May 22nd, 2006
Quote of the Day: Winning A War
“You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.”
– Jeannette Rankin
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Archive for May, 2006
May 19th, 2006
I’m Not Dead
Well, I’m not.
Earlier in the week, I was very, very ill. Fortunately I see the post ahead feature for “Quote of the Day” was working just fine. 
I believe that the illness was triggered by that nasty weather that New England got with all the rain and the flooding. It triggered some migraines and some nasty stomach issues for me.
Then after that I’ve just been busy with trying to speedily develop a nifty new interface for that project I thought was done and trying also trying to catch up at home. My house looks like
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May 16th, 2006
Quote of the Day: On the News
“People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.”
– A. J. Leibling
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May 15th, 2006
Quote of the Day: On Banking
“I don’t have a bank account, because I don’t know my mother’s maiden name.”
– Paula Poundstone
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May 14th, 2006
Quote Of The Day: On Sanity
“Sanity is a madness put to good use.”
– George Santayana
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May 13th, 2006
Quote of the Day: On Learning
“I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”
– Pablo Picasso
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May 12th, 2006
Fight Back: Contact The Domestic Spying Enablers
AT&T
Regulatory Executive Offices
140 New Montgomery Street
San Francisco CA 94105
800-791-6661
Verizon Ethics Line
800-856-1885
NSA Public and Media Affairs
Phone: (301) 688-6524
Fax: (301) 688-6198
E-mail: nsapao@nsa.gov
If you have any more contact numbers, add them to the comments.
Hat tip: Suburban Guerrilla.
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May 12th, 2006
How Many People Switched Phone Carriers To Qwest Yesterday?
Just curious.
And don’t worry. I do have a post coming on the subject of the domestic phone number gathering scandal, but I wanted to wait until tonight or tomorrow when I had time to really sit down and focus and gather all of my thoughts and not just rant. My friends have been quite proud of me actually for not over-reacting the last 24 hours. But then…I’ve known all along, haven’t I?
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May 12th, 2006
Things You Might Overhear At My House
(Note: The denizens of my household are one human, 2 cats, and a puppy. Unless otherwise noted, everything is said pretty much matter-of-factly.)
Don’t chew on my bra.- Have you seen your brother?
- Don’t look at me with that attitude.
- Twizzlers are for people.
- Piddle on the paper, please.
- No, this is the paper where you piddle.
- Bring back that bath mat please.
- Potato chips are for people.
- Please don’t chew on the laundry.
- You have food; you have fresh water; you have a clean litter box; what more do you want?
- I am not a chew toy.
- I can make that face
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May 12th, 2006
Friday Puppy Photo Blogging: One Sunny Day
It’s been gloomily raining most of the week here in Maine, but Sunday afternoon was bright and cool and sunny so Pugly and I had a great time outdoors. Yup, even I enjoyed the outdoors part.
Here’s Pugly trying to eat through his leash.
And here he is trying to get a close up.
And this was mid-scratch because for some reason he likes to scratch the leash and his face looks cute when he does it.
And here he is intently studying people who were apparently ignoring his royal cuteness.
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May 12th, 2006
Quote of the Day: On Free Speech
In a nation where free speech is the last line of defense against absolute power, they don’t want you to know, because the more you know, the worse they look.
– Rep. Jim McDermott, “The Big Chill” (Huffington Post)
I highly recommend reading Representative McDermott’s whole blog post too.
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May 11th, 2006
Blogthing: What’s Your Religious Philosophy
Hmmmm… I took this blogthing that I wandered to from James’ blog.
The strange thing is that the first time I took it I got:
| You are Agnostic |
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May 11th, 2006
Quote Of The Day: On Politicians & Money
“Asking politicians to give up a source of money is like asking Dracula to forsake blood.”
– Cal Thomas
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May 10th, 2006
How I Refused To Take A Commitment Pledge
When I was 18 years old, my whole life was pretty much centered around my little Southern Baptist church. I know some of you might find that hard to believe. It’s true though.
I’m not saying that I wasn’t pushing the envelop back then. I was, but I was pretty secure in my Faith. I just thought a lot of the “rules” the Church had were on the ridiculous side. I thought the Church was a bit close-minded and uptight and I kind of thought that the Pastor and his wife were a bit choosy about which Bible verses they thought
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May 10th, 2006
8-Yr Old Girl Sexually Assualted By 1rst & 2nd Graders
How does this happen? Where do children even get the idea to do this this sort of thing? WTF are people teaching their kids today?
ST. LOUIS, Missouri (AP) — Twelve boys in the first and second grade at a St. Louis elementary school are accused of sexually assaulting a second-grade girl during recess, authorities said Tuesday.
One teacher who was supposed to be supervising the recess has been fired, and another suspended with pay, school superintendent Creg Williams said. Ten of the boys, ages 6 to 8, were suspended for the rest of the school year, and the other
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May 10th, 2006
Ex-NSA Chief Inman Criticizes Bush’s Warrantless Wiretaps
Monday night at a panel discussion at the New York Public Library on the NSA’s continued use of warrantless domestic wiretaps authorized by President Bush, former NSA director (under President Jimmy Carter) Bobby Ray Inman became one of the hightest-ranking former intelligence officials to publically criticize the program. Dispite having previously being very careful in public statements he’s made since the NSA eavesdropping program hit the public media in December, he now said that “this activity is not authorized,” and that the Bush administration “need(s) to get away from the idea that they can continue doing it.”
Now Inman
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May 10th, 2006
Quote Of The Day: On People
There are too many people, and too few human beings.
– Robert Zend
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May 9th, 2006
Can You Get Mad Cow From A Root Canal?
British government scientific advisers informed health ministers yesterday that patients undergoing routine dental work for root canal issues may have been exposed to the human form of BSE (commonly known as Mad Cow Disease or vCJD) because instruments had previously been used on patients a;ready unwittingly carrying the incurable disease. Approximately 3 million such treatments are done every year in England and Wales and the health ministers were instructed to consider banning the reuse of the equipement needed due to “hypothetical but plausible scenarios.”
Seac, the independent expert committee on BSE and variant CJD, claims that sufficient decontamination is difficult to
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May 9th, 2006
UK UFO Study Says No Such Thing As ETs
Well, while I know many find it surprising, it’s no secret that I do not believe in extraterestrials, though I’m prepared to seriously eat my words should some show up some day in my lifetime. 
Anyway, apparently there was a confidential 4-year study done by the Ministry of Defence in the UK on Unidentified Flying Objects completed back in 2000 and stamped “Secret: UK Eyes Only.” The study was entiled “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena in the UK” and tackles the long-running question by UFO-spotters: “Is anyone out there?”
The 400-page answer is “no.”
But what about all of those “close encounters?
“Evidence
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May 9th, 2006
Why Is Jesus’ Virginity So Important To The Christian Church?
With all the hoopla over The Da Vinci Code movie coming out this month and the mainstream media and blogosphere reporting on the Teen “Virginity Pledges”, I have to admit I’ve been pondering the big questions about religion and faith and “The Christian Church”.
Mostly, I’ve been wondering what the big deal about virginity is. (As the World’s Oldest Virgin, I have the right to wonder.)
O.K. I get that Jesus’ birth was a miracle virgin birth signifying that only God himself could have actually impregnated Mary. I see where that is significant.
But what I don’t get is this big hang up by the Christian Church on Jesus’ virginity. Why is it so vital to their Faith that he be virginally chaste for 30+ years?
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