Bob Morris @ Aug 6th 2005 10:22 - Category: Unfiled ;
Time Magazine photo essay on Hiroshima
Nagasaki photos. The photographer
The U.S. is the only country to have used nuclear weapons on civilians.
U.S. interventions - 1890-1999 (PDF). A partial list of over 130 invasions and military actions against other countries.
Bob Morris @ Aug 6th 2005 10:19 - Category: Unfiled ;
California Army National Guard troops charged unauthorized, off-the-books “rent” to Iraqi-owned businesses inside Baghdad’s Green Zone in Iraq to raise money for a “soldier’s fund,” military officials and sources within the troops’ battalion said Friday.
Army officials say the total amount was $4,000, but troops in the battalion have said the scheme raised more than $30,000.
Several soldiers have called the rental arrangement “extortion,” but Army officials insist that the word is not an accurate description of the relationship between the soldiers and the vendors.
Sure sounds like extortion to me. US troops as Mafia. “Why do they hate us, oh why do they hate us?”
Bob Morris @ Aug 6th 2005 10:17 - Category: Unfiled ;
Less than two months after giving $10,000 to an initiative campaign committee tied to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, a well-connected private prison company was tentatively awarded a $20 million contract by the state of California to operate a San Joaquin Valley correctional facility.
Arnold has turned out to be one of the most inept politicians in recent history in California. Ham-fisted, oblivious to subtlety, unable to build coalitions and consensus, he just keeps shooting himself in the foot.
Bob Morris @ Aug 6th 2005 09:51 - Category: Unfiled ;
A little bit of spicy chili peppers is all African farmers need to keep hungry elephants from stealing crops.
Meanwhile, in our backyard garden, I’ve got about ten species of hot peppers growing, including the fearsome Habanero, which are just now ripening. And it’s been working, no elephants so far.
Bob Morris @ Aug 6th 2005 09:48 - Category: Unfiled ;
“A quintet of ‘podheads’ in Oklahoma has struck cyber-gold on the Internet with a rock-and-roll song that celebrates podcasts and denigrates terrestrial radio. “On a Podcast” is a light-hearted and profane anthem praising the freedom that artists have to create and distribute their own music over the Net and through file downloads,” Frank Barnako reports for MarketWatch.
“‘I just got introduced to podcasts a month ago,’ said Greg St. Clare, writer of the song and producer of the band known as Cruisebox. ‘When I discovered it, my head freaking exploded because now the gatekeepers, the big radio conglomerates, are out of the way, and artists can take their creative products directly to the listeners.’”
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