And Geitner is not guilty of payroll tax fraud. Go to law school and then come back and talk the talk. The IMF gave him a W-2, not an I-9. They should have withheld tax.

I don't understand why Limbaugh trolls hang out on this site. Are you being paid by the post?

Oh, and Holder has denied it. 100%.

This belongs in the coming health care bill. That's where the real fight is going to go down. And that is the bill Americans are waiting for and will enjoy more support because it won't be spun as a "bailout."

I didn't realize that anonymous blogging on the internet now requires the same level of briefing that I submit to the Supreme Court. Stop making such an ass of yourself.

And I didn't call you a neocon. Again, your reading comprehension has gone downhill. I said that the show's agenda would not be bothersome or distracting to a neocon (for obvious reasons). And Joel Surnow is more than just a republican. He is a hard-core, Cheney-loving, torture-admiring neocon. He is also a close friend of Rush Limbaugh. Funny that, he loves storylines that involve the murder and attempted murder of black presidents. He and Limbaugh are two peas in a pod.

But that never happens on "24." The terrorists are really honest folks who always give true answers. Its a total joke. The problem is that people evidently don't realize its a joke.

There is more to an interrogation than getting "an" answer; it would be nice if it was a true one. And what the experts tell us is that torture simply does not produce reliable information, the inhumanity of it notwithstanding.

In one particular moment in Season 6 the VPOTUS, who has just taken over for the second African American president, who, like the first African American president, was the victim of an assassination attempt (the white presidents never suffer attempts on their lives, just the black ones), gives a soulful speech about how no one can ever know how hard the president's job is until he walks in his shoes for a day, and thus one should not criticize the president. Ugh.

The terrorists are almost always Muslim and of Middle Eastern heritage, and they almost always are working with rogue Russians.

You almost have to watch for the absurdity alone. But JEM, commenting above, is quite sure there is no Neocon involvement in the show. Just little SAG writers with no agenda working for Rupert Murdoch. Right...

How you could look at that video and review those witness statements and not conclude this was an accident borne of gross negligence and not intentional murder is beyond me. Perhaps accepting conventional wisdom is just easier than using your brain.

Was this negligent? Absolutely. Not only is it negligent to wear your taser on the same side as your gun, this was not a situation that called for the use of a taser. And therein lies another problem: Officers have become complacent about taser use because they are (usually) non-lethal. Some officers are not trained to understand that a taser is tortuous and should be the second-to-last-resort use of force. Some officers are not even required to submit to a tasering as part of their training. This was an absolutely inappropriate use of a taser. He should, of course, lose his job and possibly face negligent homicide charges (if California has such a charge. In Washington state, we don't have neg. hom., only manslaughter and up). But to say he executed this man? Come on now.

Let's think about this. The vast majority of police abuse cases occur in situations where officers can at least attempt to cover it up (and the abuser will always try). Does it make sense that he would "execute" a subject in front of a crowd of people holding cell phone cameras in plain view? What would have prompted him to go from zero to sixty that fast? Why would he all of a sudden, in such a blatantly public forum (and on camera, as all officers know they now are) decide to commit aggravated first degree murder? Couldn't he have found a better place to take out his homicidal, racially motivated rage?

Or does it make more sense that he is an inexperienced officer (2 years on the job) who received grossly deficient training in the use of a taser (which he had only been carrying for two months) and acted negligently by: a) carrying it on the same side as his gun (defeating muscle memory) and b) using a taser (or what he thought was a taser) in a situation that did not call for it?

Kick him off the force. Charge him with a crime that encompasses a mental state of negligence. But intentional murder in the first degree? Give me a break.

Another case of a prosecutor who won't do the right thing because pleasing an enraged public is easier. Just like the Jena 6 prosecutor. Just like Mike Nifong (Duke). Prosecutors gone wild.

Are you telling me that we are supporting this unforgivable war out of deference to one hundred thousand Americans? Are you kidding?

She is a torture loving war monger. When will Californians learn that she only puts a (D) after her name to dupe them? She is not a Democrat! She is a rethug.

Also, Reid would have sissed out even if Obama had remained silent. I cannot recall a bigger coward in government than Harry Reid.

The remedy is not, however, circumvention of the United States Constitution by Harry Reid. The Constitution specifically grants this power to the governor. Blago is the governor. Ergo, the appointment is legal and there is nothing Harry Reid can do about it.

But I must say, it would have been nice to see Harry Reid treat Larry Craig with even half the scorn he is treating the un-indicted, not-accused-of-doing-anything-wrong Burris. Very democratic indeed. Can we get a new fucking majority leader, please?

Everyone, especially democrats in congress, need to stop with this ridiculous hero worship of Fitzgerald. It is not warranted.