] This Kleptones (now, that's a band-name) have released a
] mash-up of the Flaming Lips's "Are You a Hypnotist",
] Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" and Public Enemy's
] "By the Time I Get to Arizona" kicks ass. 4.7 MP3 Link

Highly Recommended. I wish I could find more quality mashups like this.

Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things

] The statement said it supported President Bush (news -
] web sites) in his reelection campaign, and would prefer
] him to win in November rather than the Democratic
] candidate John Kerry (news - web sites), as it was not
] possible to find a leader "more foolish than you (Bush),
] who deals with matters by force rather than with wisdom."
]
] In comments addressed to Bush, the group said:
]
] "Kerry will kill our nation while it sleeps because he
] and the Democrats have the cunning to embellish blasphemy
] and present it to the Arab and Muslim nation as
] civilization."

Ha.

Yahoo! News - Purported Al Qaeda Letter Endorses Bush (kinda)

The Iraq on the Record Report, prepared at the request of Rep. Henry A. Waxman, is a comprehensive examination of the statements made by the five Administration officials most responsible for providing public information and shaping public opinion on Iraq: President George W. Bush, Vice President Richard Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of State Colin Powell, and National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice.

Iraq on the Record

Decius wrote:
] ] SB 500, the bill to require all electronic voting
] ] machines in Georgia to produce a permanent paper record,
] ] has passed out of the committee! To gain passage of
] ] SB-500 in this 2004 session, the bill now requires
] ] immediate action by the Senate Rules committee, the body
] ] responsible for putting legislation on the debate
] ] calendar for the Senate floor. Again, your calls and
] ] emails can tip the balance.
]
] While this is exciting, I also have my misgivings. Clearly the
] electronic elections systems have security problems. We still
] aren't addressing them. We still aren't talking about auditing
] our policies and practices.
]
] What we are doing instead is attaching a second system on to
] the side which offers paper ballots as a check.
]
] I'm worried that what we've hatched here is a worst of both
] worlds solution where a logistically difficult, inaccurate,
] and insecure paper ballot system is tacked onto an insecure
] and failure prone electronic system which still has no
] transparency.
]
] Security isn't about technology so much as its about how that
] technology is used. We're not even talking about addressing
] that.
]
] This is a product of the fact that elections administrators
] have been almost totally unwilling to engage in a constructive
] dialog about these problems, preferring instead to play
] political spin zone with it and thereby eliminating any
] credibility they might have had.
]
] While this is a political victory for those who are concerned
] about this problem, if you think its an ideal solution you've
] drunk the koolaid.

Ryan: While that may be the case, the sitation is this: the election is in November. There is not enough time to put another system in effect. Our only hope is to get some kind of backup accountability (which we DO NOT have right now) or to scrap the system altogether. I think that for now, this is the only solution we have. We continue to fight the fight for accountability in the system itself once the election is over.

RE: Blog for Democracy: SB-500 Update

] SB 500, the bill to require all electronic voting
] machines in Georgia to produce a permanent paper record,
] has passed out of the committee! To gain passage of
] SB-500 in this 2004 session, the bill now requires
] immediate action by the Senate Rules committee, the body
] responsible for putting legislation on the debate
] calendar for the Senate floor. Again, your calls and
] emails can tip the balance.
]
] Any parties who are interested in seeing this legislation
] passed (ie, any and all voters with a basic understanding
] of computer technology and/or standard accounting
] practices) are again urged to lobby, call, write, fax or
] email our Georgia representatives and members of the
] Senate Rules committee from now through Tuesday, March
] 16, with their [succinct] comments in support of this
] important VVPB bill. The list of committee members and
] their contact information links can be found here.
]
] This bill must pass the full Senate by the 33rd day of
] the 40 day session, the "crossover" day, in order to be
] debated and passed in the house, and subsequently signed
] into law by the Governor.

Blog for Democracy: SB-500 Update

] City officials were so concerned about the potentially
] dangerous properties of dihydrogen monoxide that they
] considered banning foam cups after they learned the
] chemical was used in their production.
]
] Then they learned that dihydrogen monoxide - H2O for
] short - is the scientific term for water.

Nice....

sacbee.com -- AP State Wire News -- City falls victim to Internet hoax, considers banning items made with water

] For days now, the job at Eisenhower Park in Nassau County
] has been to follow the order from the White House through
] the Secret Service and down to the park workers:
]
] "The president's feet are not to touch the dirt."
]
] So all yesterday, large crews drawn from all county parks
] worked to ensure that, as always in his life, George
] Bush's feet do not touch the ground when he appears in
] the big park today.

............

Newsday.com - My News

Decius wrote:
] inignoct wrote:
] ] [ Total and complete bullshit. If she agrees to the surgery
]
] ] and she dies as a result, did she commit suicide? What if
] ] something goes wrong with the surgery and both fetuses die?
]
] ] Double homicide? Absurd. -k]
]
] I don't think this case is remotely as cut and dry as you guys
] are making it out to be. Your basing your perspective on an
] abstract concept of at what point children gain rights that is
] based upon your perspective on abortion. Essentially you are
] arguing that before they are naturally born children have
] absolutely no legal protection and absolutely no behavior on
] the part of the mother or anyone else is questionable
] regardless of how malicious it is.
]
] Deaths from natural birth complications are one in 10,000,
] whereas deaths from C-Sections are one in 2,500. Its clearly a
] more risky procedure, and women ought to be able to forgo it.
]
]
] However, this isn't a case where a bunch of bibled up nut
] cases are going after someone because she refused a C-Section
] because she was afraid of the increased risks involved. She
] refused a C-Section because she didn't want a scar. "Rowland
] told a hospital nurse that she would rather "lose one of the
] babies" than be scarred by the Caesarean section, which
] requires a surgical incision to the abdomen." Furthermore,
] this wasn't a case where there were questions about whether or
] not the baby would survive. She had obtained several different
] opinions from several different hospitals who clearly told her
] that she needed a C-section to save the life of the baby.
]
] She literally made a pre-meditated decision that she would
] rather one of the children die then have a scar on her
] abdomen. Thats what we are talking about here. Expecting
] someone who would make such a choice before birth to have the
] absolute respect for the health and well being of the child
] that we require after birth is absolutely ridiculous.
] Something is obviously wrong here.
]
] I think that its a bad idea to create a legal president that
] allows bibled up nut cases to go after any woman who chooses
] natural child birth in reasonable cases. I think that reacting
] to that possibility by proclaiming that we support any degree
] of maliciousness prior to childbirth is equally radical and
] equally unwise.

RYAN: Once again, the problems of making a judgment on one story of the incident. It has since come out that the mother had severe mental disturbances, was the child of a mentally handicapped mother, etc.... there is always more than meets the eye. A) that is why we have a fact-finding function. B) I think this is a test case that will allow your so-called "bibled up nut case" to go after a constitutionally-protected right under Casey. Unwise or not, this is not an abortion. I have a lot more to say on this, but I really don't want to get too deep into it. Too many other things to think about.

RE: Eschaton - The War on Women

] Check this shit out (Fig. 1). That's bonafide, 100%-real
] data, my friends. I took it myself over the course of two
] weeks. And this was not a leisurely two weeks, either; I
] busted my ass day and night in order to provide you with
] nothing but the best data possible. Now, let's look a bit
] more closely at this data, remembering that it is
] absolutely first-rate. Do you see the exponential
] dependence? I sure don't. I see a bunch of crap.
]
] Christ, this was such a waste of my time.
]
] Banking on my hopes that whoever grades this will
] just look at the pictures, I drew an exponential through
] my noise. I believe the apparent legitimacy is enhanced
] by the fact that I used a complicated computer program to
] make the fit. I understand this is the same process by
] which the top quark was discovered.

Funniest. Lab Report. Ever.

Kovar/Hall

] I read about Melissa Ann Rowland in the Dallas paper this
] morning By now, most of you probably have read or heard
] that she has been charged with murder for refusing to
] have a C-section which doctors had told her was the only
] way to ensure that both of the twins she was pregnant
] with would survive. One was stillborn. If convicted, Ms.
] Rowland could be sentenced to five years to life in
] prison. She is being held at the Salt Lake City jail.
]
]
] Ever since legislatures started enacting statutes that
] make it a crime to kill a fetus, events have conspired to
] get us to this point - a woman didn't want surgery, and
] is being charged as a murderer for refusing. Think about
] that for a minute - she didn't want to have surgery.
] She's charged with a crime.

Eschaton - The War on Women