Barbie and I are both mentioned in this nice little intro about blogging by Deirdre Clemente.
I sure never thought me and Barbie would be mentioned in the same breath about anything…
Wow I didn’t realize that 35 of bloggers are women now. Great start.
Blogging. It may sound like a fraternity hazing ritual but these days, everybody is doing it. Disoriented new moms, disgruntled teens, and somewhat sickening thirtysomethings are enthusiastically creating and maintaining weblogs or
Here’s a Daily Show interview with Lewis Lapham, Senior Editor for Harper’s Magazine.
This interview was broadcast on June 17, 2003.
Lewis Lapham On The Daily Show
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This is wrong, wrong, wrong. I don’t care what horrible crime the guy is SUSPECTED of committing. The key word is SUSPECTED and in this country we used to have something called DUE PROCESS. Anybody remember that?
And since when does the President have the sole authority to hand pick individuals out of our criminal justice system? At the very least it should be a very large panel of individuals that might serve to provide some kind of checks and balances to the process. What an embarrassment to our country. (Add it to the list of Shrub embarassments, I guess.)
We’ve got a president that thinks he’s dictator. That makes our country a dictatorship. (Like the dictatorships we’re fighting against on the other side of the world.) Nice work Shrub.
Bush Declares Student an Enemy Combatant
By for the NY Times.
President Bush made a surprise decision today to remove a Qatari student from the criminal justice system and declare him an enemy combatant after prosecutors said new evidence linked him to another round of terrorist plots by Al Qaeda after Sept. 11.
The student, Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri, 37, had been held in civilian custody since late 2001, first as a material witness in connection with the Sept. 11 attacks and later on charges of lying to the F.B.I. and credit card fraud.
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Because he was declared an enemy combatant, Mr. Marri was moved from a prison in Illinois to a military brig in South Carolina, according to Lawrence S. Lustberg, who represented him in the criminal case. As an enemy combatant, Mr. Marri can be held indefinitely, and he has no access to a lawyer unless the military decides to bring charges, officials said…
Neither of the other two men publicly identified as enemy combatants, Yaser Esam Hamdi, who was captured in fighting in Afghanistan, and Jose Padilla, suspected in a scheme to set off a “dirty bomb,” had faced criminal charges beforehand. Both are Americans…
“To just pluck someone from the criminal justice system and remove them from any of the protections of the legal system to me suggests a very troubling disregard for the rule of law,” said Jamie Fellner, the United States director for Human Rights Watch.
Mr. Lustberg, a private lawyer in Newark, said he planned to seek a reversal of the decision by filing a writ of habeas corpus in the federal court system in a few days.
Mr. Marri had been scheduled to go to trial next month in federal court in Illinois on the criminal charges pending against him, and Mr. Lustberg said, “We thought he had a powerful defense.”
Mr. Marri had apparently planned to argue that the charge he had lied to F.B.I. agents in interviews in late 2001 about his travels in the United States was based on a misunderstanding, and Mr. Lustberg said that notes from the bureau agents could bear that out…
Frank W. Dunham Jr., a standby lawyer for Mr. Moussaoui
Matthew Taylor and friends would like to give you a chance to get to know Gov. Dean a little better, so they’re throwing a party where he’ll call in live and answer your questions. (Details below.)
Here’s Matthew explaining his support for Dean and the details about his party.
Matthew Taylor Invites You To Howard Dean House Party
When: SATURDAY, JUNE 28TH — 6:00 P.M.
Where: 2933 BENVENUE AVENUE (near Ashby), Berkeley (tasty appetizers and beverages provided)
**LIVE CONFERENCE CALL WITH HOWARD DEAN!!!!**
At exactly 7:00 p.m., Howard Dean will speak to House Party guests via speaker-phone. Bring Questions to Ask, and Don’t Be Late!!
R.S.V.P. to Matthew Taylor (info removed due to spam problems. drop lisa a line if you need to connect with matthew for some reason)
The Library of Alexandria (“BibAlex.”) (sorry, “eg” url doesn’t seem to work right now) in Egypt is working with the Internet Archive to build its own bookmobile.
Here is a little movie of Ashley Rindsberg, Internet Archive Bookmobilist, about his upcoming voyage to Egypt to build a “Library of Alexandria Bookmobile.”
Ashley will be blogging in this category from Egypt starting this Wednesday on (after he gets situated in Egypt) and going for the next two weeks while he sets things up over there.
Some independent film makers will be going over there with him to film the process for a movie they’re making. (More on this soon!)
Ashley the Bookmobilist (Small – 6 MB)
Ashley the Bookmobilist (Hi-res – 83 MB)
Audio – Ashley the Bookmobilist (MP3 – 3 MB)
Here are a couple more photos linked to high resolution JPEGs:
Here are two clips from the June 16, 2003 episode:
Mess O’ Potamia – Part 1 of 2 (Small – 5 MB)
Mess O’ Potamia – Part 2 of 2 (Small – 4 MB)
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Supreme Court Splits on Diversity Efforts at University of Michigan
By David Stout for the NY Times.
The law school’s policy was affirmed in a 5-to-4 ruling, written by Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, that rejected Bush administration arguments that the policy should be voided. She declared that the Constitution “does not prohibit the law school’s narrowly tailored use of race in admissions decisions to further a compelling interest in obtaining the educational benefits that flow from a diverse student body.”
“Effective participation by members of all racial and ethnic groups in the civic life of our nation is essential if the dream of one nation, indivisible, is to be realized,” Justice O’Connor wrote.
She was joined by Justices John Paul Stevens, David H. Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen G. Breyer.
Dissenting were Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and Justices Antonin Scalia, Anthony M. Kennedy and Clarence Thomas.
Here’s a link to the video from this trip.
Each of these smaller photos (7) is linked to its larger high resolution JPEG image.
Howard Dean For President in 2004
Here are the photographs from this trip.
I met and spoke with Howard Dean in person last Thursday night on a Ferry ride from San Francisco to Larkspur. (On the way to a pep rally in Larkspur.)
I didn’t have a windsock for my microphone, so a lot of the footage on the Ferry is almost inaudible, but I was able to get some great footage with him before and after the ferry ride itself. I’ve included some clips of the Ferry ride so you can get a feel for what it was like hanging out and talking to him. (I’ll have to transcribe later it so you guys can hear what was said on the Ferry.)
As I mentioned before, I’m not going to spend time trying to convincing anyone to vote for Dean.
(Although it would be great if you participated in the MoveOn Primary going on tomorrow through Wednesday, whoever you decide to vote for.)
I’m just letting you guys know who I’m endorsing and why, so you can take that into consideration when deciding for yourself.
Over the coming weeks and months, I’ll be providing more details about Dean and his current stance (and past accomplishments that back up that stance) in Health Care, Education, Civil Rights and other domestic issues that I feel are the crux of this election.
Read the individual description of each. I’ve created a couple different edits so you can see and hear as little or as much as you want.
Here’s me talking to Howard Dean before he gets on the Ferry to Larkspur. He mentions the 34,000 meetup.com supporters and Howard Dean TV. He says hello to people in the downstairs cabin and heads out to the front deck of the boat, where he remained for a good part of the ride.
Lisa Rein Talks To Howard Dean (Small – 8 MB)
Long Version: The crowd gets off the ferry, my running through the crowd to find a spot to film the speech, and the entire speech itself (give or take a second).
Long Version – Howard Dean In Larkspur (Small – 51 MB)
Short Version – everything included in the “Long Version,” but a little less of it.
Shorter Version – Howard Dean In Larkspur (Small – 21 MB)
A highlight reel of Howard Dean’s Speech
Howard Dean In Larkspur – Highlights (Small – 15 MB)
This work is dedicated to the
Public Domain. (Take it and run, baby!)
Here’s a cool interview with Penelope that explains more about who they are and what happened to them.
Note: Penelope Houston, formerly of The Avengers will be performing at 8:00pm. (Yes, the punk rock group that opened for the Sex Pistols in San Francisco in 1978, although she’s got a mellower sound now, she has promised to “rock” 🙂