In the new park that the town is building next door to where I live, there are signs around the little lake that say “Keep away. Treated with Canada Geese deterrent.”
So, instead, the geese — along with flocks of sea gulls (sea gulls??) — are gathering around the large areas of the grassy park land that have flooded because they weren
In America, we say that we should respect/honor/enable diversity
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary,
Myrln emails about our leadership’s innate perceptual disability:
Meanwhile, they’re rioting and looting in Iraq. Rummysfeld says it’s being overemphasized. A period of looting and rioting, he says, is a small price to pay for freedom. Any society, he goes on, needs a transition from suppression to liberty. Rioting is just a reaction to suppression. Looting comes from pent-up feelings.
Remember that the next time a ghetto goes up.
And US forces are not acting as police or guarding buildings, except for a single building, that of the oil ministry. But it’s not about oil.
The House of Representatives passes a bill approving drilling for oil in Alaska.
It’s not about oil.
America has an official
Malign neglect. That’s what Paul Krugman accuses the Bush administration of in his “Conquest and Neglect” opinion today.
Yes, indeed — as he so accurately points out:
…..there is a pattern to the Bush administration’s way of doing business that does not bode well for the future
An online Financial Times article (which seems only accessible by going to antiwar.com first) reports that The Iraqi Coalition of National Unity (ICNU), which appeared in the city last week riding on US special forces vehicles, has taken to looting and terrorising their neighbourhood with impunity, according to most residents….
Other Iraqi exiles, brought in by the CIA and US special forces to help assemble a local government over the next few days, say the militia is out of control.
“They are nobody, and nobody has ever heard of them, all they have is US backing,” said an Arab journalist.”
Rumsfeld is so arrongantly convinced that America’s presence is going to ensure Iraq’s slow-but-sure emergence as an orderly democratic nation. On TV today, he stated that he was certain that the embedded journalists will come home with wonderful stories about how efficient and successful the American armed forces are in handling the the growing chaos and keeping unnecessary harm at a minimum. I guess he doesn’t bother to investigate factual first-hand accounts; he prefers to make up the news in advance and then let the American press know exactly what he expects them to report.
My mother calls. Put on CNN she says. They