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Archive for April 5th, 2007

05 Apr

Club Blue

Batocchio 10:30 pm (Club Blue)

[[ Video ]]

Peter Gabriel - In Your Eyes
From Secret World Live. I’ll post other Gabriel stuff later, but might as well get the famous one out of the way first!

05 Apr

18 U.S. and 6 UK deaths in 5 days. Yah the surge is working…..working to get more of our kids killed. But hey, it’s a political solution, that’s why we increased our troop levels. Cause it’s political.
From Yahoo:
In Baghdad, the US military also announced that six soldiers had been killed over the past [...]

05 Apr

Whacky Wally World

QuestionGirl 5:17 pm (More Dumb Shit, Workers' Rights)

The retailer appears to go beyond most companies in its sleuthing. Its surveillance group hunts computer hackers, trolls colleagues’ e-mails and tries to plug information leaks.
H/T Bat for this post!
A Wal-Mart worker fired last month for intercepting a reporter’s phone calls says he was part of a larger, sophisticated surveillance operation that included snooping not [...]

05 Apr

False Equivalencies

Batocchio 4:10 pm (Al Gore, Environment, Health Care, Lying Liars, Media Bias, Media Reform, Rightwing propagandists, Science, Think Tanks)

(Cross-posted at Vagabond Scholar)
Several recent posts have touched on false equivalency, perhaps the most persistent, pernicious mistake perpetrated by the press. Although the post Color Commentary was undertook partially in jest, on political issues, the typical media formula is to present a Republican and a Democrat, let them both have their say, and leave [...]

05 Apr

IRS Laptops MIA

QuestionGirl 2:00 pm (Data Breaches)

More stolen data. Oh what a shock.
At least 490 IRS computers have been stolen or lost since 2003 in security breaches that potentially jeopardized the personal information of more than 2,000 taxpayers, a government audit reported Wednesday.
The computers were lost in 387 incidents, most of which were not reported to the IRS [...]

05 Apr

Recess Appointments

QuestionGirl 10:21 am (Bush)

Update 1:20pm: Bat emailed me and informed me the tiger story about Sam Fox has already been removed from Wikipedia, so it was probably a hoax. Doesn’t matter, I still don’t like the swiftboating asshole!
While the cats are away, the rat will play. Three recess appointments that aren’t good, unless [...]

05 Apr

Do It Yourself Impeachment

QuestionGirl 9:56 am (Impeachment)

H/T Jimmy for sending me this info. You can find forms, videos and much more at the “Impeach for Peace” website. It can’t hurt to give it a shot!

Impeach for Peace, a Minnesota-based impeachment group, has researched a method for impeaching the president using a little known and rarely used part of the [...]

05 Apr

Gonzales: Mock Testimony Sessions

Buck 9:06 am (Alberto (I don't recall) Gonzales)

MSNBC.com:
Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales has retreated from public view this week in an intensive effort to save his job, spending hours practicing testimony and phoning lawmakers for support in preparation for pivotal appearances in the Senate this month, according to administration officials.
[...]
Ed Gillespie, a former Republican National Committee chairman, and Timothy E. Flanigan, who [...]

05 Apr

Back Home

Buck 8:46 am (Iran, Military)

LONDON - Fifteen British sailors and marines held captive for nearly two weeks in Iran arrived home Thursday, a day after the announcement of their release defused a growing confrontation between the two countries.