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8:43

Spencer - I spent my weekend on an Atlantic City food, wine and gambling junket and am now unenthusiastic about my week.

8:44

Megan - That sounds rather more exciting than my weekend, which involved: rain, time with my family; some pizza; a long car ride; and finding a bar that has half price drinks on Sundays from 1-8.

8:46

Megan - Paul McCartney dedicated no songs to me.

8:46

Spencer - It was really like a junket prom. We were picked up in a limousine from my filthy, collapsing house. When we started our food blog with the promise of growing corrupt, we never thought our dreams would come true. It makes up for putting my phone in the laundry on Thursday.

8:49

Megan - The one meal I ate outside of the wedding festivities the one time I've been in Atlantic City was at Denny's. So I'm guessing you ate better. And you didn't drink any birther Kool-Aid, leading you to forge a Kenyan birth certificate.

8:49

Spencer - Anyway, so, on my stuff: if you can't choose between military detention and federal courts, why not get chocolate in the peanut butter?

8:50

Spencer - Yeah, plus I saw Ingrid Hoffman burn rice. Yeah birther birth certificates. This is the best thing for Barack Obama ever. I wish my enemies would disgrace themselves for me.

8:52

Spencer - This is a wonderful quote:

"It is no secret the administration is considering bringing the detainees to the U.S.," said a government official, who asked to remain anonymous because he was not authorized to discuss the internal deliberations.

The subtext being: It's no secret, so of course I can't go on the record with it. Now fuck off and never call me again.

8:53

Megan - I mean, they could at least look up a little history when they try to forge a birth certificate, you know? Goes to show how little they know about Africa, I guess.

So, like, these dudes are too scary to bring into a regular courtroom? That's the part I don't understand...

8:56

Spencer - It's more that the Justice Department doesn't have the evidence to make a compelling case for conviction. Either (a) the initial evidence justifying detention on a battlefield in Afghanistan is insufficient ("I found this guy near a house that served as a weapons cache, so I can detain him") or (b) battlefield evidence got destroyed, which has happened a bunch of times or (c) the detainee was abused, tainting the case.

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