The Democrats cowed to the Bush administration yesterday by passing a bill that amends the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to allow the Attorney General and the Director of National Intelligence to authorise wiretaps and other eavesdropping methods on all electronic communication coming from foreigners outside the US through communication routers in the US. [...]
Archive of entries posted on August 2007
A remote for giants…
Or people with sight problems. Spotted in Maplins in Wimbledon, the largest remote control ever known to man.
No, I shouldn’t be worried
Please have a look at the comment on the previous post ‘Shoud I be worried.’ The answer to the question is no. The Venezuelan reader of my blog is in fact a brave individual who has her own blog dedicated to Venezuelan politics and, therefore, in my mind should be merited. The link to the [...]
Should I be worried?
So I posted last week about how I don’t like Venzuelan President Hugo Chavez. I have this wonderful little tool called Google Analytics that tracks who visits my site. I mainly use it to see where people are viewing it from. I’m happy to say that, at times, I have a world-wide reader base. I discovered this [...]
Hypocrite with a capital H
I just ran across this on Guardian comment is free. This man, who is black I might add, is actually equating the suffering of animals to the suffering of slaves!!!! Oh my word, that is totally appalling. My favourite bit is this All animals have the same five senses, value their families, form friendships, have [...]
I am the grammar patrol
Most of my friends and family will tell you that I hate bad grammar. I hate it with a passion and take it upon myself to correct others wherever possible…mostly to the annoyance of said others. I do it for his/her own good though, I promise! Anyway, I spotted this horrific, cringe-worthy and utterly embarrassing [...]
For Meghan
My friend Meghan posted the comment “More bloggy-blogs please. I miss them. Gracias.” This is because, obviously, I haven’t written in about a week. Well, gosh darn it I haven’t had a whole lot to say recently. Shocking, I know. So, I found something I think I’ll write a little about: people with no life. [...]