China FDA Head to be Executed
When the former head of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration was caught violating the law, he was charged with two misdemeanors. When the former director of China's State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) was convicted on corruption charges, he was sentenced to death. I don't know. I'm thinking that the .... [Click here to read the rest of this post]
Tags: Accountability, China, FDAGoogle Street View
A new service from Google is taking their maps program down to the actual street level. You can browse around the streets of locations they've mapped like in a 3-d virtual game (though it's just pictures so not as smooth as an actual game… yet). What happens when they combine it with Fotowoosh?
The implications of this .... [Click here to read the rest of this post]
Tags: Google, Street ViewA Call for Impeachment of Gonzales
I stumbled on this article today that really amused me. It's fantastically well written and biting on both Gonzales and the Bush administration, but it's very short. Here are some of the highlights:
The ultimate humiliation has now been inflicted on Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, the nation's demonstrably incompetent and intellectually corrupt chief law enforcement officer.
.... [Click here to read the rest of this post]DHS Hasn’t Really Done Anything
Apparently, the DHS has only charged 12 cases of terrorism out of 814,000 cases it's brought.
TRAC reported more than 85 percent of the charges involved more common immigration violations such as not having a valid immigrant visa, overstaying a student visa or entering the United States without an inspection. Scam Alert! Thieves Pose As Army Hospital, Say Your Spouse Hurt in Battle
Be warned. No matter how nice, not matter how much they already know, no matter how much they try to upset you, don't give out information over the phone.
The scammer – who sounds young and American – calls a military spouse and identifies herself as a representative from the Red Cross. The caller says that .... [Click here to read the rest of this post]Gas Price Gouging? Maybe Not…
For a friend, we aren't being price gouged says at least one consumer group:
In a past life we were asked to prove that local gas stations were price gouging New York City residents. We knew this to be false, and found the proof we needed in a meticulously researched report from the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on .... [Click here to read the rest of this post]Golden List of Customer Service Contact Information
The Consumerist has a large list of "executive service" contact information.
Executive customer service is a firewall team that keeps your complaints from disturbing busy executives golf games. Very often, they do this by actually solving your problems, possessing superhuman powers to command all parts of the company to action, from billing to technical. Oppose the Intellectual Property Protection Act of 2007 (IPPA2007)
A lot of the newsletters I subscribe to and groups that I follow are making more noise about this. The main point, from Defective by Design's e-newsletter:
The Department of Justice has drafted this outrageous legislative proposal that threatens ordinary Americans with jail time and the sort of property forfeiture .... [Click here to read the rest of this post]North Carolina’s Innovative MySpace Law
Ars Technica reports on a proposed law in NC that will require parents to sign up for social networking sites (like MySpace) and become age verified before their kids would be allowed to sign up.
This is probably the best way I've heard of to prevent under-age kids from signing up and had the added benefit that .... [Click here to read the rest of this post]
Tags: Families, Kids, MySpace, Social Network SitesAnti-war Writer’s Son Dies in Iraq, Gets Hate Mail Saying It’s His Fault.
People sure are quick to attack those they disagree with sometimes.
This may seem a vile accusation to lay against a grieving father. But in fact, it has become a staple of American political discourse, repeated endlessly by those keen to allow President Bush a free hand in waging his war. By encouraging "the terrorists," opponents of the .... [Click here to read the rest of this post]