Archive for June, 2006



I 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!

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!

Google 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 […]

I 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 […]

 
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 […]

The 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

I’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 […]