Bob Morris on Jul 24, 2009, 9:54 am AP is launching a massive monitoring program to track down evildoers who link to their articles, and to heck with that crazy Fair Use Doctrine. I wish AP all the best on its endeavor to keep its news from being used. Absolutely. If they don’t want to be linked to, then let’s not. Henceforth, Polizeros [...] Bob Morris on Jul 24, 2009, 5:37 am The Stove for Cooking, Refrigeration and Electricity (SCORE) can generate electricity and provide cooling as well. The price is expected to be modest. This could change lives. It also uses far less fuel than regular stoves, which means less pollution from burning wood and dung. The electricity generating and refrigerating aspects of SCORE will [...] Bob Morris on Jul 24, 2009, 2:13 am President Obama’s soaring popularity has significantly boosted attitudes toward the United States in Europe, Latin America, Africa and Asia, surveys in 24 countries by the Pew Research Center finds. Bob Morris on Jul 23, 2009, 10:09 pm Bob Morris on Jul 23, 2009, 5:30 pm From NJ corruption bust news One rabbi, Levy Izhak Rosenbaum, was also charged with conspiring to broker the sale of a human kidney for transplant. Marra said that Rosenbaum’s “business was to entice vulnerable people to give up a kidney for 10,000 dollars which he would turn around and sell for 160,000 dollars.” The [...] Bob Morris on Jul 23, 2009, 3:15 pm You probably think this birth certificate is valid, don't you, you poor ignorant non-Birther fool. From the always wonderful Colin McEnroe at the Hartford Courant The death-eaters birthers have got me thinking. There are a number of people whose birth certificates have never been produced: John Travolta Rachel Ray Dr. Phil Pat Robertson Barney [...] Bob Morris on Jul 23, 2009, 11:42 am He then chortles in a video he posted on Twitter about how the the State of California will sell cars on eBay and he’ll autograph them to boost their value. This is what now passes as reasoned political dialogue in California. Like a few extra hundred thousand dollars raised by the Governator signing a [...] Bob Morris on Jul 23, 2009, 8:30 am The Freeway Blogger, who has put over 4,000 antiwar banners on freeways, branches out a bit, thinking long-term about the grandchildren of our grandchildren. Corporations and politicians are fond of telling us that “Children are the Future.” They’re not: they’re the present. (Look down, or check in front of the TV.) The future is [...] Bob Morris on Jul 23, 2009, 5:30 am Qteros, a Massachusetts company, have announced a cellulosic ethanol yield “well beyond what the U.S. Department of Energy considers the threshold for commercial production” using a newly discovered microbe. They have done so without genetically modified the microbe that produces ethanol from non-food plant materials. Thie means the coming GMO versions of this microbes [...] Bob Morris on Jul 23, 2009, 12:45 am He also said Cambridge police acted “stupidly,” that racial profiling undeniably happens, and that we need to work towards ending it. He spoke like an adult to adults, no pandering or triangulating, just straight-talk. How refreshing. | Independent Voter NetworkArticles by Bob Morris on California and Arizona renewable energy, budget and border issues |
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