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My own opinion, expressed in this post last March, was that both the FCC and Congress overplayed their cards in 2004, inviting constitutional challenges they might have lost (in the FCC's case) and tacking on extra censorship baggage which might have doomed the new legislation (in the case of Congress).
Who supports prostitution?
Hello you pioneers who went westward ho. We need to know what happended next.
Okay, so those commencement speeches weren't very interesting, but this is a good story. Honest. To Cuba (almost) by Outrigger Sailing Canoe.
whats in a......brand-naming quiz?
Two commencement addresses if you're bored:
Senator Barack Obama at Knox College and Steve Jobs at Stanford.
Google maps has international satellite imagery. The detail of this image of Buckingham Palace is stunning.
coo coo ca-choo
Downing St. memo daily media targets
"it's J.R.R. Tolkien reading and Singing his Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers/The Return of the King it's a magnificent piece of audio and was recorded before the books publication.On this Lp Prof. Tolkien reads from his notes for the books as well as sings and chants verses of prose in elfish!, read the books in High School but I'm not a big LOTR fan boy by any stretch yet this recording always amazes me. "
does dr wilson know all of the secrets of prospect park ?
cant find the serge gainsbourg thread
blog trend tool
first jessica alba, now this?
JETER AND WANG
TAME THE TIGERS
phil spector, man or bush?
This blog will document
the in-and-outs and ups-
and-downs of the
renovation of our 1870's
brownstone in Clinton Hill.
The Bush Administration's aggressive response to a Newsweek story alleging that US interrogators at Guantanamo Bay flushed the Koran down the toilet in front of Islamic detainees displays the height of hypocrisy. After Newsweek clumsily issued an apology, followed by a retraction, White House spokesman Scott McClellan called on the magazine to "help repair the damage that has been done, particularly in the region," by explaining "what happened and why they got it wrong." Maybe the Bush Administration should do the same, by opening up its secret facilities for inspection to the Red Cross and other third-party observers. We are printing below a letter from reader Calgacus--a pseudonym for a researcher in the national security field for the past twenty years--that shows how the desecration of the Koran became standard US interrogation practice.
i was wondering about this. payback time baby!
Google Maps satellite image of a... um... well... weather balloon? Swamp gas? Atmospheric anomaly? (via robotwisdom)
Here is the smoking gun:
"C [Dearlove] reported on his recent talks in Washington. There was a perceptible shift in attitude. Military action was now seen as inevitable. Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy.
It is not surprising on the face of it that Bush had decided on the Iraq war by summer of 2002. It it is notable that Dearlove noticed a change in views on the subject from earlier visits. By summer of 2002, the Afghanistan war had wound down and al-Qaeda was on the run, so Bush no longer felt vulnerable and was ready to go forward with his long-cherished project of an Iraq War. What is notable is that all this was not what Bush was telling us.
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Goldsmith's hands trembled as he reached out for the chainsaw rig. He saw himself and the others sitting in the Hague, one day, facing the same judges that Milosevic harangued. Charged. But it is a long way from Crawford to the Hague. The man from Connecticut with the cowboy boots and the fake twang would get away with it. They would all get away with it. But people would know they had lied.
-juan cole
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