Recovering from near-24-hour coding frenzy

Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Sun, 26 Jan 2003 13:00:00 GMT
From The Federalist:
Do all the good you can,
By all the means you can,
In all the ways you can,
In all the places you can,
At all the times you can,
To all the people you can,
As long as you ever can.
-- John Wesley
and:
"Shrewdness in public life all over the world is always honored, while honesty in public men is generally attributed to dumbness and is seldom rewarded." -- Will Rogers
and:
Now America has a new curse
That takes us from bad down to worse
It's kind of the sequel
To separate but equal
Though the liberals all call it "diverse".
-- Lyn Nofziger
and:
"And there's another reality show coming on -- I mentioned this last night, this is unbelievable to me. This is a show where someone will train for six months and then step in the ring and fight Mike Tyson. Isn't that unbelievable? So it looks like we could be seeing Janet Reno back on TV again." -- Jay Leno

Libertarian Party Press Releases - Libertarians applaud Senate vote to strip funding from Pentagon's domestic surveillance system - sometimes our Congress critters get it right.

AP via The Centre Daily - Guns Get Texas Man Prison Sentence - Timothy Emerson was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison for possessing a gun while under a restraining order. The maximum allowable was 5 years and $250,000. As you probably remember, the Supremes refused to hear his case. [smith2004]

www.Ellsberg.Net - Weblog Entry: January 23, 2003 - Daniel Ellsberg answers questions on Iraq for Metall (Germany Metalworkers Union newspaper) and Freitag. [grabbe]

1. "What threat does Iraq now pose or could pose in the future to essential US objectives in the Middle East or globally?"

No threat at all, so long as Saddam is not faced with overthrow or death by attack or invasion. Saddam has been weakened by a decade of sanctions, contained and deterred by the readiness and even strong desire of the US to attack Iraq on any excuse. Unattacked, he poses no threat at all to his neighbors or the US. To call him "the number one danger to US security and interests" is not just questionable, it's absurd. On any reasonable list of outstanding dangers, he isn't on the list.

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