] "he Bush administration is planning to propose requiring
] Internet service providers to help build a centralized
] system to enable broad monitoring of the Internet and,
] potentially, surveillance of its users."

George "Big Brother" Bush just loves this wild run he has on the constitution.

Bush Administration to Propose System for Monitoring Internet

] "Republicans with close ties to the Bush administration
] said today that Senator Trent Lott had no chance of
] remaining majority leader and that the White House wanted
] him out. President Bush (news - web sites), they said,
] would not intervene to save him, but neither would he
] take any overt actions that would be seen as forcing
] Senator Lott from the position. "

na na naaa na....na na naaa na...hey hey, good bye....

Republicans Say Lott Lacks Bush's Support

] "Thanks to a newly found flaw in Windows XP, two of the
] most popular audio file formats can be used by crackers
] to take control of remote PCs. Users only need to hover
] their mouse pointers over the icons for malicious MP3 or
] Windows Media files to execute the attacker's code,
] Microsoft Corp. said in a bulletin published Wednesday.
] The vulnerability lies in the Windows Shell, which is the
] portion of the operating system responsible for defining
] the user's desktop as well as organizing files and
] folders and enabling the OS to start applications. An
] unchecked buffer in a function used by the shell to
] extract custom attribute data from audio files enables an
] attacker to create a malicious MP3 or Windows Media file
] and use it to run code on a remote user's machine. "

Man that just awesome.

XP Flaw Puts MP3, Windows Media Files at Risk

] "MSNBC TV has uncovered footage from October 2000 in
] which Sen. Trent Lott is heard saying Strom Thurmond
] %u201Cshould have been president,%u201D a reference to
] Thurmond%u2019s 1948 presidential candidacy. It was
] Lott%u2019s praise two weeks ago for Thurmond%u2019s
] presidential bid that caused a storm of criticism and
] claims that Lott was endorsing racial segregation. Senate
] Republicans will meet Jan. 6 to weigh Lott%u2019s fate.
] Right now, Lott doesn%u2019t have the 26 Senate
] Republican votes needed to keep his job as majority
] leader, sources told NBC%u2019s Tim Russert."
] THE 2000 VIDEO footage comes from a formal signing ceremony for a
]defense spending bill.
] As Thurmond, who was the Senate president pro tempore at
] the time, puts his signature on the bill, Lott is heard in the
] background saying, “now this is a famous signature right here.”
] A woman’s voice then praises Thurmond’s pro-military
] record, to which Lott replies that Thurmond “should have been
] president in 1947, I think it was.”

There is always the smoking gun video. ;)

New Lott video adds fuel to furor

] "The city Police Commission is considering a proposal to
] ban most police pursuits after a series of high-profile
] collisions.
] The new policy would stop officers from chasing people
] for minor traffic violations such as missing license
] plates or broken taillights. The Police Commission has
] found that at least 60 percent of Los Angeles pursuits
] are for such minor offenses. "

But what about the high rated TV shows???

L.A. Police Chief proposes ban on most police car chases

] "President Bush said Tuesday he will begin deploying a
] limited system to defend the nation against ballistic
] missiles by 2004.
] The plan calls for 10 ground-based interceptor missiles
] at Fort Greely, Alaska, by 2004 and an additional 10
] interceptors by 2005 or 2006, defense officials said,
] speaking on condition of anonymity."

I guess the Terrorist (TM) will be attacking Alaska soon.

Bush says he'll deploy anti-missile defense by 2004

] "2002--Covad Communications
] introduced a voice and Internet access bundled service
] designed for small businesses in the San Francisco Bay
] Area. TeleXchange(SM) Integrated Services offers both
] business quality voice and data at up to 40 percent
] savings over phone company providers."

Finally, putting the 'V' in 'VAD. ;)

Covad Introduces Voice and Data Bundle Designed for Small Businesses

] "We're well on our way to squelching what gives this
] country an edge. What would it take to kill innovation
] altogether?

] As a casual observer of what makes this country work and
] what stops it cold, I hereby offer a few suggestions on
] how we can ruin American competitiveness and innovation
] in the course of this century. I think the reader will
] agree with me that we are already far down the road on
] many of them:
]
] "

How to Ruin American Enterprise by Ben Stein

] "Poor could pay a bigger share; rich could benefit"

Sounds like the Repblican way...

New tax plan may bring burden shift

] "In a fresh sign of preparation for possible war with
] Iraq, the United States has ordered another 27,000
] Reserve and National Guard troops to prepare for active
] duty, defense officials said Saturday."

US calls up 27,000 reserve troops - Dec. 14, 2002