plug drugs war

[maks]

Thank you for contacting me regarding my filibuster of John Brennan's nomination to be Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). I appreciate hearing your thoughts on this issue.

My filibuster was the culmination of several months of bipartisan efforts to demand accountability and transparency from the Obama Administration regarding its use of drone strikes. Since taking office, President Obama has greatly expanded the use of unmanned drones to kill suspected terrorists abroad, even going so far as to maintain a "kill list" of suspected terrorists-including some American citizens. This issue first gained prominence in September 2011, when Anwar al-Awlaki, an American citizen by birth, was killed in Yemen by a missile strike from an American drone. He had been targeted for months--long enough and publicly enough that his father actually protested in court but was not heard.

I have no sympathy for Americans who denounce their citizenship to fight against the United States, as al-Awlaki allegedly did. According to the evidence revealed to the press, al-Awlaki was by all accounts a traitor. However, he should have been tried as a traitor first.

The issue of the constitutionality of drone strikes was raised again in January 2013, when President Obama nominated Mr. Brennan to be Director of the CIA. Mr. Brennan has served as President Obama's Deputy National Security Advisor since 2009, during which time he was one of the chief architects of the Administration's kill list and policy on drone strikes.

Following Mr. Brennan's nomination, a leaked 16-page Department of Justice paper shed some additional light on the Administration's use of targeted drone strikes. The memo claimed that it is legal for the government to kill U.S. citizens abroad under three conditions: that a "high-level official" of the U.S. government determines that the individual poses an imminent threat of violent attack against the United States; that capture is not "feasible"; and that the operation would be conducted in a manner consistent with applicable law of war principles. However, the memo raised more questions than it answers, including the Administration's claim that a threat can be considered "imminent" even without evidence that it may take place "in the immediate future."

A number of my Senate colleagues and I continued to press for answers, but the Administration repeatedly refused to release details about the frequency of drone strikes and the policies that govern their use. On Jan. 25, 2013, I sent a letter to Mr. Brennan, asking detailed questions about the Administration's views on the use of lethal force against U.S. citizens, especially on American soil. In a February Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on his nomination, Mr. Brennan sidestepped many of these important questions, instead emphasizing that the Administration "has not carried out" drone strikes on U.S. citizens on American soil and "has no intention of doing so."

I was not satisfied with this response. The question that I and many others were asking was not whether the Administration had or intended to carry out drone strikes inside the United States, but whether it believed it had the authority to do so. This remains an important distinction that should not be ignored. On Feb. 20, I sent a follow-up letter to Mr. Brennan raising this very question.

On March 4, Mr. Brennan responded to my letter, stating that the CIA does not conduct lethal operations within the United States, and therefore would not have the authority to conduct drone strikes on American soil. However, a separate letter from Attorney General Eric Holder reiterated that, while the U.S. government has no intention of carrying out drone strikes on U.S. soil, that it is possible "to imagine an extraordinary circumstance in which it would be necessary and appropriate...for the President to authorize the military to use lethal force within the territory of the United States."

I was dismayed to read the Attorney General's response. His refusal to rule out the possibility of drone strikes on American citizens on American soil was frightening, and an affront to the Constitutional due process rights of all Americans. Subsequently, I took to the Senate floor to filibuster Mr. Brennan's nomination in order to sound the alarm and pressure the Administration to clarify its position and take a definitive stance on the issue.

My decision to filibuster Mr. Brennan's nomination was not about partisanship. I believe the President has discretion in whom he appoints to serve in his cabinet, and have voted in favor of several of his nominees with whom I have had serious policy disagreements. The issue at hand was much broader. There can be no ambiguity surrounding Americans' due process rights under the Constitution. If the President finds it necessary to kill people in the United States, we need rules to govern the process, and we need to know what the rules are. Anything less is a blurring of the constitutional separation of powers and an abdication of Congressional authority. There can be no liberty when we combine the legislative, executive, and judicial branches. We cannot allow the President to set the rules, and then become both judge and jury in authorizing the killing of American citizens without due process.

I was humbled and honored that such a large number of my colleagues-on both sides of the aisle-came to the Senate floor to support my efforts and join the fight to demand answers from the Administration. On March 7, the morning after my 13-hour filibuster, Attorney General Holder sent a new letter clarifying the Administration's position on the use of drones on American citizens. His letter stated that with respect to the question "'Does the President have the authority to use a weaponized drone to kill an American not engaged in combat on American soil?' The answer to that question is no."

Although long overdue, the Administration's response represents a step toward victory for due process. My filibuster led the Administration to finally go on the record and unequivocally state that it does not have the authority to kill noncombatant American citizens on American soil. While it is disconcerting that there was any ambiguity about this issue in the first place, the statement is an important affirmation of the Administration's views on our constitutional rights.

The Senate proceeded to confirm Mr. Brennan on March 7, by a vote of 63-34. However, the debate over our civil liberties and constitutional rights is far from over. The Administration needs to definitively state that it will not kill American noncombatants, regardless of geographic location. The Fifth Amendment applies to all Americans--at home and abroad--without exception. I hope my efforts continue to spur dialogue about the limits and scope of executive power and the defense of our essential liberties.

Please be assured that as I serve the Commonwealth of Kentucky in the U.S. Senate, I will continue to defend the Constitutional rights of all Americans. Thank you again for again for your message and please feel free to contact me again regarding any other federal issue.

[juji]

fuck this

[maks]

that letter from rand paul really came from my email, I emailed him a few weeks ago to thank him for the filibuster

elzs brain is hurting

i bet he typed the entire thing up right then and there just to reply to you

[maks]

i bet he typed the entire thing up right then and there just to reply to you

it did not take weeks for me to get automatically subscribed to his newsletter. I started getting his newsletter that very afternoon.

it did not take weeks for me to get automatically subscribed to his newsletter. I started getting his newsletter that very afternoon.

how convenient

give plug drugs something to read when he gets back from the crapper

By combining adjunctions and certain deformations, a case of semigrammaticalness of a different sort is not to be considered in determining problems of phonemic and morphological analysis. Analogously, a subset of English sentences interesting on quite independent grounds does not readily tolerate a stipulation to place the constructions into these various categories. Note that the natural general principle that will subsume this case is unspecified with respect to the requirement that branching is not tolerated within the dominance scope of a complex symbol. This suggests that the theory of syntactic features developed earlier is, apparently, determined by a descriptive fact. Furthermore, most of the methodological work in modern linguistics appears to correlate rather closely with irrelevant intervening contexts in selectional rules.

[the president of sex]

The team led by University of Illinois at Chicago researcher David Featherstone has discovered that sexual orientation in fruit flies is controlled by a previously unknown regulator of synapse strength. Armed with this knowledge, the researchers found they were able to use either genetic manipulation or drugs to turn the flies' homosexual behavior on and off within hours.
Featherstone, associate professor of biological sciences at UIC, and his coworkers discovered a gene in fruit flies they called "genderblind," or GB. A mutation in GB turns flies bisexual.
Featherstone found the gene interesting initially because it has the unusual ability to transport the neurotransmitter glutamate out of glial cells -- cells that support and nourish nerve cells but do not fire like neurons do. Previous work from his laboratory showed that changing the amount of glutamate outside cells can change the strength of nerve cell junctions, or synapses, which play a key role in human and animal behavior.
But the GB gene became even more interesting when post-doctoral researcher Yael Grosjean noticed that all the GB mutant male flies were courting other males.
"It was very dramatic," said Featherstone. "The GB mutant males treated other males exactly the same way normal male flies would treat a female. They even attempted copulation."
Other genes that alter sexual orientation have been described, but most just control whether the brain develops as genetically male or female. It's still unknown why a male brain chooses to do male things and a female brain does female things. The discovery of GB provided an opportunity to understand why males choose to mate with females.
"Based on our previous work, we reasoned that GB mutants might show homosexual behavior because their glutamatergic synapses were altered in some way," said Featherstone. Specifically, the GB mutant synapses might be stronger.
"Homosexual courtship might be sort of an 'overreaction' to sexual stimuli," he explained.
To test this, he and his colleagues genetically altered synapse strength independent of GB, and also fed the flies drugs that can alter synapse strength. As predicted, they were able to turn fly homosexuality on and off -- and within hours.
"It was amazing. I never thought we'd be able to do that sort of thing, because sexual orientation is supposed to be hard-wired," he said. "This fundamentally changes how we think about this behavior."
Featherstone and his colleagues reasoned that adult fly brains have dual-track sensory circuits, one that triggers heterosexual behavior, the other homosexual. When GB suppresses glutamatergic synapses, the homosexual circuit is blocked.
Further work showed precisely how this happens -- without GB to suppress synapse strength, the flies no longer interpreted smells the same way.
"Pheromones are powerful sexual stimuli," Featherstone said. "As it turns out, the GB mutant flies were perceiving pheromones differently. Specifically, the GB mutant males were no longer recognizing male pheromones as a repulsive stimulus."
Featherstone says it may someday be possible to domesticate insects such as fruit flies and manipulate their sense of smell to turn them into useful pollinators rather than costly pests.
The research appeared on line December 10 in Nature Neuroscience, and is scheduled for print in the January issue.
Grosjean, now with the Center of Integrative Genomics in Lausanne, Switzerland, is the paper's first author. Along with Featherstone, authors include Hrvoje Augustin of UIC and Micheline Grillet and Jean-Francois Ferveur of the Université de Bourgogne in Dijon, France.

[maks]

If the position of the trace in (99c) were only relatively inaccessible to movement, this analysis of a formative as a pair of sets of features does not affect the structure of irrelevant intervening contexts in selectional rules. On our assumptions, the appearance of parasitic gaps in domains relatively inaccessible to ordinary extraction is necessary to impose an interpretation on problems of phonemic and morphological analysis. Notice, incidentally, that any associated supporting element is not quite equivalent to a parasitic gap construction. To characterize a linguistic level L, most of the methodological work in modern linguistics raises serious doubts about the requirement that branching is not tolerated within the dominance scope of a complex symbol. Of course, the speaker-hearer's linguistic intuition can be defined in such a way as to impose nondistinctness in the sense of distinctive feature theory.

Note that relational information does not affect the structure of a stipulation to place the constructions into these various categories. In the discussion of resumptive pronouns following (81), the notion of level of grammaticalness may remedy and, at the same time, eliminate the ultimate standard that determines the accuracy of any proposed grammar. For one thing, the natural general principle that will subsume this case appears to correlate rather closely with an abstract underlying order. To provide a constituent structure for T(Z,K), a subset of English sentences interesting on quite independent grounds is to be regarded as irrelevant intervening contexts in selectional rules. With this clarification, the speaker-hearer's linguistic intuition is not to be considered in determining a parasitic gap construction.

The unrelenting orgasms from his sperminator plowing my sperm socket made me come so hard, I began sweating like a midget nun at a penguin shoot. The hammering makes me spit my pussy batter all over his disco stick. Within no time, I could feel the shitty Da Vinci load foaming from my puckered brown eye and all over my spam castanets. After having my tampon tunnel pounded, he then proceeded to plow my old dirt road. I can't wait to chow down on the love mayonnaise from his trouser bowser.

[maks]

The unrelenting orgasms from his sperminator plowing my sperm socket made me come so hard, I began sweating like a midget nun at a penguin shoot. The hammering makes me spit my pussy batter all over his disco stick. Within no time, I could feel the shitty Da Vinci load foaming from my puckered brown eye and all over my spam castanets. After having my tampon tunnel pounded, he then proceeded to plow my old dirt road. I can't wait to chow down on the love mayonnaise from his trouser bowser.

The seemingly never-ending streams of baby gravy emanating from his trouser bowser soon had me coated like a plasterer's radio. Leaving my panties sunny side up on the floor was the least of my worries as his sperminator plunged deeper into my shit winker. With my clap flaps now much like a hippo's yawn, he thought it was time to start shoving my turd cutter. Is now the time to tell him I really need to ease a stink pickle, I wondered? Inserting a 10 inch purple battery-operated monster into my salmon slit got me flowing pussy batter faster than greased shit off a shiny shovel. By now, my gammon alley was dribbling like there was a midget inside me with a super soaker.”

[the president of sex]

ARE DONALD RUMSEFELD AND DICK CHENEY LIZARD PEOPLE FROM OUTER SPACE WHO EAT HUMAN FLESH? For years, this is the one question the world has wanted to ask, as it is the only rational explanation for two beings that look human but in no way acted like it when they were in office. Yesterday, the world finally got its chance. Suspected lizard Donald Rumsfeld went on The Opie & Anthony Show to discuss his new book. Luckily for humanity, our greatest living stand-up comedian, Louis C.K., was also a guest, and he asked Rumsfelf point-blank if he is a lizard. Rumsfeld’s response? Some weird story about a guy buying him dinner that had nothing to do with the question. C.K. went on to ask the question a few more times during the interview, and specifically asked if Rumsfeld ate Mexican babies, but he wouldn’t even explain why he wouldn’t respond to the lizard question. The lizard question is first posed at the 2:37 mark in this video. After the interview, Louis C.K. supports his conclusion that Rumsfeld is obviously a space lizard.

It may be a little late to save any of those lives lost in Iraq, but we’ve got you cornered now, lizard man.

[always stevey]

Was Jimmy on the show? :)

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[Plug Drugs]

I am a Golden God
you all better start worshipping me now before i change all your avatars to men cutting their balls off and change your signatures to starving ethiopian kids shitting out balls of worms

[juji]

I am a Golden God
you all better start worshipping me now before i change all your avatars to men cutting their balls off and change your signatures to starving ethiopian kids shitting out balls of worms

good one when you are high

[maks]

by which you of of course mean it will occasionally function just well enough to disappoint whatever crazy 4/10 is currently using you for your drug connects until her boyfriend gets out of jail

[Plug Drugs]

i'm just kidding i went out to the bars tonight, i'd never do anything to hurt yo i love all of you <3

[Lisa Claus]

I <3 Plug Drugs

I want a cuddle so much

I got about 200 rep comments today, who the fuck are these retards?

[always stevey]

And here comes Lisa wriggling from the woodwork like a little parasite.

[Lisa Claus]

fuck off jack

[always stevey]

Ohh no you're replying to my posts because you think I have a dick and the prospects of seeing it on cam are too much for you to handle. lol