From a post on Hot Air.

Quote:

First broken a few hours ago by WaPo, now confirmed by the AP, a little Friday evening care package from The One while the
media's busy obsessing over Jacko and cap 'n trade.

Do bear in mind that, contrary to leftist talking points, it's not just the fact that some of the evidence against these turds was obtained through
"torture" that makes them untriable in regular courts. Other evidence is either classified or was obtained from foreign intel - points that WaPo,
to its credit, acknowledges but which our nutroots superiors tend to gloss over.

Quote: Such an order would embrace claims by former president George W. Bush that certain people can be detained without trial for long periods under the laws
of war. Obama advisers are concerned that bypassing Congress could place the president on weaker footing before the courts and anger key supporters, the
officials said…

Some of Obama's top legal advisers, along with a handful of influential Republican and Democratic lawmakers, have pushed for the creation of a
"national security court" to supervise the incarceration of detainees deemed too dangerous to release but who cannot be charged or tried.

But the three senior government officials said the White House has turned away from that option, at least for now, because legislation establishing a
special court would be both difficult to pass and likely to fracture Obama's own party…

"Legislation could kill Obama's plans," said one government official involved. The official said an executive order could be the best
option for the president at this juncture. Under one White House draft that was being discussed earlier this month, according to administration officials,
detainees would be imprisoned at a military facility on U.S. soil but their ongoing detention would be subject to annual presidential review. U.S. citizens
would not be held in the system…

One administration official said future transfers to the United States for long-term detention would be rare. Al-Qaeda operatives captured on the
battlefield, which the official defined as Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and possibly the Horn of Africa, would be held in battlefield
facilities.

Thank goodness future captives will be spared the military-run horror that is Gitmo for the cushy pleasure palaces that are military-run battlefield
prisons. We've known this was in the works for months now, but I confess, I'm still
surprised that Obama's willing to bypass Congress. It makes sense politically, I guess - a left vs. center battle on national security in the House and
Senate is a headache he doesn't need right now - but (a) taking sole responsibility via an executive order pits him squarely against the ACLU crowd and
opens him up to charges of being too Bush-like and (b) the constitutionality of indefinite detention will be jeopardized by not having congressional backing
per Justice Jackson's analysis in Youngstown v. Sawyer. Although, who
knows - maybe that's The One's plan. By putting himself on the worst possible legal footing, he increases the chances of the Supreme Court declaring
the program unconstitutional, which in turn will put pressure on Congress to bless it, thereby giving him political cover. Bottom line: No matter how much
the left pouts, Barry O's not risking a second term on letting questionable jihadis go until some other branch of government makes him.

On August 14, Ponyo will reach North American screens
-- Bob
---------
Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INyVwSfj4Zg

I defy you to listen to this (HQ is best) and not smile.

the tune is Joe Satriani's "Speed of Light"
"No can brain today. Want cheezeburger."
From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies

http://vimeo.com/1165693

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/26/copyfraud]Corporations and fraudsters alike are stealing from the public domain. 
The section about Creative Commons trying to set itself up as a licensing authority for the public domain particularly upsets me.  Dammit, I respected Creative Commons!
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

Right from the forums:

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showflat ... =0&fpart=1

Without further comment:



And one suitable for an Avatar with a bit of tweaking:


''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''

-- James Nicoll

http://www.lyricsfreak.com/m/michael+ja ... 92773.html]Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough, by Michael Jackson, from the album Off the Wall, copyright © 1979 Epic Records.

Metasong - once it takes effect, the effects of the next song played (if that song is started within a minute of the ending of Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough) will continue past the end of that song, as long as Doug is still actively using the effect (no "holding effect in readiness just in case"). The 24-hour period between effect uses starts at the end of the effect, not the end of the song.
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

First Farrah Fawcett and now -

Michael
Jackson.

Hard to believe. I couldn't be considered a fan, especially with the insane crap of his the last couple of decades, but he was part of the cultural
background, and I wouldn't have some of Weird Al Yankovic's best
videos without him.

(yes, I know it was mentioned in the Farrah Fawcett thread, but I thought it deserved a thread of it's own.

Complete restart of the concept, allowing some of our more prolific writers access to the "shinies."
ETA: Also, It seems that I am currently de facto editor-in-chief for this, so please accept that I can and may veto story points if they don't "fit" the mood we're trying for.
July 5, 2009, 10 pm Eastern Daylight Time -- City of Heroes MMORPG, Virtue Server
[The Legendary] Terrence Knight: Fox! Hurry up! ITF!
[The Legendary] Valles: Bring ninja.
[The Legendary] Kaeda: Yeah, we need Ninja Trio
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Iunno, I JUST got Misty able to Cim last week... and she hasn't been on an ITF yet...
[The Legendary] Sweno: Well, it might be nice to see if the new changes to Doms help any. We *have* plenty of support
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Right! Crosslogging
[The Legendary] Valles: I STILL can't believe how awful Dacia's luck is in Chrono Racer...
10:30 pm EDT
[Team] Sachie Hanagawa: [I can't believe how fast we got through those mishes]
[Team] Misty Hanover: [I can't believe I blew through 15 wakies already]
[Team] Terrence Knight: [Like we said, Smashcakes and Pancake lol]
[Team] Misty Hanover: Man that road is bright. *winces*
[Team] Misao Kagetsuki: [Crashy McCrashington : ]
[The Legendary] Foxboy: [WB, K! You're jsut in time for Lag Hill!]
[The Legendary] Valles: Hail!
[The Legendary] Valles: Hail!
[The Legendary] Valles: Hail!
[The Legendary] Foxboy: *grumbles and takes his crown... LAGSPIKE Gah!
[The Legendary] Dark Seraphim: this lags getting to bad for me im gonna log for now...
[The Legendary] Sweno: Bye
[The Legendary] Atlantea: Night, DS
[The Legendary] Foxboy: LAter DS
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Huh. That's weird.
[The Legendary] Valles: ?
[The Legendary] Foxboy: My graphics look a lot better after that spike. Weird..
[The Legendary] OpMegs: Don't knock it, free gfx upgrades rock.
10:37 pm EDT
Simultaneously, at the three thousand computers logged into the Virtue server, eldritch energies leapt from the various screens and bathed whoever was at the keyboard, changing their lives forever.
These are their stories.
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''

-- James Nicoll