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Subscribe to RSSPresident Barack Obama has named White House attorney Don Verrilli as the next solicitor general of the United States.
The job of the government's top lawyer has been vacant since Elena Kagan departed the post to become a Supreme Court justice. Kagan's former deputy, Neal Katyal, has been serving as the acting solicitor general since her departure.
Verrilli is best known for his work on intellectual property and telecommunications cases during his 20 years in private practice at the Jenner & Block law firm. He was the lead attorney representing major entertainment companies in the 2005 Supreme Court ruling that peer-to-peer file-sharing websites like Grokster could be sued for copyright infringement for material swapped on their sites.
Verrilli has participated in more than 100 cases before the high court, according to the White House, and has argued twelve. He also served for over a decade as a constitutional law professor at Georgetown University.
He must be confirmed by the Senate.
NBC's Athena Jones contributed to this report.
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Shame Obama could not have done this before last week.
It would have been nice to have someone to meet with Hu and tell him to quit stealing all of America's copyrights, patents, software .....
And yet no mention of the litttle piano diddy played.
The little Chinese Korean War diddy about the American jackals?
Nah, that was original Red propaganda - one thing they didn't steal.
Maybe the little diddy was a case of 'Chinese Exceptionalism". Always amusing when one country goes to another country and pulls that crap, isn't it?
Hey, Sis- I just posted this from work. Gonna tell on me?
Ah ,Lookysee, The Gang, with Spanky & Bob90210 patting each other on the back. All we need know id our resident Polldancer donning a cheerleader outfit.
Is that the best yall got as AnnaMolly said on the Military thread.
I'll go ya one better anna, how about letting the Binladen family members in America be the ONLY airplane to fly for 4 days + the previous one you noted.
But Bob90210 says Bush was Resolved!
To Destroy the World!
RIck- how can you tell when the president's numbers are (still) on an up-swing?
A: When the dickweeds come out of the woodwork in droves, and bitch and whine about God knows what.
Aww come on Rick. Which of the lovely bittys you refering to? Fiety of Bev? I'm guess Fiesty rocked the pole back in her day. Bev., probably not so much.
And gosh darn it, and let me paraphrase Anna M: is that the best you got Drive By, calling us names?
So Drive, after you listen to Hannity on the way home tonight, how you ganna wash that off without some Olbermann tonic? And no I wouldn't dream of telling your boss about your posting while on the job. What you chose to do on your employer's time is between him and you. I'm sure the time spent around here increases the company's bottom line.
See the difference is Spanky, Feisty & Bev are worth $20's $50's, 1st Read's resident Polldancer is'nt worth a fake $3 bill.
Whatzzzup up BuckWheat!
BTW Spanky, are 3 of your employee's JoAnnaSmith1, MixedBag & Bob90210 ? We all know YawnBoy Steve is'nt.
Just askin, ya know.
That is rich my man. Bev. and Fiesty are worth $20s and $50s?
I think you ust answered your own inquiry. And brilliantly too.
We AppalachianAmerican's got it like Dat!
Sounds like one of those cooperate folks that will try to interfere with net neutrality.
Verrilli is best known for his work on intellectual property and telecommunications cases.
He fits right in with Obama's obsession with controlling the internet/access ( by requiring everyone to have an Identifiable Internet ID ) and giving the FCC authority over cable TV through regulations because he can't get it done through legislation.....And if you think Obama's proclamation last week of a total review of all regulations is in the interest of making it easier for business to do business....Oh Boy !!.....They are looking to see where they can sneak in more regulations for greater control of everything.....Read Regulatory Czar Cass Sunstein's book " Nudge"
Commander and Chief dip @!$%#, is this a bad time to explain to Glen Beck why you legitimized the most neo con policy any @!$%#in country has ever seen since you can no longer claim it is W's war crime and every US citizen should be @!$%#in horrified by "your" real power.
Anyone a betting man?
Did something about Covert Marshal Law bother the old Solicitor General Mr. President?
Muller, they never had a gun to their head either.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fi3qBvyCSss
But if you need to control people with a little better mental balance (normal), you need a pile of perversion (military grade satellite called the TSP) to have access to everyone via a tin badge and a good faith investigation, including the people that sign pay checks, while you gauge their thoughts and emotions andpress them as close to fight or flight as possible and reward them when they don't.
Where Manson leaves off is where our paramilitary garbage (FBI and CIA to anyone forced to be an informant) picks up because the greater the inferred control is around the 360 degree radius around any person, the more someone will accept a continued pressing of fight or flight and be rewarded when they don't (if they are on the control side). Take this process, of a greater pressing of fight or flight, as the inferred control around a person increases, so you can increase the pressing of fight or flight, and then introduce inferred consequence (apparent but can't be proved) to both you and the people around you.
Your measured reaction (and measured actions) shows you won't fight or flight, but this is the critical point where deniability, control, and genuine brain washing begins. Along a linear time frame, when your own fight or flight is being pressed as the inferredcontrol around you becomes more apparent, the more consequence you will also dismiss as circumstance as opposed to premeditation; the bedrock of control.
At some point, you will start to dismiss (or accept) premeditated consequnce (as long as their is the smallest measure of deniability built it) as circumstance but at a level no reasonable person not going through our paramilitary process ever would.
Reasons are either acceptance/survivability or deniability because as long as their is the smallest deniability built into each covert tactic by my paramilitary trash, you can not justify fight or flight within the normal assumptions of a trained society, no matter how apparent the premeditation is.
Acceptance/Survivability causes instantaneous guilt because you feel powerless to do anything because there is always an element of deniablity built in (as your control is carefully gauged to see if you need to fall off the control side of the extraordinary process). At some point, you will submit to control so the plausible interference or outright destruction stops.
But deniability has the potential to be far more destructive, because as you go through an extraordinary process, you will accept greater and greater consequence to avoid the guilt of not doing nothing for your previous ones, despite an exponentially increasing appearance of premeditation. You will also greatly increase what you will accept as circumstance, to you and those around you moving forward. This is partly because it would become exponentially more painful looking back at events through a better lens of reality so you accept more and more moving forward through an increasing lens of false perception Basically a self serving paradox where you accept and dismiss a greater level of abuse for the purpose of control.
On the control side of the extraordinary process (which I recommend you stay on because Commander and Chief Nut Job is looking at the death penalty) you have to accept a level of humiliation or an absolute @!$%#in brainwashing if you want to have a "functional" life but they are the same @!$%#in thing in the land of reality.
Because I would have more @!$%#in respect for Manson himself than the real war criminal (with the real blood of innocent US citizens on his hands) we have in the oval office right now because he never wanted my respect and I never wanted his and this pile of perversion and bull @!$%# craft, that has bent our free and open society covertly beyond that of a dictatorship, would make him look more sane and courageous.
C O U R A G E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohWH3U16zD4
Um...right.
Bad: He's represented the RIAA.
Good: He's argued two defendant's rights cases before the SC.