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The most stupid laws in Britain
2007-11-07 17:43:00 Most ridiculous British laws (percentage of vote pf 4,000 surveyed by a TV channel): 1. It is illegal to die in the Houses of Parliament (27 percent) 2. It is an act of treason to place a postage stamp bearing the British monarch upside-down (seven percent) 3. In Liverpool, it is illegal for a woman to be topless ... More About: Britain , Laws , Legal , Stupid
Giuliani: Bush with Brains
2007-11-07 17:10:00 Remember when George Bush was first running for office and most everyone wrote him off as too dumb for the job? Clearly, they were right. Now, Rudy Giuliani is running for office and many, like Michael Tomasky in this Guardian op-ed This Is One Dangerous Man: It?s George Bush with Brains , are calling him too deceitful ... More About: Politics
Tibbets: ?Their tough luck for being there?
2007-11-07 04:26:00 The ?Little Boy? dropped from the Enola Gay over the courtyard of Shima Hospital killed 340,000 Japanese and gave pilot Paul Tibbets a career. But not one celebrated by Pierre Tristan in Tibbets Did Duty in Dropping Bomb, But Then Reveled in It There?s no begrudging Tibbets for fulfilling his mission Aug. 6, 1945. No one had ... More About: War , Tough , Luck
US militarization of diplomacy
2007-11-07 04:16:00 What is the cost to the US of their militarization of diplomacy ? no, other than hatred around the world. Frieda Berrigan answers the question in How Much is Enough? For fiscal year 2008, we are looking at a ?base military budget? of $520 billion and another $127.5 billion in war spending, which means that total military ... More About: War , Diplomacy
People power for Robin Hood
2007-11-06 17:36:00 Sherwood urgently needs to win a public vote in the UK to secure the BIG Lottery funding. It?s pitting its future against three other projects - so its main hope now is to secure pledges of support ahead of the votes at the beginning of December. If you have friends, family, colleages, forum pals in ... More About: Power , Environment , People , Hood , Robin
So what is Condi actually doing?
2007-11-06 17:14:00 The Bush administration is not about to bomb Iran (trust me). It?s using diplomacy to build a coalition to balance it, and reverse an ugly tide. That, according to NY Times columnist David Brooke in Present at the Creation is the reason for Condi Rice’s Quixotic Israel-Palestine peace conference to be held later this month in ... More About: Politics , Middle East
If your were a US diplomat, would you go?
2007-11-06 16:29:00 If you were a US diplomat (almost an oxymoron), would you go to Iraq ? If you survive the experience, it seems like a pretty sweet deal. According to this Time article Great Money and Perks. Come to Iraq volunteers (and so far there are 15 of a necessary staffing of 48) will get their pay plus ... More About: Politics , Diplomat , Were
Nora Ephron: It?s Hard to be a Democrat
2007-11-05 20:27:00 It has never been easy being a Liberal in the US but these days Liberalism isn’t even on the radar. The Democrat s are just as corporate as the Republicans with the same lust for aggression. As an outsider it’s hard to understand how it must feel, but Nora Ephron gives a pretty good sense of the ... More About: Politics , Hard
Ignorance rewarded: Glenn Beck gets $50 million
2007-11-05 19:11:00 ‘I’m a recovering alcoholic, you know. I’m just like you.’ In signing the $50 million five year extension to his existing contract, Glenn Beck , 43, becomes the newest, and youngest, entrant into an exclusive club of highly compensated radio stars. The new contract would make Mr. Beck the third highest-paid talk radio host, surpassed only by Rush ... More About: Media , Ignorance
The American fetish for flag-pride is nothing short of jingoism.
2007-11-05 18:57:00 Opinions - washingtonpost.com: Has this flag thing gone way too far in the US? In this pic Navy celebrates its victory over Notre Dame, its first in 44 years, with a spectacle that seems to imply: our patriotism beat your patriotism. In the American game of football, played in the US in front of Americans, and televised ... More About: Fetish , Flag , Pride , Short
Wal-Mart looking for new formula
2007-11-05 18:27:00 Wal-Mart ’s grand strategy of becoming more fashionable has fizzled and is being retooled. Wal-Mart shoppers like its stores but don’t necessarily love them. Low-income shoppers, one of its three core groups, absolutely need the low prices. The two others aren’t buying enough: an aspirational middle-income group that likes the brand names, and a third group of ... More About: Economics , Lifestyle , Culture , Formula
From the theatre of the absurd: Rice seeks Mideast peace deal while Bush in
2007-11-05 18:08:00 U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice joined Israeli and Palestinian leaders on Monday in voicing hope they could reach a peace agreement before President George W. Bush leaves office in January 2009. Peace in the Middle East ? Ah, look around. ? There is the minor matter of the unending war in Iraq that has fostered its own ... More About: Politics , Terrorism
The oaks of Sherwood Forest are falling
2007-11-05 17:29:00 How many of the world’s eco icons are threatened? Probably most of them because they tend to acquire their status in part to their proximity to populations and that, these days, is the kiss of death. Take Robin Hood’s Sherwood forest, for instance. It once occupied 100,000 acres in present-day Nottinghamshire County in northern England. Today, ... More About: Environment , Forest
Facebook: More Popular Than Porn
2007-11-04 19:00:00 It seems that social-networking sites have not only usurped porn in popularity, but they’ve also gobbled up time Gen Y-ers used to spend on traditional e-mail and IM. When you can reach all of your friends through Facebook or MySpace, there’s little reason to spend time in your old-school inbox. Interesting piece in Time Facebook: More ... More About: Internet , Technology , Lifestyle , Popular
NFL Is No. 1 for a reason
2007-11-04 18:53:00 Why the NFL Is Still No. 1 Time asks, then answers the question by pronouncing it’s because baseball and basketball (hockey is never mentioned) are peopled by such dreadful if excellent athletes.. In making the point, the article is more about A-rod and Kobe then it is about Brady and Manning. Its more about the selfish ... More About: Sport , Reason
Why US Diplomats Won?t Go to Iraq
2007-11-03 19:25:00 There can be no greater condemnation of the Bush policy in Iraq than the one offered by US ambassadors: we won’t go. But why? Time tries to answer the question here: Why Diplomat s Won’t Go to Iraq But really, it is no great mystery. Stuck in the Green Zone with little contact with Iraq, the job would ... More About: Politics , War
Lipitor vs statin; a battle of the $ vs the ˘
2007-11-03 19:09:00 The on-going battle of the brand drug versus the generic is taking place in spades and in advertisements. Is the generic equivalent of Liptior, simvastatin, as good at reducing cholesterol build-up in the arteries? Reading this NY Times article Maker of Lipitor Digs In to Fight Generic Rival is a reminder that those who hold an expiring ... More About: Health , Battle
US lust for death penalty attacked
2007-11-03 18:01:00 “This de facto moratorium on executions by lethal injection gives us a chance to recognize just how deeply flawed the implementation of capital punishment in this country is,” ? Minnesota Senator Russ Feingold who is using the Court’s stay of execution for a Mississippi prisoner to re-introduce his Federal Death Penalty Abolition Act Nationally, reports The ... More About: Politics , Legal , Death penalty , Lust
Kucinich to try to Impeach Cheney next week
2007-11-03 17:53:00 Frustrated by the refusal of Democratic leaders to set up a process for holding hearings on his proposal to impeach vice president Dick Cheney , Congressman and presidential contender Dennis Kucinich will use an arcane House rule on Tuesday allowing for the prodding of the process with privileged resolutions to try and force consideration. Once introduced, ... More About: Politics , Legal , War , Week
Waterboarding Is Torture
2007-11-03 17:37:00 Waterboarding involves strapping the person being interrogated on to a board as pints of water are forced into his lungs through a cloth covering his face while the victim?s mouth is forced open. Its effect is a process of slow-motion suffocation. Typically, a victim goes into hysterics on the board as water fills his lungs. ?How ... More About: Terrorism , War , Torture , Waterboarding
Jumping the telephone queue with your credit card
2007-11-02 16:03:00 Stuck in a telephone queue to get airline information and want to jump the line? Pay your way to the front. That’s the suggestion in this op-ed at the Christian Science Monitor: ‘Your call is very important to us… ‘ To fully understand the concept think of the petroleum industry. They wanted to find some way to ... More About: Technology , Card , Credit , Credit Card , Queue
?The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy? ? a lecture
2007-11-02 04:45:00 The Israel Lobby, Israel’s role in the US occupation of Iraq ? and its threats against Iran , they are all carefully explained by John Mearsheimer & Stephen Walt authors of The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy in this audiocast from CHIASMOS. A must listen for anyone interested in the Middle East and what is behind ... More About: Politics , Terrorism
Iraq death toll declines: ?Even the birds are Sunni?
2007-11-02 01:46:00 October marked the lowest monthly death toll for American troops, 36 fatalities, since March 2006, when 31 were killed, according to icasualties.org. American commanders credit the buildup, which reached full strength in June, with slowing sectarian bloodshed. They say the decision to send 28,500 more troops to Iraq has made a difference by allowing them to send ... More About: Sunni , Death , Birds , Toll
Facebook is the new AOL, Google the new Microsoft.
2007-11-02 00:04:00 Facebook is the AOL for Web 2.0. For the first generation of the internet in the late ’90s AOL was the “tipping point” for many and their first access with the wonderful world of the internet at a time when the internet was little more than a place for Star Trek geeks and porn freaks. ... More About: Google , Social , Internet , Technology , Microsoft
Hillier told to shut up again
2007-11-01 18:28:00 How many times will this guy be admonished before he’s finally given the boot? Tone it down, Ottawa tells top soldier More About: Afghanistan , Canada , Told , Shut , Shut Up
Afghanistan ? the long haul
2007-11-01 18:18:00 A thoughtful piece on Afghanistan by Roger Cohen, columnist for the NY Times. It’s here: Afghanistan at the Brink More About: Politics , Long
Execution ?moratorium? in the US
2007-11-01 17:36:00 It’s not official, but a “creeping moratorium” on the death penalty in the United States is taking hold as the Supreme Court prepares to hear a challenge to the method of lethal injection (an extract from the full story: Execution “moratorium” takes hold) The latest inmate to win a reprieve was Earl Wesley Berry of Mississippi, ... More About: Legal , Moratorium
Ultimate Fighting takes a few body blows
2007-11-01 17:28:00 Randy ‘The Natural’ Couture. Troubled times in Ultimate Fighting ? Time thinks so: Ultimate Fighting’s Ultimate Fight. More About: Sports , Body
Iran: Will the IEAA be allowed to publish its report this time?
2007-11-01 17:17:00 Last time, the International Atomic Energy Agency was kicked out of Iraq by the US before it could provide its definitive report as to whether or not Saddam had or was developing weapons of mass destruction. We know the answer. This time we seem to have emerging an approximate replay of the folly that will cost ... More About: Iran , Time , Report , Publish , Allo
Moving closer to a Knesset without Arabs
More articles from this author:2007-11-01 04:46:00 “Enough of Arab Knesset members spitting in our faces and us saying it’s raining.” The solution? Bar Israel is who visit “enemy states” from serving in parliament. Thats a bill that has received preliminary passage in the Knesset. The legislation passed by 52-19 votes on Tuesday will have to be approved another three times before being enacted. It seeks to ... More About: Moving , Closer , Arabs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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