Bob Morris @ Dec 20th 2003 09:53 - Category: Unfiled ;
Grocers reject union offer; talks halted
Owners reject major concessions from grocery union. Negotiations won’t resume until next year. Teamsters return to work, ending sympathy strike.
Ouch.
I’m off to a grocery toy and food distribution and rally that we at ANSWER LA organized. We have probably four times more donated food than at our previous rally on Nov. 26. More when I return.
Bob Morris @ Dec 20th 2003 00:13 - Category: Unfiled ;
Seasons Greetings
From Cara Scissoria, greeting card designer extraordinaire.
Bob Morris @ Dec 20th 2003 00:11 - Category: Unfiled ;
Connecticut governor facing corruption allegations says God talks to him
The governor of the strait-laced New England state of Connecticut has rejected calls for his resignation over corruption allegations, saying he is in direct contact with God.
HEY! I grew up in Connecticut, and lemme tell ya pal, my tumultuous youth included a whole lotta deeply non-strait-laced activities… However the current governor of Connecticut, who is up to his eyeballs in corruption allegations, is attempting the time-honored southern televangelist ploy of calling on God to defend him. Well, a) televangelists do this AFTER they’ve admitted wrongdoing and while begging forgiveness - NOT while they’re still denying it, and 2) Southern Baptist forgive-me-Jesus public repenting doesn’t play in New England, trust me on this.
In a performance worthy of a fallen “televangelist” John Rowland, who has admitted accepting favours and gifts from powerful businessmen, defended his position by saying the Almighty had called to him “loud and clear” in his “adversity”.
So he’s saying Jesus told him to take the money?
Governor John Rowland of Connecticut, corrupt Republican extraordinaire, is now being shoved out by members of his own party.
Happy indictment governor, you richly deserve it.
Bob Morris @ Dec 20th 2003 00:08 - Category: Unfiled ;
Merry Christmas, music lovers
A U.S. court has ruled that the recording industry can’t force Internet providers to identify subscribers swapping music online, dramatically setting back the industry’s anti-piracy campaign.
Bob Morris @ Dec 20th 2003 00:07 - Category: Unfiled ;
Pigs at the trough. European division
Europe’s Enron. Parmalat admits $4.9bn black hole.
Parmalat, one of Europe’s biggest food firms, is facing possible bankruptcy after admitting to an enormous black hole in its accounts. Parmalat said that its bank had declared company documents certifying 4bn euros in assets to be false.
Hey Fred, where the Hell did we put that 4.9 billion? Petty cash? The pizza fund??
Analysts at Commerzbank said Parmalat’s announcement had “dropped a bombshell.” “To say that something smells fishy would be the understatement of the year,” they wrote.
Sounds like someone just plain looted the company, eh?
Bob Morris @ Dec 20th 2003 00:04 - Category: Unfiled ;
American gulags
Saddam Hussein is now prisoner No. 1 in what has developed into a global detention system run by the Pentagon and the Central Intelligence Agency, The New York Times reported.
The secretive universe is made up of large and small facilities scattered throughout the world that have sprouted up to handle the hundreds of suspected terrorists of Al Qaeda, Taliban warlords and former officials of the Iraqi government arrested by the United States.
Subscribe
