Sue Ann has figured out why the computers at UM are still down:
At work all of the computers were down. Some thing about the servers and heat and power outages.
And the person responsible for getting things fixed?
Damian.
So, remind me, what’s today’s date? 06-06-06?
OK. Works for me if it means it will be fixed by midnight…
Apparently, if you write the following about the widows of the people killed on 9/11:
These broads are millionaires, lionized on TV and in articles about them, reveling in their status as celebrities and stalked by grief-arazzies. I have never seen people enjoying their husbands’ death so much.
… that does not make you a pariah. Instead you get to repeat it on the Today Show.
Apparently, merely slandering US WWII troops and being a Nazi (and McCarthy) apologist isn’t enough. (Spotted via Hullabaloo.)
Fred Barnes says Jeb Bush is great. Here’s a real-life example of what Jeb Bush means to real people: thanks to his choices, the state of Florida loses track of hundreds — yes, hundreds — of at-risk kids in the foster care system every year. That’s right: rather than raise taxes, Jeb Bush chose — even after the matter became a state scandal three years ago — to run a system in which the state of Florida takes kids into care, then loses them, (often to biological parents, ruled unfit to keep them, who then kidnaped them). We don’t know if they’re dead. We don’t know if they’re on the streets. We don’t know anything about where they are. All we know is that Jeb Bush doesn’t care much about them — couldn’t be bothered to find competent people to run the system nor to fund it properly.
When the disappearance of a 5-year-old girl from her Miami foster home four years ago went unnoticed for months, the ensuing scandal that engulfed Florida’s child-welfare agency led to recriminations and promises of beefed-up efforts to track down children who went missing from state care.
A few months later, Gov. Jeb Bush and his social-services chief declared ”success,” saying the state had found all but 102 of about 400 foster children who had gone missing.
That was Dec. 17, 2002.
Yet as of Monday, the number of kids missing from the state’s troubled child-welfare system has skyrocketed to 652, most of them runaway teens and youngsters snatched from foster care by their biological parents. The number of missing kids has risen even as the number of kids in state care has declined.
And here’s the killer quote:
“People look for their pets with greater concern,” said Howard Talenfeld, a Fort Lauderdale attorney who is president of Florida’s Children First.
Our network at the law school is down due to a failure of the so-called Uninterruptible Power Supply. Mail to me at my non-UM address will reach me.
Jose Padilla’s lawyers have filed motions to suppress evidence from two sources, one whom he alleges was tortured after US rendition to Morocco. Explosive stuff.
Talkleft has the most details:
One of the witnesses, Binyam Ahmed Muhammad, was held at Guantanamo. The other, Abu Zubayda, is being held in a secret overseas location.
Patel said Muhammad has told his own lawyer that he was whipped, hung from the ceiling of his cell with leather straps and later taken to Morocco where he was tortured with a razor. Patel said Zubayda was treated after his arrest for gunshot wounds, raising questions about “the effect the medications may have had on Abu Zubayda’s ability to provide accurate information.”
I have just reviewed the defense motion, here is the exact quote:
Binyam Muhammad has informed his attorney that after his arrest in Karachi, Pakistan, he was held in prison where he was hung from the ceiling of his cell with leather straps . Binyam Muhammad was whipped by his Pakistani jailers but they asked him no questions as they had no common language . Binyam Muhammad reports to his counsel that he was questioned by four agents who he believes were FBI agents . He was whipped by the jailers before and after being questioned by the FBI agent who asked him questions about Mr. Padilla. Binyam Muhammad was later flown to Morocco where he was further questioned about Mr. Padilla and tortured by means of a razor being used to make incisions on his chest and his genitals.
The defense alleges these two witnesses were the Government’s only sources for the arrest warrant.
It is respectfully submitted that the use of information obtained by torture, whether the torture is disclosed or undisclosed, is an act so unlawful and so contrary to the core values of this Nation as to both shock the conscience and render any search based on such information unreasonable. It is respectfully requested that this Court should hold a hearing so that the circumstances of the interrogation of both Abu Zubayda and Binyam Muhamma can be fully established. At the conclusion of such a hearing it is respectfully submitted that the Court will enter an Order suppressing all evidence seized from Mr . Padilla at the time of his arrest in Chicago.
The items Padilla is seeking to suppress were seized from him at Chicago’s O’Hare airport on May 8, 2002 when he was arrested on a material witness warrant as he disembarked a plane from Switzerland.
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