Bob Morris @ Dec 2nd 2003 14:04 - Category: Unfiled ;
In this crazy world, we can always count on Dubya to do the wrong thing!
White House wavering on steel tariffs?
The issue is apparently not dead. The backlash to Monday’s announcement that Bush would rescind protective tariffs for the US steel industry was immediate, and now the White House seems to be backpedaling.
Bob Morris @ Dec 2nd 2003 09:11 - Category: Unfiled ;
Diebold blinks, retreats
Diebold is facing threats on two fronts as free-speech advocates pursue monetary damages against it and a presidential candidate urges a congressional inquiry into the company.
A major supplier of touch-screen voting machines has agreed not to sue activists and others who posted leaked documents on the Internet about alleged security shortcomings surrounding electronic voting.
Diebold made the promise in a conference call Monday with a federal judge and attorneys from the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a group concerned about civil liberties in digital technology.
Bob Morris @ Dec 2nd 2003 09:08 - Category: Unfiled ;
Liberal talk radio
A Democratic investment group planning to start a liberal radio network to counterbalance conservative radio hosts like Rush Limbaugh says it is close to buying radio stations in five major cities.
Executives with the newly formed company, Progress Media, said late last week that if all went as planned they would have the network running by early spring, in time to be part of the public dialogue during the presidential campaign season.
He said Progress Media was pursuing a deal to give the comedian Al Franken a daily talk show.
Bob Morris @ Dec 2nd 2003 00:13 - Category: Unfiled ;
Iraq. The U.N. is no solution
Should the United Nations replace the U.S. in Iraq? Could this be a solution to the increasingly untenable situation the Bushies have gotten us into?
No. First off, this ignores the damage the Bush Administration has done in Iraq. Well golly yes it is a mess there, but I’m sure the U.N. will make everything better, goes the reasoning, yet this view brushes off responsibility the U.S. has, and should be accountable for.
Second, an United Nations occupying army is still an occupying army. People in Iraq will still resist it. To say this would somehow be better because U.S. troops wouldn’t be getting killed, is to ignore that troops of other countries would be getting killed.
Third, U.N. forces in Iraq would run the country. This is no better than the current situation where the U.S. runs the country. Iraqis should run their country without interference from any outside power.
Fourth, believing an U.N. force in Iraq would be free of U.S. control is naive. The U.S. under Bush will not permit any one else to control Iraq and will veto any attempts to do so.
Replacing one occupying army with another army in Iraq solves nothing. And endorsing such an idea is supporting war and occupation.
Bob Morris @ Dec 2nd 2003 00:11 - Category: Unfiled ;
From Baghdad Burning
The most amusing thing about <George Bush’s visit to Iraq> visit was watching Chalabi and Talabani jumping up and down at the airport, cheering and clapping as Bush made the rounds. Muwafaq Al-Rubai’i, also a member of the Governing Council, was just embarrassing- he was standing on tiptoe and clapping like a 5-year-old watching a circus clown.
Later, he gushed about how happy the Iraqis were and how delighted the whole country was going to be, like he would know, almost as inaccessible to Iraqis as Bush himself is.
Bob Morris @ Dec 2nd 2003 00:04 - Category: Unfiled ;
Show us the bodies
US military officals raised their death count from a skirmish in Samarra from 46 to 54.
The BBC is reporting Iraqis are disputing this figure, stating that at maximum 8 or 9 civilians were killed.
Civilians. Not combatants.
Bob Morris @ Dec 2nd 2003 00:03 - Category: Unfiled ;
There was a time when business leaders were respected
The Boeing Company, its reputation tarnished by charges of ethical misconduct and its share of the aircraft market falling, said yesterday that its chief executive, Philip M. Condit, had resigned.
Bob Morris @ Dec 2nd 2003 00:02 - Category: Unfiled ;
Worthy of respect. Joey Ramone Place is now official!
After two years of talks, Joey Ramone Place is now a reality.
The mood was both sombre and festive as hundreds of people gathered Sunday afternoon on the corner of Bowery and Second Street in New York, where the corner was officially renamed Joey Ramone Place in honour of the deceased lead singer of revered punk band the Ramones.
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