August 2010 archive

Prime Time

In order to affect a timely halt to deterioriating conditions, and to ensure the common good, a state of emergency is declared for these territories by decree of Lord Cutler Beckett, duly appointed representative of His Majesty, the King. By decree, according to martial law, the following statutes are temporarily amended: Right to assembly, suspended. Right to habeas corpus, suspended. Right to legal counsel, suspended. Right to verdict by a jury of peers, suspended. By decree, all persons found guilty of piracy, or aiding a person convicted of piracy, or associating with a person convicted of piracy, shall be sentenced to hang by the neck until dead.

Later-

If you can stay up for it, tonight is a pivotal episode of Ghost in the Shell.  TV Listings calls it ‘Endless Gig’, Wikipedia ‘Return to Patriotism’.  I call it ‘Sacrifice of the Tachikomas’.

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Evening Edition

Evening Edition is an Open Thread

From Yahoo News Top Stories

1 Engineers prepare to seal ruptured oil well

by Matt Davis, AFP

Sat Jul 31, 12:35 pm ET

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (AFP) – Engineers Saturday readied a plan to permanently seal a damaged Gulf of Mexico well, despite delays to the process caused by debris left behind by a recent tropical storm.

As the work continued, incoming BP boss Bob Dudley vowed his company would not abandon residents affected by the spill after the well is finally sealed.

BP hopes to drown the well in an operation dubbed a “static kill,” in which mud and cement will be injected down into the ruptured wellhead via a cap installed on July 15.

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