Resistance Is Futile. A ray gun? Maybe they'll name it after Reagan. Remember Ronald Ray Gun? .......zap.  ¶ 1:04 PM 0 comments

  All Work And No Play. Makes Jack a dull boy. First Yahoo eliminated its message boards. Now Google has made some changes to prevent Google bombs. Check it out.

I paid a visit to the newsgroups on Google. I couldn't find one troll. The Internets are becoming a very boring place indeed. I wonder if Google changed its algorithm because of the political use of Google bombs.  ¶ 12:49 PM 0 comments

  Quiz.
1) How many times did the president mention Iraq in his state-of-the-union address?
answer: Thirty times.

2) The president's popularity hit an all time low. How low did he go?
answer: 28%.

Payback's a bitch, isn't it GHWB? Your son just became the second most unpopular president in history, sharing the dubious honor with Jimmy Carter.  ¶ 11:52 AM 0 comments

  Florida's Shame.

Senator Bill Nelson, thanks for nothing.

Katherine Harris, the gift that keeps on giving. A picture says a thousand words. What is she up to now? Inquiring minds want to know.  ¶ 11:37 AM 0 comments

  Would You Post A Picture Of Your House Keys On The Internet? Diebold did just that. I really have to get off this 'puter.

Before I go make some food, check out molecular computers. What do you think will happen if (and when) computers can reproduce?  ¶ 7:26 PM 0 comments

  Patrick Leahy. 1.24.07. from the Daily Southtown:

In the 32 years since I first came to the Senate -- during the era of Watergate and Vietnam -- I have never seen a time when our Constitution and fundamental rights as Americans were more threatened by their own government," Leahy told his committee last week. "Just this last weekend, the president and vice president indicated that they intended to override the will of the American people as expressed in the most recent national elections and ignore actions of Congress in order to escalate the war in Iraq. This administration has circumvented express congressional prohibitions on creating databanks of information on law-abiding Americans over the last five years.

1.25.07. from the Tonawanda News.

the Fifth Amendment guarantee of due process is at risk, because Americans have no way of knowing what information is being collected, and lack recourse to correct wrongful claims.

The New York Times has reported about national security letters by the CIA and FBI to obtain the financial records of Americans and others suspected of terrorism or espionage. The abstract is here.  ¶ 7:17 PM 0 comments

  Cheney Said, "If he (Saddam Hussein) were still there (Iraq) today, we'd have a terrible situation."

His command of the English language is kind of funny. And how does he describe the "situation" in Iraq today?  ¶ 1:10 PM 0 comments

  Manuel Noriega Is Getting Released For Good Behavior. and he wants to go back to Panama. Manny, you can never go home again.  ¶ 12:58 PM 0 comments

  No Habeas Corpus for US. Or so says our Attorney General. He says that there is no constitutional right to Habeas Corpus, only the right to suspend it. And they want a constitutional amendment to protect marriage from same sex unions? Compassionate conservatives, it's time for a reality check. Read the Fourth Amendment before you embarrass yourselves.

In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed … and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; [and] to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses.

I just don't believe that they are so stupid and incompetent that they believe that they will get away with this. Oh wait. They already did.  ¶ 12:49 PM 0 comments

  The FBI Failed To Protect Our Children From Sexual Predators. Blind Eye.(subscription required.) Is this an example of the FBI breaking the law? It sure sounds a lot like aiding and abetting to me.  ¶ 4:54 PM 0 comments

  The NIST Tries Again. ...to develop a standard for testing voting machines. The convoluted quest for standards (every other electronic device has one) has pretty much run its course. Well, maybe we can test and make sure the machines measure up to said standards. Questions and Answers is the title of the webpage and I must say that the webmaster sure has a sense of humor.  ¶ 1:38 PM 0 comments

  Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Ney Good-Bye. Well at least he won't be sticking it to anyone on the outside for awhile.  ¶ 1:31 PM 0 comments

  ROTFLMAO. Scooter, you're a hoot. He's scrambling to find jurors who trust Dick Cheney. Dear lord, it hurts to laugh.  ¶ 8:11 PM 0 comments

  Keep Your Nose Clean. My anecdotal evidence leads me to believe that a clear respiratory tract diminishes your chance of getting the flu. I haven't been treating my sinus condition properly since Benedryl took its good formula off the market. Now, I have bronchitis. Bad. The doctor gave me a panel of cortisone and three huge antibiotics. Then he had to give me another kind of cortisone and another kind of antibiotic. After that, I got better.  ¶ 6:13 PM 0 comments

  The Land Of The Free? JUDGES UNFIT????????? FVCK. It's past wtf.

In a letter to the leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said this authority has been given to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and that it already has approved one request for monitoring the communications of a person believed to be linked to al-Qaida or an associated terror group.

He can overturn Habeas Corpus. He can torture. He can declare Marshall law. He has a new Insurrection Act and now we have..............

a secret appointed court. We are in the middle of a fascist takeover. Where is the outrage?
Update: Findlaw has the full story. Our attorney general actually had the audacity to call federal judges unfit.  ¶ 3:59 PM 0 comments

  A World Without Kermie. The froggie in the picture is a golden frog from Panama. The species is virtually extinct. When I was a child my parents took me to a resaurant called the Golden Frog. The owners brought the frogs down from the rain forests and placed them in a waterfall display in the dining area. My mom told me that the frogs died when taken outside their habitat. I cried a lot and we never went there again. A frog as commonplace as Florida's bufo toad was also wiped out. One Halloween, some boy threw one of them down my shirt and then slapped me so hard that he splatted the frog all over my body and shirt. Yuck. But tonight I am really depressed over the frogs. They think it's a fungus. It doesn't help that I have the flu.  ¶ 11:19 PM 0 comments