Monthly Archives: November 2004 «

 

Was that a thwarted assassination attempt in Chile?

Posted by: ST on November 22, 2004 at 10:51 pm » 2 Comments

Dominic thinks so.

 

Something to think about

Posted by: ST on November 22, 2004 at 10:29 pm » 2 Comments

Re: the controversy over the Marine shooting the Iraqi insurgent who was laying down. Keven Myers from the UK Telegraph gives his perspective: Not being a subscriber to al-Jazeera television, I can only imagine what it has recently been playing on its news service – but I’d go bail it was clips of the US [...]

 

Bravo to Britain

Posted by: ST on November 22, 2004 at 10:02 pm » Comments Off

Security services foil 9/11 attack in UK. Memo to the terrorists: You’re losing.

 

McCain in ’08?

Posted by: ST on November 21, 2004 at 8:50 pm » 4 Comments

A possibility.

 

NBA Basketball turns ugly – Artest suspended for SEASON

Posted by: ST on November 21, 2004 at 7:23 pm » Comments Off

I suppose ya’ll have heard about this by now. As a result of that melee, Ron Artest is out for the year, with the other players involved getting heavy game bans (143 total games). I didn’t read anything in the article about what the fans who threw things at these players will get – fines [...]

 

UN toughening up a bit?

Posted by: ST on November 19, 2004 at 12:47 pm » 7 Comments

That would be a welcome switch from the usual. UN employees are expected to issue an unprecedented vote of no confidence in Secretary-General Kofi Annan, union sources say, after he pardoned the body’s top oversight official over a series of allegations. The UN staff union, in what officials said was the first vote of its [...]

 

Selective outrage in Wisconsin

Posted by: ST on November 19, 2004 at 12:25 pm » 3 Comments

… rearing it’s ugly head this week: A radio talk show host drew criticism Thursday after calling Condoleezza Rice an “Aunt Jemima” and saying she isn’t competent to be secretary of state. John Sylvester, the program director and morning personality on WTDY-AM in Madison, said in a phone interview Thursday that he used the term [...]

 

Russia’s entering the nuke race again?

Posted by: ST on November 17, 2004 at 7:57 pm » 2 Comments

It appears so.

 

Slate’s Jack Shafer on the CIA shakeup

Posted by: ST on November 17, 2004 at 7:55 pm » Comments Off

Get ready to see a lot of back and forth this week regarding the shakeups going on at the CIA. Shafer gives a sneak peek: When Washington bureaucrats collide, the best seat in the house is often wherever you sit to read your daily newspaper. Bureaucrats tend to battle one another in the press, leaking [...]

 

“Now we’ve got a new bunch of Hitlers”

Posted by: ST on November 17, 2004 at 7:46 pm » 7 Comments

Linda Ronstadt has taken up the rhetoric of her new mentor and hero Michael Moore: Don’t get her [Ronstadt] started on the recent presidential election. “People don’t realize that by voting Republican, they voted against themselves,” she says. Of Iraq in particular, she adds, “I worry that some people are entertained by the idea of [...]