In Defense of Dr Tiller: How do you define Murder?

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Saturday June 06, 2009 · 1:12 PM PDT

2009/06/06 · 13:12

I've seen a lot on right wing blogs this past week of derivatives of the Bill O'Reilly rant that Dr Tiller murdered close to 60,000 people before he was assassinated by a gunman at his church.

Having researched the whole matter, I present my findings: Dr Tiller did not murder anyone - because the legal definition of murder involves a person who has been born and therefore if you haven't got a birth certificate, and thus become a citizen (or person) - you aren't alive yet, and thus, can't be murdered.

More in depth discussion below the fold.

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Wednesday May 06, 2009 · 1:18 AM PDT

2009/05/06 · 01:18

The BBC is reporting that Right Wing Conservative radio host Michael Savage is planning to sue the British Government after being placed on a banned list for entering the country.

A US radio talk show host says he will sue the British government for defamation after being placed on a list of people banned from entering the UK.

Conservative political commentator Michael Savage, real name Michael Alan Weiner, is one of 22 people barred for fostering extremism or hate.

He has described the Islamic holy book the Koran as "a book of hate" and questioned cases of autism.

Does he really expect to win? Apparently so. Details below the fold.

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Wednesday April 01, 2009 · 10:19 AM PDT

2009/04/01 · 10:19

At first I thought it was an April Fools joke, but no, it's on the Department of Justice website:

"In connection with the post-trial litigation in United States v. Theodore F. Stevens, the Department of Justice has conducted a review of the case, including an examination of the extent of the disclosures provided to the defendant. After careful review, I have concluded that certain information should have been provided to the defense for use at trial. In light of this conclusion, and in consideration of the totality of the circumstances of this particular case, I have determined that it is in the interest of justice to dismiss the indictment and not proceed with a new trial."

But just how relevant were the recent complaints about prosecutional irregularities to the actual accusations? Let's take a look.

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Thursday March 12, 2009 · 2:22 PM PDT

2009/03/12 · 14:22

The BBC are reporting that Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston have decided to split up. Given Ann Coulter's hatred of single mothers, will this now put Bristol on her hit list, or will Ann give her a free pass because she's the daughter of a Republican?

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Tuesday March 03, 2009 · 10:20 AM PST

2009/03/03 · 10:20

Having read the released Yoo memorandums that tried to expand Bush's power exponentially, and then read some diaries that reference conservative blogs all but calling for armed uprisings, I have to ask - could some of these people be jailed as "Unlawful Combatants"?

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Saturday February 21, 2009 · 12:46 AM PST

2009/02/21 · 00:46

I've read quite a few diaries today about how if you don't support a tax on mileage, you're somehow not environmentally friendly, not green, not doing your bit.

I beg to differ.

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Monday November 10, 2008 · 4:10 PM PST

2008/11/10 · 16:10

The BBC on a recent NYT article:

The US has carried out nearly a dozen anti-terror attacks in Pakistan, Syria and elsewhere in the past four years, the New York Times has reported.

The previously unreported attacks were authorised in 2004 by Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, the Times quoted senior officials as saying.

I have a question for you. Let's take Iran as an example, since they are the most likely country to have a negative reaction among Americans.

If you were sitting down to eat an evening meal, and an airstrike took out the building next to you, but one or more of your family members was also killed by the force of the blast, and it later transpired that Iranian special forces attacked the house next to you because they suspected someone they defined as a terrorist was there - would you or would you not call that an act of terrorism?

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Friday September 05, 2008 · 9:15 AM PDT

2008/09/05 · 09:15

I was talking with someone a few days ago who raised a very interesting point about anti-abortionists. The fondness they have of referring to themselves as "pro-choice" promotes the concept that they want to let the fetus have a 'vote' in its termination.

Well, guess what: it's totally irrelevant.

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Saturday August 30, 2008 · 1:02 PM PDT

2008/08/30 · 13:02

Cruising around Wingnuttery in cyberspace, I came across this article that is entitled "Desperation from Democrats" and says, among other things, that Kossacks are saying absolutely SCANDALOUS things about Govenor Palin.

Then in the comments, I saw someone attempting to be a cybersleuth and drawing some pretty wide conclusions. So, for the benefit of Wingnuts - here's how to use "teh interwebs".

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Saturday August 02, 2008 · 11:40 AM PDT

2008/08/02 · 11:40

On Thursday of this week, in a largely unreported and unnoticed story, governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger signed an executive order eliminating 22,000 jobs and reducing the wages of a further 200,000 to the statutory minimum wage.

Despite the terrible effect this will have on those thousands of families, with gas prices and house foreclosures at record levels, very few people noticed.

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Wednesday July 30, 2008 · 11:09 AM PDT

2008/07/30 · 11:09

Years and thousands of lives after invasion, the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction has just released a new message to the people of Iraq:

Rebuild your OWN damn country.

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Tuesday July 08, 2008 · 7:51 AM PDT

2008/07/08 · 07:51

On Monday the Washington Times carried an article about an exchange of letters between the Department of Homeland Security and a company called Lamperd Less Lethal. The purpose was to investigate the viability of disposing of airport check in passes in favour of something entirely more sinister. RFID chipped bracelets for all passengers. While that in itself is worrying, the bracelets have a capability that is downright scary: On command they can administer a taser shock of up to 200,000 volts.

So is the DHS interested in making every man, woman and child wear their own shock collar just in case they are a terrorist?

Apparently the answer is yes.

Poll

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Would you allow your children to be tagged by one of these bracelets?

108 votes Vote Now!

Would you allow your children to be tagged by one of these bracelets?

Yes, I don't have a problem with it

0 votes

Maybe but I want a lot more reassurance before I consider it

0 votes

Absolutely no way I'd consider it

22 votes

I would be prepared NOT to travel by air at all if this was a requirement

86 votes

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Why not supporting the mileage tax idea can be environmentally friendly

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The Age of Majority

Lesson for Wingnuts: How to use "teh interwebs"

Governator terminates 22,000 jobs almost unnoticed

Note to Iraq: Rebuild your OWN damn country!

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