Bob Morris @ Jul 16th 2006 08:33 - Category: Unfiled ;
Some in California are now paying for gas by pawning something.
About 10 times a week, a customer says, “I just need money to get gas until I get my paycheck,” Robinson [a pawn shop owner] said. “It’s something that you really didn’t hear about before.”
Bob Morris @ Jul 16th 2006 07:57 - Category: Climate change ;
… at 7:45 in the morning.
It’ll be over 100 today where we live. Yesterday, it was 97 downtown. Others areas of LA were 110. Indio was 122. Yes, 122.
California is having a monumental heat wave with no end in sight.
Even though where we live is hotter than the rest of LA, we’re probably more comfortable as we have central air and many of those in the ‘cooler’ parts of LA don’t.
Bob Morris @ Jul 16th 2006 00:27 - Category: Uncategorized Tags: Lebanon, Palestine;
Or are they called the Demoblicans? No matter, they walk in lockstep on Israel, not even questioning the insanity of Israel bombing suburbs in Lebanon because two soldiers were captured.
The Democrats, every bit as much as the Republicans, are the party of imperialism. They may at times advocate different tactics, or even different strategies, but their goals are for all intents and purposes identical.
Those in the DC Beltway apparently want a conflagration in the Middle East. Not one of them to my knowledge has murmured even the slighest of protests. Most of liberal blogdom is studiously ignoring it too, with a notable exception being The Huffington Post.
The Bushies pretend US options are limited yet US foreign policy is what is driving it. Israel would not and could not be doing this without US permission, money, and weaponry. Israel is the biggest beneficiary of US foreign aid, you knew that, right?
The Geneva Conventions and other treaties absolutely prohibit responses that target civilians or collectively punish civilians who had no part in an attack.
Yet not a single member of Congress or ranking member of either party sees fit to bring this up.
Their real target of course is Iran.
Iran blamed as Lebanon battle broadens.
This has echoes of the making-shit-up lies of the Bushies for invading Iraq, doesn’t it? They are already losing two wars yet now want to start several more?
Bob Morris @ Jul 16th 2006 00:23 - Category: Uncategorized Tags: Lebanon;
It is ironic, given Israel’s bombing of civilian targets in Beirut, that Hizbullah is often dismissed in the west as a terrorist organisation. In fact its military record is overwhelmingly one of conflict with Israeli forces inside Lebanese territory.
Bob Morris @ Jul 16th 2006 00:15 - Category: Unfiled ;
From the homepage of the Selective Service System (AKA the Draft Board)
ATTENTION, UNDOCUMENTED MALES
& IMMIGRANT SERVICING GROUPS!If you are a man ages 18 through 25 and living in the U.S., then you must register with Selective Service. It’s the law. You can register at any U.S. Post Office and do not need a social security number. Be sure to register before your 26th birthday. After that, it’s too late! Selective Service does not collect any information which would indicate whether or not you are undocumented. You want to protect yourself for future U.S. citizenship and other government benefits and programs by registering with Selective Service. Do it today.
Well I certainly believe them when they say they won’t tattle on the undocumented to the immigration service and no doubt the undocumented believe them too.
A non-citizen can become a citizen by volunteering in the US military. Some have done just that, been shipped to Iraq, killed, and then awarded citizenship posthumously…
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