Had enough of this type of negotiation yet?

Another indication of disarray are efforts to add more bells and whistles to the proposal. This looks like part of a desperate effort to get to some kind of a deal rather than part of a coherent negotiating strategy.

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So I am reading this and the following strikes me:

1. A governing body, NBA commissioner, heck, even a parent, reserves the right to enforce punishment in a way that keeps in mind the greater good. If your kid lies to you about what he/she is doing with the door closed in their bedroom and you find out that they are teaching themselves French, but are too embarrassed to admit to it, I think that deserves different treatment than the kid sneaking off to do drugs. To some degree, being a parent, political leader, etc. means making these value judgments. In the ideology of Greenwald, such real world distinctions do not exist.  It's not at all reflective of the day to day world or even the odd world that and administration official would inhabit.

2. But aside from the point in #1, the fact that Greenwald doesn't seem to acknowledge the idea that #1 could be an issue is the bigger problem.  It is an ideology based on rigid application of idealism that works perfectly fine as a commenter or critic of actions but is completely unworkable as a real world concept.  OF COURSE the president of the united states makes value judgments on who or what to prosecute. If we prosecuted every possible perjurer, for example, most of the people who testify at a trial would be in trouble.

it is wonderful reading the spectacularly idiotic reviews of Sucker Punch. on rotten tomatoes it is at 23% with reviewers and 77% with audiences.

I cant wait to see this movie.  even more so now that the petty hysterical "critics" have had their say.  no doubt much of the pettiness is because Snyder did not screen the movie for them.

Mike Huckabee tops a large list of potential GOP presidential candidates in current support for the party's 2012 nomination, with 19% of Republicans saying they are most likely to back him. This gives Huckabee a slight edge over Mitt Romney (15%). Sarah Palin is now at 12% after receiving 16% support in three prior Gallup polls. Newt Gingrich is the only other potential candidate who registers double-digit support. Sixteen percent of Republicans currently have no preference.

Donald Trump has been thinking a lot about birth certificates lately. Indeed, he has made questions about Barack Obama's birth certificate a pivotal part of his bid for the Republican presidential nomination.
"There's a very clear niche in the Republican primary," said longtime political consultant Roger Stone. "It's a brilliant base-building move. There's a very active, fervent subset of voters interested in this."
Republican pollster John McLaughlin agrees that Trump's remarks may be part of a larger, and potentially effective, campaign strategy. "Just like Obama won the nomination as the most anti-Bush candidate, the Republican nomination is going to be won by the most anti-Obama candidate,"

ISLAMABAD - After a prolonged lull, the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has launched a series of covert operations in the rugged Hindu Kush mountains of Pakistan and Afghanistan following strong tip-offs that al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has been criss-crossing the area in the past few weeks for high-profile meetings in militant redoubts.

We don't recall any of the commandments saying "thou shall eat chocolate cake," but an unusual new study has found that people who regularly attend religious activities are 50 percent more likely to battle obesity by middle age.

The study tracked nearly 2,500 men and women over 18 years. They filtered for age, race, sex, education, income and baseline body mass index. The last one's important, because it shows that the religious were getting fatter, not that fat people were getting religious.