Whee!!!!! It is a happy day around Natter.
Fire bad. Tree pretty.
Buffy ,'Chosen'
Natter .44 Magnum: Do You Feel Chatty, Punk?
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.
juliana - May 15, 2006 7:35:14 am PDT #7367 of 10002
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Gudanov - May 15, 2006 7:39:10 am PDT #7368 of 10002
Coding and Sleeping
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.
tommyrot - May 15, 2006 7:40:46 am PDT #7369 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
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.
le nubian - May 15, 2006 7:41:32 am PDT #7370 of 10002
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Dammit.
Dana - May 15, 2006 7:43:16 am PDT #7371 of 10002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Today is a crappy day, much befitting the label "Monday."
brenda m - May 15, 2006 7:48:19 am PDT #7372 of 10002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
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.
tommyrot - May 15, 2006 7:52:34 am PDT #7373 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
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."
msbelle - May 15, 2006 7:59:11 am PDT #7374 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
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.
tommyrot - May 15, 2006 7:59:35 am PDT #7375 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
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.
JZ - May 15, 2006 8:07:23 am PDT #7376 of 10002
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Thanks for all the happiversary wishes!
Sadly, all the links everyone's providing to indications of rampant and ramping-up major crazy in the current administration are making me really depressed about just why the fuck Zmayhem thought it would be a good idea to bring another child into this world. Or at least this country. It's just that I'm not sure that, at already closing in on 40, my fertility would have held out until the next Gore administration.