Two students were expelled from California Lutheran High School because “their friendship was ‘uncharacteristic of normal girl relationships and more characteristic of a lesbian one’”. And since that violates the schools Christian code, then they were expelled.
The National Security Agency’s website has been placing files on visitor’s computers to track their surfing activity in spite of federal laws banning it.
This deserves watching. Yes, I know that spokespeople have claimed the cookies originated by accident during a software upgrade, but a couple of things come to mind.
1) How can you be a super-secret uber-spy organization while at the same time being an utter idiot about the software you use? Why wasn’t it vetted? Was it vetted and the cookies just slipped past? Oops!
posted in Impeachment, Politics, Society by themaiden| 1 Comment
The Justice Department has opened an investigation into the disclosure of classified information about a domestic surveillance program authorized by President Bush after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, officials said today.
…
The Justice Department has also opened a probe into whether classified information was illegally disclosed to The Washington Post, which reported on a network of secret CIA prisons in Eastern Europe and elsewhere.
posted in Impeachment, Politics, Society by themaiden| 0 Comments
The Christian Science Monitor has a piece about some goings on in Iraq. The Shiites and the Kurds are busy making a government…
The stakes of such meetings are enormous. While certainly the beginning of political horse-trading that will stretch over the coming weeks, the challenge will be to unite groups with widely different views into one ruling coalition. A consensus-based process could create a government stabilized through the buy-in of all Iraqis.
posted in Politics, War by themaiden| 0 Comments
posted in Recommended by themaiden| 0 Comments
