Yesterday, in a major victory for open government and Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics (CREW), a federal judge ruled against the Bush Administration latest attempt to keep secret the identities of White House visitors and declared the White House illegally deleted Secret Service computer records.
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At the direction of the White House, the Secret Service was deleting visitor records from the beginning of the Bush Administration until October 2004, when the deletions were discovered when open government activists attempted to get access to them.
Apparently the administration’s tactic was to drag the lawsuit out until Bush could leave office. Bush’s actions made it very tricky to tell companies to follow the law, since he had a record of doing the opposite. He was never clearly breaking them, but very very adept at finding loopholes and getting out of town before the prosecutors could catch up to him.
Most of us is math, which comes as no
Surprise: The limbs of trees circle
The trunk, leaves the branch, all
Spin slowly the great tap root. This
Can be seen from palm frond about
The nut, arms and legs popping from
The spine, twinned brains blooming.
Go down deep and you hit math. Every
Time. Darwin shaped it up by
Statistics. A natural arithmetic.
He stopped there, but because each
Poem should have one great idea,
Here: Extrapolation is genetic.
That should account for you, big eyes.
Identity management discussions are so much fun as they bring up all the various ways people can alter their appearances. Now these discussions can be even more fun, laced with images from Sleeveface:
I was wondering what to do with that lightsaber I was recently given as a gift…just need the Bonnie Tyler album and I’m ready for Halloween. Well, that’s assuming I don’t proceed with plans for my Davy Crockett “King of the Wild Frontier” costume.
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