The Cat Who Blogged The Rat
Jillian at The Snarky Cat has been moved to investigate Choicepoint. Read the post and understand that the Bullsheviks have no intention of regulating or providing oversight of such companies. Based on the evidence they don’t have any safeguards in place to verify who has access to the data or whether the data is accurate. An individual’s only option, other than setting up a bogus company to alter Choicepoint’s database, is to sue them.
March 1, 2005 Comments Off on The Cat Who Blogged The Rat
Ahem
When I heard this story on NPR’s All Things Considered I thought that I would see what a particular individual had to say about it.
I mean a Vermont Public Radio reporter on the national feed talking about the state’s Adjutant General, Major General Martha Rainville, VANG, the first woman to hold the position in the history of the militia or National Guard, I thought that it would certainly be covered on a certain blog.
Given that it’s the first day of Women’s History Month and we are only just recovering from the righteous Drum beating over “the issue that will not be named”, there’s is no point in a bayou dweller posting on a Green Mountain story.
I was wrong. One award and they forget their roots.
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What Has Been Wrought
Melanie at Just a Bump in the Beltway in her Open Mind, Open Heart post of learning from the web logs points to Juan Cole’s article on the history of Lebanon.
Things are not always the way they are presented by the media or the government. While he alludes to their actions, Dr. Cole doesn’t specifically mention the names of the two people in modern times, i.e. that last fifty years, who have created the image that people in the Middle East have of the United States.
If you are really interested in learning why they hate us, look at the actions of the Dulles brothers. John Foster Dulles was the Secretary of State in the Eisenhower years, and Allen Dulles became the Director of the CIA during that period. I’m not going to point you to anything, because you need to discover for yourself why people don’t think the US has much credibility when it comes to spreading democracy.
Hint: US officials didn’t always believe that a democratic government was capable of fending off the blandishments of Communism.
On a related note, how bad is it when arts and letters commentators like James Wolcott feel obligated to comment foreign policy? In Second Verse, Same as the First notes the attempt to morph the Hezbollah into the new foreign terrorist threat to the United States.
Mr. Wolcott is certainly worth a daily read for his standard fair of snark about people and the arts, but this administration is becoming so annoying that he felt compelled to comment.
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Wretched Excess
Mustang Bobby at Bark Bark Woof Woof mentioned this attempt by confirmed millionaire wackos…ehrrr… adventurers Steve Fossett & Richard Branson to set another record: non-stop solo flight around the world.
They do have the good sense to have Burt Rutan build the aircraft. Rutan’s Voyager, the first aircraft to fly around the world without refueling, and Spaceship 1, winner of the X Prize are part of The National Air and Space Museum collection.
You can follow the flight from Salina, Kansas and back at this site.
Update 03/02/05 1600CST: There’s a problem. 2600 pounds of fuel is “missing”. The mission is on to Hawaii, but no one is sure beyond that point.
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