Twisted Sister is reuniting [1].
Bob Morris @ Dec 27th 2002 15:29 - Category: Unfiled ;
Twisted Sister is reuniting.
AND … proof positive that their lead singer Dee Snyder IS Christina Aguilera.
Archive for December 27th, 2002
Jan 18 mass demonstration and…
Bob Morris @ Dec 27th 2002 10:07 - Category: Unfiled ;
Jan 18 mass demonstration and ANSWER revealed!
ANSWER is the lead organizer for the next big antiwar rally. This one will be on Jan 18., and will be held simultaneously in D.C. & S.F., as was recent successful Oct. 26 action. Organizing for Jan 18 has already surpassed that of Oct 26, with active organizing now going on in 43 states and 140+ cities.
And that’s just where ANSWER is organizing! They are one coalition, and many more groups and coalitions are also organizing for Jan 18.
I’m an active Green, and have also been working with ANSWER in L.A., where four coalitions, ANSWER included, are also organizing for a mass rally on Jan. 11 in downtown Los Angeles, with tens of thousands expected.
Now, ANSWER is a bit controversial because of, uh, the “lefist sectarian nature” (yeah, that’s it…) of some of their organizers. And Lordy, have I heard stories about what goes on in their meetings.
So, here it is, your worst fears realized - the agenda of a typical ANSWER meeting.
Pledge of Alliegance to Karl Marx
Join hands and sing “God Curse America”.
Mass indoctrination of the kidnapped Republican children into Socialism.
Discussion:
Have we successfully infiltrated and destroyed enough other Leftie groups?
How can we be more radical and less humorous?
Marc Cooper: Twit or double-agent?
How many FBI agents are here and can we spot them?
Saddam Hussein: Saint or merely Perfect Human Being?
Close with a homage to Pol Pot.
At least that’s what some believe happens in ANSWER meetings (ditto for Not In Our Name). Not that they’ve ever actually been to a meeting of course. Well, I’ve been to many ANSWER & NION meetings. The meetings are fun, with no hidden agendas. People from many groups are involved, all working to end this war before it starts. Or should I say “wars”, as the Bushies now appear to be aching to invade North Korea.
These are coalitions. We don’t have to agree with everything all the coalition members believe. Hey, Pat Buchanan opposes the war too. Doesn’t mean I have to agree with all his other views before deigning to work with him. Ideological litmus tests are not required.
So, find a peace group you like, and volunteer!
Corporations as persons [1]. Are…
Bob Morris @ Dec 27th 2002 09:09 - Category: Unfiled ;
Corporations as persons. Are Corporations Legally Persons?
“Orthodoxy has it the Supreme Court decided in 1886, in a case called Santa Clara County v. the Southern Pacific Railroad, that corporations were indeed legal persons. I express that view myself, in a recent book. So do many others. So do many law schools. We are all wrong.
Mr. Hartmann undertook instead a conscientious search. He finally found the contemporary casebook, published in 1886, blew the dust away, and read Santa Clara County in the original, so to speak. Nowhere in the formal, written decision of the Court did he find corporate personhood mentioned. Not a word. The Supreme Court did NOT establish corporate personhood in Santa Clara County.
Pardon me while I go to the bookstore. This looks to be a book well worth reading. Imagine the US government controlled by the best interests of real people instead of corporations.” [MetaFilter]
At least 35 dead in…
Bob Morris @ Dec 27th 2002 09:07 - Category: Unfiled ;
At least 35 dead in Grozny blast.
“Powerful truck bombs rip through <the pro-Russian> Chechen government compound in regional capital Grozny, Russian media reports.” [Guardian Unlimited]
We’re not in Kansas anymore…
Bob Morris @ Dec 27th 2002 00:50 - Category: Unfiled ;
We’re not in Kansas anymore…
Human clone born: Raelians
“A baby has been born through cloning, French scientist and member of the Raelian sect Brigitte Boisselier told AFP.
The baby, a girl, was born Thursday by cesarean section. The birth “went very well,” said Boisselier, president of the human cloning society Clonaid, on the telephone.
As the effort by the Raelians to achieve the first human birth by cloning was carried out in the secrecy, it was not immediately possible to obtain any independent scientific confirmation that the baby was in fact a clone.”
Dolly, the sheep that was cloned, has old DNA and got arthritis sooner than expected.
“The scientists who created Dolly, the world’s first cloned mammal, said Wednesday that the 3-year-old sheep has DNA in her cells typical of a much older animal.
“How old is Dolly the sheep?” mused Dr. Stephen Jones of London’s University College. “Is she as old as her body age … or is she as old as her genes?”
So, hmm, now someone is doing this with humans?
U.S. military interventions from 1890-1999
Bob Morris @ Dec 27th 2002 00:31 - Category: Unfiled ;
U.S. military interventions from 1890-1999
Over 130, in this partial list (PDF). That’s averaging more than one military intervention a year for 110 years. Yow.
Database monitor far from a…
Bob Morris @ Dec 27th 2002 00:29 - Category: Unfiled ;
Database monitor far from a reality
As I’ve been surmising here, the Bushies plan to monitor us is probably unworkable.
“The Pentagon project to find terrorists by searching the electronic records of all Americans, from credit-card transactions to medical files, has alarmed civil libertarians. The idea conjures up images of George Orwell’s all-knowing Big Brother, able to peek into every corner of life, invading the privacy of anyone without check.
But some experts say the real danger is that the Pentagon will create a computerized version of the inept French detective Inspector Clouseau. They say the project, called Total Information Awareness, will point the finger at the wrong people and in the wrong direction. It will make associations that don’t exist, falsely accusing innocent people while letting terrorists go undetected.
“It’s hard to imagine it’s going to work very well,” said Eamonn Keogh, an assistant computer-science professor at the University of California-Riverside. “It’s an extraordinarily ambitious thing.”
There’s a pattern here. The U.S. government really goes for what I call the Omnipotent Eye in the Sky approach, which is their attempt to monitor and control by use of superior technology with an all-seeing eye, and little or no actual humans on the ground. You see this approach in Total Information Awareness wanting to know everything we buy or do and also in warfare with the use of carpet bombing and unmanned drones.
Our lack of sufficient intel on the ground in Afghanistan allowed bin Laden to leave unnoticed by our Eye in the Sky. Technology clearly, can’t do it all.
