Canned

You might notice the post below just appearing. Blogger had a problem on Sunday after I typed up the post and I couldn't publish it. Hence, it was a canned post only now appearing. Speaking of canning, we canned the remaining case of peaches on Sunday. Four quarts were canned with brandy and the remaining were canned using my light ginger syrup. One of the brandied peaches quarts didn't seal properly so we're testing them out as dessert this week. Ahem...

Some quickies for you: Rox Populi is having a contest. Re-Title Cheney's new biography and win $50. I've got my entry in. Have fun and vent!

The Rothenberg political report now says that the Democrats are likely to pick up 15 - 20 seats in the House this election. They need 15 to become a majority. The good news for the country is that this could provide us with a semi-divided government that will strike a slightly better balance in the country. The bad news is that Nancy Pelosi is as ethically corrupt politician as her Republican counterpart and about as effective.

Wondermark has an amusing op-ed comic on airport security. While we're on the subject, comedian JJ Walker rates Seattle as the worst airport in the country. As Bruce Schneier noted, details are emerging in the British Terror cases and it appears that those cases may have been hurt by a rush to bust the terrorists to be. As Schneier summarized, there was "No imminent threat". By rushing to arrest, we got no information about a wider network, none about tactics as employed in the real world to carry out the attack, and less hard evidence that would have made for a better prosecution.

In the UK a school in London wants to begin fingerprinting every student. This has serious privacy implications. The school claims that it wants to install the expensive finger print identification system only to monitor attendance, because taking roll call apparently has been so flawed.

Will Floridians push for better border control when illegal immigrant and tropical storm Ernesto comes ashore? Will Governor Bush declare that his preparations for Ernesto are proof that his brother's proposed guest worker program will be effective?