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Camps for Citizens: Ashcroft's Hellish

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Camps for Citizens: Ashcroft’s Hellish Vision [Daypop Top 40]

Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft’s announced desire for camps for U.S. citizens he deems to be “enemy combatants” has moved him from merely being a political embarrassment to being a constitutional menace.

Ashcroft’s plan, disclosed last week but little publicized, would allow him to order the indefinite incarceration of U.S. citizens and summarily strip them of their constitutional rights and access to the courts by declaring them enemy combatants.

Very frightening!

Woz is lookin good. We

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Woz is lookin good. We talked about the Internet music clampdown. We hadn’t talked about music since Y2K, the heyday of Napster. He said something smart. If the govt wanted to stop spam, they could. He’s probably right. Government of the people, by the people and for the people, has perished from the earth. Now the govt is for Hillary Rosen and Jack Valenti. Taxation without representation. [Scripting News]

Good news: my mom will

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Good news: my mom will be out of the hospital Friday. She’ll be in a rehab center for a few weeks where she’ll be getting 24-hour care before she goes home.

Autism link to 'geek genes'.

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Autism link to ‘geek genes’. An upsurge in autism cases diagnosed in the Silicon Valley area of California may be due to genes more common in its high-tech workers, say experts. As many as one in 150 children in the region have some sort of autistic spectrum disorder (ASD), a rate which far outstrips other… [Lockergnome’s Bits and Bytes]

Perhaps it’s due to pollutants such as arsenic that the chip manufacturers have been dumping into the water supply for the last 20 years or so?