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Interesting new scam

Okay, this is a new one … I got a call from “0001234567″, which of course I didn’t answer. Googled the “phone number”, and it appears that it’s either a Skype node, or spoofed caller-ID (which makes sense) to enable robodialers to get to numbers that block anonymous calls.

I don’t answer any phone [...]

Quote of the Day

WHAT WE ARE NOT

The basics teachings of Buddha are about understanding what we are, who we are, why we are. When we begin to realize what we are, who we are, why we are, then we begin to realize what we are not, who we are not, why we are not. We begin to [...]

Loving the Obama Kool-aid, so far.

Knowing that many of the Obama faithful (and a number of skeptics) have been disappointed with some of his choices to fill various Cabinet positions, I found this article in Thursday’s Financial Times to be quite astute.

FT.com / Never mind the team: the president does the moves

The campaign poetry is long forgotten. [...]

Twittering terrorists?

U.S. Army warns of Twittering terrorists | News – Security – CNET News

The U.S. intelligence community is concerned that terrorists might use micro-blogging tool Twitter to coordinate attacks, according to a purported draft Army intelligence report posted on the Web.

The report—present by the 304th Military Intelligence Battalion and posted to the Federation of [...]

Bailout fails in House.

This nation’s economy is fucked … Republicans created this mess, Republicans came up with a solution to this mess, and yet Republicans are refusing to fix this mess, even though almost every thing the members of the House that revolted asked for was included in the bill being presented and voted.

What are they thinking?

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Land of the Free?

Lost amongst the wreckage of the current financial crisis is the latest news of the Bush Administration’s utter disregard for civil rights.

Feds give customs agents free hand to seize travelers’ documents

(09-23) 17:06 PDT SAN FRANCISCO — The Bush administration has overturned a 22-year-old policy and now allows customs agents to seize, read and [...]

Things that make you go, “Hmmmm …”

According to an article in the today’s online edition of the New York Times:

President Bush today denied that the government is “mining or trolling through the personal lives of innocent Americans,” as Democrats expressed outrage over a news report describing a National Security Agency program that has collected vast amounts of telephone records.

The [...]