Ahhh…
Fresh snow and beauty abound:
http://domai.com/promotional/natalie-car/
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Dec
26
2004
26
2004
Belated Holiday Greetings to you and yours!
During this holiday season I received MANY holiday cards and e-mails. Unfortunately because I’ve been so busy (as usual), I couldn’t send any out myself. So If I could, I’d like to use this as my Christmas Card to everyone who was kind enough to send one to me/I would sent one to….
Dear friend/relative/business associate…
Merry Christmas/Chanukah/Kwanzaa/Ramadan/Solstice/Voodoo Day!
Boy! What a year it’s been.
Me with my computer work and you doing…whatever it is you do.
Thanks for the Christmas/Kwanzaa/Solstice card, it was very beautiful and/or humorous.
I enjoyed the photo of your kid or kids.
Boy, he/she/they are REALLY getting big!
Have you seen our mutual friend, if we have one?
Can you believe what he or she is up to? Boy…some people!
Does your son/daughter/sister/brother/husband/wife still have that drug problem?
All you can do is trust in God, or if you prefer, Voodoo.
How is Granny/Nanna/Mima/YaYa? So-so?
Hey! How about that professional team we both root for?
They should fire or rehire that manager of theirs. He’s a character!
Well…better go
By the way…
Sorry about not getting around to visiting/calling you that time/those times.
I hope you received many presents from Santa/the “Chanukah Guy”/Voodoo Man.
And that the coming year is as good as/better than/nothing like last year.
Best Wishes
Karl
Dec
21
2004
21
2004
Happy Holidays from leray.us!
Dec
17
2004
17
2004
Bush Signs Intelligence Overhaul Bill
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=340196
Trying to understand how the Intelligence Reform Act signed by G.W. today
makes us more secure?
Me too….
Oddly there aren’t any links out there to help you in understanding.
So,
here’s the text of the Act and
a decent summary of its contents. As it stands now the new law:
- Calls for a Director of National Intelligence
- Creates a National Counterterrorism Center
- Calls for Immigration & Driving Law Changes
- Requires Screening Interviews for Visa Applicants
- Establishes new Aviation and Border Security provisions
- Creates an independent Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board
- Expands FBI powers on wiretaps and other surveillance even if there is no
ties to a foreign power (a requirement for such spying to occur under current
law). - Calls for a variety of diplomatic overtures
I’d call these measures probably necessary but not sufficient to make America
secure.
I was disappointed in the final report of the 9/11 Commission and the reason was
fairly simple: while the commission’s report was encyclopedic in its description
of what happened that day, there was no effort made to discover the critical
success factors for the attack. I’m not going to explore what I believe those
critical success factors were (as that’s an article in itself) because I want to
show what the 9/11 Commission (and the current administration) believe the
critical success factors were based on what’s in this new legislation.
Provisions 1 and 2 provide for a unified command for intelligence and a clearing
house for counterterrorism efforts. Provisions 3 and 4 strengthen legal drivers
licensing and immigration requirements. Provision 7 facilitates FBI surveillance
already underway. Provisions 6 and 8 don’t have any direct relevancy to the
events of 9/11 or prohibiting future mass terror attacks.
Only provision 6 addresses any illegal activities.
So from these provisions I infer that the prescription for preventing future
9/11-style attacks is to give intelligence activities more centralized command
and control, throw barriers in front of legal drivers licensing and immigration,
and give the FBI greater leeway in conducting surveillance.
Please note: we have hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants crossing our
borders every year. The majority do not drive and those that do drive without
licenses or on fraudulent licenses. NOT ONE of the 9/11 terrorists were
not under surveillance by the FBI. And the failures of intelligence sharing were
not due to lack of a centralized command structure but due to posturing,
stagnation, vanity (in the belief we would not be attacked in this way) and a
general disinclination to share information which can not be addressed by more
centralized control.
These provisions won’t prevent future terrorist attacks. The best they can do is
make it easier to figure out whose fault the next attack is.
Let me give you an example of what I think is going on here. Let’s say you live someplace that has just been damaged by a severe tidal wave. You find that all of your outer sea walls were completely destroyed by the incoming wave and that only one of your inner walls survived and prevented even greater damage. Why would anybody believe that rebuilding the outer sea walls as just as they had been before and throwing a few extra sandbags on them would reduce the likelihood of future flooding? I think I’d probably want to shore up the wall that survived as well as build more like it.
What happened on 9/11 was a total failure by the federal government in
prevention. Congress failed. The White House failed. State department visa
officials failed. Immigration officials failed. The FBI failed. The CIA failed.
Air traffic controllers failed. There just aren’t any successes by the federal
government to point to. There’s nothing to shore up and no reason to believe
that a few more sandbags will help at all. Maybe they will. But why should we
believe that they will?
I could understand a complete re-design. I just can’t understand the measures
that are being taken.
And they’re failing to provide additional support for what actually prevented
even more damage. There’s little doubt that the heroes of Flight 93 prevented an
attack on the White House or the Capitol.
So why aren’t there provisions for training the populace—the militia—that
actually functioned as the Founding Fathers expected? Teaching people that
they’re fundamentally responsible for their own security?
Why is it that another level of bureaucracy will do the trick.
To quote Morpheus from the Matrix: “It’s about control…”
(more…)
Dec
17
2004
17
2004
It’s winter…updating adult links!
It’s that time of year when I go from work to the house and with NO motorcycle, I sit and surf the internet more. It’s also when I go to more sites like these:
http://www.bravenude.com/main.htm
So….check the adult often as this area will be getting updated!
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Dec
17
2004
17
2004
Thank heaven for little girls!
http://www.sweetkrissy.com/promo/006/index.php?ccbill=587710
Ah….youth.
That delightful time where the idea of a shower with your clothes on was exciting, even romantic or sexy!
Thanks to the internet and enterprising young college girls like Krissy, we can be reminded of those wonderful youthful times of our lives.
(more…)
Dec
16
2004
16
2004
Biker Babes!
While I’d love to put these in the regular biker section, I must (for obvious reasons) relegate these links to the adult section.
Regardless, these are the type of biker babes we all dream about having on the back of our cycles!
http://www.bikinipageone.com/t03/jessicad01/j14.htm and
http://www.pornstar-gallery.net/gals/tera/eyptpopicfre.htm
