Yeah, but can he play video games?
Bob Morris @ Dec 23rd 2004 10:02 - Category: Unfiled ;
Archive for December 23rd, 2004
Dems "rethinking" abortion
Bob Morris @ Dec 23rd 2004 10:01 - Category: Unfiled ;
That’s right, the Democratic leadership is “locked in an internal struggle over whether to redefine its position” on abortion “to appeal to a broader array of voters.”
This from the same great minds who have been “reaching for the middle” for a decade now, spitting in the face of their traditional constituencies of labor, minorities, and the poor, with the predictable result that they’ve lost control of both houses and the presidency, since they stand for nothing and will fight for even less.
Cannon fodder
Bob Morris @ Dec 23rd 2004 10:00 - Category: Unfiled ;
Reports of non-existent training before been shipped to Iraq continue to circulate, this time from Ft. Bliss, which sonds like it is anything but that.
The soldiers said in interviews, e-mails and official documents that they were sent to war this year with chronic illness, broken guns and trucks with blown transmissions.
The unit’s M-60 machine guns reportedly were in such bad condition when the soldiers deployed in February that one sergeant — in a section of a post-training summary sent to his commanders that was titled “gun maintenance” — wrote: “Perhaps we should throw stones?”
In the summary document obtained by the Los Angeles Times, the sergeant reported that some soldiers had arrived in Iraq without ever having fired some of the weapons they would use in war.
This would be comical, were it not so tragic. In the meantime, “Rumsfeld tells media he feels grief ‘to my core’” but has still yet to apologize for his callous previous refusal to sign death notifications or for mocking troops who asked for better equipment.
Nepal is teetering
Bob Morris @ Dec 23rd 2004 09:56 - Category: Unfiled ;
Nepal rebels block main roads.
The Nepalese capital, Kathmandu, has been virtually cut off from the rest of the country after Maoists warned drivers to stay off the roads.
Son Seals, 1942-2004
Bob Morris @ Dec 23rd 2004 09:41 - Category: Unfiled ;
Tough, raw style led ’70s blues revival
A musical icon and international symbol of the new generation of Chicago blues, Seals, 62, died of complications from diabetes Monday in a Richton Park nursing home.
Had there not been Chicago Blues, there never would have been the Rolling Stones, Yardbirds, Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Aerosmith, etc. The foundation of rock and roll was, and is, the blues.
As Willie Dixon said, “the blues is the root, everything else is the fruit.” And Son Seals was in the pantheon of the greats.
