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Friday Open Thread | 46 comments (46 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

The Washington post is apparently reporting that REPORT: PRESIDENT OBAMA PREPARING EXECUTIVE ORDER TO ALLOW INDEFINITE DETENTION WITHOUT TRIAL OF TERROR SUSPECTS.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Fri Jun 26th, 2009 at 06:13:17 PM EST

Re: Friday Open Thread (4.00 / 2)

Also, voting on the American Clean Energy and Security Act in the House right now. All GOP alternatives have been rejected.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Fri Jun 26th, 2009 at 07:06:50 PM EST
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Passed (4.00 / 2)

The House has passed the cap and trade bill.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Fri Jun 26th, 2009 at 07:19:24 PM EST
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Re: Passed (4.00 / 3)

The biggest corporate boondoggle since the Millennium Bug.

"Any economic unit can emit money. The serious problem is to get it accepted" Hyman Minsky

by ChrisCook (cojockathotmaildotcom) on Fri Jun 26th, 2009 at 07:26:34 PM EST
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Re: Passed (4.00 / 2)

Haven't kept up. What horrors does it contain?

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Fri Jun 26th, 2009 at 07:27:19 PM EST
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Oxymoron (none / 1)

clean coal

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin

by Crazy Horse on Sat Jun 27th, 2009 at 05:02:18 AM EST
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