Bob Morris @ May 31st 2004 16:04 - Category: Unfiled ;
Arlington West, Santa Monica
Once a week, Veterans for Peace quietly displays on
Santa Monica Beach by the pier, hand-crafted crosses with the names of
US soldiers killed in Iraq. The name, rank, and age of the dead are
read. Today, there were 810 names. Among those present were soldiers about to ship to Iraq. (Photos taken with a cell phone)
Pfc. Timmy R. Brown, 21
Bob Morris @ May 31st 2004 00:15 - Category: Unfiled ;
Gen. Dimwit says “Iraqis will forgive jail abuse”
The people of Iraq will forgive US-led occupying forces for the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, according to a senior coalition spokesman.
Brig Gen Mark Kimmitt told the BBC’s Talking Point programme that the photos of abuse by US soldiers at the Baghdad jail were not representative.
Maybe someone should tell Gen. Dimwit that forgiveness is not something those requiring forgiveness should arrogantly order their victims to produce - and that, if and when forgiveness comes, it should be accepted humbly with apologies given.
“Why, oh why, do they hate us?”
Bob Morris @ May 31st 2004 00:11 - Category: Unfiled ;
Blogrolls
Blogrolls are the lists of websites that weblogs post, usually on their home page. However, I’ve moved the PoliZeros blogrolls to their own page.
Why? Mainly because the site that hosts my blogrolls, the excellent blogrolling.com, sometimes has network problems. When they do, Internet Explorer takes forever to load the page. Thus, to insure the home page always loads fast, I’ve moved the blogrolls to their own page.
Once I did, I realized it’s easier to use, no scrolling back and forth to view links, plus many more links can now be listed. Check it out!
PS The error does not occur with Mozilla and Firefox browsers which apparently are smart enough to ignore javascript links that don’t run and load the rest of the page anyway, while Internet Explorer will not load any part of the page when this happens. Bad Microsoft, bad bad bad.
Bob Morris @ May 31st 2004 00:08 - Category: Unfiled ;
Catholic gay activists denied communion in Chicago
Priests denied Holy Communion on Sunday to a group of rainbow sash-wearing gay activists who showed up to protest a directive from Chicago’s prelate that they violated church teachings by advertising their homosexuality.
This from men who routinely dress in gowns, often brightly colored, wear huge garish rings, and refer to themselves as Brides of Christ.
Bob Morris @ May 31st 2004 00:07 - Category: Unfiled ;
Bob Morris @ May 31st 2004 00:06 - Category: Unfiled ;
Bob Morris @ May 31st 2004 00:06 - Category: Unfiled ;
The kingdom is crumbling. Pt. 2
The country may be deeply divided about President Bush, but even his harshest critics used to offer their grudging admiration of one of the greatest talents of this White House: its extraordinary discipline and message control.
For months now, the same administration whose members once prided themselves on never contradicting one another in public has been riven by conflicting pronouncements. Senior officials keep missing opportunities to keep their signals straight, prompting cases of vicious backbiting that one senior member of Mr. Bush’s national security staff said with disgust the other day “make us sound like Democrats.”
Um, if they were more “like Democrats”, probably none of this would have happened, because I doubt any Democrat would be have been extremist enough to invade two countries within a year or so.
The applause is fading; it’s time to change the Iraq script
We have come to a delicate moment in an absorbing drama. The actors seem unsure of their roles. The audience is becoming restless with the confusion on stage. But the scriptwriters keep trying to convince the crowd that the ending they imagined can still, somehow, come to pass.
The authors stick to their plotline even as its plausibility melts away, and why not? For months the audience kept applauding; many of the reviewers were admiring, while many others kept quiet.
No more. Senior military officers, government officials, diplomats and others working in Iraq, commentators, experts and analysts have all joined a chorus of doubters that is large and growing. And the applause - in this case, public approval as measured in polls - is fading. Already, some of the authors’ friends are grabbing them by their rhetorical lapels. “Failures are multiplying,” wrote George Will, the conservative columnist, yet “no one seems accountable.”
Here’s a perfect example of how the Bushies have lost it
Chalabi story spins out of control
I don’t think anyone knows what’s going on in Iraq right now. Seeing the Forest isn’t normally an up to the minute newsblog, but this is getting so weird that I can’t help myself.
From Seeing the Forest
Nobody really knows who ordered the raids on Chalabi. No one really knows who chose Chalabi’s cousin Allawi to be head of state, either. Don’t ask me.
They then list links to multiple contradictory stories about Chalabi.
My take: The neocons put Chalab in power, and now that events have spun far out of their control,, they want someone to blame stuff on.
Bob Morris @ May 31st 2004 00:02 - Category: Unfiled ;
Latest terrorist attack increases doubts about ability of Saudi Arabia to pump more oil
“The attack was orchestrated to display that the royal family cannot maintain security in the heart of its own oil patch, and in that sense they succeeded,” said Jean-François Seznec, an authority on Saudi Arabia and a professor at Columbia University.
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