Volume 2 Issue 47
April 8, 2003
Who's being Patriotic?
Targeting Saddam, are both US and Iraqi propaganda projects failures, and Hummer says go to Hell
Work's going to be busy the next few weeks, so the rants will have to be scaled back to only 3 or so a week, but the news should keep coming for the most part, I'll let you know if I'm going to miss a day or two.
Two especially interesting articles today about a subject long familiar to readers by now, that of simple criticism of our leaders suddenly becoming unpatriotic. In fact, John Kerry was bashed just recently for saying that Bush shouldn't be re-elected. I'll be elaborating on this more later in the week, but here are the articles for now -
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/08/opinion/08KRUG.html
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/editorial/5581728.ht m
Bombing Saddam: The US took another shot at the Iraqi leader -
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20030408-10813570.htm
It was apparently hot intel, with only 15 minutes going from the target beggining assigned to it being destroyed -
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56297-2003Apr8.html
But what type of intel was it?
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/world/Primetime/iraq_main0304 08.html
How will they know if they got him?
http://www.thisislondon.com/til/jsp/modules/Article/print.js p?itemId=4236308
The Battle of Baghdad: Do our drone planes both give us an advantage, and tell us the battle will be easy?
http://slate.msn.com/id/2081236/
The Most Optimistic Man in Iraq: Who the hell is this information ministry guy anyway?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2927031.stm
Other PR professionals give him some tips..."cause when you're going down, style counts" -
http://slate.msn.com/id/2081243/
Speaking of bad propaganda: Our efforts to get the message out aren't working too well either -
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/08/opinion/08KRIS.html
Whoops: Yeah, those "chemical weapons" we found? Pesticides -
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54014-2003Apr8.html
Reporters Being Bad: The troops get back at Geraldo...in their own special way -
http://www.twincities.com/mld/pioneerpress/news/local/558120 0.htm
Outbreak: Looks like China was lying (big surprise there!) and has many more SARS cases than first reported -
http://www.time.com/time/asia/news/daily/0,9754,441615,00.ht ml
Is SARS spread by cockroaches? Could that explain it's huge outbreak in Hong Kong?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/2927695.stm
Those surgical masks everyone wears don't really help much -
http://slate.msn.com/id/2081235/
Apparently, the Bush Administration never did too well in math: So what's the budget deficit this week?
http://slate.msn.com/id/2081158/
Look Who's Running for President: Bob Graham, who had open heart surgery and never held a single fundraiser, raised over $1 million in the 1st Quarter. This pretty much establishes him as part of the field -
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/20030 407/ap_on_el_pr/democrats_2004&e=1&ncid
Idiots in the Senate: Norm Coleman (R-Minn), who won the seat after Paul Wellstone died in a plane crash, made a disparaging comment about him to the Hill rag Roll Call. Proving that he is a total idiot, he used a Mark Twain quote in his "explanatory" statement that basically confirmed that he meant what he said -
http://www.startribune.com/stories/462/3810823.html
They love it, they can't live without it...it's the Bad John Edwards Photo of the Day!
Now that's a bad hairdo!
Be Like Dick: Now NJ Governor Jim "One-term" McGreevy is taking a page from Dick Nixon, creating an "enemies list" -
http://www.nj.com/statehouse/ledger/index.ssf?/base/news-0/1049783780100980.xml
It's about time: The DC Taxicab Commission will run a pilot project for meters in the city's cabs. DC is the only major city that does not use meters in taxi's, running instead off a zone system. While it does save riders money if they're stuck in traffic, the zone system is also nearly impossible to understand, and regularly manipulated by taxi drivers -
http://www.theeagleonline.com/section.cfm/113/3/5128
Putting in those deflibrators would be a start: McDonalds, hurt by lagging sales and declining profits, is trying to re-invent itself as healthier -
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/2927705.stm
Maybe one should be named after the Bureaucracy: The newest complication in Boston's "Big Dig"? Naming the tunnels -
http://www.adn.com/24hour/politics/story/844305p-5931177c.html
The "Fuck You Vehicle": Hummer's new TV ads are...well, different -
http://slate.msn.com/id/2081132/
