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[Read the article: Jay Rockefeller's unintentionally revealing comments]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Have you caught wind of this...?
Yes, AT&T is losing its mind (and might filter the Internet)
In a thoroughly enjoyable Slate piece last week Tim Wu, law professor extraordinaire, asked the only question a reasonable soul can muster after hearing about AT&T's unnecessary, infeasible, legally dubious, and most likely financially calamitous attempt to stem copyright infringement in the United States by closely scrutinizing the traffic that passes over its Internet lines: Has AT&T "simply lost its mind?"(continues)
http://machinist.salon.com/blog/2008/01/24/att_filtering/index.html
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Anonymous re: Bebop
[Read the article: More disruptions to the Cheney/Rockefeller plan]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]*sigh*
Couple of things you ought to know:
1. Anyone who muses out loud about the comprehensibility of our resident poet almost automatically brands themselves as a new acolyte in Glenn's threads. If that's true for you, welcome newcommer.
2. Bebop is a protected species in these woods. You shoot one at your peril.
3. It's like listening to someone for whom English is a second language, the cadence and rhythm is different, the choice of words can be innovative, the tonal qualities unusual; regardless, try tuning your ears.
4. If that metaphor doesn't work for you, poetry is like Scotch; it's an acquired taste. If you have no taste for it, you can choose not to imbibe, and good manners would dictate that someone else's taste for Scotch should go unremarked.
5. If history is any guide, I will not be the only one making a similar suggestion.
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I'm tardy in responding, Anon, apologies
[Read the article: More disruptions to the Cheney/Rockefeller plan]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The telephone intervened...
No offense taken. But, here's my problem by way of illustration:
Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow...
-Robert FrostThe problem with my interpreting poetry for anyone else is I rarely (if ever?) read it quite the same way someone else does. Most interpretations that I've read for the above is the man in the village who will not see the visitor is, by most accounts, some wealthy land owner. By implication the woods are an acquisition for which the owner has only occasional use, and little appreciation.
When I first read this poem by Frost, my assumption was the landowner was frail, elderly man who could no longer visit his woods. To imagine it differently changed the whole tenor of the poem for me.
I doubt I read Bebop the same way everyone else does, and maybe, not even as Bebop, himself, intended. But, that's the nature of poetry, is it not?
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Kargo X
[Read the article: More disruptions to the Cheney/Rockefeller plan]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Bush oversteps on FISA. But will Congress roll over again?
by Kagro X
Sat Jan 26, 2008 at 02:26:11 PM PST
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/1/26/151822/726/814/443633
A snippet:
That's right. In August, this very bill was so important to Bush that he threatened to veto anything else, and to force the Congress to stay in session until they gave him the custom-built law he wanted.
Now, Congress offers to extend the very same law for 30 days, and Bush threatens to veto it. Yes, the same one he practically wrote himself, when he stomped his feet and held his breath back in August. Now that bill isn't good enough for him. And what's the difference between now and August? In August, we hadn't yet found out the details of how and the extent to which the "administration" had asked the telecoms to break the law on their say-so.
But now we know, and suddenly the law WATB Bush screamed his lungs out for in August is veto bait in January.
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You didn't bother asking for retroactive telecom amnesty in August, because you didn't need it. And you didn't need it because nobody had found out that you'd twisted their arms into breaking the law for you. That's why you're threatening to veto an extension of the only law you said in August would save our lives.
By your own claims, you'd be playing with the lives of the Americans you're charged with protecting. Either you were lying in August (and now everyone knows you were), or you're aiding and abetting terrorism now.
Take your pick, moron.
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Nezua Limón Xolagrafik-Jonez
[Read the article: More disruptions to the Cheney/Rockefeller plan]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Oh, gosh! Thank you. I wanted to show someone else and couldn't figure out how to get "there."