24 Oct 2008
Christian right intensifies attacks on Obama

Have these people no shame?

AP - Terrorist strikes on four American cities. Russia rolling into Eastern Europe. Israel hit by a nuclear bomb. Gay marriage in every state. The end of the Boy Scouts. All are plausible scenarios if Democrat Barack Obama is elected president, according to a new addition to the campaign conversation called "Letter from 2012 in Obama's America," produced by the conservative Christian group Focus on the Family Action.

(link) [Yahoo! News]

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Spanish discover cache of 26 Engima machines

This would be quite a find indeed, especially if they were customized in some way.

Spanish newspaper El País last week tracked down 26 examples of Franco's "secret weapon" against Republican forces in the country's civil war - a cache of perfectly-preserved Enigma machines hidden for years in a "gloomy office" in the army's main headquarters in Madrid.

(link) [The Register]

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Fee Award Shows Risks of Exposing Threadbare Patents to Light of Litigation

This is the way the system's supposed to work - the problem is that it all too rarely works this way.

In a rare grant of legal fees in a patent case, a federal judge in New Jersey has held a plaintiff clothing company liable for up to $2.5 million it cost competitors and retailers to defeat an infringement claim over a garment for nursing mothers.

(link) [Law.com]

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