One more... something, to go.

[silveradept]

First things first, in the housekeeping area: would ozmavul please stand up and introduce yourself and how you came across this corner of cyberspace? Also, I haven't heard anything yet from sarah_bongo on her secret origin story, so if you both could say hello to the crowd, that would be appreciated.

Scottish Catholics warned that rooting against England in the World Cup could be a sin. If you're spiting the motherland, then it's un-Christian behavior, but if you happen to genuinely like another team, that's okay. I'd expect something like this to come out of Pat Robertson's mouth, but he's been remarkably quiet. Maybe he's gearing up to predict disaster because there will possibly be homosexuals in attendance?

Before there was pinpoint radar, or for those areas where the troops couldn't have radar to help them spot the enemy, the soliders made use of listening tubas to ferret out where the enemy was. Shows that the human senses can do all sorts of things, given the right stimuli.

The prudes are getting more dangerous, and more willing to do dangerous things to have their way. Witness this example: Caustic gas released into adult bookstore, hazmat team dispatched. It's being called an act of local terrorism, and the device is officially designated a weapon of mass destruction. Insensitive joke to follow: If they hurry, maybe the soldiers in Iraq can make and find a few of these? Would certainly help the administration's case.

Here's a good pairing put together (thanks, przxqgl that should tell you just how effective warrantles wiretapping really is. First, reasoning why data mining for terrorists is more hassle than its worth - too many false positives, being generous on saying how many true results there are. Second, most of the people fingered by the datamining are cleared - some of the numbers there look familiar. It looks like the data system is playing according to odds. So now, not only is it against the law, it's ineffective, too. If you're going to trade liberty for security, make sure that the security actually works. Otherwise you're out the liberty, which is very hard to get back.

Speaking of screwing over terror protections, New York has nothing worth defending, according to Homeland Security. Well, we just hope that they find that Washington D.C. has nothing worth protecting, too. The longer this goes on, the more likely it is that there isn't anything worth protecting there.

Also, another article that asks was the 2004 election stolen? Makes a good case for the answer being yes, especially in Ohio. The exit polls were way off, which is way strange because the exit polls are supposed to be supremely accurate. More vote tampering, disenfranchisement, and acts by a governor determined to ensure a Bush victory? Quite possibly. The evidence continues to mount, gentlemen. The impeachment articles should have already been written. How long are you going to wait?

Comments

[greyweirdo.livejournal.com]

It's so interesting that all this should come out at the same time, right around the time when congress is A) Trying to ban gay marriage and B) Trying to get re-elected.

Does seem that even Middle America is thinking that they could be doing more to stop terrorists and less interfering with the lives of private citizens.

I don't think it's going to come to impeachment honestly. I think it's going to come to near (or actual) revolution, but it'll take at least another ten years in my estimation to hit that level. Of course things could be done at any time to change that, but it would take a political party that can actually fight back and the Dems aren't capable of that.

[silveradept]

Well, Washington warned us about political parties. Too bad that nobody's seen fit to listen to him.

[greyweirdo.livejournal.com]

How much of what the founding fathers said is really listened to now? I mean they said a lot of things that is regularly ignored.