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See the indictment.

The charges were in relation to his disclosure of the information. Yes, there was also some scapegoating going on.

From his indictment. Have a look at items 14, 17, and 24 of the grand jury charges.

I presume a court document is sufficiently authoritative?

Like this?

No, I was thinking of something more like these:

http://www.visionandpsychosis.net/images/OfDesign/InsOf.jpg
http://i.cnn.net/cnn/SPECIALS/2000/columbine.cd/Photos/CAFETERIA.01.JPG
http://www1.yadvashem.org/yv/en/visiting/images/cafeteria_big.jpg
http://www.aaps.k12.mi.us/scarlett.home/files/cafeteria.jpg
http://www.uplanddesigngroup.com/Cafeteria-2.jpg
http://www.marlerblog.com/uploads/image/nytimescaf.jpg

> Right now more jobs creates more spending, which helps break the economic problem

Why does more spending fix the problem? All we need is more spending, more debt, and less savings, right? Yes, that has done wonders for us and will have no long-term consequences and will not increase the burden on a social safety net that is already underfunded by ~$50 trillion.

http://i.l.cnn.net/money/2008/10/15/news/rainy.day.fortune/barr_SAVINGS_RATE_graphic.gif

Or do you enforce the law by challenging every single voter in heavily Democratic areas?

Enforcement is good. Selective enforcement is of course wrong.

If you are going to make an allegation like that it's helpful to have a citation or two.

The many allegations were officially made by the campaign of Hillary Clinton, and they are far worse than any allegations I have seen against Republicans.

Registration fraud != voter fraud

Did I say voter fraud? No, I don't believe I did. I guess this kind of fraud is okay with you though, as long as it serves your purposes.

Oops, here is Pic 2

Better versions are at CNN. Pic 1 and Pic 2

Better versions are at CNN. Pic 1 and Pic 2

Just what we need, more ofthis.

I guess it would be more difficult to shoot down a self-healing mesh of small satellites(as opposed to shooting down one big one).

You can listen to the music here. And going off CNN's picture of the cover of the book, which shows the notes, they don't look particularily well lined up, with things kinda offset this way or that way a little bit. Looks like they definitely had a margin of error they were working with.

Anyone else notice any similarities with the Donnie Darko Character?
The interruption seemed vaguely similar to something in the movie. (except without police and tasers...)

http://i.l.cnn.net/cnn/2007/US/09/18/student.tasered.ap/art.taser.kid.ap.jpg

http://ia.imdb.com/media/imdb/01/I/32/45/38m.jpg

That's nothing. Look what they did to the regular iPod. It's as big as Steve Jobs! How am I supposed to take that on the bus?

Wrong. You have obviously never seen a search warrant before. They are not a generic search "free pass" for the cops. It must state specifically what they are looking for, and the location.

Look here for a quick example noting page two the Attachment A part.
Or here for the Duke Lacrosse search warrant. Notice the "description of items being seized" section.
Or here if you want to see the search warrnat for the Virgina Tech shooter. Notice the first blank is where they fill in the location, and the second blank under "for the follwing property,objects, and/or persons".

"Exercise generated blood flow to the dentate gyrus of the people, and the more fit a person got, the more blood flow the MRI detected, the researchers found."

However, if your gym looks like this one shown in the article, I think the blood will flow elsewhere

CNN is running this article, but the picture has been edited out the offensive finger.

I find that interesting they will edit a "drawn" finger but will show blody dismembered bodies.

I never thought I'd see the day this would be on CNN:
http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2007/US/01/31/boston.bombsc are/newt1.1827.boston.wcvb.jpg

Their breaking news graphic is of a television in South Korea tuned to CNN breaking the news of the test. Not just self-referential, but self-promotional: now that's journalism!

The actual decision by the court is worth reading. Some quotes:

• "In this case, the President has acted, undisputedly, as FISA forbids. FISA is the expressed statutory policy of our Congress. The presidential power, therefore, was exercised at its lowest ebb and cannot be sustained."
• "We must first note that the Office of the Chief Executive has itself been created, with its powers, by the Constitution. There are no hereditary Kings in America and no powers not created by the Constitution. So all "inherent powers" must derive from that Constitution."
• "For all of the reasons outlined above, this court is constrained to grant to Plaintiffs the Partial Summary Judgment requested, and holds that the TSP violates the APA; the Separation of Powers doctrine; the First and Fourth Amendments of the United States Constitution; and the statutory law."
• "The Permanent Injunction of the TSP requested by Plaintiffs is granted inasmuch as each of the factors required to be met to sustain such an injunction have undisputedly been met. The irreparable injury necessary to warrant injunctive relief is clear, as the First and Fourth Amendment rights of Plaintiffs are violated by the TSP. See Dombrowski v. Pfister, 380 U.S. 479 (1965). The irreparable injury conversely sustained by Defendants under this injunction may be rectified by compliance with our Constitution and/or statutory law, as amended if necessary. Plaintiffs have prevailed, and the public interest is clear, in this matter. It is the upholding of our Constitution. As Justice Warren wrote in U.S. v. Robel, 389 U.S. 258 (1967): Implicit in the term 'national defense' is the notion of defending those values and ideas which set this Nation apart. . . . It would indeed be ironic if, in the name of national defense, we would sanction the subversion of . . . those liberties ....Id. at 264.
  IT IS SO ORDERED.
  ANNA DIGGS TAYLOR
  UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE"

What's wrong with that cop? It looks like he's in gastric distress about to rip a major one, or he's in love, and just saw the object of his affection... Man... (The fact those two different thoughts could be applied to be the same photo is disturbing in itself :)

This job has been mentioned a few times and I've always wonder how much he makes at it, and how many logos etc he has to make. The article points out it's on 20% of what he does, but not really what else he does (and of course, mentioning pay-rate is usually considered rude).

It also mentions how sometimes sites suffer an effect similar to a slashdotting through being linked from the google logos, so I found if google might consider coordinating with some of those a little better to offer temporary mirroring services.

Out of the logos shown on the CNN site, I think that the machaelangelo is probably my fav.

I think it really *is* a photo of Malda... but it's a gif, so it's just low quality.
Following is the 'photo' used in TFA. You be the judge:
http://i.cnn.net/money/popups/2006/biz2/peoplewhod ontmatter/slashdot.gif

I'd like to have a link to a comparison picture, but most of the photos I have of CmdrTaco are... well, kinda private. ;)

Really? I was thinking more John Ritter:

http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2006/BUSINESS/05/18/global. office.linustorvalds/story.linus.torvaldscnn.jpg

http://crapple.iwarp.com/pictures/young_john_ritte r.jpg

I knew something was wrong with that picture. Nice 'shop though.

http://i.cnn.net/money/2006/03/30/news/newsmakers/ gates_howiwork_fortune/bill_gates_400.jpg

>If I wish to discuss fashion designs the only real effective dialog to do so would be in pictures of the fashion designs

Picture =! Photo

You could make a pencil drawing of the subject and that is free, as in artistic impression. Similarly, in most US court houses you cannot make a photo or shoot video, therefore news agencies illustrate the events with color pencil drawings, like this: http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2006/LAW/03/24/moussaoui.an alysis/vert.zebley.ap.jpg

That court photo ban isn't considered a violation of the 1st amendment, so there is no problem with the french rationale in the case. It is just yankee arrogance against merry France, who do have fashion.

Whatsamatta with you, you say we all have to read it and no link? I have rectified this. http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2005/images/12/20/kitzmille r.pdf

So no one is going to pay for a piece of plastic.
Say it to George Lucas.
I like to keep old 5 1/4 game disks. I love it's boxes.

May be, better than a "virtual" game it's a box with merchandising in it. Or may be sell games cheaper...

Easy: go to fair.org

1) A link to the index page of an media watch dog is not putting up some numbers. Is this part of your scientifically rigourous approach to facts? I'm familiar with the FAIR website -- just where does it give numbers that show the proportion of journalists that fabricate stories, let alone indicate that it's "lots" of them? In fact, FAIR clearly doesn't believe that journalists "fabricat[e], or close to it" articles, or that the journalistic profession is endemically corrupt, or they wouldn't (from their "About Us" page) "defend working journalists [and work] with both activists and journalists. We maintain a regular dialogue with reporters at news outlets across the country, providing constructive critiques when called for and applauding exceptional, hard-hitting journalism." And many current and former subscribers to FAIR (including myself) are journalists, and FAIR is regularly quoted by journalists in both the mainstream and alternative press.

2) Pointing to scientfic literature is a non sequitor. Scientific papers, to have any value at all, confine themseleves to science. As the recent court case against intelligent design showed, attempting to broaden science to cover the full spectrum of human experience and thought is antithetical to what science is. Trying to compare scientific literaure with journalism is apples to oranges. Journalists, even when striving to be as accurate, well-researched and fair as humanely possible, don't write articles like scientific papers because it would be wholly inappropriate. Journalism has different objectives, with different audience demands. Scientific reportage of facts is designed to allow other scientists to recreate those the process by which those facts were derived. Journalists don't do that -- for example, because Woodruff and Bernstein didn't tell every reader of the Washington Post exactly how they too could reproduce their reporting, should readers have rejected the evidence of corruption within the Nixon administration?

3) By the way, if you're looking for universal factual purity in scientific comunity, you're on a fools errand: scientists are heavily incentivized to "make a name for themselves" too, with direct inducements in the form of academic and institutional positions and grant monies. Here's a hard statistic: The Journal of Cell Biology recently reported that some 25% of manuscripts submitted to it have had images that were manipulated in some way that violates their guidelines. This isn't to attack cell biology as a crock, just to let you know that science isn't some totem that you can fetishize into a gold standard by which to weigh journalism.

4) "I'm not talking about the deliberate deceptions that a number of journalists have been caught at, I'm talking about journalism itself" Ah, just as predicted, weasling. You originally wrote; "that's what a lot of [journalists] do. The bad part is that a lot of the effort that goes into their stories is fabrication or close to it.". A fabrication is a deliberate deception. Non-deliberate deception is usually covered under the terms 'bias' or 'error'-- the FAIR website can tell you more about this. And you weren't talking about journalism, you were talking about journalists, so you were talking about deliberate deceptions commited by a (still unspecified) number of individuals. You were also dismissing a commenter's opinion on the basis that they hadn't met any journalists. And again, if meeting journalists is your criteria for the worth of an opinion, just how many have you met?

how much bigger his manhood is over Steve Jobs

Judge's Decision

It's a great read.

http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2005/images/12/20/kitzmille r.pdf Also, this decision is unfortunately only binding for the dover area school district, not the rest of the state.

President Bush was immediately blamed for the eruption as a result of not signing the Kyoto Accords and according the UN sources the possibility of sanctions was being investigated to raise money to repair the damage done to the sun by the imperialist USA. Slashdotters cheered like drunken revolting French mobs around a guillotine and began burning pictures of Bill Gates in a display of drunken ignorance of who was being blamed for what today.

Unfortunately, the story included a very artistic rendering of an orange instead of a dramatic, albeit stock, solar flare image. It's just somehow not as dramatic and motivating that way...

i mean, yeah, congratulations on the fix, yo. but, like, its a bit hard to overlook the image of this going on up there, while http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/africa/07/29/niger.a idgroups/index.html">this is going on down here ..

yeah yeah, i know, space exploration is good for the whole race, not just a select, privileged few, we shouldn't stop doing it, i know ..

its just, such a mundane action to have spent billions of dollars on, on the one hand, in light of the lightness of the other hand, is all i'm trying to say. i'm somehow saddened by the Discovery mission .. someone prove me wrong, or an idiot or something, and cheer me up again ..

"Lollers"? You've been on irc for too long.
LOLCANO JUST KIDDING LAWLFUL.

As for CNN, CNN is for underaged panty shots
LOLDONGZNSACIABRBAFKBRAINEDFBIROFLMAO
-J

I see it! I see it! http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2005/TECH/space/07/27/space .shuttle/top.shuttle.debris.jpg See that red arrow? THAT'S what hit the shuttle!

Dennis has already made his views on Gitmo very clear. Check out this photo -- "High waves crash on the shoreline of the U.S. Guantanamo Bay Naval Station in Cuba on Thursday." (CNN Caption)

Maybe not a shark's head, but it definatly looks like something that would be on the death star.

http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2005/SHOWBIZ/Movies/05/17/s tar.wars.overview/top.star.wars.04.jpg

I just have to ask: Is there any way that the editor/webmaster could have been blind to the inuendo on this one? This has gotta be intentional.

B, there are soldiers getting shot at every day, not foxhole to foxhole, but many times you will have mortars hitting near you all day.

What happened to Mission Accomplished?

And as we all know Damon is Jesus.

For once Benjamin consented to break his rule, and he read out to her what was written on the wall. There was nothing there now except a single Commandment. It ran:

ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL
BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS

[...]
Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.

Esteban Carpio and Abner Louima got to see police revenge in action. No trial, just beaten within an inch of their lives. With Abner Louima the NYC Police department repeatedly raped his by jambing a toilet plunger in his anus while yelling "Take this, nigger". And these are the ones that lived.

I'm sorry, but the police are a cancer on society. And before anyone says I don't understand I was once a LEO assigned to the US Marshall's Office for three years (among other duties). Most cops are nothing more than stupid animals that couldn't think for themselves if they're life depended on it. While there are many exceptions including some excellent police officers, it is clearly not the norm.

Remember this: next time you get pulled over remember who has their hand on a service issued firearm and who is unarmed. Does it make you feel a little scared? If there's a disagreement are they going to believe you or the cop?

Check out the moive "The Thin Blue Line" (1988). It's about how the police framed Randall Dale Adams for the murder of a police officer. He's was weeks from execution before the truth can out and freed.

Many cops carry "throwaway pieces", handguns and knifes that can't be traced back to them so if they kill someone they have an excuse. Back in the '80s I spent some time riding with the Washington DC PD and reported to an officer shooting a suspect. The officer claimed the suspect (now quite dead) had a knife. An Inspector came out, didn't see a knife and said he'd back in five minutes. When he returned there were now four knifes under the body. It seems a few "people" grabbed their throwaway knifes and kicked it under the body without checking to see if someone else had already done it. The Inspecter saw the knifes and closed the case as a justifed shooting. Maybe it would've been different if the kid (16 years old) wasn't black and didn't live in public housing.

Welcome to Amerika.

Abner Louima: NYC officer arrested in alleged sexual attack on suspect
Esteban Carpio: No bail for suspect in detective's shooting

In this picture it almost looks like Richard Branson is urinating on Fosset.

Funny, the host of the ceremony is showing cleavage. And one of the winners has a tux on.

Answer me this.. Would you take this call?

I remember seeing Clinton before he was elected, and then pictures of him at the end of his term. He got old FAST.

1992
2000

here.

Portrait of a Content Rich White Man

OK

For the record, I happen to think France didn't want a war because they were in bed with Iraqi officials. I think Bush wanted a war because he and his cronies wanted back in bed with Iraqi officials... (that's Donny (Beady Eye) Rumsfeld shaking Sadam's hand). Or more specifically, they wanted their palms greased with Iriqui oil. I'm not sad that Saddam's gone, in fact I am rather pleased that butchers like him and his sons are dead/soon to be dead. I just don't like Bush lying about why he went in... nor do I like the ineptitude with which they did it. Anyways... back to apoliticial Linux...

If someone makes a good product that you like to use, pay them for it... at least occasionally. American 'free market' ideology? It doesn't mean take something for free and not pay them because you don't like them. It means if you don't like them and don't want to give them money, don't use their product. It means if you use something, pay for it. It also means if you use their product without paying them, generally you're a thief. In this particular case, you are just an asshole.

Rumsfeld shaking hands with Saddam in the 80s
http://i.cnn.net/cnn/2002/US/09/30/sproject.irq.re gime.change/rumsfeld.80s.jpg

America's WMD: Air Force tests "mother of all bombs"
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/2020/iraq_moab03 0311.html

"In a flashy debut for its biggest non-nuclear bomb, the Air Force today dropped a 21,000-pound behemoth onto a test range in Florida"

"Anthrax sent to U.S. senate matches Army strain"
http://www.cnn.com/2001/HEALTH/conditions/12/18/an thrax.investigation/

CNN: Army confirms anthrax production in Utah
http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/12/12/army.anthrax/

BUSH SPURNS BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS BAN
http://www.guardian.co.uk/bush/story/0,7369,494257 ,00.html

"a 1972 treaty banning biological weapons has been added to the list of international protocols Bush has decided to ignore"

U.S. accused of trying to derail anti-torture pact
http://www.photius.com/rogue_nations/torture.html

"The United States on Tuesday was accused of trying to derail a new draft international treaty against torture that has taken a decade to negotiate."

"The treaty, which is to be debated in the U.N. Economic and Social Council beginning on Wednesday, would set up an international system of inspections for all sites where prisoners were held, to insure that torture was not taking place. "

and this:

Document details American plan to bug phones and emails of key U.N. Security Council members
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12239, 905936,00.html

I don't think Moore's film is the cause of "controversy". I think the hawkish Bush administration and previous republican ones are the cause of controversy. Don't shoot the messenger.