baystatelibrul posted this earlier:
“While we are waiting for the no-confidence
vote…

Last 12 prez’s IQ’s

Clinton 182
Carter 175
JFK 174
Nixon 155
FDR 147
Truman 132
LBJ 126
Eisenhower 122
Gerry Ford 121
Reagan 105
George Bush the first 98
Junior Bush 91

If we can’t impeach, how’s about an Amendment
(retro) that the Prez must have an IQ over 100?”
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incompetent, people keep saying……yep.

it was from a real study, sorry, didn’t copy that part.
i said “ignorance is bliss”

I would like this to be true but I am afraid it is a hoax. See Presidential IQ hoax

CTuttle @ 86

Thinking about al-Marri, and the 4th Circuit, isn’t the 4th the appellate court for Padilla’s case? Anyone???

Yes.

No, actually. The Fourth was the venue on appeal of Padilla’s habeas petition, because the case originated in the District Court in South Carolina, which has habeas jurisdiction over the Charleston Brig.

Padilla’ criminal trial is proceeding in the Southern District of Florida. Any appeal will go to the Eleventh Circuit, which is headquartered in Atlanta.

allan_in_upstate @ 88

Not entirely off topic is this NYT story about how Scooter’s BFF Torture is Fine by Me Alan Dershowitz got someone denied tenure at DePaul because he criticized Israel.

That was Finkelstein (sp?) I think. He was controversial since he challenged a lot of the memes of traditional Jewish lobbies in this country, for example financial exploitation of the Holocaust by them. If he had written on any other group or subject, his position in academia would have been assured. A lot of academics get tenured without being particularly accurate or insightful. Even controversy is OK if it is one currently in style. This was not the case with Finkelstein and his university showed its real commitment to academic freedom by bailing on him.

i was never in any real doubt.
finkelstein touches too many nerves, not unlike ward churchill does, with his allusions of eichman in the docile salarymen in the towers that day…
i expect finkelstein’s fixin’ already to be revered in some quarters…not so churchill, who’s about to be fired (from a tenured position) at ColoradU, and will be dropped like a plaguey rodent by the ‘respectable’ academic establishment.
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sorry, it was posted earlier today by baystatelibrul–he/she mentioned the study name in another comment, but didn’t copy it down, someone showed up to visit right then and didn’t go back, was from earlier today. i wanted to know if it was for real, and mentioned the study name…….i shut my computer down when company came, so don’t know which thread, sorry.

-GSD

…if you actually look GOOD in brown shirts…

…if your reflexively click your heals when ordered to do something…

…if you find and admire the Leader’s deft touch in even the most banal event…

…you don’t think Mussolini’s brother didn’t have it coming…

…you have dear friends and family buying real estate and water rights in Paraguay…

…you tingle deliciously at the idea of compelling a fellow human to betray a principle–or or better yet a friend or comrade–just to stop the pain…

ewe jis maht be a fayshist…

allan_in_upstate @ 88

Not entirely off topic is this NYT story about how Scooter’s BFF Torture is Fine by Me Alan Dershowitz got someone denied tenure at DePaul because he criticized Israel.

That was Finkelstein (sp?) I think. He was controversial since he challenged a lot of the memes of traditional Jewish lobbies in this country, for example financial exploitation of the Holocaust by them. If he had written on any other group or subject, his position in academia would have been assured. A lot of academics get tenured without being particularly accurate or insightful. Even controversy is OK if it is one currently in style. This was not the case with Finkelstein and his university showed its real commitment to academic freedom by bailing on him.

yes, Democracy Now! had been covering the story – dershowitz didn’t like having his book on israel called (accurately) a hoax, among other things.

-GSD

CTuttle @ 86

Thinking about al-Marri, and the 4th Circuit, isn’t the 4th the appellate court for Padilla’s case? Anyone???

Yes.

Couldn’t this ruling be utilized by Padilla’s Defense team? Or does it need to be settled, pending the enbanc results?