Wow. That article on the DHS investigation disturbed me. Do people not know that the FBI can access your library records without a warrant? And they can then share that information with other federal agencies. It's a power granted by the Patriot Act.

"I tell my students to go to the direct source, and so he asked for the official Peking version of the book," Professor Pontbriand said. "Apparently, the Department of Homeland Security is monitoring inter-library loans, because that's what triggered the visit, as I understand it."

The eavesdropping was apparently done without warrants.

This indicates that neither the professor nor the paper's staff writer knows the law as given by the Patriot Act.

Americans can no longer read whatever they want. Travel outside of the country is considered suspicious. An interest in political science or military history is considered potentially disloyal. And all of these things are being actively monitored.

Wow. That article on the DHS investigation disturbed me.

In memestillallaboutmeeee news, my headache is gone right now. OMG, it's amazing!

Yay, Cass for headache-goneness.

~ma and hugs for Cash.

Why, yes, I am awake at 4:30am, have been for an hour or more. Got a cold, so I'm not feeling too great.

Yikes Andi. I hope you feel better and can get some more sleep. Teh Sick is teh suck.

Huh. It is really late. I should go for that sleep thing myself. I've been skewing towards vampire hours recently which is a bad bad habit. Especially since my mom is going to be here tomorrow and will fret.

I am watching a show on dogs that is really cute and stressing out the puppycat when there is barking.

Sending hugs and restful vibes towards Cash. Any spotting during pregnancy is scary!! And to Baby - Stay put, sweetie!

We went to see The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe last night. Ellie was so good during the movie. It was so much fun to see one of my favorite childhood lands turned into a movie. I thought they did a great job.

CJ woke up early this morning and decided to entertain himself with some dice. The noise woke me up and now I'm WIDE AWAKE, while he has been sent back to bed.

No fair.

vw might be the most amazing person and friend EVAH!

I don't know about that, but I do really think it was the right thing to offer/do. And, I'm DYING to give J her Christmas present. I picked out about 10 fun ornaments yesterday at The Paper Store so she can start her own collection. I hope she likes them. Oh, and J's coming to Christmas Eve with my family, and mom's gonna make her some snowflake ornaments (she's been making them as gifts this year, and they are just gorgeous).

Poor non-sleepy folks! {{{{}}}} all around.

I am watching a show on dogs that is really cute and stressing out the puppycat when there is barking.

Well, if the little bitch won't snuggle she sorta has it coming.

skipped completely, since Christopher is only giving me a half hour on the computer (provided I put my feet up).

Everyone's OK. I had an ultrasound (placenta is up high where it should be) and the hour and a half of monitoring the baby showed no problems--good heartbeat and lots of movement. Just pregnancy weirdness, I think. I'm on modified bedrest for the rest of the weekend and am going back into the doctor on Monday, first thing.

Bedrest is boring. Christopher had to take the remote control away from me to prevent me from watching at Meet the Press this morning.

Thanks, everyone for your thoughts and prayers. I think the bean should stay planted until she's due to come out. I'm handing over pretty much everything to Christopher and I've got a sitter for Owen coming in during the day next week.

Yay!