He’s managed to get a copy of Michael Moore’s chronicles from the fat farm. This is almost too cruel to link to. But then again, it is Michael Moore we’re talking about here:
Dear Friends,
You and I have stood strong against Ashcroft’s PATRIOT act and it chilling impact on our liberties. This morning I learned just how fragile those liberties can be. During breakfast weigh-in, Sergio suddenly stopped me — without probable cause, without so much as a warrant — and forced me to empty my pockets on a dining hall table. Without even the most basic judicial review or appeal process, he embargoed 6 of my Snickers energy bars, even after I explained I needed the quick energy boost for AM calisthenics. Dude, where is my country?
Treasurer Peter Costello, seen as heir apparent to Howard, hinted that some radical clerics could be asked to leave the country if they did not accept that Australia was a secular state and its laws were made by parliament.
“If those are not your values, if you want a country which has Sharia law or a theocratic state, then Australia is not for you,” he said on national television.
“I’d be saying to clerics who are teaching that there are two laws governing people in Australia, one the Australian law and another the Islamic law, that that is false.
“If you can’t agree with parliamentary law, independent courts, democracy, and would prefer Sharia law and have the opportunity to go to another country which practises it, perhaps, then, that’s a better option,” Costello said.
Sounds reasonable to me. Let’s hope that Britain, and even the US, take a hint.
WSJ (subcription required) has an opinion piece about replacing onsite pilots with remote pilots. My contribution on the subject is here. Check out patent disclosure 20020128746 for more uses of teleoperation. Go here and search for inventor dinkin and air in any field.
NYT columnist John Tierney has announced he will take on all people willing to bet that commodity prices will rise. He just placed a $2500 bet. He follows Julian Simon’s logic (again) that prices have gotten cheaper on everything except human labor since prices started being recorded.
As a grieving widow, I wonder if Lisa Ramaci-Vincent has absolute moral authority? Maybe she should camp out in front of Tisch Hall in Ann Arbor until Professor Cole meets with her. I’m sure that the media would give it big coverage…