Bob Morris @ Feb 10th 2006 14:00 - Category: Unfiled ;
How could I make this up?
In the first known swap of a primo sportscaster for a geriatric cartoon critter, Walt Disney Co. is trading ABC’s Al Michaels to NBC for Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.
Bob Morris @ Feb 10th 2006 12:27 - Category: Unfiled ;
The editor of a Norwegian Christian newspaper has apologised to Muslims for publishing cartoons lampooning Prophet Muhammad that triggered a furore including the burning of Norway’s embassy in Syria.
Bob Morris @ Feb 10th 2006 06:53 - Category: Anti-war, Imperialism ;
Ran into a 87 year old man at the health club a few days ago. Overheard parts of his conversation with others but didn’t catch all of it. Later in the locker room he told it to me. He’s probably told the same story thousands of times.
He was a B-17 pilot in WWII, got shot down returning from a bombing run. All ten crew members had to bail out. He suffered a broken leg, parachuted into Germany, and spent 1 1/2 years in prison camp. After being released he learned eight of his crew members didn’t make it. Looking at him tell the story, I could see in his eyes it was like yesterday to him.
I said, “My wife says ‘no one ever really recovers from war’.” He looked a bit startled, then agreed. He’s still processing trauma that happened over sixty years ago. How many others are like him, whether it be WWII, Korea, ‘Nam, Afghanistan, or Iraq? I lost an uncle in Korea and a cousin in Vietnam. Even now, those families can barely talk about it.
Are some wars ‘justified’? Probably. But the wars the US is currently waging sure aren’t. They aren’t even really wars, more like imperialist invasions for power and oil. “Just another poor boy/Off to fight a rich man’s war” as Steve Earle puts it. Join us on the March 18 Global Days of Action in protest.
Bob Morris @ Feb 10th 2006 06:52 - Category: Unfiled ;
Former Feinstein staffer edited Wikipedia entries
Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s office acknowledged today that a former staff member had edited the California Democrat’s entry on the Internet encyclopedia Wikipedia, as well as altered entries about her husband Richard Blum’s Chinese investments in 1997.
Other recent Wiki-tweaking was done on Rep. Richard Pombo’s bio from computers in the House of Representatives.
Wikipedia needs controls. There’s some excellent stuff there, but when anyone can edit an article, hoovering out information they don’t want public, then, over time, it’ll just become less reliable, won’t it? The open source movement does have such controls. You can write a modification to the Linux OS, but it doesn’t become part on the next version until it’s been ok’ed. Wikipedia has no such process. It needs one.
[tags] Wikipedia [/tags]
Bob Morris @ Feb 10th 2006 06:51 - Category: Unfiled ;
Bush met with Abramoff multiple times
Jack Abramoff said in correspondence made public Thursday that President Bush met him “almost a dozen” times, disputing White House claims Bush did not know the former lobbyist at the center of a corruption scandal.
The White House fog machine has been insisting there were no meetings with what’s-his-name, Abramoff. Of course they lie so much and so often they no longer know or care what the truth is.
White House knew of levee’s failure on night of storm
Not afterwards, as they claimed. How many died because of this?
Bob Morris @ Feb 10th 2006 06:50 - Category: Unfiled ;
Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid wrote at least four letters helpful to Indian tribes represented by Jack Abramoff, and the senator’s staff regularly had contact with the disgraced lobbyist’s team about legislation affecting other clients.
The activities - detailed in billing records and correspondence obtained by The Associated Press - are far more extensive than previously disclosed. They occurred over three years as Reid collected nearly $68,000 in donations from Abramoff’s firm, lobbying partners and clients.
As complicit as Republicans? Yes.
Bob Morris @ Feb 10th 2006 06:49 - Category: Unfiled ;
Sue says, I’m still planting the figs!
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