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The next time we have lunch in Atlanta with Horner I'm going to try to do a video with him!
Talk about admitting both a lack of credibility and a total disconnect from intellectual reality:
Before the story broke, she writes, she had no clue that "the Administration was violating FISA." She writes that the gang of eight had been briefed on "an NSA effort to track al Qaeda communications using unique access points inside the US telecommunications infrastructure," but that they'd been told nothing about warrantless wiretapping. Her "first inkling that the program was in not compliance with FISA but was conducted pursuant to claims of “inherent” executive power," she writes, came after the story broke, when she was free to consult her staff.a tip 'o the hat to the guys at Talking Points Memo.
[update] Jane Harmon makes an attempt to defend herself at TPMCafe.
h/t to Susie:
It is no coincidence that search engine giant Google is building its newest computer center near the Dalles Dam, a huge hydroelectric power plant in Oregon. Buying electricity directly from the plant costs one-fifth as much as Google would be paying in California. Besides, the Columbia River supplies inexpensive water to operate the eight multistory cooling towers designed to handle the waste heat from tens of thousands of computers.Users are accustomed to the results of their searches appearing on their computer screens almost magically. Calculations have now been performed to determine the share of power consumption that can be attributed to a single Google search. Depending on the initial data, one Google search consumes enough electricity to run an 11-watt, energy-saving lightbulb for 15 minutes to an hour.
As long as Google refuses to release numbers, such calculations will remain only a guessing game. But one thing is certain: In 2006, according to a study commissioned by the German Environment Ministry, Germany’s roughly 50,000 computer centers consumed as much electricity as a nuclear power plant can produce in the same amount of time.
Interesting!
Dith Pran, a photojournalist for The New York Times whose gruesome ordeal in the killing fields of Cambodia was re-created in a 1984 movie that gave him an eminence he tenaciously used to press for his people’s rights, died on Sunday at a hospital in New Brunswick, N.J. He was 65 and lived in Woodbridge, N.J.The cause was pancreatic cancer, which had spread, said his friend Sydney H. Schanberg.
A snippet from John McCain's bio from azcentral.
Military Career: McCain served 22 years as a naval aviator. In 1967, he was shot down over Vietnam and held as a prisoner-of-war in the infamous "Hanoi Hilton" for five and a half years (1967-1973), much of it in solitary confinement. At the time he was shot down, his father Admiral Jack McCain was Commander of the U.S. Fleet. Sen. McCain retired from the Navy as a Captain in 1981.
McCain's grandfather and father were both Admirals in the U.S. Navy. I'm curious about why John McCain retired as a mere Captain, given his heritage.
McCain also graduated 5th from the bottom of his Naval Academy class and spent most of his senior year in serious trouble due his flouting of regulations. He is an interesting choice of the Republican party for president!