Archive for the ‘Politics’ Category
Tuesday, September 6th, 2005
Jesus. Fucking. Christ.
Sorry to be so blunt, but what fucking decade are we in that the First Lady President's mother can say something like "What I'm hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in Texas."
So, who exactly is "they" in that statement Mrs. Bush?
Poor people? ...
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Sunday, September 4th, 2005
The Daily Kos discusses the federal response to the New Orleans disaster in this post. The most incredible part is the recording of an interview with the Mayor of New Orleans where he accuses the Governor and Bush of doing nothing but spinning.
From the news reports I've read, he's ...
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Saturday, September 3rd, 2005
I try to stay away from general politics that doesn't involve the four horsemen of intellectual property, but I can keep my mouth shut over the New Orleans situation.
First, we have Bush outright lying about people predicting the nature of the disaster. Plenty of people predicted that New Orleans was ...
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Wednesday, July 27th, 2005
This past weekend, I attended the OpenTech 2005 conference where a panel discussion on creating a British EFF was discussed.
There's a pledge over a pledge banks (http://www.pledgebank.com/rights) to get people to fund it.
I think the idea initially is to get enough money together to fund someone to act as ...
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Thursday, June 30th, 2005
The BBC is reporting that Bush just created, by executive order, a domestic spying organization within the US called...wait for it....the National Security Service. Our very own SS. Lovely.
This is apparently a response to September 11th, but it's nothing but more window dressing from the Bush administration. The FBI already ...
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