Balta1701

QUOTE (Tex @ Oct 2, 2011 -> 06:21 PM) You keep looking for a perfect law in an imperfect word. And writing it too. Remarkable.

QUOTE (Tex @ Oct 2, 2011 -> 06:18 PM) Because the situation defies easy definitions which are requirements before writing the law. Bullplop. Complete and utter bullplop. Hell, go back a page and I can find the section of the law that you'd have to edit. Here's how you edit it. "In the event that a citizen foreswears his citizenship and pledges loyalty to a non-State organization hostile to the United States while residing outside of the U.S. borders, the executive branch can remove that citizenship, subject to review by court xxx upon challenge by the citizen." Done. President is explicitly given the right, by Congress, to strip citizenship in the event that a person does exactly this. Court review is possible so that the Exec can't do so indiscriminantly. Of course, edits to the law = wins for the President. So that can't happen.

Here's a different writer's version. Yeah it's a blog.

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And can someone please tell me why having Congress actually deal with this issue over the last year when it was clear this person would be a target is a bad thing? The real answer of course is that Congress can't do anything that would give Obama anything approaching a win, and small edits to make fighting this campaign more effective or legal are therefore impossible.

QUOTE (Tex @ Oct 2, 2011 -> 06:00 PM) Because this isn't the first, nor will it be the last time, we have dealt with this kind of situation and used deadly force. Let me phrase it this way, during a war is it not appropriate to kill the enemy using drones, bombs, and assorted other weapons? The only difference I see is the enemy has no one national affiliation, there are no clear battle lines. You law does not apply. Again, you're simply ignoring every single real issue here. What legal basis has determined that this American Citizen is no longer a citizen and is now an enemy in the wartime sense?

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QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Oct 2, 2011 -> 05:43 PM) Either way, you definitely do not go out with another girl while dating her. You probably shouldn't even ask the other girl out first, as that's pretty s***ty. Imagine yourself in that position. You find out your girlfriend asked another guy out, he said no, so she kept dating you. Or you find out that your girlfriend went out on a date with another guy while still dating you. I'd be pretty angry and I think you would be, too. The dirty hippy liberal agrees with this statement.

Roethlisberger boarded the team plane with a boot on his foot.

Just try a piece of that tasty chicken.

Greinke being pounded.

NYTImes arts guy:

This ought to produce some excitement here.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 2, 2011 -> 05:16 PM) Not really true thought. The government has always picked and choosed when it came to which laws it obeyed. And how many good things have come from that?

That ball went a long way.

Yankees hitless through 5.

Help think of some?

Lotta big comeback wins/collapses today. Bills/Bengals, Iggles/49ers, Cowboys/Lions.

49ers dropped the Iggles to 1-3.

Did anything happen to Tillman at the end of this game? The Gamecast said he went down with an injury around the 2 minute warning.

QUOTE (Tex @ Oct 2, 2011 -> 04:45 PM) But Ozzie is a job creator, we tax him and he will not be hiring more employees! Joe Cowley can find a job elsewhere.

QUOTE (Tex @ Oct 2, 2011 -> 04:42 PM) You are talking about laws, our enemies, including the people targeted, are committing acts of war. There is breaking the law, and there is flying jets into buildings. It would be nice if we could arrest them, but that's not how wars are fought. Again, you're 100% ignoring the point. Repeating the ways that the bad guys are bad does not change the fact that what happened in this case is not permitted by the law. If the bad guys are as bad as you say they are, and its been known for months, years now that this particular person was a target, then why has Congress not adjusted the law to deal with this scenario? Your argument that these guys are so bad because they don't follow the law is a great reason for Congress to act and fix the law. It is not an argument for why the law should be ignored. There is absolutely nothing stopping Congress from acting if you're right. The only logical conclusion that one can draw from Congress not acting is that Congress has higher priorities than dealing with people willing to commit acts of war against the U.S. Therefore, I must judge that Congress believes your points about how bad these guys are must be incorrect, because otherwise Congress would have acted.

I don't know what kind of present the Lions should send the Cowboys as a thank you for that game, but it's nicer than anything I've ever gotten.

Troy Aikman just told me how you can't double-team Calvin Johnson when the ball is near the goal line after he caught his 2nd TD on the day. First of all, I don't know why that's right anyway. Secondly...The Cowboys had 12 men on the field on the play.

Bills pull off the disappointing loss.