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Wednesday, December 15, 2004 |
FCC Action Alert
FCC Action Alert: "1. Go to this address and find your Limbaugh station.
2. Send an email to fccinfo@fcc.gov with the following:
On Monday, December 13 in the 2nd hour of his program (1pm EST) broadcast on (CALL SIGN HERE), Rush Limbaugh used the vulgar, sexual term 'dick' when referring to a Miss Plastic Surgery pageant. Specifically, Limbaugh said:
'LIMBAUGH: Miss Plastic Surgery. (chuckle) And – I’d – I’d – I – I don’t – I don’t know what the winner – I – and, oh, I didn’t print out both pages, so I don’t know what the – I don’t know what the winner gets. Probably a certificate to go to San Francisco to have an add-a-dick-to-me operation. ' (audio)
The FCC's obscenity guidelines are hereUPDATE: I love it when a plan comes together (cue A-Team theme)"
(Via Oliver Willis - Like Kryptonite To Stupid.)
9:56:55 PM Permalink
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The Bill of Rights
The Bill of Rights: "Today is the 213th anniversary of the ratification of the Bill of Rights. In the Federalist Papers, number 84, Alexander Hamilton as Publius argued against a bill of rights, saying that such things were in general both unnecessary and dangerous. James Madison of course later introduced the version we know..."
(Via The Remedy.)
9:44:32 PM Permalink
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Google borrows books from leading libraries
Google borrows books from leading libraries: ""
(Via New Scientist.)
Well, this has been all over the blogsphere, and it's pretty exciting news. Of course, it covers only items that are in the public domain. This isn't necessarily bad -- it's funny and maybe a bit ironic that stuff published in the 19th century will be more accessible electronically than stuff published in the 20th! I hope it's not exclusive -- if Google can index and display the stuff, then why not the Internet Archive and Project Gutenberg? These are both venerable web institutions that have a track record of doing good work for the public good. It would be a shame if they can't access and present the same material. Also I hope that whoever indexes this material presents it in such a way that we can link to specific pages in books instead of to the top level of the book itself.
9:43:37 AM Permalink
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Anthrax Killer at Large
Anthrax Killer at Large: "AMONTH AFTER the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, letters tainted with the anthrax bacteria were sent through U.S. mail processing facilities, infecting people in New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, Washington and Florida. The worst bioterrorist assault in U.S. history left five people dead, 17 sickened and some 10,000 on antibiotics. Public buildings had to be closed and cleaned at great expense; similarly expensive workplace safeguards have since been installed. Rubber gloves in mailrooms are now almost as common as envelopes. Yet three years after the anthrax mailings shocked the nation, we seem to be no closer to knowing who sent the letters. The bioterrorists are still at large."
(Via washingtonpost.com - Opinion.)
Hiding with Bin Laden maybe?
9:23:30 AM Permalink
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THE 9/11 QUOTE YOU PROBABLY MISSED, TOO
THE 9/11 QUOTE YOU PROBABLY MISSED, TOO: "
[The remarkable quote in this article from the 9/11 Commission report was just brought to our attention. We could not find it in either the Washington Post or the NY Times although the Palm Beach Post, Seattle Times and two Seattle weeklies ran the story. When we put the phrase 'to keep someone from taking a plane' into Google we came up with only 48 responses.]
MARTIN BRIGHT, GUARDIAN, SEP 11 - In August 2001, the Minneapolis office of the FBI contacted headquarters in Washington to request a warrant to search the laptop computer of Zacarias Moussaoui, a French national with known Islamic extremist views being held in the Midwest city on immigration charges.
An intelligence investigation into Moussaoui had been instigated after agents learned he had taken flying lessons at the Pan Am International Flight Academy in Eagan, Minnesota, as 'an ego-boosting thing'. They found he had an inexplicable $32,000 in his bank, was planning to sign up for martial arts training and buy a global positioning receiver. He paid $9,000 to be trained how to fly an airliner from London Heathrow to New York's John F Kennedy and showed particular interest in the workings of aircraft doors. The field office concluded he was 'an Islamic extremist preparing for some future act in furtherance of radical fundamentalist goals'.
But when a supervisor at Minneapolis pushed the request for a warrant, headquarters complained he was just trying to get people 'spun up.' The supervisor, now furious, said this was precisely his intention and he was 'trying to keep someone from taking a plane and flying it into the World Trade Centre'. Washington said this was not going to happen and they had no evidence Moussaoui was a terrorist.
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(Via UNDERNEWS.)
9:18:41 AM Permalink
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