Textbook disclaimer stickers: “”

(Via .)

careful there… someone might actually think….

BostonHerald.com – Business: Economic `Armageddon’ predicted: “”

(Via .)

scary, scary, scary

The Party of Sleaze: “

Let’s crank the meme into full gear:

AP—Top Bush fund-raisers enjoy an array of perks: One-third of President Bush’s top 2000 fund-raisers or their spouses were appointed to positions in his first administration, from ambassadorships in Europe to seats on policy-setting boards, an Associated Press review found.

The perks for 246 “pioneers” who raised at least $100,000 also included overnight stays in the White House and at Camp David, parties in the White House and at Bush’s Texas ranch, state dinners with world leaders and overseas travel with U.S. delegations to the Olympics and other events, the review found.

The Party of Sleaze

It ties so many threads together: secret energy task force, Haliburton, tax breaks for the millionaires, DeLay, and many more.

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(Via Discourse.net.)

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bribery, nepotism, etc. etc. what won’t they do to get a vote? they will start a way, that’s certain.

Website Reveals the Most Republican Corporations: “

It strikes me as reasonable to consider the politics of a corporation’s management before patronizing that corporation. A website offers data that makes this easier, by noting which companies gave heavily to the Republicans.

N.b. The website promotes a red state/blue state dichotomy, but I do not share that vision of the country.

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(Via Blogs at CIS – Anupam Chander.)

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this is information that people should act on, but they won’t because there is no politics in purchasing or using services anymore, except in rare circumstances. however, boycotts and similar techniques have been powerful means of politics in the past…. remember south africa.

Senate Passes CREATE Act: “

On 11/20/2004, the Senate passed, and House agreed to S. 2192, the Cooperative Research and Technology Enhancement (CREATE) Act of

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(Via beSpacific.)

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it will be interesting to see what effect this has….. not now, but in say 3 years, when people figure out how to exploit it.

CNN.com – Dolphins save swimmers from shark – Nov 22, 2004: “”

(Via .)

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i am tempted to not believe this, but eh, wierder things have happened.

Boohbah Toys UK Bagpuss Toys: “”

(Via .)

mmmm bagpuss toys.

Linus, Monty, Rasmus: No Software Patents: “Jan Wildeboer writes “The three most famous European authors of open-source software have issued an appeal against software patents on NoSoftwarePatents.com. Linus Torvalds (Linux), Michael “Monty” Widenius (MySQL) and Rasmus Lerdorf (PHP) urge the EU Council, which will convene later in the week, not to adopt a draft directive on software patents that they consider “deceptive, dangerous, and democratically illegitimate”. They also call on the Internet community to express solidarity by placing NoSoftwarePatents.com links and banners on many Web sites.”"

(Via Slashdot.)

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This is one of those core political decisions that will transform the power structure of europe, not the big P political power structure but the small p political power which actually has more power than big P, it just is not as visible.