rewrite human rights legislation

* "Time for another Russert Watch preview. This week’s show features Mario Cuomo and Pepperdine University law professor Douglas Kmiec discussing the role Judge John Roberts’ Catholicism should play in his confirmation" (link)
Oh No! timmeh doing religion. again. my brain hurts. his smiling mug is particularly annoying when he is getting his catholic rocks off.

* adam mentioned the daily show's piece on oreilly v mccain. here tis

* "Saudi Arabia officially warned Britain of an imminent terrorist attack on London just weeks ahead of the 7 July bombings" (link)

* heres an interesting interview with galloway - here's a snippet on his preparation for his attack on stupid norm coleman:
"“I got up at half-three in the morning and worked not on the words I was going to use, but the tone I was going to strike,” Galloway recalls. “I often look for boxing metaphors and the phrase I used was, ‘I mustn’t be Muhammad Ali and I mustn’t be Mike Tyson’. The boxer I fastened on was Rocky Marciano, who was neither flashy nor ferocious. I tried to make my testimony withering. It was intended to be remorseless, unremitting, one point after another in the same tone, no excitement, no great flourishes. It kept me within parliamentary norms in a way that yelling and shouting and histrionics wouldn’t have. That would have been Tyson or Ali. The thing to do was look the adversary in the eye and bear down upon them. That’s the style I worked out and, undoubtedly, that worked well.”"

* "Scooter Libby and Judy Miller met on July 8, 2003, two days after Joe Wilson published his column. And Patrick Fitzgerald is very interested." (link)

* taibbi promised an article on the 2004 election - he didnt (really) deliver - but he did say this:
"In recent years it has been fashionable to compare these current Republicans with the Nazis and other totalitarian monsters. I've tended to resist those comparisons, but we've reached a point where it's looking more and more appropriate to describe the neoconservative attitude toward the rule of law as having many things in common with those other revolutionaries. These neocons may not have the authoritarian bent of the German fascists or the Russian communists. They're far more interested in stealing and deregulating than in controlling, censoring and governing. But it is more and more clear that, like these other notorious movements, they view adherence to rules and to the law as a failure of will and a political weakness." (link)

* "Banging the table with a frustrated fist, as the Home Secretary and his two startled opposition counterparts looked on, the Prime Minister was demanding to know 'why the fuck' it was so impossible to rewrite human rights legislation to allow decisive action against a terrorist threat." (link)