Month December 2002

People get ready The war is coming soon “Pentagon officials told CNN Thursday that the U.S. military may begin an aggressive build-up of forces in the Persian Gulf region in January, depending on decisions made in the next few days.…

All I want is some truth Just yesterday I opined here that the California deficit was now projected at 29 billion, up sharply from previous estimates, and wondered how much higher it would go, and when Gov. Davis would start telling the…

Spontaneous protest of 3,000 against INS jailings From the L.A. Times “Hundreds of men and boys from Middle Eastern countries were arrested by federal immigration officials in Southern California this week when they complied with orders to appear at INS offices…

Leaked report says German and US firms supplied arms to Saddam “Baghdad’s uncensored report to UN names Western companies alleged to have developed its weapons of mass destruction” Including more than a few US firms who apparently were supplying Iraq…

Ah Windows I just got a new PC, and spend most of the past day networking it to the old one. Thank you Microsoft, you make things so pointlessly complicated. For a while Suzy (the old computer) could find Joey…