Expect massive retaliation
Bob Morris @ Aug 29th 2003 15:05 - Category: Unfiled ;
Expect massive retaliation
Iraq holy city blast kills scores
Iraq’s top Shia Muslim politician is among about 80 people killed by a car bomb at a shrine in Najaf
Archive for August 29th, 2003
Your Health Tip for the…
Bob Morris @ Aug 29th 2003 00:33 - Category: Unfiled ;
Supersize that fatwa please!
Bob Morris @ Aug 29th 2003 00:29 - Category: Unfiled ;
Supersize that fatwa please!
From Muslim Wake Up
What do the Saudi monarchy and their Wahhabi cohorts have in common with McDonald’s (besides the sad fact that women and men have to order from separate sections at Saudi Mickey D’s–the women’s line is always shorter)? See Adam Misbah’ul Haqq’s “Fast-Food-Islam: How Wahhabism Feeds Our Intellectual Retardation”
Grand Theft America
Bob Morris @ Aug 29th 2003 00:27 - Category: Unfiled ;
Grand Theft America
How Katherine Harris stole Florida election, and the Presidency for Bush. All in a powerful two minute Flash animation. Check it out, and circulate widely.
Guess who’s pushing for touchscreen…
Bob Morris @ Aug 29th 2003 00:26 - Category: Unfiled ;
Guess who’s pushing for touchscreen voting machines?
“Northrop-Grumman, Lockheed-Martin, EDS and Accenture”, that’s who. You may know Accenture by their previous name, Andersen Consulting. Yes, that Andersen. This is not making me feel warm and fuzzy.
They just had a meeting, one member said
We were too subtle by half. Our #4 goal, “develop liaisons with key constituencies” is a nice word for lobbying. We just didn’t want a document floating around saying the election industry is in trouble, so they decided to put together a lobbying campaign“
Oh heck, let’s not actually FIX any of the problems, just grease a few palms in D.C. instead.
Cruz goes populist!
Bob Morris @ Aug 29th 2003 00:24 - Category: Unfiled ;
Cruz goes populist!
Bustamante blasts oil companies
He is now supporting a “state constitutional amendment to regulate the price of gasoline”
Which, since regular gas is now $2.12 a gallon in L.A., ain’t a bad idea at all, as the right for the public to have fairly priced commodities supercedes the right for corporations to make money.
Workers comp in California
Bob Morris @ Aug 29th 2003 00:23 - Category: Unfiled ;
Workers comp in California
Total premiums paid statewide have risen from around $9 billion in 1995 to about $29 billion this year, even though the system is treating fewer workers then it was eight years ago.
Rates spiked 8 percent in July and could rise another 20 percent by the end of the year
A friend last night was foaming-at-the-mouth angry about workers comp prices here in California. It got so expensive he shut his contracting business down, “and now 90 people don’t have a job”. This is a not uncommon story.
Workers comp is paid by employers. It costs more in California than anywhere else. For clerical workers, employers pay 1.5% of their gross pay, for teachers, about 8% - which is already getting hefty. For a job where serious injury might reasonably occur, like roofers, the rates are much higher.
Who’s to blame? Take a card, any card. Greedy insurance companies and lawyers? Chiseling malingering workers? A comatose state regulatory agency with way too many rules and not enough brains? Employers trying to blame their problems on something else?
But it’s more than just a few broken parts, the problems are structural, the whole system is dysfunctional and no one know how to fix it.
Dean Takes Lead in Iowa…
Bob Morris @ Aug 29th 2003 00:20 - Category: Unfiled ;
Dean Takes Lead in Iowa Poll
Coming fresh on the “stunning” lead revealed in the latest Zogby poll of New Hampshire voters, Des Moines television station KCCI today released a new poll showing Howard Dean leading in Iowa. The numbers, with June’s results in parenthesis:
Dean 25 (11)
Gephardt 21 (27)
Kerry 16 (14)
Lieberman 12 (10)
Edwards 6 (4)
The Right is getting scared…
Bob Morris @ Aug 29th 2003 00:18 - Category: Unfiled ;
The Right is getting scared of Dean
Larry Kudlow, from the National Review Online, has posted an all out attack on Howard Dean, advising the Bush Administration to “take out the long knives” and kill his candidacy.
Indeed, they have good reason to be scared of Dean…
