9th Cir. 1977) Foreign security wiretaps are a recognized exception to the general warrant requirementâ¦.
So, in the Clay decision you can see that the use of the intelligence against an American citizen would be illegal but the gathering the intelligence in and of itself would not be a crime. In the other decisions you can see that the courts recognize that a foreign national has no such protection.
Are you the laziest MF ever or what?
In 1999 he was the only Illinois State Senator to vote against a bill barring early release for (criminal) sex offenders.
He voted against filtering pornography on school and library computers.
In 2003, as chairman of the next Senate committee to which BAIPA (Born Alive Infants Protection Act) was sent, Obama prevented it from even getting a hearing. BAIPA, by the way, stated that all live-born babies were guaranteed the same constitutional right to equal protection, whether or not they were wanted.
BAIPA was to protect partial birth abortion failures where the child popped out of the birth canal before they suffocated.
In 1997, Obama twice voted âoepresentâ on an Illinois partial-birth abortion ban.
The present vote is an implicit no.
In a fundraising letter ostensibly penned by Michelle the view of partial birth abortion as a needed right of women was used to display Barack's point of view on the topic.
The few that will read the entirety of the post will recognize that it seems that he wanted an exception for health related issues for the mother. The problem is that the medical records were being requested as a means to codify what qualifies as a medical procedure. One solution proposed by Barack during one of his sit-ins was that the medical exception be allowed to anyone who asks for it, essentially neutering the ban.
I'm not religous at all, I never had the knack for faith, but partial-birth abortions are a horrendous tale of humanity's selfish nature.
The text of that email is included below
From: email-list@obamaforillinois.com
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 7:41 AM
Subject: A Message from Michelle Obama
February 17, 2004
Dear Friends:
We have all been concerned lately with the rise of conservatism in this country, especially as it relates to women. Youï½ve read the alarming news about the Justice Departmentï½s request for hospitals to turn over the private medical records of dozens of patients. This cynical ploy is designed to intimidate a group of physicians and force them to drop their lawsuit seeking to have the so-called partial birth abortion ban ruled unconstitutional.
The fact remains, with no provision to protect the health of the mother, this ban on a legitimate medical procedure is clearly unconstitutional and must be overturned. Attorney General Ashcroft and president bush believe so zealously in their cause that the privacy rights of patients are under assault. They believe we have no federal right to privacy when it concerns our medical histories.
On March 16th, we have a chance to nominate a candidate who will be tireless in the fight to protect women. It isnï½t simply about the right to choose, or privacy rights. It is about pay equity, about ending domestic violence, promoting health care around the world, and letting doctors decide treatment options, not federal judges.
It goes without saying that we must win back the U.S. Senate and hold our ground as a check against the right-wing executive branch. Illinois will be a key battleground and your vote is critical.
My husband has stood up for women time and again, and I am proud of his record. He understands that casting a vote on the floor of the Senate takes greater courage than issuing a position paper. Oftentimes, a well intentioned law is in fact a flawed law. Thatï½s why it is critical we nominate someone who has faced these tough choices. Thatï½s why nominating an experienced legislator is so important in this race. It takes courage to cast a vote.
Who among the Democrats running has a proven record? Who among the candidates running for the Senate in Illinois has stood up to the right wing politicians and voted against their agenda? Who can we count on to keep the Bush/Ashcroft team from appointing the Supreme Court Justice that will vote against Roe v. Wad
Agreed. The Constitutional case should have been decided that it was a state's rights issue.
People and the economies of abortion would vote with their feet. Far better that than invoking some spooky-ass penumbra to further federal power.