2008年10月22日星期三

a self pardon covering war

A self pardon by the President guildwars gold for himself or those w guild wars power leveling ho carried out his illegal orders to commit war crimes, said the Steering Committee of the Robert Jackson Conference, would make a mockery of the rule of law. It would, in fact, largely put an end to the rule of law.

It is frankly inconceivable, said the Steering Committee, that the framers, who sought the rule of law instead of kingly tyranny, could have intended this. The Steering Committee noted that Bush’s commutation of the sentence of Lewis guild wars factions “Scooter” Libby, who helped carry out Bush’s plans, suggests the possibility of an attempted self pardon by Bush in the future. Also, the famed journalist Stuart Taylor has suggested a self pardon covering war crimes committed by Bush and his colleagues.

A self pardon covering Bush and guild wars powerleveling /or his subordinates, however, would require an immediate impeachment and conviction of the culprits in order to disqualify them from holding buy guild wars gold any U.S. office in the future and to avoid setting an awful precedent for future presidents to pardon their own crimes and those of subordinates.

irreverent adult puppet theater

Multi-talented puppeteer and political satirist Paul guild wars gold Zaloom returns to In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre (HOBT) as part of the theater’s Fall 2008 Visiting Artists Series, co-sponsored with the Twin Cities Puppeteers Guild. Paul Zaloom’s highly idiosyncratic work takes a wide range of forms, from the popular, qui guild wars gold rky and educational Beakman’s World for children, to insightful and wickedly funny political satire for adult audiences.

The Twin Cities will get a chance to sample both in his visit with two different performances. On October 24, for adults, Paul Zaloom and his cohort, the renowned nightclub puppeteer Lynn Jeffries, will perform “The Tiny Jumbo Jolly Grim Show,” which includes t gw gold heir newest work of jumbo toy theater, “The Abecedarium A to Z.” Zaloom’s bawdy gender-bending take on the old Punch and Judy shtick rounds out an evening of funny and irreverent adult puppet theater which questions, well, just about everything.

Adult subject matter; not recommended for those under age 18. And on October 25, for kids, “Beakman LIVE!,” a live stage spectacle based on the Emmy award-winning children’s TV show “Beakman’s World,” is reprised. The show features guild wars powerleveling large scale, wacky science demos with plenty of audience participation and trademark goofy humor. Beakman (Paul Zaloom) dazzles and amazes with a series of death-defying and belief-suspending demonstrations of intriguing scientific principles.