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When they said, "You are gods", this isn't what they meant:


Camp X-Ray at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba

By the way, when approving the Chief Executive's recommendation to build more fences and install electronic surveillance along our borders, has anyone considered that fences keep people in too?

Buckle up - this could be a rough ride

Ever been stopped at a checkpoint? In the U.S.? I have, on several occasions since the 9/11 paradigm shift: once on the interstate in VT - looking for drug runners; and once on a country road in NC - looking for drunk drivers.

We used to think that kind of thing was reserved for communist countries or war zones. Now it's happening right here and we seem to accept it for the reasons given.

"The 'Click It or Ticket' campaign involves checkpoints, patrols and advertisements to help enforce seat belt laws. It runs from May 22 through June 4."

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Psalm of Extinction

For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour. Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet: all sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field; the fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.

- Psalm 8:5-8, KJV

Geneva, Switzerland, 2 May 2006 (IUCN) – The total number of species declared officially Extinct is 784, and a further 65 are only found in captivity or cultivation. Of the 40,177 species assessed using the IUCN Red List criteria, 16,119 are now listed as threatened with extinction.

This includes one in three amphibians and a quarter of the world’s coniferous trees, on top of the one in eight birds and one in four mammals known to be in jeopardy.

The 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species brings into sharp focus the ongoing decline of the earth’s biodiversity and the impact mankind is having upon life on earth.

President Bush makes his own laws

'There may as well soon not be a Congress. . . . And I think that most members don't understand what's happening."

- Arlen Specter, Republican of Pennsylvania
Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee