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By Jeralyn, Section Blog Related
Posted on Mon Oct 23, 2006 at 12:21:21 PM EST
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I'm working at my day job today and tomorrow in beautiful Telluride. The weather is spectacular, it's off-season and the town is empty and it's days like these I really appreciate what I do for a living.

For those of you with the time and inclination, here's an open thread and I'll check in late this evening. (Yesterday we worked nonstop from 9 am until 11 pm, I suspect today will be a repeat.)

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    Monday Open Thread | 6 comments (6 topical)
    Re: Monday Open Thread (none / 0) (#1)
    by sarcastic unnamed one on Mon Oct 23, 2006 at 12:48:02 PM EST
    Your picture made my heard skip a beat, JM. I lived in T-ride for a year or so and have friends there still. In fact, a couple of my high school friends are attorneys there...

    Re: Monday Open Thread (none / 0) (#2)
    by hgardner on Mon Oct 23, 2006 at 12:54:40 PM EST
    I work in a federal courthouse which members of the public may not enter unless they show photo ID.  No record is kept of their names; there may be a tally kept of what kinds of ID are offered.  Only after showing photo ID may a member of the public remove his belt and go through the metal detector. (Employees have to show district issued photo ID).

    So, here's my question.  Why does security require photo ID?  Everyone charged as a terrorist that I know of has had photo ID, whether passport, driver's license or what have you.  Maybe we are just harassing those wihtout driver's licenses?

    Like the ID required for voting it seems we now have a required national identity card, at least to excercise rights such as going into public buildings or voting.

    Re: Monday Open Thread (none / 0) (#3)
    by scribe on Mon Oct 23, 2006 at 01:06:01 PM EST
    Why am I not surprised?  John Rocker, whose bad attitude managed to get him effectively run out of baseball (as soon as he couldn't throw 98 mph, anyway), now is starting a campaign headlined by his "Speak English" t-shirts.

    video link (an interview on FauxNews, where else) in which he talks about "preserving American heritage" and "when in Rome do as the Romans do" as justifying his campaign.

    Baghdad Bob Retrospective (none / 0) (#4)
    by John Mann on Mon Oct 23, 2006 at 01:42:24 PM EST
    Remember how we all laughed at Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, the zany former Iraqi Minister of Information?

    Here is an exhaustive collection of quotations from the fellow we came to know as Baghdad Bob, with one small sample below:

    April 7, 2003
    "This invasion will end in failure."

    Somehow he doesn't seem quite so funny any more.

    Re: Monday Open Thread (none / 0) (#5)
    by demohypocrates on Mon Oct 23, 2006 at 01:46:45 PM EST
    Two interesting tidbits surfaced over the weekend in regards to the media.

    NY Times ombudsman Byron Calame now admits they were wrong to publish the story which outed the President's bank data surveillance program.  It took him months to conclude that the program, er, uh, was legal.  Maybe faux news is better than terror tipping news.

    How about the BBC?  We are biased and proud of it!!!!

    The executives were asked what they would do if Cohen decided to throw `Kosher food', the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bible, and the Quran in the garbage bin.

    The executives said they would allow everything to be thrown in the garbage bin, save the Quran, for fear of offending the British Muslim community.
    Re: Monday Open Thread (none / 0) (#6)
    by Dadler on Mon Oct 23, 2006 at 01:47:35 PM EST
    A link to VOTERGATE, a short film about the serious problems with electronic voting.  Features Bev Harris, the nice little grandmother behind blackboxvoting.org.

    Check it out.

    Monday Open Thread | 6 comments (6 topical)