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links for 2007-05-06
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“Murals depicting the life of Buddha and painted 800 years ago have been discovered in a cave in a remote area of Nepal, a report said.”
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Makeshift memorial in Rayburn Building is almost full. “More space is needed.” says Rep. Vernon Ehlers (R-MI). Hmm…
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“”My town is gone,” Greensburg, Kansas, City Administrator Steve Hewitt said after surveying the wreckage.”
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“[W]hat’s interesting is the veto promise in the context of the reasons Bush’s right wing support gave for opposing the legislation: They’re afraid they be able to preach hatred and won’t have anyone left to hate. At least, not anyone that it’s OK to hate
links for 2007-05-05
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Paris Hilton should be jailed for 45 days for violating terms of her probation for an alcohol-related reckless driving conviction, city prosecutors say.
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“Last month, two Belgian publications reported that the Brussels police have begun an investigation into a citizen’s allegations of rape — in Second Life.”
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Ars Technica reviews the Pidgin 2.0 (formerly Gaim), the open source instant messaging protocol for Linux and Windows.
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“[C]ircumcision is news again in New York, but this time the city is promoting the practice. The April 5 New York Times reported that the city health department has decided to encourage male circumcision as an HIV-prevention method”
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“Talking to Syria is treason! Pelosi’s visit undermined the U.S. effort to isolate those terrorist Arabs! The Democrats are . . . wait, what? The Secretary of State is meeting with the Syrian foreign minister? Secretary Rice asked Syria for help?? Well,
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“The reported presence of Americans in a police interrogation center while a gay activist was being tortured underscores the indifference of Iraq’s U.S. occupier to the dire plight of Iraqi gays and to the religiously-inspired murder campaign which has
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“In the first internal military study of battlefield ethics in Iraq, officials said Friday they also found that only a third of Marines and roughly half of soldiers said they believed that non-combatants should be treated with dignity.”
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“[C]onsidering the religious right is now embracing white supremacists and known hate groups, lauding a guy wearing an “anti-homo” shirt as a hero is downright Christian.”
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“Wouldn’t it be great if there were two of him? Because then we could have had WHAM! without the lame guy.”
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The NRA doesn’t mind suspected terrorists being able to buy weapons.
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“While excavating a valley in the Irish city of Tara for a proposed highway, construction workers uncovered the remains of a giant circular structure believed to be a Celtic temple. “
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“Petty Officer 2nd Class Knight– yes, he’s even been promoted — has decided that this time, having been kicked out once for being gay, there’s no reason to go back into the closet. And he’s even more determined this time to remain open….”
links for 2007-05-04
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Moses versus the Burning Bush
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‘CBS News reports on a new Children’s Health Fund study showing that “despite billions of dollars in government spending, more than one in four children still don’t have full-time health care — a gap twice as big as anyone thought.”‘
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“Just a month or so after Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi met with senior Syrian government officials, and was labeled a traitor by Republicans for visiting “a terror state,” US Secretary of State Condi Rice is now planning to meet with senior Syria
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“Digg’s own terms of service prohibit the posting of copyrighted data, but the masses countered with cries of “You can’t copyright a number!” They have a point. But they took it too far.”
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“[T]he new, democratic Afghanistan is under pressure to give women the same opportunities that men have — such as allowing them to become police officers.”
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“The organizers of the event have announced this year’s keynote speaker — actor Wil Wheaton (who, coincidentally, is also a Mac user and past speaker at Macworld Expo). PAX 2007 happens Aug. 24 – 26, 2007 at the Washington State Trade and Convention c
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“There is no end to the depths to which this man will sink to rope in the right wing extremist vote. I want McCain to stand in a room with retired Marine Sgt. Eric Alva, the first American service member injured in Iraq, who lost a leg on March 21, 2003
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“The religious right has gone into overdrive, spreading misinformation to defeat the bill. Judy Shepard published an op-ed piece on The Politico today to combat their “bald-face lies”. The President today threatened to veto the bill should it reach the o
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“[I]t’s rather telling that in spite of the GOP’s rampant homophobia, when they get called on it, they backtrack fast. Though I’m guessing the religious right bigots aren’t going to be very happy with Tommy after that.”
links for 2007-05-03
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“Michael Crichton’s classic SF novel The Andromeda Strain will infect television in a new original miniseries for A&E, to be executive-produced by filmmaking brothers Tony and Ridley Scott, Variety reported.”
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“Congress members rebuked China on a range of issues, criticizing Beijing’s test of an anti-satellite weapon, its military buildup, its policy of forced abortion, its support of ruthless regimes, and its repatriation of North Korean refugees in violation
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Nothing is too small to be missed by the political enforcer who makes sure the programs fit the political agenda…Pick the issue – Iraq, Katrina, global warming, food safety, US Attorneys, etc – and it is always the same. What ever happened to competence
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“A giant sandstorm, whipped up by the seasonal haboob wind, engulfs Khartoum, Sudan.”
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“[R]esearchers exploring the Egyptian city and its harbor (a member of an underwater archaeology team inspects a sphinx that is at least 3,000 years old) have found new clues to life in the ancient imperial capital.”
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“Judges at the International Criminal Court have issued their first arrest warrants for suspects accused of war crimes in Sudan’s Darfur region, the ICC said on Wednesday.”
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“The Democratic Congress must hang tough, particularly to the deadline set in Feingold-Reid–the deadline recommended by the Iraq Study Group–for a withdrawal of troops by March 31, 2008.”
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“Congratulations. This only cost us 3,300 American lives and nearly half a billion dollars. Check it out, we’ve made Iraq as free as Cuba.”
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“Hmmm… not sure that saying that labeling civil rights law protecting African-Americans as “special rights” that leave out millions of Americans like you and me (their words) is the wisest argument the religious right Republicans should be making in opp
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“On his News and Comment radio show this morning, Paul Harvey said “the media should put a stop” to labeling “women and children” killed in war as “civilians.” He said, “It was civilians, for goodness sake, who decapitated New York City.””
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Even in pink, the Zune is still ugly.
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“It’s time the media asked the American Family Association, the Family Research Council, and the Concerned Women for America why they are promoting a known “hate group” on their Web sites.”
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“The Sergeant Major who conducted the EO training for Ohio’s unit level EO reps told them that “since atheism is not a religion, atheists are not protected by the regulation and it is acceptable for officers and chaplains to disparage their own soldie
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“Mexican scientists said they have identified the world’s oldest lobster fossil, a creature that was alive when Africa was only just breaking apart from the Americas some 120 million years ago.”
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“Guy took pants to dry cleaner, they lost the pants, guy wants $67 million in compensation for the pants, travel, and mental distress because he couldn’t wear them the first day on the job. The worst part? The guy suing is a judge.”
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“The House approved more money for the popular Head Start program Wednesday after rejecting a GOP-led attempt to allow religious groups participating in the program to hire and fire staffers based on religious grounds.”
links for 2007-05-02
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“The less committed a president is to the law, the more need there is for Law Day, which makes it a holiday whose time has come.”
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“I’ve read two disturbing reports about Facebook allegedly banning gay user-created groups in response to pressure from Arab governments.”
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“The damn melamine that was killing dogs and cats is in our food supply. Does the FDA or USDA even give a sh*t? Do you trust this government to know what is going on, or rather, to tell us what is going on?”
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“Flashback to 1999, when George W. Bush was governor of Texas. Then, Bush criticized President Clinton for not setting a timetable for exiting Kosovo…Despite his past statements, Bush now refuses to apply the same standard to his war and smears those wh
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“[I]gnoring the will of the American people, George W. Bush will veto the supplemental spending bill, cutting off funding for our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, for healthcare for veterans and for Homeland Security.”
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“Reacting to President Bush’s veto of the Iraq supplemental bill, Speaker Nancy Pelosi noted this evening that Bush once believed it was important for a president to lay out a timetable”
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Praying for stem-cell researchers
links for 2007-05-01
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“[I]t hadn’t occurred to him that trying harder, practicing more, might have fashioned his ample abilities into a more polished package.”
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“[The paln] also collides with democracy itself, for no Koranic state can have a sovereign parliament free to legalise such abominations as equal rights for women and homosexuals or the drinking of alcohol.”
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“[T]here are 23 million people on Taiwan without representation or voice in critical UN agencies, like WHO, and WHO’s Secretariat has once again rejected Taiwan’s bid for membership because of objections from Beijing. The excuse is that Taiwan isn’t a sov
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“‘Granting patent protection to advances that would occur in the ordinary course without real innovation retards progress,’ Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote for the court.”
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“Special place in hell for these homophobes. Ex-”American Family Association” attorney Joe Murray rips the religious right for their un-Christian level of hate.”
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“[T]he Bush administration turned down an offer of two free cruise ships from Greece, instead paying $249 million to use Carnival Cruise Lines, a company with close financial ties to the Republican Party and the Bush family. The administration also turned
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“Scientists now conclude that it was a tsunami that flooded the Bristol Channel in western England. It flooded hundreds of square miles and scoured the landscape, killing about 2,000 people.”
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“The copy describing this device is weird: in addition to touting its absorbency, fresh floral scent and gentle glide applicator, it also has barbed probes and a range of 14 feet.”
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“This is hatred. Set someone apart. Make them “other.” Make them less than human. This is where it leads. This is what it looks like.”
links for 2007-04-30
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What leading conservative proponents of the war in Iraq said before and just as it was starting.
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“Reliance on abstinence-only sex education as the primary tool to reduce teenage pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases — as favored by the Bush administration and conservatives in Congress — looks increasingly foolish and indefensible.”
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“More than 142 years after a band of state militia volunteers massacred 150 sleeping Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians in a misdirected act of vengeance, a memorial to the tragic event was officially dedicated Saturday.”
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Rise of the eMac
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“If I were making a pile of money by doing something illegal and I got caught, do you think I’d be able to get off just by agreeing not to do it again? I guess if what I was doing was making illegal prescription drugs, I could.”
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“I don’t want to have this surgery, but I don’t have any choice.”
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Excerpts from former CIA director George Tenet’s new book.
links for 2007-04-29
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“Brad Archer, curator of the geology museum at Arizona State University, hurried out to the site near Lindsay and McKellips roads Friday when he got the news that John Babiarz, owner of Greenfield Citrus Nursery, was carefully excavating bones found at th
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“It’s one thing when they have bat boys and aliens in the tabloids, but this false headline is going to get people killed.”
links for 2007-04-28
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“An active-duty Army officer is publishing a blistering attack on U.S. generals, saying they have botched the war in Iraq and misled Congress about the situation there.”
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Arguments for and against.
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“Rudy Giuliani, one of the most pro-gay politicians in America, is now pulling a Mitt Romney and trying to pretend that he’s really not THAT pro-gay. You see, like John McCain and Mitt Romney before him, Giuliani is busy re-inventing himself for the Repub
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“The device, found in a duffle bag Wednesday, “was configured in such a way to cause serious bodily injury or death,” said David Carter, assistant chief of the Austin Police Department.”
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“What kind of country do we live in where teachers let high school kids write articles about tolerance in the school papers? Next thing you know, we’re going to be teaching children about the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.”
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Doonesbury skewers Dobson on his hypocrisy
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‘”It should not be forgotten that the Turkish armed forces are a side in this debate and are a staunch defender of secularism,” the statement said.’
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” A 27-year-old Austin man was arrested on Friday and charged with placing an unexploded bomb containing some 2,000 nails outside an abortion clinic in the state’s capital.”
links for 2007-04-27
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“New Line has signed Queen Latifah to topline a remake of All of Me, the 1984 supernatural comedy that starred Steve Martin and Lily Tomlin, Variety reported.”
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“You give me fever: President Bush hosts a Senegalese dance troupe on Malaria Awareness Day at the White House in Washington”
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“not only didn’t McCain bother to show up, neither did the Republicans’ other great defender of the war, Lindsey Graham (R-SC). The only Democrat not to show up, Senator Tim Johnson, had a pretty good excuse – a brain hemorrhage. What was McCain’s and Gra
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“A bill introduced in Congress Thursday aims to overturn a controversial royalty fee increase that Internet radio advocates say threatens to cripple their services.
The “Internet Radio Equality Act,” introduced by Reps. Jay Inslee (D-Wash.) and Don Man
