Monday, March 31, 2003
You know you all want to speak the way we do in Philly. It truly is correct, King's (er..Queen's) English.
Domestic Watch...6pm Eastern, Monday
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know it's a bit late.
* * NASA Engineers email warning of an impending catastrophe apparently never got sent.
* * Apparently, a popular lakeside civil aviation airport in Chicago has been shut down. Why is this a big deal? Apparently, the city government did this without notice, ripping up sections of runway and stranding planes there. I'll look into it.
* *Dainel Patrick Moynihan is remembered.
A bit thin today, more tomorrow.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know it's a bit late.
* * NASA Engineers email warning of an impending catastrophe apparently never got sent.
* * Apparently, a popular lakeside civil aviation airport in Chicago has been shut down. Why is this a big deal? Apparently, the city government did this without notice, ripping up sections of runway and stranding planes there. I'll look into it.
* *Dainel Patrick Moynihan is remembered.
A bit thin today, more tomorrow.
Via Body and Soul, the LATimes has a fascinating article about Salam Pax of Where is Raed...the Baghdad Blogger whose silence since the 24th of March has me very concerned.
Sunday, March 30, 2003
Domestic Watch...6 PM Eastern, Sunday
* *Channel 7 News out of Denver is investigating the Air Force Academy Rape scandal, that has fallen by the wayside recently because of , well, you know..that War over there. Apparently the assaults have been going on for years. This is unacceptable.
There will be a Change in Leadership and policy, however.
* * Anti-Affirmative Action groups say that more than 30 schoolsnationwide violate civil rights. The Supreme Court will hear arguments on the Michigan case Tuesday. There's a protest too, but I have a paper to write. I have to admit, I'm really worried about this.
* * Here's a right-wing argument on how the family will be destroyed if the Supreme Court overturns that really retarded and discrimantory Texas Law about sodomy. You know, I think the family will survive just fine. Morality really has no place being legislated. Here's an argument from a same-sex couple.
Of course, that hateful Westboro Baptist Church from Kansas had this nasty little thing to say. (From the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.)
And this quote, from the Salt Lake Tribune, is ever so apt in this case.
* * Fort Collins, CO declared their city a civil liberties safe zone. Good for them.
Which is good, because CNN actually took a break from its busy Wargasm schedule to run a piece on the ACLU and your right to privacy.
That's all for now. Next Domestic Watch update will be at or around 6pm Eastern, Monday.
* *Channel 7 News out of Denver is investigating the Air Force Academy Rape scandal, that has fallen by the wayside recently because of , well, you know..that War over there. Apparently the assaults have been going on for years. This is unacceptable.
There will be a Change in Leadership and policy, however.
* * Anti-Affirmative Action groups say that more than 30 schoolsnationwide violate civil rights. The Supreme Court will hear arguments on the Michigan case Tuesday. There's a protest too, but I have a paper to write. I have to admit, I'm really worried about this.
* * Here's a right-wing argument on how the family will be destroyed if the Supreme Court overturns that really retarded and discrimantory Texas Law about sodomy. You know, I think the family will survive just fine. Morality really has no place being legislated. Here's an argument from a same-sex couple.
Of course, that hateful Westboro Baptist Church from Kansas had this nasty little thing to say. (From the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.)
Nothing like a sodomy law case to bring out the best in American civil discourse. Outside the U.S. Supreme Court this week, 10-year-old Grace Phelps of Topeka, Kan., held a sign reading, "Thank God for Sept. 11." The youngster explained her sign: "God says what the fags are doing is wrong. It is an abomination. God punished us on Sept. 11 because we were OK with that kind of stuff." Her smiling mother, Shirley, handed her a small American flag, which Grace dropped to the ground, spit on, then mushed under her foot. Abomination, obviously, is in the eye of the beholder.
And this quote, from the Salt Lake Tribune, is ever so apt in this case.
"Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy."
-- H.L. Mencken
* * Fort Collins, CO declared their city a civil liberties safe zone. Good for them.
Which is good, because CNN actually took a break from its busy Wargasm schedule to run a piece on the ACLU and your right to privacy.
That's all for now. Next Domestic Watch update will be at or around 6pm Eastern, Monday.
Hmmmm...human rights being violated. Iraq? No. Just the following nations due to the war, according to Amnesty International.
Belgium
Egypt
Jordan
Turkey
United Kingdom
USA
Germany
Greece
Spain
Sudan
Yemen
Unacceptable.
Belgium
Egypt
Jordan
Turkey
United Kingdom
USA
Germany
Greece
Spain
Sudan
Yemen
Unacceptable.
This is probably what Fox News prays before they go on the air, after the janitors clean up the mess caused by all the wargasms... Sorry, I couldn't resist....
9/11 Commission Watch
I need to do this, because noone else is.
Criminal Charges? Only if the panel sees fit.
Friday, Bush finally agreed to increase the panel's funding to $11 Million dollars. That's after significant arm twisting took place by Senators Lieberman, McCain, and 5 others, along with the 9/11 Families (who incidentally, from what I've read, aren't too pleased with going to war.)
However (and this is pretty old, I admit), there seems to be some airline bias. At least, that's what the Sierra Times reported on March 10.
Also, and this was also buried last week, the Newark Star-Ledger is reporting that members of the 9/11 Commission have connections to the very firms they are investigating. Conflict of interest? Here's a sample...you decide.
And lastly, Kissinger remains secretive about whatever caused him to resign last December.
I need to do this, because noone else is.
Criminal Charges? Only if the panel sees fit.
Friday, Bush finally agreed to increase the panel's funding to $11 Million dollars. That's after significant arm twisting took place by Senators Lieberman, McCain, and 5 others, along with the 9/11 Families (who incidentally, from what I've read, aren't too pleased with going to war.)
However (and this is pretty old, I admit), there seems to be some airline bias. At least, that's what the Sierra Times reported on March 10.
Also, and this was also buried last week, the Newark Star-Ledger is reporting that members of the 9/11 Commission have connections to the very firms they are investigating. Conflict of interest? Here's a sample...you decide.
Five commissioners -- Ben-Veniste, Fielding, former Illinois Gov. James R. Thompson, Democratic former Rep. Tim Roemer of Indiana and Republican former Sen. Slade Gorton of Washington -- work for law firms that, collectively, have represented clients including Boeing; New Orleans International Airport; and Delta, United, American, Evergreen International and Spirit airlines.
And lastly, Kissinger remains secretive about whatever caused him to resign last December.
Saturday, March 29, 2003
Sean-Paul has posted on SARS, and I think I'm going to post on it too. Not because he has, but because I know nothing about it. I have something to say about this disturbing rise in disease.
And yes, I have to give a certain form of "science" a well deserved swipe.
The government of Ontario has a major problem on its hands.
The CDC says beware if you travel overseas.
It's only a very short matter of time before it reaches the United States. I'm just 12 hours by car from the Ontario/New York border. A number of my friends are spending Spring Break in Toronto and other Canadian cities as well. This is a big concern to me. Who knows what they'll bring back when the dorms reopen on Sunday afternoon and the campus reopens for buisness Monday morning.
West Nile is pretty much entrenched in the New York area where it first broke out, then spread outward from there and I expect West Nile will be horrible this summer coming. The winter we just went through was wet. Very wet. West Nile is probably here to stay in the US, despite the fact that it shouldn't be. It's a tropical disease.
But of course, global warming isn't occuring at all. No, never.
TB is now resistant to our antibiotics because Americans douse themselves in anti-bacterial solutions without realizing that eventually, the bugs they seek to kill will evolve to resist.
Then again, Creationism is all the rage these days. There's no such thing as evolution. No, never.
It was a matter of time before evolution created yet another bug for us to worry about. First AIDS. Then West Nile. Now SARS.
Think it's time to rethink Creationism? I sure do.
And yes, I have to give a certain form of "science" a well deserved swipe.
The government of Ontario has a major problem on its hands.
The CDC says beware if you travel overseas.
It's only a very short matter of time before it reaches the United States. I'm just 12 hours by car from the Ontario/New York border. A number of my friends are spending Spring Break in Toronto and other Canadian cities as well. This is a big concern to me. Who knows what they'll bring back when the dorms reopen on Sunday afternoon and the campus reopens for buisness Monday morning.
West Nile is pretty much entrenched in the New York area where it first broke out, then spread outward from there and I expect West Nile will be horrible this summer coming. The winter we just went through was wet. Very wet. West Nile is probably here to stay in the US, despite the fact that it shouldn't be. It's a tropical disease.
But of course, global warming isn't occuring at all. No, never.
TB is now resistant to our antibiotics because Americans douse themselves in anti-bacterial solutions without realizing that eventually, the bugs they seek to kill will evolve to resist.
Then again, Creationism is all the rage these days. There's no such thing as evolution. No, never.
It was a matter of time before evolution created yet another bug for us to worry about. First AIDS. Then West Nile. Now SARS.
Think it's time to rethink Creationism? I sure do.
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