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The NSA Wiretaps, and Spying On Las Vegas

May 15th, 2007 · No Comments · Mini-Posts

FRONTLINE: spying on the home front | PBS
TiVo has noticed that we've been watching more current-events and post-9/11 political analysis shows… this was a particularly creepy look at how the NSA installed wiretap rooms, specifically at one AT&T site in San Francisco, and the workaday guys that discovered what was really going on.     
 

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Codemonkey

May 15th, 2007 · No Comments · Blogs Wot I Read, Music... Shall All Your Cares Beguile

Swiped this from Joey the Accordion Guy, who shares freely with all, but not for long….
 
 
Jonathan Coulton: Code Monkey: Thing a Week Three [3:09]

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Grey Spring

May 15th, 2007 · No Comments · Home Truths, Today

What’s it going to be? Warm and sunny (yesterday) or cold and rainy (today)? I’m so confused!
At least I won’t have to water stuff for a couple more days. I’ve got a bunch of plants to get in the ground and will have to put that off now until at least Thursday or later.

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3400th Killed… on Mother’s Day

May 15th, 2007 · No Comments · Hot Off The Presses

All Things Considered, May 15, 2007 · First Lt. Andrew Bacevich Jr. was killed in Iraq on Mother's Day. His mother and father received the news when two uniformed officers rang their doorbell in Walpole, Mass.
Bacevich is the 3,400th U.S. serviceman to die in Iraq. His father, a professor of international relations at [...]

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NPR : Televangelist, Christian Leader Jerry Falwell Dies

May 15th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Uncategorical Weirdness

NPR : Televangelist, Christian Leader Jerry Falwell Dies

NPR.org, May 15, 2007 · The Rev. Jerry Falwell, a pioneer among televangelists who later became a leading voice in the national debate over Christian values, has died at the age of 73. Falwell was found unconscious Tuesday in his office at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va. [...]

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