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This site has moved. For current content please go to the new Byrd's Brain.

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The boxes are unpacked. The furniture has been arranged. All is ready for guests to arrive. This blog has moved. The time in the Blogger nest has been delightful, but change is good. Byrd's Brain has just relocated to the Typepad neighborhood. If you have a link to this site please update your links. If you don't have a link to this site, consider linking to the new site. Do you like

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I know, I know. The Matrix Reloaded wasn't very good. It certainly wasn't as good as The Matrix. But that didn't mean that I wasn't hooked. I liked the original movie and I had high hopes for the entire trilogy. I saw Matrix Revolutions over the weekend. I couldn't wait for the DVD. It was better than Reloaded -- which only served to reload the pockets of the Wachowski brothers (Andy and

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All my life I have been aware of the trash that we generate. As a family in the Midwest we recycled newspaper, bottles, cans and glass. I have childhood memories of going to the recycling drop-off place with my dad. We would dump the newspapers and cans into their respective "bins" (these were open at the top semi truck trailers). But the glass bottles were special. First they had to be

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Are the playground brats and nerds in charge of this planet? Reality television has taken an ugly turn. We have Joe Millionaire where "Joe" isn't really a millionaire. Then there was the gay reality show on Bravo (I can't remember the name) where one guy got to pick from a group of male suitors -- but ahem, not all of the suitors were gay. Would his "gaydar" work? Would he know who was gay

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Blogging was light last week because I was in four cities in 5 days. I realized on reflection that I didn't even have time to read a newspaper during most of the week. However, I did get the opportunity to attend a small rally and get close to (2 feet), but not meet, Howard Dean. He gave a rousing, even though it was canned, speech. He says all of the right things on labor, environmental

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Every two years or so for the past decade I have purchased my dress shirts from Lands' End. Lands' End's shirts fit me the best of any brand of men's shirt that I have tried and the prices are good too. The shirts have been made in the U.S.A., often of imported fabric, but still made in the U.S.A. No sweatshop labor for the shirts that was important. As you may know, my wife and I have each

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Today I am travelling by train for work. Yesterday, I flew into Burbank in order to attend a few meetings. We live in California so we know about fires and we have read about the current Southern California firestorm, but you can’t really appreciate the intensity and the devastation until you see it. On the flight into Burbank we flew past a few of the fires. Flames were reaching high into

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I don't usually forward or print most of the e-mail jokes that circulate, but this joke is good. I first read it on Blah3 and have copied it verbatim. While walking down the street one day, George "Dubya" Bush is shot and killed by a disgruntled NRA member. His soul arrives in heaven and he is met by St. Peter at the Pearly Gates. "Welcome to Heaven," says St. Peter. "Before you settle in, it

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Check Mark Fiore on the pending energy bill.

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One victory for the little guy. Oakland has moved to prohibit the construction of the massive (almost 200,000 square feet) Wal-Mart superstores. The Oakland ordinance bans stores over 100,000 square feet that devote more than 10 percent of their area to groceries. It does not include wholesale clubs such as Costco.

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What do the St. Louis Cardinals, the New York Times, Art Buchwald, Oprah Winfrey, Britney Spears, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Association of Retired Persons and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference have in common? They are all on the enemies list of the National Rifle Association. How pathetic. If anything the list is way too short. For instance, Arnold

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David Brooks opines, with Edwards as his muse, in today's New York Times that part of the failure of the Democratic party lies in its appeal to snobbery. Democrats talk of being the party of the people, but the candidates seem to look down at every day people. Al Gore certainly didn't talk to everyman. Gray Davis didn't talk to everyman. In fact, he was completely out of touch. Hence he

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The Byrd's have all been sick for more than a week now. Our 3 year-old daughter got well just before the weekend started, but her one year-old brother still has a morning cough and mom and dad are slowly coming around. (Truth be told, I am getting better because my cold turned into yet another sinus infection and now thanks to the miracle of antibiotics I am able to breathe again and talk

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Marks and Spencer is testing the use of RFIDs in the tags attached to men's clothing. If there is a benign use of RFID this might be it. These chips are not embedded. Instead, they are in the sales tags and Marks and Spencer declares that the only information provided is the inventory control number and that no sale information (purchaser name address etc.) will ever be linked to the chips.

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As this article at Mother Jones explains, the unrest in Bolivia has U.S. roots. The immediate cause is a proposed natural gas pipeline for U.S. energy companies, but the U.S. war on drugs has helped to impoverish the nation and U.S. backed free-market reforms have not bolstered the economy.

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BushCo's response to the threatened extinction of endangered species? Kill them to save them.

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The copy protected CD isn't so copy protected afterall.

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It was not a delightful weekend at the Byrd's. Everyone was sick all weekend. Our 3 year-old and I are better, not great, but definitely better. However, Mrs. Byrd and the 1 year-old are worse. The little boy has a cough and a sore throat. Whenever he coughs he cries.

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If you can imagine the sounds of a one year old coughing and crying; a three year old coughing -- with fever -- and begging to go out and play; and mom and dad coughing and under the weather than you know the sounds in the Byrd house. In light of our collective ailments, further blogging will not be happening today.

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"Today's recall election in California was not about Gray Davis or Arnold Schwarzenegger. This recall was about the frustration so many people are feeling about the way things are going. All across America, George Bush's massive tax cuts for the wealthy are undermining state budgets, causing cutbacks in services and increases in local property taxes. Were recalls held in every state, it's quite

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A little change here and a little change there and pretty soon you don't have any of that pesky regulatory stuff to worry about."The Bush administration is siding with the pesticide industry to make it harder for farmers to sue manufacturers over product labels. In a change of interpretation, Environmental Protection Agency officials said Monday they believe federal law bars lawsuits against

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The glass is half full. On social issues Arnold is moderate to progressive. He supports some form of gun control, he is opposed to offshore oil drilling and he is pro-choice. He certainly isn't all bad and maybe BushCo will send more federal funding to California. We could sure use it. Also, BushCo will be hard pressed to enforce policies in California that Arnold is opposed too. However,

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Democracy...doesn't mind what the habits and background of its politicians are; provided they profess themselves the people's friends, they are duly honored. Plato

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The good news (I think) is that there was a line at the poll. The votes: Recall Davis: No. Candidate: Bustamante Propositions: No and No.

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Michael Moore has a certain style that you either love or hate. His take no prisonsers approach to BushCo is refreshing. You can read excerpts from his new book here, here and here. Here is a sample:By never voting for a Republican again, you will make a tonne of money! Look, I realise that at one time being a Republican and voting for Republicans seemed like the sure way to becoming wealthy.

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This is the tip of the iceberg. Meat recalls are voluntary and little or no oversight means that the recalls are made too late in the process to be effective and they serve more to blunt possible lawsuits (to show mitigation) than to actually protect the public. The USDA only undertook an investigation of the Con-Agra plant because Rep Waxman "asked" it to. Besides, the authority of the USDA

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Those little radio frequency identification (RFID) chips keep popping up. They were "tested" in razor blade packages and activated surveillance cameras, then Wal-Mart set a goal to have all of its inventory monitored with these RFIDs and now libraries want to embed these chips in to books. Although in the library's case allegedly the chips will be deactivated when one leaves the building, so

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If the polls are correct, it looks like California is about to take a quick swing to the right and into a little chaos. Come Tuesday it is likely that Arnold will be the next Governor of California. He has a 10 point lead over Bustamante. One wonders if the groping and fondling charges will have any effect. They are probably too little too late. Arnold says that he doesn't remember each of

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What bothers me about the recall of Gray Davis is what this says about the United States in 2003. Mac Diva expressed this same concern very well in a September 30th post.What I find troubling is the whole scenario. A C-movie actor with the intelligence of a pet rock announces he is running for the top leadership position in an important state and far too many of the citizenry cluelessly declare

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Scientists estimate that global warming kills about 160,000 people each year.About 160,000 people die every year from side-effects of global warming ranging from malaria to malnutrition and the numbers could almost double by 2020, a group of scientists said. The study, by scientists at the World Health Organization (WHO) and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said children in

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If you have a disposal problem just redefine the waste and make the problem go away.The Energy Department has asked Congress to allow it to redefine some nuclear waste so it can be left in place or sent to sites intended for low-level radioactive material, rather than being buried deep underground. Department officials say they thought they had flexibility in classifying what constituted

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17.2 pounds. That is my total weight loss to date. My goal had been 10 pounds. Everything else is a bonus! We've been on this diet for almost two months. Someone came to this blog after a "South Beach Diet Sucks" search. I'm sorry if they have had a bad experience with the diet. The meal plan is a lot of work, but it pays off physically and mentally. The Byrds love this diet so much that

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As long time readers of this blog know the Byrds are an Apple family. We love all things Mac. The attention to detail in Apple products is amazing and not approached by any competitor. The attention to detail even in the packaging is stunning. We have saved the boxes for our Apple products because it almost seems a crime to recycle them. They are so pretty they should be reused. Mark

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I will vote no on the recall, but I have been torn about how to vote on a specific candidate. Which candidate to pick to replace Davis has left me confused. I like what Camejo and Huffington have said. I agree with their visions for California. However, I don't want Arnold elected. It is the age old question. Vote your conscience or vote to win. Should I vote -- Huffington, Camejo,

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Gun control wasn't my intended theme today... But now a handgun has killed a 7-week old baby.A 7-week-old baby being cradled in his uncle's arms became one of San Francisco's youngest victims of gun violence when a shot intended for the infant's father pierced the family's home in the Bayview district, police said Monday. SFGate

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If this isn't an argument for gun control then I don't know what is. Don't people think? Actions have consequences. How can someone leave a loaded handgun sitting around the house?A 4-year-old boy shot and killed his sister and wounded his brother on Saturday, and he understands what he has done, his father said today. "He knows," the father, Gregory Thigpen Sr., told The Washington Post for

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We are still on the South Beach Diet. Mrs Byrd and I feel great. It is kind of amazing what happens to your body when you stop eating processed and heavily sweetened foods. We were vegetarians, but we had been eating lots of prepackaged foods. We felt good as vegetarians, but we feel surprisingly better now. It sounds crazy, but I feel younger. Okay enough! I have lost 18 pounds in roughly

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Oh my God. People are actually buying this book! Regular readers of this site will know that I am jealous because I shopped my children's book around for a year and no one wanted to publish it.

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John Cleese on mistakes:Denying mistakes results in lying and cover-ups that build exponentially. "This kind of concealment creates terrible anxiety." On stress making you stupid: "Suppose Edison was afraid of producing a light bulb that didn't work? My Auntie Vera put it differently; she said we learn only from our mistakes." "Science makes continual improvements only by learning from its

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Although BushCo is expected to sign the bill next week, the federal do not call list has been put on hold again by another federal court ruling. This time the list was thrown out on free speech grounds since the list does not apply to nonprofit organizations, politicians and pollsters"The registry creates a burden on one type of speech based solely on its content, without a logical, coherent

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The Senate has now approved the do not call list. BushCo is expected to sign the legislation tomorrow. I sure hope that the Telephone Marketers Association didn't party too hard last night celebrating the court ruling. No one likes telemarketers. Their hangover is just beginning. Don't you wish that all good legislation moved this swiftly? This is how legislation moves when lobbyists

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It won't take long to re-instate the federal Do Not Call list. Congress is motivated by 50 million (angry) people who signed up for the list.The House of Representatives on Thursday granted the Federal Trade Commission authority to create a national "do-not-call" list for telemarketers and the Senate, which is expected to follow suit, started debate on the issue in the afternoon. A Senate vote

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A while back there was a "comments" option on Byrd's Brain. It was a nice feature, people are more likely to leave a comment than to send an e-mail. But the feature was often buggy and slowed the loading of pages. So it was deleted. Rumor has it that it works more smoothly now, so comments have been restored.

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Does it ever bother you when you hear television or film executives claim that the media has no influence on behavior? Does it ever bother you to hear them say that violence in films or on television is just reflective of society and that the movies and shows have no impact on behavior? It bothers me. If media has no influence on behavior then why the hell do companies pay to air

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This is a systemic cultural problem. These only deal with the symptoms when the problem has gotten out of control. As a society we need to look inward and deal with the causes of violence. These don't stop the violence. They only record it. And with them we are creating a surveillance society and generations that will only know a life that is constantly watched and monitored. What

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This is a systemic cultural problem. These only deal with the symptoms when the problem has gotten out of control. As a society we need to look inward and deal with the causes of violence. These don't stop the violence. They only record it. And with them we are creating a surveillance society and generations that will only know a life that is constantly watched and monitored. What

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Did you know that your car may have a "black box" ("event data recorder") in it that records data on how the vehicle was driven just before an accident? If you have a GM car it is almost guaranteed to have one of these recording devices. They monitor driving activity at all times, but only save the data that was recorded just before an accident. Insurers and police have used the information in

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That was fast. The Ninth Circuit has ruled. The California recall is back on as originally scheduled. A federal appeals court Tuesday reinstated California's Oct. 7 gubernatorial recall election, rejecting a three-judge panel's decision to put it off for months and handing a defeat to supporters of Gov. Gray Davis. Unless the U.S. Supreme Court steps in quickly, the decision means Election Day

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ANWR has been written about a lot on Byrd's Brain here, here, here, here, here and here. Potential ANWR drilling is one of those issues that won't go away. BushCo wants to drill in the arctic at all costs, or at least wants to use ANWR drilling as a strawman in order to get other controversial policies through Congress. The GOP is drafting a new energy bill. Drilling in ANWR will be one of

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This is birthday month at the Byrds. Today is our son's first birthday! He is a very busy guy. He gets into everything, including the dishwasher and higher cabinets that we never "baby proofed" because his sister had no interest in them. He has six baby signs now: elephant, bye-bye (of course), monkey, ball, lotion and fish. He says "dadda", "moma" and "cat". We celebrated his birthday

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Commandant Ashcroft has refused for two years to release information regarding the number of searches of library records that the justice Department has conducted. Yesterday that information was released. If it can be believed there have been no searches of library records. None. Nada. This was so hard to tell us. This information would threaten national security? Come on. It took two

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Humor is always a good thing. And more humor is better than less. Bloom County was a rare blend of humor, politics and humanity. I was an avid reader of it. And not just because of Opus -- some readers of this site may have gleaned that Byrd's Brain likes penguins (check out the last set of links near the bottom of the left column). After a hiatus of a decade Berke Breathed is bringing Opus

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I have never been on a diet before, but I am impressed and happy with the progress that Mrs. B and I have made. We have been on the strangely named, South Beach Diet -- except for a few vacation days -- for over a month. I started out at 178 pounds. My goal was to lose 10 pounds. As of today I have lost 13 pounds and Mrs. B has lost 11. The idea of a diet has always bothered me because

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Today is my daughter's 3rd birthday. She is growing up so fast.

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- The Republican-controlled U.S. Senate on Tuesday defied opposition from the Bush administration and voted 55-40 to rescind new regulations allowing large media companies to grow even bigger. Fearing fewer viewpoints and decreasing local news coverage, 12 Republicans joined most of the Democrats to back a resolution that would undo rules narrowly adopted by the Republican-led Federal

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I'm getting something for nothing. I have happily paid for Blogger Pro for a year and now the pro features are in the free version of Blogger. That's great to me because I wasn't sure that I wanted to pay the "pro fee" again and now I get it for free. Can't beat that. And to top it off, Pro users are getting a free sweatshirt from Blogger. Sure the sweatshirt is an advertisement, but how

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I have thrown my support behind Dean, but I just heard today that he supported NAFTA. There are questions as to whether his support was "strong" or not. Ross Perot warned us about the "Giant Sucking Sound" and many knew that he was right. NAFTA and other free trade agreements have hurt U.S labor, the economy and the environment. These free trade agreements only help multinational

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Our daughter turns three tomorrow. It doesn't seem like she could be three already. We remember when she did her first "baby sign" at 9 months. She did the sign for cat and then how quickly she picked up on other signs. She even created signs of her own that her mom and I had to figure out. She clicked her tongue in two different ways depending on whether she wanted milk or a book. When we

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Other bloggers have noted this same phenomena so I am not alone. But it is curious. This blog wasn't updated for more than a week. But the number of visitors to the site while there were no updates were on par with the number of visitors when there are updates. What does this mean? I don't know. Perhaps all one needs is a url -- the page could be blank -- and a random, but consistent number

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I'm back. No my absence wasn't because of the diet. We are fine. The "Byrds" finally went on a family vacation last week. That had been planned. But I had expected to continue with entries on Byrd's Brain. However, forces beyond my control prevented me from accessing the internet until recently and I haven't had a moment to post anything until now. A week ago on Saturday I felt very

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Court Blocks FCC Media Ownership RulesAn appeals court issued a stay and blocked new federal rules that would relax restrictions on how many TV stations a company can own and lift a ban on owning newspapers and broadcast outlets in the same city. Read the whole story. This ruling is not in the merits, but it is at least a delay, which is good. I have written in opposition to media consolidation

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Cannon fodder needed for deployment in Iraq. New recruits will replace current troops in Iraq. Excellent opportunity to serve in peacekeeping force, under the direct command of the U.S. Applicants can expect to serve in the most precarious, unstable and exciting posts. Send application with list of next of kin to: BushCo, Washington, D.C.

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Today we got to have bread for the first time. For breakfast Mrs. Byrd and I each had a slice of toast with melted cheese, a half a grapefruit and coffee. It doesn't sound like much, I know. In the past I would have had a much bigger breakfast. After all it is the most important meal of the day, right? But the meals, meager though they seem, are somehow satisfying. Maybe we have been so

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Every year Beloit College prepares a "mindset list" that describes the world as seen from the eyes of its entering Freshman class. For instance:1. Ricky Nelson, Richard Burton, Samantha Smith, Laura Ashley, Orson Welles, Karen Ann Quinlin, Benigno Aquino, and the U.S. Football League have always been dead. 2. They are not familiar with the source of that “Giant Sucking Sound.” 3. Iraq has

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Yummy. Last night's dessert was organic strawberries dipped in dark chocolate. Good food. Good diet. Although my weight loss is holding steady at 10 pounds.

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We are losing yet another excellent blogger. PLA was one of the first blogs listed in the exclusive Byrd's Brain blogroll. I have read PLA almost daily for the past year. The insightful political discussions and the informative entries on autism will be missed. Dwight Meredith is moving on to greener pastures. Best wishes to Dwight and his family.

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"So it's hard to feel that this a place where humans are in charge. And that is precisely what makes the Arctic refuge so special."Nicholas D. Kristof

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In leftie blogland it has been clear that Republicans will do anything to win or steal an election. They operate from a self-righteous winner take all point of view. There are indications that this reality is slowly dawning on the rest of America. If the trend continues this will bode well for democrats (large and small "d") in a year.Of all the arguments advanced by Gov. Gray Davis to fight

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The weight loss for me has slowed, but my wife continues her downward descent. Thanks to all of Mrs. Byrd's hard work, the food on this diet is delicious.

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On Labor Day we celebrate the contributions that workers in America have made for this nation. What we celebrate has changed over the years. Workers used to be a strong voice in this country. Unions used to be stronger. Now with the "fast fooding" of America, workers have become a commodity. Do the job at the pay offered or get fired. Someone else will be hungrier and they will do the job.

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Weight: 168.2 pounds. Mrs. "Byrd" and I have lost the 10 pounds that we each had set as our goal. Now any other weight loss is "icing on the cake" so to speak. Today is the first day of Phase 2 of the South Beach Diet. Carbs are back! Today's breakfast was a very satisfying bowl of oatmeal with walnuts and a cup of organic strawberries. Yum.

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Weight: 169.8 pounds. Yippee. Just barely (and depending on how I still I stand) I got into the 160's. Breakfast: eggs and veggie Canadian bacon, spicy V-8 and coffee. Hummus and fresh vegetables snack. Lunch: pistachio nut salad. Mid-afternoon snack, string cheese. Dinner: Salmon and green beans. Dessert: ricotta cream. The food on this diet is working out better for me than my wife.

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Britain is planning on testing the gathering and use of biometric information in conjunction with its issuance of passports. Is this the first step on the path to biometric national identity cards?

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With the latest car bombing and the U.S. inability to do anything right, can civil war in Iraq be that far away?

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Do you judge people by how they look? Can you tell a computer programmer from a homicidal maniac? Take this quiz and find out.

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President Bush is supporting Arnold, but a lot of Republicans are not, because he is actually quite liberal. Karl Rove said if his (Arnold's) father wasn't a Nazi, he wouldn't have any credibility with conservatives at all. -- Bill Maher Finally, a candidate who can explain the Bush administration's positions on civil liberties in the original German. -- Bill Maher

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Get Karl Rove's home address and social security number for $26.Almost everything is for sale on the Internet - even the Social Security numbers of top government officials like CIA Director George Tenet and Attorney General John Ashcroft, consumer advocates warned Wednesday. The California-based Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights said for $26 each it was able to purchase the Social

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Mrs. Byrd and I spent the morning at our (soon to be 3) daughter's future preschool. It was parent orientation. The school is a co-op. This means that the parents have to work twice each month as a teacher. The parents are supervised by 2 full-time staff members and 7 parents work each session. We like this arrangement because we will get to know the other parents and the children that our

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Weight: 171.0 pounds. Breakfast: cheese and roasted vegetable frittata spicy V-8 and coffee. String cheese snack. Lunch: chef's salad. Mid-afternoon snack, fresh mozzarella. Dinner: ginger chicken and snow peas. Dessert: lemon zest ricotta cream.

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I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. Martin Luther King - Aug. 28, 1963.

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We have two young children. They are not on the diet. They eat plenty of fruit and like to have toast and cereal too. One of the most difficult things about being on a diet is having a kitchen full of the foods that you can't eat. What makes it even harder at times is cooking, cutting up and serving these foods. Yesterday both children had toast with a very hearty whole oats nutty bread.

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"Sometimes when this president talks, the opposite of what he says is true and if we don't call him on it we can't win." Howard Dean

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When we started the South Beach Diet I weighed 178.4 pounds. I wasn't statistically overweight, but it wasn't a weight that I liked. Mrs. Byrd wasn't overweight either, but she preferred less poundage too. This morning I weighed 172.6. I have lost almost 6 pounds and am loving every minute of it. The trick will be to keep this weight off when the diet "ends", but that is an issue for the

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This whole 10 Commandments thing has me in a tizzy. The memorial is only that - a memorial. This nation is founded on the separation of church and state. All that the courts have done is uphold the constitution. This has people sobbing on the steps of the courthouse and demanding that the Alabama Attorney General resign -- for enforcing the law. These people are no better than the Taliban.

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My wife and I each want to lose at least 10 pounds and we want to be able to keep the weight off. The challenge for us was to find a diet that would help us lose the weight and not be so different from our usual eating habits that we would have trouble dieting and then would gain the weight back once the diet ended. At first "Mrs Byrd" wanted to do the Atkins diet, but I didn't think that I

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Not able to accept a diversity of opinions within its administration, BushCo has caused the State Department's expert on North Korea to resign. He favored a slow non-confrontational -- carrot and stick -- approach. BushCo as, we know, does not. BushCo knows only the stick.

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Is the SoBig virus and its ilk part of a bigger plan? Could these be tests before trojans are added into the mix? Even if not we all need to keep current with out anti-virus software. Could all of these viruses be spawned by Norton/McAfee and others just to sell software? Or do I see conspiracies too often?

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Not content to sit idly by, BushCo now wants to do more to destroy our national forests.After years of debate, President Clinton passed the Roadless Area Conservation Rule placing 58.5 millions acres of national forest land under protection from the logging, mining, and drilling industries. The rule essentially prevents access to pristine forest lands. Without protection, logging, mining, and

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George Bush taking credit for increased salmon populations is like a sailor taking credit for the tides. Sen. Joe Lieberman.

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Jerry Brown was Governor of California. Now he is the Mayor of Oakland. He used to live in a loft, but last spring moved in with his girlfriend. Her apartment is in one of the least desirable Oakland neighborhoods. It has the second highest crime rate in the city. Who in their right mind would voluntarily move there? There have been shootings down the street from the mayor's new home. I

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Give me a break. There is now a BushCo action figure. This isn't a parody. It should be. Maybe I should get one, and a lot of pins, for a little voodoo rite. For more fun, check out BushCo's military "career."

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The recall has created a circus atmosphere in California, but the business of the state has continued. There is good news on the privacy front. The forces of BushCo have been beaten back a little in California. This week the state Assembly and the Senate passed the California Financial Information Privacy Act. This is a big deal from a privacy perspective. It is probably the strongest

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California Governor Gray Davis gave his first speech yesterday against the recall. Finally, another democrat is saying aloud what we know. Republicans are trying to steal last November's election. It is too bad that it takes a direct assault on someone's integrity for them to get the gumption to speak the truth.Gov. Gray Davis pleaded with Californians today to reject the attempt to recall him

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Ashcroft would love it if the U.S. had these. (NYTimes, available 7 days, password/id "rbyrd")For almost two decades, Chinese citizens have been defined, judged and, in some cases, constrained by their all-purpose national identification card, a laminated document the size of a driver's license. But starting next year, they will face something new and breathtaking in scale: an electronic card

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Does it matter to you if the U.S. mail has no possibility of anonymity? There could be no more "secret admirer" letters. That might be a good thing. A presidential commission tasked with studying ways to make the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) more efficient has recommended that it work with the Department of Homeland Security to develop sender identification technology for all U.S. mail. This

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The California recall. What can I say? You’ve been reading about it. You know that Gray Davis is dropping in the polls of likely voters like a rock in a pond. Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante is the key democrat on the ballot, but his ratings are even with Arnold's. Arnold is likely to be the next Governor of California. This supposed “outsider” has campaign support from key California insiders.

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It is August. Time for vacation. Time for reflection. There will be no further updates to this blog for two weeks, until August 18th.

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The creator of the Terrorism Information Awareness Program and the terrorist futures market, John Poindexter is expected to resign shortly. The Pentagon official who oversaw the development of a plan for the military to operate a terrorist futures-trading market is resigning under pressure, a senior defense official said today. John M. Poindexter, a retired rear admiral who was President Ronald

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