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See my previous post. There is no oversight whatsoever. Wheras there was a military answerable to a president sworn in to protect the consitution there is now a president tearing up the constitution and ordering killings of people he doesn't even know the name of.

I think Obama does just fine wieldiong his power. He gets exactly what he wants most of the time, which is to satisfy his corporate sponsors. My criticism of Obama is that on Liberal issues he starts from a right wing position and moves further to the right during negotiation. There ae many examples. He took a public option off the table before starting negotiations on healthcare for example. He has stated he will cut social security and medicare, raising the age of qualification, before the debate has even started. He didn't want to close Gitmo, just move it. As i said, that article is very kind to him. It is not "naive" to say that killing children (it is fact that Obama has targeted specifically an American child accused of no crime) is wrong. It's not "grown up" to embrace such murder as good policy that will win elections and forgive it as such. There are (were) systems and checks in the US that keep military activity within international law. If the military go too far at any point it is in the power of the president as commander and chief to discipline those responsible, to replace them. Extrajudicial assassination is against international law but Obama has not only immunized the previous war criminals that held office in the US from prosecution, nor just embraced it for his military and for himself, the worst damage is that he has empowered all future presidents with impunity when they use it, even on US citizens. It's not even as if Obama's oversight does a thing to ensure less drones (there's been an exponential growth) or more accuracy, his only order to reduce civilian casualties was a semantic one to expand the definition of a "militant" to include any male old enough to take up arms. Which is something that could have been concocted at the ministry of truth.

Shopping and hotels according to CT. It's all manbags and bags for life these days though innit.

I like how they carry plastic bags wherever they go.

Don't think it's too bad. Sat with the in-laws and watched the first two episodes last night. laughs from all corners of the room. I proper guffawed when he said to the waitress "Howay then, do the specials" and she started up Ghost Town. ...and when the gran went for a shit and said she was off to free the slaves. It was all very broad like. More My Family than The Royle family. Annoying everyone is a thick fucker apart from the lad that hates home and his southern bint. I reckon it could be a grower.

Grim reading this team news like... Shola's flown to and from Miami, trained and played in the space of 5 days so he's going to be more lethargic than ever. I hope Pardew takes the opportunity to hoy Ben Arfa behind Ba, but I fear it will be... Krul Simpson S. Taylor Williamson Santon Ben Arfa Tiote Anita Obertan Ba Shola Bench:- Ferguson Marveaux Tavernier. Sa.Ameobi, Abeid Amalfitano Bigirimana

One of the lads brings one to every derby. He loves it when a plan comes together.

I think Sean Locke gets on a lot of peoples tits. I think he's funny as fuck though and loved 15 storeys.

Outlaw cash transfers altogether. Give every team 100 player points at the start of a season and they can use them to barter. The money saved could reduce ticket prices by 90%.

Apparently these sorts of things are so alien in Japanese culture the coppers had no clue about linking the crimes at all. Says something about east versus west.

Have I suggested Obama was omnipotent? I apologise if I have, but I don't recall doing so. On drone strikes he does insist on personally holding the position of judge and jury (not executioner) though. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/29/world/obamas-leadership-in-war-on-al-qaeda.html?pagewanted=all That report is kind to Obama. It suggests the families are collateral damage when a terror suspect is being taken out. We now know that the truth is Obama orders separate strikes, weeks later, to take out the children (suspected of no wrongdoing) of earlier victims.

Did you not hear what I said CT? Knock it on the head daft lad.

Chez wishes he knew how to quit me tbh.

Hows that again? The Obama role in drone strikes has been very clearly laid out.

I considered the Wolfy angle on it, that it's been a tightly choreographed manoeuvre to shift some commanders who were getting on Obama's tits, but I'm more inclined to believe it's the surveillance state spiralled out of the control of those in power, hopefully such that they might introduce some barriers on it in future.

Full of empathy for the middle class white folk shagging, drinking and smoking their days away. Fuck the worthless black folk let down by a wholly corrupt society.

We all on here, posting on the internet, have access I mean....and haven't bothered our arses.

By random, I meant she wasn't under any suspicion, and nothing in the emails contained anything to worry the FBI. There was no indication in those original mails of any wrongdoing that required federal investigations, certainly not related to Patreus or to Allen...or to any military offiocial..... http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/11/12/exclusive-paula-broadwell-s-emails-revealed.html But they still went on to pull thousands of pages of communications and pore over every word of them? Clearly exposes the lie that these new measures are only being used against "terror suspects".

Pine Barrens must be the best single episode of TV there's been. "Guy was an interior decorator."

It comes at it from the view of Kenny O'Donnell and his family. He was an advisor to Kennedy. http://www.dvd.co.uk/buy/catbed888414/thirteen-days-13-days.htm

Reminds me I had a mini rant on here about the one I saw http://www.toontastic.net/board/topic/374-film-you-most-recently-watched/page__st__9360#entry768176 The graphics on the trailer for this one look shite. When she jumps and catches that cat! It looks worse than young Obi Wan riding the back of a plattypotomous on that Star Wars film 15 years ago.

Thirteen Days is an all time great and under appreciated film. Get it watched CT.

No-one that had their emails investigated works for the FBI Neither did anyone in the military. It was a party organiser and a journo.

Standard.