Bob Morris @ Nov 1st 2003 09:16 - Category: Unfiled ;
Sunday in L.A. was 102 and cloudless, Friday was 56 and raining
Los Angeles celebrated the return of autumnal rains in the traditional manner by gridlocking the entire freeway system and having as many traffic accidents as possible. Even normally blase radio traffic reports were saying, folks, all the freeways are a mess and surface streets too.
One can only ponder what the mudslide season will bring.
Bob Morris @ Nov 1st 2003 09:14 - Category: Unfiled ;
Bob Morris @ Nov 1st 2003 09:09 - Category: Unfiled ;
Baghdad braced for further violence
Warnings of a day of “resistance” action have raised tensions in Baghdad, six months after President Bush declared major hostilities over.
Calls to Jihad are said to lure hundreds of militants into Iraq
Across Europe and the Middle East, young militant Muslim men are answering a call issued by Osama bin Laden and other extremists, and leaving home to join the fight against the American-led occupation in Iraq, according to senior counterterrorism officials based in six countries.
The intelligence officials say that since late summer they have detected a growing stream of itinerant Muslim militants headed for Iraq. They estimate that hundreds of young men from an array of countries have now arrived in Iraq by crossing the Syrian or Iranian borders.
Among those already in Iraq are almost certainly veterans from the Afghanistan war, those moujahadim originally trained and armed by the US to fight the Russians (No, my enemies enemy is NOT always my friend!). Many of them fought for ten years there and thus have more combat experience than virtually anyone in the US military. Even people who detest them say they are battled-hardened veterans with serious skills.
Bob Morris @ Nov 1st 2003 08:56 - Category: Unfiled ;
Was the blood in the water real?
Recent photos of dolphins being slaughtered by Japanese fishing crews showed the water bright red with blood. This photo may have been, um, enhanced, for effect.
Is The Blood Red Water For Real? A discussion on egullet, of all places, suggests at least one of these shocking pictures has been retouched.
A more interesting question is: is it OK to “enhance” real evidence, if the salient facts are true? Or even, more radically, if the cause is just and dedicated to save lives or relieve suffering?
Only if you tell them. Otherwise it’s the same as making up a news story then reporting it as truth.
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