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Politics : How Quickly Can Obama Totally Destroy the US? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Woody_Nickels who wrote (4965)	8/22/2013 9:45:22 AM
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Town hall meeting to defund Obamacare draws huge crowd...

To: Woody_Nickels who wrote (4965)	8/22/2013 9:47:19 AM
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Bradley Manning: I want to live as a woman named Chelsea ................................................................................................................. CBS News ^ \| 08/22/2013 Bradley Manning plans to live as a woman named Chelsea and wants to begin hormone therapy as soon as possible, the soldier said Thursday, a day after being sentenced to 35 years in prison for sending classified material to WikiLeaks. Manning announced the decision in a written statement provided to NBC's "Today" show, asking supporters to refer to him by his new name and the feminine pronoun. The statement was signed "Chelsea E. Manning." "As I transition into this next phase of my life, I want everyone to know the real me. I am Chelsea Manning. I am a female. Given the way that I feel, and have felt since childhood, I want to begin hormone therapy as soon as possible," the statement read. Manning's defense attorney David Coombs told "Today" in an interview that he is hoping officials at the military prison in Fort Leavenworth, Kan., will accommodate Manning's request for hormone therapy. "If Fort Leavenworth does not, then I'm going to do everything in my power to make sure they are forced to do so," Coombs said. (Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...

To: Woody_Nickels who wrote (4965)	8/22/2013 10:43:32 AM
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Sounds like Al.

To: Woody_Nickels who wrote (4965)	8/22/2013 12:52:41 PM
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San Diego Mayor Filner to resign after sexual harassment scandal... Part of deal reached with city leaders to limit exposure to lawsuits...

To: Woody_Nickels who wrote (4965)	8/22/2013 1:53:58 PM
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Political Correctness Pushes Military Justice In Wrong Direction Investor's Business Daily 08/21/2013 Excerpt: Based on recent decisions, military justice isn't what it should be. In several cases, judges have made what seem to be major errors, swayed perhaps by outside pressures. Have military courts been politicized, too? The military justice system has a near-impossible job. It must not only dispense justice under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, but it often must do so with outside civilian interference. But recent events suggest that military justice is going off the rails — in large part due to the influence of politically correct thinking from civilian politics. Take the case of Army Maj. Nidal Hasan, who decided, as he put it, to "switch sides" in the War on Terror by slaughtering unarmed fellow soldiers in a jihad-inspired shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas. After the defense rested this week in Hasan's case, Judge Col. Tara Osborn told prosecutors they won't be able to enter evidence that Hasan meant to commit jihad in his mass murder. She also disallowed his correspondence with al-Qaida leader Anwar al-Awlaki. This is key, since it forms the very core of the prosecution's assertion: That his murders were motivated by extremist Islamic ideology in the service of al-Qaida. Osborn's was a strange decision, to say the least. In the Bradley Manning case, it's clear he intended to leak U.S. secrets indiscriminately to Wikileaks and, by extension, to our enemies. Serious stuff. Yet, Manning got a 35-year sentence, a slap on the wrist really compared to the life without possibility of parole he once faced. With good behavior and time already served, he'll get out in eight years. Apparently, treason no longer carries much of a cost. Manning avoided a much longer sentence largely because of the judge's original finding that Manning didn't really mean to give secrets to the enemy. Nonsense — he did. And gloated about it. We won't go into all the evidence, but a common sense understanding of his actions suggests that he well understood that leaking secrets to the Internet would put them into the hands of al-Qaida terrorists — who might use them to kill Americans. Eight years? Some deterrent. snip As we've noted before, President Obama, Attorney General Eric Holder and Congress all have stepped on the military justice system's prerogatives, making it look more and more like an adjunct to our own dysfunctional civilian court system. Even Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has proposed changing the system enabling commanding officers to overturn decisions that threaten order and discipline. No, the military's justice system isn't perfect, but it has stood the test of time. Left-wing social theories and jurisprudence haven't. It's time for the politicians and professional agitators to leave the military courts to do their job. Full Editorial