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13 March 2011
According to a 2007 profile in the San Francisco Chronicle, Stanley started cooking LSD after discovering the recipe in a chemistry journal at the University of California, Berkeley.
The police raided his first lab in 1966, but Stanley successfully sued for the return of his equipment. After a marijuana bust in 1970 he went to prison for two years.
"I wound up doing time for something I should have been rewarded for," he told the Chronicle's Joel Selvin.
"What I did was a community service, the way I look at it. I was punished for political reasons. Absolutely meaningless. Was I a criminal? No. I was a good member of society. Only my society and the one making the laws are different."
12 March 2011
11 March 2011
Read more: http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20042277-281.html#ixzz1GLoCFejj
10 March 2011
Brian Manning also said his son isn't particularly patriotic - "I don't think he follows any regime of any kind" - and that Pfc. Manning enlisted in 2007 at his father's urging.
"He needed structure in his life. He was aimless. And I was going on my own experience. When I was growing up, that was the only thing that put structure in my life was joining the Navy, and everything's been fine since then."
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_WIKILEAKS_SOLDIERS_FATHER?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=US
Just fine, with a closeted son now in the brig. Nice job, dad.
09 March 2011
Domscheit-Berg writes:
Julian was engaged in a constant battle for dominance—even with my cat, Mr. Schmitt. Mr. Schmitt is a lovable, lazy creature, a bit shy, with gray-and-white fur and an extremely laid-back way of walking. Unfortunately he also has a neurosis stemming from the time when Julian lived with me in Wiesbaden. Julian was always attacking the poor animal. He would spread his fingers into a fork shape and pounce on the cat’s neck. It was a game to see who was quicker. Either Julian would succeed in getting his fingers around the cat and pinning it to the floor, or the cat would drive Julian off with a swipe of its claws. It must have been a nightmare for the poor thing. No sooner would Mr. Schmitt lie down to relax than the crazy Australian would be upon him. Julian preferred to attack at times when Mr. Schmitt was tired.
Cut me a break. I have a cat now and had one for 18 years. Cats like to play and mock-fights are part of catplay. My current cat gets bitey in the AM for about fifteen minutes. Sometimes I play with him, but generally I make us stop when he draws blood. Its a cat thing. Its more fun than playing with a balled up paper or twine. Sometimes recently he just starts biting my wrist --maybe wanting me to play. And the wrist is a neck. (Nevermind the Puppeteer similarity.. a scifi ref). And cats always appear laid back except when they're stalking etc; that does not mean they don't want to play. Cats think you have fur like them so the claws and teeth shouldn't hurt as much; their fellow kittens had no problem back then.
Next D-B is going to claim his cat has PTST and file a lawsuit with extradition to Germany...
08 March 2011
: http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/wikileaks-cables-are-americas-worst-security-breach-says-john-mccain/story-e6frfku0-1226018239105#ixzz1G41ZDyL9
07 March 2011
06 March 2011
Television show host Nancy Grace, who has said it was 'a legal and criminal justice mystery' why Sheen hadn't gone to jail, was also taken to task.
'You wish you guys were winning but you're not. What's the opposite of winning? Losing,' Sheen said of the pair.
But he also had praise for Colin Farrell, baseball player Brian Wilson and Sean Penn in a section called: 'Kind of wish I was them for 10 minutes'.
In another section called 'plan better' - which is fast becoming another stock Sheen phrase - Oberlin took to the microphone while sitting on Sheen's lap.
She described how the day before she'd stepped on her dress and tripped up the stairs, to which Sheen and the others cried: 'Plan better.'
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1363464/Im-bi-polar-Im-bi-winning-Charlie-Sheen-takes-brand-crazy-net-hour-long-rant.html#ixzz1Fs5aGrAt
05 March 2011
A federal magistrate has awarded Sony a subpoena allowing the company to obtain the IP addresses of everyone who visited the personal website of PlayStation 3 jailbreaker George Hotz for the past 26 months.
Magistrate Judge Joseph C. Spero of San Francisco
Some say, internal enemies are the worst. Those appointed or elected are the worst of the internals.
Deborah Pauly is the antichrist's mentrual period.REVTKATT
9:33 PM on March 5, 2011
Patriotism is a dangerous drug. Exploits tribal circuits. You need to stop.
The US is the new Rome, and its mercenaries have no place overseas.
Folks in glass empires should not fly drones. Blowback is feedback. Look it up.
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/marines-290913-way-american.html

Sir, the phrase,
"Heck, it looks like a more coherent design document than the last ______ I worked on."
with respect to this schematic, is, as we say, EPIC
for some of us. Thank you, thank you.
http://www.boingboing.net/2011/03/05/hand-drawn-computer.html#p0
One tribesman, who declined to give his name, said Kadafi loyalists had earlier offered weapons to tribes — there are at least five in the village — that leaned toward Tripoli. There was nothing for those who favor the rebels, he said.
"It doesn't matter," said another tribesman. "If anyone comes and tries to harm our homes and families, we'll fight them to the death."
04 March 2011
The death gratuity is a one-time non-taxable payment to help surviving family members deal with the financial hardships that accompany the loss of a servicemember.
A payment of $100,000 for survivors of those whose deaths under the following conditions:
http://www.military.com/benefits/survivor-benefits/death-gratuity
More fun to do their wives whilst they're gone. Been there, done that.
Villa Park Councilwoman Deborah Pauly, who also serves as first vice chairman of the O.C. GOP’s governing Central Committee.
“Let me tell you what’s going on over there right now – make no bones about it – that is pure unadulterated evil,” she says on the video, which is then edited to a later portion of her speech.
“I don’t even care if you think I’m crazy any more,” she says. “I have a wonderful daughter. I has a wonderful 19-year-old son who’s a United States Marine.
http://totalbuzz.ocregister.com/2011/03/04/councilwoman-attacks-muslim-speakers/49481/
On the list, bimbo.
02 March 2011
The fact that the cables are being released only in dribs and drabs seems to be prompted more by the desire to achieve maximum media impact rather than the passion for openness.
(Jonsdottir) Precisely. And I do not necessarily agree with that, but that is just my personal opinion, and that is worth no more than anybody else's opinion.
Agreed.
01 March 2011
WASHINGTON — In a lively decision that relied as much on dictionaries, grammar and usage as it did on legal analysis, theSupreme Court on Tuesday ruled unanimously that corporations have no personal privacy rights for purposes of the Freedom of Information Act.
Brendan Hoffman for The New York Times
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. wrote the court’s decision.
AT&T, the plaintiff in the case, had sought to block the release of documents it had provided to the government. It argued that the documents should be withheld under an exemption to the law that applied to records that “could reasonably be expected to constitute an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.”
The company’s strongest argument was that the statutory definition of the noun “person” specifically included corporations and other entities. It followed, the company said, that the adjective “personal” must also apply to corporations.
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., writing for the court, was having none of that.




