There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
– Ken Olsen, President, Digital Equipment, 1977; US computer engineer & industrialist
– Ken Olsen, President, Digital Equipment, 1977; US computer engineer & industrialist
Nope, can’t think of a single reason…
Which is which?
Gee, it’s so confusing…I can totally understand the mixup. NOT: TPM cafe
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US news broadcaster CNN has apologised to a US senator after confusing him with al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
CNN had put together a news report on the search for the US’s most wanted individual and was promoting it during Wolf Blitzer’s program The Situation Room.
However, instead of the headline: “Where’s Osama?”, the broadcaster ran “Where’s Obama?”
A screen grab from the CNN report≈ Cross-posted from NlinStPaul’s diary — My First Rant ≈
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."was taking control of the Lieberman for Lieberman, er, I mean Connecticut, party? LOoks like he was successful: AP/myway.com
Too funny.
I want Orman to open up the campaign financing books if he has the authority? It would be interesting to see the answer to the $387,000 question.
It would also give us another peek into campaign financing of right-wingnuts a-la Guiliani’s lost campaign plan…
Also, I hope Orman starts censoring the CFL candidate for lies, ethics, etc. … Should make for some fun news days! lol
oops… I think I meant censuring?
El Niño means 2007 likely to be hottest year on record
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But the number of injured has far outstripped the dead, with the Veterans Administration reporting that more than 150,000 veterans of the Iraq war are receiving disability benefits. [snip]
One is a Jul. 20, 2006, document titled “Compensation and Pension Benefit Activity Among Veterans of the Global War on Terrorism,” which shows that 152,669 veterans filed disability claims after fighting in Iraq or Afghanistan. Of the more than 100,000 claims granted, Veterans Administration records show at least 1,502 veterans have been compensated as 100 percent disabled.
Pentagon studies show that 12 percent of soldiers who have served in Iraq suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder. The group Veterans for America, formerly the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation, estimates 70,000 Iraq war veterans have gone to the VA for mental health care.
New guidelines released by the Pentagon released last month allow commanders to redeploy soldiers suffering from traumatic stress disorders.
152,669 US soldiers have applied for disability benefits. The military admits to a 12% occurance of PTSD, which means to me that the actual number is much much higher. Now, in order to find enough cannon fodder to defend Bush’s monumental ego, they’re going to medicate and then send soldiers with PTSD back into battle quicker with longer stays instead. Bush is going to talk about sacrifice? SACRIFICE? He mistreats the troops like they’re disposable and worthless. He considers himself the king of America. He’s a mental case… a psychopath. I think the people have had enough of Bush’s gargantuan ego. I think that things are going to get very ugly in this country before they get better.
So lets get f*cking real about the loss-of-life toll really exacted by this psycho administratio, in a war of thier choice, waged for no good reason AT ALL:lets add those 1,502 totally disabled troops to the casualty toll. And add in all the rest who have applied and been denied, and the uncountable number of their kids and family members, our own “collateral damage” good people whose lives have already been permanently altered and damaged by what war did to their loved ones.
My own mothers life ended with my brothers death in Nam: she never recovered from it, and never knew another day free from suffering. This vitally alive woman died an alcoholic at age 63.
The genuine “body count” from war can never be fully measured.
And now, we’re going to drug up our damaged troop so we can send them back for more. What kind of hell IS this?
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LONDON (BBC News) Jan. 3 – The Tower of London has appointed a female Beefeater for the first time in its history. Beefeaters have been guarding the Tower since 1485 – for 522 years.
The Beefeater nickname of the Tower of London’s Yeoman Warders is thought to derive from the daily ration of meat they received. Their full title is Yeoman Warder of Her Majesty’s Royal Palace and Fortress the Tower of London, and Members of the Sovereign’s Body Guard of the Yeoman Guard Extraordinary.
For state occasions they wear the well-known ceremonial dress of red and gold with red stockings, a white ruff and black patent shoes.
I would apply for the job just to be able to wear one of those snazzy outfits.
How about that big whacking stick you get to accessorize with?
[Although Ask posted this first item already, it bears repeating… I’ve got to start posting earlier, LOL]
The coming year is likely to be the warmest on record around the world, climate change experts at Britain’s Met[eorological] Office said today. The global temperature is predicted to be 0.54 degrees Celsius above the 1961-1990 average of 14 degrees Celsius, the meteorological organization said in a statement. It added that there was a 60 percent probability that 2007 would be as warm or even warmer than the current warmest year on record, 1998. The potential for a record is linked to the presence of a moderate El Nino weather pattern in the Pacific Ocean, which is “expected to persist through the first few months of 2007”, the Met Office said.
Climate shift helped destroy China’s Tang Dynasty and classic Mayan culture, at same time: The Tang dynasty, seen by many historians as a glittering peak in China’s history, was brought to its knees by shifts in the monsoon cycle, according to a new study. Famed for a flowering of art and literature and for prosperity brought by trade with India and the Middle East, the dynasty spanned nearly three centuries, from AD 618 to 907, before it was overwhelmed by revolt. The twilight of the Tang began in 751, when Arabs defeated the imperial army. But what eventually destroyed the dynasty were prolonged droughts and poor summer rains, which caused crop failure and stoked peasants’ uprisings. Eventually, these rebellions led to the collapse of the dynasty in 907. The same shift in tropical precipitation occurred in Central America simultaneously, and doomed the so-called classic period of the Mayan civilization, at almost exactly the same time as the Tang era, the researchers believe.
Yes, the juxtaposition of those stories is more than a happy accident 🙂
Scientists report definitive evidence of the presence of lakes filled with liquid methane on Saturn’s moon Titan in this week’s journal Nature cover story. Radar imaging data from a July 22, 2006, flyby provide convincing evidence for large bodies of liquid on Titan today. The lakes grow and recede with the seasons, indicating a “methane cycle” analogous to the water cycle on Earth, and it is believed Titan has “ground methane” analogous to groundwater on Earth.
Quirk of African geography allows continued existence of Amazon rainforest. More than half of the dust needed for fertilizing the Brazilian rainforest is supplied by a valley in northern Chad, according to an international research team. Some 56 percent of the dust reaching the Amazon forest originates in the funnel-shaped Bodele valley, which acts as a natural wind tunnel to carry dust aloft. They showed that a total of some 50 million tons of dust make their way from Africa to the Amazon region every year, a much higher figure than the previous estimates of 13 million tons. The new estimate matches the calculations on the quantity of dust needed to supply the vital minerals for the continued existence of the Amazon rainforest.
Researchers have identified a five-gene profile signature that could give doctors strong clues about the chances a patient has of surviving lung cancer. When the genetic profile indicates a good prognosis, lung-cancer patients whose disease is detected early have better than an 85-percent chance of survival after four years, compared with patients who have a high-risk profile — their chances of living four years are less than 40 percent.
Sorry, KP.
I sort of knew you would include it if you posted today – but as you state – it bears repeating.
No need to apologize! My bad for composing the science headlines and not looking at the bucket contents until just before posting. 🙂
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New postal law lets Bush peek through your mail
WASHINGTON – President Bush has quietly claimed sweeping new powers to open Americans’ mail without a judge’s warrant, the Daily News has learned.
The President asserted his new authority when he signed a postal reform bill into law on Dec. 20. Bush then issued a “signing statement” that declared his right to open people’s mail under emergency conditions.
That claim is contrary to existing law and contradicted the bill he had just signed, say experts who have reviewed it.
There’s no end to Bush’s grab for power. The November elections seemed to enrage him and strengthen his addiction to power. The voters tried to send a message? Well, he’s flipping us all the bird and that’s HIS message.
Listen up folks, here’s the new phrase to drop on the street, in restaurants, wherever:
“He’s gone Nixon on us.”
People will know exactly what that means, and what needs to be done.
To paraphrase Nike, “Just say it.”
This is the offense that Joe Sixpack will understand.
“He’s gone Nixon on us.”
He’s making building the case for impeachment about as easy as shooting an old hunting buddy in the face.
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Kissinger – Negroponte – Powell – Rumsfeld – Cheney – Nixon – etc, etc
ANTI-WAR DEMONSTRATION, November 1969: Peace now, Peace now!
NARRATOR: Nixon and his aides, claiming that anti-war critics were helping the Communists, ordered illegal wire taps and drew up a list of their domestic “enemies”.
SONG PROTEST: “All we are saying is give peace a chance” — Are you listening Nixon? “All we are saying is give peace a chance” — Are you listening Agnew?”
MISSION BETRAYED: Richard Nixon and the
Scranton Commission Inquiry into Kent State
The President had quite a bit more to say – and was less concerned with the human implications of the bloodshed than with the political ramifications for his administration. The journal entry also betrays more than a hint that he hoped this show of force might help achieve a primary goal of his presidency: to crush the student antiwar movement that had driven his predecessor Lyndon Johnson from office.
≈ Cross-posted from BooMan’s diary —
Mail Opening: Back to the 1970’s Again ≈
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."It has been unseasonably warm lately.
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Over the holiday I caught a glimpse on tv of some head-up-his-ass republican saying that the storms out west are proof that global warming is a myth. I think it’s proof that the republican party is overloaded with twits and assholes.
It’s a little bit old, but just in case you missed it:
Man Fined for Tossing Pig at Hotel
Perhaps the tosser was attempting to make a political statement.
You know, if one person, just one person does it they may think he’s really sick and they won’t take him. And if two people, two people do it, in harmony, they may think they’re both faggots and they won’t take either of them. And three people do it, three, can you imagine, three people walking in
singin a bar of Alice’s Restauranttossin’ a pig and walking out. They may think it’s an organization. And can you, can you imagine fifty people a day,I said fifty people a day walking insingin a bar of Alice’s Restauranttossin’ a pig and walking out. And friends they may think it’s a movement.with apologies to Arlo Guthrie 🙂
Stop singin’ and get back on the Group W bench.
Maybe it was a political statement.
In the Reagan years I knew someone who left ticks around the lobby of the bank where he did business, on the premise that one good bloodsucker deserved another…
Given that pigs carry trichinosis and strains of flu that humans can catch, would this be bioterrorism?
I think you seriously overestimate the motivations of my cousins in West Point, Mississippi…. (yes, I really do have lots of cousins up yonder in that part of the state…)
I favor the drunken redneck prank theory of possum and pig tossing.
this never caught on up there…
clik to enlarge
At least the dwarf can give consent and receive compensation… 😉
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WASHINGTON – White House legal counsel Harriet Miers has submitted her resignation. White House press secretary Tony Snow said the president reluctantly accepted her resignation, which takes effect Jan. 31. He said a search for a successor is under way.
Asked why she was leaving, Snow said: “Basically, she has been here six years.”
Bush nominated Miers for Supreme Court"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."Well, basically bush has been there 6 years also so can we get him to resign. A basically stupid answer from a basically stupid person.
stepping down to avoid all the upcoming confrontation – subpoenas, investigations.
They’ve all been lawyering up – in need of smart expertise in constitutional law.
Maybe she’ll “Go John Dean” for us in the upcoming investigations? Mwahahahahah.
We wish but doubtful. Isn’t she the same Harriet who wrote Bush is the smartest man she ever met?..guess he’s also her best president ever.
Heavy News Day.
BIG NEWS: (via Huffpost interview)
Rep. John Murtha (D-PA) plans to deny funding for troop escalation
and a promise delivered,
Rep Charles Rangel (D-NY) has evicted that ‘sob’ Cheney from his digs.
(h/t;Thinkprogress)
Russ Feingold introduces bill to redeploy troops within 6 months:
Sign the Petition in support of this legislation HERE
Thanks for the link, signed and passed on to friends.
Our prez is hard at work today. ABC News (via Thinkprogress) is reporting Iraq Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad to replace Bolton.
I’m just thinking..will he cast all those pro Israel vetoes? Some imagery.