On the brink
Bob Morris @ Nov 30th 2004 09:03 - Category: Unfiled ;
Archive for November 30th, 2004
Kerry could fight, but won’t
Bob Morris @ Nov 30th 2004 08:58 - Category: Unfiled ;
Kerry apparently thinks that Al Gore’s mistake in 2000 was fighting for the recount in Florida, and if Gore hadn’t have done it, he would have been a viable candidate in 2004. So he has sat back, letting the Green and Libertarian Parties do the heavy lifting, not expressing more than the faintest hope that a recount in Ohio will change the result.
Kerry, who is worth over 700 million, is an insider and member of the power elite. He will never seriously challenge the system on anything. To do so would mean doors would close for him, and he would become a traitor to his class. Goodness, exclusive country clubs wouldn’t want a rogue Brahmin as a member, now would they?
Kerry and Bush are both ruling class with many shared interests. Thus, Kerry had little to attack Bush about.
Pentagon uncovers propaganda failures
Bob Morris @ Nov 30th 2004 08:37 - Category: Unfiled ;
Al-Qaeda and radical Islamists are winning the propaganda war against the United States, says a high-level Pentagon panel, which concluded that President George W Bush’s administration’s policies in the Middle East, its fundamental failure to understand the Muslim world and a lack of imagination in using new communications technologies are responsible.
The Bushies don’t want to understand the Muslim world. Rather they wish only to dictate terms to it. But their arrogance and blindness is backfiring, as those who were friends become become opponents and the US increasingly is without allies.
Starbucks grounds for gardens
Bob Morris @ Nov 30th 2004 08:35 - Category: Unfiled ;
Coffee grounds make great fertilizer for plants that need nitrogen. Just mix it in the soil. You can also use coffee grounds for composting.
Starbucks has a “Grounds for your Garden” program and gives away coffee grounds for free to anyone who asks.
The first Starbucks I tried already had someone who was taking all their coffee grounds! The next store gave me several pounds sealed in a special bag.
They save money on trash hauling, people get free fertilizer and composting material, and what would have been hauled to a trash dump is recycled - a good deal for all.
Coffee grounds make up 17 percent of Starbucks’ store waste by volume or 40 percent by weight.
The company has not calculated how much it saves on its trash bill through the program, but says it keeps about 25 percent of its grounds out of landfills.
The cunning criminal mind
Bob Morris @ Nov 30th 2004 08:33 - Category: Unfiled ;
A man who robbed a bank by handing a teller a note demanding money written on one of his own checks was sentenced to 11 to 23 months in Cumberland County Prison.
