A12 Brazil Spy Agency Inquiry The government's intelligence agency is coming under increasingly heavy fire for what appear to be violations of its charter and a return to some of the more odious practices of the past, including spying on political opponents and reporters.
"Reasonable" as the second preference might seem, McKaiser concedes in his essay, it is still "morally odious", still "the product of our racist past".
What of other Islamist groups, some of which have more violent pasts than the Brotherhood and hold more odious positions on women or Christians?
With all the corruption scandals in Connecticut's recent past, public financing is a welcome alternative to the odious tradition of politicians' raising big money from special interests.
THE lesson of past conflicts is that while providing weaponry may help overthrow an odious government, the weapons are often later used to settle scores.
And all those people on the right who whine about the "Blair Broadcasting Corporation" and make the odious allegation that Greg Dyke should not have been made director general because of his past donations to the Labour party - well, it's shut them up for a bit, hasn't it?
The $30 million bonus package was part of an odious marketing agreement between the Yankees and Rodriguez designed to push his 10-year compensation past $300 million.
Now out of Congress and watching his work face destruction from afar, Miller was especially concerned about Mulvaney's past donors, which, as he noted, included "check-cashers, payday lenders all of the most odious bottom-feeders in the American economy".
Later, as the hags concoct a particularly odious witches brew in their cauldron, a giant crystal ball appears through which Macbeth gets a glimpse of past and future, and some circles of light float up and down from the flies showing him the long line of kings Banquo's heirs will produce.
