Lorne ,'Smile Time'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
In the meantime, I've come into possession of a five gallon wet/dry vac courtesy of the nice people at Sears, and I've maybe emptied about half the basement water at a rate of about twenty gallons every three minutes. So not fun....
I think, technically, every anniversary is a duct tape anniversary.
Whee!!!!! It is a happy day around Natter.
What are the odds that the Bush administration will abuse all this monitoring phone records stuff? Apparently really high.
Federal Source to ABC News: We Know Who You're Calling
A senior federal law enforcement official tells ABC News the government is tracking the phone numbers we call in an effort to root out confidential sources.
A senior federal law enforcement official tells ABC News the government is tracking the phone numbers we call in an effort to root out confidential sources.
Wow.
Dammit.
Today is a crappy day, much befitting the label "Monday."
What are the odds that the Bush administration will abuse all this monitoring phone records stuff? Apparently really high.
Well, that sure didn't take long.
From Salon:
When a Washington Post/ABC News poll found last week that 63 percent of Americans approved of the NSA's collection of information about virtually every telephone call made in America, we were so skeptical that we didn't even pass it along. Maybe we were guilty of thinking "from the gut," but the poll seemed to be taken too soon to provide an accurate read on public opinion, and its results didn't square with what we know -- or, at least, what we think we know -- about the importance Americans place on their privacy.
It seems that we were right. A new USA Today/Gallup poll taken over the weekend has 51 percent of Americans disapproving of the NSA program and 62 percent saying that Congress should hold hearings immediately. A Newsweek poll comes up with a similar result; in it, 53 percent of Americans say they think the NSA "goes too far in invading people's privacy."
Hello Monday folk. Not being at work is a good time. Being at "work" where the people you are supposed to be meeting with don't know about you - interesting. Could be frustrating, but I am just enjoying the free time it provides, in between trying to get appointments.
Best creationist quote ever?
From Ken Ham, founder of Answers in Genesis:
All scientists start with presuppositions. If you're starting point is 'we can explain the origin of the universe without the supernatural,' that's a bias.
eta: from a blogger:
Of course, what that bias is called is "science" and Ham is ag’in it.