oh I am so emailed out.
I have just . for the first time in at least 2 years, answered every single message in my email inbox. It is totally empty. All gone.
62 messages in 3 hours with only one break for an exploding computer.
So write me now… avoid the rush.
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I’ve got recommended reading for all of you. I was thinking of the Christensen’s in particular, since I’ve had relevant conversations with many of you. But I suppose it is pretty universally applicable:
Small Pieces Loosely Joined: A Unified Theory of the Web by David Weinberger
There is no computer jargon. There will be no articles on the profitability of a web site. And it won’t tell you how to do your banking online.
Read it because it will tell you how the Web affects real people, like you.
The web is not a business. Before there was any money-makers online, there were over 12,000,000 people accessing it on a regular basis in this country alone.
Maybe, just maybe, the newspapers and TV have been missing part of the story.
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Planned Sept. 11 Restrictions On Foreign Flights Canceled
Does anyone else remember that every plane used last September was part of an American fleet?
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Counter-protest to the Nazi rally at the Capitol this weekend.
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“My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times Building.”
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“At least one person was arrested Saturday afternoon as about 300 neo-Nazis rallied near the Capitol.
“Police arrested a counter-demonstrator who threw a stone at a neo-Nazi. About 1,000 police officers placed themselves between the two groups.”
This shows you the typical District police reaction to any protest.
300 Nazis + 300-400 anti-Nazi protesters = 1.4 cops to handle each protester.
I will give the cops this… the cops were slightly less instigatory this time. That may be due to the fact the main force this time seemed to be comprised of Capitol Police as opposed to the usual MetroPD.
Pictures later.
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“The secretive federal court that approves spying on terror suspects in the United States has refused to give the Justice Department broad new powers, saying the government had misused the law and misled the court dozens of times, according to an extraordinary legal ruling released yesterday.
“A May 17 opinion by the court that oversees the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) alleges that Justice Department and FBI officials supplied erroneous information to the court in more than 75 applications for search warrants and wiretaps, including one signed by then-FBI Director Louis J. Freeh.
“Authorities also improperly shared intelligence information with agents and prosecutors handling criminal cases in New York on at least four occasions, the judges said.”
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“U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton will be in town next week focusing on the environment.
“Local officials confirmed this morning that the junior senator will be making a stop in Geneva Thursday, Aug. 29. A time and location will be announced later. The event will be open to the public.”
— The Finger Lakes Times
I lived in that shitty little town for 22 years. Ronald McDonald and Grimace were the most famous people I ever saw.
Then I move to DC, and lived here through 3 years of the Clinton presidency. Never saw anyone from the white house in the flesh.
Now the power-hungry runt is visiting my hometown.
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“A federal appeals court refused Monday to halt a program to expose new students at the University of North Carolina to information about the Koran.
“Attorneys for a conservative Christian group on Friday had asked the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond to stop Monday’s discussion sessions of a book that interprets the Islamic holy text. Members of the Virginia-based Family Policy Network and three unidentified UNC-Chapel Hill freshmen contended the assignment was unconstitutional.”
— WashingtonPost.com
Yup. There’s no surer way to end a period of great social upheaval and strife than by trying to stop people from understanding the very basis of the greatest misunderstanding.
It is an extreme interpretation of the Qur’an which leads many people to do stupid things. So the best idea some Tipper Gore wanna-be can come up with is to stop students from reading said document in hopes of understanding the roots of the issue?!
Man, I didn’t know these lawyers were done with the case against teaching evolution in schools. It’s no wonder this is a nation of culturally ignorant and intellectually stagnant rednecks.
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Nothing brings home the truth that you come from a small town than finding out the big attractions at this years festival included rides in the bucket of a power company truck.
I woulda so been there.
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There are ignorant people and there are manipulative people in this city. Normally the bullshit doesn’t get this deep until congress is in session.
For now I simply refer you to what I wrote a couple months ago. Yeah I trailed off at the end, but you get the idea.
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It’s only going to get worse, but I have no desire to comment on this at the moment.
For now I simply refer you to what I wrote a couple months ago.
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I have started preparing my pictures from the recent Christensen picnic. Though it is nowhere near ready to openly announce, you can check out the progress here.
And in case you missed it over on the left there, the pictures from the 2002 Calder reunion are up here.
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I work with a bunch of obnoxious assholes.
I say that in the most loving way. I would rather not work with any other kind of people. As the old saying goes, “If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything.”
But is there anyone left who isn’t a victim?
In a discussion about soft drinks, after saying she didn’t drink pop, I mentioned, as might happen in a discussion, that I’d heard Coke was the number one selling beverage in the world.
The response involved an indignant rebuff, that she simply didn’t like any soda and didn’t drink it!
Who asked? Who offered? Who beat you about the head and shoulders with a 12 oz. can and forced a Sprite down your throat?
When a fact doesn’t apply to your life, it is hardly cause for great personal grief. My discussion of facts will not be curtailed by your indignation.
As if you didn’t know by now that I thrive on upsetting people. But if you make it too easy for me, it will just take all the fun out of it.
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“”If Russian hackers can be convicted on evidence obtained by the Americans through hacking, it means the U.S. secret services may use further illegal means of obtaining information in Russia and in other countries,” an FSB spokesman told Interfax on Thursday.”
— The Moscow Times
Good point.
Apparently search warrants are only necessary when dealing with God-fearing American citizens, as opposed to those heathen fer’ners.
(Unless of course you’re a member of the RIAA, in which case you can do whatever the hell you please, without being held responsible.)
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“The U.S. Secret Service as of today will ban most trucks on an eight-block stretch of 17th Street NW just west of the White House because of the threat of potential truck bombs, D.C. and federal officials said.”
They’re lying to you.
My guess would be it’s the SS that is the one misleading. They already have a reputation for insane security precautions. And they currently have a president who demands more security than any in history.
The White House is already secure from any reasonable truck bombs. From t he front and back of the White House, you can approach no closer than the rough equivalent of 2 city blocks. And to each side are building so massive that they easily dwarf many times over the 300 unit apartment building in which I live. Buildings so large they would absorb the largest truck bombs I have ever seen.
They lie.
Now ask why.
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fact n. (‘fakt):a piece of information presented as having objective reality – in fact : in truth
“1) Same-sex spouse responses were flagged as invalid to comply with the 1996 Federal Defense of Marriage Act (H.R. 3396) passed by the 104th Congress. This act instructs all federal agencies only to recognize opposite-sex marriages for the purposes of enacting any agency programs. In order for Census Bureau data to be consistent with this act and the data requirements of other federal agencies, same-sex spouse responses were invalidated. The legislation defines marriage and spouse as follows:
“In determining the meaning of any Act of Congress, or of any ruling, regulation or interpretation of the various administrative bureaus and agencies of the United States, the word ‘marriage’ means only a legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife, and the word ‘spouse’ refers only to a person of the opposite sex who is a husband or wife.”
“In order for the Census Bureau to be consistent with this act and the data requirements of other federal agencies, same-sex “spouse” responses were invalidated. “
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