#15.5 - meeting recap

Our meeting last Thursday was fun, educations, and had wine...sounds like the prefect GIS meeting. We planned to discuss the politics and fortunately for us the Democrats scheduled a debate for the same night. So we popped open a bunch of bottles of Beaujolais Nouveau and discussed the blow by blow on the debate. With our drawing too many conclusions we decided that Hillary and Obama are the front runners and neither gained nor lost much from the debate. Biden, Dobb, and Kucinch all made great points, but have not chance of winning. And Richardson and Edwards need to just get off the stage.I'm thinking the next meeting should be Tuesday, 12/11. Any thoughts on a topic?

Meeting #15.5 - LOCATION

Tonight's meeting will be held at Kim's house (280 Maple St. #2). We'll be using some money from the GIS endowment to get a bunch of bottles of Beaujolais Nouveau. Be there at 7pm. We'll talk politics.

Meeting #15.5

Let's try this again (with a little bit of an incentive)...

Meeting #15.5 will be held of Thursday, November 15th at 7pm. It will be at a bar TBD (let me know your suggestions) or at Maegen and my place.

TOPIC: Political Participation. We still have another year to go before the election and I'm already sick of it... but wait, I've done nothing, why am I sick of it? What am I sick of? What would I do if I could change the process? Be introspective, do some research, and come ready to discuss.

INCENTIVE:
Beaujolais Nouveau tasting (per Allan's request).

So some politics and wine, we can't go wrong.

I can't be the only one to pick up on this...

Yahoo is getting chastised by the media and congress for giving a customer's info over to the Chinese government. As they should, the journalist ended up with a 10 yr. prison term. What I'm confused about is how our government does the same exact thing to Internet and phone companies and it's not an issue. Sure hippies like the ACLU make a stink about it. But in the same week that Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang is getting bitched out in congress, FBI chief Robert Mueller is in the same hall defending National Security Letters. I can't be the only one who noticed...