It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas an impeachable offense

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Again, there is no smoking gun, just lots of interesting questions. We should not prejudge what the President did nor did not do until there is further proof. But my view can be stated fairly simply: If the President did authorize inhumane treatment of prisoners, whether or not his lawyers could claim that this was not technically in violation of various international agreements to which the United States made numerous reservations, these acts are morally unconscionable. He has shamed the country and should be removed from office.

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(Via Balkinization.)

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i think if it exists, it should mean impeachment. it currently merits an independent investigation or bipartisan congressional investigation.

Eprints 2.3.7 released: “Eprints, the open-source software for open-access, OAI-compliant archives, has released version 2.3.7. The new version makes better use of style sheets (see the demo) and adds an XSLT style sheet to make the OAI interface human-readable through a browser (see the example). More from today’s announcement: ‘This release adds the option to make required file formats depend on the type of eprint, rather than have one setting for the entire archive. This means that in one archive an eprint about a book may not require any formats at all, one about a presentation may require powerpoint, and a normal article require PDF. Version 2.3.0 to 2.3.6 of EPrints required the ‘libapreq’ library, this library proved difficult for some users to install, so in response to our users comments, from 2.3.7 is no longer used.’”

(Via Open Access News.)

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great news!

Subpoenas Served On The Shrub, Cheney, Rove, and Blackwell: “

Jesse Jackson reminds us to stay focused over the holidays, because
critical developments are taking place, now, in Ohio.

A lawsuit challenging Ohio’s election result has been filed successfully
(Moss v. Bush).

Bush, Cheney, Rove, and Blackwell have all been subpoenaed.

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The election challenge suit was filed Dec. 17. Blackwell, the Bush-Cheney campaign, and Ohio�s Republican electors have 10 days to respond. Then, according to court procedural rules, each side has 20 days to do discovery � or additional evidence gathering, with those bringing the suit going first. With January 6 being the date Congress accepts the Electoral College vote, and January 20 being the inauguration, the GOP seems determined to make the recount drag on as long as possible.

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(Via On Lisa Rein’s Radar.)

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every vote should be counted….

Bush the Grinch Pardons Few: “Yesterday we criticized New York Governor George Pataki for his grinch-link approach to pardons. Today, Law Prof Doug Berman of Sentencing Law and Policy and Orin Kerr of Volokh Conspiracy take Bush to task for his meager handouts. Update: Glenn…”

(Via TalkLeft: The Politics of Crime.)

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wouldn’t this make sense for someone who believes in heaven and a just god?

Internet to ITU: Stay Away from My Network: “The backbone of the ITU’s contention rests on the premise that something called the Next Generation Network and the contention that this network will act as one big bug fix for all the problems created by current inter-networking technology.

http://www.circleid.com/article/842_0_1_0_C/“

(Via Information Policy.)

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umm, i think Ross fundamentally missed several issues here. it isn’t that ITU wants control and management, it is that someone will have to and no one is doing it now in any real sense, and if no one is doing it now, no one is going to do it in the future so instead of having a standard governance regime, internationally based, what we will have is thousands of feifdoms, it isn’t there yet, but it will be.

Pulp Xmas: “Xeni Jardin:

Video mashup of Pulp Fiction with vintage Rankin-Bass holiday animation. Link (Thanks, Perry E. Metzger, also spotted on Adam Fields)”

(Via Boing Boing.)

a must see…..

The Morning News – 2004 Holiday Survival Guide for Slackers: “So let’s sum up: Christ, our lord and savior, up and got himself nailed to a cross to expurgate the sins of all mankind, whereas you haven’t been able to summon the wherewithal to visit your local Circuit City and buy a $5 gift card for your mother. If we were comparing you and the Messiah in terms of selflessness, I’d say you were coming in a distant second.
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(Via .)

yep, a very distant second.

T.H. Huxley: “Thomas H. Huxley. ‘Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.’ [Quotes of the Day]“

(Via The Mediaburn Radio Weblog.)

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yep… that’s a good one. i keep forgetting it.