[From Davenetics*] Mike Huckabee reacted to the Bhutto assassination by explaining it was just one more example of the urgent need to crack down on illegal immigration. In light of what happened in Pakistan yesterday, it’s interesting that there are more Pakistanis who have illegally crossed the border than of any other nationality except for [...]
Archive For December, 2007
Huckabee: Gitmo Is “Too Nice”
[From: From The Road] From CBS News’ Joy Lin and Mary Hood: DAVENPORT, IA – Asked about Guantanamo, Mike Huckabee said he had visited the facility and said it was “disappointingâ€? that military personnel were eating meals that averaged $1.60 while the detainees were eating Halal meals that cost over $4 each. “The inmates there [...]
Paul Defends Asking for Special Projects
[From: Newsvine ] Jennifer C. Kerr, AP Writer WASHINGTON — Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul on Sunday defended his efforts in Congress to bring home money to his Texas district, despite his long-held aversion to big government and congressional votes to reign in federal spending. “I’ve never voted for an earmark in my life,” the [...]
Colorado voting machines tossed out
[From Yahoo! News] Colorado voting machines tossed out By GEORGE MERRITT DENVER – Colorado’s secretary of state has declared many of the state’s electronic voting machines to be unreliable, but said Tuesday that some of them could still be used in November if a software patch was installed. Other machines that failed could be replaced [...]
EU mandates electronic IDs for sheep and goats
[From The Register] Pilot program for the last judgement? By Joe Fay The European Union has pledged to make life easier for both farmers and putative messiahs by ensuring that goats and sheep will in future be identified electronically. The council of ministers has set December 31, 2009 as “the obligatory implementation date for the [...]
Kangaroo farts could fight global warming
[From: The Courier-Mail ] Kangaroo farts could fight global warming AUSTRALIAN scientists are trying to give kangaroo-style stomachs to cattle and sheep in a bid to cut the emission of greenhouse gases blamed for global warming. Thanks to special bacteria in their stomachs, kangaroos’ flatulence contains no methane and scientists want to transfer that bacteria [...]
Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
[From: Powell's Books] Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder by Richard Louv ISBN13: 9781565123915 Synopses & Reviews Publisher Comments: “I like to play indoors better — cause that’s where all the electrical outlets are,” reports a fourth grader. But it’s not only computers, television, and video games that are keeping [...]
Rising divorce rates put a strain on the environment
[From: Guardian Unlimited] James Randerson, Science Correspondent As Neil Sedaka crooned, breaking up is hard to do, but it is also disastrous for the environment. In 12 countries around the world, divorces that took place around the start of the millennium resulted in 7.4 million more households as people chose to live apart, a study [...]
Are you brave enough to say no to a high-stress holiday?
[From: Grist] The Problem With Christmas BY BILL MCKIBBEN If for some reason you need to give someone a motorized spice rack, then a motorized spice rack with a more efficient motor is quite clearly better. But it’s also quite clearly beside the point. The problem with Christmas is not the batteries. The problem isn’t [...]
THREAT LEVEL’s Year in Review — 2007
[From Wired.com] By Kevin Poulsen It was a year of soul searching at THREAT LEVEL, every day a fresh challenge to our fundamental beliefs and convictions: Alberto Gonzales made us pine for John Ashcroft; Google made us love roving surveillance cams; and Jammie Thomas’ internet spoofing defense was enough to make us secretly root for [...]