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14. Exactly. DU wastes so much time pretending that these people THINK, and MEAN things

Sun Feb 19, 2012, 02:07 AM

Feb 2012

You make the right noises and people react. They follow you, or they attack. You spend billions of dollars a year on researching how to do this better. You suppress any related research into how people might resist it (anyone else old enough to remember when we had public-interest psychology research?).

And people here worry over the MEANING of what they say, as though it were great literature.

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Ohio state House speaker jokes that Obama should be sent to jail [View all] highplainsdem Feb 2012 OP

And Shrub should be sent to the Hague for War Crimes! sce56 Feb 2012 #1

+1 proud2BlibKansan Feb 2012 #7

+2 Kurmudgeon Feb 2012 #16

+3 sueh Feb 2012 #17

+4 TexasTowelie Feb 2012 #20

+1000 Suji to Seoul Feb 2012 #25

+1001 wordpix Feb 2012 #57

+1005 AsahinaKimi Feb 2012 #66

It's an interesting question. Who should go? Bush because of the orders he 24601 Feb 2012 #26

Out of those examples, only one has a chain of intention. n/t The Doctor. Feb 2012 #27

You are confusing intent with motive. Intent is required to prove a case while 24601 Feb 2012 #34

By that reasoning, every single President who presided over any military conflict is a 'war criminal The Doctor. Feb 2012 #39

Not at all. Homocide refers to death of people. Manslaughter and murder refer 24601 Feb 2012 #43

The Geneva Convention has no protections for unlawful combatants. joshcryer Feb 2012 #46

Are you saying it's lawful to kill & torture someone who is an unlawful combatant? Aren't there 24601 Feb 2012 #52

POWs are only protected if they are fighting for a recognized state. An unlawful combatant is one... joshcryer Feb 2012 #61

I still believe that I'm accurate about some protections being afforded to underprivileged 24601 Feb 2012 #62

That's fair enough, but I was speaking generally. In the case of the US we see how difficult... joshcryer Feb 2012 #63

LoisB LoisB Feb 2012 #36

And Shrub should be sent to the Hague for War Crimes! AlbertCat Feb 2012 #42

Plus all I can count to n/t Mira Feb 2012 #50

+1 million. But we're not joking. ScottLand Feb 2012 #51

3 years of kissing up to republicans doesn't buy immunity nt msongs Feb 2012 #2

Oh, isn't he sweet? CaliforniaPeggy Feb 2012 #3

it's his racism showing Skittles Feb 2012 #12

I was thinking the exact same thing... AsahinaKimi Feb 2012 #67

And repugs should go to the landfill. Arctic Dave Feb 2012 #4

Jimmy Carter was one of our best presidents. eyewall Feb 2012 #5

+1! Rhiannon12866 Feb 2012 #10

I am absolutely disgusted with todays Republicans. airplaneman Feb 2012 #13

Absolutely true. tabasco Feb 2012 #44

Thank you. SheilaT Feb 2012 #45

It's easy to understand that a man eyewall Feb 2012 #48

and he's the best post-president wordpix Feb 2012 #58

What an ass. He can join our KS GOP House speaker in the butthead group. proud2BlibKansan Feb 2012 #6

Speaking of buttheads... CBHagman Feb 2012 #32

"large posterior"?? unkachuck Feb 2012 #64

I know Batchelder personally. Deep13 Feb 2012 #8

Batchelder looks like a 60-something Ernie Douglas from the TV show My Three Sons bulloney Feb 2012 #35

I think he looks like a child molester. Deep13 Feb 2012 #55

And has done so little except kiss Old Money ass in Medina Lo! these many years Ikonoklast Feb 2012 #47

True, that and Christian conservative ass. nt Deep13 Feb 2012 #53

haha, if Obama's the worst president ever... Drunken Irishman Feb 2012 #9

On the other hand: cliffordu Feb 2012 #11

Exactly. DU wastes so much time pretending that these people THINK, and MEAN things saras Feb 2012 #14

I thought that was kind of mild myself lunatica Feb 2012 #28

Ironic... caveat_imperator Feb 2012 #15

George W. who? earcandle Feb 2012 #18

They have nothing. SleeplessinSoCal Feb 2012 #19

Oh, those madcap Republicans Sherman A1 Feb 2012 #21

They're NOT joking. hobbit709 Feb 2012 #22

Another treasonous Republican JJW Feb 2012 #23

His wife is a federal appeals court judge on the 6th circuit, and was rumored to be a Supreme Court BzaDem Feb 2012 #24

Wow. I missed that story...eom Kolesar Feb 2012 #29

I saw them both in action back in the 70's when I was a page in the State House.., WCGreen Feb 2012 #37

Ah, the Party of Spite and Mendacity. CBHagman Feb 2012 #30

Do these people have their Klan robes on when they say this crap? 47of74 Feb 2012 #31

IPPM bora13 Feb 2012 #33

Uh, is that treasonous talk? nt valerief Feb 2012 #38

stupid talk? yes... awoke_in_2003 Feb 2012 #49

It's free speech. I disagree with it The Second Stone Feb 2012 #40

Nothing new. Beacool Feb 2012 #41

Waste of air evilhime Feb 2012 #54

Jimmy Carter Roy Rolling Feb 2012 #56

A-hah, a-hah, a-hah. What wit. the_chinuk Feb 2012 #59

huh Tiggeroshii Feb 2012 #60

Instead of trying to ape a not-so-spectacular comedian, Judi Lynn Feb 2012 #65

Yeah.. AsahinaKimi Feb 2012 #68

FLY! FLY AWAY HOME!! HughBeaumont Feb 2012 #69