http://www.anusha.com/sec-serv.htm

Interesting read in the context of what has been going on with Exec branch massive FISA felonies, institutionalized violations of most of the Bill of Rights (with a special devotion to programs to violate the 4th amendment vis a vis American citizens on American soil) and solicitation, orchestration and implementation of torture regimes calculated to generate false information from innocent men to support illegal wars.

Good thing we got the really important stuff cleared up, so all the piddly ass crap can fall by the wayside.

Or rather: thanks to the perspicacity of Monty Python [from whose ranks, parenthetically -- gotta love that device -- we received due warning as to what GWB would wrought:

http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/rich-tehrani/personal/john-cleeses-letter-to-america.html ].

BTW, I’m particularly pleased it was you who posted this response — because today’s outcome [of the 9th effectively ordering a stay of Judge White's order in order to consider whether to actually order a stay of Judge White's order -- ooo, my head], would place in jeopardy the value of the first tranches released from the hypothecation of the contents, choate & inchoate, associated with the hole left by the dent in your hubcap, being the dent you so graciously granted that I might devise from it the basis for a wager predicated on the precise means by which said delay might be brought about.

Fortunately, however [though what's particularly fortunate is my having selected a blog with an such an impressive collective brainpower], it appears no one actually took up the challenge.

The site is not taking kindly to my attempts to “edit” such errors.

DW

Does this suggest that the 9th is profiling the courage we have all just applauded in the Brits?

Or does it suggest something akin to the enthralling kabuki dramas enacted between America’s two great (and essentially “only”) political parties?

bmaz had just given me some meager hopes that the 9th intends to use the “TIME” to “write a solid decision” denying the stay … although I might have misunderstood, and now you, MadDog, are suggesting (again, if I understand what you are saying) that the slow grinding may simply go on interminably, so long as some “plausible” excuse may be found to keep any court from the embarrassment of making a genuine decision upholding the rule of law as it ought to be … until the arrival of some magical moment?

Who knows, maybe that day will fall on the anniversary of Marcus Tullius Cicero’s birthday (which happens to be on a Monday, in the second week of January, next year) sometime over the next few years or decades?

Nor can we reasonably infer the 9th ‘scooping’ the case from Judge White’s clutches [assuming that's what MD is suggesting]; if the 9th was eager for it, one would expect them to take it over on the earlier opportunity.

What I do find interesting tho, is the tone of the written submissions filed in the motion on the issue of whether Judge White did, or did not, ‘making findings of fact’. That’s awfully basic stuff — approaching, if not actually, patent — such that one would reasonably expect that who ever is on the wrong side of that ‘controversy’ is in for a kicking.

Well now–turns out the whole battle is captured on video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teMlv3ripSM