We are not with you and we don’t believe you “The message from Moscow
Tony Blair’s first public attempt to heal the diplomatic wounds of the Iraq war suffered a humiliating rebuff yesterday when Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, refused to lift UN sanctions and mocked the possibility that weapons of mass destruction existed in Iraq.
Mr [...]
Winning their hearts and minds, eh?
“U.S. kills 15 Iraqis during an anti-American rallyUnited States soldiers shot and killed 15 people at an anti-American rally late Monday, hospital officials said today. Iraqis said the soldiers opened fire, unprovoked, while the Americans — who were positioned in a school — said they were fired on first and [...]
Dems to filibuster Owens
“Be still my beating heart, the Dems are going to filibuster another Bush judicial nominee — the odious Priscilla Owen!”
Yet another sign of incipient vertebrae growing on Democrats. Excellent. They may yet be developing a workable spine.
Saddam Hussein will make statement in three days
“Deposed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein will make a statement to the people of Iraq in three days, Agence France-Presse cited the London-based Arabic language al-Quds newspaper as saying”.
Heck, I’m hoping for a joint televised announcement by Saddam and bin Laden. Mostly because then the “reporters” on Fox News [...]
Outsider Ramsey Clark makes a difference
The L.A. Times printed my letter, and others, today responding to their Saturday article about Ramsey Clark, which trivialized him as an ineffective outsider.
Re “He’s the Ultimate Outsider,” April 26: Ramsey Clark has hardly “forfeited a last chance to make a difference.”In 1991, after Gulf War I, he founded the International Action [...]
How the road to war was paved with lies
“Intelligence agencies accuse Bush and Blair of distorting and fabricating evidence in rush to war
The case for invading Iraq to remove its weapons of mass destruction was based on selective use of intelligence, exaggeration, use of sources known to be discredited and outright fabrication, The Independent on [...]
Massachusetts to legalize gay marriage?
“In just a few months, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts is likely to legalize gay marriage, thus setting off a titanic national struggle. (See my piece, “The Coming Battle.”) Yet neither the Democrats nor the Republicans have any inkling of what is about to hit them.
Once Massachusetts legalizes gay marriage, [...]
National ANSWER conference
We in ANSWER LA are having a regional conference on May 10, The following weekend, May 17-18, there will be a two day national conference in NYC, which I may go to.
It’s billed as the National Conference Against War, Colonial Occupation And Imperialism, with major speakers, workshops, etc.
The colossal colon is on tour!
Dave Barry explains all. This is NOT satire, the colossal colon is real!
Bush approval rating slipping
Even Fox News says so
Stop Sars, or else, warns flu expert
“SARS could become as widespread as flu viruses unless action is taken to destroy it now, a leading Welsh disease expert warned last night.
Professor Ron Eccles of Cardiff University’s Common Cold Centre warned that unless Sars is brought under control now it could become endemic.
He warned that any treatment [...]
Waiter, more perchlorate salad dressing, please!
”A laboratory test of 22 types of lettuce purchased at Northern California supermarkets found that four were contaminated with perchlorate, a toxic rocket-fuel ingredient that has polluted the Colorado River, the source of the water used to grow most of the nation’s winter vegetables.”
Well that’s just great… However, “Sen. Barbara [...]
Hey!
Wasn’t Iraq supposed to have weapons of mass destruction (WMD)? Wasn’t that why we invaded?? So, why haven’t we found any?
Rather than answers, there is only chaos:
“Sources inside the Bush administration described the hunt for weapons as beset by infighting and potentially disastrous delays, and suggested that stocks of chemical and biological agents themselves might [...]
Argentina’s occupied factories
Brukman is a factory in Argentina that has been occupied and successfully run by workers after owners abandoned it. The government is forcibly trying to take it back for the owners. There has been major violence, and thousands have demonstrated against the government. In a truly chilling phrase, the federal judge who wrote [...]
Stupid cat tricks
Miss Monica reports on a Sunset magazine letters to editor:
“I saw your tip about using a pan of beer to kill slugs (”Let Snails Die Happy,” January, page 12). This has worked great for us over the years, except recently we found our new neighbor’s cat drank it. We worried about the effect [...]
