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Wednesday, September 27, 2006
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You might have seen better looking pictures of Jupiter before, but that's not the point. What matters is that this photograph was taken by the Pluto-bound New Horizons spacecraft. It took the picture on September 4, 2006 when it was still 291 million km (181 million miles) away from Jupiter. Don't worry, the pictures will get much better. It'll make its closest approach on February 28, 2007, and see the giant planet with 125 times better resolution than this picture.Read the full story...
(Via Universe Today.)
11:14:51 PM 
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You expect better than this from one of our nations founding fathers. No wonder John Adams hated him.
 Why suspend the habeas corpus in insurrections and rebellions? The parties who may be arrested may be charged instantly with a well defined crime; of course, the judge will remand them. If the public safety requires that the government should have a man imprisoned on less probable testimony in those than in other emergencies, let him be taken and tried, retaken and retried, while the necessity continues, only giving him redress against the government for damages. Examine the history of England. See how few of the cases of the suspension of the habeas corpus law have been worthy of that suspension. They have been either real treasons, wherein the parties might as well have been charged at once, or sham plots, where it was shameful they should ever have been suspected. Yet for the few cases wherein the suspension of the habeas corpus has done real good, that operation is now become habitual and the minds of the nation almost prepared to live under its constant suspension.
--Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1788.
And he calls himself a Virginian. He wouldn't be fit to run for dog catcher there, these days. Heck, he'd be too busy pulling deer heads out of his mailbox to even do that. Sen. Allen would see to it, given Jefferson's close relationship with Sally Hemings.
If that bastard were around today, I'd do the patriotic thing and courageously send him an anonymous letter filled with suspicious white powder. That'd shut him up.
If you haven't called your senators about torture and habeas corpus, do so now. It's the most important thing you can do for your country.
We need a filibuster.
Here's a contact list, or dial 1-800-Amnesty and they'll connect you to your Senator.
Remember calling is far more effective than email.
And these two need to feel the pressure:
Susan Collins 461 Dirksen Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510 Phone: (202) 224-2523 Fax: (202) 224-2693
Olympia Snowe 154 Russell Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510 Phone: (202) 224-5344 Toll Free: (800) 432-1599 Fax: (202) 224-1946
(Via Jesus' General.)
10:11:30 PM
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Looks like Christie didn’t do it alone:
Condoleezza Rice’s office gave final approval to the infamous Environmental Protection Agency press releases days after 9/11 claiming the air around Ground Zero was “safe to breathe,” internal documents show.
Now Secretary of State, Rice was then head of the National Security Council - “the final decision maker” on EPA statements about lower Manhattan air quality, the documents say.
Scientists and lawmakers have since deemed the air rife with toxins.
Early tests known to the EPA at the time had already found high asbestos levels, the notes say. But those results were omitted from the press releases because of “competing priorities” such as national security and “opening Wall Street,” according to a report by the EPA’s inspector general.
The chief of staff for then-EPA head Christie Todd Whitman, Eileen McGinnis, told the inspector general of heated discussions, including “screaming telephone calls,” about what to put in the press releases.
(Via Suburban Guerrilla.)
8:48:10 AM
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