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I think the Bush administration considers (or considered) much of the intelligence community to be too disloyal to carry out such a smoking gun fraud, and I don't think the CIA has any great affection for the NeoCons.

Of course with his purges Bush will eventually reshape that organization. The intelligence community needs to be "reality based" and has to live in this world for their own safety. The NeoCons don't. It's be interesting to see how that all shakes out.

-dameron

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from DailyHaiku

Hey, look over there!
Weapons of mass destruction!
Dude, those are just goats.

-dameron

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from DailyHaiku

Hey, look over there!
Weapons of mass destruction!
Dude, those are just goats.

-dameron

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DailyHaiku.com, saying more in 17 syllables than Big Media says all day.

Someone just crapped a brick.

Fortunately a cameraman was there to film it and it'll soon be released on DVD.

It's an interesting tactic, to classify those who disagree with you as "addicts". Welcome to the Brave New World. Soon Pfizer will have a pill that'll "cure" you of liking to watch women make out. I'll take a stab at naming it: Noleztra.

Hell, maybe one day we'll have a pill that eliminates compassion. (pops pill) Ahhh, fuck 'em.

-dameron

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Stranger than you think... -dameron

I can't imagine this swaying anyone. Holding on to the base maybe, but pimping live rebuttals to thousands of conservative blogs seems kinda masturbatory. I'm far more interested in the "real" live rebuttals that will be happening on stage.

This is the first time W. has debated with a record to defend. It should be interesting.

-dameron
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"Connie Rice writes an interesting article....

Is it this Condoleeza Rice?

Probably not, but damn, what an unfortunate name for a political commentator.

-dameron
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"Connie Rice writes an interesting article....

Is it this Condoleeza Rice?

Probably not, but damn, what an unfortunate name for a political commentator.

-dameron
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Who the hell are these people? Why does the repuglican party have information on well over 50% of the population? (50% are -not- registered republican voters)

Perhaps there's a little "archival" information there on 10-20 million republicans who have passed away. Maybe that'll come in handy come November.

Seriously, why so many?

-dameron

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Notice that there are no quotes that occurred in the last 30 years. I'm pretty sure that when Bush refers to his predecessors, he's thinking more of Clinton/Bush/Reagan/Carter, not Washington/Adams/Jefferson.

I think he, Bush, isn't as familiar with the first group as he is with the second. Congress alone has the power to declare war, that's why you see modern American wars called anything but that. Police Actions? Use it in a sentence? Yes, history recalls the tragic mistake of the "Vietnam Police Action".

Orwellian really.

-dameron

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From DailyHaiuk.com.

I wonder if this is going to apply to public domain stuff? He's got some video at his website:

Here and here.

This stuff should be public domain by CA law. Also, if I don't give you my email, are those href's up there considered "disseminating"?

-dameron

In preparation for opening a website lampooning politicians (DailyHaiku.com, I asked a friend who is an intellectual property lawyer for some advice on what would constitute fair use for the photos we were planning on appropriating from the AP and other such sources.

His advice was pretty telling. While we had a good fair use argument, he indicated we would most likely run into legal problems anyway with model releases for people who weren't public figures, and even some politicians (like Arnold Schwarzenegger hotly contest their public figure status regarding copyright.

As it is we had to go strictly with photographs in the public domain (and thankfully almost everything the federal government produces counts) or expressly granted for general use.

Posting entire found pictures (actually an entire collection), especially if used with a profit motive, with no permission from the photographer and the subjects is just asking for an incredibly brutal pounding in court.

-dameron

Still waiting for my C&D from Dick Cheney...

In preparation for opening a website lampooning politicians (DailyHaiku.com, I asked a friend who is an intellectual property lawyer for some advice on what would constitute fair use for the photos we were planning on appropriating from the AP and other such sources.

His advice was pretty telling. While we had a good fair use argument, he indicated we would most likely run into legal problems anyway with model releases for people who weren't public figures, and even some politicians (like Arnold Schwarzenegger hotly contest their public figure status regarding copyright.

As it is we had to go strictly with photographs in the public domain (and thankfully almost everything the federal government produces counts) or expressly granted for general use.

Posting entire found pictures (actually an entire collection), especially if used with a profit motive, with no permission from the photographer and the subjects is just asking for an incredibly brutal pounding in court.

-dameron

Still waiting for my C&D from Dick Cheney...

Flip flops aren't a bad thing.

Usually yes, being flexible is a good thing, if you "flip flop" for the right reasons. The list presented above were all "flip flops" Bush did based on what was most politically expedient.
Voters hate it when politicians seem to change their minds to get votes. It makes the candidate seem like they're whoring or lying and aren't to be trusted. Why Kerry, who has a decades long political career, gets slammed for a few minor revision to his overall political philosophy and Bush, who has managed all these 180 degree turns in 10 years (and most in the last 4) gets a free ride is beyond me.

-dameron

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Don't you mean, "under investigation for reading documents posted on an open server?

Just because I leave my door unlocked doesn't make it ok to steal my shit. He knew he was doing something wrong. They weren't his documents. He shouldn't have been looking at them. He shouldn't have given them to other people.

Just because doing the wrong thing is easy doesn't make it right.

-dameron

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Someone would have to acquire the rights from the copyright holder, so there wouldn't be two films.

Wells died in 1946 so "War of the Worlds", published in 1898 wouldn't enter the public domain until 2021. That's a whopping 123 years of copyright protection.

And we could look forward to Sherlock Holmes finally entering the public domain sometime next year.

-dameron

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Wolfowitz scares the hell out of me, and it's not just his policies but also his aversion to sunlight.

-dameron

I know they've done more to drive the adoption of open source software in my workpalce than anything I could have done with catch as catch can advocacy.

Thanks for the audit BSA! I could never have moved our 80% of our servers and 15% of our desktops to Linux without you.

-dameron

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I've recently publish a political parody site composed of haiku coupled with public domain information gathered from the various .gov and .mil sites on the net.

I have to agree with the article that the senate sites are some of the homeliest hodgepodges of html I've seen since I typed "+Goth site:geocities.com" into google. Culling information for my site (which I'll plug here: www.dailyhaiku.com has been difficult and exacerbated by a lack of consistent presentation cross government site (*.senate.gov sites are particulary awful).

In a completely selfish way I'd love it if all images on government sites were tagged in valid xml with copyright information, date and time, subjects, location, etc. As it is I have to guess whether the pictures I appropriate are under copyright or public domain, and I'm just waiting for Zell Miller to send me a letter complaining about that picture of him and that scimitar.

It looks like this kind of project could make sites like mine more viable and enhance the public's access to government work (which is mostly in the public domain if created by federal employees as part or their work duties).

-dameron

--- DailyHaiku.com saying more in 17 syllables than Big Media says all day.

I've recently publish a political parody site composed of haiku coupled with public domain information gathered from the various .gov and .mil sites on the net.

I have to agree with the article that the senate sites are some of the homeliest hodgepodges of html I've seen since I typed "+Goth site:geocities.com" into google. Culling information for my site (which I'll plug here: www.dailyhaiku.com has been difficult and exacerbated by a lack of consistent presentation cross government site (*.senate.gov sites are particulary awful).

In a completely selfish way I'd love it if all images on government sites were tagged in valid xml with copyright information, date and time, subjects, location, etc. As it is I have to guess whether the pictures I appropriate are under copyright or public domain, and I'm just waiting for Zell Miller to send me a letter complaining about that picture of him and that scimitar.

It looks like this kind of project could make sites like mine more viable and enhance the public's access to government work (which is mostly in the public domain if created by federal employees as part or their work duties).

-dameron

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