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January 25, 2012, by

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(titled with apolo­gies to Jared Axel­rod)

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January 2, 2012, by
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I have no inten­tion telling you what I want to accom­plish this year.

I’m not list­ing any projects, any promises, any res­o­lu­tions. I have them, sure, but I’m not telling you what they are.

We denizens of the Inter­webs, we talk so very much. Talk is cheap.  Social net­works are easy, full of sound and fury, amount­ing to very, very lit­tle in the end.

You will only hear about what I’m doing this year when it is com­plete.  Until then, it’s not worth talk­ing about.

Suspension of Habeas Corpus?

December 1, 2011, by
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I need help from my more polit­i­cally  informed friends.  This feels a bit hyper­bolic to me.

This, via WeAreChangeTV.us:

60 sen­a­tors betrayed you today, they autho­rized the indef­i­nite sus­pen­sion of habeus corpus

UPDATE: 60 sen­a­tors betrayed you (it was 61, but Sen. Menen­dez changed his vote). They voted against an amend­ment to the Defense Autho­riza­tion act, the indef­i­nite sus­pen­sion of Habeus Cor­pus. We are now offi­cially a police state. Read the Amend­ment pro­vi­sion here. The house ver­sion of the bill is avail­able here, 920 pages. Sen­ate text is avail­able here and a PDF of the full sen­ate bill is avail­able here, 682 pages. The amend­ment to the Defense Autho­riza­tion act (the Udall amend­ment) would have removed some of the more dra­con­ian mea­sures of the bill. To clear up some of the con­fu­sion, Sen. Udall was the good guy here.

We need to remem­ber that the text of the bill would have pro­vided issues for peo­ple who had not been legally found guilty (no due process), just sus­pected. If we look back at our recent his­tory, we can see sim­i­lar leg­is­la­tion being mis­used to silence polit­i­cal dis­si­dents. Are you call­ing for the Fed­eral Reserve to be abol­ished? Are you a John Bircher? Like the Tea Party bet­ter than Occupy or vice versa? Who knows how it can be mis­used. Not try­ing to be more alarmist than needed, but we do need to remain vig­i­lant. Ignore your rights, and they will go away.

Read more: http://wearechangetv.us/2011/11/61-senators-betrayed-you-today-they-authorized-the-indefinite-suspension-of-habeus-corpus/#ixzz1fIm2jGea

 

Does any­one know the truth of this situation?

PSA: RSS Feeds Fixed

November 29, 2011, by
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At some point, Feed­burner stopped updat­ing from my feed. I have ditched that ser­vice, so if you want to receive these posts in your favorite RSS reader, please sub­scribe to http://ctmiller.net/feed/.

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Interview on Living Proof Brew Cast

November 21, 2011, by
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This week, I was a guest on the Liv­ing Proof Brew Cast, hosted by John Tay­lor Williams and Thomas Gideon.  Their show notes are repli­cated below:

We turned to the rea­son we invited Chris on, a dis­cus­sion of gluten free beers and brew­ing. Chris shared his expe­ri­ences and impres­sions from about half a month so far of drink­ing only gluten free beers. He reminded us why he is doing this for the month of Novem­ber. In addi­tion to the St. Peter”s he men­tioned at the out­set, Chris has also tried Red­Bridge, Lake­front New Grist, and Bard’s.

John has men­tioned William Davis’ “Wheat Belly” before, when we were rumi­nat­ing on the effec­tive­ness of Evo’s brew diet. He brought it up again as being rel­e­vant to why wheat may cause some peo­ple grief even in the absence of celiac or an actual allergy. Chris offered a sim­i­lar read that pro­vokes thought around food cul­ture and indus­try, “In Defense of Food” by Michael Pol­lan. In addi­tion to read­ing and research, Chris is tak­ing a very con­sid­ered approach that includes jour­nal­ing his expe­ri­ences and impressions.

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