Good
Bob Morris @ May 3rd 2005 12:46 - Category: Unfiled ;
Florida girl’s abortion allowed.
The Florida authorities admit defeat in a legal battle to stop a 13-year-old girl having an abortion.
Archive for May 3rd, 2005
Italy rejects U.S. report on shooting
Bob Morris @ May 3rd 2005 08:22 - Category: Unfiled ;
Italy has issued a strongly worded rebuttal to a U.S. report clearing U.S. soldiers of responsibility for the shooting death of an Italian intelligence agent at a roadblock in Iraq. “Inexperience and stress” on the part of the soldiers were major reasons for the agent’s death, the Italian report said.
The Pentagon and the Bushies of course never apologize or accept blame for anything.
Just say no to prison jobs, architect urges colleagues
Bob Morris @ May 3rd 2005 08:20 - Category: Unfiled ;
He says ethics demand jail-design boycott
“Prisons are so often associated with their buildings, so I thought this would be a way for architects to connect the issue with their work, with something they could do about it”
Psychos
Bob Morris @ May 3rd 2005 08:19 - Category: Unfiled ;
Prisoners abused for ‘amusement’
A clique of US soldiers tormented Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib prison for “amusement,” not for any authorized military mission, Pfc. Lynndie England testified Monday as she pleaded guilty to seven abuse-related charges.
Thus, Lynndie fell on her sword and said higher-ups were not responsible.
Fat bigots
Bob Morris @ May 3rd 2005 08:14 - Category: Unfiled ;
From Sue to The Daily News
[Insert slur against more easily vilified group here]
Your article dated May 2nd, “Childhood Obesity Bills to Sink State?”, could easily qualify as hate speech by merely substituting in the place of “overweight adults,” something more insufferable to a sensitized readership.
For example:
“California’s [stupid lazy Mexican children] epidemic threatens to saddle the state’s taxpayers with astronomical medical bills from a generation [of stupid lazy Mexicans] that will spend more time in the hospital and less time at work than any before, health experts warn.
Already, California’s [stupid lazy Mexicans] cost the state an estimated $28 billion, up an alarming 30 percent from 2000.
“California’s going to fall apart,” said Dr. Naomi Neufeld, a [skinny non-Mexican workaholic], and founder and executive director of Angloanorexics, a weight management program for adult and child [stupid lazy Mexicans] in Los Angeles.
Etcetera.
Your article is sadly prejudiced. Since prejudice stems from ignorance, please be informed that recent studies have also shown that:
(a) much of the ill effect of overweight comes from yo-yo dieting in response to societal phobia against weight;
(b) prejudicial medical treatment and harassment causes fat people to avoid health care professionals except in extreme medical emergencies – indeed, one study suggested that the higher rates of certain “female” cancers in fat women may be due to these women not getting adequate preventive care;
(c) social stigma persuades the overweight to avoid participating in physical activity that would lead to greater fitness; and, finally,
(d) a report dated April 19th from the CDC indicates that people who are modestly overweight have a lower risk of death than those of normal weight.
For the clueless
Bob Morris @ May 3rd 2005 08:08 - Category: Unfiled ;
I wasn’t going to even bother writing about this, but I got too many e-mails from people.
We all know that masking over the text of a PDF document doesn’t actually erase the underlying text, right?
Don’t we?
Italian media have published classified sections of an official US military inquiry into the accidental killing of an Italian agent in Baghdad.
A Greek medical student at Bologna University who was surfing the web early on Sunday found that with two simple clicks of his computer mouse he could restore censored portions of the report.
