ginny on May 11th, 2006

Bush admits `disquiet’ in nation | Chicago Tribune
But the president insisted his Iraq strategy will work: “There’s a deep desire by the Iraqi people to live in a democracy,” he said. And he urged Americans to be patient as his administration looks for ways to help ease the pain at the gas pump.

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ginny on May 11th, 2006

Bush Says U.S. Spying Is Not Widespread – New York Times
The article, in USA Today, said that the agency did not listen to the calls, but secretly obtained information on numbers dialed by “tens of millions of Americans” and used it for “data mining” — computer analysis of large amounts of information for clues or [...]

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ginny on May 11th, 2006

Now it’s coming out: the NSA’s stated goal is to create a database of every single call ever made within the US. They want the data so they can analyze call patterns, they say.
But the Pretendent of the United States of America is on record as saying only cross-border calls were to be tracked:
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ginny on May 11th, 2006

Hey, I’m no rocket scientist, but I found the thought of candy-powered model rocketry pretty appealing:
Rocket Food – Popular Science
But you can liberate the same amount of energy in much less time by mixing the Snickers with a more concentrated source of oxygen—say, the potent oxidizer potassium perchlorate. The result is basically rocket fuel. Ig?nited [...]

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