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Talk about a slightly frightening development… Oracle owning the InnoDB technology doesn’t hurt now but what about future development. When it comes to these large softare companies trying to play nice with open source… well forgive me if I’m none too trusting.
That said commercial giants really have contributed a lot to […]

“It is a very dangerous doctrine to consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions. It is one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy.” —Thomas Jefferson

Odd that the press has totally ignored the suicide bombing at Oklahoma University and especially that he went to the same mosque attended by Zacharias Moussaoui. You’d think an Islamic suicide bombing at an American University would be news. I guess not.

Don’t expect me to defend the banks and the way the put it to consumers but the article Rising bank fees hit consumers sure starts out on a bad foot:
“I’m admittedly poor at managing my bank account, not knowing where my money is,” says Felipe, 36, who lives in Miami Lakes, Fla., with his […]

Face it, American beer sucks. A lot of it isn’t really even beer but some mysterious brew that wandered to close to the wrong end of a Clydedale. does that mean American beer makers should give up, baybe fix their beer so they can, in fact, call it beer?
Na… its easier […]

Or at least the bishops of England, Wales and Scotland - the bastion of conservative Catholic and Christian values. Right. But if you need evidence that the Bishops’ agenda trumps the Catholic Church I think this will do the trick.

Great! Unless you’re deputised law enforcement intending to go armed because then they’ll just fire you. Golly Gee - I thought all sanity would return to FEMA once that horrible man Michael Brown resigned? Looks like maybe he wasn’t the problem, maybe?

One of the downsides to being a contact on over 60 domains is when they decide to send out stuff I get multiple copies. One would think that because all of my records use the same handle I’d only get it once. I think someone needs to add DISTINCT to a query somewhere. […]

“Remember democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” —John Adams

This is just horrible, think of all the metaphores we’ll have to rethink.
“But Dean, the party is up to its waist in quicksand”
“That’s OK Nancy we’ve almost hit neutral buoyancy”

Feet on the ground say this guy’s full of it.Of course the “feet on the ground” work for FEMA so it must be another government lie, right?
Nagin & Blanco have finally let go of the knives in each others backs so someone else thought they could get a bit of that political glory […]

And not for the good, either (surprise! Not.) seems she supports the International Criminal Court, homosexual adoption, women in combat to name a few. Oh but she’s a Republican nomination so she’s “OK”. Yeah, right…

Ouch, big mark against Miers if Bill Kristol is saying I’m Disappointed, Depressed and Demoralized over the lack of a truly conservative nomination.
W had the opportunity to nominate a real die-hard conservative. Not a “compassionate conservative” which seems to translate to spending lots of money to prove they’re “compassionate”. But an honest to goodness […]

I am dubious to the validity of the data (being anyone can publish anything on the Internet - they let me on here didn’t that?) but the sight NationMaster.com - Where Stats Come Alive! is rather interesting. I particularly found the mortality stats fascinating especially where the United States doesn’t have the highest in […]

It has gotten so insanely PC in Germany that even a Prince may be in trouble because the family’s weapons may be illegal. We’re not talking machine guns here but muskets and old cannon. When muskets are outlawed Prussian Knights will have only swords and pikes.

I think we could take a few pointers from this Mom fighting the RIAA for Electronic Trespass, Violations of Computer Fraud & Abuse, Invasion of Privacy, RICO, Fraud. We must learn these lessons and apply them to the ACLU and their state cells. I mean affiliations.

It looks like the Jews aren’t all that left Gaza. Even now that it’s done I am still appalled at the “evacuation” of Gaza and even more appalled by the roll the United States and SecState Rice played in it. Nothing good will come from this and neither Israeli nor Palistinian will gain […]

There has been much talk about Supreme Court nominations / Judges nothing having to be Judges or Lawyers. It looks like the President got it partly right by going outside. Unfortunately he didn’t go far enough outside and still chose a dang lawyer. Otherwise same mindset, different nominee.
After Gonzales I am not exactly holding my […]

It looks like VP Dick Cheney had a blinding flash of the obvious and noted that Rangel is “losing it”
“I don’t know what I did to offend him, but he’s gotten pretty nasty lately…. I think Charlie is a lot older than I am, and it shows,” said the vice president.
Zing!
I know Cheney isn’t […]

I would take the fact that Texas prosecutor Ronnie Earle has “re-indicted” Tom DeLay as an indication that the comments on the weakness of the original indictement had merit. With this indictment Earle has a 2/7 score on empaneled grand juries and Tom DeLay. Never mind it took number 6 to get the first […]

We have very good reports from Mesopotamia regarding our current weaponry. It turns out that if you hit a man two or three times in the upper-chest area with a .223, you will take him cleanly out of the fight. Of course, one such shot with a .308 will do the same. We also hear […]

On Thursday 29 September at 4:34PM I received the following call from a group calling themselves “We The People”:
Hello this is an Epics Alert from We the People regarding Congressman John Hostettler. On wednesday John Hostettler close associate and political ally Repobulcian leader Tom DeLay was indicted on felony conspiracy charges for campaign money laundring. […]

This morning the connection was completely dead. The line linkup light was even flashing occasionally and no amount of rebooting the hardware gave me more than a few bits of throughput. So I called and talked to technical support after submitting an on-line ticket last night.
After about 20 minutes wait the analyst […]

Talk about a FUD campaign The Brady Campaign to Control Gun Violence is waging against Florida. Tourists are a ripe target anywhere specifically because carry laws vary so widely state to state. Even today with 37 states having carry permits and offering some sort of reprocity the rules are so confusing I have […]

It looks like some scientists are atleast warming to the idea solar activity just may have something to do with “global warming”. Ya think?