Oopsie
Bob Morris @ Aug 24th 2006 11:46 - Category: Uncategorized Tags: Sri Lanka;
Illinois congressman Danny Davis travelled to Sri Lanka last year, a trip paid for by the Tamil Tigers, a group designated as terrorist by the U.S.
Archive for August 24th, 2006
The wonders of capitalism
Bob Morris @ Aug 24th 2006 06:56 - Category: Unfiled ;
You can now buy futures contracts on hurricane damage and thus, place bets on how economically destructive you think hurricanes will be this year.
Socialism in the U.S.
Bob Morris @ Aug 24th 2006 00:24 - Category: Socialism ;
Tony Blair calls himself socialist. His party, the Labour Party of Britain, is also socialist. Socialists and Communists hold governmental and elected posts there - as they do in most the rest of the world. Except for the U.S., socialism is accepted as a political force across the planet. Someone might love socialism or they might hate it. But at least they will know what it is. It’s only here in the States that ignorance of socialism is so overwhelming. Of course, the propaganda machine has much to do with that, socialism is routinely demonized, and calling someone a communist is an insult. In more rational countries, it simply describes their political affiliation.
Right-wingers in the States get their panties in a twist because socialists organize for social change. Well, duh. Fifteen minute spent reading the Communist Manifesto will explain why communists organize. Yet this short document, arguably one of the most important political documents in history, is barely mentioned in U.S. schools and colleges. Why is that?
The U.S., the home of predatory capitalism, is also nearly completely ignorant when it comes to socialism, and that’s no mistake. That it needs socialism as a counter-force against the predators is a given.
(To my British friends, yes, I know the Labour Party is sorry, corrupt, just-barely socialist, and needs to be tossed in the trash bin. But you must understand, at least you live in a country where people know what socialism is.)
The Stupid Security Awards
Bob Morris @ Aug 24th 2006 00:18 - Category: Unfiled ;
BlairWatch brings news of the Privacy International contest for the Stupidest Security measure. “We are running an international competition to discover the world’s most pointless, intrusive, stupid and self-serving security measures.”
The color-coded security levels of Homeland Security here in the States should qualify for a special Lifetime Award, as they do nothing to protect people yet manage to scare lots of folks silly anyway (and are generally issued precisely when Dubya is doing badly in the polls, hmm.)
Attention dual-booters
Bob Morris @ Aug 24th 2006 00:12 - Category: Unfiled ;
Installing Vista will wipe your master boot record
This means, for example, that if I install Ubuntu on my laptop along with XP that is already there, that when it comes time to upgrade from XP to Vista, the Vista installation will render my Ubuntu installation inaccessible.
How very thoughtful of Microsoft to destroy any other OS on your computer without asking or presenting options, more proof of a company that increasingly doesn’t get it.
[tags]Ubuntu,Vista[/tags]
