http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/06/28/scotus.terror.cases/index.html That’s absurd! You mean Bush does NOT have the right to detain a person indefinitely without any rights, without being able to see a lawyer, without being able to challenge the charges, all because there’s a “war” and they’re labeled “enemy combatant”? The world is going crazy, I say!
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It’s Not Torture, Easy Peasy!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,4948369-110878,00.html A very well written satire on “what is torture” from the viewpoint of the Bush administration, written by a former Monty Pythoner.
READ MORE »Bush = Hitler
A federal judge equates Bush’s gaining power with the way Hitler and Mussolini gained power. In those cases the dictators were given power legally, but without public mandate. Much like how Bush got the mostly Republican president appointed Supreme Court to make him President. There’s also interesting paralels in how the Bush administration has used [...]
READ MORE »White House Building Straw Terrorists
CIA Casts Doubt on Iraqi Militia Link to al Qaeda You’ll need to scroll down to the 2nd item for that article. The administration is grasping at any straw to try to justify the war, completely ignoring the evidence to the contrary and trying to make evidence fit even if it means twisting it all [...]
READ MORE »What In the NAME of God?
This is some great information on the origins and evolutions of the name of the Judeo-Christian God (Yahweh, Elohim, Abba, etc.) http://northernway.org/fathergod.html A lot of the information we have on the evolution of the Judeo-Christian God has come from the discovery of the proto-Hebrew Ugaritic writings. Probably as important a discovery to Western religion as [...]
READ MORE »I Started Jogging The Other Day…
…and I quickly gave it up, and started walking the other day. Man! I am SO out of shape. I’m kinda fat, I admit, but not too bad. But I’m VERY out of shape and get tired just reaching up over my head! So, in an effort to tone up and get some endurance, I [...]
READ MORE »Coming Out From My (Bash) Shell
Well, I’m into shell scripting now! It’s amazing! It makes me feel like I did back in 7th grade when I discovered programming on Apple II’s, and 9th grade when I started using Basic on Commadores, and a few years ago when I started PHP. The feeling of power, of control. That you can make [...]
READ MORE »Commercial Space Flight
If I didn’t know better, I’d think this was a joke! http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/06/02/private.space/index.html The first time a non-government ship will leave Earth’s atmosphere! I almost never thought it’d happen in my lifetime. If it works, it will mean the opening of a whole new world of space exploration! http://www.scaled.com/projects/tierone/New_Index/body.htm As cynical as I am about commercialism [...]
READ MORE »“I, Robot” Debacle
Holy mother of god, the movie “I, Robot” scares the b’jeebees out of me! Seen the trailer for it yet? Take a look here: http://www.apple.com/trailers/ in the “20th Century Fox” section. Now, I don’t know how many other people out there have read Issac Asimov, I have a feeling very few. He was one of [...]
READ MORE »Cool, Basic Linux Commands
So I’ve been using Linux for about 6 years now. Off and on. In that time I’ve learned to do a LOT of things–from building drivers to get odd pieces of hardware to work to writing scripts that do daily backups. But it seems, even as late as last week, I keep finding all these [...]
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