Month: January 2006
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Homeland Security to Build Detention Camps
(via Madge) The contract, which is effective immediately, provides for establishing temporary detention and processing capabilities to augment existing ICE Detention and Removal Operations (DRO) Program facilities in the event of an emergency influx of immigrants into the U.S., or to support the rapid development of new programs. The contingency support contract provides for planning […]
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Call Your Senators and Thank Them
Don’t forget to follow up with a thank you to your Senators if they voted the way you wanted with the Alito nomination. It is great to call and gripe before hand but you have to followup and let them know that you appreciate when they follow-through. http://senate.gov/ Don’t forget most Senators have their DC […]
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SARK, Arundahti Roy and Sony VAIO PCG-SRX87 Hinges
Sunday morning. Ron is presumably in the air. Kitty is wandering around after the daily Wakeup Cuddle. How can someone be that happy to see me? Had some dreams last night but I can’t remember them. I’ve been pretty forgetful the past six months and it really bothers me. I know it is because I’ve […]
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Supahstah
Just got an email from one of my advance reviewers for the book. She says it is the best blogging book to date!
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Top 10 Censored News Stories of 2005
Project Censored is back with their picks for the top under-reported stories of last year: White House erodes open government. Civilian death toll of Fallujah Distored election coverage, hackable voting machines Surveillance soceity unveiling US uses tsunami to military advantage Saddam raked in oil profits from Jordan and Turkey – with US approval Journalists in […]
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NASA Climate Scientist Muzzled by White House
James E. Hansen, director of the NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (and soon to probably lose his job, funding or both): The Bush administration has tried to stop him from speaking out since he gave a lecture last month calling for prompt reductions in emissions of greenhouse gases linked to global warming. He fell […]
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GLAAD Wastes Time on American Idol
Gay rights group GLAAD wastes their time on American Shithole: On Tuesday’s show, seen by a Nielsen-chart topping 35.5 million viewers, Cowell told one male contestant to “wear a dress” and Jackson asked another, “are you a girl?” That’s just one in a huge parade of fagged up guys that really really really need to […]
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Oprah and James Frey
Can you imagine if Oprah called Condoleeza Rice a liar to her face when she appeared on Oprah? Isn’t it crazy that one of the few times you see someone call someone else a liar to their face, it is on Oprah and not a news channel?
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All Things Being Equal
Got measured at the gym today. Weight is up to 184# with body fat up 19% (from 17.8% a month ago). Gained 4 pounds of muscle since last month (8 pounds since mid December). So 4 pounds of muscle and 4 pounds of fat. Shoulders wider by 1 inch to 50 inches. Thigh up another […]
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Busy Bee, Wikipedian, Mountains and Other Molehills
It is Tuesday. Did a fair amount of work this weekend. I’m teaching a course for Andrea and Tina so I was listening to the previous run of the course and making an outline of the notes – the class starts on Thursday. Got a so-so draft done of the proposal for the next book. […]