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Archive for November 13th, 2009

Friday, November 13th, 2009

(Update 3x)Wicked Drug Laws Killed My Dear Friend

By Mona
[Please see all Updates, and read this post by Thomas Knapp. The effing Drug Warriors lace many painkillers with acetaminophen purposely. To "deter" recreational use. Assh*les.]
This past Wednesday, one of my dearest friends in the world died. His death was completely unnecessary. He was an alcoholic whose liver had become severely compromised, so several [...]

Friday, November 13th, 2009

Just get in the crate already

By Thoreau
Ladies and gentlemen, I have just spotted the most tender, juicy cut of veal ever seen on the face of the earth:  At the start of a midterm, a student looked at a diagram with two objects and asked “Which one is the right and which one is the left?”  The objects are on [...]

Friday, November 13th, 2009

The Trial of K. Sheik Mohammed

By Thoreau
As Greenwald notes, the federal government has decided to allow due process for terrorism suspects…if they think they can secure convictions in the regular court system.  If they don’t think the regular court system is guaranteed to convict?  Then the military will handle it.  And if the military officers can’t be relied upon to [...]