Eliot Spitzer's hooker Ashley Dupre sits down with Diane Sawyer. Cenk and Ana open up about the real stories behind "massage parlors!" Surprising confessions from Cenk and intriguing interest from Ana on the subject.
It's a weighty job. It's no exaggeration to say that the president makes life and death decisions all the time. We were interviewing Michael Isikoff of Newsweek yesterday on The Young Turks and we discussed this part of his latest story:
As NEWSWEEK reported last summer, President Bush approved more relaxed rules of engagement for U.S. forces along the Afghan-Pakistan border. The Pentagon once required "90 percent" confidence on the part of intelligence agencies that a "high-value target" was present before approving Predator strikes inside Pakistan. Under the revised rules, U.S. officials on the ground now need only 50 to 60 percent confidence to shoot at compounds suspected of sheltering foreign fighters, according to knowledgeable U.S. sources who would speak of sensitive matters only anonymously.
Think about that. Even if you have a president with a conscience, one out of ten times someone is going to walk into the Oval Office and say, "I'm sorry Mr. President, our intelligence didn't pan out - we accidentally hit a wedding. Ten civilians killed."
That is tough. That is what Obama will have to deal with. Once you think about it that way, you almost don't want the job.
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My friend from graduate school wrote an interesting blog and I wanted to share it with everyone at Rebel Headquarters. It's regarding prop 8 and marriage. Take a look:
Battle lines were drawn and vigorously fought over when the federal bailout of failing U.S. banks was proposed just over a month ago. Most people simply sided with their political leanings, trusting that their elected representatives' thoughts and actions on the controversial move benefited their beliefs the most. We argued over whether or not these companies were given free reign to carelessly conduct their business with loose, maybe nonexistent regulations. The country was engulfed in an intensely engaging and very important national election that divided us among Party lines making these types of decisions a Democratic vs. Republican one for most people. Now that the companies "we couldn't allow to fail" have been rescued, it's time for round two.
posted by yturks 
