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Subject: Thank you for parentstv.org To: Editor@parentstv.org, Webmaster@parentstv.org, Letters@parentstv.org Hello creators and maintainers of parentstv.org. I am not a parent, but I really, really appreciate what your site is doing. Specifically, the page at http://www.parentstv.org/PTC/clips/main.asp titled "Worst TV Clips of the Week". In general I have discontinued watching broadcast and cable television because of it's low quality and I simply don't have time to sift through the garbage. What your page provides me is the sweetest necture from all the fruit of broadcast and pay television. I can just hit your page once a week and get all the fun, hot clips. With your permission, I will start backing up this page onto a CD-ROM archive that I can mail around and trade with my friends. You are all quite a peice of work. Don't ever stop being you! Gratefully yours, Austin happy non-parent and heavy user of parentstv.org PS -- Feel free to use this testimony on your website.

Be all you can be

The United States possesses weighty foreign policy interests that are clearly threatened by the entry of judgment for [the POWs] in this case

White House Turns Tables on Former American POWs

extraordinary rendition

Our henchmen in places like Syria, Egypt, Morocco, Uzbekistan and Jordan are torturing terror suspects at the behest of a nation - the United States - that just went through a national election in which the issue of moral values was supposed to have been decisive. How in the world did we become a country in which gays' getting married is considered an abomination, but torture is O.K.?

Torture, American Style -- Bob Herbert, The New york Times

hmmmm

North Korea admits having nuclear weapons.

Copy cats

Tony Blair mounted a strong defence of the plans.

Speaking from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, he said: "I pay great attention to the civil liberties of the country. But on the other hand, it is also right that there is a new form of global terrorism in our country, in every other European country and most countries around the world."

Britain 'sliding into police state' [guardian]

Seattle Inauguration Protest

My favorite quote "Someone with a bullhorn said we can express ourselves again at 6:30"

The Normalization of Horror

The Bush Administration, the paper reported January 2, is no longer planning to keep hundreds of Muslim prisoners currently rotting away in U.S. concentration camps at Guant\x{00E1}namo, Abu Ghraib and Bagram merely "e;indefinitely." ... We're locking them up forever. Without due process.

THE NORMALIZATION OF HORROR

I can't believe we are in 2005 and we still have illegal POWs