Monthly Archives: July 2004

Airport Express … it just works (Great!)

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photo of Airport Express on my stereo     photo of Airport Express

My long pending order arrived yesterday! Back in June Apple announced the Airport Express (AEx) – a neat little wireless networking gadget (802.11g – 54 Mbps) that can serve as a wireless link between my computer in the office, and my stereo/media center downstairs at the other end of the house. As soon as I heard about this, I had visions of using iTunes to tune in some of the more interesting internet radio stations, and using the AEx to send them to my stereo downstairs. Its crazy to be trapped in the office to listen to some of the nicer internet music sites.

Also see
notebookreview.com – includes AEx internal photo!

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Pining for the old west? Come to Virginia!

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July 1st was a “special” day in Virginia …

Not content with passing the hateful House Bill 751, and accidently reinstating the Sunday Blue laws, it seems the Virginia legislators took away gun control from all local jurisdictions, but put nothing up in its place!
The end effect is that packing a 6 shooter is now Legal in public anywhere in the Old Dumb Onion! (for you out-of-staters, thats a play on Virginia’s title as The Old Dominion)

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More from the Mumbo-Jumbo Whitehouse

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Bush White House checked with rapture Christians before latest Israel move
The Jesus Landing Pad
by Rick Perlstein     May 18th, 2004 10:00 AM

It was an e-mail we weren’t meant to see. Not for our eyes were the notes that showed White House staffers taking two-hour meetings with Christian fundamentalists, where they passed off bogus social science on gay marriage as if it were holy writ and issued fiery warnings that “the Presidents [sic] Administration and current Government is engaged in cultural, economical, and social struggle on every level” this to a group whose representative in Israel believed herself to have been attacked by witchcraft unleashed by proximity to a volume of Harry Potter. Most of all, apparently, we’re not supposed to know the National Security Council’s top Middle East aide consults with apocalyptic Christians eager to ensure American policy on Israel conforms with their sectarian doomsday scenarios.

But now we know.

“Everything that you’re discussing is information you’re not supposed to have,” barked Pentecostal minister Robert G. Upton when asked about the off-the-record briefing his delegation received on March 25. Details of that meeting appear in a confidential memo signed by Upton and obtained by the (Village) Voice.

See the whole story at

http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0420/perlstein.php

Hateful HB751 goes into effect July 1st

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Virginia actually did it. They passed a bill that kicks a group of people right in the teeth, and they have the audacity to say its
“protecting” marriage. Thats right, they weren’t content to let the existing Defense Of Marriage Act (DOMA) show folks that they didn’t support marriage between gay people. No, they had to pass an over-the-top law that says not only do they not support gay marriage here, but anything that even presumes to grant privileges that are considered part of marriage is not legal. And by the way, if you do get Gay-married in another state, … its not legal here.

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