a,e,i,o, and o-u.

and sometimes why?

Why not cry? O, No.

O, Cheers. drop the 'o'?

I just found this bit of video on youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIO8B6fpFSQ& It's an interview by David Frost of Benazir Bhutto from last November. It aired on Aljazeera English. About 4 to 5 minutes into the interview, Benazir Bhutto says that a man named Omar Sheik murdered Osama Bin Laden!!! What's amazing is that David Frost has no reaction to it at all. So I got to wonder, is Osama dead? If so, funny that it never got reported here. Well maybe that's why Bush said he didn't worry about OBL anymore, he knew he was dead.

Bush needs to go back to the pig farm?

He can sing: e, i, e, i, o! Gads. Arny?

Forgive me? I dropped my 'o'. beeped-z?

We need to be watchful and mighty careful.

Several people said they liked the letters I posted. Feel free to use them, re-arrange them, roll them up and put them in bottles if you like.

There are 535 people with offices in Washington who need to hear that sitting pat on an admission of torture systematized and approved by the President of the United States, and carried out on prisoners, one of whom lodged a formal complaint as long ago as last summer, is unacceptable, and illegal under international law.

Resources:

Transcript of Michael Hayden's admission:

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/02/cia_director_confirms_details.php

Transcript of Tony Fratto's remarks to the press:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2008/02/20080206-3.html

U.N.Convention Against Torture (CATCIDT)

http://www.hrweb.org/legal/cat.html

Third Geneva Convention (1949), see Article 3.1.a)

http://tinyurl.com/e26ka (ICRC website)

IHT article carrying statement by U.N. rapporteur on torture

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/02/06/news/UN-GEN-UN-Waterboarding.php

Jane Mayer's article on the black prisons:

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/08/13/070813fa_fact_mayer

BTW, Time Magazine is now covering fresh allegations of waterboarding at Guantanamo Bay.

No mention whatsoever of torture or any statements and investigations in the front (A) section of the New York Times today. Disgusting behavior of a news organization.

I was busy with farm issues and feared FISA votes would break out in the Senate, but I see ondelette has generated more really good fuel for the impeachment and war crimes trial effort. I'll be happy to add another voice to this chorus.

Here is a link for an AP video of Hayden making the admission. This should play on endless loop until the war crimes trial starts.

http://tinyurl.com/yt6ctu

bebop-o: Can I join in the road trip? I nominate RMP as the driver. I've been in his Honda and he doesn't get lost, even after eating a big slice of sweet potato-walnut pie. I'll bring my Stiletto (not cocktailhag's shoe; it's a radio).

The reason film is used is because very large area, high resolution digital sensors are even more expensive than X ray imaging optics.

One reason film is used is pretty much the reason even your CT scanners and MRI machines dump images to film; the medical records departments are set up for storing film, and doctors' offices are set up for viewing film.

Also, most bucky tables, wall buckys, tomo tables, etc. all take the same media cassette (which is designed for film), and the cassettes are sent off to get developed and then reused. Putting a digital sensor on every X-ray machine would be expensive.

There is non-film (it was a latent phosphor, IIRC) media that will record x-rays and which can be scanned later and converted to a digital image (we had one back in the 80's we were playing with), but even that reader had a film output module.

Virtually all x-ray film is actually a film layer sandwiched between a phosphor blanket inside the cassette; the phosphor is far more sensitive to X-rays than is the film, and the X-rays make the phosphor glow which in turn exposes the film.

Film X-rays use not lenses, but collimators (called "Buckys"), which are essentially gratings superimposed between the subject and the film, which allow only direct (or close) X-rays through, and which absorb most scattered X-rays; the grating is moved rapidly during exposure to blur the grating lines on the image.

But you're wrong that electronic imaging is difficult. A lot of medical imaging is done with image intensifiers (which can be quite large for a cardio flouro table); the resolution is limited by the resolution of the electron optics and by the resolution possible on the image display portion of the II tube; a standard photographic sensor of small size and high resulution can record this image via appropriate optics.

It's interesting that the X ray film is now often digitized so that image processing techniques can be used to enhance features with low observability.

It is true, but many doctors are used to reading the traditional radiographs. In addition, there's a reluctance to look at "processed" images, because of the possibility of artifacts being inadvertently introduced or something being filtered out; doctors want to see the raw image and do any "enhancing" themselves....

Cheers,

Whoever drives at breakneck speed has my vote.

Just don't crash into a hot-barbed electric fence.

O, I agree about O ondelette. Arne will form a army?

Be careful. Don't run into a groundhog hole. A. okay.

'um That's real Bad luck. A tire may blowout. Kaboom.

All I ask for is some help cleaning up my dirty Place.

I'm wanting to get outta here. Who licks egg plates?

I'm running around like a hen with her head cut off today.

Under the treaty, the conviction of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, architect and mastermind of the September 11, 2001 attacks, before a Military Commission, must be thrown out. Torture and evidence obtained by torture can be used in no proceedings whatsoever. That's U.S. and international law.

When they started that foul botched alternative justice system down in Guantanamo, the whole excuse and whining was that the U.S. courts were incapable of trying these people. They botched the case even when they created their own court with its own rules (maybe that's where Musharraf got the idea to sack his judiciary).

The American people deserved to have had Khalid Sheikh Mohammed brought before a real, impartial, duly constituted judiciary with clear, untainted, carefully investigated evidence, afforded all his rights, and convicted fairly before the whole world. They deserved it because they deserved justice for the September 11 attacks. The Bush administration has denied the American people an unimpeachable verdict on a truly evil criminal. That should be totally unacceptable to everyone, even conservatives.