It's amazing how much the memories of this day can still hurt years later, even though I was nowhere near NYC and the one person I knew who died that day was a kid down the street who I hadn't seen in years. I still cringe anytime a plane or helicopter flies overhead. I'm sure that wouldn't be true if I lived under major air lanes, as I used to ( Read more... )

Thanks to all who answered my "Is it ok if I pray for you?" poll here on LJ and here on IJ. It's been *very* intriguing to see the results. I think the aggregate results are visible if you go to the post, just not the specifics of who selected which option ( Read more... )

Judges Say U.S. Can’t Hold Man as ‘Combatant’The federal appeals court in Richmond, Va., ruled yesterday that the president may not declare civilians in this country to be “enemy combatants” and have the military hold them indefinitely. The ruling was a stinging rejection of one of the Bush administration’s central assertions about the scope of ( Read more... )

So far, everyone I know personally over there is well clear of this, thank all the Gods. But this is scary. At first they were saying it might be some sort of power surge, but there is now some evidence of explosives ( Read more... )

You know, I'm less worried about the legal ins and outs of who is and is not covered by the Geneva Convention than I am by the fact that we (meaning the US under the Bush administration) are apparently looking for loopholes to let us exempt certain detainees from torture ( Read more... )