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Giving citizens more power to act in these situations would mean giving individuals the right to judge preemptively whether a person is a terrorist or not. But the power to be judge and executioner is of necessity the prerogative of the state alone. Obviously we "talk like victims" because we are the targets of terrorism. I don't find it "intolerable to travel" and certainly do not see an alternative to giving Grandma a pat down. What are you proposing? Profiling passengers on age? Then we are just one step away from doing the same for gender, race and religion...
Second Vermont Republic's gubernatorial candidate is Dennis Steele, 42, a hulking Carhartt-clad fifth generation Vermonter and entrepreneur. He owns Radio Free Vermont, an Internet radio station, and honchos an online venture called ChessManiac.com. Steele says that, if elected, his first act in office would be to bring home Vermont's National Guard from overseas deployments. "I see my kids going off to fight in wars for empire 10, 15, 20 years from now," said Steele, who served three years in the U.S. Army. "People in Vermont in general are very antiwar, and all their faith was in Obama...
...Wait a minute. Alighieri. Virgil. Road trip. Where's hell? Las Vegas, of course. Using Dante's Inferno as your inspiration is an immodest act for someone making his feature film debut, but Rhodes does it so modestly that you'd hardly notice the connection. If the movie has a theme, it seems to be about making your own luck, which John doesn't believe in, initially. A bit involving an inexplicably flaming gate and a nudist colony led by Tim Blake Nelson should have been the tip off to an Inferno connection, but it feels trivial, just another slightly...
Also, Yale has just made a Web site that gives viewers information about the federal grants that Yale faculty have received through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. According to an article on Yale’s main Web site, those grants amount to approximately $121 million since last February...
...first act of Warner's drama began sensationally. But it is his second act, often underappreciated, that will put him in the Hall of Fame. After his career stalled with the Rams, his success was explained away: his receivers were so talented and the Rams offense choreographed so beautifully by the coaches that you or I could have put up the same big numbers. Warner would catch on with the Arizona Cardinals, a joke of a franchise, only to lose his job to another heralded rookie, Matt Leinart. But party-boy Leinart wasn't ready to rescue the team...