Okay, the G4 is working with the Ethernet connection and all I had to do was plug it in. But it’s all weird on some sites, like it not taking my password for my email for the first ten or so tries on one.
And I really hate the mouse - and the keyboard. Don’t [...]

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What are the odds?
NEW YORK, Feb 22 (Reuters) - A New York man has been hospitalized after accidentally inhaling anthrax from raw animal skins, city officials said on Wednesday, ruling out terrorism while reviving memories of anthrax attacks in 2001.
“At this time we have every reason to believe that this infection is an isolated, accidentally [...]

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A judge rules that Google’s image search engine violates copyright law.

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Digby on the ports deal:
From what I just heard from Senator Warner on CNN, it’s about maintaining access to the ports, as I guessed earlier. (Airfields too.) Ed Henry just said the UAE hosts more of the US Navy in the gulf than any other country. If we diss them and refuse to scratch their [...]

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Horrible:
According to newly declassified interview notes, several detainees who had been on hunger strikes told their lawyers during visits late last month that the military had begun using harsher methods more widely in the second week of January. One Yemeni detainee, Emad Hassan, described the chair to lawyers in interviews on Jan. 24 and 25. [...]

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You always get at least double the amount you need, because petition signatures have to meet several standards (for instance, in most places, you have to sign it exactly the way it is on your voter registration and people either add or forget their middle initial). And now, because of this simple thing, we don’t [...]

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I’m not hopeful this will go anywhere. You can’t believe how lax the congressional ethics rules are, and how little will there is among Congress to actually enforce the few that exist:
Washington, DC – Today, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) filed a complaint with the Senate Ethics Committee alleging that Senator Rick [...]

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And to think, we knew him when.
Will is on Al Franken’s show today sometime after 1 p.m.

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Should be informative:
Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) sent a letter to Secretary John Snow, Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) asking him to release all information relating to contacts between Administration officials and Dubai Ports World (DP), RAW STORY has learned.
The Massachusetts senator is demanding the Administration disclose details on [...]

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Just got this from the Sandals campaign:
PHILADELPHIA, PA—In a letter to Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett, Democratic U.S. Senate Candidate Alan Sandals today called for an investigation into Operation Good Neighbor Foundation, a charity founded and led by incumbent Senator Rick Santorum. Following the publication this morning of an investigative report in the Philadelphia Daily [...]

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Political Wire:
The latest CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll “shows Democrats leading Republicans among registered voters, 50% to 43%, in the generic ballot. However, Gallup’s experience suggests that Democrats need at least an 11-point margin among registered voters to have a chance of gaining majority control of the U.S. House of Representatives.”
However, Zogby has a more troubling finding [...]

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Duncan reminds us:
The Central Intelligence Agency did not target Al Qaeda chief Osama bin laden once as he had the royal family of the United Arab Emirates with him in Afghanistan, the agency’s director, George Tenet, told the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks on the United States on Thursday.
Had the CIA targeted bin Laden, half [...]

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Mahablog has some really good stuff on the ports takeover.

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Of course, he might be lying in addition to having brain damage. But does it matter?
When Charlie Rose asked Donald Rumsfeld last week about reports that the Pentagon was paying Iraqi newspapers to run favorable stories about the U.S. presence in Iraq, the secretary of defense said that he hadn’t known about the program and [...]

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I can’t believe how much worse we’ve made things in Iraq:
BAGHDAD, Feb. 11 — One of the most revered shrines in Shiite Islam was bombed early this morning, causing the collapse of its dome, police and eyewitnesses said. There was no immediate estimate of casualties in the latest in a series of sectarian attacks in [...]

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I know I’m feeling safer already:
The FBI’s latest attempt to modernize its computers is running behind schedule and its budget already has exceeded the cost of the last failed effort.
FBI Director Robert Mueller and other officials have refused to disclose the anticipated cost of the Sentinel program, which won’t be fully in place until 2009. [...]

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Show me who your friends are, and I’ll tell you who you are:
A Who’s Who of Republican heavy hitters and Bush administration supporters are lending their names to help raise $5 million for the defense of Vice President Cheney’s former top aide in his criminal trial.
Led by Florida real estate magnate and former ambassador Mel [...]

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New York Times today:
Nevertheless, Congress is right to resist the ports deal, in which the company, Dubai Ports World, would take over the British company now running these operations. The issue is not, as Mr. Bush is now claiming, a question of bias against a Middle Eastern company. The United Arab Emirates is an ally, [...]

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Crazy, that he’ll go to bat for what is disturbing to so many people:
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 — President Bush, trying to put down a rapidly escalating rebellion among leaders of his own party, said Tuesday that he would veto any legislation blocking a deal for a state-owned company in Dubai to take over the management [...]

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Okay, one of my friends got a nice new Mac iBook and he gave me his G4 PowerMac. I plan to use it for recording music at the new place, and also as yet another redundacy in the blogging system. However, a lightning strike has fried the modem (he says everything else works).
My question is, [...]

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Even Republicans are getting tired of dialing for dollars:
Sen. George Voinovich, Ethics Committee chairman and a sometime gadfly to Republican leadership, is warming to Democratic-backed proposals for public financing of federal elections.
Voinovich (R-Ohio) told The Hill that he has met with Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (Ill.) to discuss collaboration on the public-financing pitch Durbin [...]

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Digby on the port deal and the “Trust Me” president.

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Kos:
One man is a governor whose entire career revolves around his ties to lobbyists - in fact, he was one himself. The other man is a gubernatorial aspirant, with as clean a record as they come, and a history of fighting corruption.
One man gets praise from the New York Times. The other is knocked. Care [...]

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Is there anything they don’t lie about? Or is it that Rumsfeld is suffering from Alzheimer’s?

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Good:
With the National Constitution Center as his backdrop, Gov. Rendell used Presidents’ Day to announce his veto of a bill that would require all voters to show identification whenever they go to the polls.
Seated in front of a dozen of the city’s African American leaders, Democrats all, Rendell said at a news conference that House [...]

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One of my friends wrote me after reading my post about the snakeheads in the Delaware River:
My sister’s husband … had 2 of those suckers in a huge fish tank (it was built into a wall of their house). Don’t remember what they ate, but it had to be live. They tried to donate [...]

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For the Mac users:
A new security vulnerability in Safari has been identified by security experts at Secunia.
The company - which rates the flaw as “extremely critical” - says that the vulnerability was discovered by a source outside the company, Michael Lehn.
It can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user’s system, it [...]

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More good news. I’m sure BushCo’s right on top of this:
ST. LOUIS — Humans risk being overrun by diseases from the animal world, according to researchers who have documented 38 illnesses that have made that jump over the past 25 years.
That’s not good news for the spread of bird flu, which experts fear could mutate [...]

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One of my friends comes from a family of firefighters, and she tells me how they talk about what they find in people’s homes, or how messy they are. I thought of her when I read this:
Members of a bomb squad didn’t find bombs at a Warren County home Tuesday afternoon.
Instead, they found sex [...]

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I don’t mention it much, but once upon a time, I was an apprentice lay midwife and I’ve assisted at several dozen home births. (Sometimes people are surprised that someone who’s delivered so many babies supports abortion rights.)
I bring it up because we occasionally saw parents dealing with very difficult choices and I understand more [...]

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