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Let me give you an example:

http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20050228-0 40910-9605r.htm ...these things are supposed to be safe too. This is not the only place I've read things questioning this, and some of it has come from the law enforcement authorities themselves. I think this one is pretty obvious.

"She made no bones about the fact that she was an agency employee and her husband was a diplomat," Fred Rustmann, a covert agent from 1966 to 1990 ... "Her neighbors knew this, her friends knew this, his friends knew this. A lot of blame could be put on to central cover staff and the agency because they weren't minding the store here. ... The agency never changed her cover status." Mr. Rustmann, who spent 20 of his 24 years in the agency under "nonofficial cover" -- also known as a NOC, the same status as the wife of Mr. Wilson -- also said that she worked under extremely light cover. In addition, Mrs. Plame hadn't been out as an NOC since 1997, when she returned from her last assignment, married Mr. Wilson and had twins, USA Today reported yesterday

We are not randomly rounding up citizens and putting them in internment camps.

True. The roundups are much more systematic.
muslim lawyers
immigrants
film makers
You're probably white middle class, Judeo-Xtian, and have nothing to fear.

I can hope we get another David Souter.

How can you hope for another David Souter after his recent ruling on eminent domain??? People don't seem to understand that both the Democrats and Republicans are now statist parties. Just b/c the Democrats oppose the Republicans doesn't mean they're suddenly libertarian good guys.

And to set the record straight, it was the conservative, Republican-appointed judges who opposed this decision - three of Reagan's four judges (Rehnquist, Scalia, Connor, but not Kennedy) and one of Bush Sr's two judges (Thomas, but not Souter) opposed the ruling[pdf]. Furthermore, it is Congressional Republicans introducing legislation to mitigate its damage, while Congressional Democrats state both their opposition to that legislation and support of the Kelo decision. Of course, there are plenty of examples of people on both sides of political spectrum opposing this, even socialists, so it's much more complex than the typical dumbed-down Democrat-vs-Republican football match. So enough of the uninformed, knee-jerk reactions please, and we'll take two more Rehnquists President Bush, thank you very much.

Agreed. We're playing a dangerous game here. On the one hand, we're hoping the chaos of a free market will overcome a fascist dictatorship. On the other hand, we're feeding that fascist dictatorship military with more cash than it's ever had before. Which one is going to win out? With the speed of their recent military developments, particularly in regard to Taiwan, I fear the later is going to be the dominant force for quite some time.

Three things to consider with China:

1. The U.S. has vowed to protect Taiwan from invasion.
2. China has vowed to invade Taiwan.
3. China is building troop-carrying boats and Nukes as fast as they can.

According to this Washington Times article, the Chinese Gov't is building up their army beyond what would be necessary for a Taiwan invasion, prompting the author of the article to question whether or not Taiwan is the real target. Granted it is the Washington Times, but it is still food for thought:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/specialreport/20050 626-122138-1088r.htm

According to the Washington Times (http://washingtontimes.com/national/20050602-1205 16-4965r.htm) the Army and Marines are both far short of their recruiting goals for this year: "The Army missed goals in February and March by a few percentage points, then fell a much larger 42 percent behind in April.". The Navy and Air Force are doing better, but the ground forces are hurting already, and they are the forces that matter most in the kind of mess the U.S. has got itself in in Iraq.

If the military continues to fail to meet voluntary recruiting targets, some kind of coercive recruiting system will be used. It won't be called a draft, though. For example, access to certain types of government benefits may be restricted unless you've served. Most such moves will have to be very indirect, because the federal government doesn't directly fund welfare programs, for example--they are funded through the states or local governments. But a lot of the money ultimately derives from federal coffers, and there are plenty of ways to make it hard to get at unless you've served.

In the end, if the state of War on Everyone We Think Might Be Thinking About Maybe Being a Terrorist Someday continues, there will be a draft, pure and simple. Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it, and simply because a draft would be stupid is no argument against it.

No argument of the form, "It would be stupid to do X, therefore no one will do X" is valid, as it depends on the hidden premise: "No one ever does anything stupid", which is trivially false. People, myself included, do amazingly stupid things every single day (I am at the moment, for example, wasting my time engaged in online debate, despite knowing that in ten years online the only person I have ever seen change their mind about anything is me.)

I don't think there was a more controversial topic then the a-bomb. For Japanese atrocities committed against prisoners, at Bataan, Singapore, at sea, Nanjing, one could argue that we want to make sure we bring the horror of war to the Japanese people (civilians) to let them know that war isn't just fun and games like Tojo's government made them out to be. Although one must also think -- didn't the US already do that with battleships bombarding coastal industrial centers at will and bombers terror bombing Tokyo with incendiaries? I suppose, like Truman said, the cost of lives lost to the a-bombs may just be well under the lives that will be lost on both sides if a landing on the home islands took place.

Last time when they needed to remind the public about the necessity to keep on hating and fearing the arabs, they blew up a firecracker. Next time they'll do something more dramatic, but I don't think they'll try to pull another 9/11 - yet.

The mark of a free society is that you can get lawyers, go to court and fight things like this.

I agree this may be the mark of a free society, but that's exactly why I and so many others are concerned that detainees at camp X-ray are often denied due process.

I suppose a point could be made that these are not American citizens and therefor aren't afforded similair rights, but then again, where do you draw the line?

Here you go.

It is fairly old news actually. Back when Goss took over at CIA. I haven't heard much about it since. I like this part:

Mr. Goss, in his memo, outlined "rules of the road" for the CIA to follow and warned that agency employees "do not identify with, support or champion opposition to the administration or its policies."

Lord (W) knows how difficult it is when intelligence conflicts with policy.

Then this shouldn't come as a surprise(first paragraph):

Inside the Beltway

here is a UPI version with almost identical text, but which makes it clear (well, precise - clear isn't possible in this case) what they've won: "the No. 1 arcade game of all time."

That is, of course, assuming it's the first story that mangled the press release, and not the second story that made a guess at trying to fill in the obvious missing information.

Now all we need to figure out is what the heck being the No. 1 arcade game of all time actually means.

I'm guessing it means very, very little.

The 9/11 commission essentially recommended a national ID card.

/.'s article here is the first I've heard of this Real ID plan...

Well, aside from the obvious fact that since the neo-con coup the network media hasn't covered anything except talking-dubya-points, the reason you haven't noticed this tidbit of legistlation (which apparently started back in Feburary) is because "liberal media" has painted it as an immagration issue - that is: the only people targeted by this legislation according to the to PTB and their media cheerleaders were illegal aliens - I heard it debated on Faux News as an immagration issue a least a month ago. I would have to say either a) you haven't been paying attention, or b) you are foolish enough to a ctually believe the that the motives these pseudo-news agencies put forward are the actual intent of the neo-con coup. Nothing could be further from the truth, of course...

Here is a list of articles about this legislation (trivially found using Google) from some touchy feely immagration rights outfit that no one will pay any attention to.

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The REAL ID Act in the Media

• "Jewish Groups Oppose US's Stricter Controls on Asylum," Jerusalem Post, March 9, 2005
• "Death Sentence?" Christianity Today, March 8, 2005
• "Republican Plan Would Tighten Laws for Asylum Cases," Hearst Newspapers, March 6, 2005
• "Keep the Doors Open," The Jewish Week editorial, February 25, 2005
• "Unwelcome Mat," The Boston Globe, February 25, 2005
• "Religious Asylum Assailed," Family News in Focus, February 22, 2005 (PDF - 51KB)
• "Proyecto de ley torpedea el derecho de asilo," El Nuevo Herald, February 22, 2005
• "Conservative camps split on tightening asylum," The Boston Globe, February 21, 2005
• "Not broke, don't fix," The Washington Times, February 20, 2005
• "National ID Party," The Wall Street Journal editorial, February 17, 2005 (subscription required)
• "On Guard, America," The New York Times editorial, February 15, 2005
• "Refugee Politics," The Baltimore Sun editorial, February 14, 2005
• "Real ID Act deserves defeat in the Senate," San Antonio Express-News editorial, February 18, 2005
• "Playing the terror card," Contra Costa Times, February 14, 2005
• "Ineffectual migrant policy," Milwaukee Journal Sentinel editorial

Sending your calls over VoIP is more difficult to tap. Wiretaps grew by 19% last year (pops new window) and not a one was turned down.

VoIP is much tougher to tap by comparison. Remember kids, "Terrorism" is the new "Communism"(tm)

This was in the Boston Globe as well as The Washington times today. The govenor of the state and many celebritie's driving records were publicly available, such as Jay Leno's. Massachusetts closes personal data hole

Former Federal Reserve Board Chairman Paul Volcker says his investigation into the scandal-plagued oil-for-food program has not cleared U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan of wrongdoing, despite Mr. Annan's claims to the contrary.
In an interview aired yesterday with Fox News, Mr. Volcker took direct issue with Mr. Annan's insistence that he had been exonerated by investigators probing both his role in overseeing the Iraq aid program and conflicts of interest involving a key contract awarded to a Swiss firm that employed Mr. Annan's son.
"I thought we criticized [Mr. Annan] rather severely," Mr. Volcker said of his panel's interim report, released March 29. "I would not call that an exoneration."
Asked point-blank whether Mr. Annan had been cleared of wrongdoing in the $10 billion scandal, Mr. Volcker replied, "No."
Mr. Annan has faced calls for his resignation from U.S. critics in the wake of the oil-for-food scandal.
Under the seven-year program that ended in 2003, Iraq was allowed to buy food and other humanitarian supplies through tightly controlled sales of its oil.
But the congressional Government Accountability Office found that the regime of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein stole about $10 billion during the period, either through illegal oil sales outside the program or through corrupt deals and kickbacks within it.
Senior U.N. officials have been implicated in the scandal, and Mr. Annan himself faced harsh scrutiny when it was learned his son, Kojo Annan, had been employed by Cotecna, the Swiss firm that won a critical U.N. monitoring contract for the oil-for-food program in 1998.
Mr. Annan, who has fiercely resisted calls that he step down, immediately claimed vindication after the Volcker panel reported on March 29 that it had found "no evidence" that the secretary-general had used his influence to help Cotecna win the contract.
In a press conference that same day, Mr. Annan told reporters, "As I had always hoped and firmly believed, the inquiry has cleared me of any wrongdoing."
He has said he was "disappointed" to discover that his son had received hundreds of thousands of dollars in payments from Cotecna for several years after leading his father to think he had cut all ties with the U.N. contractor.
Asked whether he was considering resigning from his post before his term ends next year, Mr. Annan answered emphatically, "Hell no."
The Volcker investigators faulted Mr. Annan for what they said was an "inadequate," one-day investigation into the Cotecna contract after his son's job history with the firm came to light in 1999.
Had Mr. Annan demanded a "thorough and independent investigation," the Volcker panel concluded, "it is unlikely that Cotecna would have been awarded renewals of its contracts with the United Nations."
Mr. Volcker's panel, which was commissioned by Mr. Annan last year, has come under fire with the recent resignation of two of the panel's lead investigators, Robert Parton and Miranda Duncan, who left reportedly because they thought the reports released to date had gone too easy on Mr. Annan.
A spokesman for the Volcker panel said the two had left because their contracts had expired, but Mr. Parton has said in an e-mail released to the Associated Press that he left his job over "a matter of principle."
Efforts to reach the two investigators yesterday were unsuccessful.
Mr. Volcker, in the Fox News interview, said his panel "was not meant to be soft or hard" on Mr. Annan or the United Nations.
"We are out to get the facts, and I've said from the very beginning our responsibility is to follow the facts wherever they lead."

Keep in mind that this guy was not just "being a mass annoyance", he was defrauding 10,000 to 17,000 individuals a month selling a "FedEx refund processor" that promised $75-an-hour work but did little more than give buyers access to a Web site of delinquent FedEx accounts.

This guy made $750K per month defrauding people with his sham product, so before you say "wow! 9 for just spamming, realize that spoofing email headers was just his mechanism for delivering his con game to millions of people per day in order to take advantage of that "sucker born every minute" that falls for get rich quick schemes that require them to send $30 to "find out how they can get rich quick with FedEx refunds".

I don't feel sorry for this criminal. Considering the guy will be out in 3 years with good behavior, I think the punishment is a fine fit for the crimes this man commited.

Then again, my /. sig (usually) points to a SpamVampire script designed to run up spammer's bandwidth bills, so I suppose you may want to take everything I say with a grain of salt, as I really don't like spammers.

Elton John helps raise money for Gore
September 20, 2000

ATHERTON, Calif. (Reuters) - Flamboyant rock star Elton John, making his first foray into American politics after three decades of performing in the United States, endorsed Vice President Al Gore at a ritzy Silicon Valley fund-raiser... The fund-raiser, at the home of Novell Corp. Chief Executive Eric Schmidt, raised $3.25 million for the Democratic National Committee...

http://archives.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/0 9/20/campaign.gore.john.reut/

Gore television network debuts in August
April 5, 2005

San Francisco, CA (UPI) -- The television network headed by former U.S. Vice President Al Gore debuts Aug. 1 and will feature short-form content rather than traditional long form news... Current has partnered with Internet search engine Google, executives said, to produce news updates on topics being searched on the Internet...

http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20050405-1 03500-6028r.htm

Because, as we all know, passports are never forged. Ever.

I don't see how we are more "protected" than the current system.

On a slightly more serious note, let me just point out that despite all the bashing we give the Patriot Act, it's not actually been abused as much as some people would like to think (as this article explains, or just search Google News for "patriot act abuse" for recent articles on the Congressional hearings).

Personally, I think the idea is good, though it has potential for abuse.
Once such example could be automated issuing of speeding tickets. There are some towns and villages that people know to be speed traps. Two examples of these from the news are New Rome and Macks Creek. I can picture a small town or village like one of these places investing in a pair of readers. Install them on the local highway, and calculate how much time a car should take to travel between these points. If a vehicle goes faster than this, it must be speeding. Use the database to find the driver's address, and send them a ticket. The bill does allow local law enforcement to access the database in Section 601.501 b.

As abusive as this may sound, though, it's nothing that couldn't be done with tracking license plates.

What? You say the White House will block any such truth-telling? Whatever makes you say that?

I am so tired of reading news based on sources that "decline to be named", speak "on condition of anonymity", or any of those phrases. It really means that either the reporter or the source, or both, are cowards, liars, or lawbreakers. If you have something to say, SAY IT! Use your free speech! Otherwise, be quiet!

I would bet to differ.

you do realise that if it CAN be proved that US corporations are behind this manipulation of the European democratic process then they are in breach of US law... also "threatening" to withdraw "investement" in a country if you don't get your way should also come under bribery as money is effectively involved... the Danes were most unimpressed and Microsoft had to hurridly kick up a misdirection statement...

First off, let's be realistic: the current US Congress wouldn't let the UN run the internet. After all, our own Al Gore invented it... But seriously, there's a lot of mistrust of the UN, much of it for good reasons.

The lack of accountability and responsibility that led to the Oil-for-Food scandal is hardly encouraging. Can we really expect the UN to be more responsive to internet users' needs than ICANN, as bad as ICANN is?

There are also some really twisted jokes to be made about how effective the UN would be in fighting child porn, considering the actions of some of its employees and peacekeepers in the Congo.

In essence, we're talking about replacing a large, corrupt bureaucracy with an even larger corrupt bureaucracy. Doesn't sound good, does it? I'd much rather see ICANN's functions assumed by a diverse group of private companies, with oversight from democratically-elected governments. In particular, the Chinese government and other repressive regimes can stay the hell away from internet regulation. Even good companies can be pressured into making bad decisions when China gets involved.

I *KNOW* I've just opened the flood gates of Bush jokes, DMCA rants, and PATRIOT Act tirades, but please, before you post, think about whether you're (1) on-topic (this is about the UN replacing ICANN), and (2) saying something new that hasn't been said in the numerous slashdot stories on the DMCA, etc. I'm all for a good joke, but please let it be something more original than "Bush is really stupid, and Americans are fat and stupid for voting for him". I live in one of the bluest areas of a very blue state, and I've heard them all.

The legal system disagrees with you:
Illegal to record license plates of voters in South Dakota

There are easily more examples, but since you said *no one*, I figured one example would do.

"North Korea is selling nuclear technology around the world. What could threaten us more than that?"

That was Pakistan. Huge scandal, physicist sold nuke tech around the world, got pardoned last year?

I agree with your assessment of Pakistan. I lost faith with the Bush Administration when they claimed they would "make no distinction between the terrorists and those who harbor them" and then proceeded to do exactly that when the mujuheddin crossed into Waziristan after Tora Bora. However, there is mounting evidence that North Korea is, indeed, spreading nuclear technology around the world.

The US is widely known to habor cyber-criminals (56% of spammers, according to the Washington Times, 86% according to TechWorldNews). Should they also be suspect of wire-tranfers to US entities? Is this a case of "everyone else does worse things so ignore our indiscretions"? Saying BOA is responsible for this guy's fuck up is like saying Ford is responsible when some dumbass leaves his keys in the ignition of his unlocked car and it gets stolen. This case will ge thrown out. If I was BOA I'd countersue for legal fees.

I mean, that worked so well for Clinton- letting Al Qaeda attack the WTC and then not capturing them, not going to war, not increasing security.

Clinton was the worst president we ever had 4 years ago. Bush let al Qaeda attack the WTC and then didn't go out and capture them. Where's Osama? Bush did go to war but in the wrong country. Bush has done nothing to increase security... read the 9/11 Commission report if you disagree. The White House's own reports say terrorism has increased since 9/11.

Then again it's hard to change people's minds no matter how many "facts" you have. Right?

Talking about perspective, how many people die of hunger, malaria, floods and droughts?

The emissions are dropping, due to policies enforcing them, while the GDP is still raising.

A scientist leaving the IPCC, due to politicking

Some perspective on Mr. Inhofes speech.

"Two world church officials have urged political leaders to heed the danger that climate change could pose in triggering disasters like this week's killer tsunami."

Yeah, right. U.N. peacekeeeping forces are just great.

My wife and I don't plan on having kids, and getting married was the best thing we ever did for our relationship.
{nods} I can definitely see that. For all my Judeo-Christian bias about marriage being about offspring, I'm also big on pointing out the benefits of knowing that this one person will stay with you forever and ever, that they will be there to love you and to support you. Besides which, it's been proven that married people have better sex.

Other articles have described the plane as flying at 3,000 feet. These articles also describe the laser as a "high-powered ... commercial grade laser used for checking fiber optic lines," not the sort you'd typically find attached to a keychain. I haven't used a laser like that before, but I suppose I wouldn't be surprised if it traveled a mile and was still bright.

"Are we still going to be having this debate in 20 years?"

Well, I'd guess less than 15 years at the most.

There is a rumor that EA simply wants to get in on a new Ubisoft game. The premise of the game is that the player is the head of a French bank and collects fees from an Iraqi dictator who is supposed to be using the money in his account to pay for food and medical supplies for his people, but is really funneling it to terrorists and arms dealers.

You get bonus points for lobbying the UN to not sanction a war in Iraq so that you can keep collecting fees from the account.

Interestingly, this article from just 2 days after this slashdot article, may prove you to be wrong in that assumption.

Its interesting that these two incidents (slashdot article) and pilots reporting green laser light are so close together.

The children will forever be at risk until the root and means of Child Pornography is removed.

Ban Photography! Ban it now!

"There is no such thing as a legal right to create, possess, or distribute child pornography."

Such wise words deserve ACTION!

Write your congressman! Sue Kodak, Sony, and Panasonic into the ground!! If they don't stop making the tools of child pornography then they are complicit in this scheme to expoit our children. They are the evil behind the Multi BILLION dollar enterprise that is Child Pornography.

Look at how a phone camera corrupted these innocent 16 yr olds. If it were not for the camera insidiously installed on the boys phone, he never would have recorded his consensual 2.37 minute oral session with his girlfriend. It is clear, clear as day, Child pornograpy will exist until the blight of photography is wiped off the face of the earth.

Some may say that Anonymous Photography is NOT child abuse; it's just photography.

I say the child might beg to differ, when images of her rape are distributed over the net.

Please, I beg of you, think of the Children.

Attending church just makes them look like bigotted idiots. Look at what the church does.

After attending Trinity Christian Academy from kindergarten,making good grades, doing well in every way, and paying a lot in tuition to go to private school, the school kicked him out just before graduation because they found out he was gay. That's your christian values.

Of course, the catholics are no better. They have long supported priests who sexually abused children.

Surely I don't need to link to information about Muslim churches which support terrorism. (Though it wouldn't take long with Google to find a link.)

Religion is about money, power, and control. When people try to pretend that going to church makes them better people, I know that what they mean is "We are better than scum like you, you will burn in hell, so you better do things our way".

All churches are evil. (Sorry mom - it's true. Yours is no exception.)

I was rasied in a heavily baptist town, by religious parents. Luckily, I got over it.

But that remains ahead, and meanwhile Mr Bush's credibility has been considerably undermined not just by Guantánamo but also by two big things: by the sheer incompetence and hubristic thinking evident in the way in which his team set about the rebuilding of Iraq, once Saddam Hussein's regime had been toppled; and by the abuses at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, which strengthened the suspicion that the mistreatment or even torture of prisoners was being condoned.

Claiming that the Rev. Moon-owned Washington Times, the long-time Conservative lap-dog The Wall Street Journal, and most especially Fox News (which Rupert Murdoch explicitly founded as a right-wing news channel) are "less bias[ed]" simply reinforces the perception of your poor judgment one would form from your bizarre claim that running stories about Abu Ghraib would affect a newspaper's circulation to its detriment while at the same time singling out The Economist for "experienc[ing] strong growth." (By the way, the magazine that published the source material for most of the Abu Ghraib stories, Seymour Hersh's superb series of articles, the New Yorker, saw its circulation increase to 1,000,000 for the very first time in its 79 year history.)

So I think we can all pretty much assume that you have no idea what you're talking about. By the way, you know how many times the Abu Ghraib story ran on the Times front page - not sure where it appears on this Physicians for Human Rights page about Tibet which you cited, nor could I find anything on their page about Abu Ghraib - I would guess that the link here is a red herring. What I really want to know, though, is where you got your figures for how many times Hussein's very real acts of genocide (hey, look, Physicians for Human Rights were talking about Hussein's use of weapons of mass killing back in 1993, and they talked about Abu Ghraib!), extra-judicial execution, torture, violence against women were covered. I was not surprised to see that you have no figures or links to back up your assertions on that! I chose to link to Amnesty International coverage, by the way, because they are an organization that was heavily criticized for its response to the Abu Ghraib scandal as being too liberal and ignoring Hussein's mistreatment of the Iraqi people.

This is not a competition, "whose the bigger torturer?" This is not a case in which we can apply a calculus of torture and murder and use of weapons of mass killing and determine that so much torture in Abu Ghraib is justified because we are preventing the far greater tortures that Hussein committed. President Bush himself denounced the abuse of US prisoners at Abu Ghraib. Do you wonder why? It's because he at least realizes that the US has a responsiblity to rescue the people of Iraq from Hussein in a way that will not make them think there is no qualitative difference between us and Hussein, only a quantative one - which is something some of his most ardent supports do not seem to grasp. And people think GWB is stupid!

The US can

Our newly re-elected Dear Leader will find a good 'reason' to take it away.

Is this the same paper that claimed the Russians were responsible for the missing stockpile of conventional weapons and even the WMD? Does this paper have any credibility left as anything but a Republican Mouthpiece (a la Fox News?) And this gets front page?

TSA completes calculation (2+2) and determines cell phone and computer batteries pose a greater threat aboard planes than boxcutters of nail clippers. Well maybe not yet, but if trends continue, perhaps. In this article we read of exploding batteries and increasing power density. "If you're cramming more and more power in a small space, what you're making is a small bomb," said Carl Hilliard...

Exploding batteries have already caused disruption at LAX.

The subject of potential weapons on planes has been beat to death, but the battery angle is still interesting. Especially when you consider that a weapons intimidation power is more a function of public perception than killing power. The more press exploding batteries receive, the greater the perceived danger. Never mind that a torn beer can can do more damage.

An official Esa site about SMART is here (in English)
Some information in French.

The Washington Times deals with a Moon too, but another one: Rvd Moon's "church" owns it and it has been recently frequently used to promote US Pentagon anonymous sources' views. It is soooo strange to see it pointed by /. in the same article where the "old Europe's ESA" link is broken!!!

This reminds me of the matchbox-sized pojector the finnish company Upstream expects to put on market soon, with a first model commercially avaible in 2005.
Washington Times have a story on it too.

If public schools are adequate, then why do public school teachers send THEIR children to private schools at TWICE the rate (25%) as the general US population (12%)? Washington Times: "Public schools no place for teachers' kids"

Look at the facts:

Vice President Dick Cheney was a vocal critic of trade embargoes while he headed Halliburton, a Houston-based oil services conglomerate, from 1995 to 2000. Under Mr. Cheney, Halliburton expanded its trade with Iran through an offshore subsidiary. That arrangement is being investigated by a federal grand jury.

Nineteen executives or directors of companies fined by OFAC for dealing with state sponsors of terrorism were top campaign fund-raisers for Mr. Bush.

Also:

Federal authorities also are investigating whether Halliburton broke the law by using a subsidiary to do business in Iran and whether it was involved in an alleged $180 million bribery scheme in Nigeria. The company admitted in 2003 that it improperly paid $2.4 million to a Nigerian tax official.

So, in reality, Haliburton may have been trading with the "axis of evil" Just like Prescott Bush did!

--jeff

Unfortunately my health care costs have gone up more then $100 per month.

Washington, DC, Oct. 25 (UPI) -- Attorney General John Ashcroft Monday hailed a new FBI report that said violent crime and property crime rates in 2003 were the lowest in three decades.

It may not have anything to do with being male. The Washington Times says a third defendant, Richard Rutowski, was acquitted, even though he had frequently changed IP addresses for Jaynes. It sounds like the prosecution only proved that DeGroot (the sister) purchased the domain names Jaynes used and couldn't prove that Rutowski knew he was helping send spam when he bought a mailbox for Jaynes. Of course, either might have done far more, but it was Jaynes they were able to pin for sending 100,000 emails in a day and for having $24 million in assets.