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Well, Spooky's kept his dinner down, and I dosed him with Petramalt per suggestion from sparklypelt, who will be his godmother from now on if this works.

Sparkly - mind if I mail your godson out your way for a visit...?

Garrr. Cats.

Pointed out by Pope_Guilty

Jesus Christ God Almighty NO. Just FUCKING NO.

The Bush administration is preparing plans for possible lifetime detention of suspected terrorists, including hundreds whom the government does not have enough evidence to charge in courts, The Washington Post reported Sunday.

As part of a solution, the Defense Department, which holds 500 prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, plans to ask the U.S. Congress for $25 million to build a 200-bed prison to hold detainees who are unlikely to ever go through a military tribunal for lack of evidence, defense officials told the newspaper.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&e=3&u=/nm/20050102/ts_nm/security_usa_dc

This has GOT TO BE STOPPED.

No. I just - damnit NO.

X-Posting Up the Ying-Yang

Just e-mailed a letter to the Editor at the Alibi:

Dear Alibi -

I just read that the Bush administration is considering *permanent detention* of terrorist suspects - not convicted terrorists, but suspects who haven't even been through the military justice system due to 'lack of evidence' (link to Reuters story):

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&e=3&u=/nm/20050102/ts_nm/security_usa_dc

If there is anything at all that can be done on the local level to give opposition to this idea, can someone at the Alibi do a story on this, help the regular folks learn how they can do something constructive to keep it from happening? At the very least, make sure they know about it?

This is something that calls for a strong voice -
please, I hope to hear yours.

~D~

[EDIT: Slighty different version of this sent to Senator Bingaman, and Richard Romero and Dede Feldman at the State Legislature. If anyone else feels so inclined, you might want to send up balloons as well.]

Jeff Bingaman - senator_bingaman@bingaman.senate.gov
Richard Romero - richard.romero@state.nm.us
Dede Feldman - dedefeld@aol.com

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Grey, spongy wet day.

Hey, New Mexico - welcome to Seattle.

Cat is still alive. After a double dose of Petromalt last night and this morning, he isn't terribly thrilled about being alive - but ya know...

This feels like a good day to finish reading The Odyssey and pretend, once again, that I really don't have to do that laundry today...

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The well-contented vibe has taken a turn for the schlumpfy and depressed.

Argh.

A Small Beacon of Good Cheer

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Glee!

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Oh. Dear. God.

::shudders::

Well Hol, you were right.

The Petromalt did the trick.

You do not want to hear the details -

But Spooky is, er.... off the sick list.

And from this day forward, this shall be a ribbon-free house.

o_O