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...Is a Senate Vote Away

...but, contrary to what the media would have you believe (but, anything for ratings since we're not bombing anyone just yet), child abductions are down quite a bit.

It's all about how you spin a story these days...

- A.P.

If I buy a print of the Mona Lisa, do I have the right to draw on it? Yes, I do.

You missed my point. Of course you have every right to draw a turtleneck on the Mona Lisa. But that doesn't make you any less an idiot. Ignorance and intolerance go hand in hand and they are the two most destructive forces in the world. Their instrument is religion although needless to say the article in the Salt Lake Tribune wasn't in the least motivated by religion-endorsed ignorance, now was it???

Now how many /.ers really looked at the source of this article? I didn't think so...

• Part 1: E-Mail Users, Sites Growing Weary of Spam Onslaught
• Part 2: Spam Fattens Both E-mail And Bank Accounts
• Part 3: Anti-Spam Tools Are Not Perfect, But Can Mitigate Annoyance

• Part 1: E-Mail Users, Sites Growing Weary of Spam Onslaught
• Part 2: Spam Fattens Both E-mail And Bank Accounts
• Part 3: Anti-Spam Tools Are Not Perfect, But Can Mitigate Annoyance

• Part 1: E-Mail Users, Sites Growing Weary of Spam Onslaught
• Part 2: Spam Fattens Both E-mail And Bank Accounts
• Part 3: Anti-Spam Tools Are Not Perfect, But Can Mitigate Annoyance

I lived there from 89 to 2000! Graduated from Southern Utah University in 1993. The local paper sucks. Read the Trib instead.

http://sltrib.com/01112002/utah/166549.htm

That is the link to the right article.

That's my whole concern. I'm not overly concerned with the FBI finding something incriminating on my computer, but if they get their suspicions up at all, there goes your stuff for a very long time. The Steve Jackson Games case a few years back being a very famous example.

One that hit close to home for me was when my wife's cousin got picked up for strongarm robbery. Turns out the witness who picked him out was sitting in the back of a squad car in a parking lot at night and IDed him while he was driving past. Turns out she was looking for a guy with brown hair, brown eyes and a moustache. The next day at county, she walked in to give her statement, took one look and said, "Oh, that's not him; I'm sorry." Moral to the story: He had $160 in his wallet at the time, which is a small fortune in student money as many of you know. Confiscated upon arrest but not returned to him until about seven months later.

I've spent years putting my computers together since I don't make a whole lot of money, and if I happen to write the wrong thing in something like a diary entry or database on my own computer and the FBI picks it up, then I risk losing everything for a long time. This is where I spend the majority of my time expressing my thoughts and is more of an extension to my home than my living room, so these assholes would be less invasive by sticking microphones all over my house. Besides, I can't help but laugh at the idea of FBI oversight, when they are a continuation of the Hoover administration that spent almost five decades targeting every single person in the country that Hoover didn't personally like. Not to mention the current hardon that the FBI has for locking people away and terrorizing them on the flimsiest of pretenses.

Human powered devices? Think of the Wall Street investment possibilities! With the stock price of old school bulk energy suppliers like Enron swan diving into the abyss, companies that provide fuel for the human machine will skyrocket. Of all the companies that seek to power the human machine, Taco Bell has to be the most efficient source as a catalyst for human produced methane gas. IANASP (I am not a Stock Broker) but if I had some extra cash lying around, I think I would sink it into Tricon Global Restaurants, Inc (YUM) -- parent company of Taco Bell and that chicken shop that supposably sells dead fried birds that never had bones, feathers or feet with the mascot that reminds you of the "Good Ole Days" before the Civil War (War of Northern Aggression for you Georgia boys). One stop everyday at Taco Bell could power your PDA, Cell Phone, AbTronics Belt, GPS, IBM's Digital Photo Linux Watch, iPod and a Madonna Vougeing Aibo via a rear mounted methane to electric converter. Plus, if Hollywood can predict the future, according to Sly Stallone's movie "Demolition Man", every restaurant is going to be a Taco Bell anyway...

Training Day

Here is a link to Amazon's review of the movie. Here is a link to Yahoo's review of the movie. [User Rating: (4.1/5) ]

Chicago Tribune said this about Training Day.

"Training Day," for most of its length, is genuinely thrilling, explosively cynical about life on the streets and in the squad cars. More strikingly, it lets Washington play a really juicy heavy: hard driving, acid-tongued Detective Sgt. Alonzo Harris. Harris is Washington's meanest, most brutal and dangerous character in years -- an L.A. cop who's adjusted so completely to life among the wolves that he's become a wolf himself. Washington is magnificently vicious and wily in the role."

"Dares to be a cop movie based on character and not on pyrotechnics."
-- Jeffrey M. Anderson, SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER

"The film works a bit better as a vehicle for Washington, and it often gets by on his devilish charm. But it loses all its punch as he becomes more hissable."
-- William Arnold, SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER

"A taut -- if violent -- police thriller."
-- Ken Fox, TV GUIDE'S MOVIE GUIDE

"Washington's performance is so good, in fact, that it may temporarily blind you from seeing that the movie has obscured its message."
-- Sean Means, SALT LAKE TRIBUNE

All Posters.com as a poster of the show if you are looking for one.

Here is the director Antoine Fuqua's filmography. I was interested to see if he was an action director that is continuing his specialization or if he directed mainly heart felt drama's and was crossing genre's. With a limited filmography that includes previous B+ rated action flicks as The Replacement Killers, it seems that he has the background to provide us with an entertaining medium grade action flick. I would definately see this movie over The Musketeer.

How about this evidence? I grant you that this source could be considered biased. (See below for another source).

In what some describe as a blatant move to squelch criticism of its religion and achieve a media monopoly, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is being linked to an effort to seize control of Salt Lake City's only privately owned, "secular" daily newspaper, the Salt Lake Tribune. That would give the Mormon Church a virtual lock on the two papers now published in the state capital; the LDS already owns the afternoon Deseret News, which also publishes a Sunday morning edition.

Players in the breaking story include Utah Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch who this past week was accused of impropriety in the case, and the giant AT&T corporation which through a series of financial divestitures and acquisitions, ended up in control of the Salt Lake City Tribune. Following initial reports that the LDS was secretly attempting to find what has been described by the New York Times as a "backway to exercise editorial control," Mormon officials have been frantically trying to deny any involvement.

The Salt Lake Tribune's managers are urging the newspaper's owner, AT&T, to honor contracts they believe will thwart a three-year effort by the Mormon church-owned Deseret News to acquire The Tribune's parent company or a controlling interest in the agency that handles advertising, promotion and circulation for both newspapers.

The complex maneuvering surrounding the future of Utah's largest daily newspaper, conducted in the privacy of boardrooms and attorneys offices and at one point involving Sen. Orrin Hatch, carries large implications in a state where around 70 percent of residents are Mormon and The Tribune is viewed by many as an independent voice.

For additional 'evidence' from the secular Salt Lake Tribune, try the links on this page. The evidence shows that the LDS 'church' is manuvering to control all print media in Utah. It is obvious to me that this type of behavior illustrates the point in my previous post.
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"In the land of the brave and the free, we defend our freedom with the GNU GPL."

How about this evidence? I grant you that this source could be considered biased. (See below for another source).

In what some describe as a blatant move to squelch criticism of its religion and achieve a media monopoly, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is being linked to an effort to seize control of Salt Lake City's only privately owned, "secular" daily newspaper, the Salt Lake Tribune. That would give the Mormon Church a virtual lock on the two papers now published in the state capital; the LDS already owns the afternoon Deseret News, which also publishes a Sunday morning edition.

Players in the breaking story include Utah Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch who this past week was accused of impropriety in the case, and the giant AT&T corporation which through a series of financial divestitures and acquisitions, ended up in control of the Salt Lake City Tribune. Following initial reports that the LDS was secretly attempting to find what has been described by the New York Times as a "backway to exercise editorial control," Mormon officials have been frantically trying to deny any involvement.

The Salt Lake Tribune's managers are urging the newspaper's owner, AT&T, to honor contracts they believe will thwart a three-year effort by the Mormon church-owned Deseret News to acquire The Tribune's parent company or a controlling interest in the agency that handles advertising, promotion and circulation for both newspapers.

The complex maneuvering surrounding the future of Utah's largest daily newspaper, conducted in the privacy of boardrooms and attorneys offices and at one point involving Sen. Orrin Hatch, carries large implications in a state where around 70 percent of residents are Mormon and The Tribune is viewed by many as an independent voice.

For additional 'evidence' from the secular Salt Lake Tribune, try the links on this page. The evidence shows that the LDS 'church' is manuvering to control all print media in Utah. It is obvious to me that this type of behavior illustrates the point in my previous post.
--
"In the land of the brave and the free, we defend our freedom with the GNU GPL."

How about this evidence? I grant you that this source could be considered biased. (See below for another source).

In what some describe as a blatant move to squelch criticism of its religion and achieve a media monopoly, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is being linked to an effort to seize control of Salt Lake City's only privately owned, "secular" daily newspaper, the Salt Lake Tribune. That would give the Mormon Church a virtual lock on the two papers now published in the state capital; the LDS already owns the afternoon Deseret News, which also publishes a Sunday morning edition.

Players in the breaking story include Utah Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch who this past week was accused of impropriety in the case, and the giant AT&T corporation which through a series of financial divestitures and acquisitions, ended up in control of the Salt Lake City Tribune. Following initial reports that the LDS was secretly attempting to find what has been described by the New York Times as a "backway to exercise editorial control," Mormon officials have been frantically trying to deny any involvement.

The Salt Lake Tribune's managers are urging the newspaper's owner, AT&T, to honor contracts they believe will thwart a three-year effort by the Mormon church-owned Deseret News to acquire The Tribune's parent company or a controlling interest in the agency that handles advertising, promotion and circulation for both newspapers.

The complex maneuvering surrounding the future of Utah's largest daily newspaper, conducted in the privacy of boardrooms and attorneys offices and at one point involving Sen. Orrin Hatch, carries large implications in a state where around 70 percent of residents are Mormon and The Tribune is viewed by many as an independent voice.

For additional 'evidence' from the secular Salt Lake Tribune, try the links on this page. The evidence shows that the LDS 'church' is manuvering to control all print media in Utah. It is obvious to me that this type of behavior illustrates the point in my previous post.
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"In the land of the brave and the free, we defend our freedom with the GNU GPL."

Lancaster California, from my (detached) view, seems to be a town full of iodine seeking crank junkies and intolerant white-folk --

NAZI GANG CALLED KEY PLAYER IN DRUG TRADE
California town sees rash of hate crime
Grammy Min discuesses trial for not keeping records on crystal iodine sales

I could be wrong in my opinion, but I find it kind of fitting that Katz would choose an incident in Lancaster to examplify the blight of school informants ...

Considering Franco was a member of the fascist Falange (joined in 1955) and a personal friend of Franco this really shouldn't surprise anyone... I posted one reference for this below, but a search on google on Samaranch and fascist will turn up quite a bit more.

Utah Newspaper with Article on Samaranch

That was a good letter, but you have the wrong address, there is no stltrib.com domain, I did the whois lookup, and no records exist under that name. You would be better off using the correct domain name for the Salt Lake Tribute which is sltrib.com.

Read this. The principal sent Ian Lake (the kid in question) home once for having his hair dyed pink because the principal thought it would be "a distraction." So obviously he's not terribly tolerant or interested in even allowing for (let alone promoting) any kind of diversity.

Salt Lake City Tribune
"The pen is mighter than the sword... But what if you can't write?"