Bob Morris @ Apr 13th 2005 08:58 - Category: Unfiled ;
The federal government indicted 15 current and former New York Stock Exchange traders Tuesday for allegedly cheating investors, and penalized the exchange itself for failing to crack down on the alleged wrongdoing.
Pigs at the trough.
Bob Morris @ Apr 13th 2005 00:15 - Category: Podcasts ;
Dave Winer will also be a keynote speaker at Gnomedex along with Adam Curry. The focus is podcasting, the max number of people is 300, and it looks to be one amazing conference. I signed up last month. Wheee.
(Winer and Curry created podcasting, Winer also invented blogs. Seriously!)
Bob Morris @ Apr 13th 2005 00:13 - Category: Unfiled ;
Some Cardinals are calling for John Paul to be canonized. Why so soon?
The movement for canonization may be tied to pre-conclave maneuvering. According to this interpretation, it is an effort to build a consensus of like-minded cardinals, or even to position one of John Paul’s inner circle as the best successor. The theory is that only someone of great weight, like a Cardinal Ratzinger or Cardinal Ruini, someone close to the pope or his thinking, could follow a man of such spiritual magnitude.
Uh huh. Sounds like Cardinal “No One Expects the Spanish Inquisition” Ratzinger wants to be Pope or at least be kingmaker in choosing the Pope.
Update: Ratzinger said gaining papal elector favor
Support for German Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger appears to be building ahead of the conclave to select a new pope, Italian newspapers reported Wednesday
Bob Morris @ Apr 13th 2005 00:10 - Category: Unfiled ;
Luis Posada Carriles, a CIA-trained Cuban exile implicated in a series of terrorist incidents, applied for political asylum in the United States yesterday, prompting at least one congressman to assert that granting the request would undermine the nation’s credibility in the war on terrorism.
Posada has been linked through the years with the bombing of a Cuban civilian airliner that killed 73 people; bombings in Cuban tourist hotels that killed an Italian tourist and injured 11 other people; and a 2000 plot to assassinate Castro in Panama.
Posada has bragged about blowing up that airliner, which had completely innocent people on board. Yet the loony right here in the US greets him as a hero and wants to give him amnesty. All of which makes a complete mockery of the supposed US fight against terrorism.
Bob Morris @ Apr 13th 2005 00:07 - Category: Unfiled ;
High gas prices, long waits bring used Prius prices above list price of a new model, study says.
I have a 2001 Prius, 46 mpg in LA traffic. Long live hybrids!
And in other signs of the times, gas is averaging $2.59 for self serve regular and I just saw a new growth business - a car lot selling repossessed cars, and many of them were SUV’s.
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