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India has adopted a PKI based digital signature system managed through digital certificates issued by licensed certifying authorities. In this system, certifying authorities issue digital certificates using their digital signatures. The digital signatures of the Certifying authorities are authenticated by the digital signature from the Controller of Certifying Authorities (CCA) who is the root certifying authority […]
The National Public Radio (NPR) website today (10/2/07) reports a discussion on their daily radio show, “All Things Considered”, about the religious right’s new stand on the possibility of Rudy Giuliani winning the Republican presidential nomination: “This weekend in Salt Lake City, Utah, a group of leading social conservatives — all members of an organization […]
Public lies by Brenda Youngerman is a succinct well thought out page turning novel. At less than 300 pages it is a nice quick read. She manages to evoke the characters well. It essentially starts with Nancy Cooper grabbing her two children and running away from her drug taking abusive husband Vince, with the help […]
Tonight ABC premiered the most anticipated show of the year “Cavemenâ€.  The show is about a group of upwardly mobile educated yuppy cavemen living in San Diego. Living quite well in San Diego given it is one of the most expensive places in the country to live. Of course the series is based on the […]
We are having a struggle in this country about what lesson we should have learned from The Greatest Generation. As millions of us have learned while watching Ken Burn’s The War, Americans came together in WWII and collectively sacrificed to be victorious. In the Bush administration’s view, we were willing to sacrifice because Americans didn’t […]
There are many lessons to be learned from the recent tasering incident in Florida and we should take some time to examine them together. For those of you at Kennesaw State University living in tents behind the Social Science building , a student at the University of Florida was savagely and repeatedly tasered by campus […]
Few singers have had a career as long and important as that of Emmylou Harris. She has sung with the other vocalists one would suspect a country and western singer would have sung with; singers such as Linda Ronstadt and Dolly Parton. But she has also sung with newer singers, bridging musical gaps we never […]
Jonathan Livingston Seagull is perhaps the iconic American 70’s film. Made in 1973, this film, directed by Hall Bartlett, is a soaring triumph of both the film styles of the era and of storytelling in general. Nominated for two Academy Awards, this groundbreaking film is now available on DVD. What is it about Jonathan Livingston […]
Very few people actually enjoy war. We might rally behind our respective flags, gods, or economic interests, but it tears apart the very heart of humanity to truly relish war. The reason which allows war to persist in the face of individual reticence is that war is seldom, if ever, waged by just one person. […]
 (Picture courtesy of FakeChecks.org) On September 7th, I did a post based off a story that circulated out of Nigeria about an International investigation that might lead to arrests, worldwide. Apparently, it did and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service is now giving more details, including some arrest statistics. Please note that a lot of […]
Here are today’s updates for Days of Our Lives, As The World Turns, and The Young and The Restless. Days of Our Lives Chelsea is still uncomfortable joining the sorority group. Stephanie gets Adrienne to let her and Chelsea help out in the bar to try and raise money for the sorority with their tips. […]
 Religion is awfully heavy and unwieldy at times. With small rest stops along the way, I have believed in God my whole life. Not just believed that he existed, that he was somewhere out there in the mists and the hearts of nice yet critical people, but actually believed that he knew I existed […]
There are certain movies which have become a part of the American experience. These are movies we have all seen and have come to love (or at least be familiar with). Those movies form a cultural background and have become part of the well we all draw our American references from. For good or for […]
This week’s Resmussen Reports GOP primary poll update reveals no clear leader in the race for the Republican nomination. Fred Thompson leads Rudy Giuliani 25%-23%, but this is within the poll’s margin of error, thus meaning that the race is even.
I was a child of WW2 — from eight to twelve years old. The Pearl Harbor announcement interrupted one of my Sunday afternoon children’s programs. We had an aircraft warning station in our front yard on the lower slopes of Avon mountain and I used to teach the adult volunteers how to report aircraft passing […]
In a major policy address given at DePaul University today, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) called for a new beginning in American foreign policy. Obama also promised that as president he will seek to rid the world of nuclear weapons.
As many of you know, Mary Winkler recently appeared on Oprah. To watch the show in its entirety, click here. Oprah was annoyingly sympathetic to Winkler, and seemed to buy her abused wife shtick. My opinion of her claims is as follows: 1) Winkler provided no substantive evidence for her claims–no medical reports, no police […]
The majority of Troops serving in Iraq are between the ages of 19 and 24. On today’s Political Lunch Tuesday Snack, Will looks at the democratic candidates and what they were doing at that age. (Next week, it’s the republicans’ turn.) To see today’s episode, click here: Political Lunch
From The Gathering Storm Blog Why are public school officials in this country so eager to gut our culture under the guise of multiculturalism? Even to the extent that they are blind to the very thing they seek to avoid. In this case – teaching religion in school. What annoys me the most is the […]
After trouncing the Brazilian girls all upside the head in Shanghai to become the first women’s team ever to claim consecutive World Cup championship titles, a virile and two-fisted German women’s national soccer team, drunk with victory and alcohol and high on testosterone and who the hell knows what else – and thoroughly angered by […]
With the Brits pulling out 1,000 more troops and having abandoned Basra on the main route from port to Baghdad, it does not look as though the surge is going to cover our troops’ flanks. Supposedly two of the Shiite militias have moved in to replace the Brits and are fighting it out for control […]
— OffStumped For All Things Right of Center, Bringing a Right of Centre Reality Check to Indian Politics, News Media Reporting and Opinion now in Hindi अब आप के लिये हिंदी मे. — As the Nation marks yet another Gandhi Jayanthi on October 2nd we are once again reminded of Non-Violence by Manmohan Singh in […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 10/2/07 – Washington D.C. Due to a virtually unprecedented influx of exceptional nominees, the Churchill’s Parrot Useful Idiot Hall of Fame has announced plans for a massive expansion of its facilities. A number of exciting new exhibits are in the works, all bringing to life with vivid clarity and realism the jaw-dropping […]
Ed Hoffman’s statement (in part) below is both disingenuous and illustrative of what Naomi Klein calls “disaster capitalism,” — the notion that the interests of huge corporations trump those of the wider public: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/30/books/review/Stiglitz-t.html?_r=1&ref=books&or\ ef=slogin This Columbia defender (a Californian based lawyer?) on neighborhood lists repeatedly displays either naiveté or disingenuousness regarding Columbia’s promises — […]
At the end of September the school district in Oak Lawn, Illinois announced it was considering eliminating holiday celebrations like Christmas in its schools. Oak Lawn has seen increasing numbers of residents that identify with the Muslim faith who are naturally sending their children to the public schools there and school board members are afraid […]
The situation in the Middle East not only dominates the news, but also the political and economic situation in today’s world. After watching and hearing about all of the violence in this region one has to wonder how the people live amidst so much turmoil. The movie Torn Apart addresses this very issue by asking […]
Well, here is an interesting tale. Apparently IBM workers in Italy have started walking a picket line for workers upset over job benefits. Not unusual, you say? Well this picket line is being walked by animated, virtual characters in an on-line game called “Second Life.” It’s a pretty silly exercise that won’t get much notice […]
(London, UK) The Autism Awareness Campaign UK has released a DVD on autism and Asperger’s Syndrome, titled ‘Autism Action’ in Autism Awareness Week which runs from 1st October to 7th October. Autism Awareness Week in the UK is being organised by the Autism Alliance. Ivan Corea of the Autism Awareness Campaign UK calls on the […]
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