Monthly Archives: August 2004

Flip, Flop, I’m Taking a Bath

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w speaks and then reverses himself.
This story and variants started storming around the blogosphere while I was vacationing and I particularly like the combination of Atrios, Norbizness, Eugene Volokh, Julia, Ted Barlow and Arthur Silber all hammering away on the same issue.
You should heed Arthur’s warning:

Time for some people to wake up and face reality. Bush is absolutely no friend of freedom and liberty — either at home or abroad. And should he have a second term, the Constitution may be unrecognizable by the time he gets done.
Not that the Constitution is a perfect document…as written and interpreted it leads to today’s state of affairs.

Back

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The Modulators are back from vacation and wishing we were still gone.
Over the course of 9 days I got online once, did not watch TV, and did not read any newspapers.
I feel refreshed.
I am, though, a bit disappointed that you all did not fix all the ills of the world during this time. Oh well, …..
Posting may continue to be a bit slow as I catch up with work issues and various personal matters that also did not resolve themselves.

Olympic Bitching

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Well, the Olympics have barely started and world class complainers are already at it.
I admit to near hating the coverage of the past two Olympics. But early on I have no complaints at all about this one.
First, if I had not been at work this morning I could have watched the opening ceremonies live on CBUT. Since I wasn’t I watched large chunks on NBC/CBUT tonight. The two networks were enough out of synch with each other that if we missed something on CBUT we could switch over to NBC a bit later and see it. I thought the ceremonies were fine. Excellent music, fine artistry, great graphics and lots of athletes. It was just fine.
Second, I’m now watching live rowing. Hey, I’ve been watching live rowing for 1.5 hours now. This is more live rowing then, I think, have been shown in the last two Olympics combined. The announcers have been ok, if a bit slow keeping up with the action on the course. Oh, there has not been a single long human interest story yet.
If to today turns out to be exemplary of the rest of the coverage I’m going to be very unhappy about being on a traveling vacation over the next week instead glued to the TV. I will, though, enjoy the vacation.
PS: Yea, I agree with Tim Duncan’s assessment of the NBC announcers. But, hey, we just went to other coverage when they got too misdirected.

Sporadic Activity

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What, sporadic activity here at Modulator?
Well, this would indeed be no surprise as the rate of posting for the past 18 months has been sporadic by definition.
Nevertheless, I think it is fair to tell you that the Modulators will be on vacation for the next week or so. I will have a laptop along and should have some form of connectivity for brief periods each day. This does not mean I’ll post anything…
None of this will bother those of you reading RSS or who use Blogrolling’s nifty recently updated feature in you blogrolls. For those of you who come from bookmarks, well, just keep checking…
And, thanks for visiting!

It’s Your Money

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What are the odds that these folks (R) are being payed the same or less then the troops they have replaced?

Stretched thin by troop deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan and security needs at home, the Army has resorted to hiring private security guards to help protect dozens of American military bases.
To date, more than 4,300 private security officers have been put to work at 50 Army installations in the United States, according to Army documents obtained by The Times.
I’ll bet this makes the personnel on these bases feel much more secure as well.
Oh, the process for awarding some major contacts for this service is pretty typical for the current administration.