Archive for July, 2007
Sunday, July 29th, 2007
Simple Question: Is it Moral to Bomb and Destroy Other Countries?
The Guardian reports on an overlooked health crisis in Iraq: Thousands of amputations.
As the pressure to produce results increases on U.S troops, they have increasingly resorted to calling in more air support. Seymour Hersh has done excellent reporting on the incredible volume of bombing, why is corroborated by the estimate of 655,000 extra […]
No Comments » - Posted in General News, Politics by Garrett Tedeman
Saturday, July 28th, 2007
Forbes.com — Pat Tillman Likely Murdered by U.S. Soldiers
This war is so f—ing illegal.
-Patrick Tillman
In what can only be described as a horrific revelation… and something that his family has apparently suspected since Day 1, recent AP report that have been released indicated that the 3 bullet holes in Tillman’s forehead where so close together that the medical examiners believed they might […]
No Comments » - Posted in General News, Politics by Garrett Tedeman
Saturday, July 28th, 2007
Aquafina to Change Label — It’s just tap water.
NEW YORK - The label on Aquafina water bottles will soon be changed to spell out that the drink comes from the same source as tap water, the brand’s owner said Friday.
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/07/27/ap3960953.html
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Tuesday, July 24th, 2007
“I don’t trust you.” — Senate Judiciary Chairman, Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) to Attorney General
WASHINGTON — A powerful Senate Republican on Tuesday told Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to consider appointing a special prosecutor to investigate the firings of federal prosecutors.
On the hot seat: Alberto Gonzalez is getting grilled again by the Senate, and even former Republican chairman Arlen Spector is laying into him: “The constitutional authority and responsibility for […]
No Comments » - Posted in Politics by Garrett Tedeman
Monday, July 23rd, 2007
Half/American - Half/Pakistani writes about “Why They Hate Us”…and…”Why They Love Us” — WashingtonPost.com
Ever since 9/11/2001, Americans have continued to ask “Why Do They Hate Us?” And, after doing a lot of research myself, the reasons were pretty much what you might expect. The legacy of American foreign policy has not alway been a good one. For instance, in the 1980’s, we actually employed Osama […]
No Comments » - Posted in General News, Politics by Garrett Tedeman
Friday, July 20th, 2007
Florida - The State of “Never-Ending Weirdness”… Surface-to-Air Missile Found in a Tampa, FL Junkyard
One thing’s always been for sure, whether you’re talking about the place most of the 19 highjackers on 9/11 were training, or the state that had the closest Presidential Election in History, or whether it was alternately Al Capone’s alibi after the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre (Miami), or the place where famous tax frauds like […]
No Comments » - Posted in General News by Garrett Tedeman
Wednesday, July 18th, 2007
CNN’s Michael Ware - “Beware of Smoke and Mirrors from the Administration”
This week a new National Intelligence Estimate was released (the NIE is an assembly of the best intel from all branches of the U.S. Intel system), and has stated that:
Al Qaeda has reconstituted itself and is more powerful now than at any time since Summer 2001.
The Iraq War has “energized the Jihadi movement around the […]
No Comments » - Posted in Politics by Garrett Tedeman
Wednesday, July 18th, 2007
GnuCash 2.2.0 Released
Fed up with the annoyances of Quickbooks? Don’t want to get tied into Office 2007 and M$ Accounting? Well, then you may want to take a look at GnuCash.
Totally open and free, the program is nonetheless a full-powered double-entry accounting system. It’s very capable and has just been ported to the Windows environment:
GnuCash Release Announcment
No Comments » - Posted in Tech by Garrett Tedeman
Saturday, July 14th, 2007
The Ever-Changing Mission in Iraq
Thinkprogress.org has assembled a fascinating list of our mission(s) in Iraq:
THE PRE-WAR MISSION WAS TO RID IRAQ OF WMD
Bush: “Our mission is clear in Iraq. Should we have to go in, our mission is very clear: disarmament.” [3/6/03]
AFTER THE WAR BEGAN, THE MISSION EXPANDED
Bush: “Our cause is just, the security of the nations we serve […]
No Comments » - Posted in General News, Politics by Garrett Tedeman
Monday, July 9th, 2007
Miami Herald - Reservist Files Suit to Avoid 5th Deployment
After serving in Afghanistan and three times in Iraq, an Army Reserve sergeant (and former Special Forces soldier), from Port St. Lucie recoiled at still another deployment. These kinds of stories are still difficult to believe:
PORT ST. LUCIE –
Erik Botta believes he’s done right by his country. Days after 9/11, as a young Army reservist, […]
