Quote of the day

“If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place. If you really need that kind of privacy, the reality is that search engines — including Google — do retain this information for some time… we are all subject in the United States to [...]

That’s extortion

Who says they’re unenlightened rednecks in Montana?
If you want a job with the city of Bozeman,  be prepared to hand over the addresses of any websites you participate in, any forums you use, and any chat rooms you visit, as well as your Facebook, Goggle, MySpace, YouTube and other accounts, along with your usernames and [...]

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The flag of equal marriage.
In 1902, when the women’s suffrage movement was just getting warmed up, the American flag had 45 stars.  In protest, the suffragists created their own US flag with only four stars, representing the four states that allowed women to vote.
In that tradition, this is a protest flag for equal marriage rights [...]

Well, DUH

Media Advisory:
Monday, September 15, 2008
For Information Contact;
Randy Alexander (901) 359-4982
Marsha Katz (406) 544-9504
www.adapt.org
ADAPT Fights Back re: Nation’s Low Income People with Disabilities Left Behind in Election Year Agendas
Who: ADAPT Community (500 disability rights activists from all over the country.) ADAPT is the nation’s largest cross-disability grassroots disability rights organization.
What: News conference to announce opening [...]

A declaration of human rights

Decades after the recognition of civil rights irrespective of race, religion and gender, the United Nations has come out with a compact affirming the right of those of varying ability to be included in society and to control their own destiny.
On May 3, 2008 the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities [...]

Big Brother is watching–and measuring–you

It used to just be astronauts and pilots. Now, if Redmond follows through on this patent, you, too, can have your biometric data analyzed in real time and potentially be fired for failing to meet standards.
From the (UK) Times Online:
Microsoft submitted a patent application in the US for a “unique monitoring system” that could [...]

All your citizens are belong to us

Why bother with inconvenient diplomacy and annoying delays when you can just scoop up a foreign citizen off the streets in own country, stuff him in an airplane, and deliver him to a court in the United States? No muss, no fuss, no petty details of extradition treaties, not even with established allies like [...]

Go north young man

Even our staunchest allies have come to recognize that the United States can no longer be counted on to respect the human rights of refugees, hence the Canadian high court has ruled that asylum seekers from via US should be admitted without discrimination.
From CTVA.ca:
The United States is not a safe country for refugees, the Federal [...]

Welcome home, soldier

As if forcing a woman to remove her shirt in an airport security line isn’t enough, the TSA at Sea-Tac recently forced 2 solders from Ft. Lewis to partially strip because their medals set off the metal detector. If that’s not bad enough, consider why they were at the airport. They were escorting [...]

Ignorance is no defense

Disgusted by eavesdropping without a warrant, suspending the Writ of Habeas Corpus and other abuses, but still trying to give Bush and Company the benefit of the doubt? Contribute to his education and perhaps his actions will change. (Hey, I don’t believe it either, but it’s worth a try.)
Join the Center [...]

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