IN DOUBT WE TRUST

Tom Prichard, you make me ill.

You're a grown-up and you're fighting to make sure that children AREN'T protected from bullies.

In April of 2009, the GOP officially released* what they laughably called a budget proposal titled "The Road To Recovery." [PDF]  In fact, they released it on April Fool's Day, a fact lost on absolutely no-one in the human-occupied universe - mostly because this "budget proposal" was a fucking joke with almost no numbers to be found, that could basically be summed up as "the same old bullshit that's making you poorer, only more so."

It appears that the firewall decided it was going on strike sometime over the weekend, and Yours Truly hadn't gotten around to setting up the external monitor that he'd been meaning to get around to.

Anyhow, we're back up, and I'm going to pick up a few network cards tomorrow so I can build a shiny new firewall, rather than rely on this one that's been chugging along for almost five years.

Apologies, I'm setting up the monitor now, and have a good evening!

P.S. I blame the head wound (picture below).

I've got Saul Williams' "List of Demands" playing on my headphones.  

This post's title is from the Robert A. Heinlein story of the same name.

Glenn Greenwald has a powerful piece on the en banc decision by the 9th circuit upholding the DoJ's broad assertion of the State Secrets privilege:

My initial reaction follows in quick video I did this morning.

After a bit more thought, well, I didn't come to any pleasant conclusions, but here's the rundown:

Hello! We've been up for less than a week, and we've already gotten our first spammer. As a result, IDWT now has reCAPTCHA installed (that's the bad news). The GOOD news is that this is an extra incentive to get blogging access, because once you've gotten that, you automagically bypass the CAPTCHA tests!

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