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Last login: 7 hours agoAnneliese: Anneliese is a 57 year old woman from Socorro, New Mexico, USA.; Likes 13,565 pages, 84 videos, 207 photos • 288 fans • Received 50 reviews; Member since Feb 20, 2005

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Unrepentant on Facebook? Expect jail time - CNN.com: 3:38pm 2 reviews crime
http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/07/18/facebook.evidence.ap/index.html; From the page: "Two weeks after Joshua Lipton was charged in a drunken driving crash that seriously injured a woman, the 20-year-old college junior attended a Halloween party dressed as a prisoner. Pictures from the party showed him in a black-and-white striped shirt and an orange jumpsuit labeled "Jail Bird."

In the age of the Internet, it might not be hard to guess what happened to those pictures: Someone posted them on the social networking site Facebook. And that offered remarkable evidence for Jay Sullivan, the prosecutor handling Lipton's drunken-driving case.

Sullivan used the pictures to paint Lipton as an unrepentant partier who lived it up while his victim recovered in the hospital. A judge agreed, calling the pictures depraved when sentencing Lipton to two years in prison."

Dumb. Please neuter this doofus before it breeds.

Life Counts! | Colorado for Equal Rights- Personhood Initiative 2008: 3:22pm 2 reviews liberties, women-s-issues, rights
http://www.coloradoforequalrights.com/; What a bunch of loonies.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/12/AR2008071201615.…: 3:21pm 1 review liberties
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/12/AR20080712016...; From the page: "A proposal to define a fertilized human egg as a person will land on Colorado's ballot this November, marking the first time that the question of when life begins will go before voters anywhere in the nation.

The Human Life Amendment, also known as the personhood amendment, says the words "person" or "persons" in the state constitution should "include any human being from the moment of fertilization." If voters agreed, legal experts say, it would give fertilized eggs the same legal rights and protections to which people are entitled. "

This is just nutty! Will it become illegal for a woman to hgave a spontaneous miscarriage?

melting points of metal, metals, metallurgy, how to: 11:54am 2 reviews science
http://www.muggyweld.com/melting.html; Melting points of various metals.

I'm a lifelong conservative activist and I'm backing Barack Obama: 11:39am 1 review politics
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2008/07/16/2008-07-16_im_a_lifelong_conse...; From the page: "I'm a lifelong Republican - a supply-side conservative. I worked in the Reagan White House. I was the chief economist at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce for five years. In 1994, I helped write the Republican Contract with America. I served on Bob Dole's presidential campaign team and was chief economist for Jack Kemp's Empower America.

This November, I'm voting for Barack Obama.

When I first made this decision, many colleagues were shocked. How could I support a candidate with a domestic policy platform that's antithetical to almost everything I believe in?

The answer is simple: Unjustified war and unconstitutional abridgment of individual rights vs. ill-conceived tax and economic policies - this is the difference between venial and mortal sins."

Powerful editorial commentary by a conservative. Very much worth reading in full.

Report: Danger from electrical work in Iraq severe - Yahoo! News: 11:33am 1 review crime
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080718/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_contractors_electrocu...; From the page: "NEW YORK - Inferior electrical work by private contractors on U.S. military bases in Iraq is more widespread than the Pentagon has acknowledged, according to a published report.

A Senate panel investigating the electrocutions of Americans on bases in Iraq was told last week by former KBR Inc. electricians that the contractor used employees with little electrical expertise to supervise subcontractors in Iraq and hired foreigners who couldn't speak English. The Pentagon has said 13 Americans have been electrocuted in Iraq since September 2003. It has ordered Houston-based KBR to inspect all the facilities it maintains in Iraq for electrical hazards."

This is an utter disgrace. KBR *must* be held accountable for this mess.

A beginners journey into the wild world of keeping honeybees [lots o pics] - The…: 10:56am 4 reviews animals
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2902573; Very nice post about beekeeping from the perspective of a novice. I am thinking about getting a hive box and seeigng if anyone moves in.

VLC media player - Overview: 10:30am 117 reviews open-source
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/; Excellent media player!

Ashcroft defends waterboarding before House panel - CNN.com: Jul 17, 11:26am 3 reviews crime
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/07/17/ashcroft.waterboarding/index.html; From the page: "The controversial interrogation technique of waterboarding has served a "valuable" purpose and does not constitute torture, former Attorney General John Ashcroft told a House committee Thursday.

Testifying on the Bush administration's interrogation rules before the House Judiciary Committee, Ashcroft defended the technique while answering a question from Rep. Howard Coble, R-North Carolina.

"Waterboarding, as we all know, is a controversial issue. Do you think it served a beneficial purpose?" the congressman asked.

"The reports that I have heard, and I have no reason to disbelieve them, indicate that they were very valuable," Ashcroft said, adding that CIA Director George Tenet indicated the "value of the information received from the use of enhanced interrogation techniques -- I don't know whether he was saying waterboarding or not, but assume that he was for a moment -- the value of that information exceeded the value of information that was received from all other sources." "

Waterboarding was prosecuted as a war crime after WW2. Japanese soldiers who were convicted for waterboarding were given harsh prison sentences. The current administration has stepped over the line and must be held accountable for their actions.