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Right about now, Carnahan is probably trying to explain to The Big Governor why he blocked little old ladies from defending their own lives against rapists and murderers while he enjoyed the protection of armed bodyguards those same senior citizens paid for with the taxes he helped increase.As far as Missourian and American freedom are concerned, this couldn't have happened to a more deserving person. Good riddance. He should have been hung for being a traitor a long time ago, but this'll do just fine.
Thanks for the lightning bolt, God. Good shot.
Microsoft Linux - the premier linux distro: this page isn't likely to last long; Microsoft's lawyers will shut it down. So viddy it while you can. Includes paragraphs titled "Microsoft Invades Cuba", "Microsoft Monkey Colony on Mars", "MS Linux to have Start Button", "MS Linux Faces Competition". It appears to be a two-page site. The second page can be accessed via the "Support" tab at the top of the first one. All the other links point somewhere else, mostly to Microsoft's web site. Hehe. [tbtf]
MS Linux is released under the provisions of the Gates Private License, which means you can freely use this Software on a single machine without warranty after having paid the purchase price and annual renewal fees.
Judicial Watch is sponsoring a presidential debate on ethics in government this Friday, October 20, at 8pm eastern time. Their site is encouraging you to come to their weekend conference in D.C., but according to email from Cures not Wars, C-SPAN will be televising it, and Fox TV and American Voice Radio "are considering coverage". "John Hagelin, Al Gore, Ralph Nader, Pat Buchanan, Harry Browne, and Howard Phillips have all accepted -- only George W. Bush has declined." Judicial Watch is expressing doubt today that algore will show. They're going to put seven lecterns on the stage. If GW and algore don't show, their lecterns will be empty.
BBC News - Cannabis 'as addictive as cocaine': mice like it so it must be addictive. Guess food is addictive, too, eh? I can tell you from experience that neither cannabis nor cocaine are addictive. Yes, there is a strong psychological desire to use them again, if you have an addictive personality, sort of like sex, but neither has withdrawal symptoms that I noticed. [unknown]
Anjetta Mcqueen at AP via Yahoo News - McCaffrey To Leave White House Job: he'll leave two weeks before Klinton does. I'd call this good news, but the next guy could be worse. [unknown]
Liz Ruskin at the Anchorage Daily News - Details cloud debates for, against Prop. 5: Alaska's proposition 5 will legalize marijuana, and more. Go, Alaska! Deregulate all drugs now. [unknown]
Among other things, the 1,300-word initiative would:Let adults 18 and older own, grow and distribute marijuana, at least for personal use in private.
Apply retroactively, granting automatic amnesty to people convicted in state court of marijuana crimes that would be no longer illegal.
Destroy all criminal records of no longer illegal marijuana activities.
Convene an advisory panel to study the feasibility of paying restitution to people imprisoned or fined because of marijuana laws no longer in effect.
Allow for prosecutions of people who drive while impaired by marijuana.
Ban the mandatory use of the common urine test for marijuana as a means of determining impairment.
Prohibit Alaska from providing any help or money for federal enforcement of marijuana laws that conflict with the new state law.
Fox News - New York Bans Out-of-State Smokes: this happenned a while back. When New York raised its cigarette taxes, people started buying them out of state. So the criminals in Albany made buying out-of-state cigarettes illegal. Now Brown & Williamson is suing, on constitutional grounds. [sierra]
"The implications of this case go far beyond tobacco," said David Remes, an attorney for Brown & Williamson. "If each state can set its own rules determining what can be sold over the Internet, sellers will be subject to a variety of inconsistent and conflicting views by the states of what's permissible and what's not, and the growth of e-commerce will be choked," he said.
John Calvin Hall - Responsibility: Mr. Hall encourages us to get concealed carry permits and to vote. He calls it our responsibility. Now why should I get a permit to do something that is my God-given right? And why should I vote for a state that thinks it's OK to steal my money and kidnap me for activities done with other consenting adults in the privacy of my own home? Without strictly enforced constitutional limits, democracy quickly becomes tyranical. Bill of Rights Enforcement! [sierra]
Ron Scherer at the Christian Science Monitor - War against smoking goes worldwide: now the nannies are going global with an attempt at a worldwide anti-smoking treaty. Get a life, people. Get your nose out of mine. If you want to try to convince people to stop smoking, go ahead, on your own nickel. But it's not OK to use state guns to coerce people into anything. [market]
bob lonsberry - Why Raise the Minimum Wage? Why, indeed? Why have a minimum wage?
Python 2.0 has been released. There are a number of new modules, including an XML parser, and the language itself has been extended. Most importantly to this old Lisp hacker, the reference counting garbage collector has been augmented to notice and collect cycles. This fixes one of the main problems with reference counting. Hope they did it right. I haven't tried it. [/.]
Steve Gold at Computer User - 256-Bit Crypto Broken By Swedish Team: several weeks of supercomputer time was all it took to break "the 10 cipher codes detailed by crypto specialist Simon Singh in his book, The Code Book, which was published almost a decade ago." [market]
