Fragment from Act III: The Perception of Beauty:
nothing good shall grow but from forgiveness.
30.12.03
17.12.03
Another reason why a just a God would create a thing like hell.
Maybe if Bush had a few more interns he'd stop sticking it to the rest of us.
Maybe if Bush had a few more interns he'd stop sticking it to the rest of us.
Help In Understanding How A Sincere Man Is Controlled By Various D.C. Power Centers:
DIANE SAWYER: First of all, I just want to ask about reading. Mr. President, you know that there was a great deal of reporting about the fact that you said, first of all, that you let Condoleezza Rice and Andrew Card give you a flavor of what's in the news.
PRESIDENT BUSH: Yes.
DIANE SAWYER: That you don't read the stories yourself.
PRESIDENT BUSH: Yes. I get my news from people who don't editorialize. They give me the actual news, and it makes it easier to digest, on a daily basis, the facts.
DIANE SAWYER: Is it just harder to read constant criticism or to read —
PRESIDENT BUSH: Why even put up with it when you can get the facts elsewhere? I'm a lucky man. I've got, it's not just Condi and Andy, it's all kinds of people in my administration who are charged with different responsibilities, and they come in and say this is what's happening, this isn't what's happening.
From Sawyer's Interview of Bush::
DIANE SAWYER: First of all, I just want to ask about reading. Mr. President, you know that there was a great deal of reporting about the fact that you said, first of all, that you let Condoleezza Rice and Andrew Card give you a flavor of what's in the news.
PRESIDENT BUSH: Yes.
DIANE SAWYER: That you don't read the stories yourself.
PRESIDENT BUSH: Yes. I get my news from people who don't editorialize. They give me the actual news, and it makes it easier to digest, on a daily basis, the facts.
DIANE SAWYER: Is it just harder to read constant criticism or to read —
PRESIDENT BUSH: Why even put up with it when you can get the facts elsewhere? I'm a lucky man. I've got, it's not just Condi and Andy, it's all kinds of people in my administration who are charged with different responsibilities, and they come in and say this is what's happening, this isn't what's happening.
From Sawyer's Interview of Bush::
16.12.03
15.12.03
More American Jobs Go To Foreigners Who Are Too Beleagured By Poverty To Worry About Things Like Workers' Rights
Indicative of what has been happening all over the shop. Bush didn't invent globalism, but he has been busy greasing the slippery slope.
He allowed for the reclassification of several white collar jobs, in order to allow them to be sub-contracted to overseas firms. As of six-months ago, 200,000 technical support jobs have gone to India alone.
He has lobbied successfully for the increase in the number of I-9 visas the U.S. hands out to American Inc. These are the visas that allow the importing of cheap, white-collar labor.
He has killed the funds that were supposed to be used to retool the American workforce for a post-manufacturing economy.
I don't read much anymore, so I'm sure I missed a few.
Indicative of what has been happening all over the shop. Bush didn't invent globalism, but he has been busy greasing the slippery slope.
He allowed for the reclassification of several white collar jobs, in order to allow them to be sub-contracted to overseas firms. As of six-months ago, 200,000 technical support jobs have gone to India alone.
He has lobbied successfully for the increase in the number of I-9 visas the U.S. hands out to American Inc. These are the visas that allow the importing of cheap, white-collar labor.
He has killed the funds that were supposed to be used to retool the American workforce for a post-manufacturing economy.
I don't read much anymore, so I'm sure I missed a few.
We got Saddam: Hoo ha or ho hum?
Some excitement is understandable, but as far as the media pundits rushing to speculate on how his capture will affect domestic politics- I've got to say, please keep your pants up.
Opposition, to the unilateral, preemptive, war against a not-so-imminent threat was not founded on a belief that Saddam would carry on as usual despite our invasion.
We opposed the war not because we thought Saddam would elude capture and continue wrecking havec on his country. We assumed the opposite, and still opposed the war. Therefore, it makes no sense that all right-minded people reframe their opposition to this fool's-errand of a war just because yesterday Bush gave us good TV.
So give me more images of God's Army probing Saddam's pie-hole. Give me more commentary comparing him to a street bum; Tell me how the Lion of Bagdhad was reduced to a common rat living in a dirty hole beneath the ground. But please, don't expect me to change my opinion of an unjust war and the puppet-monkee who leads it.
Saddam's elusiveness highlighted the fact that victory in this war is not a puzzle to be solved with a really smart bomb, that the true enemy of the region is so ingrained that it will not be defeated with the Americana veneer of guns and love.
Indeed, his capture denies Bush's opponents a powerful symbol of his failures as President of the United States of America. However, beyond the symbols, there waits the substance.
Bush has so bungled foreign policy and the decades' worth of diplomacy that made it possible. There used to be a time when the world, generally, recognized the office of the American Presidency as being "Leader of the Free World." We have traded our position on the global stage to fulfill the narrow interests of the Neo-con hunting buddies who pass for enlightened advisors.
Some excitement is understandable, but as far as the media pundits rushing to speculate on how his capture will affect domestic politics- I've got to say, please keep your pants up.
Opposition, to the unilateral, preemptive, war against a not-so-imminent threat was not founded on a belief that Saddam would carry on as usual despite our invasion.
We opposed the war not because we thought Saddam would elude capture and continue wrecking havec on his country. We assumed the opposite, and still opposed the war. Therefore, it makes no sense that all right-minded people reframe their opposition to this fool's-errand of a war just because yesterday Bush gave us good TV.
So give me more images of God's Army probing Saddam's pie-hole. Give me more commentary comparing him to a street bum; Tell me how the Lion of Bagdhad was reduced to a common rat living in a dirty hole beneath the ground. But please, don't expect me to change my opinion of an unjust war and the puppet-monkee who leads it.
Saddam's elusiveness highlighted the fact that victory in this war is not a puzzle to be solved with a really smart bomb, that the true enemy of the region is so ingrained that it will not be defeated with the Americana veneer of guns and love.
Indeed, his capture denies Bush's opponents a powerful symbol of his failures as President of the United States of America. However, beyond the symbols, there waits the substance.
Bush has so bungled foreign policy and the decades' worth of diplomacy that made it possible. There used to be a time when the world, generally, recognized the office of the American Presidency as being "Leader of the Free World." We have traded our position on the global stage to fulfill the narrow interests of the Neo-con hunting buddies who pass for enlightened advisors.
11.12.03
That liberal media...
If you read this article without the benefit if a credit line, you'd probably conclude this was a p.r. puff piece for Bush and Dick Inc., yet in fact it is an AP story, picked at by more than a few of America's newspapers.
If you read this article without the benefit if a credit line, you'd probably conclude this was a p.r. puff piece for Bush and Dick Inc., yet in fact it is an AP story, picked at by more than a few of America's newspapers.
Justice Texas-Style:"'THE FRAMING OF YEE: The case that Muslim military chaplain James Yee was a spy for Syria or anyone else has been falling apart. It's not even clear that the documents he was carrying - the original basis for the charge - were in any way classified. For this, he was put in solitary confinement for three months. Worse, the military - having failed to make their case - subsequently used their search warrant to reveal an extra-marital affair by Yee and are now prosecuting him under military law for this indiscretion. This is called framing someone. The trial has now been suspended because the prosecution cannot prove the classification of the documents in question. This seems to me to be a text-book case of military abuse of basic standards of fairness. A Muslim-American, who may well be completely innocent of all espionage charges, may now face years in jail for having an affair." [Sully, The Independent]
Perhaps, if we bought more red, white, and blue bumper stickers, this sort of thing would stop happening.
Perhaps, if we bought more red, white, and blue bumper stickers, this sort of thing would stop happening.
Busting Unions in Bush's Bagdhad
The coalition of the killing ransacked and defaced a fledgling labor union's headquarters. Many are looking at this as an extension of the hostility this administration has towards an Iraqii organized workforce. Perhap's there is a simpler explanation, but in the absence of an official response, I can only wonder. This is after all an administration rushing to privatize an entire culture, yet can't find the time to recall Hussein's laws banning labor unions or collective bargaining.
The coalition of the killing ransacked and defaced a fledgling labor union's headquarters. Many are looking at this as an extension of the hostility this administration has towards an Iraqii organized workforce. Perhap's there is a simpler explanation, but in the absence of an official response, I can only wonder. This is after all an administration rushing to privatize an entire culture, yet can't find the time to recall Hussein's laws banning labor unions or collective bargaining.
8.12.03
A Song To Brahma:
To stand between two tracks
with my legs slightly spread
the same with my arms
only more so, and above my head,
a full-bodied embrace
of a greasy locomotive’s
omnipotence,
its iron barreling with a plud
and waning roar
through my disheveled hair
and other assorted parts,
slinging them beneath its sweep
over its shoulder,
onto the stones and sturdy weeds,
is like what I really want
(except the exact opposite).
To stand between two tracks
with my legs slightly spread
the same with my arms
only more so, and above my head,
a full-bodied embrace
of a greasy locomotive’s
omnipotence,
its iron barreling with a plud
and waning roar
through my disheveled hair
and other assorted parts,
slinging them beneath its sweep
over its shoulder,
onto the stones and sturdy weeds,
is like what I really want
(except the exact opposite).
6.12.03
3.12.03
Has Kazaa Lite been taken over by the heavies?On August 11, 2003, Kazaa served Google with cease-and-desist orders, as it was enforcing its copyrights per the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. All links to K- Lite were to be disabled or removed.
K- Lite is, of course, not owned by the corporation that owns Kazaa. K- Lite is not owned by anybody. It is a freeware response to the obtrusive, secretive Kazaa, which, unknown to its users, embeds spyware into their customers' computers and feeds the data to its sister corporation.
It seems a little ironic that a company whose chief function is facilitating the sharing of copyrighted material and thereby subverting traditional copyright law, would take some a heavy hand to protect its its brand.
A connection: Twice while downloading from K- Lite my computer revolted and I had to reinstall my network drivers to get back on the web. Figuring my K- Lite software had somehow been corrupted I decided to dump the software and start anew. While reinstalling K-Lite, my computer once again shutdown, forcing me to reinstall my network devices. I am not a computer whiz, but could there be a connection in K- Lite's sudden loopiness, and the original Kazaa reigning in its "copyrights."
K- Lite is, of course, not owned by the corporation that owns Kazaa. K- Lite is not owned by anybody. It is a freeware response to the obtrusive, secretive Kazaa, which, unknown to its users, embeds spyware into their customers' computers and feeds the data to its sister corporation.
It seems a little ironic that a company whose chief function is facilitating the sharing of copyrighted material and thereby subverting traditional copyright law, would take some a heavy hand to protect its its brand.
A connection: Twice while downloading from K- Lite my computer revolted and I had to reinstall my network drivers to get back on the web. Figuring my K- Lite software had somehow been corrupted I decided to dump the software and start anew. While reinstalling K-Lite, my computer once again shutdown, forcing me to reinstall my network devices. I am not a computer whiz, but could there be a connection in K- Lite's sudden loopiness, and the original Kazaa reigning in its "copyrights."
2.12.03
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