"Ads are intrusive and irrelevant ... I'm not going to buy anything because of an ad," said Drukman, who prefers independent research and recommendations from friends over company-sponsored promotions
The 100,000 to 1,000,000 (numbers depend on who you talk to) people who rallied in NYC
were not deterred, but this does not change the fact that Bush wanted to shut them down.
The question that begs to be asked is this; If "We The People" can't march,
should our soldiers be allowed to?
Dave Galloway
Who can blame Americans for being skeptical of the science behind global warming when the temperature stays well below freezing for days on end and the weatherman measures the snow in feet?"
"Destroying by war Saddam's control over any hidden stocks and forcing those involved to flee is the surest method of getting weapons of mass destruction into the hands of terrorists. An invasion of Iraq should be characterised as stamping in a puddle of poison."
sum of all fears
blackhawk down
XXX
signs
minority report
harry potter
The markets seem to have no confidence in his plans because every time he opens his mouth the markets fall.
National health care will do nothing except raise taxes and further dictate where, when and how the patient secures services. Will people not learn that bigger is not better? Will we not learn that the federal government is an institution composed of inefficiency? You think we have it bad now, just wait.
The American health-care crisis is being exacerbated by doctors ordering procedures for defensive purposes and by prescribing useless medications, rather than making the effort to inform patients.
Here are some comparisons between the United States and Canada.
* In 1996, Canada spent $2,002 per capita on health care.
* In 1996, the U.S. spent $3,708 per capita on health care.
* The Canadian government provides health care for every citizen.
* The U.S. government provides health care for about one-fourth of its citizens. Another one-sixth, or 41 million Americans, have no health insurance. The rest purchase coverage on their own or through employers.
* In 1995, the life expectancy for a Canadian male was 75.3 years. For every 1,000 live births in Canada, six infants die.
* In 1995, the average American male could enjoy life for 72.5 years. For every 1,000 live births in the United States, eight babies die.
Canada spends less, insures all its people and enjoys better life expectancies and infant mortality rates than Americans.
Former City Council members Janet Cader-Thompson and Matt Maguire urged the council to adopt the resolution, which would have provided that "to the extent legally possible, no city employee or department shall officially or voluntarily cooperate with investigations, interrogations or arrest procedures" that violate the Constitution.
Mark Latham, who already accused Mr Howard of being an "arselicker" of the Bush Administration and described this visit as "a conga line of suckholes" heading to Washington
"This is because America is not about government mandating uniformity. It is about embracing freedom of thought, and the right to disagree, in a democracy."
"But there is a saying among the Iraqis, 'If you have to stand in manure, it might as well be our own manure,' meaning Saddam is theirs to deal with."
"Mayor Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Kelly are doing the people of New York and the people of Iraq a great service by delaying and obstructing the anti-war protest planned for Feb. 15. The longer they delay in granting the protesters a permit, the less time the organizers have to get their turnout organized and the smaller the crowd is likely to be...[T]he smaller the crowd, the more likely that President Bush will proceed with his plans to liberate Iraq."
Imagine a country ruled by a leader whose rise to power occurred under deeply questionable circumstances. Imagine that this country appointed itself the world’s policeman, threatening another nation with a massive military invasion if that nation did not accede to his demands.
The federal appeals court in St. Louis ruled yesterday that officials in Arkansas can force a prisoner on death row to take antipsychotic medication to make him sane enough to execute.
NYTIMES
[23:10]i swear
[23:10]sitting here listening to bill makes me long for the days when we had some brains and finesse in office
"I am surprised, flattered as well, that this information got used in a U.K. government dossier," said the original report's author, Ibrahim al-Marashi, who at the time was a graduate student. "Had they consulted me, I could have provided them with more updated information."
STEVEN R. HARVEY, OsceolaPresident Bush has finally convinced me. Not of the righteousness of a war with Iraq, but of its inevitability.
"One of the various exhibition booths hawking paraphernalia had some virulently anti-Muslim vinyl bumper stickers, for $3.95, including one that said: "No Muslims -- No Terrorism." The booth operators removed the anti-Muslim stickers from the rack before Cheney spoke -- though they left up some more tasteful items, such as the stamps that said: "WANTED! Crimes against children," and had a picture of former attorney general Janet Reno, "A.K.A. 'The Butcher of Waco.' " And they left others supporting the Confederate flag and such. But the offending stickers were not really taken off sale. When a Washington Post reporter asked about the anti-Muslim bumper stickers, a booth attendant smiled and reached behind a sheet, saying conference organizers had ordered her to take them off display."
A pre-emptive attack on Iraq because they might be some future danger is intolerable as long as there is no clear evidence of an imminent threat.
US is misquoting my Iraq report, says Blix - smh.com.au Days after delivering a broadly negative report on Iraq's cooperation with international inspectors, Hans Blix challenged several of the Bush Administration's assertions about Iraqi cheating and the notion that time was running out for disarming Iraq through peaceful means.
In an interview on Wednesday, Dr Blix, the United Nations chief weapons inspector, seemed determined to dispel any impression that his report was intended to support the United States' campaign to build world support for a war to disarm Saddam Hussein.
today's TP:
USAT fronts the contention from unnamed "U.S. diplomats and intelligence officials" that Iraqis are somehow learning about UN inspectors' plans. The officials told USAT that they've seen evidence that Iraq is cleaning up sites slated for inspection well before inspectors arrive. The paper quotes a UN official acknowledging the early cleanups but also saying they're not a sign that Saddam has infiltrated the U.N. team. (The paper doesn't unduly exert itself and try to explain the discrepancy.)
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israel fucked up yesterday re-appointing sharon over mitzna. its not surprising however. given that the string pullers won again here.
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heh, and TP gets to the bottom of their column to state the obvious:
In a few places, the president played Pinocchio (or was at least misleading), and the papers mostly give him a pass. The NYT for instance, notes that the president "promised his American audience tax relief for ordinary families and for investors in the stock market." Setting aside the use of the loaded-term "tax relief," the sentence was a concise summary of Bush's assertion that his tax cuts will save 92 million Americans "an average of almost $1,000." Except that that assertion is deceptive, as NYT's Paul Krugman and others have pointed out. (Americans whose income is near the national mean would probably save a few hundred bucks.)
Something more significant that the papers should have flagged: During the speech, Bush contended that Iraq is still trying to develop nukes. He said Saddam has tried to buy uranium from a source in Africa, and also that Iraq has imported specialized aluminum tubes for nuclear development. Chief UN nuke inspector Mohamed El-Baradei has said he hasn't seen any evidence supporting the first allegation and has explained that the second one probably isn't true. (A Post piece not connected to the president's speech reiterates that point.) Idea: Why don't the papers do a regular feature looking at the accuracy of assertions in major speeches--just like some do with campaign ads?
but the question of why the papers can't validate their reporting before press, is indicative of the left-wing bias aintit. mwahahaha
An impassioned President Bush laid out his case Tuesday night for why Iraq"s Saddam Hussein is a fearsome threat to America and to world peace and why the United States must be prepared to go to war against him - alone if need be. It was his single most coherent speech articulating the case for a war.
It is not hard to sympathize with the musicians, movie makers, manufacturers, distributors and retailers, however. Every time someone downloads a song, a CD or a DVD, it cuts into their revenue. It's theft.
It remains to be seen whether the strategy of scaring people into buying rather than stealing music and movies works. But something has to change. There is no such thing as a free lunch - or free entertainment. When someone gets something for free, rest assured, someone pays.
A number of legislative and regulatory bodies have institutionalized the negative view of long-term care
Machacha gave Ames as his address, but said he was from the Third World. What is he doing here? Getting a free education in America - a country he seems to hate? Doesn't the Third World have schools?
Why is it people from other countries, as well as our own, spit on us, despise us and commit acts of terrorism, yet come to us after an earthquake, drought, famine, locusts - it doesn't matter?
People hate us with one breath and come to us begging with the next. They come here for health care. I have yet to see conjoined twins go to Iraq for surgery. I have yet to see an experimental life-saving technology draw people to Africa.
Asked whether the United States would use limited nuclear weapons in Iraq, Elizabeth Jones, US assistant secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs, replied: “The answer is no.”
It would make no difference whether Iraq actually had any weapons of mass destruction or not. Washington would simply claim that Baghdad did indeed have such weapons and was “about to use them,” but that the American nuclear strikes had “prevented” this from happening
DAILY TIMES OF PAKISTAN
The threat posed by Iraq is contained for now. Any attempt at external aggression would be instantly overwhelmed. Inside the country, the inspection teams preclude any significant advance in weapons-of-mass-destruction programs. The only other source of threat is the extremely unlikely possibility that Saddam Hussein would give some of what he regards as his crown jewels to terrorists. That would be to put his life in the hands of those he cannot control. The only condition under which he would be remotely tempted to do so would be if he believed he was about to be wiped out -- in a war. Weigh that risk against the near certainty that a war will be seen in the region as an American war that will draw thousands of new recruits into the ranks of terrorist America-haters. The U.S. homeland is unready for that threat. The only possible conclusion is that while the status quo is safe for the American people, a war will put us at great risk.
"The United Nations resolution did not put the burden of proof on the United States or the U.N. to prove that Iraq has these weapons," Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said last week. "The U.N. resolution put the burden directly on Iraq to prove that it is disarming and that it does not have these weapons." In other words, Iraq must prove a negative, and is refusing to do so. Almost a year to the day before Rumsfeld's remark, Fleischer was asked why the administration would not release details about meetings with energy companies such as Enron Corp. to prove that nothing untoward occurred. Fleischer replied: "You're asking us to prove a negative, and that's a road that we're not traveling.'
