The pardon can come at any moment. I suppose it will be after the election. Not that it makes any difference. If there are 100 voters in the entire nation who would change their vote because of a pardon I’ll eat my hat.

It’s silly for me a nobody to be so sure I know. I wonder what Fitz thinks. I wonder if and how that figures into his own functional pardon of Rove>

The vaccine doesn’t protect against all HPV strains, but it does protect against the ones most closely associated with cervical cancer.

As to why it hasn’t been tested on men, that’s a most excellent question. Those same HPV strains are associated with penile cancer, *and* infected males pass it on to their sex partners.

BC

Dow up 216 …

The market had been told by their economists to expect at least a quarter-point basis increase. There was some speculation by my economist colleagues that we’d see a half-point increase.

When you look at the goat-entrails (FOMC’s statement) it’s good news. I grant that it’s an astigmatic view, but that’s Wall Street.

BC

I continue to ask: Why has the damn thing not been tested on men?

I agree — but men don’t get cervical cancer.

What this article fails to mention: the vaccine is only effective against a small number of strains of HPV virus. There are more than 100 strains of HPV, of which at least 4 (HPV-16, HPV-18, HPV-31, and HPV-45) that are associated with cervical cancer.

I have only made my way through about 20 percent of the Hamdan decision, and I refer back to all of my other caveats stated earlier. Certainly I defer to anyone who has read the entire decision. And I respect what BarbaraB says. With regard to your specific question, it does not appear to me to really be about whether Hamdan is an enemy combatant or a POW. It has more to do with the president’s limited powers to use military commissions, and what limitations exist on the jurisdiction and powers of those commissions. It finds the terms that created the commission in Hamdan’s case to be insufficient to provide all legal safeguards that are applicable. BarbaraB?

pinocchio

I wonder where the NMI stuff might go if they push, or if it will be pushed.

Re: Bush/Hamdan – still think that every time it comes up and the GOP tries duck and dodge and “we need new laws” they should be NAILED with the fact that if Bush had not broken the laws set forth in both the Geneva Convetions, UCMJ, and War Crimes Act, there was nothing to keep military trials from going forward from the get-go. A refusal to follow law, and a refusal to conduct even UNLAWFUL tribunals until after years of detention charges, is the only reason that the GITMO situation is not already resolved and if Congress buys into the canard of illegal proceedings and delay, when legal proceedings and expedited resolution are available, they are putting us all at risk.

Com’on Dems – you can say the words if you practice.

BUSH’s repeated refusal to follow law puts us all at risk – following the law gives information and resolution – not following the law creates more terrorist, more uncertainty, promotes obedience to illegal orders over competence, and to wrap it up in a bushbow – is not good.

can’t help wondering. . .

Is pinochio nose any relation to Tokyo Rose?

Or is she just a wanna-be?