] A well-placed source says that the president will
] most likely drop Dick Cheney from his
] re-election ticket and his first choice for a replacement
] is former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani.
]
] The issue of Cheney%u2019s health will probably be
] given as the reason,says the insider.
] There's a short list of possible replacements,
] and Rudy is at the top of the list.

Will Giuliani replace Cheney in 2004?

] Bill Gates, the Microsoft founder and the world's
] wealthiest man, is to receive an honorary knighthood for
] "services to global enterprise".
] ...
] Other Americans to have received the KBE include George Bush, the f
] ormer president, Rudolph Giuliani, the former mayor of New York,
] Steven Spielberg, the film director, and Alan Greenspan, the chairman of the
] US Federal Reserve Bank.

Queen to give knighthood to Bill Gates, Alen Greenspan, former George Bush, etc.

Instead, it was a lesser-known HBO program, Da Ali G. Show, that infiltrated a black-tie Nashville Opera fund-raiser last week at Loews Vanderbilt Hotel. In the show, British actor Sacha Baron Cohen adopts several different personas to goof on people. To target the opera fund-raiser, Cohen turned into the character of Borat, a naive TV reporter from Kazakhstan.

British actor Sacha Baron Cohen in Nashville

] The military tribunals which will try the "alien
] combatants" held by the US military at Guantanamo Bay in
] Cuba form one such legal black hole. In November a senior
] British judge, Lord Steyn, of the House of Lords,
] referred to the trial arrangements for the detainees at
] Guantanamo Bay as a "kangaroo court" and a "black hole".
]
] The phrase also was used at the end of last year by a
] federal appeals court in the United States which found
] that the holding and trial of aliens by the military
] without charge in an offshore location amounted to a
] legal "black hole" and as such was unconstitutional.
]
] And there were the words again, just this week, in the
] mouths of the Pentagon's own lawyers who have been
] appointed as defence counsel for the alien combatants.
] They said that it amounts to a "legal black hole" if
] there is no possibility of a civilian court review of the
] determinations of the US military commissions which will
] try David Hicks and others.

A legal black hole in Cuba threatens to suck in some precious rights - www.smh.com.au

] Inside the United States, where the war began, we
] must continue to give homeland security and law
] enforcement personnel every tool they need to defend
] us, the president said, noting that key provisions
] of the Patriot Act were set to expire next year.
]
] The terrorist threat will not expire on that
] schedule, he told lawmakers. Our law
] enforcement needs this vital legislation to protect our
] citizens. You need to renew the Patriot Act."

Fuck you Ashcroft. We are not interested in more Patriot Act. We do not live in the middle east. We live in America. We have rights and civil liberties built by our forefathers. You strip those from us and leave us with only what our forefathers would be rolling in their grave to learn about. You are not making me safer from terrorism by reading my bank account statemets without court concent but by dropping bombs on tents where terrorist reside. Also, you are not providing due process to those terrorist that reside in the United States. You only lock them up and throw away the key. Why not show the world our court system and due process and what happens to people/groups that carry out evil deeds.

Let the Patriot Act die is deserved death and bring on the guns and bombs where the real war of terrorism is fought.

MSNBC - Bush makes case for second term

] Complaint Requests Injunctive Relief and Damages Against
] Novell for Copyright Misrepresentations and Alleges Bad
] Faith Effort by Novell to Interfere With SCO's
] Intellectual Property Rights to UNIX and UnixWare

Okay SCO, where is the source code to prove this copyright mispreresentation?

SCO Files Slander of Title Lawsuit Against Novell

] Bush acknowledged that some in Congress and in the
] country objected to what he called "the liberation of
] Iraq." But he forcefully defended his decision with this
] comment: "For all who love peace and freedom, the world
] without Saddam Hussein's regime is a better and safer
] place."

I love peace and freedom. What about a world without John Ashcroft & George Bush regime? I think that would be a better and safer place for Americans.

CNN.com - Bush warns of 'work unfinished' - Jan. 21, 2004

] A presidential commission studying ways to reform Social
] Security on Tuesday unanimously approved a set of three
] recommendations that would allow workers to shift some of
] their contributions to the retirement fund into personal
] investment accounts.

About the only thing Bush has right.

CNN.com - Panel proposes personal accounts for Social Security

] Market research firm IDC recently estimated that by 2007,
] 23 percent of all IT services jobs will be offshore, up
] from 5 percent in 2003. The figures refer to IT work done
] for U.S.-based companies.

Good Q&A article from CEO whose company provides outsourcing services in India.

On the outsourcing hot seat - News - ZDNet

] CNBC, the financial cable TV network owned by General
] Electric Co., has tightened its rules for its employees
] and their families on owning stocks and bonds. CNBC
] currently allows employees to own individual stocks
] and bonds as long as they keep them for at least four
] months. In addition, reporters, editors and management
] had extra limitations including a requirement that any
] transaction of 500 shares or more, or with a value of
] $20,000 or more, be approved by the company's legal
] department.
]
] The company also conducted random audits and required
] on-air personalities to disclose any personal stock
] holdings whenever they mentioned the company on air.
] Speculative trades such as short-selling were also
] prohibited. Under the new rules, CNBC will require its
] news staff and management to either liquidate all
] holdings of individual stocks and bonds by next
] Jan. 1 or place them in a blind trust. The new rules
] will also apply to spouses, dependents and relatives
] of CNBC employees who live in the same household.

That bites if you work there!

CNBC Tightens Rules on Stock Ownership