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I've been elsewhere. I've moved my blogging over to LiveJournal and I haven't been cross-posting back here. I loved Blogger when I first started this, but to organize my thoughts I have to keep four or five Blogger blogs going at once, and over at LJ I can tag my entries for better organization. Check out my Live Journal.

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President Washington and Lincoln approved and used "electronic surveillance" on the citizens of the United States? I hope every history teacher in America goes to work this week and tries to instill a better knowledge of American history than the Attorney General has.

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Once again, Janet Parshall demonstrates her lack of knowledge in history, sociology, crime, and religion. Calling gay-adoption "state sanctioned child abuse" has got to be making Satan throw a few fist pumps in pleasure. I know a few gay couples with adopted children, and those children are fine kids, active in church, polite to adults, you know, the things we want to see out of kids in general

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Why is it I go through my entire day and react to things and think "I need to blog about that" and once I get to a computer, I can't remember what it was or think of anything to say?

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It is Christmas Eve, and I hope you are all finding time to nice to one another. After all, the days are starting to get longer, almost everyone I meet is in a good mood because of the holiday, and my shopping is done. Wrapping is a different matter. I even have a package going out to my family, which I don't think I've done in years. But this year, I have managed to keep a good Christmas. I

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I have a problem with the policies in France that refuse to allow Muslem schoolgirls to wear the head coverings (whose name I forget) in school. In England, refusing to let a girl wear a crucifix is also absurd. Maybe that's the unapologetic American in me, that wearing signs of faith that don't include "kill " are acceptable in any society.

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Bill O'Reilly has done it again. He has proven that he has no loyalty to America or to the policies of this President. By inviting al Qaeda to attack San Francisco and stating that they shouldn't get any federal help, he has demonstrated that he wants to see another 9/11-type attack on United States soil. Isn't this an act of treason? If a foriegn leader had said this, you can be sure

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You know what really keeps my business at a certain store or institution? Customer Service. I'm a big fan of being treated like a human being. My bank no longer treats me like a human being. A few months abo we went to Seattle for the Writers of the Future awards ceremony. We deposited a bunch of cash inot my BofA account to keep track of travel expenses. We at first they refused to

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I've been meaning to pontificate quite this week, but witha new job, writing deadlines, and just plain dead tiredness, it hasn't happened. Harriet Meirs fell on her sword, but not really because she still has her job at the White House. It's disturbing that loyalty is first and foremost in this administration. Miers withdrew because she couldn't build support, but her first stated reason: To

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Neal Boorz was apparently shocked that some people were shocked that wealthy friends of people with connections got advanced warning about the terrorist threat in New York last week. Boorz thinks that this is the natural order of things:Well, hell, yes, we should save the rich people first. You know, they're the ones that are responsible for this prosperity. This is just plain silly. If a

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I guess President Bush said that multiple terrorist Al Qaeda attacks have been thwarted in the past few years. I was barely awake and I'm not sure I heard the report correctly. I don't understand how we've stopped terrorism, but there is no mention of the Jihadist terrorist suicide bomber in Oklahoma. I've only heard about this from one news sourse, the national terror alert web site, and I'm

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Yesterday a lot of people made a big hoo-haw over Bill Bennett's remarks about race and crime. Everyone seemed to get pissed. I got a little pissed about it as well. However, I think the real problem isn't in the "kill black babies to reduce crime bit." That was an extrapolation of another idea and he immediately dismissed the idea. My ire came from the introductory phrase "I do know that

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Another lesson in modern moral outrage: Bill Bennett, Reagan's Secretary of Education, has stated that if we aborted every black fetus, the crime rate would go down. Actually, the crime rate would go up, because genocide is a crime. Bennett did say that "That would be an impossible, ridiculous, and morally reprehensible thing to do, but your crime rate would go down." This is how the extremely

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For some reason I've been thinking about so-called "intelligent design" theories that are supposed to replace evolution in the school curriculums, and I have a problem. I have a problem with the fact that I can't imagine how a teacher could have more than 15 minutes of teachable material with intelligent design. Actually, all I really have are about 15 seconds: "And on the first Day God

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"We look at the destruction caused by Katrina, and our hearts break," he [Bush] said. Turning the subject to terrorists, he said: "They're the kind of people who look at Katrina and wish they had caused it. We're in a war against these people." The above is quoted from the NY Times. I question the wisdom of this, because it another example of Bush dehumanizing the enemy. "We're pro-life" the

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Brittnee* Spears has given birth via cesearian section. Not that I care, but the up-side to this is that with a birth scar, she might start wearing clothes that cover her belly. *Deliberate mis-spelling, in case the use of her name requires royalty payments.

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President Bush did something that he has never done since stealing the White House in 2000: he accepted responsibility for something that could lead thinking Americans to the conclusion that the Bush Administration has made a mistake. This is shoking enough, but what gets me going tonight is a report from the American Process Action Fund Progress Report from the 16th of September. I have really

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I hate to think like this, but sometimes I just can't help myself. After all of the people who live in New Orleans have been forcibly removed and taken out of state, all entry to the city will be closed off except for the rebuilding effort. All transportation out of the shelters will be shut down, and homeowners will be told that they have 24 hours to claim, in person, their property. Anyone

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I'm listening to the confirmation hearings, and Sen. Leahy (I believe) asked a very good question: If the Senate has the constitutional authority to declare war, do they have the constitutional authority to end war? Damned good question. Roberts refused to answer because he believes the abstract question reflects a real question he will face as judge, and he has refused to answer questions

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I don't have a problem with Michael Brown quitting a job he was unqualified to have. I have a problem with how he stepped down. You see, Bush didn't do the best thing for the American people. He should have fired Brown. Actually, he should never have appointed Brown because of Brown's lack of qualifications and falsified résumé. What really bothers me is the quote from Brown about resigning

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I have to wonder what Chief Justice William Rehnquist had left on his plate. He clearly had plans for the future. After 33 years on the court, 19 as Chief Justice, he stated a few years ago that he wouldn't retire unless a Republican was president. He was old, he was living with cancer, he had a Republican in the White House. Yet, he didn't retire. From this, I conclude that he had something

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I don't know if it's the caffiene high I've been on for a few days, or just the aftermath of a really good review, but I can't stop lately. Thoughts are exploding into one another and I don't know why. Driving home from my workshop (120 miles away from home) I had a spooky revelation. People are sheep. Sorry, but it's true. I don't mean it in the way Christians are supposed to be the flock

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I've been additced to NumberPlace and Sudoku puzzles for years, and they are now gaining some popularity. Being a shade-tree programmer, I think about solving these things algorithmically, which means that I can write programs as well. I did write a program in Python that lets me solve any puzzle. So far the program has not given up. A site like Sudoku Place would have to classify a Sudoku as

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Bill Bavasi, in another show of contempt for Mariners fans, has. Boone is the best second basemen the M's have ever had. All-Star, Gold Glover, fan favorite, and shortly to be honored at SafeCo with the release of 'Kaboonie', a childrens book about Bret Boone. If I remember, last year Bavasi fired John Olerud on the day Olerud was honored at the game, or the day before. There is a place in

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So this week we saw Condi Rice order most of the countries in the middle east to become democracies. The Bush administration needs to realize that political structures, like religions, are cultural phenomena. We can't create democracy in a culture that doesn't act like a democracy any more than we can convert every Iraqi citizen to Christianity. I don't think she ordered Saudi Arabia to covert

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