{"id":702,"date":"2006-01-14T23:20:36","date_gmt":"2006-01-15T03:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2006\/01\/14\/50-50-policy-rules\/"},"modified":"2006-01-14T23:20:36","modified_gmt":"2006-01-15T03:20:36","slug":"50-50-policy-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2006\/01\/14\/50-50-policy-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"50-50 Policy Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a7834'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td height=\"331\">\n<p align=\"justify\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/stercoinflip.gif\" width=\"219\" height=\"218\" align=\"left\">DAMADOLA, Pakistan &#8212; An air strike in<br \/>\n        a remote Pakistani tribal area yesterday killed at least 18 people, and<br \/>\n        a senior Pakistani official said the target was a suspected Al Qaeda<br \/>\n        hideout that may have been frequented by high-level operatives, possibly<br \/>\n        the number two leader Ayman al-Zawahri.<\/p>\n<p>      Citing unnamed US intelligence officials, US networks reported that it<br \/>\n      was a CIA strike and that Zawahri, Osama bin Laden&#8217;s top lieutenant, could<br \/>\n      have been at the compound in the Bajur area or about to arrive.<\/p>\n<p>      There was no confirmation from either the Pakistani or US government, but<br \/>\n      a senior Pakistani government official told the Associated Press that &#8221;there<br \/>\n      is a 50-50 chance that some Al Qaeda personality was at the home&quot; that<br \/>\n      was hit.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><em>In related news, doctors at Bethesda Naval Hospital<br \/>\n        announced that they have decided to perform emergency brain surgery on<br \/>\n        Vice President Dick Cheney because &quot;there is a 50-50 chance that his<br \/>\n        dementia has a physiological source.&quot; The National Parks Service announced<br \/>\n        that 4,714 separate sites have applied for Historical Site Designation<br \/>\n        because &quot;there is a 50-50 chance that George Washington slept here.&quot;<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><em>In the business section, 16 million mortgage applicants<br \/>\n        were simultaneously denied loans today, after banking industry computers<br \/>\n        predicted that &quot;There is a 50-50 chance they will miss a loan payment<br \/>\n        at some point during the coming three years.&quot; And California Governor<br \/>\n        Arnold Schwarzenegger announced plans to peremptorily confine all minority<br \/>\n        youths between the ages of 15 and 25 in special camps since statistics<br \/>\n        show &quot;there is a 50-50 chance that they will commit a felony during<br \/>\n        the coming decade.&quot;<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><em>How much easier everything would be if we could<br \/>\n          simply decide everything by the &quot;50-50&quot; rule. No more pesky 2\/3 votes<br \/>\n          to amend<br \/>\n        the constitution. No more &quot;beyond a reasonable doubt&quot;. Democracy Unleashed!&nbsp;What<br \/>\n        could be more appropriate in a country where there is a 50-50 chance<br \/>\n        that a registered voter will actually vote in a Presidential election?<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/world\/middleeast\/articles\/2006\/01\/14\/strike_said_to_target_qaeda_hideout\/\">the<br \/>\n          Boston Globe<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAMADOLA, Pakistan &#8212; An air strike in a remote Pakistani tribal area yesterday killed at least 18 people, and a senior Pakistani official said the target was a suspected Al Qaeda hideout that may have been frequented by high-level operatives, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2006\/01\/14\/50-50-policy-rules\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[576],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wacky-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}