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#Moronic Bush Judge says US can hold detainees indefinitely

On Wed, 20 May 2009 19:53:32 -0500, "4979 Dead, 112 since 1/20/09" <...@finestplanet.com

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Judge says US can hold detainees indefinitely

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By Raw Story

Published: May 20, 2009
Updated 10 hours ago

A Bush appointed judge ruled late Tuesday night that the United States
can hold detainees for an indefinite period.

The opinion issued by U.S. District Judge John Bates “limited the Obama
administration’s definition of who can be held,” Nedra Pickler reports
for the Associated Press. “But he said Congress in the days after Sept.
11, 2001 gave the president the authority to hold anyone involved in
planning, aiding or carrying out the terrorist attacks.”

“Bates’ opinion comes amid increasing debate over whether President
Barack Obama is going to release anyone from Guantanamo. Obama has
promised to close the prison by January, but Senate Democrats say they
will block the move until he comes up with a plan for the detainees,” the
AP notes.

The AP quotes ACLU attorney Jonathan Hafetz as saying that the opinion
“flouts the Constitution’s prohibition against indefinite detention
without charge.”

“The decision wrongly concludes that terrorism suspects at Guantanamo may
continue to languish in military detention rather than being prosecuted
in our civilian courts,” Hafetz said. “Like the president’s recent
decision to revive military commissions, this ruling perpetuates rather
than ends the failed experiment in lawlessness that is Guantanamo.”

Bates was tapped for the District Court seat by former President George
W. Bush a week before 9/11 in 2001. He was selected to join the Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Court just the other day.

A pdf of the decision can be found at this link.

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Anonymous Wrote:

On May 20, 6:53 pm, "4979 Dead, 112 since 1/20/09"
<...@finestplanet.com
The Republitard judge is 'moronic' for ruling that the President has
the authority to hold prisoners indefinitely, but the Democrap
President is righteous for exercising that authority. The judge ruled
that the President MAY detain them indefinitely, he did not rule that
the President MUST do so. Obama has CHOSEN to exercise an authority
you believe is unconstitutional, but you blame Bush for it.

On Thu, 21 May 2009 20:54:27 -0500, "4976 Dead, 109 since 1/20/09" <...@dead.com

Don't put words in my mouth, you sleazy piece of shit. I'll have you for
breakfast.

It's a stupid ruling, and the President has no right under the
Constitution to detain ANYONE. It wasn't right when your toy Nazi
started doing it in 2001, and it's not right now.

However, I listed to Obama's speech this morning (something I'm sure you
didn't do) and he is pressing Congress hard to get it worked out so those
still held can face justice and be processed in accord with the
Constitution.

He's still wrong about military tribunals; those are permitted only on
foreign soil and during times of war, which this is not. If you feel
otherwise, have Congress declare war and stop fucking around.

--
Liberals like, trust and respect people because they believe most people
are like themselves. Right wingers hate, fear, and avoid people because
they figure most people are pretty much like themselves.

On Thu, 21 May 2009 19:17:58 -0700 (PDT), "Billary/2009" <...@gmail.com

On May 21, 9:54 pm, "4976 Dead, 109 since 1/20/09" <...@dead.comwrote:

"Declare war" against whom moron? These terrorist have no state, no
land, no military assets in the traditional sense. This is a new kind
of war. And our system is slowly but deliberately adjusting to it. The
congress, MY congress (not yours because you're an illegal Canuk) gave
the president this authority. Obama is blowing smoke up your tailpipe.
The Dems won't let him endanger America with is naivete. get a clue or
get out. In the worst case get a lawyer. But good luck on that one. No
blood thirsty, ambulance chasing, maggot barrister worth his salt
would take on this case.

On Thu, 21 May 2009 19:24:29 -0700, " The Ugly Republican Brand is Dead" <...@txboozecop.com

"Billary/2009" <...@h23g2000vbc.googlegroups.com...
On May 21, 9:54 pm, "4976 Dead, 109 since 1/20/09" <...@dead.comwrote:

"Declare war" against whom moron? These terrorist have no state, no
land, no military assets in the traditional sense.

Sorry. We don't want to fight another holy crusade, moron.


On Thu, 21 May 2009 19:30:40 -0700 (PDT), "Billary/2009" <...@gmail.com

On May 21, 10:24 pm, " The Ugly Republican Brand is Dead"
<...@txboozecop.com
You need to read your history moron. The crusades were fought by
Muslim Kings and their states. This isn't a holy crusade, at least not
for us. What's your plan to keep America safe? Please do tell.

On Thu, 21 May 2009 19:33:10 -0700, " The Ugly Republican Brand is Dead" <...@txboozecop.com

"Billary/2009" <...@x3g2000yqa.googlegroups.com...
On May 21, 10:24 pm, " The Ugly Republican Brand is Dead"
<...@txboozecop.com
You need to read your history moron. The crusades were fought by
Muslim Kings and their states. This isn't a holy crusade, at least not
for us. What's your plan to keep America safe? Please do tell.

lol!

You'll have to dig up King Louie then and tell him he didn't fight two
Crusades. Disastrously, I might add.


On Thu, 21 May 2009 19:36:21 -0700, " The Ugly Republican Brand is Dead" <...@txboozecop.com

"Billary/2009" <...@x3g2000yqa.googlegroups.com...
On May 21, 10:24 pm, " The Ugly Republican Brand is Dead"
<...@txboozecop.com
You need to read your history moron. The crusades were fought by
Muslim Kings and their states. This isn't a holy crusade, at least not
for us. What's your plan to keep America safe? Please do tell.

Here, dummy.

http://www.middle-ages.org.uk/king-louis-ix.htm


On Fri, 22 May 2009 04:52:41 -0400, Steve <...@yahooooooo.com

On Thu, 21 May 2009 20:54:27 -0500, "4976 Dead, 109 since 1/20/09"
<...@dead.com

...and when an obese guy like Jamieson talks about eating, you know he
means business.

...as if Jamieson knows anything about the Constitution...

<LOL

Well actually, most everyone feels otherwise.. That's why they will
continue.

On Wed, 20 May 2009 18:14:19 -0700 (PDT), "Billary/2009" <...@gmail.com

On May 20, 8:53 pm, "4979 Dead, 112 since 1/20/09"
<...@finestplanet.com
Yup, and Obama is going to hide behind that ruling to do what must be
done in the interest of National security. I'll give Obama credit
for being a fast learner. He's getting a number of things right
regarding these goddamn camel jockeys. It must drive you lefties
INSANE that Bush was so right about these matters. It must infuriate
you lefties to learn that Nancy Piglosi had a "24" moment. It must
really eat at you when you figure out that Gitmo isn't really going to
close after all. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! I'm really enjoying the past
week. President Bush has been vindicated on a number of counts.

On Wed, 20 May 2009 18:26:56 -0700, "Bush, Minister of Fear" <W. Shru...@ussrGeorgia.net

"Billary/2009" <...@r34g2000vbi.googlegroups.com...

Yup, and Obama is going to hide behind that ruling to do what must be
done in the interest of National security. I'll give Obama credit
for being a fast learner. He's getting a number of things right
regarding these goddamn camel jockeys. It must drive you lefties
INSANE that Bush was so right about these matters. It must infuriate
you lefties to learn that Nancy Piglosi had a "24" moment. It must
really eat at you when you figure out that Gitmo isn't really going to
close after all. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! I'm really enjoying the past
week. President Bush has been vindicated on a number of counts.
==============

The Bush voters should have to support them.


On Wed, 20 May 2009 20:37:00 -0500, "4976 Dead, 109 since 1/20/09" <...@dead.com

Don't any assumptions on my behalf. I think that judge is a fucking bone-
headed nazi, and this is an incredibly stupid ruling that goes against
everything America stands for.

I see you're still clinging to all your predigested talking points.
Honestly, don't you get tired of being treated as skeet by those
assholes? They send you out just to get shot down...

--
Liberals like, trust and respect people because they believe most people
are like themselves. Right wingers hate, fear, and avoid people because
they figure most people are pretty much like themselves.

On Wed, 20 May 2009 19:14:25 -0700, "Gandalf Grey" <...@gmail.com

"RightWingShill/2009" <...@r34g2000vbi.googlegroups.com...
On May 20, 8:53 pm, "4979 Dead, 112 since 1/20/09"
<...@finestplanet.com
^ Yup, and

and it was a stupid ruling.


On Wed, 20 May 2009 19:35:21 -0700 (PDT), "Billary/2009" <...@gmail.com

On May 20, 10:14 pm, "Gandalf Grey" <...@gmail.com
"Congress in the days after Sept.11, 2001 gave the president the
authority to hold anyone involved inplanning, aiding or carrying out
the terrorist attacks" It is the law. I thought that Gandalf Grey
believed in the rule of law. Or at least he did when he was an
American. You don't like the law, then call your congress critters.
Until then, get with the program.

Anonymous Wrote:

Congress gave Bush and the Republicans everything they wanted, and all
they could do is snivel whine and cry about how those meenie
democrats, how hate america and the troops, while voting against our
wounded warriors
at the same time.

You people are LOST

On Wed, 20 May 2009 20:34:29 -0700, "Gandalf Grey" <...@gmail.com

"RightWingShill/2009" <...@z7g2000vbh.googlegroups.com...
On May 20, 10:14 pm, "Gandalf Grey" <...@gmail.com
^ "Congress in the days after Sept.11, 2001 .....

have you ever had an original thought in your entire useless life, Shill?


On Thu, 21 May 2009 03:36:43 -0700 (PDT), "Billary/2009" <...@gmail.com

On May 20, 11:34 pm, "Gandalf Grey" <...@gmail.com
I thought that Gandalf Grey believed in the law. What the hell
happened?

On Thu, 21 May 2009 09:34:33 -0700, "Gandalf Grey" <...@gmail.com

"RightWingShill/2009" <...@r3g2000vbp.googlegroups.com...
On May 20, 11:34 pm, "Gandalf Grey" <...@gmail.com
^ I thought

No you didn't. That's your problem, Shill. You don't think.


On Wed, 20 May 2009 23:36:13 -0500, "4976 Dead, 109 since 1/20/09" <...@dead.com

afe6...@r34g2000vbi.googlegroups.com...

You clearly are far to chicken to be an American. That's why you are
willing to let the government incarcerate people indefinitely; they scare
you because the government told you they were scary, and like a
frightened child, you throw away everything of value in your efforts to
flee the bogeyman.

--
Liberals like, trust and respect people because they believe most people
are like themselves. Right wingers hate, fear, and avoid people because
they figure most people are pretty much like themselves.

On Thu, 21 May 2009 05:03:54 -0400, Steve <...@yahooooooo.com

On Wed, 20 May 2009 23:36:13 -0500, "4976 Dead, 109 since 1/20/09"
<...@dead.com

Irony anyone?

On Thu, 21 May 2009 03:35:48 -0700 (PDT), "Billary/2009" <...@gmail.com

On May 21, 12:36 am, "4976 Dead, 109 since 1/20/09" <...@dead.comwrote:

So I guess that means that you have proof that these terrorist really
aren't mean, dangerous, psychotic, bi-polar, homicidal maniacs. Where
you one of the guards at Gitmo? You must have been. Because you seem
to possess intimate knowledge about the behaviors and intentions of
these inmates that no one else has. Please do tell the class how you
came by this learned opinion.

On Thu, 21 May 2009 09:34:33 -0700, "Gandalf Grey" <...@gmail.com

"RightWingShill/2009" <...@z19g2000vbz.googlegroups.com...
On May 21, 12:36 am, "4976 Dead, 109 since 1/20/09" <...@dead.comwrote:

^ So I guess

That's your second problem. You spend the time you should be thinking
indulging in guesswork.


On Thu, 21 May 2009 12:03:51 -0700 (PDT), "Billary/2009" <...@gmail.com

On May 21, 12:34 pm, "Gandalf Grey" <...@gmail.com
So you have proof that these "detainees" are not dangerous people?
Then why does harry Greed tell America that democrats will not allows
these terrorist to enter the United States. Is he promoting fear? If
so, why haven't you publicly called him on it?

On Thu, 21 May 2009 12:08:47 -0700, "Gandalf Grey" <...@gmail.com

"RightWingShill/2009" <...@3g2000yqk.googlegroups.com...
On May 21, 12:34 pm, "Gandalf Grey" <...@gmail.com
^ So you have proof that these "detainees" are not dangerous people?

What needs to be PROVED, is that they ARE dangerous. What needs to be
PROVED is that they ARE criminals. We don't live in your dystopia of nazi
Germany, Shill. This is a country of LAW. And in our system, even a
pathetic subhuman like you is presumed innocent until PROVEN guilty.


On Thu, 21 May 2009 14:27:55 -0500, "4979 Dead, 112 since 1/20/09" <...@finestplanet.com

eb73...@z19g2000vbz.googlegroups.com...

It's up to former Americans like your self to prove that they are. I
note that of the nearly 1,000 people rounded up and held illegally for
almost seven years, a total of THREE have been convicted of anything.
Most have been let go after years of false imprisonment and torture, and
the Pentagon is shocked to learn that some of them no longer admire the
United States.

Then

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On Thu, 21 May 2009 14:31:01 -0700 (PDT), "Kurt 'Gandalf Grey' Nicklas" <...@bellsouth.net

On May 21, 3:27 pm, "4979 Dead, 112 since 1/20/09"
<...@finestplanet.com
Says the lying non-American who can't vote and never will.

Hahaha.

-------------------------
"If it
is, then I'm going to make his life difficult, because he's doing this
from his place of employ. Several of the Weasels have been stalked by
this moron, and it's time he got slapped hard enough to make him
decide
to get a new hobby."
--------------- "Zepp" Jamieson discussing getting even with me
11/27/08


On Thu, 21 May 2009 15:34:31 -0700 (PDT), "Billary/2009" <...@gmail.com

On May 21, 3:27 pm, "4979 Dead, 112 since 1/20/09"
<...@finestplanet.com
"some of them no longer admire the United States"

WOW Zippy. You've outdone even your own stupidity. I don't know what
to say.

On Thu, 21 May 2009 15:53:00 -0700, "Gandalf Grey" <...@gmail.com

"RightWingShill/2009" <...@g1g2000yqh.googlegroups.com...
On May 21, 3:27 pm, "4979 Dead, 112 since 1/20/09"
<...@finestplanet.com
"some of them no longer admire the United States"

^ I don't know what
to say.

You should work on cultivating that state of mind, Shill. You with your
stupid mouth zipped shut is about the only YOU that's tolerable.


On Thu, 21 May 2009 21:59:11 -0500, "4976 Dead, 109 since 1/20/09" <...@dead.com

Do you know how the US got most of those prisoners? They put up
rewards. Up to $20,000 to anyone in Afghanistan willing to inform on
their neighbors. TwentyK US is ten years' good living in Afghanistan.
The US had no shortage of takers on the offers, and anxious to show that
they were "doing something" about terrorism, didn't question the
stoolies. They just went and rounded up whoever got fingered. And of
course, because American right wingers are complete cowards, there never
were any trials of any kind for the vast majority of them, and most were
eventually released to go back home after years in the American gulag.

The Taliban was delighted with the American offer, and used it to finger
people who were suspected of corroborating with the Americans, once word
got out that the Yanks weren't questioning the stoolies' claims. And a
lot of them wound up in the Gulag because they flirted with the
neighbors' daughter, or hadn't paid a debt, or were just annoying.

It's pretty unlikely that out of the 900 or so that got shipped off to
Gitmo, 10 were actually anti-American before the US invasion.

If Osama bin Laden ever met you, he would want to shake your hand.

--
Liberals like, trust and respect people because they believe most people
are like themselves. Right wingers hate, fear, and avoid people because
they figure most people are pretty much like themselves.

--
Liberals like, trust and respect people because they believe most people
are like themselves. Right wingers hate, fear, and avoid people because
they figure most people are pretty much like themselves.

On Fri, 22 May 2009 06:07:40 -0700 (PDT), "Billary/2009" <...@gmail.com

On May 21, 10:59 pm, "4976 Dead, 109 since 1/20/09" <...@dead.comwrote:

Zippy, you're very close to making it to the do not disturb list:
this one is a keeper "If Osama bin Laden ever met you, he would want
to shake your hand. "

It's right up there with your racist rants against "Toms" and
"Tokens". Now you have it all wrapped up. You have a thing for "Toms",
"Tokens" and "Terrorist".

On Fri, 22 May 2009 08:57:04 -0500, "4976 Dead, 109 since 1/20/09" <...@dead.com

Sounds like you're getting ready to surrender there, chuckles.

Don't have a fucking thing to say about how the US accumulated those poor
bastards at Gitmo, do you?

Please, kill file me.

Not talking to opponents is all just part of your Republican courage,
isn't it?

--
Liberals like, trust and respect people because they believe most people
are like themselves. Right wingers hate, fear, and avoid people because
they figure most people are pretty much like themselves.

--
Liberals like, trust and respect people because they believe most people
are like themselves. Right wingers hate, fear, and avoid people because
they figure most people are pretty much like themselves.

On Fri, 22 May 2009 10:42:29 -0400, Steve <...@yahooooooo.com

On Fri, 22 May 2009 08:57:04 -0500, "4976 Dead, 109 since 1/20/09"
<...@dead.com

<LOLno idea as to the irony contained in that statement...

On Fri, 22 May 2009 07:11:03 -0700 (PDT), "Billary/2009" <...@gmail.com

On May 22, 9:57 am, "4976 Dead, 109 since 1/20/09" <...@dead.comwrote:

That's your problem Zippy. You assume that everyone else is stupid and
that you liberals have all the answers. Of course paid informants. And
of course some Mohammads turned in their goat fucker brother in-laws.
Then it was up to very smart, highly trained, intelligence operatives
to sort the wheat from the chaff. You've made the assumption that we
detained a bunch of useless, local herdsmen. You also made the
assumption that our boys over there are completely stupid, feckless
and reckless. You are wrong on all counts. And unless you have some
documented evidence that proves that the vetting process was flawed to
the extreme, then you have nothing as usual Zippy. And as we say in
NY. "Not for nothing", but I don't killfile anyone. Unlike you. I'm
all ears and eyes to what the opposition has to show & tell. So please
post your proof right here. Please make sure that it is a credible
source. because I think that people like Richard Clarke would think
you an idiot ===>>>

On Fri, 22 May 2009 09:13:48 -0500, "4976 Dead, 109 since 1/20/09" <...@dead.com

Ah. There you go. Since you can't respond to my post, argue with my sig
instead.

If I regard right wingers as stupid (and I do) then you need only look in
the mirror to figure out why. Dishonest, too.

--
Liberals like, trust and respect people because they believe most people
are like themselves. Right wingers hate, fear, and avoid people because
they figure most people are pretty much like themselves.

On Fri, 22 May 2009 07:30:19 -0700 (PDT), "Billary/2009" <...@gmail.com

On May 22, 10:13 am, "4976 Dead, 109 since 1/20/09" <...@dead.comwrote:

Okay, then you have no proof that our intelligence agents locked up a
bunch of goat fucking herdsmen for no reason at all. All you have is
your stupid ass opinion on the mater and the talking points that
Ariana Huffington told you to post. Your surrender is graciously
accepted.

On Fri, 22 May 2009 10:00:08 -0500, "4976 Dead, 109 since 1/20/09" <...@dead.com

Well, gosh, don't you have a whole bunch of court trials and convictions
to show me I'm wrong?

Oh, wait...

--
Liberals like, trust and respect people because they believe most people
are like themselves. Right wingers hate, fear, and avoid people because
they figure most people are pretty much like themselves.

On Fri, 22 May 2009 10:44:01 -0700 (PDT), "Billary/2009" <...@gmail.com

On May 22, 11:00 am, "4976 Dead, 109 since 1/20/09" <...@dead.comwrote:

Terrorist don't have legal rights fuckwit. I really wish that I could
put you, a box cutter and one of these "detainees" together in a room.
I'd love to see what would happen. And then see how you feel about it
afterward.

On Fri, 22 May 2009 14:01:05 -0500, "4979 Dead, 112 since 1/20/09" <...@finestplanet.com

Back when you were an American, you would have known that you didn't just
arbitrarly strip someone of their rights just because some government
asshole labeled them "a terrorist".

I bet you used to be proud of being an American. Standing for freedom,
rights, rule of law, all that.

Now look at you.

Just pathetic.

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On Fri, 22 May 2009 12:21:45 -0700, "Gandalf Grey" <...@gmail.com

"4979 Dead, 112 since 1/20/09" <...@posted.carinet...

And stupid and intentionally dishonest. I've documented for Shill the fact
of our obligations under US Laws, International Treaties and the
Constitution. He never responds to the "letter of the law" which states
that EVERYONE is covered by these treaties and that NO ONE can be tortured
under any circumstances. He just waits a few days and again projects the
lie that there's some kind of mythical standard under which there are
certain people who can be tortured legally.

It's clear to me that Shillary and the rest of the right wing "Fantasy 24"
team are thoroughly anti-American. They don't give a damn about the laws
and they don't give a damn about treaties that we've signed and helped to
write, and they don't give a damn that our Constitution defines those
treaties as "the Supreme Law of the Land" in Article 6 Section 2. It's a
mixture of life as a computer game and outright treason as a lifestyle for
the right wing. That's exactly why they can't get elected to dog-catcher
unless they're in the heart of the deep dark South.

Screw them.


On Fri, 22 May 2009 15:15:04 -0500, "4979 Dead, 112 since 1/20/09" <...@finestplanet.com

It does explain the Pew Poll that came out today that showed party
identification among voters as "Republican" being at 22%--the lowest
since at least the early days of the Great Depression.

Saps like Billary think they can just keep repeating the same lies over
and over and somehow they'll start working even when it's manifestly
obvious that the real problem is that they STOPPED working.

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On Sat, 23 May 2009 09:15:48 -0700 (PDT), "Billary/2009" <...@gmail.com

On May 22, 4:15 pm, "4979 Dead, 112 since 1/20/09"
<...@finestplanet.com
Hindsight is 20-20 isn't it? In the days & months after 911 there were
five questions that required an
immediate and definitive answer (1) Where is OBL (2) Does OBL have a
bio-weapon? (3) Does OBL have a nuke? (4) Does OBL have the plans &
capability to deliver mass casualties on the scale of a major city?
(5) How do we obtain that information ***NOW***

The questions aren't legal questions, they aren't technical questions.
They are moral questions. How does a government that values the lives
of its citizens over the lives of its murderous enemies obtain that
information from the individuals who know the answers and refuse to
divulge the information? The clear moral choice was to use "Enhanced
Interrogation techniques". And it worked. We know that it worked
because if it hadn't worked. The Obama administration would have
already secretly leaked reams of documents that claim it didn't work.

Instead the Obama administration refuses to release any documents that
prove EIT worked. Ask yourself why.

You really are stupid aren't you?

On Sat, 23 May 2009 10:04:23 -0700, "Gandalf Grey" <...@gmail.com

"RightWingShill/2009" <...@y9g2000yqg.googlegroups.com...
On May 22, 4:15 pm, "4979 Dead, 112 since 1/20/09"
<...@finestplanet.com
^ Hindsight is 20-20 isn't it?

Not for you, Shill. Your posting history proves you're just as much of a
cretin looking back as you are looking at what's right in front of your
eyes, you pathetic loser.


On Sat, 23 May 2009 12:40:33 -0700 (PDT), "Billary/2009" <...@gmail.com

On May 23, 1:04 pm, "Gandalf Grey" <...@gmail.com
So why hasn't anyone "leaked" the documents that "prove" that EIT
"didn't work"?

You're always speculating about conspiracies. Why are you so silent on
this one?

On Sat, 23 May 2009 12:46:36 -0700, "Gandalf Grey" <...@gmail.com

"RightWingShill/2009" <...@f19g2000yqo.googlegroups.com...
On May 23, 1:04 pm, "Gandalf Grey" <...@gmail.com
^ So why hasn't anyone "leaked" the documents that "prove" that EIT
"didn't work"?

Why hasn't any of the old Bush guard that still exists in the national
security apparatchik "leaked" documents that prove it
DID????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

You're a fucking moron, Shill. Go get some more hillbilly heroin and watch
the bouncing Rush for the rest of the weekend.