Delicious LiveJournal Links for 2-18-2009
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On the UK's complicity in rendition, torture, and the exploitation of the terrorist threat in order to restrict civil liberties.
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"Just because many of us were guards at Guantanamo does not make us automatically bad people. I know for a fact, one or two people, including myself, felt sorry for these people â“ and very ashamed of what we were taking part in. But what could we say? If we questioned anything or talked out against what we thought was wrong, we would have been ridiculed. And who knows what else we would have had to face? So we kept our mouths shut and went to work every day, counting down the days until we could return home to our families and just could forget about this time we spent in Guantanamo."
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Pride and Prejudice on a Plane - "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a motherfucking wife."
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Funniest Onion article I've seen in a while
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I'm off to wikipedia to look up "underground coal gasification"
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This completely sums up why I love coding.
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Date: 2009-02-18 03:53 pm (UTC)Oh hells yes
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Date: 2009-02-18 05:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-18 05:19 pm (UTC)Ya' know, somehow I am not surprised.
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Date: 2009-02-18 04:20 pm (UTC)Let me know if you find any balanced articles, though; the Tennessee Toxic Waste Spill, which covered a an area of the smoky mountains in knee-deep toxic sludge, was from a breach of an earthen(!) dam holding back waste product from a "clean coal" power station. (see google, or here)
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Date: 2009-02-18 06:08 pm (UTC)