Day July 6, 2004

It’s official

It’s official Army stage-managed fall of Hussein statue It was a quick-thinking Army psychological operations team that made it appear to be a spontaneous Iraqi undertaking. “Spontaneous” to Americans, maybe. In the movie, “Control Room”, an Al-Jazeera reporter watching the…

Japan, we are awed

Japan, we are awed Takeru Kobayashi won the Coney Island hot dog eating contest for the fourth time, gulping down, 53 1/2 hot dogs in 12 minutes. He weights 132 lbs. That’s one hot dog every 13.5 seconds for 12…

Greens drinking the Kool-Aid?

Greens drinking the Kool-Aid? Reader David Raffin from Vision-nary responds to CounterPunch saying “David Cobb is the Jim Jones of the Green Party. Form a line and pass the Kool-Aid.” (The following descriptions of Green decision-making process are, um, not…

Miami Herald: Thousands of eligible…

Miami Herald: Thousands of eligible voters are on felon list More than 2,100 Florida voters — many of them black Democrats — could be wrongly barred from voting in November because Tallahassee elections officials included them on a list of…