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We got back a few minutes ago from voting for Barack Obama. Our polling place was Walter Johnson High School, in North Bethesda, MD. The line wasn’t too long. We waited about 25 minutes in line and it took about 5 minutes to vote.
The voting machines were electronic, and — I’m disappointed to say this [...]
» Go to this postA little boy loses his parents during the depression, and his grandparents take him to live with them in their mountain cabin. The premise is simple, but the lessons are many. I liked this movie because it taught respect for native Indians.
Let’s face it, the “red skins”, as they used to be called, owned this [...]
A couple of hours ago, I was almost home. As I came down a hill close to our neighborhood, on a road where the speed limit is 45 mph, I saw a woman crossing the street in front of me, at an intersection about 30 yards away. She popped into my field of view from [...]
» Go to this postI read the Red Tape Chronicles over at MSNBC on a regular basis, and one of their latest posts really struck a chord with me. We really have become a nation where everything gets tracked, whether we like it or not. To some extent, I don’t really care. If the government wants to tap [...]
» Go to this postThe Sidney Morning Herald reports on a journalist jailed last year, who will now stand trial (after over 5 months in jail) on charges that he used his Hotmail account to send articles on unemployment and rural poverty to US-based China web portals - which aren’t popular with the Chinese government. How they got hold [...]
» Go to this postBoing Boing has a snippet from a press release by Rep. Adam Schiff, D-CA. He questioned Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez about the NSA’s secret domestic wiretapping program. Among the questions was this: does the Administration believe it has the authority to wiretap purely domestic calls between two Americans without seeking a warrant? Gonzales’ response: “I [...]
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The seller was going to send it by priority mail but I requested...