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Saturday, March 04, 2006
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If you want to dress like Steve Jobs, go here: Steve's Outfit.
Does a pair of Levis 501's really cost $138? And who would pay $155 for a t-shirt?
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(Via The J-Walk Blog.)
6:49:16 PM 
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“I think the administration has looked at the legitimate power of the executive during a time of war and taken it to extremes. [It’s] to the point that we’d lose constitutional balance. Under their theory, there would be almost no role for the Congress or the courts.” — Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC)
(Via Think Progress.)
6:21:45 PM
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Satan writes to the music industry. Funny that he doesn't spell to well or understand how to use "quotation marks"
Not to loudly, but my intent is to direct children away from God’s love and towards me with my eternity of damnation and despair. I mean just consider America’s concern for their children from my big picture perspective. America has actually murdered over 46,000,000 of their innocent unborn children through various forms of gruesome abortion. Ironically, the children that they allowed to be born are being handed over to me on a silver platter without even a fight. “Such fools,”… I mean loving parents.
What must Jesus who went to the cross and died for the sins of these very people think as they freely reject his word and his love by offering their own children up on MY ALTER?
MTV and its fellow music channels now reach hundred’s of millions of households. They are the best-known channels among people from the ages of 11 to 35 years old. Their music videos use strong violence, have tobacco or alcohol use in 25% of their videos and 75% of their videos involve sexual imagery. Keep up this great liberal work in my name, MTV!
6:14:07 PM
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Oliver Willis sums it up pretty neatly:
- It does a pretty good job of encapsulating the 6 year occupation of the White House by Bush and his team. His only companions in the room are an aide and a White House photographer. To them, this is not an informational session with the disaster response team - it’s just another opportunity for a propaganda photo op (here is the photo in question).
- Our leader has the intellectual curiosity of a moth. He asks no questions, even as meteorologists and other experts are making it clear that the incoming storm is a major deal. He simply rattles off a couple of platitudes and says that the federal government is prepared to act. The corpses in New Orleans and the human suffering that ensued, show us otherwise.
- As usual, conservatives are beating up the messenger (how dare the AP report a news story!). Some of them say its ludicrous to compare them to a cult, but this is what cults do. The leader is infallible, and anyone who would even point out one of the leader’s faults is a heretic. The followers of Sun Yung Moon, Charles Manson, Kim Jong Il, and George W. Bush all exhibit this same trait. Leader is infallible. Biased media plots with Leader’s enemies to destroy Leader.
- This will never happen, because there is no oversight of the President from either the Congress or the mainstream media, but I would really like to have the President explain under oath and in clear detail his and his administration’s activities during the week of Hurricane Katrina, and how their response was so negligent it allowed a major American city to drown.
- Hurricane season is 3 months away. Al Qaeda is growing. George Bush is in charge. Feel safe?
(Via Oliver Willis - Like Kryptonite To Stupid.)
6:03:15 PM
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in the Republican fundie closet. But this is totally messed up.
State bill proposes Christianity be Missouri’s official religion
Missouri legislators in Jefferson City considered a bill that would name Christianity the state's official “majority” religion.
House Concurrent Resolution 13 has is pending in the state legislature.
Many Missouri residents had not heard about the bill until Thursday.
Karen Aroesty of the Anti-defamation league, along with other watch-groups, began a letter writing and email campaign to stop the resolution.
The resolution would recognize “a Christian god,” and it would not protect minority religions, but “protect the majority's right to express their religious beliefs.
The resolution also recognizes that, ”a greater power exists,“ and only Christianity receives what the resolution calls, ”justified recognition."
What odds would you give the Supremes on this? I'm not optimistic.
(Via All Spin Zone.)
5:46:58 PM
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Here are the ten gutsy Senators who voted against renewed authorization of the USA Patriot Act:
Akaka (D-HI)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Byrd (D-WV)
Feingold (D-WI)
Harkin (D-IA)
Jeffords (I-VT)
Leahy (D-VT)
Levin (D-MI)
Murray (D-WA)
Wyden (D-OR)
Remember them. Reward them.
Tags: Patriot Act, Senate vote
(Via No More Apples.)
5:35:56 PM
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"We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right. Intellectually, it is possible to carry on this process for an indefinite time: the only check on it is that sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield," - George Orwell, 1946. 
(Via Daily Dish.)
5:12:01 PM
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"My views of the Christian religion are the result of a life of inquiry and reflection, and very different from the anti-Christian system imputed to me by those who know nothing of my opinions. To the corruptions of Christianity, I am, indeed, opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself. I am a Christian in the only sense in which he wanted anyone to be: sincerely attached to his doctrines, in preference to all others; ascribing to himself every human excellence; and believing he never claimed any other," - Thomas Jefferson, in correspondence with John Adams.
(Via Daily Dish.)
5:11:05 PM
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1. Fifty-five percent (55%) of the detainees are not determined to have committed any hostile acts against the United States or its coalition allies. 2. Only 8% of the detainees were characterized as al Qaeda fighters. Of the remaining detainees, 40% have no definitive connection with al Qaeda at all and 18% are have no definitive affiliation with either al Qaeda or the Taliban. 3. The Government has detained numerous persons based on mere affiliations with a large number of groups that in fact, are not on the Department of Homeland Security terrorist watchlist. Moreover, the nexus between such a detainee and such organizations varies considerably. Eight percent are detained because they are deemed "fighters for;" 30% considered "members of;" a large majority - 60% - are detained merely because they are "associated with" a group or groups the Government asserts are terrorist organizations. For 2% of the prisoners, a nexus to any terrorist group is not identified by the Government. 4. Only 5% of the detainees were captured by United States forces. 86% of the detainees were arrested by either Pakistan or the Northern Alliance and turned over to United States custody. This 86% of the detainees captured by Pakistan or the Northern Alliance were handed over to the United States at a time in which the United States offered large bounties for capture of suspected enemies. 5. Finally, the population of persons deemed not to be enemy combatants - mostly Uighers - are in fact accused of more serious allegations than a great many persons still deemed to be enemy combatants.
(Via Professor Bainbridge.)
5:06:12 PM
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Novelist Octavia Butler died this week at age 58. She was the first black woman to succeed in the science fiction genre. She was a private person who loved good conversation. Former NPR Cultural Editor Sharon Ball remembers her friend.
(Via NPR Programs: All Things Considered.)
4:40:57 PM
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What's what in Dubai? A strange place, the new post-global (whatever that means) city.
Unverified reports claim that some 20 percent of the world's construction cranes are in the Emirate of Dubai, which is the size of Rhode Island. And what are they building? Indoor ski slopes; the biggest shopping mall in the world; underwater hotels; the tallest skyscraper ever; and archipelagoes of islands, some forming massive palm trees, another forming a 24 square kilometer world map.
"Dubai is a prototype of the new post-global city, which creates appetites rather than solves problems," opines George Katodrytis, an architect working in Dubai, in a piece originally published in Bidoun. Indeed, Dubai has remade itself as the paragon of imitation culture, a nowhere-land that has architects salivating. Suddenly unburdened of nearly all constraints save profitability, those late-night bouts of wishful thinking go from sketch to concrete with lightning speed.
2:11:36 PM
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