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As Bob Harris says The past is Prologue.
Without it none of us can be who and where we are today and many change their ways more then once as they navigate through life. Others do not appear to change their core at all. They hold to their basic character and behavior from beginning to end. This is not necessarily good or bad but different for each individual. Some of these are your neighbors, some are your ministers, some are in jail and some are presidents (R):

I am looking at a photo of the George W. Bush that you’ve probably never seen before. It’s a sports-action close-up of him at Yale, over a caption written prophetically by a fellow undergraduate more than 30 years ago: “George Bush delivers illegal, but gratifying right hook to opposing ball carrier.”
Never mind that this is a rugby game, alien to most Americans, and that the caption writer’s assessment wasn’t political. I think it explains one reason why Bush hasn’t slid in the polls since John Kerry reported for duty: He owes more than a little something to the “bad boy” vote that no pollster captures as well as this photo and caption do.
The Apostropher suggests that the picture of bush
..provides photographic evidence that Bush was already a cheap shot artist years before you ever heard of him.
Go look for yourself, read Bob Harris’ post and Jim Sleepers column in the LA Times (link above), and make your own decision.

The Election Must be Getting Close

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And the bushies need something to lift their chances from the depths they are at today. So, they are waving sticks in the air again:

The Bush administration is piling on the pressure over Iran’s alleged nuclear weapons programme. It maintains Tehran’s decision to resume building uranium centrifuges wrecked a long-running EU-led dialogue and is proof of bad faith.
The US will ask a meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency on September 13 to declare Iran in breach of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, a prelude to seeking punitive UN sanctions.
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Condoleezza Rice, the US national security adviser, said at the weekend there was a new international willingness to confront Tehran, but declined to rule out unilateral action if others did not go along.
Sound familiar?
Eric at Wampum argues:
The current working-draft of the casus belli (singular) for the work-in-progress Iran War is failure to allow IAEA inspections.
Eric is wrong in restricting the gathering threat to a single issue. According to the above Guardian article the bushies are waving sticks on 4-5 fronts though the nuclear issue seems to be the biggest one at the moment. Given the apparent information failures related to their last adventure I expect folks to set an extremely high standard of proof for any allegations that might lead to an act of war.
Question for the day: what other nuclear powers are planning to not allow IAEA inspections?

Truth in Labeling

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How often do you read the labels on your clothes? You might want to make it a habit so that you do not miss something like this:
Truth_in_labeling.jpg
Update (11/10/04): Sadley, No! via Memosyne reports that this label is from products manufactured by Tom Bihn.
The label photo was sent to me by my son who was traveling in South America at the time.

Administration Supports Increased Use of Lawyers

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And the American Library Association is fighting back on our behalf:

Last week, the American Library Association learned that the Department of Justice asked the Government Printing Office Superintendent of Documents to instruct depository libraries to destroy five publications the Department has deemed not “appropriate for external use.” The Department of Justice has called for these five public documents, two of which are texts of federal statutes, to be removed from depository libraries and destroyed, making their content available only to those with access to a law office or law library.
The topics addressed in the named documents include information on how citizens can retrieve items that may have been confiscated by the government during an investigation. The documents to be removed and destroyed include: Civil and Criminal Forfeiture Procedure; Select Criminal Forfeiture Forms; Select Federal Asset Forfeiture Statutes; Asset forfeiture and money laundering resource directory; and Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act of 2000 (CAFRA).
Julia at Sisyphus Shrugged asks:
Can you think of any reason why our current ruling party would be trying to keep americans from having access to information about our laws?
Let’s see, here are a few possibilities:
1) They think ordinary citizens are too dumb to be able to read federal statutes without a lawyer to interpret?
2) Citizens have been making effective use of the material to protect their rights without the aid of lawyers?
3) If the feds make it hard to fact check their asses they can make things up as they go along with less concern?
4) An uninformed citizenry will make it easier to to fight the “war on terror.”
5) To help pay for Iraq (see 2 above).
Any more ideas?