wednesday morn

-3709 iraqis were killed in October. nuff said.
-Headline says, "Efforts in vain". It is about a curfew imposed on Baghdad residents after a surge in violence. Violence still roared.
A curfew is not effort. I thought we had been there long enough to get enlightened on the simple shit. Guess not.
-Blagojevich administration ordered to pay $510,260 in legal fees to a gaming industry for a plan to prohibit sales of sexually explicit and violent games to minors. Jackass.
-National security advisor said the conflict in Iraq had entered "a new phase" requiring changes. Bullplop. Our government changed, and that is the reason for facilitating a change in Iraq policies. Oh, and I keep reading about changing efforts to curb an impending civil war. If what is happening in Iraq is not a civil war, then my name is Howdy Doody.
-Too reliant on government. Thanks for looking ahead Alexander Hamilton. When Katrina happened we blamed the government for the aftermath. How about getting out of the way of the killer storm you were warned about. Common sense, people. Our last hope of small government took a shit on the seat and left the office. Having government tell you what to do is like the lady who wouldn't leave the area when warned the volcano was about to explode. "God will protect those that are good". And now your relatives bury you.
-no matter in truth, it's whose got the better representation. "It's gonna be hard to convict Frist, he's got such good lawyers." Way to go society.
-the Patriot Act is our emergency clause to suspend our constitutional rights in times of emergency, much like the Soviet Union's. Terror has been here forever people.
-I'm not voting for a Papa Bear.
-Senate OKs cruelty ban. Military revises interrogation rules. Admission of guilt, anybody? Have the birds picked out your eyes?
-Socrates-money, fame, power meant nothing to him. Even influence eluded him. He didn't know where his next meal would come from. "If I know anything, I teach it to them. In common with them I turn over and explore the treasures of the wise men of which have been left written in books. If we find anything good, we pick it out and we thiink it a great gain if we can be beneficial to one another." He said that democracy, if it was stupid and unjust, was as evil as stupid and cruel as tyranny. Forms were comparitively unimportant. Government, whatever form it took, should be enlightened and just.
Why, when establishment condemns you to death, should you obey and die? So many in history have defied death warrants. Damn you too, Yeshua.
When asked what to do with his body post-mortem, Socrates replied, "You may do with it what you like, provided that you do not imagine it to be me".
-In 1877, the Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli, announced that he had discovered numerous fine, dark, straight lines on Mar's surface. He referred to them as "Canali", meaning channels. However, in translation of his reports, it became canals. Thus, his discovery acquired the implication that there were canals on Mars, structures created by intelligient beings. This sparked many a debate and made the word Martian a household name, and "proved" that Mars was habitable if not already "housing". This preluded to H.G. Wells' "War of the Worlds".
-The civilian space agency is mandated by law to make full disclosure about, say, a crisis. It often balks at doing so, even to congress. It also seeks to prevent its contractors from doing so. NASA, as a bureaucracy, plays this tune to protect itself from criticism and public awareness of its mistakes, inefficiencies, and ineptitudes.
It is easy to hide the truth in the layers of bureaucracy. Ask a question and you get 30 answers; something wrong, it was his fault.
-Edward Murrow- U.S. Information Agency. At a conference discussing comunications satelites: "Space satelites will not make human communications any better. They will simply difuse it over a wider area. Communications systems have no conscience. They will transmit both filth and inspiration with equal facility. Do we really want the world, without the context of background knowledge, to see television covering the bloodlettings and buss burnings in Alabama? It may be that the history of our day will be decided by what dreams we choose to deliver. The issue, gentlemen, is not how we deliver it but what our delivery has to say."
- The Lady or the Tiger, by Frank Stockton. If you live off of fate, and have faith that God will guide you fairly, why not just judge the way the king does in this story? ( you are presented with two doors, if you are guilty, you choose the door with the tiger behind it. If you are innocent you choose the door with the lady behind it.)
-Deputy sheriff sues tazor company because of injuries he sustained from a tazor during training. It was overruled do to an acount of assholeishness.