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President Bush, in a constitutional showdown with Congress, claimed executive privilege Thursday and rejected demands for White House documents and testimony about the firing of U.S. attorneys.
His decision was denounced as "Nixonian stonewalling" by the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Bush rejected subpoenas for documents from former presidential counsel Harriet Miers and former political director Sara Taylor. The White House made clear neither one would testify next month, as directed by the subpoenas.
Presidential counsel Fred Fielding said Bush had made a reasonable attempt at compromise but Congress forced the confrontation by issuing subpoenas. "With respect, it is with much regret that we are forced down this unfortunate path which we sought to avoid by finding grounds for mutual accommodation."
The assertion of executive privilege was the latest turn in increasingly hostile standoffs between the administration and the Democratic-controlled Congress over the Iraq war, executive power, the war on terror and Vice President Dick Cheney's authority. A day earlier, the Senate Judiciary Committee delivered subpoenas to the offices of Bush, Cheney, the national security adviser and the Justice Department about the administration's warrantless wiretapping program.
While weakened by the Iraq war and poor approval ratings in the polls, Bush has been adamant not to cede ground to Congress.
"Increasingly, the president and vice president feel they are above the law," said Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, said Bush's assertion of executive privilege was "unprecedented in its breadth and scope" and displayed "an appalling disregard for the right of the people to know what is going on in their government."
White House press secretary Tony Snow weighed in with unusually sharp criticism of Congress. He accused Democrats of trying "to make life difficult for the White House. It also may explain why this is the least popular Congress in decades, because you do have what appears to be a strategy of destruction, rather than cooperation."
Over the years, Congress and the White House have avoided a full-blown court test about the constitutional balance of power and whether the president can refuse demands from Congress. Lawmakers could vote to cite witnesses for contempt and refer the matter to the local U.S. attorney to bring before a grand jury. Since 1975, 10 senior administration officials have been cited but the disputes were all resolved before getting to court.
Congressional committees sought the documents and testimony in their investigations of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' stewardship of the Justice Department and the firing of eight federal attorneys over the winter. Democrats say the firings were an example of improper political influence. The White House contends that U.S. attorneys are political appointees who can be hired and fired for almost any reason.
In a letter to Leahy and Conyers, Fielding said Bush had "attempted to chart a course of cooperation" by releasing more than 8,500 pages of documents and sending Gonzales and other officials to Capitol Hill to testify.
The president also had offered to make Miers, Taylor, political strategist Karl Rove and their aides available to be interviewed by the Judiciary committees in closed-door sessions, without transcripts and not under oath. Leahy and Conyers rejected that proposal.
The Senate Judiciary Committee's senior Republican, Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, said the House and Senate panels should accept Bush's original offer.
Impatient with the "lagging" pace of the investigation into the U.S. attorney firings, Specter said he asked Fielding during a phone call Wednesday night whether the president would agree to transcripts on the interviews. Fielding's answer: No.
"I think we ought to take what information we can get now and try to wrap this up," Specter told reporters. That wouldn't preclude Congress from reissuing subpoenas if lawmakers do not get enough answers, Specter said.
Fielding explained Bush's position on executive privilege this way: "For the president to perform his constitutional duties, it is imperative that he receive candid and unfettered advice and that free and open discussions and deliberations occur among his advisers and between those advisers and others within and outside the Executive Branch."
This "bedrock presidential prerogative" exists, in part, to protect the president from being compelled to disclose such communications to Congress, Fielding argued.
In a slap at the committees, Fielding said, "There is no demonstration that the documents and information you seek by subpoena are critically important to any legislative initiatives that you may be pursuing or intending to pursue."
It was the second time in his administration that Bush has exerted executive privilege, said White House deputy press secretary Tony Fratto. The first instance was in December 2001, to rebuff Congress' demands for Clinton administration documents.
The most famous claim of executive privilege was in 1974, when President Nixon went to the Supreme Court to avoid surrendering White House tape recordings in the Watergate scandal. That was in a criminal investigation, not a demand from Congress. The court unanimously ordered Nixon to turn over the tapes.
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32 Responses to "Bush hides behind executive privilege"
Actually, Nixon was smart enough to know he was in trouble – he tried to stonewall but he knew his days in the oval room were numbered.
Bush isn't even smart enough to figure out that he's chin deep in shit and about to step off a ledge.
Of course – it would be nice if Congress would take deliberate action rather than playing this idiotic game of cat and mouse – but I've learned not to expect much from any branch of the government – especially the legislative.
I've said it before
…and I'll say it again –
…I'm still not sure he'll leave – and take his dick with him – come January 2009 –
…he'll claim executive privilege – justifying it by saying it is right to do this because it is right AND he is too –
Liberal Girl, Where I have been is in the United States Navy over 30 years in a position to to know what the actual facts are and what the military mind set is and what their duties actually are. Contrary to popular belief, the military does not blindly follow orders issued by the commander in chief. It must be a legal order. And just because it has been written and stamped with official what nots does not change the military's responsibility to the constitution which is their highest authority.
Every officer swears an oath to the Constitution of the United States, not the president. That oath is to protect and defend the people of the nation against all enemies and it expressly forbids us from any actions upon or against the citizens of this nation. No president can countermand that. The constitution would have to be ammended.
You must understand that the US military Is designed to wage war. We are not a policing agency. We cannot and will not wage war upon our own citizens no matter what order is given by whatever authority. Under Marshall Law we are there only to provide manpower and equipment to help keep order. But there is a reality to a declaration of Marshall Law you must understand. There are not enough troops to secure the entire country. Not even half of it. And under Marshall Law all policing agencies come under military authority. No military commander can give the order to fire [wage war] upon the citizens of this nation. The prime directive, Mr. Spock, is to protect and defend them.
So there you have the reality. The president can issue the order but without the consent and cooperation of the people it is unenforceable. The people are the highest authority under the constitution and they need to realize that. All government authority exists only by the consent of the governed. They should read the constitution.
Bush cannot refuse what the representatives of the people have requested. He is answerable to the people at all times. His refusal qualifies as "high crimes and misdomeanors." He will get away with it only if the people allow it. That is the realization that is missing in this nation today and why we are in such a mess.
"The Dolt Bush" of the Bush/Cheney regime has always lived with privleges! The fact is, its been his way or the highway all of his life. I cannot see anyway of stopping this moron from continuing his deadly, damaging, demoralizing reign of ruin other than his impeachment, that I would love to see occur… and I'm not holding my breath on that.
Seal – I've taken that oath "to uphold and defend the constitution of the United States against" – and I took it (and still do) to heart. The problem is that we've got a guy in the Whitehouse who's taken that oath three times – once when he was comissioned in the AF, once in Jan 2001 and again in Jan 2005 – and has never – never – lived up to it. President Bush just doesn't feel he's obliged to live up to the oath – somehow for some reason he has decided that he's above the law.
While I agree that the military doesn't follow the commands of a President without consideration to their legality, I question if the mercenary forces being employed in Iraq to augment the military would do the same. These private armies are, in my opinion, a greater threat to our freedom than a single nut case like Bush. At the beck and call of whomever has enough cash to pay for their services – to whom to they pledge their loyalty?
Kinda adds a new meaning to the song title "onward Christian soldiers" does it not?
And Congress? They will make new law eliminating 4th Amendment rights to be secure in persons, houses, papers and efects… Oh, wait. They already did that with the Patriot Act.
Well, they will probably eliminate Habeas Corpus with a new law… Oh wait, they already did that with the Military Commissions bill.
You get the idea.
All it will take is another false-flag terrizt attack, perhaps on the Capitol building or some such and Congress will cower with their tails between their legs rolling on their back urinating all over themselves like frightened puppy dogs and enact another "Enabling Act," just like they did after the American Reichstag Burning on 9-11.
"…the director of the CIA warned that there could be an attack – an imminent attack – on the United States of this nature. So this is not entirely unexpected." Sept.11 2001 Ike Skelton – Armed Services Committee member. Live on NPR
We'd better face the facts – with the milk toasts that we put in congress in '04 we're not going to see Mr. Bush nor Mr. Cheney leave their respective offices until their terms are over.
The tragic thing is, without the stigma or label of impeachement hanging over them, the lessons of this administration will fade from memory. Sort of like the memories of Clinton doing nothing regarding Darfur have apparently faded, as Ms. Clinton slams the Bush administration for doing the same nothing that her husband did. Of course she fails to mention Bill's inaction on the subject.
I had often thought a mystery how the German people could live out their daily lives while the Nazi's operated concentration camps, tortured, killed, etc. How could a nation of so many educated folks allow those atrocities to happen right under their noses?
Now I no longer wonder, for I have been brought up in the United States where we allow the same attrocities to take place while using our tax dollars.
Martin Luther King Jr. once said that the hottest and darkest place in hell is reserved for those whom live during a time of great moral and ethical injustice and choose to stay neutral. And I say that silence in the face of evil is a reflection of evil itself. In God We Trust.
I read one of Carl Nemo's post above and he is certainly well educated and I always enjoy his comments, as well as others that post at CHB. He mentioned something about motivating individuals to get involved with what we here at CHB discuss with great enthusiasm.
I just came from walmart and I got to tell you that trying to motivate this grossly OVERWEIGHT general public (at least enough of them to do any good) would be impossible. I have never seen so many clueless, could care less, FAT, mineless, stressed out, self centered creatures….OOPS!!..people in my life.
You might be able to motivate/encourage this incrediable mass of morbidly obese
individuals if you offered them a free meal at one of the thousands of local pig troffs. The general public in this nation is beyond salvation of any kind. A political system will change only if the citizens revolt in numbers that would impact but from what I saw today, forget it. Its over and everyday is a good day until the real shit hits the real fan and IT WILL HAPPEN SOONER THAN LATER.
OOPS!!!! where the hell did I get pig troff from…..trough is what I mean. Wonder what a troff is, if anything. God, my brain cells are imploding, what few I have left. Got to love the aging process
I just read all the comments here on this article. What great notions from all, especially Seal, Carl and gene. Seal talks about 'duty†and General Peter Pace has stated publically that military armed forces must not follow illegle or immoral orders. I suggest that is the reason General Pace was forced out.
In regard to allegiance to one person instead to one's Country and Constitution, none other than Hitler defined that once!
There are many of us in this Country. I hope we resist Marshall Law with all our might. Get a good supply of arms and ammo. You might need them some day.
Posse Commitatus prevents the Military from arresting U.S. Citizens. The new Military Commissions Act has changed that. Then there is the vast growing private armies…really makes you wonder about those folks doesn't it?
Dam Wayne to be considered with Carl and Seal is really an incrediable compliment.
Thankyou!!!!! Carl and Seal are among my most respected commenters. Of course you did not cap my name but thats ok. Little (g) is great and I appreciate your thoughts.
The point about the private "army" that has been created is certainly one to take notice of. The only accurate count of their number comes from Iraq where the estimate is 125,000 of them there. How many exist here at home is unknown but assumed to be at least twice that number.
I have some limited knowledge of a couple of the organizers [for want of a better word] of these "private security" companies. They are known to be Cheney compatible in their thinking and incompatible with the traditional military mindset. And we do know from the performance of their ranks in Iraq that they are riddled with borderline psycho personalities. That could be good or bad news depending upon the conditions because their bottom line loyalty is to themselves. However, their leaders are a different matter and could only be expected to go down in flames. The good news is that they would be considered enemies of the nation by the military should they be used to cause harm to its citizens.
There are many factors involved that have been discussed by military commanders "off the record" in 'what should we do if and when' private conversations. I have been involved in many of them. Rest assured that the military is not a collection of robots and the unique conditions that existed in Hawaii during WWII could not be recreated on a national basis in todays information age.
I admit to having great faith in the military of the US and a unique knowledge of things I cannot discuss. However, I should point out what is common knowledge but never mentioned on the list of conflicts or actions by our nation the fact that Iraq is not our first preemtive invasion of a foreign country. Bush the First is credited with that by his odering us into Panama to arrest the soverign leader of that country who they brought to the US to be tried in criminal court for crimes against the United States. Noriega made the mistake of threatening to close the Panama Canal. So, he wound up being convicted of [and to cover up] the criminal activity we set him up in. The Bush disregard for international law runs in the family.
BTW very little notice has been paid to the recent multi billion dollar agreement [5 or 6] that passes ownership by General Motors of their hugely profitable Allison Transmission Division to the Carlyle [a Bush family] and Onyx [connected]conglomerates. Allison makes almost all of the miltary heavy duty trannies, etc. Interesting, eh? This is the second profitable piece of of GM that has been sold off in the last two years by the profit failing company to the quiet MIC corporate consolidation that has been going on for several years. That is the real danger.
Seal, you're preaching to the choir here. I've done my 20; so why is it that those who see fit to tell us how to do our job, you know, the jerks that have not served their time in the old uniform, thinking they know what they're doing? These hacks aren't competent enough to flip burgers! It's wrong, morally and ethically, to dictate to an organzation what their job is or how to behave when one does not hold themsleves to the same standard.
I thought LBJ was a jackass. This bunch are WAY past the old looking glass!
Very eloquent caio109…!
"And I say that silence in the face of evil is a reflection of evil itself."
Carl Nemo **==
My apologies SEAL for not complimenting you more often on your spot-on posts. I'm concerned about Blackwater et. al. too. These mercs surely don't fall under the Posse Commitatus Act of 1878 even though it's been recently nullified, only in theory, with Bushco's anti-constitutional machinations. Prince and his Christian militia of psyched-up enforcers, along with Delta Force represent a grave threat to U.S. citizens. I surely hope there's enough "good men" left in the U.S. military to stand tall and protect their homeland by nullifying this synthetic enforcement entity created by Bushco if they should be unleashed against the citizenry of the United States. To CHB readers my best advice is, to be forwarned is to be forearmed…!
When the 9/11, anthrax fear frenzy was at it's peak the government and other entitites were encouraging people to have duct tape, flashlights, yada yada ad infinitum ad nauseam. That's all well an good, but I think every household in America needs a police model Winchester or Remington pump shotgun with a variety of shotshells to handle every situation that might arise. I'm not advocating violence but one of deterrence in the face of potential tyranny!
Never have more "untrue words" been spoken…
"I'm from the government and I'm here to help you"…:))
Carl Nemo **==
Note: I rarely post the same CHB response twice, but I consider this Bush/Cheney fiasco with them "mooning" the Constitution, The Congress, and most importantly "We the People" to be seriously, deadly business! We the People can no longer tolerate their b.s.! We are paying their wages, the luxuries of their office and giving them respect they no longer deserve…! Round'em up, cuff'em and send them to where they belong!
Another noisy 4th of July is coming up with all the phony-butt village patriots blowing off their endless supply of firecrackers, whistle rockets and other such nonsense. Most guys I know that have been in combat or close to a combat zone despise fireworks and it's one of the worst possible holidays for them!
My Dad now 88 is a survivor of WWII, landing D-Day +3, the Battle of the Bulge among many others, and Korea! When I was a kid I'd ask him what war was like and he'd just get a distant look and say "nothing"…! He was an infantryman in the US Army working and fighting his way up through the ranks from an enlisted man to an officer on the battle field. Being a kid I was always persistent and finally asked him what the most terrifying weapons were and what he thought of the Germans. He simply said the German 88mm tank gun and the mortar were the two most feared weapons of attack and that the Germans were a fierce and "worthy" enemy! He hated fireworks too and didn't do well during the 4th of July period. We had a flagpole on our property and each day we raised and lowered the flag with honor and respect. This sounds probably over-the-top and extreme to many if not most, but that's the way it was in our household. We weren't simply 4th of July flagwavers.
My point is that millions of men and women have been damaged emotionally, and physically maimed; having sacrificed supremely for this country in WWI, WWII, Korea, Nam, Gulf War I, II and on and on the list goes.
America now has two certified "traitors" in the Whitehouse with evil designs on turning this once great nation into a NWO/AIPAC/MIC sponsored police state if they can do so while Americans this 4th of July will wave their little flags, hang them off the porch, and make noise for freedom, all the while it's "loss" thereof is running through their hands, as sand in an hour glass! I'm sorely disappointed with my fellow Americans!
I entreat all citizen/patriots to do what is necessary and to fire your 88mm thoughtshot across the bow of dreadnaught "Tyranny" and summarily demand the impeachment of George Bush and Richard Cheney this 4th of July 2007 week and do something useful rather than blow off a couple hundred bucks worth of fireworks, wolf down a bunch of burgers and dogs, then simply party-down with your wives, girlfriends, the family or whatever. Stand tall and realize your freedom this 4th of July rests on the shoulders of the dead who have fallen so bravely for "we the people" 's freedom , hopefully not to be lost for all time and all places! Will Americans have sold their freedom for a bowl of pottage; i.e., electronic toys, convenience, and self-indulgence?!
"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both"… Dwight D. Eisenhower
I'll post the duty links so people can make contact with their reps. It's quite easy folks and if we have millions of those that have been silent for all too long to do what's necessary in these gravely dangerous times then we shall prevail!
Carl Nemo **==
Carl that has to be you best post yet. I could not add anything significant to what you so eliquently stated. "phony-butt village patriots" God is that ever so accurate. I try hard not to judge others because of my on short-comings in life but it has become impossible to ignore the obvious severe degeneration (moral and financial) of this nation.
As I have said before I am a retired (LTC) with over 20 years of active duty service. It would be absolutely imposssible for me to serve this nation under this leadership, if you could even call it that. I retired in 1996 just as this incrediable travesty was starting.
"phony-butt village patriots" says it all and that is pretty much all that is left, a nation that has become a grotesque imitation of its past. I believe over the last several decades this nation has simply died but will not stop breathing, eventually it will and very soon. I would not attempt to list all the reasons I know this to be true. Again, I am far from perfert and have made many regrettable misstakes in life but I have always cared. These are surely very different times and (hope) is a word that I am afraid will not apply this time around.
To many don't care and this nation has gone to far. Only supernatural intervention can save us this time and I believe (HE) will soon if you understand my meaning. "In God We Trust" that was at one time generally true but not anymore.
IMPEACH THEM NOW!!!! First Cheney (so he doesn't become president), then BUSH! We must stop them before they get us into Iran (with Russia and China siding against us and have no doubt, they would), in which they can suspend the 2008 election and declare martial law.
You might think I'm paranoid, but look at the things they've done so far. We cannot afford to give them the benefit of a doubt anymore. BEWARE: THEY ARE CAPABLE OF ANYTHING!!!
Right-on Liberal girl…!
You are a savvy woman and a truly a patriot after my heart in defending the Republic against these evil mattoids with an agenda; i.e., Bush/Cheney…!
Carl Nemo **==
Yes they are Liberal girl but the truth is falling on ears that can not hear and eyes that do not see the truth.
I don't see any way possible that they can create the justification to "get us into Iran." The Iraninans are too smart to let that happen. They have invited the UN inspectors to check out their Nuclear facilities with no restrictions. They give the appearance of cooperation and hiding nothing, whether it is true or not.
I agree that Bush/Cheney cannot be underestimated in their skullduggery but they cannot do the impossible. In the first place they have nothing to attack Iran with on the ground. And the idea that they would use low yeild nuclear penetrators to destroy underground plants is complete fantasy. They know what would happen to them even if they could somehow do that and they can't. I don't believe anyone in the military would obey the order without a declaration from congress and even if they did it would not reach the "button." There are very strict rules and procedures about the use of nuclear weapons to prevent the "madman" thing from happening. A first strike order would have to be confirmed by a declaration of war. Only congress can do that.
Continuing to throw out the idea that these clowns in the White House could do the impossible is not a good idea. Some readers might believe it. Not too long ago I explained why the "reality" of Marshall Law in the United States is not possible without the consent of the people. If they rebelled against it there would be no way to enforce it or stop them because the US military is prohibited from waging war upon its own citizens. This isn't the movies. This is real life.
Thanks (Seal) I read your post several times. I have become extremely concern over the last several years for obvious reasons to those that post here at CHB. Your information has allowed me to relax (today at least).
Two ativan should extend that very nicely….amen!!
SEAL, as usual, provides a sane voice of reason and hope, and reminds some of the more excitable among us, such as this writer, to reconnect to reason and reality from time to time.
Thanks, SEAL.
I knew that chicken was going to do that. (makes chicken sounds) Liberal girl is spot on. We need to go after them both, but go after "deadeye" DICK first. There is the real danger. Georgie boy is too busy trying to remember how to take his collar off.
Nixon gave in when the supreme court ruled against him. I predict Bush wont give in even then. He truly believes that he is his own law.
So does dick cheney.
SEAL – You seem so sure of yourself, I wish you were right. Its going to be people like you who are going to be left dumbfounded when the shit hits the fan because you convinced yourself that they couldn't/wouldn't do it. This IS NOT A LAW ABIDING GROUP, besides, they've already changed the laws. Hello, where the hell have you been? Below are a couple of links you could start with.
As far as War with Iran, they ARE ITCHING TO EXPAND THE WAR (Its the only way they can and will maintain power). They will create a false flag operation (or get Israel to do it) to get us offically into Iran (FYI, we are covertly acting against Iran already).
I understand where you are coming from (trying to be rational), but you are kidding yourself. This is not a rational government and we are not living in rational times anymore.
H.R. 5122, also known as the John Warner National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007 was a bill passed in the United States Congress on September 30, 2006 and signed by President George W. Bush on October 17, 2006. Among other things, it includes:
$500 billion allocated to the military and defense related activities for fiscal year 2007
expansion of the President's power to declare martial law under revisions to the Insurrection Act, and take charge of United States National Guard troops without state governor authorization when public order has been lost and the state and its constituted authorities cannot enforce the law;
the elimination of the position of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction as of October 1, 2007, currently held by Republican lawyer Stuart Bowen, which is in charge of auditing expenditures in Iraq, transitioning Inspector General responsibilities to the Inspector General offices in the departments of State and Defense, now that the Coalition Provisional Authority is dissolved and Iraq is now a soveriegn nation.
Thank God I just took two ativan. Liberal girl I had just read Seal's post and actually found hope (just for today). You are right, these are NOT rational times and we are NOT dealing with rational people. This whole planet has become irrational for the most part and soon the real shit will hit the real fan.
If I am wrong…fine..but this planet is still a (snowball of problems) growing larger as it screams down the slope picking up incrediable speed. Is the bottom near? We will know soon enough.
Hi Seal…
I hate to say it but these two guys; Bush/Cheney are up to something. In October 2006 Bush signed off on DDAA07; i.e, the Defense Department Authorization Act of 2007 which nullifies the "Posse Commitatus Act of 1878″ at least in Bush/Cheney's mind and since he's the decider-in- chief with his anti-constitutional pen in hand he's been weaving a web of tyranny about us; i.e., "We the People".
His actions whether it's Congressional subpoenas or whatever up to this point indicates he and Cheney both have no respect for the Constitution or the rule of law. They are unchallenged renegades at this point.
Sec. 1042 of the DDAA 07 overturns the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878, which prevents the military from intervening in the conduct of civilian government activities including the conduct of Justice and Law Enforcement. Posse Comitatus has been central to the functioning of constitutional government. I'll provide a link that outlines the situation. I also recommend people sign up to the Information Liberation site so you can read all the seedy dirt that these guys are pulling off 24/7/365! This isn't conspiracy theory nonsense, but the here and now.
You'll also notice I mentioned earlier that Bush uses an "anti" and not an "un" consitutional pen. There's a difference. Un-constitutional is law possibly ill-thought law that will eventually be up to interpretation by the highest courts once challenged and will no doubt not pass muster. Bushco's "anti" constitutional behavior is done with intent and with a "plan" in mind; i.e., law that will never be up to the interpretation by a court at any level since the regular court system will be suspended leaving military tribunals in place. That's why they shoved through the Military Commissions Act in order to suspend "habeas corpus" too.
It's simple under Bushco's plan for martial law, if targeted you'll simply drop through a Stalinist trapdoor never to be seen again with absolutely no rights or access to the courts. I have old photo's of Hawaii being administered via military tribunals during WWII. Even if you had a traffic violation you appeared before a military tribunal for determination of your fine and punishment.
All I can say is all of their actions are both sneaky and creepy as far as I'm concerned and they do have an agenda! In post #1 I'm urging people to get motiviated before the ultimate damage is done. Once martial law is declared and Congress and the Courts are suspended there will be no going back with the NWO/AIPAC/MIC crowd in control and on a roll.
Carl Nemo **==
So what's transpiring here is a deliberate attempt to seize global dominion by a bunch of scofflaws acting as legitimately elected officials; they'll fail. Napoleon failed, King George III failed, Hitler failed, and so will these hacks.
Stay tuned and watch the shit hit the fan and splatter all over shrub, his vp toady, and all their drones as they are quietly led away in leg shackles to the nearest mental institution.
OOPs!!! sorry Carl did not see your reply to (Liberal girl). Was not trying to steal your thunder as though I could. Have a great day!!
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According to the latest celebrity news, LINDSAY LOHAN reportedly called the cops on her dad MICHAEL on Friday afternoon… after the latter tried to stage an intervention to get her to check into rehab.
The actress, who vowed in a recent interview with TMZ that she was "done" with her dad Michael Lohan after he released a secretly taped audio recording of his phone call with her while she was fighting with her mom, Dina, has reportedly had another unwanted brush with her notoriously deadbeat dad.
But to be fair, it appears that Michael had good intentions, as he was trying to get help for his daughter.
TMZ reports:
"Michael Lohan and several others showed up at Lindsay's house Friday afternoon [to stage an intervention]… believing she has fallen off the wagon … and they believe that's why she has become a no-show for post-production work on her upcoming movie, "The Canyons.""
While outside his daughter's house, Michael spoke to TMZ and told them that he was increasingly worried about Lindsay due to the company she keeps, a company that he described as "a bunch of alcoholics and drug addicts.
Someone reportedly called the cops on Michael and his team of Lindsay interventionists, claiming that the group had been trespassing.
It is unclear who made the call—it might have been Lindsay herself—but it's pretty obvious that whoever did had the express permission of the actress, as it was her house.
No arrests were made.
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Recently we posted this article on the causes,which it included a video about turkish treatment of the Kurds, click here for the article.
But after few hours from posting it, (we guess) Fascists Turks reported the video, and Youtube removed the video right the way.
This is not the first time, Turkey shows their real face, their coward policy of controlling Kurds :) ,we are not mad, actually it is just a tool to make us stronger.
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Advertisements in the subway in Seoul will tell you that something is very wrong with your face. It could be the shape. Maybe your face is too 'big'. It could be your small and 'flat' nose that is the problem. Perhaps you don't have a 'V-line' chin (a very sharp jawline in the shape of a V)? Or maybe you are concerned that your eyes are 'too small'.
Korea is one of the top-ranked countries for plastic surgery procedures and listed medical practitioners in the field. Korean plastic surgeons sometimes carry out more than 16 procedures in one day. They have good hands, good skills, and they rarely get sued. Korean cosmetic procedures are often walk-in, walk-out procedures and you don't have to sign lengthy legal documents or disclaimers. You don't even need a psychological check to get a serious procedure done (which is the requirement for some surgical procedures in Australia).
(A common Korean subway advertisement for a plastic surgery clinic that suggests that you will get a bigger diamond ring after cosmetic surgery)
Why does Korea have such a buzzing plastic surgery scene? This is no Miami, after all. And, we don't have the same bikini breast-obsession as the women of Rio in Brazil. Koreans are very focused on replicating American 'beauty ideals', that is the stereotypical 'high-bridge nose, large eyes, plump lips, and contoured face' (very generalized, of course).
The intense interest in Korean celebrities (who often receive a lot of invasive surgery to enhance their careers) has spawned unrealistic expectations of what Koreans should look like. One concern, among many, is that in the future Koreans will start to look increasingly 'less Korean', due to the excesses of plastic surgery. Pictures of parents and children together are also a little confusing, as parents who have had surgery rarely resemble their children with their natural genetic traits.


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Floyd County Board of Supervisors Meeting
January 27, 2009, 9:00 AM
The Floyd County Board of Supervisors met for regular session at 9:00 a.m. on Tuesday, January 27, 2009 in the Board Room of the Floyd County Courthouse with the following in attendance: Chairman Staudt, Supv. Dunkel, and Supv. Enabnit.
Enabnit/Dunkel moved to approve the agenda as presented. Motion carried 3-0.
Dunkel/Enabnit moved to approve the January 12, 13 and 19, 2009 minutes. Motion carried 3-0.
Dunkel/Staudt moved to approve the following claims: County #2057-2208, Secondary Roads #11359-11382, and MH-DD #58279-58313. Motion carried 3-0.
Dunkel/Enabnit moved to reimburse Marilyn Dettmer $51.54, not including sales tax, for window treatment in the Magistrate Judge's Chamber but not for the light fixture and for the chair to send Marilyn a letter regarding the process for requests for building improvements. Motion carried 3-0.
Enabnit/Dunkel moved to approve the Iowa Department of Public Health County Substance Abuse Prevention Services which was reduced by $74. Motion carried 3-0. Dunkel/Enabnit moved to reduce the contract with Prairie Ridge by $74. Motion carried 3-0.
Enabnit/Dunkel moved to authorize the County Treasurer to refund John and Tammy Farrell $76 for taxes collected in 2007/2008, $74 for taxes collected in 2008/2009 and to abate the 2009/2010 taxes which have not been collected. Motion carried 3-0.
Enabnit/Dunkel moved to approve Resolution #08-09 for the Number and Appointment of Deputies, Assistants and Clerks. Motion carried 3-0.
Dunkel/Staudt moved to appoint Mike Goddard to the Zoning Commission for a 5-year term ending December 31, 2013, replacing Alan McGregor. Motion carried 3-0.
Dunkel/Staudt moved to approve 110% of the assessed value as the fair market value for the two rural homes identified in the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program and name Gloria Carr as the Authorized Representative and Arlin Enabnit as the Alternate Point of Contact for the Board for the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program Application. Motion carried 3-0. Dunkel/Staudt moved to approve Resolution #09-09 as the Local Match Resolution for the Hazard Mitigation Program. Motion carried 3-0.
The Board reviewed two options for reducing the General Fund Supplemental and Rural Services levies. The Board discussed leaving the 3.5% pay increases for all employees not tied to a union or an elected official's wages but to reduce the wages of the elected officials and employees tied to those wages by 15% of the Compensation Board's recommendations which reduces the supervisor's wage to a 2.975% increase and other elected officials and deputies to a 2.55% increase.
Dusten Rolando presented wage comparisons for County Engineers. Supv Staudt will be visiting with Chickasaw County Supervisor, Virgil Pickar, to discuss Rolando's performance evaluations and come back with a proposed wage increase for FY10.
Dunkel/Enabnit moved to approve the Secondary Roads Union Tentative Agreement for FY10 through FY12 and authorize the chairperson to sign when the agreement is ready. Motion carried 3-0.
Rolando will be notifying property owners of hazardous situations created by the way some property owner's are plowing snow. The KISS Country Tractor Ride is scheduled for July 10-11. Rolando provided e-mail correspondence regarding a flooding situation. Rolando provided three handwritten warrants regarding the right-of-way for the 110th Street bridge. Minnowa Construction is working on the Shadow Ave bridge. The Colwell road paving project will be let in March. The 110th St bridge has a February 17 letting. The Packard Avenue project has a March letting. Rolando provided information from a NIACOG meeting regarding stimulus dollars for projects. The legislatures are expected to pass on a stimulus package on February 16 and a TIF bill on February 17. Chairman Staudt questioned the condition of the 300th St bridge east of Doughtery. Rolando said they can probably fix some of that with patching.
A motion was made by Supervisor Dunkel and seconded by Supervisor Enabnit to adjourn. Motion carried 3-0.
Gloria A. Carr Leo B Staudt, Chair
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1. Heat oven to 350 degrees F. Line a 13-by-9-by-2-inch baking pan with foil, extending foil over pan's edges. Put butter in the pan and place in oven for about 5 minutes, or until butter melts. Tilt pan to coat evenly. Sprinkle with crushed graham crackers; layer with walnuts, chocolate chips and coconut. Drizzle with sweetened condensed milk.
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Mary Katrantzou SS13Pin It
Saturday, 16 February 2013
London Fashion Week 2013
As you're probably all aware, London Fashion Week AW13/14 kicked off yesterday at Somerset House. And even though I'm not attending any shows this year as I'm off for a Valentine's weekend away (won't miss the LFW blisters, not gonna lie), I'll be keeping up to date on my travels thanks to all the tweeting fashion bloggers in London. There's plenty to look forward to this year too, and highlights will include the much talked about Tom Ford womenswear show, the new fashion debut from L'Wren Scott and the Rihanna River Island collection showcase event. I also can't wait to see images from the Mary Katrantzou show (the aztec prints were my favourite last year), JW Anderson womenswear, Burberry and Meadham Kirchhoff. What are you most looking forward to?
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loving all the prints! i must admit i always home in on makeup looks rather than clothes cos im all about the beauty xxReplyDeleteReplies
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I'm looking forward to Mary Katrantzou too. I love her prints. I am excited about Christopher Kane and Erdem as well. Erdem always has the prettiest florals. xReplyDelete
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Nicki Minaj's unique, bright wigs and weaves have come under a lot fire lately, so the multi-talented rapper took to twitter to prove to naysayers that she doesn't even need them.
She posted the above photo to show her fans what she's working with under her over-the-top hairdos, with the comment: "2 braids left."
The 'American Idol' judge also told her fans her hair is all natural, tweeting:
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When Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffitilurched out of a Hollywood basement in 2004, he was painting his face, spraying glitter, slapping his ass, singing like he had a mouth full of marshmallows, recording like he kept his microphone in a fishtank, and crackling like he found his cassette tapes in a mud puddle. Completely trounced by critics at the time, no one knew he was actually writing the secret blueprint for indie rock, circa 2010. Pink predated the whole mushy/nostalgic/dreamy/no-fi/blessed-out/washed-out chillwave aesthetic by a good five years—and had an Animal Collective co-sign to boot! He didn't exactly invent being a tape-damaged weirdo (traces of R. Stevie Moore, Gary Wilson, and Syd Barrett are alive and well), but his first album in three years is dropping into blogland like a Meat Puppets album in the middle of Nirvana season. Good for him, since he's definitely got the nostalgia thing down better than any of his children—"Round and Round" sounds like Stevie Wonder's "My Cherie Amour" run through a distortion pedal; "Can't Hear My Eyes" is pure yacht rock; and "Bright Lit Blue Skies" is some killer lite-FM trip coming via distant car radio. All of a sudden, this dude is selling out shows, and tonight is no exception.
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It has been two years since the end of the second Gemini war, and the situation in the wartorn system is further from resolution than ever before. The collection of freedom fighters named Gemini League is now reduced to a small group, with no power or influence, after losing their leaders. The Empire meanwhile, has used the re-opened Starpoint to occupy the once renegade Gemini sector - and beyond.
A multitude of Imperial warship fleets and mammoth motherships have crushed every trace of opposition. The situation was looking bleak, when they suddenly halted their armada and re-shifted their focus on fortifying Starpoint with staggering numbers. Rumours soon spread that they were afraid of something coming after them through the T-gate, from what was supposed to be the core of the Empire. What are they running from that makes even the mighty Empire tremble?
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KOOTENAI COUNTY, Idaho -- A woman is dead after a fall into an animal hole in the back-country of Kootenai County.
The Kootenai County Sheriff's Office identified the victim as Dixie A. Farman, 39, from Newman Lake.
Authorities responded around 2:00 Saturday afternoon to an extremely rural area after calls about a female yelling for help.
Responding officers were flagged down by a camper who said a female was stuck in a hole near a creek. She was between Fire Service Road 413 and Fire Service Road 3097.
Emergency crews said the woman fell into an animal hole in a marshy area. She had been walking with her children looking for frogs.
According to authorities, Farman fell forward into the hole and used her hands to catch herself. She was unable to free herself from the hole and either suffocated or drowned. Crews were called out from Kootenai County Fire and Rescue, as well as the U.S. Forest Service. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
Authorities say there are no signs of foul play. They're calling the incident a tragic accident. An autopsy has been scheduled.


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It's too early to say whether Limbaugh will suffer the fate of Glenn Beck—who was ultimately banished from Fox News Channel after advertisers dropped his show when he called the president a racist.
But if the end ever comes for Limbaugh, this is what it would look like: A small drip of defections from his more marginal markets and sponsors, followed by a dam burst when major clients and supporters decide his audience is no longer worth the headaches it produces.
Peter Barry, Pittsfield's WBEC 1420 station chief, said:
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Chris Leonard, boss of KPUA AM 670 said:
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Feel and enjoy the refreshing sea breeze, the beauty of nature and the scenic horizon only at "LT Resort". This resort started its operation last June 24, 2002. It has a swimming pool situated at the peak of the hill. The concrete tablet like staircase leads you down and as you go up circumferential road leads you to the native cottages. Surrounding the place are fruit bearing trees, calamansi plantation, various vegetables and ornamental plants located at the lower part of the hill. From its peak, you can appreciate the sceneries of Siete Pecados and the Eastern part of Iloilo and Guimaras strait. Fast craft and vessels from Bacolod to Iloilo passing this area are visibly seen about 2 kilometers.
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Valle Verde is a mountain resort with spring down the valley. It could offer a breathtaking view of Lawi Bay and its environs. Going down 311 stairs from its main pavilion is a spring pool where one could splash and frolic on its clear and clean waters. Another swimming pool is available for those who wish to go swimming on waters sourced from a natural spring. Anyone could hire a guide of the resort for mountain hiking/trekking.
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It has a swimming pool at the foot of the mountain. The concrete stairways from pool will lead you to the topmost part of the mountain where it offers the commanding view of the whole place. Its cottages are constructed at the mountainside across the pool where at the foot of the hill is another concrete stairway which will lead you to the cave on top of the hill.
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Asthma Health Center
Childhood Asthma Often Recurs as Adult
May 22, 2003 -- Many children with asthma appear to outgrow the disease by their mid- to late teens. While they may seem to be cured, a new study suggests one out of three will have a recurrence of asthma symptoms by their mid 20s.
"It is likely that during adolescence, asthma subsides to the point where airway inflammation is minimal and does not cause symptoms," lead researcher Robin Taylor, MD, of the University of Otago School of Medicine says in a news release. "Patients who have a relapse likely have had a change in environment that provokes airway inflammation to the point where asthma symptoms recur."
Some 17 million Americans have asthma -- caused by narrowing airways and airway blockage from inflammation. Allergy triggers and other environmental influences often trigger asthma attacks.
Taylor and colleagues followed more than 1,000 New Zealand children from birth to age 26. More than 170 of them had asthma during childhood -- but 40% of these were free of asthma symptoms by age 18. The findings were reported at this week's American Thoracic Society International Conference in Seattle.
However, by age 21, one in four of the symptom-free young adults reported a recurrence of their asthma, and roughly 35% had relapsed by age 26.
The young adults who had a history of allergies seemed to be the ones most likely to relapse, says Taylor. This tendency towards allergic reactions appears to make the airways in the lungs sensitive to allergy triggers in the environment.
"What we are learning is that asthma is a chronic disease, and even if a person is symptom free it does not mean that the ongoing inflammation that causes the disease isn't still happening," American Thoracic Society president Homer A. Boushey, MD, tells WebMD. "People with a history of asthma need to be aware that they are at risk for recurrence, even if they think they are cured."
Because asthma is much more common in New Zealand than the U.S., Boushey says it is possible that their rate of asthma recurrence is higher as well. But he says the relapse rate in the U.S. is probably close to that seen in the study.
The New Zealand researchers say that healthy teens with a history of asthma may need to consider their increased risk for the disease when they are choosing a career. "The risk of asthma relapse in adulthood may be of concern with regard to occupations where asthma would pose a risk, such as aviation or fire fighting," they noted.
But Boushey, who directs the Asthma Clinical Research Center at the University of California, San Francisco, says this message ignores the fact that asthma is a disease that can be well treated.
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I went and saw Thor this afternoon. I cried.
Really, more like teared up. Verklempt is perhaps nearer the mark. I teared up in Avatar too. Both are movies heavy on CG. Hero movies. Testosterone flicks. Not really tear-jerkers. And I'm a manly man. I work out. Ride motorcycles. Swagger – a little. So why am I getting all mushy in the ultimate action flick?
Let me start by making this perfectly clear, I didn't cry through either of these movies. At select points I got choked up and hoped no one was watching me. And it wasn't where everyone was getting killed off. I'm not quite that macabre. So as I sat there watching this movie based on a comic book action hero loosely derived from an ancient Norse religion, I'm asking myself, "Am I premenopausal?"
The answer is really a little simpler and I'll use Thor because I'm still all emotionally jacked. (Yes, I am a hopeless romantic.) And maybe I should warn readers, these aren't really plot spoilers because the story isn't unique at all, but… I wouldn't want to make anyone angry either.
In the movie the character Thor is a young, arrogant prince. The son of Odin. He acts rashly and causes problems. Ultimately he pushes it with dad and gets himself kicked out of Asgard, banished to Earth where he is a mere mortal. Just one of the guys. Vulnerable. Yeah, he's ripped, almost as ripped as me, but he doesn't have any of the super hero invincibility he's been used to his entire life. I won't go into any of the details but only after he learns true humility and self-sacrifice can he regain his powers. And when he does… let me reiterate, it wasn't sobbing.
So what's going on? What we have here is the story teller emotionally connecting with a member of the audience. It doesn't matter if it is glorified comic book characters, twelve-foot tall blue aliens, or an Elizabethan play, it is the emotional connection that is important. And it won't happen with all people for every story. And that's where audience comes in. Thor, even as an ordinary human with massive pecs – almost as large as mine – knew he was more. Knew there was power within him. For me, I'm a frustrated writer. I know there is more inside me than I get to show. I have to work a mundane job while my passion is writing powerful stories that connect with people and let them see the world in a different way. And this is what my stories do. There is power in that. Power in me. But right now all I can do is slave away in anonymity. When Thor regains his lost powers, my subconscious connects that to the day I achieve my dream. The emotion of the story floods over me like a wave and I connect.


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Proposed Synchrotron Projects Heads into Final Funding Review
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The University of Saskatchewan-led synchrotron project and three other proposed research projects will advance to the final stage of review in the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) funding competition.
The CFI announced Monday that its board of directors has decided to send four U of S-based projects, including the $178.2-million Canadian Light Source (CLS) synchrotron project, on to the second round of review which entails more detailed assessment.
"We're delighted that we've passed this hurdle with the CLS and we're now in the home stretch," said University of Saskatchewan president George Ivany.
"This national research facility is now a very good bet to go ahead. This is heartening news for our researchers and for those at the 17 major Canadian universities that have endorsed our proposal."
Saskatchewan Economic and Co-operative Development Minister Janice MacKinnon said, "We're pleased to see the Synchrotron moving to another stage in its approval process, and are confident in the results from this due diligence the CFI is performing.
"The Synchrotron is a major project for our research community and will create many research and construction jobs in the provincial economy. We look forward to a lot of innovative research and economic benefits from the Synchrotron, not only for Saskatchewan, but for the rest of the nation as well."
As expected, the CFI review panel wants more detail on specific aspects of the proposal. However, the questions the CFI wants answered won't be known until the CFI informs the university later this week.
The final CFI decision on the synchrotron project may not be known until March.
The proposed synchrotron, if successful in securing the final $71.3 million from the CFI, would be the biggest scientific project ever built in Canada. It could be under construction on the U of S campus as early as next April.
Of the $106.9 million that's already in place, $42.8 million is committed from public sector partners, there's an in-kind contribution of $32.6 million (the Saskatchewan Accelerator Laboratory site and beamline contributions from the University of Western Ontario), and $31.5 million is anticipated from corporations.
The CFI has also invited three other proposed U of S projects to undergo further review. These are:
- Saskatchewan Structural Sciences Center -- a centre for studying the structure of matter using state-of-the-art instruments such as X-ray equipment, microscopes and lasers.
Total cost: $7.75 million, with $3.1 million requested from the CFI and the rest to come from provincial and federal agency partners.
- Infrastructure for Applied Animal, Plant and Microbial Biotechnology -- a sixth-floor addition to the College of Agriculture building for applied biotechnology research in animal, poultry and food science. It would include a food science research and development pilot plant.
Total cost: $14.89 million, with $3.96 million requested from the CFI and the rest from industry and private donations.
- Regional Site Licenses for Full-Text and Database Research Information Services -- purchase of Western Canadian-wide licences for full-test digital scientific and technical journals.
Total cost: $11 million, with $4.4 million requested from the CFI and $6.6 million to come from all Western Canadian university libraries.
The CFI is an independent, federally funded foundation with an $800-million endowment to spend on boosting Canada's national research infrastructure. The four U of S projects are among 159 nationally that will advance for further consideration.
Dr. Dennis Skopik, director of the Saskatchewan Accelerator Laboratory, stressed the CLS is critical to Canada's ability to maintain its scientific and industrial competitiveness. Canada is the only G7 country without one. At present, Canadian academic researchers spend more than $1 million a year using foreign synchrotron facilities.
The synchrotron would produce light a million times more intense than medical X-rays by using strong magnets to accelerate elections. It's an indispensable high-tech tool for both pure and applied research by university and industry researchers.
It would be used to probe the structure of matter, develop new drugs, design new microchips for more powerful computers, manufacture tiny biomedical implants, and create new materials.
A 1996 peer review sponsored by Canada's leading scientific granting agency has urged that Canada construct a synchrotron and that the national facility should be located at the site of the accelerator laboratory on the U of S campus.
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On September 11, four news organizations filed suit in federal court challenging Pennsylvania's secrecy about the source of its lethal injection drugs as a violation of the first amendment rights of the media and the citizens of Pennsylvania. The suit was filed by the Guardian, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and the Philadelphia City Paper in advance of the execution of Hubert Michael, which had been scheduled for September 22, but has now been stayed because the state was not prepared to carry it out. Under a court order from 2012, the identity of the compounding pharmacy that provides the lethal injection drugs was kept secret. Information was released to Mr. Michael's lawyers, but not to the public or the media. "The information sought by our clients is central to the debate about capital punishment. If the drugs are not made properly, they will not work properly, and the public should be very concerned about that possibility given the gruesome executions we have heard about in other states," said Mary Catherine Roper, the lawyer who is representing the newspapers. Media organizations have also filed similar suits in Missouri and Oklahoma over execution secrecy.
In a lecture at the Widener University School of Law, Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Thomas G. Saylor criticized the poor state of death penalty representation in Pennsylvania. He offered numerous cases in which death sentences were overturned because attorneys had failed to present mitigating evidence to the jury. Quoting from a special concurrence he wrote on a capital case involving ineffective assistance of counsel, he said, "Of greatest concern, these sorts of exceptionally costly failures, particularly as manifested across the wider body of cases, diminish the State's credibility in terms of its ability to administer capital punishment and tarnish the justice system, which is an essential part of such administration." He cited a study of Philadelphia's death-penalty representation system, which found that the system for appointing lawyers was "woefully inadequate," "completely inconsistent with how competent trial lawyers work," "punish[ed] counsel for handling these cases correctly," and unacceptably "increase[d] the risk of ineffective assistance of counsel" in individual cases. Saylor said, "Every taxpayer should be seriously concerned about the systemic costs of inadequate defense for the poor. When the justice system fails to get it right the first time, we all pay, often for years, for new filings, retrials, and appeals. Poor systems of defense do not make economic sense."
The latest edition of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund's Death Row, USA shows the total death row population continuing to decline in size. The U.S. death-row population decreased from 3,108 on April 1, 2013, to 3,095 on July 1, 2013. The new total represented a 12% decrease from 10 years earlier, when the death row population was 3,517. The states with the largest death rows were California (733), Florida (412), Texas (292), Pennsylvania (197), and Alabama (197). In the past 10 years, the size of Texas's death row has shrunk 36%; Pennsylvania's death row has declined 18%; on the other hand, California's death row has increased 17% in that time. The report also contains racial breakdowns on death row. The states with the highest percentage of minorities on death row were Delaware (78%) and Texas (71%), among those states with at least 10 inmates. The total death row population was 43% white, 42% black, 13% Latino, and 2% other races.
Radley Balko, writing in the Huffington Post, has examined more closely some of the counties identified in DPIC's recent report, The 2% Death Penalty, as using the death penalty the most. Balko found that many of those high-use counties have a pattern of prosecutorial misconduct and other problems. For example, Philadelphia County has sent more inmates to death row than any other county in Pennsylvania. However, a study of criminal cases overturned in the state because of prosecutorial misconduct found over 60% of the cases came from Philadelphia. Duval County, Florida, has the largest per capita death row in the nation, but recently elected a head public defender who ran on a platform of cutting funding to public defense and billing indigent defendants who are acquitted. In the California counties of Santa Clara and Riverside, courts had to review thousands of cases due to prosecutors' failure to disclose exculpatory evidence, including fraud by a crime lab technician. In some instances, this misconduct hid the actual innocence of the defendant, such as that of Ray Krone in Maricopa County, Arizona, who was sentenced to death after prosecutors withheld crucial evidence.
A federal judge in Pennsylvania overturned the conviction of a death row inmate, stating he was "sentenced to die for a crime in all probability he did not commit." U.S. District Court Judge Anita Brody found errors in all facets of the case, noting that "Improper police work characterized nearly the entirety of the investigation." She described the prosecution as "a grave miscarriage of justice," and criticized the defense for failing to adequately investigate the evidence. The presentation of evidence in the penalty phase of the trial took only about 3 hours. The defendant, James Dennis, has been on death row for over 20 years, having been convicted of the 1991 murder of a high school student. No forensic evidence linked him to the crime, police ignored other leads, and prosecutors failed to hand over evidence to the defense. Evidence corroborating Dennis's alibi - that he was riding a bus far from the crime scene at the time of the murder - was lost by the prosecution. In 2011, the governor signed his death warrant, but the execution was stayed.
A recent article in The Atlantic by Marc Bookman (pictured) shows how threats of the death penalty can contribute to false confessions. The piece recounts a Pennsylvania murder case in which two defendants, Russell Weinberger and Felix Rodriguez, admitted to a murder they did not commit, leading to their imprisonment for over 21 years. Rodriguez described his interrogation: "First they showed me pictures of the dead guy. I started to cry. I said I didn't do that. That's when they slapped me on the back of my head, said 'They gonna put you in the electric chair.' So I signed the statement. I knew it might be bad, but I didn't know what to do. I'd never been in real trouble before. I signed the statement 'cause they said I could go home." Weinberger, who was intellectually disabled with an IQ between 60 and 65, at first denied involvement in the murder, but later submitted a confession after Rodriquez implicated him in the crime. Weinberger was offered a lesser sentence if he agreed to testify against Rodriguez. Twenty years later in March 2001, a prison inmate named Anthony Sylvanus (represented by Mr. Bookman) admitted to committing 5 similar murders, including the one Weinberger and Rodriguez had confessed to. Sylvanus revealed facts that only the true perpetrator was likely to know. Rodriguez and Weinberger were eventually allowed to plead nolo contendere and were released from prison after serving 21 years.
The theory of the death penalty is that prosecutors select offenders who have committed aggravated murder and obtain death sentences for the most heinous offenders through a scrupulous trial with full due process. The reality in Pennsylvania is radically different. Hundreds of inmates have been sentenced to death, but of the cases that have completed the appeals process, 100% have been overturned, mostly because of errors in the conviction or sentencing stages. (Three inmates were executed, but they waived their appeals; the rest of those sentenced to death remain on death row, continuing their appeals.) Moreover, when these cases are submitted for re-trial, presumably with the errors corrected, almost all (95%) receive a sentence less than death (and some are freed completely). These statistics, collected by Robert Dunham, Adjunct Professor at Villanova Law School, reveal a capital-case selection process that is seriously flawed and a trial process that is rampant with error. From a cost perspective, this is extremely wasteful: every death sentence is a result of an expensive trial and appeal; nevertheless, almost all of these cases ultimately result in a life sentence after even more proceedings. Eleven percent (11%) of the cases requiring a re-sentencing were resolved as less than first-degree murder.
UPDATE: Execution stayed by federal court on Nov. 8 to allow time for appeal. Pennsylvania is planning to use drugs in an upcoming execution that are not regulated by the federal Food and Drug Administration but rather are made to order by a compounding pharmacy. A compounding pharmacy has been implicated in the deadly meningitis outbreak in the U.S. caused by contaminated drugs. In Missouri, the Pharmacy Board tested claimed drug dosages from compounding pharmacies from 2006 to 2009 and found that the pharmacies failed 1 out 5 times, with dosages ranging from zero to many times of what was prescribed. Compounding pharmacies in Texas failed to deliver drugs of the proper dosage in one-third of tests done there. This is crucial because an improper dosage could subject the inmate to excruciating pain. The state fought hard to keep the source of its drugs out of court, snubbing two federal court orders to divulge the information, finally complying at the last minute after the threat of sanctions. A federal class action suit has been filed challenging Pennsylvania's execution protocol. The suit could affect the execution of Hubert Michael, Jr., scheduled for November 8.
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- 2/3 cup butter or margarine
- 2 cups quick-cooking oats, uncooked
- 3/4 cup firmly packed dark brown sugar
- 1/2 cup finely chopped dry-roasted peanuts
- 1 large egg, lightly beaten
- 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup chunky peanut butter
- 3 cups vanilla ice cream, softened
- 1 cup coarsely chopped dry-roasted peanuts
- Melt butter in a Dutch oven over medium heat. Remove from heat, and stir in oats and next 7 ingredients.
- Drop oat mixture by tablespoonfuls 3 inches apart onto a parchment paper-lined baking sheet. Spread each dollop of cookie batter to form a 3-inch circle.
- Bake at 350° for 9 to 11 minutes or until edges are golden. Remove from pan, and cool completely on a wire rack.
- Swirl peanut butter into softened ice cream. Freeze 30 minutes. Scoop ice cream evenly on flat sides of half of cookies; top with remaining cookies, flat sides down. Roll sides of sandwiches in coarsely chopped peanuts. Place in plastic or wax paper sandwich bags, and freeze at least 1 hour.
- Note: Do not substitute a greased baking sheet for parchment paper. Cookies will slide and tear.
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