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Unrelated story, but pass this around: Ashcroft blocked the FBI from acessing a database of gun purchases in order to protect the "second ammendment rights" of suspected terrorists. I kid you not. The FBI had a list of 1200 suspected terrorists, and Ashcroft denied them the right to check how many of them bought guns because he thought they had a "right to privacy".

"The legal debate over how gun records are used became particularly contentious months after the Sept. 11 attacks, when it was disclosed that the Justice Department and John Ashcroft, then the attorney general, had blocked the F.B.I. from using the gun-buying records to match against some 1,200 suspects who were detained as part of the Sept. 11 investigation. Mr. Ashcroft maintained that using the records in a criminal investigation would violate the federal law that created the system for instant background gun checks, but Justice Department lawyers who reviewed the issue said they saw no such prohibition."

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/08/national/08terror.html

OK, how about the we create First Church Of Jesus, Blogger?

David : Standards for personal and political opinions, as a membership qualification for SFWA, or for a Nebula jury, are a bad thing.

I figure it's a fair standard to not let someone on a jury if you know (for a reasonably certain value of "know") they're going to be voting based on gender rather than merit. How is that a bad thing?

What's so wrong with saying there should be standards? You can even say that Day falls inside of the acceptable range of tolerance, but denying that there should be any standards at all is a bit confusing. I haven't seen anyone put that forth, but I have seen people, PNH included, dance around the suggestion that standards are a bad thing.

does it matter what his politics or personal opinions are, particularly in relation to being a Nebula jury

Depends, how do we know his mysogyny didn't tip the scales one way or the other? Sure the jury made a reasonable selection, but can we be sure he didn't vote against someone because they were a woman, liberal, a feminist, or Jewish?

Sheesh, what an ass. Is it too late to revoke his nomination?

A Storm Of Swords by George R.R. Martin. Also, some old Planescape books by the folks who used to be TSR.

A lot of the people who I spend time with are GLBT. If you need to ask why we're so angry at anyone who chose to vote for Bush, you're welcome to my explanation.

Seriously. If you're curious, I've got a nice essay I'm working on. Y'all can have a crack at the first draft. Any takers?

Andy B

So far all I know is that you're friends with them. What proof do I have you're not still treating them like second class citizens?

Andy B:Perhaps you're only intolerant of *conservative* religiosity.

I can't speak for TNH and PNH, but...

Being queer, it's sort of hard for me not to be intolerant of a movement that's responsible for trying to make me a criminal. Individual evangelicals who don't treat me like a second class citizen will be greeted with tolerance. Just as soon as I find some.

I have no idea what set him off.

You're both smart, articulate movers and shakers in fandom. You criticize the modern conservative movement. It could only be worse if you were gay men.

Clear them from the pond so that the rest of us can sit down and listen to each other.

Can't you just feel the evangelical love and peace vibes? I mean, how can you not be civil with someone like that?

I've got no beef with those who voted Nader, even in the most contested districts of Florida.

What I do get insulted and annoyed by are the GP and Naderite nitwits who tell me there's no differnce between Bush and Kerry.

Who are these morons? Have too many anti-globalzation rave drugs fried thier brains? Legal abortion on one side, the stated intent to make it illegal on the other. Worst ecological policy imaginable on one side, at least some semblance of on the other. And so on.

No difference? More like they're too stupid to see what a huge differnce it is. Or worse, they're trying to get us to think there's none for their own political power.

Y'all can get back to me when the Green Pasrt has a platform that dosen't involving insulting my inteligence by saying Bush and Kerry are no different. Until then, you get treated like the self absorbed egotistical poseurs you are.

Anyone have an opinion on the Washington Post?

Yet another "They get paid for this shit?" moment.

Before making any judgements on the highschool censorship issue, check what the Volokh Conspiracy has to say about it

Something about that story smelled wrong the first time I read about it.

Y'all wanna stay in the Union? Hell, you can keep it. I'm all for CA busting out of the union. Except for Orange County. You can keep Orange County.

Bush senior, as Director of the CIA from 1976-1977 (Am I the only one who remembers that?) was involved in the counterinsugency and anti communist movements all over the world, from Angola to Central America.

In my darker thoughts, I imagine Bush Jr. trying to live up to the memories he's got of his father, who was in charge of all of those nightmares, and then bungling the job.

the thought of untrained/civilian trained interrogators left me gob-smacked

Untrained is absurd, but the CIA is classed as civilian.

I find myself wondering what would happen if a Vingean singularity ended up being an inteligent spam creation device.

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