From the monthly archives:
The US has been asked to reveal the location of 39 people believed to have been kidnapped and held in secret CIA prisons.
http://archive.gulfnews.com/articles/07/06/08/10130941.html
The duty of governments to protect people from acts of terrorism is not in question. But seizing men, women and children and placing them in secret locations deprived of the most basic safeguards [...]
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Here’s a link to reasonably decent appraisal of the iPhone, by Walt Mossberg. It’s lengthy, and appears to cover many of the idiosyncracies.
Edited to reflect the fact that the article was actually written by Katie Boehret.
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*With apologies to Lewis Carroll
The Greatest Country In The World® will be allowing the rabble to demonstrate in favor of the restoration of habeas corpus and the rule of law today in Washington, D.C. Citizens have been without those rights since September of last year, when Congress — incapable of reading anything put before it [...]
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Oh look — someone is slagging WordPress because of security problems. He goes so far as to recommend a competitor, in this case, Moveable Type, which he promotes on his web site.
Should one take the time to read down to the last paragraph, one will discover that in order to have a secure Moveable Type [...]
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Once more, thanks to the Instant Upgrade plugin, version 0.2 from Zirona. I’ve used it for the last two upgrades, and it has worked quickly and flawlessly. Of course, I also do my daily backups of the database and program modules in the event of any kind of failure. Call me astute paranoid one more [...]
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Carol’s Diner, 914 Central Avenue North, Swift Current, Saskatchewan
Take the Central Avenue exit.
A daily lunch special featuring home cooking. Or, try the Belgian waffles.
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Canada now has seven wonders Seven Wonders? Who could have known? All Seven thanks to a recent oh-so-typical Canadian effort, ignoring the vote of the wildly unfocused masses who inhabit the country, and instead relying on the vagaries of a pop singer, a scribe who so obviously wants to hawk his recent work and a [...]
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Updated: We’ll have some of the same in Mexico. Good luck with that.
In 2000, Plan Colombia’s cost of 7.5 billion dollars was going to end civil war, revive Colombia’s economy and put drug cultivators and traffickers out of business:
…to restructure and modernize the armed forces and the police, so that they will be able to [...]
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Someone, it would seem, has linked to a proposal by the Green Party of Canada to implement a further tax of $C 0.12 cent per liter on gasoline to help combat greenhouse gas emissions. I’d like to take this opportunity to point out to said moron that someone that the Green Party is not the [...]
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