Term: Social network
Definition: a finite set or sets of actors and the relation or relations defined on them.
The presence of relational information is a critical and defining feature of a social network.
Yo AGS thoughts on this?
Remember my post about Gov 2.0 and our 2 party system?
Here’s yet another example. I believe that the antiwar/anti Patriot act voters played a big role in putting Democrats and President Obama in charge. Now this.
Sigh.
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration supports extending three key provisions of the Patriot Act that are due to expire at the end of the year, the Justice Department told Congress in a letter made public Tuesday.
and from the AP via the Washington Post
U.S. Argues Against Court Hearings
The Obama administration argued Monday that allowing terrorism suspects in Afghanistan to challenge their incarceration in U.S. courts would endanger the military mission in that country.
Although the Pentagon is giving the roughly 600 detainees at Bagram Airfield a chance to challenge their detentions, the Obama administration stuck with Bush administration policy in its court filing.
The Justice Department argued to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit that Bagram detainees should not be given the same rights to sue that the Supreme Court granted last year to detainees being held at the Guantanamo Bay facility in Cuba.
— Associated Press
So essentially, the administration is arguing America’s right to invade another country, arrest and imprison its citizens, and deny them any type of trial? This is absurd. How can we be a shining example of democracy and human rights when we assert our right to lock people up and throw away the key without a trial?
I think the bottom line is that if we are going to incarcerate someone, we need to be able to demonstrate in a court of law that person’s crime. Period. I fail to see how demonstrating someone’s guilt might endanger the military mission in Afghanistan.
Wouldn’t this put Obama under the same microscope that his own Attorney General Eric Holder has put on the Bush administration?
Obama is losing a great deal of credibility here.
REALLY regretting that I did not pick up one of those 75% off A.Gon jersey shirts at City Sports Basement in the winter of 2006.
Solid tune.
Little Lion Man - Mumford & Sons
reblogging Bijan because I’m on the redeye and using shared wifi. any song that includes “i really fucked it up this time” is good with me.
Little Lion Man - Mumford & Sons
This wouldn’t be the first time that David turned me on to new music. And hopefully not the last either. I’m digging this.
| — | My main man, John Adams |
Reason number one Twitter has some work to do before they can effectively start advertising. This is what I got after clicking on Kanye West, which was on of the trending topics on the public homepage… see the second post from the bottom. Appauling. I edited accordingly.
From what I have heard, the man didn’t disappoint. No surprise. Definitely buy the album if you enjoy quality rap. Best tunes: Empire State of Mind, A Star is Born, and Run this Town, obviously.
We’ll think about it every time he pitches against the Orioles for the rest of his major league career, won’t we? I was thinking about it last night when he went six up, six down through two innings. Seven shut-out innings is just fine, though. Especially since he’s now the default number three starter and (let’s start to slowly break this to ourselves) chomping on Beckett’s heels.
