USDA CHANGES IDAHO=S CLASS FREE BRUCELLOSIS STATUS
WASHINGTON, Jan. 19, 2006
Friday, January 20. 2006
Idaho and Brucellosis
It's official
More Sunlight
The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth and sunlight and ripeness. Jessamyn West
Over Reaching
Google, Bush administration clash over search requests
Demanding records from a private company to satisfy an itch for information. Shouldn't this require a warrant? What's the reasonable cause for the warrant besides the Government wanting to know? This administration believes on trampling our rights and is continuing on. I hope Google holds steadfast here for all our rights.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. Mark Twain
Google Inc. is rebuffing the Bush administration's demand for a peek at what millions of people have been looking up on the Internet's leading search engine - a request that underscores the potential for online databases to become tools for government surveillance.
Mountain View-based Google has refused to comply with a White House subpoena first issued last summer, prompting U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales this week to ask a federal judge in San Jose for an order to force a handover of the requested records.
Demanding records from a private company to satisfy an itch for information. Shouldn't this require a warrant? What's the reasonable cause for the warrant besides the Government wanting to know? This administration believes on trampling our rights and is continuing on. I hope Google holds steadfast here for all our rights.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. Mark Twain
Get a Clue, Burns
Sen. Burns: USDA Must Better Regulate Packers
U.S. Senator Conrad Burns (R-Mont.) expressed his concern today over a report by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Office of Inspector General (OIG) citing significant failures in the USDA
How Depressing
Most college students lack skills to do complex tasks, study says
What is going on in this world. I'm just a dumb cowboy who didn't complete college and I can handle these things, why can't college graduates? It really makes a person wonder.
What may seem depressing or even tragic to one person may seem like an absolute scream to another person, especially if he has had between four and seven beers. Dave Barry
Most college students close to earning a diploma cannot handle many complex but common tasks, from understanding credit card offers to comparing the cost per ounce of food.
Those are the sobering findings of a study of literacy on college campuses, the first to target the skills of students as they approach the start of their careers.
More than 50 percent of students at four-year schools and more than 75 percent at two-year colleges lacked the skills to perform complex literacy tasks.
That means they could not interpret a table about exercise and blood pressure, understand the arguments of newspaper editorials, compare credit card offers with different interest rates and annual fees or summarize results of a survey about parental involvement in school.
What is going on in this world. I'm just a dumb cowboy who didn't complete college and I can handle these things, why can't college graduates? It really makes a person wonder.
What may seem depressing or even tragic to one person may seem like an absolute scream to another person, especially if he has had between four and seven beers. Dave Barry
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