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Two days worth of materials
Feb. 10th, 2006 12:19 amAll the news that fits, we print, or something like that. Thus, top story today proves that the police may indeed be going a bit too far in their demonstrator crowd control, as police persons are suing the police department for violating civil rights in their response to a protest being attended by off-duty officers.
Science has been finding some interesting things - apparently a pocket of the world heretofore unseen has been unearthed and studied for a bit. Now that this part that survived the world has been noticed by the world, will it continue to survive it? Also, fast food, being unhealthy for many, just got worse as more data is revealed about the contents of that burger and fries.
Respect for the dead may be an outmoded idea, especially after a preacher took swipes at the President along with a different former President at the funeral of Coretta Scott King. While the pulpit was an active force in galvanizing the civil rights movement, there are some things that are best just left unsaid, especially at a funeral.
Unfortunately, speaking of the dead, apparently one of the collaborators on Curious George was found dead in the garbage pile outside his house. He may have been there for at least a day before anyone noticed. More details are not yet available, but hopefully it turns out to be a tragedy rather than foul play.
On a different tack, a United States and Jordanian citizen may be handed over to the Iraqi police to be tried there, even though he's never been formally charged with anything by anyone, and hasn't been for a while - apparently, he's another of those nebulously-defined "enemy combatants", and can thus be dealt with in any way the government sees fit, regardless of Geneva Conventions or the standing law of the United States or elsewhere. Is anyone going to speak out against it or the other abuses that the Administration is accused of? Not on the Republican side, as Karl Rove's keeping a list of the complicit and the sheep. Those who keep quiet get campaign financing for their seats and publicity. Those on the blacklist, don't. The government itself is looking into new ways to aggregate data together to ostensibly try and detect terrorists, but there's a good chance that it can (will?) be used for other, less freedom-protecting purposes. If there are such things out here looking for my materials, trying to determine me, let me state for the record - I don't agree with much of the Administration's policy. You may send in the black vans now.
Doesn't help that the press secretary is a marionette with his strings visible, and not a particularly smart one.
If you're not convinced, or still looking for more to read, there's this two part series - the Top Ten Conspiracy Theories about George Bush. Here's Part One, and then here's part two. And that's the wrap.
Science has been finding some interesting things - apparently a pocket of the world heretofore unseen has been unearthed and studied for a bit. Now that this part that survived the world has been noticed by the world, will it continue to survive it? Also, fast food, being unhealthy for many, just got worse as more data is revealed about the contents of that burger and fries.
Respect for the dead may be an outmoded idea, especially after a preacher took swipes at the President along with a different former President at the funeral of Coretta Scott King. While the pulpit was an active force in galvanizing the civil rights movement, there are some things that are best just left unsaid, especially at a funeral.
Unfortunately, speaking of the dead, apparently one of the collaborators on Curious George was found dead in the garbage pile outside his house. He may have been there for at least a day before anyone noticed. More details are not yet available, but hopefully it turns out to be a tragedy rather than foul play.
On a different tack, a United States and Jordanian citizen may be handed over to the Iraqi police to be tried there, even though he's never been formally charged with anything by anyone, and hasn't been for a while - apparently, he's another of those nebulously-defined "enemy combatants", and can thus be dealt with in any way the government sees fit, regardless of Geneva Conventions or the standing law of the United States or elsewhere. Is anyone going to speak out against it or the other abuses that the Administration is accused of? Not on the Republican side, as Karl Rove's keeping a list of the complicit and the sheep. Those who keep quiet get campaign financing for their seats and publicity. Those on the blacklist, don't. The government itself is looking into new ways to aggregate data together to ostensibly try and detect terrorists, but there's a good chance that it can (will?) be used for other, less freedom-protecting purposes. If there are such things out here looking for my materials, trying to determine me, let me state for the record - I don't agree with much of the Administration's policy. You may send in the black vans now.
Doesn't help that the press secretary is a marionette with his strings visible, and not a particularly smart one.
If you're not convinced, or still looking for more to read, there's this two part series - the Top Ten Conspiracy Theories about George Bush. Here's Part One, and then here's part two. And that's the wrap.
