Archive for June, 2006
Travel Page
Closed Published by jakeallen June 25th, 2006 in jake.allen.ockhamist.com, Hong Kong 2006, travel, Jake's MusingsI made a travel page, and you can see it in the above navigation. I put the pictures on it for now, but plan to make it better soon.
Madness!
New Pictures
0 Comments Published by jakeallen June 26th, 2006 in Hong Kong 2006, travel, Jake's Musings, Cultural Commentary
I found more pictures that I had not uploaded yet. They are from day 3.
Day 3 in Hong Kong. (smaller, about 78 pics)
Madness!
To fuel my vanity . . .
0 Comments Published by jakeallen June 26th, 2006 in Jake's Musings, metabloggingGoogle recently put some other Jake Allen’s page ahead of Jake Allen’s ockhamist.com. Madness! As of this morning, however, Jake Allen’s ockhamist.com is back on top. Yahoo! never left us.
In other Jake Allen-related Google news, Hillsdale College has fallen to seventh, and Hillsdale College Bloggers has fallen to fourteenth.
I also added new chins of Jake […]
New ways to contact Jake Allen
0 Comments Published by jakeallen June 27th, 2006 in jake.allen.ockhamist.com, Jake's Musings, metabloggingI am testing a new way of contacting me, Jake Allen. Try it out, if you aren’t too busy surfing better sights on the internet or would rather, um, just email me like a normal person. This is also a good way to contact Blandus, if you don’t mind Jake Allen reading it in his […]
I just learned that Cyprus is the only presidential republic (like the USA) member state within the European Union. I knew that parliaments were more popular in Europe, but places like Ireland only have figurehead presidents, and the rest have parliaments or constitutional monarchies with parliaments except for France, which is a hybrid with executive […]
Barefoot in the Men’s Room
7 Comments Published by jakeallen June 28th, 2006 in Jake's Musings, Blandus' musings, Cultural Commentary, News Commentary, politics
Jake and Blandus do not support a Constitutional Amendment to prohibit burning or defacing the American Flag. Consevatives are sacrificing principle here to win votes or raise money, or worse, participating in Anglo-tribalism. I am glad that it the recent round of resolutions/proposals have failed.
The American Flag is a symbol of freedom. We do honor those […]
Form works
0 Comments Published by jakeallen June 29th, 2006 in jake.allen.ockhamist.com, Jake's MusingsThe online form works well. It will permanently live in the About page. Thanks to the several testers, and to the spam that got through as well.
Madness
Pieces of Justice
5 Comments Published by jakeallen June 30th, 2006 in Jake's Musings, News Commentary, politics, law and SCOTUSI’m torn over the decision today from the Supreme Court over the Guantanamo detainees. (Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, 185 pages)
I do not think that detainees have rights under the Geneva Convention, because that treaty has specific definitions that these detainees do not fit. I do not think that they are afforded rights under the Constitution, because they […]