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Hey all, didja miss me? Of course you did.... heh. We didn't have our cable modem for a month after our move. And while I had that clean and virtuous feeling of having gone cold turkey for a while, I was bored & am glad to be wired up again. I can still wish you all a happy 2004, being only 16 days late :)
coop Rachel's first mixed composition. She did it on her own, by herself, while she was trying to learn the equipment. I'm not sure what instruments were used...but she has a cello, violin and viola. This piece, when cleaned up, re-mixed and edited, will appear on the ANTHROPOL disk site as a part of a "flipping radio signal" loop on the front end. Of course this means shit to you. The drummer comes down tonight, if all goes as planned. This will make up for last night's show.
jimmy  Several unrelated stories.
jimmy Follow up on the space stuff: The Straight Dope on why we put humans in space. The short answer, ego. Hah, everywhere you look, Halliburton.
chiefwagonburner Lovely - Bush Plans $1.5 Billion Drive for Promotion of Marriage The Rise of the Religious Right - "With the apathy that exists today, a small, well-organized minority can influence the selection of candidates to an astonishing degree." - Pat Robertson. Nice one. Bush says we need Humans in space - um, why? Aren't robotics cheaper, easier, and safer for research and exploration? D5ive - Some good art and design.
chiefwagonburner Chief, that thing (Patriot II) is so scary that I couldn't even finish it. I have enough faith in humanity that I believe such a thing could never be passed, but where humanity is concerned, I don't think the Bush administration are card carrying members. I found an audio copy of O'Neil's book though. I think I'll get it.
jimmy If you were being attacked by the United States of America, would you know it? Even if you were a U.S. citizen? Peace All! Awwa \A/
Aw Wow, I just can *not* wait for the upgrade of Patriot Act II: Expanding on the original, the new measure is said to instruct the government to build a database of citizen DNA information that could be collected without a court order on anyone suspected of wrongdoing; allow the government to wiretap anyone for 15 days and snoop on anyone's Internet usage, including chat and e-mail, without a warrant; allow the government to strip Americans of their citizenship if they have been found to have contributed material support to organizations deemed by the government, even retroactively, to be "terrorist;" and allow legal permanent residents to be deported, without a criminal charge being filed or evidence presented, if the attorney general considers them a threat to national security. Super Fun Happy Times! More info here. A year ago, Paul O'Neill was fired from his job as George Bush's Treasury Secretary for disagreeing too many times with the president's policy on tax cuts. O'Neill - who is known for speaking his mind - talks for the first time about his two years inside the Bush administration. This is a very sad read. “There are memos. One of them marked, secret, says, ‘Plan for post-Saddam Iraq,’" adds Suskind, who says that they discussed an occupation of Iraq in January and February of 2001. Has some interesting info on Bush with the second round of tax cuts: “He says, ‘Didn’t we already, why are we doing it again?’” Now, his advisers, they say, ‘Well Mr. President, the upper class, they're the entrepreneurs. That's the standard response.’ And the president kind of goes, ‘OK.’ That's their response. And then, he comes back to it again. ‘Well, shouldn't we be giving money to the middle, won't people be able to say, ‘You did it once, and then you did it twice, and what was it good for?’" “Karl Rove is saying to the president, a kind of mantra. ‘Stick to principle. Stick to principle.’ He says it over and over again,” says Suskind. “Don’t waver.” Sigh.
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