It's illegal to buy sex.
It's illegal to buy votes.
But a clever bunch of liberals has come (ahem) up with the idea of bartering sex with liberals for conservative pledges not to vote for Bush (The link to the site is not work safe but the article from the Voice is work safe, and has a link to a video with a little feature on the idea)
While the site lists many liberals willing to have sex with conservatives, some of whom claim to be models, it only tallies ONE conservative vote pledged against Bush. Then again, since there are no guarantees that a pledge will translate into a vote, it would seem that the number of pledges isn't the issue. It's pretty good political theater, I figure we'll see it on the news pretty soon.
(Via The Virtual Stoa)
| GOP | 2004 Election | Republican National Convention | George W. Bush | Sex | Sex |
On Ishbadiddle, I've tried to obscure my identity slightly so I can speak freely while still pursuing an academic career. It's no more than a fig leaf, but it's enough to hide me from straightforward searches, etc.
But ... I have to tell y'all ... I do have brown skin. This means that if I'm in the vicinity of a camera, whether I'm using it, or somebody else is, I'm asking for trouble.
Continue reading "Not only can I not take photos, but you can't even stand near me with a camera" » | Turbans | Sikhs | Civil Liberties |
In case you've ever want to know what Joan Crawford's apartment looked
like, when she was married to Al Steele, prez. of Pepsi:
http://www.joancrawfordbest.com/geo5thave.htm
It's from the extremely useful site:
http://www.joancrawfordbest.com/
And here's her best movie, in my umble opinion:
http://www.joancrawfordbest.com/filmsfemale.htm
Don't ask me how I know these things. Please.
-- Alex J
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Follow-up to our earlier post on the deal that Pakistan would deliver an Al Qaeda leader during the Democratic convention: it looks like they came through.
Pakistan Says It Captures a 'Most Wanted' Qaeda Man.
Good for them -- certainly getting Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani off the streets is a boon to the War on Terror. Not sure if the timing of it will help the GOP in the way they wanted... Forgive me, my cynicism that we are manipulating the war on Al Qaeda for domestic political purposes has now reached the Red Zone.
| Pakistan | 2004 Election |
Found on littlefros: Radioactive Consumer Products. Now I'd heard about gas lantern mantles, smoke detectors, the old red Fiestaware, and of course glow-in-the-dark watch faces.
But... Brazil nuts? They have 1000 times the radium as other foods. Kaopectate? Evidently, the Georgia clay, kaolin, (used to) give the Kao to Kaopectate, and "contains elevated levels of the uranium and thorium decay series." Not to worry, since "it would be necessary to consume over 1000 pounds [of Kaopectate] a year to exceed the annual limit of intake (ALI) established by the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP)." The authors wryly add that "if you are using that much antidiarrhea medication, you have more important things to worry about than exceeding the ICRP's ALI."
Most shocking of all -- this same kaolin is used to coat paper to give glossy magazines their gloss. Giving rise to what is perhaps the greatest scientific chart ever published:
Yes, Playboy magazine is radioactive. This explains so much of my adolescence.
| Magazines | Food | Pornography |
Bush plagiarizes student paper!
Three days after Bush’s remarks, the Los Angeles Times reported that the White House found the comments in a Dartmouth undergraduate paper posted on the Internet and lifted them out of context. “It shows they didn’t read much of the article,” commented Charlie Trumbull, the author.
I mean, how cool would that be, to have your paper plagiarized by the President of the United States?
| Academics | Plagiarism |
Some time ago, I emailed the good folks at Netflix with some of these very suggestions -- let people easily publish their favorite movie lists, reviews, and queues. Turn bloggers into Netflix evangelists -- everyone wants to share all their media consumption anyway. My email was not only unheeded and ignored, it was unacknowledged. (I've since stopped rating movies at Netflix, and instead use movielens.) Anyway, some other useful suggestions are in this article, which Netflix will probably ignore anyway.
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Now you know. Can you get a longer chain than 26?
Via Waxy.
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OK, so here's what I think the Dems should do on this gay marriage amendment, and the attempts to place the Defense of Marriage Act outside normal judicial review. Let's beat them at their own game. Add a couple of amendments to the legislation. Say, "you're really serious about defending the instiution of marriage? How could you say no to this?"
| Marriage | Law |
Getting this site to do what I want is an exercise in gradualism. Were I unemployed, childless, and not running a political campaign, I guess I'd sit down and make all the changes at once. But fortunately, Movable Type is pretty flexible, and when I want to try something, it doesn't require a complete overhaul. So, thanks to this nifty MT plugin from Brad Choate, the "Recent Entries" index is now subdivided into Ish's five main topics: News, Tech, Culture, Community (the "about us" portion) and the rest. If I've coded it right, it should be indexing and sorting the most recent 15 articles, without redundancies for the ones assigned to multiple categories. (Note to posters: it's sorting based on the "primary category," which is the first one you pick when posting.) "Recently Clicked" is ignored, since the memestream is up top anyway.
Also, the byline now links to an index of all that author's posts -- the ones that have been published, anyway. We still have a bunch of old posts in "draft" status that are gradually being categorized, indexed, and published. (Note use of the passive voice in that last sentence. Ponder its significance.) I'll need to propagate this change over to the individual entry template -- note to self.
So, any requests for the next tweak?
| Classification Schemes |
Business: McDonald's
Place: Drive-Thru, PA Turnpike
Sign: NEW FRUIT AND WALNUT SALAD
Small print: Contains Nuts.
| Signage | Law | McDonald's |
I now live, much to my chagrin, in a place where the weather matters. What do I mean? Well, in NYC, and the other major cities where I've resided, the weather was ... not path-critical, to use some horrendous jargon. That is to say, growing up in NYC, the impact of the weather was limited to "Put on a sweater, it's cold out" or "take an umbrella, it's going to rain" ("Yes, Ma"). But it almost never stopped you from doing what you wanted to do. I remember the blizzards of the late 70s. We might have had a snow day or two, I think perhaps my folks might have had a day off, but in general ... we went on with our lives. Even the April Fools Day storm barely slowed things down. I never worried about getting hit by lightening, or getting swept away by gale force winds, or freezing to death. Public transport was nearly unstoppable, and when it paused, there was always the sidewalks. NYC, like a duck, was impervious to weather.
Sigh. But my life is now different. I now live in a place where ... not only do I get bad weather, but it can severely curtail my movements. Even though I live in a small city, you basically need to drive anywhere to do anything, and driving makes you vulnerable to winds, debris, etc. I understand that weather happens, what I don't get is that people choose to live in such a way as to expose themselves to weather related interruptions, especially when their lifestyles are such that they're trying to live in a hermetically sealed climactic bubble (house--> car --> office --> car --> walmart --> car --> house). It's like people in tornado alley who live in mobile homes.
There's a point here, coming at the end of this rant. It's that I have one small weapon in my arsenal, and that is the weather technology of the US government. Now, I check the NOAA webpage to see what's going on whenever the sky darkens. They have a storm prediction center, and you can look up your local weather conditions there rather than waiting for the TV to give you the same uninformative crawl about a "severe weather warning". Even better still, you can get radar information from around the country. I just looked up my local area, and saw the "loop" that displayed the storms movement over time. It showed me that the storms had passed, and that I was unlikely to have any further problems if I wanted to go out later tonight.
Better living through technology!
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A couple of neat techie links via Eyebeam reBlog:
This Columbia project aims to reconstruct what people were looking at when their picture was taken -- by examining their eyes. I can imagine this being used in detective work someday. Like that scene in Blade Runner.
These dots were made for walking. Sad dots. Manly dots. Light relaxed female dots. Etc.
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In my never ending quest to kill more time by web surfing, I found some interesting war blogs I wish to share. Something about war, live on the web. Interesting cultural innovation.
My War: Fear and Loathing in Iraq: This is written by a soldier serving in the "Stryker" brigade in Mosul. Strykers are new-fangled armored car things. Like Bradleys but faster and lighter. The Strykers have their own brigade-level blog, The Stryker News. I recommend the photo galleries on the Stryker News site.
iraq calling: life of a soldier in Iraq:A bit less interesting, but still good. This guy's in the South, somewhere.
91Ghost: A new blog, but promising. It's really about Gulf War I.
Via robot filter
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A few days ago we mentioned that Greg is going to be writing a comic book for Marvel. Well, here's an interview with him at Comic Book Resources, and another one at Fanboy Planet. For those of us not familiar with Warlock, you can read all about him here and here, among probably a bazillion comics sites.
| Friends | Greg Pak |
I've just installed the MT-Blacklist plugin, so we should see fewer fake comments from spammers trying to use Ishbadiddle to boost their own Google ranking. Let me know if you've got any trouble making comments now. Unless you're trying to sell me Paxil. I already have a perscription, thanks.
| Google | Movable Type |
We'd heard about this meta-talk show of the 90s, but not having cable meant we'd never seen it. So we rented it. And -- well, so what? The supporting cast is pretty good, esp. Rip Torn, but Gary himself (or is that Larry?) is just annoying, and the meta thing might have been fresh in 1992, but now just seems old. And busted. So no more Larry for us.
Conrad Veidt has his face carved in a permanent grin in this silent adaptation of a Victor Hugo story. Veidt's great performance was the inspiration for the Joker. But the melodramatic conventions get in the way of the movie's style.
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Incredibly, I'd never seen this. My mom wouldn't let us watch it because they were "mean to the shark." Since after all, he's just being sharky, not evil. But probably it was for the best, since the movie is really frickin' scary.
ishbadiddle: hey have you written up the whole Wilson Redux thing?
whatsapundit: not in depth.
whatsapundit: better writers than I are thrashing this.
ishbadiddle: i feel i need to cover it, since we made hay out of it, but haven't followed the revised story
whatsapundit: whatsapundit
whatsapundit: Hitchens
whatsapundit: Roger Simon
whatsapundit: Sun Times
whatsapundit: josh marshall claimed for a while that there was a rabbit going to jump from a hat
whatsapundit: but he seems to be backing away from Wislon as well now.
ishbadiddle: any other good sources? I'm just going to cut and paste here -- instablogging.
whatsapundit: the hitchens piece is probably the best of the lot.
whatsapundit: like I say, better writers are taking wilson to pieces.
ishbadiddle: and what does novak say?
whatsapundit: hold on, read a piece by him, let me see if I can dig it up....
ishbadiddle: since he's a player in all this.
whatsapundit: Novak
whatsapundit: this is a good article as well:
whatsapundit: IHT
whatsapundit: final link:
whatsapundit: WaPo
whatsapundit: the worst thing about wading through this mess
whatsapundit: (besides for the apparent total lack of ethics on the Wilson's parts)
whatsapundit: is how dysfunctional our intelligence community seems to be.
whatsapundit: Weekly Standard
whatsapundit: that was the last one.
| Yellowcake | Iraq | WMD | Saddam Hussein | Robert Novak | Joseph Wilson |
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Osama bin Lotto!. Can you guess when they'll unwrap him? Via easy bake coven.
| 2004 Election | War on Terror | George W. Bush |
Another in a series of hilarious letters written by Jesus' General, this one to To m Coburn, a Senate GOP wannabe who favors the death penalty for abortionists:
My heart spewed mighty rivers of joy when I heard that you support the death penalty for abortion providers. It's about time we got serious about using the ultimate sanction to impose our views about morality on others. I hope that you will continue to push this message throughout the remainder of the campaign.I trust that your definition of abortion includes general practitioners, pharmacists, and other medical professionals who push "the pill" on the public. As you surely know, this so-called contraceptive prevents zygote-Americans from obtaining their piece of the American dream, property rights to a promising piece of real estate on the uterine wall. Denied that dream, they die, and those responsible deserve to pay the highest possible penalty.
Via pesky'.
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This just about defines "martial arts epic." As interesting as a history -- or rather, a 20th century Chinese view of 19th century China -- as for Jet Li's amazing fight sequences.
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We liked Being John Malkovich. Adaptation was great. Eternal Sunshine: terrific. So why did Human Nature leave us going: wha? (OK, so Confessions of a Dangerous Mind wasn't that great either. Still, Kaufman's batting .600.)
Mondrian + Pac-Man + Boogie Woogie = Brilliant
Via Eyebeam
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See, this is why no one can figure out what the hell is going on any more. The CIA says " The terrorist threat against the United States in the run-up to the November election is as serious as at any time since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks." The Department of Homeland Security, on the other hand, still has us at yellow alert.
So, am I supposed to be scared now?
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I get email on an annoyingly regular basis from Crain's. So this just showed up in my inbox:
Politics / EconomyOf course, I had to send this immediately off to Wonkette.
Kushner allegedly hired prostitute to block investigationThe New Jersey real estate developer and Democratic fund-raiser was charged with hiring a prostitute to obstruct a federal probe.
I've been meaning to update that sidebar for a while -- actually, I've been meaning to do a bunch of things for Ish, but running a political campaign takes up much of my spare digital attention. (The Conspicuous Consumption bloglet over there would indicate that I haven't seen a movie since Kiki's Delivery Service. That is not true. I'll get to do more reviews soon -- in the meantime, hey guys, you can post stuff there too.)
Anyway, the links are updated. Dot is back in Idaho. Keywords, happyrobot and the robotfilter, and pesky apostrophe (née Go Fish) have moved up to the "Friends" section, because they're such friendly people. Also, say hello to Thudfactor, the blog run by John Williams, who did all the coding for DOTWHO, and is a swell guy. You should definitely read his latest, a point by point analysis of Dave Kopel's point by point analysis of Michael Moore's Farenheit 9/11, and check out the movie reviews while you're at it. Oh, and Greg Pak's home page is now a full-fledged blog (did I miss that?), making a Pak Troika, since 3 Good Things is apparently back in business, and Bad Culture is still taking on politics. How does the man find time to write Marvel comic books? The mind reels.
In the "Blogrolling" section, Ravenwolf's blogs are back up (Anomaly and Randomness). I Speak of Dreams is the latest to link to Ish. Welcome, Liz!
I've also added a new section, "Feed Your Head," which is a list of blogs that I read using a "Feed Reader." (The one I use is Bloglines, which is both free and easy.) The sites on the list with an [f] also have feeds. It's an easy way to read a lot of blogs at a single sitting. If you have any recommendations for feeds to add to the list, leave 'em in the comments. FYI, you can read Ish using a Feed Reader -- there's a feed for the full posts, one just for excerpts, and one for the Recently Clicked memestream. (By the way, if there are any LiveJournal readers out there who want to add Ish to your "Friends List", I need to fix the syndication. The Syndicated Account should point to this feed. Thanks.)
And that's today's roundup. Enjoy!
Nothing as earth-shattering as a pontential junta, but I think I saw Jennifer Connelly yesterday. At the Tot Lot.
Ben was sacked out in the stroller, but Zach clearly wanted to play, so we were in the park on a sunny Sunday afternoon. The Tot Lot was its usual cute-fest, with tiny kids crawling all over. There was a sandy-haired dad, noticeable for his Brit accent, doing what all good parents do at the Tot Lot: a combination of commentary on the kids, chit-chat with the other parents, and refereeing squabbles over toys. Later I noticed he was with a woman, who was wearing a "the only bush i trust is my own" shirt, which had been an entry in the Designs on the White House contest. Which I might have mentioned, if Zach hadn't been crawling up the slide at that point. And then another woman was with them -- apparently they were all together -- and I thought, that looks like Jennifer Connelly.
Continue reading "Celebrity Sighting (or, Sunday in the Park with Stellan)" » | Park Slope | New York City | Jennifer Connelly |
Always the trend setter, the USMC has invented kevlar shorts to be worn over one's fatigues for the sake of keeping shrapnel out of one's sensitive bits and upper thighs. I sense a new fashion craze just on the horizon:
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Kevlar Shorts
CAMP RAMADI, Iraq(July 5, 2004) -- Marines here from 3rd Battalion, 11th Marine Regiment are currently testing lower body armor developed by the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory in Quantico, Va.
The Kevlar shorts were designed to repel razor-sharp shrapnel from improvised explosive devices detonated by anti-Iraqi fighters along transportation routes throughout the country.
According to Lt. Col. Lance A. McDaniel, battalion executive officer, the artillery unit received ten pairs of the shorts from the Warfighting Lab. The shorts arrived nearly a week ago and were distributed amongst the battalion's batteries.
"The gunners in our vehicles seem to be the most exposed to shrapnel," McDaniel said.
"We've had a lot of Marines receive injuries to their buttocks and upper thighs."
He said these shorts make the gunners, who man crew-served weapons on top of the vehicles, less vulnerable to serious injury during IED attacks.
"The Marines wear flak jackets which protect their backs and chests," McDaniel said. "It only makes sense to have protection for the legs,"
The one-size-fits-all shorts are worn over a Marine's uniform and are held up with built in suspenders. Each pair of shorts weighs close to 5 pounds.
Lance Cpl. Mike C. Suchevich and Pvt. Luis R. Mejia have both tried the shorts a few times.
"The other Marines made fun of me the first I put them on," Mejia said. "I guess they thought it was a joke. They are really funny looking."
The shorts have already acquired a few nicknames from the battalion. One Marine referred to them as "lederhosen," and others call them "fishing shorts."
Still, the two Marines said they are grateful to have the new gear.
"They're not very comfortable and they're hard to move in," Suchevich explained. "But
I do feel a lot more protected than before and that's definitely more important than comfort."
So far, the shorts have not been put to the test during any attacks, but the Marines believe it's just a matter of time.
"I think all gunners should have a pair," Mejia added. "I feel safer wearing them. They can't stop bullets, but they can stop shrapnel."
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Well, this is one way to "secure" the "homeland."
A Bush loyalist has been appointed to "newly created" panel and Mike Isikoff at Newsweek (a key player in the Clinton-era scandal-mongering) reports that Ridge has asked Justice to look into what it would take to delay the election in case of a terrorist attack, like, maybe the one they warned us about last week* (before admitting they actually had no new information).
Here's the upshot:
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As a result, sources tell NEWSWEEK, Ridge's department last week asked the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel to analyze what legal steps would be needed to permit the postponement of the election were an attack to take place. Justice was specifically asked to review a recent letter to Ridge from DeForest B. Soaries Jr., chairman of the newly created U.S. Election Assistance Commission. Soaries noted that, while a primary election in New York on September 11, 2001, was quickly suspended by that state's Board of Elections after the attacks that morning, "the federal government has no agency that has the statutory authority to cancel and reschedule a federal election."
Soaries, a Bush appointee who two years ago was an unsuccessful GOP candidate for Congress, wants Ridge to seek emergency legislation from Congress empowering his agency to make such a call. Homeland officials say that as drastic as such proposals sound, they are taking them seriously—along with other possible contingency plans in the event of an election-eve or Election Day attack. "We are reviewing the issue to determine what steps need to be taken to secure the election," says Brian Roehrkasse, a Homeland spokesman.
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Where "secure" presumably means "for Republicans."
[*Side note: last week's announcement generated the most fear-based-coverage-per-non-event in months. CNN had a JFK School of Gov professor on who said, right into the camera, "There is nothing new here. They're just scaring people," and then the anchors -- literally within minutes -- were saying, "Up Next: New Information About a Planned Terrorist Attack." Unbelievable. Or, I guess, not.]
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It is my good fortune that the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Association of Tax Professionals are both holding their annual conferences this week in San Francisco. If it's Tueday, I must be at the Hilton. Wednesday is the Hyatt Regency. :-)
Last week, Liz and I were in the Berkshires, taking one last vacation before the baby arrives. We got home on Monday night, and Tuesday morning I was on my way to San Francisco. I arrived in time for the opening of the ACLU conference Tuesday night. Playwright Eve Ensler ("The Vagina Monologues") introduced ACLU President Nadine Strossen, and then ACLU Executive Director Anthony Romero walked us through the history of the organization. He pointed out that "We not only have the right to criticize the government, but we also have the responsibility."
In talking about the recent Supreme Court cases involving the detainees, he reminded us that the ACLU had taken the case of the Japanese confined to internment camps in WWII. They lost the case, something Congress finally remedied in 1981, but the man who brought the suit was sitting among us!
Romero talked about politicians who govern by polling. He quoted Churchill, who was advised to run England "with his ear to the ground." He replied disdainfully that "In that position it would be hard for the people to look up to us."
Later, we had a workshop on how to talk to Congress about mitigating the Patriot Act. We were told before it started that "This is for Activists. Voyeurs, leave the room!"
Wednesday morning, over breakfast, Steven Shapiro, the ACLU's Legal Director, walked us through the recent Supreme Court decisions. Regarding the trilogy of 9/11 cases, he said tha tthe Administration cynically kept detainees in Guantanamo Bay because it is part of sovereign Cuba, and therefore the US courts have no jurisdiction. They exist in a lawless area, subject, perhaps, only to the jurisdiction of Cuba. They argued that the Supreme Court, therefore, did not have standing to hear the case. The Supreme Court rejected this argument. Shapiro wondered out loud about what would have happened if the detainees actually brought a case in the Cuban court system! :-)
Then the administration had the audacity to claim that the Geneva Convention did not apply to us because it only applied to incidents that occur on foreign soil and Guantanamo is part of the US!
In the first case, Justice Stevens wrote that the foreign nationals incarcerated in Guantanamo have the right to their day in court, though he didn't specify how or when or even which court. In the case of Hamdi, the US citizen captured in Afghanistan, the Administration argued that he was an "Enemy Combatant" because the President said so. Justice O'Connor acknowledged that this was a possibility, in that he was captured on foreign soil, but that he, too, had the right to a hearing of some sort. In the case of Padilla, though, they passed the buck by telling him that he filed his claim in the wrong court. Based on O'Connor's Hamdi decision, however, when it finally comes back to the Supreme Court, they will have to revert his case back to the criminal court system and out of the military court system.
Shapiro also talked about the 1789 law that allows non-citizens to come to US court to sue torturers for compensation, and a couple of other cases.
Then I got a cab and came to the NATP Conference, where I heard the new IRS Commissioner Iverson, and did some income tax learning. :-) At 5, I got another cab back to the ACLU conference, where we had dinner with speakers Sandra Tsing Loh, filmmaker John Sayles, investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, and comedian Greg Proops.
Sayles said he got a lot of flack from his friends when he won his MacArthur "genius" grant twenty years ago. His friends told him that if Kissinger could win a peace prize, then they supposed that Sayles could win a "genius" award. :-) He also showed us some clips of his new movie, "Silver City," that will open on Sept. 17th, and is a parable about Bush.
Sy Hersh was very pessimistic. He said that the Arabs have little alternative now but to see us as immoral. He told us that he talked to an Israeli, one "who has blood on his hands," who said that "We hate the Arabs, and the Arabs hate us. But we know that one day we must live as neighbors. If we did what you did," talking about the American humiliation and torture, "we would never, ever be able to live as neighbors with the Arabs. You can't do what you did."
He also saw the election as "Bush against Bush." He said that one of the most courageous things he saw was John Kerry's testimony to Congress in 1971, and he wished that Kerry would recapture who he was then instead of pandering to the right.
Then we all went downstairs to watch "Farenheit 9/11." After which I took another cab back to the Hyatt Regency, where I will stay for the remainder of the Tax Conference. Speakers I missed or will miss include Richard Clarke, Daniel Ellsberg, a discussion with FBI whistle blower Coleen Rowley and former Republican Congressman Bob Barr, and a debate between Colorado Governor Bill Owens and former VT Governor Howard Dean. But you can see them by going to www.aclu.org.
Years ago, I was at a dinner party and was talking to the daughter of some friends of my parents, who had just finished law school. While we were talking, I could see wheels turning in her head as whatever I was saying reminded her of something she learned in law school. "You're a, uh, 'civil libertarian,' aren't you?" she asked.
"Sometimes," I replied. "Sometimes I'm not civil."
- David Block
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According to this New Republic article, the Wadministration is putting pressure on Pakistan to deliver Al Qadea leaders -- during the DNC convention.
An official who works under ISI [Inter-Services Intelligence]'s director, Lieutenant General Ehsan ul-Haq, informed tnr that the Pakistanis "have been told at every level that apprehension or killing of HVT [high-value targets]s before [the] election is [an] absolute must." What's more, this source claims that Bush administration officials have told their Pakistani counterparts they have a date in mind for announcing this achievement: "The last ten days of July deadline has been given repeatedly by visitors to Islamabad and during [ul-Haq's] meetings in Washington." Says McCormack: "I'm aware of no such comment." But according to this ISI official, a White House aide told ul-Haq last spring that "it would be best if the arrest or killing of [any] HVT were announced on twenty-six, twenty-seven, or twenty-eight July"--the first three days of the Democratic National Convention in Boston.Discuss amongst yourselves.
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So did anyone else see the New York Post's veep scoop flop before they heard the