at least somebody’s got it right today.
yesterday the united states government killed off a dear friend of everyone, sir habeas corpus, and the american people didn’t seem to notice.
Archive for September, 2006
well… the united states senate today, following in the footsteps laid down by the house of representatives, passed hr 6166, the military commissions act of 2006, effectively making the president of the united states supreme dictator of everything, with the ability to detain indefinitely, and person, citizen or non-citizen under the pretense of their potentially being a(n) lawful enemy combatant/unlawful enemy combatant, etc., without any chance of release, lacking any writ of habeas corpus, and the sustained subjection to severe “tough” (remember these are the same tactics that the head of army intelligence deemed as torture and declared were not in line with the rules of the geneva convention and that any information attained from a detainee through the use of these tactics would likely be useless) interrogation tactics, all while being denied a trial by jury, a right to a quick and speedy trial, and other rights guaranteed to citizens by the Bill of Rights, and non-citizens by the Geneva Convention.
how is denying people liberty, including our own citizens, in anyway supportive of our push to spread democracy globally?
does this not seem a little fucked up to anyone else?
is this not a failure of representative democracy?
surely the american people don’t want this…
25 Signs That, Sadly, You’ve Grown Up
1. Your house plants are alive, and you can’t smoke any of them.
2. Having sex in a twin bed is out of the question.
3. You keep more food than beer in the fridge.
4. 6:00 AM is when you get up, not when you go to bed.
5. You hear your favorite song on an elevator.
6. You watch the Weather Channel.
7. Your friends marry and divorce instead of hook up and break up.
8. You go from 130 days of vacation time to 14.
9. Jeans and a sweater no longer qualify as “dressed up.”
10. You’re the one calling the police because those damn kids next door won’t turn down the stereo.
11. Older relatives feel comfortable telling sex jokes around you.
12. You don’t know what time Taco Bell closes anymore.
13. Your car insurance goes down and your payments go up.
14. You feed your dog Science Diet instead of McDonalds leftovers.
15. Sleeping on the couch makes your back hurt.
16. You no longer take naps from noon to 6 PM.
17. Dinner and a movie is the whole date instead of the beginning of one.
18. Eating a basket of chicken wings at 3 AM would severely upset, rather than settle your stomach.
19. You go to the drug store for ibuprofen and antacid, not condoms and pregnancy tests.
20. A $4.00 bottle of wine is no longer “pretty good stuff”.
21. You actually eat breakfast food at breakfast time.
22. “I just can’t drink the way I used to,” replaces, “I’m never going to drink that much again.”
23. 90% of the time you spend in front of a computer is for real work.
24. You drink at home to save money before going to a bar.
25. You read this entire list looking desperately for one sign that doesn’t apply to you and can’t find one to save Your sorry old ass.
found the original link via digg, don’t know who the author is.
i don’t feel much like going to my morning class today.
this really sucks too since i was doing so well these past 5 weeks.
oh well.
in other news, apple premiered the next update to aperture (1.5), their digital photography, raw-centric post-production & workflow software, and it is good. seriously. after toying around with the 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.1, 1.1.1, & 1.1.2 releases of aperture and finding them all severely lacking, it looks as though this soon-to-be-released (and free upgrade) 1.5 release will finally make me a full-time aperture convert.
bleh…
who likes the little, little duckies in the pond? i do, i do, i do, idooo…
understanding one’s level of worthlessness is a good thing.
don’t delude yourself into believing that you are important, it will only make the realization that you’re not important harder to deal with when it finally hits.
remember, contrary to what your parents told you while growing up, you are not a beautiful and unique snowflake.
also contrary to what your parents told you, people are in fact not equal, and the source of said inequality is money, those who have more of it, have more privileges, and those with less of it, well they just get to eat the shit of those that have money for the most part.
finally, never forget that if you live in america, your government only cares about you insofar as you pay taxes, when you stop helping to make the fat cats even fatter, your life no longer has meaning to them, and they will make sure that you know that.
