From the Minnesota Daily : Specktor and seven other defendants facing the same charge will be heard together, and face a maximum of seven and a half years of jail time. Seven-point-five years for organizing living situations for other protesters and threatening to use civil disobedience , because such acts are now, under the MN Patriot Act, those of "terrorists." Fucking hell . . .

Thing 1: It's Friday!!! Superfluous, I know. But, still, Fridays always deserve several exclamation points. Most especially Fridays before a three-day weekend!!! Thing 2: Last night's Supernatural...4...ONLY 13 DAYS UNTIL NEW ORLEANS!!!!!!!!!!!!! OMG I can hardly wait!!! Thing 6: Way to go Connecticut Supreme Court!!! It's always a GOOD DAY when equal rights for ALL comes out the victor

And someone finally presents my own opinion on the "hacker" matter .

Blend this write-up of this story regarding the Uighurs , and this write-up of the story regarding the inamates at military brigs being, literally, driven insane . . . . . . and I'd say a person would have good reason not only to loathe, with every fiber, the president who enabled this, but the party he represents as well.

From Greenwald: Porn producer invokes the Bush/Yoo defense--unsuccessfully .       Let me get this straight: you make a video of consenting adults, doing things that they, supposedly, enjoy and get off...Geneva Accords, and any human dignity we, as a nation and as a people, had left?       Each day, it's getting a little bit clearer: the terrorists fucking won . The rest has just been Vaudeville . .

"The strangest part was not having a feed. For the last two years, everything importnat to Aya had been stored there: images, stories, class schedules and grades. Lists of everything she did and thought...yourself balanced on one foot is a bit like cheating. It was very nice having her here and she was a huge help. I am so glad that my mother and I are really starting to relate to each other like adults

      Greenwald says not to freak out. I'm not entirely convinced.

So, I've officially clocked up a full fortnight of Homelessness with no respite on the horizon. The case worker I saw yesterday was very helpful regarding my file (it has been corrected) and, with the...sometimes using the net just because they don't have the ID to join? (Maybe it was one staff person having an 'off' day but I've taking the contact details for the Homeless Persons Legal Clinic just in case

i finally got my schedule changed before the school year started, yay! ^.^ now i'm taking ap bio and ap euro. they should be uber-fun. i'm thinking of changing my name, on the pretense that it's so similar to my mother's and i feel so embarrassed when people get us mixed up (i.e. airport, doctor's office). i like the names francesca and morgan, but alice as well. it will be difficult to choose.

Back in March '05 I posted about the tragic death of a local girl, allegedly at the hands of her father. In brief, a young girl named Emily (who went to school with my sons) was taken for an airplane...fact that the man was able to acquire a plane, gas it, taxi to the runway, and take off without any significant interference certainly suggests that some sort of negligence took place. What a mess