Posts from — June 2004

Rumsfeld and the 'Ghost Detainees'. Turns out it was not just one detainee that Rumsfeld ordered held from the Red Cross, but at least two detainees. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld admitted Thursday that he ordered the secret detention of at least two prisoners captured… [TalkLeft: The Politics of Crime]

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this has to be worthy of impeachment. it is breaking u.s. law and international treaty. he knows it is.

Are they reading this?. One wonders if the people over at Dell Hell are reading this? Afterall, they've called me twice in the last two days to give me an over the phone survey about how my interaction with 1-800-Dell-Hell went (including specific Hellers, the product in general, and whether I'd buy one … By Julia (mailto:julia@dicum.com). [Flailing in the Surf!]

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yes they are reading this, they are also flying over your house in silent black helicopters watching you with infrared and watching what you look at on the television and computer, they know everything those dellwads. next time buy a mac.

here's a nice short story about virginia tech's quarry, where we get the famous 'hokie stone' that clads our buildings.

i like certain comics because they make me remember what was going on at a certain time. in fact, i have somewhere a developmental book proposal dealing with comics and history that i've not quite finished….

Neither Brain Nor Trust. As this isn't bad enough: Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, acting at the request of George J. Tenet, the director of central intelligence, ordered military officials in Iraq last November to hold a man suspected of being a senior Iraqi… [Eat Your Vegetables]

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just one more way that this administration has disregarded basic laws.

Senate Votes to Adopt Anti-Torture Amendment. Earlier today, the Senate adopted the Durbin anti-torture amendment by unanimous voice vote. Senators McCain, Specter, Levin, Feinstein, Leahy and Kennedy joined as cosponsors. We just received a copy of Sen. Durbin's floor statement today on the amendment and will… [TalkLeft: The Politics of Crime]

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doing the right thing, finally.

and this is scary crap. i've posted about this sort of thing before, about the president's apparent goal of bringing forth armageddon.

Changing Views: Worlds in Play. The second DiGRA conference will be held at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver in one year's time, from June 17 to 20, 2005. The conference is titled “Changing Views: Worlds in Play”. An excerpt from the press release:The goal of… [grandtextauto.org]

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new digra conference coming up….

even though some fans are real asses. the rule is: if the child is close to the ball, the child gets the ball. that is the rule, even if you catch it. if the kid could have caught it, you give the kid the ball, say you are sorry for interferring.

“The Bush people have no right to speak for my father, particularly because of the position he's in now,” he said during a recent interview with Salon. “Yes, some of the current policies are an extension of the '80s. But the overall thrust of this administration is not my father's — these people are overly reaching, overly aggressive, overly secretive, and just plain corrupt. I don't trust these people.”

if anyone should be able to see a liar, a cheat, and a scoundrel, it is ronald reagan's son.