You almost have to admire AT&T's consistency. They are consistently finding new ways to screw up almost daily now.The latest issue involves the story we covered yesterday about apps using the Google Voice service getting pulled from Apple's App Store. In a follow-up post, we didn't exactly go out on a limb suggesting that it was AT&T and not Apple, that was responsible for the app being pulled. After all, word is that Apple VP Phil Schiller personally ushered one of those apps, GV Mobile, through the approval process initially. And today brings word that the apps were indeed removed at AT&T's request. Daring Fireball's John Gruber cites a "reliable little birdie" on the news, and we've just heard the same thing from a source as well.While some found it very hard to believe that AT&T would be the ones behind something like this, given that it allows Google Voice apps on other phones on its network, those kind of contradictions are nothing new when it comes to AT&T with the iPhone. It's the same contradiction that prevents the SlingPlayer iPhone app from working on AT&T's network, while it works just fine on other AT&T devices. And the same one that is likely to cripple a Hulu app, if it ever gets released.

The USA continues to be the most interesting country in the world at this point in time what with the inauguration of an intelligent, articulate president (who happens to be black) and now the closure of the infamous Guantanamo Bay detention camp:President Obama took dramatic steps yesterday to reverse Bush administration policies on the detention and interrogation of suspected terrorists, ordering the closure of the U.S. detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and banning the use of controversial CIA interrogation techniques.- Obama Reverses Bush Policies On Detention and Interrogation, The Washington Post, Jan 23, 2009If you think Guantanamo Bay came to the forefront on American national conscience after 9/11, you are mistaken.A 1992 Hollywood movie - A Few Good Men - put the spotlight on the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, for all the wrong reasons and presaged what was to come post 9/11.Watch Jack Nicholson defend misuse of authority, power and patriotism in a powerful and ambiguous monologue:It is very easy to imagine Barack Obama and Donald Rumsfeld taking away completely different messages from this monologue!