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br> Huntington Woods, Michigan /p>

Oh Bob, come now. No matter how pompous and trivial the recent commencement ceremonies you had to endure might have been, clearly, the most inane and dangerous speeches in America today, come daily from the floor of the House and the Senate. Talk about intellectual pollution, nothing comes even close.

p>A one time, forty minute droning from a hopeless sap and leftist fool is easily endured with thoughts of a cold beer and a summer in the Rockies with one's soon to be forgotten girl/boy friend. However, in your case, it was back to work; no summer gamboling in the heather for you, which is why I suspect the ceremonies were that much more excruciating. I'm with you on this one, big guy, and as your new best friend would say, "I feel your pain." Yes, time has passed us by, but there's still work to be done. Forget Angela and Gloria, they're as yesterday as we are, it's what's on C-Span now that's truly inane. br> -- A. DiPentima /p> p> SAFETY LAST br> Re: Christopher Orlet's Qatar Man : /p>

The court's majority stated, in part, "To sanction such presidential authority to order the military to seize and indefinitely detain civilians, even if the President calls them 'enemy combatants,' would have disastrous consequences for the Constitution -- and the country." They also declared, "It is that [extraordinary presidential] power -- were a court to recognize it -- that could lead all our laws 'to go unexecuted, and the government itself to go to pieces.'"

With this opinion and an extreme statement such as that, it seems that it may be our judiciary that's going to pieces and that our safety has become more endangered, not protected.

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