Bob Morris @ Aug 8th 2005 09:05 - Category: Unfiled ;
California’s fleet of state-owned vehicles swelled to 70,000 last year, but officials in an aggressive new asset-management push have so far been able to pinpoint only about 40,000.
Un-freaking-believable. How can you misplace 30,000 cars?
Bob Morris @ Aug 8th 2005 08:56 - Category: Unfiled ;
Robin Cook, who died on Saturday, was one of the most principled and eloquent politicians of our time. Here, in a column he wrote for ‘The Independent’ in March last year, he holds the Government to account for its war on Saddam. His strikingly prescient words are more relevant than ever.
We would have made more progress against terrorism if we had brought peace to Palestine rather than war to Iraq.
True enough. Yet this implies the West should and must intervene everywhere, and that’s still being part of the problem, and not the solution. Imperialism done for a stated purpose of peace is still imperialism, still imposing your will on others, still nearly guaranteed to produce blowback and resentment.
Had the West not propped up Israel financially and militarily for decades because they wanted a friendly state in the region, while doing nothing as Palestinians suffered, perhaps they might be able to help bring peace. But it’s far too late for any of that. And arrogance to believe otherwise.
Bob Morris @ Aug 8th 2005 08:28 - Category: Unfiled ;
Diogenes of Sinope “walked throughout Athens carrying a lantern in daylight, searching for an honest man.”
Berkshire Hathaway faces worldwide regulatory probe
Berkshire Hathaway, the world’s greatest investment company, led by billionaire Warren Buffett, is facing probes by regulators in the UK, Ireland, Germany and Australia, as well as the US, according to notes in a regulatory filing.
For Warren Buffett’s companies to be embroiled in such worldwide fraud probes is quite extraordinary, given his reputation for probity. The investigations focus on, you guessed it, whether or not they just made up the financial numbers.
Schwarzenegger’s conflicts of interest
But while a recent controversy over an $8 million deal Schwarzenegger had with a bodybuilding magazine may have been resolved, critics say many of Schwarzeneggers’ investments and sources of income continue to represent a potential minefield of conflicts of interest.
And a Santa Monica-based watchdog group is alleging that Schwarzenegger has acted in favor of 10 bills supported by six different companies with which he has a financial relationship.
The deeply clueless Arnold continues to do stupid stuff that any seasoned politician would have the sense not to do, or if they did, would not make it so public and obvious.
Bob Morris @ Aug 8th 2005 08:26 - Category: Unfiled ;
Dramatic scenarios from man-made global warming can no longer be excluded, including the complete disappearance of glaciers from entire mountain ranges, leading to processes “without precedent in the history of the earth,” according to the latest update of a five-yearly United Nations-supported report.
The response from the Bushies is … crickets.
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