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Amnesty International recently released an article claiming the U.S. is at the top of a list of the world’s worst human rights violators. Today in the Rose Garden the President skirted a question about the claim. FLIP FLOP ALERT: Isn’t it strange that the administration was for AI before it was against it?
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Nader argues that since Clinton was impeached for perjury about his sexual relationships and… “Comparing Clinton’s misbehavior to a destructive and costly war occupation launched in March 2003 under false pretenses in violation of domestic and international law certainly merits introduction of an impeachment resolution.”

With the Downing Street Memo out, there is no reason why the issue shouldn’t be pursued.

What can you do? Sign this letter from the office of John Conyers to the President. It is a small… but a start.

Source Boston Globe

Bidding starts at $1,000 to put your company’s logo on a triplets stroller. Crazy or ingenious, only time will tell.

http://cgi1.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?MakeTrack&item=5584531258

This goes out to all my homies who in the run up to the presidential election of ‘04 were fully backing the president’s hard line on stem cell research, “don’t create life to destroy life.” And now with your republican senate and house passing legislation to allow federal funding for that very reason, don’t even think about changing your position. Stand tall behind your president. Don’t waver from your position under pressure to do the intelligent thing. Don’t be a flip flopper like John Kerry.

This op-ed piece in the Washington Post really hit home by describing an illogical double standard with the president’s stance. He argues that the logical conclusion from the president’s position would be to outlaw in vitro fertilization. He claims that since fertility clinics create many more embryos than they use, the freezing and destruction of this “life” is the same destruction of “life” in stem cell research. Compelling… but I’m going to err on the side of “life”, I mean cluster of a hundred non-differentiated cells.
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Why is it that it always seems like the world is going two steps forward one step back? Ok. I’ll just lay it out… ignorant people should not be allowed to “judge” things they do not have the slightest clue about.

For anyone that does not already know, PGP is used for encryption of many things, including but definitely not limited to, sensitive financial data, medical records, diaries, and email. It also can be used to encrypt things like terrorist recruiting books, child pornography, and probably the anarchist cookbook. Once again the technology is ambivalent to what it is used for (see p2p”>see p2p). Take away PGP now and soon you will need to take away all strong encryption. Do that and eventually you will need to get rid of SSL leading to the demise of e-commerce. Just because a person has PGP on their computer does not make that person a criminal. (Shit, I have PGP on my computer right now!) It would be like trying to link a person with a large fireproof safe in his closet to the theft of “The Scream.”

Full article here
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I loved playing chess in high school but fell off the wagon after I moved to Minneapolis for college. And now the largest open chess tourney in history, literally 2 blocks from my house. I really need to get back into it.

www.hbfoundation.org

Supreme Court of the United States of America decides

Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954) (USSC+) Source

This is a perfect example of “judicial activism” as it would be defined today. Should we change the rules of the Senate, to use the Nuclear Option, to allow the packing of the courts with conservative judges? Or should we uphold the rules of the Senate and stop the tyranny of the majority and protect the rights of the minority? On what side of the argument would you have been in 1954?
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I want one of these http://www.geospatialexperts.com/ricoh.html

from http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2005/05/digital_camera.html

The next pizza I eat will be from Galactic Pizza http://www.galacticpizza.com/default.html

This is basically an encyclopedia aggregator search tool. http://www.factbites.com

I’m considering starting a new category in which I take conflicting bible verses or just plain crazy verses and “expose” it. This could be a ton of fun and a great exercise in just really how wacky Christianity is.

Here is my first attempt – “An Eye for an Eye”.
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On Meet the Press, Mr. Shroen, a high level CIA agent, describes his orders from Cofer Black, the head of counterterrorism for the CIA, to kill Osama and bring his head back in a box.

Are you serious? High level Bush officials actually asked for Osama’s head in a box on a stick? Where and what year do we live? This is just disgraceful. Read the transcript below
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Apparently, the recent arrested Al Qaeda three man was little more than a regional facilitator between Al-Qaeda and local Pakistani Islamic groups. How is a regional manager the number three guy in Al Qaeda? Answer: they had the wrong man.

Here is what really happened. The United States confused the captured al-Libbi with the actual number three man, a Libyan on the FBI’s most wanted list, al-Liby. Captured al-Libbi doesn’t even show up on the FBI’s most wanted terrorists list.

The best part of the confusion is …. “When The Sunday Times contacted a senior FBI counter-terrorism official for information about the importance of the detained man, he sent material on al-Liby, the wrong man.”

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-1602568,00.html

http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/10454/trackback/

http://webaccelerator.google.com – I haven’t tried this yet but for browsing on a highspeed line this could be pretty slick.
Patterns of Software Craftsmanship: From Apprentice to Journeyman – The guys at ThoughtWorks always have interesting ideas.

Well… Snipsnap as a bliki is just a little too immature and I am attempting to move all my content to Movable Type this weekend. Hopefully, things will be back up and running with the look and feel you have known and loved for the last year.