sweet lord, she better not.

Daily Kos: Is Hillary running?

] [T]he White House medievalists aren't just shading the
] facts. In actively denying or changing them, they are
] changing the basis on which government has traditionally
] been conducted: rationality. There is no respect for
] facts because there is no respect for empiricism.

some interesting comments and facts here...

Daily Kos: Bush Leads a Medieval Presidency

Way to celebrate WWII guys. Let's wave the swastika on Rosh Hashana. Am I the only one not surprised that this is the state that elected the shrub as governor?

Yahoo! News - School Apologizes for Nazi Display by Band

] Attorney General John Ashcroft on Monday ordered federal
] prosecutors to come down harder on criminal defendants,
] instructing them to seek maximum penalties and to limit
] the use of plea bargains.

I can't beleive I didn't hear about this for a week!

Dude, it totally makes sense... all criminals are terrorists. They're trying to undermine the fabric of good, clean, wholesome American society.

I move for one punishment for all crimes -- decapitation. That's right. Hack a computer that's not yours? Decapitation. Have an ounce of weed and a couple of baggies? Decapitation. Question authority, er, i mean, inflame opponents of the U.S. and corrupt the youth? Decaptitaion.

Also, seriously, we need to send a message to all the terrorist kids theiving intellectual property after school that we will not tolerate their actions and that they are responsible personally for the deaths of 9/11/2001.

Honestly, criminals are broken anyway, and you can't fix them, so cap 'em and make life better for all the good, law abiding sheep of the country.

My favorite part of this is the following :

[ "You want uniformity," Mercer said. "You don't want ]
[ someone's viewpoint or philosophy determining the ]
[ outcome. What we are after is eliminating disparity ]
[ from place to place and defendant to defendant when ]
[ the crime is the same." ]

Yeah, we should totally take the human element out of it. Breaking the law is breaking the law, and there's no difference between situations. Sentencing should be handled by a computer. Talk about uniformity. And while we're at it, we don't really need juries or lawyers either. I mean, you wouldn't be in court if you hadn't done anything wrong, right?

Federal prosecutors to seek maximum penalties

well the parts they didnt censor are pretty damn scary...so Im really worried about the parts they removed...

why again does this need to be censored, if they're going to spend tax payers money on something that is broken, why are we spending tax payers money to cover it up...

--Abaddon

Highly redacted SAIC report on Diebold security

so for those of you that went to speak to the georgia secretary of state about the georgia voting system...well the prof. at kennesaw doesn't do anything but make sure it complies with the law, he does no line by line checking of the code, he never looks at the code...

Lies, Damn Lies, and the Georgie voting system

Substantial non-infringing uses or not?

Reuters | Eighteen Music Labels Sue File-Sharing Network

] Air Traffic Control
]
]
] Speaking of contracting out, an administration move to
] privatize air traffic control at 69 airports has sparked
] opposition from labor groups, which contend it would
] compromise safety.
]
]
] The administration had proposed 71 airports, but House
] Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Don
] Young (R-Alaska), who supports the effort, got someone to
] strike the two Alaska airports on the list.
]
]
] Young, on an Alaska cable TV show a week ago,
] acknowledged the move generated some heat.
]
]
] "Of course the criticism of myself," he said, "is that I
] exempted the state of Alaska." But there were ample
] reasons for that, he said, ticking off a number of them.
]
]
] "Lastly," Young said, "my hotel room is on the top floor
] of the Sheraton, and the airplanes take right off towards
] my hotel room. Every morning I look out and there's one
] coming right at me. It's an interesting experience and I
] want to make sure everything is done right in that
] field."

Great. So it's ok that the airports the rest of us use could be incompetently staffed.

Tauzin's Classic Dodge (washingtonpost.com)

Orson Scott Card eloquently summarizes the issues at hand...

Art Watch - September 7, 2003 - MP3s Are Not the Devil - The Ornery American

] Controversial software seller The SCO Group fired back
] against Linux leader Red Hat on Monday, filing a motion
] to dismiss the Linux company's suit against SCO.

grand.

] In a motion filed late Monday in U.S. District Court in
] Delaware, SCO argued that Red Hat has no grounds to sue
] SCO, as SCO's actions against the open-source Linux
] operating system have not specifically targeted Red Hat.

am i smoking crack? does this make sense to anyone else? is it not "specifically targetting" a company to send threatening letters to their customers? They weren't exclusively targeted, but they certainly were on the list. Also, how do they justify their position in the context of :

"There will be a day of reckoning for Red Hat and SuSE when this is done." -Darl McBride (from http://www.crn.com/sections/BreakingNews/dailyarchives.asp?ArticleID=41480)

i also especially like the invocation of first amendment rights. Gimme a break.

SCO swings back at Red Hat | CNET News.com