More of my videos posted at ramdac.org:
Monthly Archive for October, 2004
I’ve been too lazy to blog my progress on the film so my e-buddy Jason has. Check out this blog entry to see my interview with Michael Badnarik, the Libertarian candidate for President.
http://www
.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20041101&s=scheer1019
The Bush Administration is suppressing a CIA report on 9/11 until after the ele
ction, and this one names names. Although the report by the inspector general’s
office of the CIA was completed in June, it has not been made available to the
Congressional intelligence committees that mandated the study almost two years
ago.“It is infuriating that a report which shows that high-level people were not d
oing their jobs in a satisfactory manner before 9/11 is being suppressed,” an i
ntelligence official who has read the report told me, adding that “the report i
s potentially very embarrassing for the Administration, because it makes it loo
k like they weren’t interested in terrorism before 9/11, or in holding people i
n the government responsible afterward.”When I asked about the report, Rep. Jane Harman (D-Venice) [I don’t know what
Venice is referring to. Harmon is a US representative from California’s 36th di
strict -JJB], ranking Democratic member of the House Intelligence Committee, sa
id she and committee Chairman Peter Hoekstra (R-Mich.) sent a letter fourteen d
ays ago asking for it to be delivered. “We believe that the CIA has been told n
ot to distribute the report,” she said. “We are very concerned.”[snip]
By law, the only legitimate reason the CIA director has for holding back such a
report is national security. Yet neither [CIA Director Porter] Goss, nor [CIA
Deputy Director John] McLaughlin has invoked national security as an explanatio
n for not delivering the report to Congress.“It surely does not involve issues of national security,” said the intelligence
official.“The agency directorate is basically sitting on the report until after the ele
ction,” the official continued. “No previous director of CIA has ever tried to
stop the inspector general from releasing a report to the Congress, in this cas
e a report requested by Congress.”[snip]
On November 2 Ferndale, MI citizens will vote on whether to start using Instant
Runoff Voting (IRV) for Mayor and City Council elections. Check out their webs
ite:
And for those of you within driving distance (and for my loyal readers who resi
de in Ferndale, MI), they will even pay you to block walk for them.
From their website I learned that both
.org/irv/vt2003/dean.htm” title=”—”>Howard Dean have publicly endorsed IR
V.
I’ve been very happy with my Griffin PowerWave, mostly because it’s the only solution of its kind within hundreds of dollars of its price.
Now there is a new solution at a little more than half the price of the PowerWave, the Instant Music from ADS Tech. Not as many features as the PowerWave (it can’t power speakers, doesn’t have headphone out or mic in, doesn’t have a huge obnoxious blue orb of light that keeps you awake at night if you forget to unplug it), but it has the only feature I’ve used so far, RCA out.
I’ve discovered a big problem with Blosxom (the blogging software that powers t
his site) and the Writeback plugin (which enables loyal readers like you to lea
ve comments below): if I move a post from one category to another, all the comm
ents for that post get disassociated from it. (They still exist in the filesyst
em, and i can manually move them if I feel like digging around).
Boo hoo.
Maybe the database solutions have some merit…. I hate to say it. I think. Why
did I ever want flat files anyway? My how we change.
John Stewart has few jokes and a lot of lecturing for the hosts of Crossfire. W
hat goes down is arguably a revolutionary event in pop news.
I was amazed by how effective it was on my own perspective, on the spot. After
the initial conflict, before and after the commercials, when the hosts are faci
ng the camera doing their thing, they are so broken down and weak in my mind, t
heir words and stories such obvious theatre. They can no longer use their flash
y production and cultural momentum to make me feel obliged to take them serious
ly.
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