These guys are of the "I'm so far left I think the Taliban were in the right and should still be in power" side of the fence. I usually hate those guys. Then again, those guys usually think disabling a bus is an act of speech.

In this case I found them entertaining. These signs are cool. I guess its because I have respect for real acts of speech. Particularly when they are subversive, without being coercive.

FREEWAYBLOGGER.com - Free Speech: Use It or Lose It

] South African police arrested former British prime
] minister Margaret Thatcher's son Mark Wednesday on
] suspicion of involvement in a coup plot in Equatorial
] Guinea.

I wish The Powers That Be would consolidate the various Guineas into one country.

:: Xinhuanet - English ::

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] A Russian airliner crashed and a second disappeared from
] radar about the same time Tuesday night after both planes
] took off from the same Moscow airport, raising fears that
] terrorism was involved.

Yahoo! News - Report: Russian Jet Sent Hijack Signal

] Although no e-vites have been sent, several Capella
] student blogs report that the fraternity intends to throw
] one last chatroom party Friday, at which they will
] solicit donations via PayPal in an effort to save the
] fraternity.

The Onion | Online University Cracks Down On Rowdy Online Fraternity

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* Regressive Imagery Analysis - provides a psychological profile of your journal.
* Word Count - provides a list of the words used in your journal, and their frequency.
* Post Frequency - graphs the frequency of your posts over time.
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LiveJournal Archiver and Analyzer

] What is this cloud thing? Well...photos are posted here
] on this site randomly distributed over time from several
] users scattered all over the world (mostly Europe). A
] cloud here is defined to simply be a meltdown of these
] images into one single image - an image that obviously
] becomes more and more chaotic over time.

[ Kind of a neat concept... -k]

Too bad it's currently slashdotted. :-/

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] President Bush yesterday repeated his condemnation of
] unregulated money that he said was "pouring" into the
] political process. But he stopped short of denouncing the
] ad by Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, which is being aired
] in three battleground states and is funded largely by
] Republicans.

Many media outlets, including MSNBC and the (British) Independent got this wrong. Bush did not specifically condemn that Swift Vet Ad. Once again, he *did* blast 527 group spending. Bush never had any problem with such spending back when Republicans benefited from it (think 2000 in the Florida Recount).

Kerry Team Lines Up Vietnam Witnesses (washingtonpost.com)

janelane wrote:
] ] People driving or riding in a sport utility vehicle in
] ] 2003 were nearly 11 percent more likely to die in an
] ] accident than people in cars, the figures show. The
] ] government began keeping detailed statistics on the
] ] safety of vehicle categories in 1994.
]
] I really cannot conceive of SUVs as the root of all evil of
] the auto industry. If anything, that title should belong to
] policy makers who refuse to hike min mpg requirements or
] lobbyists who insist that making such policy would send the
] U.S. back into little more than primordial ooze (technically
] speaking). If they could more than double the average mpg
] from 12 mpg in '72 to 24 mpg in '82, they can sure as hell
] stack on some additional efficiency now without flushing the
] economy.

Here Here! Uping the MPG and reducing consumption are alternatives we need to look at. However, I have a feeling Energy Policy meetings go a little something like this:

Sec. of Energy: Mr President, we are too dependant on foreign oil. We have 2 options, we could secure more oil reserves through some kind of military operation or trading treaties, or we could rise the MP...

Bush: Wait, wait wait! I found if people give me choices, my head hurts. What was the first thing?

Sec. of Energy: ... er... secure more oil reserves through military action or a trading treat...

Bush: What did I just tell you about give me options? What is the first part of the first thing?

Sec. Of Energy:... [sigh]... Secure more oil with military action.

Bush: I like it.

Powell: Sir, this is truly the most retarded thing I have ever...

Bush: Damn it Colin, what have I told you? If two people talk to me at once, my head hurts. Now, lets do this. Bring me my wall sized coloring book! [aid brings in a large map], ok, here we go [throws dart]... hmmm.... Pa, Pasiff... Pacific Ocean! Looks kind of big. I call do over! [throws dart]... damn it, not again! You didn't see anything did you?

Powell: Just my duty to the American people going to hell.

Bush: Good. Do over! [Throws dart]

[Hours pass, Powell shoots himself, Hours pass]

Bush: Damn it! I just might have to take on Pacific and his punk buddys Atlantic and Indian. One more! [throws darts]... hmmm. Somebody call Dick and ask him what I-R-A-Q spells.

Safety Gap Grows Wider Between S.U.V.'s and Cars

] The debate that a handful of Texas multi-millionnaires
] close to the Bush family have cleverly manufactured over
] John Kerry's war record is absurd in every way. The
] charges that they have put some vets up to making against
] Kerry are false and can be demonstrated by the historical
] record to be false. Most of those making the charges have
] even flip-flopped, contradicting themselves. Or they
] weren't eyewitnesses and are just lying.
]
]
] But to address the substance of this Big Lie is to risk
] falling into its logic. The true absurdity of the entire
] situation is easily appreciated when we consider that
] George W. Bush never showed any bravery at all at any
] point in his life. He has never lived in a war zone. If
] some of John Kerry's wounds were superficial, Bush
] received no wounds. (And, a piece of shrapnel in the
] forearm that caused only a minor wound would have killed
] had it hit an eye and gone into the brain; the shrapnel
] being in your body demonstrates you were in mortal danger
] and didn't absent yourself from it. That is the logic of
] the medal). Kerry saved a man's life while under fire.
] Bush did no such thing.
]
]
] What was Bush doing with his youth? He was drinking. He
] was drinking like a fish, every night, into the wee
] hours. For decades. He gave no service to anyone, risked
] nothing, and did not even slack off efficiently.

[ There's more... Juan Cole pretty well lets lose here... -k]

Informed Comment : 08/01/2004 - 08/31/2004