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Wednesday, May 31, 2006
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over the hearts and minds, I don't know what will:
U.S. forces shoot and kill pregnant woman.
U.S. forces killed two Iraqi women — one of them about to give birth — when the troops shot at a car that failed to stop at an observation post in a city north of Baghdad, Iraqi officials and relatives said Wednesday. Nabiha Nisaif Jassim, 35, was being raced to the maternity hospital in Samarra by her brother when the shooting occurred Tuesday.
I can hear the wingnuts now: She could've been hiding a bomb under her dress. Ya never know. And hey, that kill was a 2-for-1!
I wonder if this would've happened had the forces NOT been on their third or fourth tour of duty.
(Via Dependable Renegade.)
10:13:07 PM 
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Neither Democratic gubernatorial candidate--neither Westly nor Angelides--is doing us, or him, any favors:
Daily Kos: State of the Nation: CA-Gov: this sucks: by kos: Tue May 30, 2006 at 11:11:01 AM PDT: So what do you do when your two gubernatorial aspirants, Steve Westley and Phil Angelides, let their primary battle degenerate into a disgusting, slimy pit of bullshit attack ads and surrogate whisper smear campaigns?
I quit. I hate them both. Someday, California Democrats will have the option to choose from candidates who inspire, not the Gray Davises, Cruz Bustamantes, and the two candidates currently stinking up the Democratic side of the ticket.
The sad thing is that we need a strong turnout for this race to help Francine Busby win in CA-50. But the way this is going, if I want to vomit and throw out my absentee ballot, I can't imagine what it's doing to less tuned-in and political Californians, especially in that district.
(Via Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal.)
7:51:21 PM
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Jaron Lanier on Wikipdedia:
"The problem is in the way the Wikipedia has come to be regarded and
used; how it's been elevated to such importance so quickly. And that is
part of the larger pattern of the appeal of a new online collectivism
that is nothing less than a resurgence of the idea that the collective
is all-wise, that it is desirable to have influence concentrated in a
bottleneck that can channel the collective with the most verity and
force. This is different from representative democracy, or meritocracy.
This idea has had dreadful consequences when thrust upon us from the
extreme Right or the extreme Left in various historical periods. The
fact that it's now being re-introduced today by prominent technologists
and futurists, people who in many cases I know and like, doesn't make
it any less dangerous."
A very important essay. Via Dave Winer.
4:11:33 PM
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From: http://wiredfire.org/index.php?q=node/63:
Swedish Police today staged a raid and seized computers and equipment
belonging to the Pirate Bay, one of the world's largest search engines
and file-sharing communities.
Despite repeated case law showing
that the operations conducted by the Pirate Bay are not in violation of
Swedish law, the Police chose to give in to media interests who were
feeling threatened, and set due process aside.
"Which corporation would stand for this?", asks Rickard Falkvinge,
head of the Swedish Pirate Party. "Which corporation would stand for
having the police raid their facitilies and shut down operations,
before they were proven guilty of a crime? In this case, the Pirate Bay
has commited no crime. They are disliked by large media interests,
that's correct. But it's not illegal to be disliked..., and definitely
not cause for the Police to raid and shut down one of the world's
largest gathering places for our young generation."
Very good questions!
12:22:28 PM
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