Bob Morris @ Sep 13th 2005 08:32 - Category: Unfiled ;
The new head of FEMA is the bozo who advised Americans to protect themselves against biological attack by using duct tape.
Mr Paulison was the official who urged Americans to stock up on duct tape and plastic sheeting in 2003 to protect against a biological or chemical attack, a recommendation widely ridiculed.
They are becoming almost comical in their ineptness. Except that their blunders mean that innocents die.
Bob Morris @ Sep 13th 2005 08:31 - Category: Unfiled ;
Dead Prez and KRS-One were set to headline a concert in LA to raise money for Katrina evacuees. LAPD shut it down for no reason, no reason at all, except to intimidate.
Bob Morris @ Sep 13th 2005 08:30 - Category: Unfiled ;
Here’s what Sue did yesterday while trapped in the elevator during the power outage.
(She posted it on the John Heron Project bulletin board, a fine literary site hosted by our pal Wood in Wales.)
Bob Morris @ Sep 13th 2005 08:28 - Category: Unfiled ;
A jury convicted two men of murder on Monday but deadlocked on the fate of a third man in the retrial of three defendants charged with killing a 17-year-old transgender teenager in October 2002.
The two - Michael W. Magidson and Jose A. Merel, both 25 - were found guilty of second-degree murder for the death of Gwen Araujo, who was born as a male named Eddie Araujo Jr., but who frequently wore women’s clothing and lived as a woman.
This NY Times refers to the murder victim throughout the article as “she.” This is as it should be. Because that’s who she was.
Bob Morris @ Sep 13th 2005 08:27 - Category: Unfiled ;
Last year, Ray Davies of the Kinks was shot while in New Orleans. He wrote this for the Times of London.
During my initial week-long stay in hospital and lengthy recuperation, I observed first-hand the bankruptcy of the New Orleans health system. Several doctors who treated me actually apologised for the low standard of healthcare in Louisiana. Even so, they gave me the best of what they did have, for which I am grateful.
I have just looked through some notes in the diary I made after I was operated on and one seems chillingly relevant. “How can the USA be expected to look after the whole world when it cannot even look after its own?” So it doesn’t surprise me to see the world reacting with shock to the “Third World” conditions in New Orleans “in this, the richest and most powerful country in the world.” I could have told them that.
But the reality is that without its music New Orleans would have been a forgotten city long ago. The music of the American South inspired me and helped to shape me as a musician. They say that jazz started on Perdido Street in New Orleans and even Louis Armstrong honed his trade in the honky-tonks on Bourbon Street.
I owe as much to music of the Southern states as I do to the British music that inspired me. If New Orleans is allowed to die, a crucial part of the world’s musical heritage will disappear.
When I left last year I forgot to put the padlock on my bike. Whoever took it, I pray that they get to ride it around the French Quarter again soon.
Bob Morris @ Sep 13th 2005 08:26 - Category: Unfiled ;
The world’s 500 richest people have a combined income greater than that of the poorest 416 million,
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