Archive for April, 2005
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Friday, April 29th, 2005I wonder how many of these would have been possible, or granted, before the USA PATRIOT Act.
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Friday, April 29th, 2005Argentina is apparently quite stubborn. Even after loosing a war over them, they are still insisting that the Falkland Islands are theirs.
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Friday, April 29th, 2005In science news today:
“‘Extinct’ woodpecker found alive” because scientists are obviously oh so accurate.
“Global warming ‘proof’ detected” so accurate that their computer models can replace having data.
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Thursday, April 28th, 2005I wonder how long until the bill mentioned in “House passes bill making it illegal to take minors across state lines for abortions” is overturned?
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Thursday, April 28th, 2005Yesterday I neglected to mention this story. It appears the Federal government decided to grant us *some* ability to filter unnecessary and inappropriate material out of DVDs we buy. But only at run time with a device, not by editing the DVD itself, or by paying someone to edit it for us.
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Wednesday, April 27th, 2005This development in California is rather disturbing. Any bill to legalize homosexual “marriage” is disturbing of course, but this one is beyond that. This one really does show the extent that these activists will go to force us to accept their immorality. According to the article, the California state constitution does not allow the legislature to modify statues [...]
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Wednesday, April 27th, 2005“Your Money Under More Scrutiny” looks at a little publicized aspect of the USA PATRIOT Act. From the description, this really does, as Ars notes, this really does not sound like it is something truly aimed primarily against terrorists or money launderers. This sounds like something aimed at you and me. The potential for headache here is astronomical, [...]
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Tuesday, April 26th, 2005Paul Greenberg gets just about everything wrong. He strongly implies that Pope John Paul II was not in charge towards the end of his pontificate, as he grew more and more frail. Apparently Mr. Greenberg does not credit the reports to the contrary, or the prolific output our Holy Father had in his final months. Just [...]
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Tuesday, April 26th, 2005George Will thinks that the decline in newspaper circulation is “ominous.” Other than the obvious conflict of interest, I really don’t see any reason why he thinks this is the case. When did the print media last do anything particularly useful?
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Tuesday, April 26th, 2005Something is wrong in this country when one in every 138 U.S. residents was in prison or jail.
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