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name   : enoch israel
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born   : 08:41 eastern
weight : 6 pounds 9 ounces
height : 18 inches

pics to be posted to picasa when i get around to downloading and then uploading them.

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pics are now available

freedom

did I mention that I'm sick of the "police state" direction we appear to be heading towards in the US.

some random news clips:

A passenger in a car accused of pointing a toy gun at the head of a friend who was driving was charged with inducing panic ... [he] posted bond and was released from the Belmont County Jail.
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[A] suburban Milwaukee high school chemistry teacher was arrested last week for [a pro-Columbine] comment left on ... a blog on Wisconsin politics... The comment disturbed at least one teacher, who called police in West Bend, 40 miles north of Milwaukee and home of the blog's administrator. Police traveled to arrest Buss at his home in Cudahy, south of Milwaukee, last week after the blogger gave them the anonymous poster's IP address.
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I'm not even going to get into what's wrong with these stories, I just don't have the time/energy at the moment; but the fact that these people got arrested (and had to pay money to be released) is ridiculous.

In the second case, I'd love to see how the police were able to track down the teacher's name/home address by being given an IP address from a blog log. I'm not sure which would upset me more, to find out there was, or there was not, a warrant issued to obtain that information from the teacher's ISP.

(Note that I am neither condemning nor endorsing the behaviours exhibited by the individuals, I am merely voicing an opinion that the actions they took should not have resulted in their arrest.)

merry christmas

(found here)