] "Actor Robert Redford (news), in an op-ed opinion piece
] published in the Los Angeles Times, accused the Bush
] administration on Monday of "lack of leadership" for
] failing to wean the United States from dependence on
] fossil fuels.
]
] The actor, a longtime solar power advocate, warned that
] the nation's wasteful use of gas and oil created
] political problems abroad and air pollution at home."

Not that any of the current oil oligarchy is even going to think about listening to this. Unless they corner the market on alternative energy.

Redford Says Patriotism Means Weaning US from Oil

]Arguing that this city faces a far more perilous world than once ]imagined, New York’s police commissioner wants to toss aside a ]decades-old federal court decree governing the limits on police
]spying and surveillance of its own citizenry.

Oh yea....lets just toss the constitution out the window while we are at it.

Police push for domestic spying

w1ld wrote:
] ] "Today, at the Justice Department, some laws are more
] ] equal than others.
] ] One 36-year-old U.S. law can be broken, it seems.
] ] Attorney General John D. Ashcroft, who is sworn to
] ] enforce all laws, has told federal employees that they
] ] can bend -- perhaps even break -- one law, and he will
] ] even defend their actions in court.
] ] That law is known as the Freedom of Information Act."
]
] Ashcroft chars my feathers...

Hrm... Perhaps, more appropriately, Ashcroft should be tarred and feathered??

RE: At Justice, Freedom Not to Release Information

Moon Pie wrote:
] The Gulf War was the best managed war in history, from a PR
] perspective. Interestingly, though an unknown number of
] Iraqis were killed, buried in trenches and bombed, mostly, no
] images escaped to US television. At the same time, many US
] 'smart weapons' appear to have been virtually worthless
] despite wartime claims of A+ accuracy.
]
] This article also brings to mind an account in the latest
] Harper's by a Gulf verteran Marine sniper who describes a
] complete clusterfuck as far as coordination and organization
] go, resulting in friendly fire casualties, which the military
] naturally minimized (i.e. lied about).

What is mind boggling to me is that this kind of white-washing is an ongoing story, yet the next time something like this happens (read: the recent Afghanistan invasion) your average American citizen believes the crap they are force fed.

It's really simple folks: If someone or something (like the American government/military) lies to you every time that means it's probably going to lie to you in the future.

RE: Bodies? What Bodies?

] "I expect a little goofy impossibility in a Bond movie. A
] little is corny and funny, and gives it an edge, but it
] needs to be used sparingly and mixed with some common
] sense to appear clever. Die Another Day uses the entire
] damn corn cob. the gimmicks reeks of lazy plot
] contrivances the way Madonna's career has the stench of
] the half-gnawed bones of trends and people she used n her
] way up. Brosnan escapes British custody and goes directly
] to his favorite hotel, where he checks into the suite
] under his own name. Yet the British can't find him. It
] takes Bond about 45 minutes longer than the audience to
] figure out that Icelandic diamonds %u201Cchemically
] identical%u201D to Sierra Leone diamonds might actually
] be smuggled from Africa. And the villain has bamboozled
] the world in only a few months with his %u201CIcelandic
] discovery%u201D and his incredibly speedy aerospace
] development program. Try as they might, British
] Intelligence can't find any dirt on him: uh, how about
] that he didn't exist last year?"

Filthy rips Die Another Day.

Now I definitely don't want to see it until it's rentable.

Die Another Day - The Filthy Critic

] "Windows XP has been on the market for a year now, so
] naturally everyone is clamoring for details on the next
] version of the world's most popular operating system --
] or so Microsoft Corp. hopes.
]
] Details are dribbling out, but Microsoft won't say a word
] on the record, declining to comment for this story.
] Analysts and software developers haven't been briefed,
] either.
]
] But here's what has leaked out so far."

Go Sun & Apple. :)

Next Microsoft operating system will be radical change from XP

*smirk*

George Bush's Options

Did you see this guys Switch ad??!!

Apple - Switch - Real Stories - Gianni Jacklone

] "It's wrong because it's a crime."

This is quite an essay. First the guy presents three reasons that people don't think copying an MP3 is morally equivelent to stealing a CD. None of them are the real reason. (Are these people really so stupid that they don't GET this.) Instead, he lists the reasons why people don't like the media industry. He simply claims that these reasons are unfounded. He gives the media industry credit for the VCR. I guess he doesn't recall their fighting tooth and nail to ban VCRs. He claims the media industry isn't really negotiating for every dollar. I guess he didn't read Hillery Rosen when she said "this is about money."

Then, he basically admits, that the media industry is using its political influence to hold the entire technology industry and the economy in general hostage, until they get what they want.

Then he delivers a threat: Do what we want or you can't have your economy back.

I hope they booed him off stage. But, knowing the kind of people that usually show up for Comdex, they probably applauded, because thats what they were supposed to do.

News Corp's Peter Chernin on 'the problem with stealing.'

On Tuesday, the Senate voted 90-9 to approve the landmark Homeland Security bill. Sen. Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va., was one of the few senators voting against it, and in an address on the Senate floor, he raised fundamental questions about the need for the new agency and whether it will have the desired impact. What follows is the full transcript of his remarks during the conclusion of the Homeland Security debate.

At least one person in the Senate knew to call the kettle black.

Robert Byrd's Speech on the Homeland Security Bill