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Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Springfield) today joined his colleagues at a press conference to announce the introduction of the ?Freedom to Read Protection Act,? a bill to exempt libraries and booksellers from certain provisions of the USA Patriot Act. The lawmakers were joined by members of the American Library Association and representatives from the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression.

?Attorney General Ashcroft thinks we need to shred the Constitution and Bill of Rights to safeguard the American public from terrorists,?

Lawmakers Introduce %u2018Freedom To Read Protection Act%u2019 (01068)

Sources say MOAB ? still experimental ? is a 21,000-pound bomb that will be pushed out the back of a C-130 transport and guided by satellite. Because it is not dropped by parachute, as was the old Daisy Cutter, the aircraft can let it go from far higher altitudes, making it safer for U.S. pilots.

The MOAB's massive explosive punch, sources say, is similar to a small nuclear weapon.

Whatever the target, it must be far from cities where civilians might be hurt. But one important aspect of using this type of weapon, sources say, will be psychological impact on enemy troops. It is intended to terrorize Iraqi troops, drastically reducing their desire to continue the fight.

Some call it Massive Ordnance Air Burst (MOAB) or Weapons of Mass Destruction (WoMD)

] The man who spoke Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s
] words in English during a CBS interview with Dan Rather
] late last month was an actor using a fake Arabic accent,
] the Los Angeles Times reported on Wednesday.
]
] The paper said Steve Winfield is a member of the Screen
] Actors Guild (news - web sites) who bills himself on a
] Web site called "Fabulous Voices" as an expert in putting
] on foreign accents.

Hussein Translator on CBS Used Fake Accent?

] An 85 year-old widow is so determined not to be
] resuscitated against her will by doctors that she has
] tattooed the words "Do Not Resuscitate" across her chest.

Widow's tattoo states dying wish

] A lawyer was arrested late Monday and charged with
] trespassing at a public mall in the state of New York
] after refusing to take off a T-shirt advocating peace
] that he had just purchased at the mall.

CNN.com - Man arrested for 'peace' T-shirt

One dead fly with one microprocessor implanted into the fly body. The chip is a fully operational web server on the internet, and enables online viewers to enter and exit the fly corpse.

Small web server mounted on a dead fly!

Reeves Callaway builds one of the fastest and most exclusive cars in the world, the 188-mile-per-hour Callaway C12. Never seen one? It's not surprising; only 26 of them exist.

To Be the Fastest Car on the Road

       HOW ELSE TO explain the credulity with which the Bush administration?s National Strategy To Secure Cyberspace was greeted last month? The 76-page document is chock full of what computer-security experts term ?FUD? ? geek shorthand for spreading bogus ?fear, uncertainty, and doubt.? Never mind that the hype over alleged ?cyberterrorism? has been thoroughly debunked, time and time again. The government?s information technology sages still trot out dubious stats in support of a looming ?cyberwar,? claiming that hostile nations possess legions of computer-savvy shock troops ready to knock out New York?s electricity, zap the nation?s phone lines, or open up the Hoover Dam.
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What is your thoughts on Bush's "Secure Cyberspace"?

Lost in cyberspace - The Bush administration?s war against a bogus threat

In a prepared message marking the Islamic New Year, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein on Tuesday said his nation will be "victorious against aggression."

"And in this day from the beginning of the new Islamic year," Saddam said, "it is without doubt that the faithful will be victorious against aggression and against all things, against those who are faithful."
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Saddam better pull out all his goodies out of his bags, because he is going to need them.

CNN.com - U.S. orders another 60,000 to Persian Gulf - Mar. 4, 2003