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October 29, 2006
MLS playoffs
I am sure you already knew but, D.C. United beat out NY Red Bulls. Now its Revolution coming to RFK stadium. The Revs have a chance if they get everybody back healthy.
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October 25, 2006
MLS east playoff
Ok we made it through the first one Saturday the 21st. It was a sloppy win. Gomez and Moreno made it happen. They were pitted against Bruce Arena and the Red Bulls.
VS
Tune in Sunday night at 6pm on ESPN2 for the next game.
Remember to wear black.
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If you have carried arms in service to this country read on
This is an excerpt from a well reasoned article(here) I read. I am politically a green but I am an American veteran first. if you aren't alarmed already I hope this article will truly piss you off. Enough to consider what our "representatives" are doing ."In the absence of the power of federal courts to issue writs of habeas corpus, all the other rights and guarantees in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights become dead letters. If there is no way to enforce the First Amendment, for example, through a writ of habeas corpus seeking the release from custody of a government critic, critical speech is inexorably suppressed. After all, how many newspaper editors, Internet critics, and war protesters would continue their criticism knowing that other critics were languishing in some dark, perhaps even secret, detention camp without hope of challenging their detention in court through a writ of habeas corpus?
Americans might feel comforted by the fact that the president and the Congress limited the removal of habeas corpus to foreign citizens and did not apply it to Americans. If so, they know little about the history of government oppression. Once people accede to the cancellation of judicial protections for “other people” – a grave wrong in and of itself – it is just a matter of time before the cancellation is extended to include them. After all, American officials would argue at the height of a new crisis, what is the difference between a foreign terrorist and an American terrorist? Shouldn’t they be treated the same? Aren’t they equally dangerous? Of course the suspension of habeas corpus should be extended to American terrorists, the argument would go. After all, aren’t American terrorists also traitors?
Consumed by fear that “the terrorists” are coming to get them, conquer the United States, and take over the federal government, Americans continue to blithely permit their government officials to erode their rights. Their indifference to the cancellation of the Great Writ – the writ of habeas corpus, the lynchpin of a free society – is an affront those who struggled for centuries to ensure its enshrinement and protection. It also constitutes one of the gravest and most ominous threats to freedom of the American people in the history of our nation.
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October 19, 2006
Graphics in Ubuntu Linux
If you run Ubuntu Linux then look for these award winning, outstanding Graphics programs.
The GnuLinux Image Manipulation Program is here.It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.
Inkscape is an open source vector graphics editor similar to Adobe Illustrator, Corel Draw, Freehand, or Xara X. What sets Inkscape apart is its use of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), an open XML-based W3C standard, as the native format. Check it out here.
Scribus is an open-source program that brings award-winning professional page layout to Linux/Unix, MacOS X and Windows desktops with a combination of "press-ready" output and new approaches to page layout.
Underneath the modern and user friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such as CMYK color, separations, ICC color management and versatile PDF creation.
Scribus is available here.
This project aims to create an archive of clip art that can be used for free for any use. Check the archive here for the clip art you need.
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October 18, 2006
Ubuntu Rules !
Have you tried Ubuntu Linux ?
Get Unbuntu Linux here
The entire package contains over 16,000 pieces of software and counting.
Ubuntu includes a very complete Office suite,
Not just word processing but, database, presentation, spreadsheet and drawing components.
Ubuntu includes Evolution the best personal information manager, available by default.
You might be inteested to know there is a version of Ubuntu Linux that is supported by christians, it has many of the safegaurds not found anywhere else on the Net.
Ubuntu CE linux is available here.
Continue reading "Ubuntu Rules !"
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October 17, 2006
MLS second season
I am unable to pick a clear winner this time out. I would have said D.C. United and F.C. Dallas two weeks ago. Now, I think its a toss up. Chicago and New England look good. If Perkins can get in the box for United(sorry Rimando fans) we have a chance. The Red Bulls and United will definitely be the game to watch. I will be Screaming from the sidelines for United. If you care to pick another, sound off then.
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October 15, 2006
Habeas Corpus
Not that it matters much anymore in a Fascist State but you do understand what our "representatives" have done to the freedom of this country.
Here is a quote from an interesting article
" Let’s assume that the president involves the nation in another foreign war(read iran,korea) but this time one in which there are significant military reversals involving the deaths of thousands of U.S. troops. Congress grants the president’s request to enact a draft to replenish the Pentagon’s human coffers. Federal spending, the national debt, income taxes, and inflation soar. To compound the crisis, terrorist bombs are exploded in a few American cities.
Assume also that this time the American people are angry and outraged over the president’s and Congress’s actions. They point out that the Constitution prohibits the president from starting and waging a war without an express declaration of war from Congress. They oppose subjecting themselves and their children to a draft and another foreign war. They point out that the terrorist bombs are a retaliatory response to U.S. foreign policy. Newspaper editorials protest the war. Demonstrations erupt across the nation.
At the height of the crisis, the president announces that criticism of federal policy is helping the terrorists. Congress grants his request to criminalize criticism of the federal government (much as the newly installed regime in Iraq, which U.S. officials continue to insist is now a free country, has done). The president issues an executive order as commander in chief extending the cancellation of habeas corpus in the Military Commission Act to U.S. citizens who aid and abet the enemy.
On orders of the president, FBI agents and U.S. military personnel begin rounding up recalcitrant newspaper editors, Internet critics, and anti-war protestors as “enemy combatants” for giving moral and intellectual aid to the enemy. The action, the president assures the nation, is temporary. The detentions will last only until the war on terrorism is won.
“But they couldn’t do that,” people might cry. “The First Amendment guarantees freedom of speech.”
Granted, but how is that provision enforced? Editors, critics, and protestors would be languishing in some military detention center, perhaps even the one at Guantanamo Bay. What good would it do to point out that people have the constitutional right to speak their mind, criticize government policy, and petition the government for redress of grievances? The president and the military would be in charge. They might listen politely, but then again they might simply take more people into custody in order to send a message: “Remain silent.” The doors to the cells would remain locked. The prisoners would be unconditionally subject to whatever treatment their jailers wished to impose. The prisoners would be prohibited from going to court to complain or to seek redress.
That’s where habeas corpus, a legal procedure whose use stretches back to 14th-century England, comes in. Over the centuries of struggle against royal tyranny, the English people came to the realization that rights were meaningless unless they could be enforced against government officials who jailed them for exercising them.
Moreover, the English people had learned what our American ancestors had learned – that the greatest threat to people’s fundamental rights and freedoms lay not with foreign enemies but rather with their own government officials. After all, don’t forget that the reason that our American ancestors expressly mentioned Congress in the First Amendment is that they recognized that Congress was an enormous threat to people’s freedom of speech and other fundamental rights.
Thus, the English people demanded and got the Habeas Corpus Act of 1679, which stated that “the writ of Habeas Corpus cannot be denied.” A hundred years later, Americans, who had just a few years before been Englishmen who had revolted against their own government, inserted a similar restriction in the U.S. Constitution.
In the absence of habeas corpus, the detainee must continue languishing in prison for having criticized the government, comforted only by the notion that he lives in a country in which the Constitution says that people have freedom of speech. He has no way to get out of jail or force his jailers to treat him properly, other than to apologize, convince his jailers that he has reformed, promise that he will never do it again, and plead for mercy.
With habeas corpus, there is another alternative. The prisoner files a petition with the federal judiciary, which the Framers made a separate branch of government, equal to that of the executive and legislative branches. In the petition, he tells a federal judge, who is independent of presidential and congressional control, that he is being held without just cause. The judge issues a writ of habeas corpus, which commands the U.S. official who is holding the petitioner to appear in his courtroom post haste to show cause why he is holding the prisoner. If the jailer refuses to do so, the judge cites the official for contempt of court and issues a writ for his arrest. U.S. marshals are charged with serving the writs and enforcing them.
Under our system of government, the judicial branch’s interpretation of law, including constitutional law, trumps that of the other two branches. Once a U.S. district judge issues a writ of habeas corpus or any other judicial writ, the other two branches must comply.
At the hearing on the writ of habeas corpus, the judge hears sworn testimony. If he determines that the prisoner is being held without just cause, he orders the jailer to release him, and the jailer is required to comply with the judge’s order. In our example, the judge might say, “The First Amendment to the Constitution guarantees the right of people to criticize their government and its policies and there are no exceptions for crises or emergencies, including war. The law that converts government critics into aiders and abetters of terrorism is unconstitutional. You are hereby ordered to release the petitioner immediately.” Absent appeals, the prisoner would go free at the conclusion of the hearing. In the event of appeals, petitions for writ of habeas corpus are usually given priority over most other appellate cases. "
The bottom line of which is our representative should be tried for treason.
Fear is the mind killer.
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October 09, 2006
Things you have to believe to be a Republican today.
1. Jesus loves you, and shares your hatred of homosexuals and Hillary Clinton.
2. Sadam was a good guy when Reagan armed him, a bad guy when bush's daddy made war on him, a good guy when cheny did business with him and a bad guy when bush needed a bin laden look alike to bomb.
3. A woman can not be trusted to make decisions about her own body, but multi-national corporations can make decisions affecting all mankind without regulation.
4. The best way to improve military morale is to praise the troops in speeches, while slashing veteran's benefits and combat pay.
5. If condoms are kept out of schools, adolescents won't have sex.
6. Global warming and tobacco's link to cancer are junk science, but creationism should be taught in schools.
7. A president lying about an extramarital affair is an impeachable offense, but a president lying to enlist support for a war in which thousands die is solid defense policy.
8. Government should limit itself to the powers named in the Constitution, which includes torture of enemy combatants, secret prisons inside and outside of US borders, banning gay marriages and censoring the Internet.
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