Bob Morris @ Sep 18th 2002 11:14 - Category: Unfiled ;
A fun place to have a war
When you’re wounded and left on Afghanistan’s plains,
And the women come up to cut up what remains,
Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains,
An’ go to your Gawd like a soldier. -R.Kipling
Bob Morris @ Sep 18th 2002 09:53 - Category: Unfiled ;
Bob Morris @ Sep 18th 2002 09:52 - Category: Unfiled ;
Is L.A. ready for a gay, Jewish police chief?
Steve Lopez runs down the search for a new police chief in L.A. One other leading candidate is, omigod, an intellectual…
Bob Morris @ Sep 18th 2002 09:51 - Category: Unfiled ;
It’s official, Dee Dee Ramone od’ed on heroin
The Ramones were a ground-breaking band. I saw them many times. It was always the exact same show; the fog machine, the pinhead with the Gabba Gabba Hey sigh, no stage patter, 45 songs in 90 minutes. They were tight and disciplined. A friend whose punk band once opened for them told me in amazement the Ramones ran through their entire set on practice instruments in the dressing room before the show. Stone cold professionals.
They were the first punk band to get a record deal, they influenced thousands of bands. Dee Dee had a monkey on and off his back all those years, and it finally killed him. Damn…
Bob Morris @ Sep 18th 2002 09:44 - Category: Unfiled ;
Senator Says 9/11 Intelligence Probe Hindered
Congressional investigators are not getting the cooperation they need from the Bush administration on information held by the U.S. intelligence community before the Sept. 11 attacks, a ranking Republican senator said on Wednesday.
Bob Morris @ Sep 18th 2002 09:43 - Category: Unfiled ;
California blackouts didn’t need to happen.
Southern California could have avoided all hours of blackouts in 2001, and Northern California most of them, if the state’s five big, private power plant owners had produced as much electricity as they were capable of generating through the worst of the state’s electricity crisis, according to a state report released Tuesday.
The report, by Public Utilities Commission investigators, does not challenge the claims of energy companies that power plants were shut down because of mechanical troubles or air pollution rules. But even assuming that every reported shutdown was legitimate, the report concluded, the five companies withheld between 37% and 46% of their available capacity to generate electricity from November 2000 to May 2001.
Bob Morris @ Sep 18th 2002 00:06 - Category: Unfiled ;
Office of Homeland Security issues cold weather security alert
“With colder weather comes heavier clothing, and that means a security problem”, explained a spokesperson for the Office of Homeland Security. “In warm weather, when people wear shorts and t-shirts, it is difficult to hide assault weapons or personal nuclear devices in ones clothing. However, bulky winter clothes, unfortunately, make ideal places to hide the exotic weaponry so common to members of the Axis of Evil.”
Therefore, he went on to explain, they will be forced to conduct random strip searches of citizens to protect the U.S. from possible terrorist attacks. “The searches will be conducted as quickly as possible, and you be allowed to leave your skivvies on if the temperature is below freezing”.
Bob Morris @ Sep 18th 2002 00:04 - Category: Unfiled ;
The stock market is not feeling well
As well it shouldn’t. Corrupt management, larcenous accounting practices, the threat of war. Why should anyone invest in stocks?
A retest of the the recent lows is possible. With a drop far below that not out of the question. In a bear market, drops of 50-70% can happen, and we are only down 25% from the DOW highs.
Bob Morris @ Sep 18th 2002 00:03 - Category: Unfiled ;
Operation Just Because
Dubya and crew are making Dr. Strangelove look sane and rational.
DAILY MIRROR, UK - President Bush faced world anger last night over America’s seven-nation nuclear hit list. British MPs joined the outcry after a leaked Pentagon report revealed contingency plans to use nuclear weapons against China, Russia, Iran, Iraq, North Korea, Syria and Libya. The secret policy was denounced as warmongering “lunacy.” Alarmed officials from Moscow to Tehran warned that the “power crazy” President, buoyed up by the successful campaign in Afghanistan, could plunge the world into chaos. British politicians said the strategy threatened the stability of the NATO alliance
. . . The review says the US must be ready to use nuclear weapons against China, Russia, Iran, Iraq, North Korea, Syria and Libya. It then identified four areas where the US should be prepared to press the button: In an Arab-Israeli conflict, in a war between China and Taiwan, in an attack by North Korea on South Korea and in an attack by Iraq on Israel or another neighbor. Additionally, the weapons could be used against targets able to withstand conventional attack and in retaliation for the use of nuclear, biological or chemical weapons.
. . . US Secretary of State Colin Powell insisted the report did not signal imminent action. He said: “We should not get carried away with some sense the US plans to use nuclear weapons in some contingency in the near future. “It’s not the case. What the Pentagon has done with this is sound military, conceptual planning. “Not a single nation is being targeted by an American nuclear weapon on a day-to-day basis.” <uh huh> via ProRev
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