Bob Morris @ May 18th 2006 17:48 - Category: Unfiled ;
It’s a shocking revelation: 24 civilians shot dead - “in cold blood” - by US Marines. American military officials are admitting, off the record, to the execution-style killings in Iraq six months ago.
If you shoot someone dead in cold blood, the generally accepted word for that is “murder.” This must be more of that “winning their hearts and minds” strategy so favored by the Bushies.
Bob Morris @ May 18th 2006 00:32 - Category: Immigrant rights ;
“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me:
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.”
- poem on the Statue of Liberty
Bob Morris @ May 18th 2006 00:25 - Category: Uncategorized Tags: Iran;
The main plan calls for a rolling, five-day bombing campaign against 400 key targets in Iran, including 24 nuclear-related sites, 14 military airfields and radar installations, and Revolutionary Guard headquarters.
The alternative to an all-out campaign is a demonstration strike against one or two high-profile targets such as the Natanz uranium enrichment facility or the hexafluoride gas plant at Isfahan.
Hey, I have another alternative. No attack. No war. Stop making up lies to use as justification for invading countries. It didn’t work in Afghanistan or Iraq, and it sure won’t work in Iran, a country that can fight back. That such an insane plan might destabilize the entire Middle East and make the U.S. an even worse pariah nation that it is now appears not to matter to Dubya or the pretend opposition in D.C.
Imperialism is an ugly thing, isn’t it?
Bob Morris @ May 18th 2006 00:15 - Category: Unfiled ;
Our friends DJ and Sueellen escaped from Los Angeles a few years back and now happily live in rural Utah on 20 acres. However when they planted anything, it was immediately and totally munched by rabbits.
After trying multiple other methods, DJ decided to bring in the big guns, no metaphor intended, as detailed on our gardening blog.
Bob Morris @ May 18th 2006 00:10 - Category: Uncategorized Tags: Sri Lanka;
Amnesty International has urged the Sri Lankan government to investigate fully a spate of killings of civilians.
The human rights group noted “a disturbing pattern of incomplete or ineffective investigations by the government” into such violence.
The appeal came after 13 Tamil civilians, two of them young children, were shot dead near Jaffna on Saturday.
Things are tilting seriously towards civil war. There are three players; the government, the Tamil Tigers, and the Karuna Faction. The Tigers are considered among the best equipped and trained insurgents anywhere, not to mention a well-deserved reputation for being ruthless. The Karuna Faction is headed by a former high ranking general who split from the Tigers and now operates on his own. Both the Tigers and Karuna have several thousand troops, control parts of the countryside, and engage in guerilla warfare.
Bob Morris @ May 18th 2006 00:05 - Category: Unfiled ;
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