Well, they did it folks. The Senate passed the bill I posted about yesterday.
The Senate gave its final approval yesterday for President Bush’s proposal for interrogating and prosecuting the terror suspects held at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, sending the legislation to the White House for Mr. Bush’s signature.
Source: Washington Times
Ever since updating my wordpress to version 2.0.4 from 2.0, my main Widgets plugin won’t work. Actually, that’s a lie, it works until I want to manage/edit the widgets.
And my theme won’t let me access the theme options. Both, even after complete reinstalls of the plugins/files.
It’s really quite frusterating. Anyone else on the [...]
Guess what! You know that detainee bill I last posted about? Get a load of what Yale Law professor Bruce Ackerman had to say in his essay, published in the Los Angeles Times:
Buried in the complex Senate compromise on detainee treatment is a real shocker, reaching far beyond the legal struggles about foreign terrorist [...]
Paul Rieckhoff is the Executive Director for IAVA and in yesterday’s New York Times, Paul Rieckhoff called on the Senators to stand their ground and reject a compromise with the Bush Admininistration about new legislation that would allow the United States to reinterpret the standards of detainee treatment under the Geneva Conventions.
Here’s an excerpt:
My soldiers [...]
Today around 5 or 6pm I’ll be taking off with my neighbor and some friends on a camping trip for the weekend. Guys only. No wives, girlfriends or kids. There will, however, be a lot of cheap Budweiser-esque beer on hand. Combine that with grown boys acting imature with matches and stuff, and it should [...]
by Mike Shropshire
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