I’ll let Rossi tell her story.It all started with a phone call. I’d been walking up and down the West Side Highway, trying to volunteer, but no one would take me. Then finally, a young woman whose wedding I was supposed to cater, called to tell me it was canceled because her party space looked [...]
Dirty Girl Having Fun
Aug 28th, 2003
I think they sent Road Rules to this one time and all the little weenies were pissed that they got dirty. Well, here’s a dirty girl who looks like she’s having fun. Yummy!A girl throws tomatoes during the annual ‘Tomatina’ battle in Bunyol on August 27, 2003. The biggest tomato fight in the world takes [...]
Michele is compiling stories from September 11, 2001. She first did this last year, and is now expanding the project. VOICES can currently be found here. These are the stories of ordinary people on September 11, worldwide, and how the murders that occurred that day affected them. She’s collecting stories to add, and her e-mail [...]
Three American Children Murdered
Aug 20th, 2003
BY PEOPLE THIS BITCH SUPPORTEDRachel Corrie, defender of pimps, drug lords and terroristsThese are the children she helped to murder:Yitzhak Reinitz, age 9Shmuel Taubenfeld, a baby of 3 monthsTehilla Nathanson, age 3Those are the American children killed. There were other children also killed.Palestinians kill children. Israelis kill terrorists.
Society: Electrical Power Resources
Aug 15th, 2003
Via el Jefe, Glenn:Map, North American Power Grids1965 Blackout HistoryNew York City Blackout of 1977Real time Graph, Connecticutt Valley electrical loadThis is formally BASH CANADA DAY!The first thing the Canadian Government found to do was to blame the Americans for the power failure.The office of the Canadian prime minister, Jean Chretien, initially said the power [...]
Odd Little Allies
Aug 14th, 2003
But Very Welcome
Poking around the Centcom site, I found some little noticed info about our allies in the War on Terror:The Macedonian Air Force is in Afghanistan, ten troopsBelguim has 160 troops in AfghanistanSpain sent their Navy to Iraq and is operating a hospital. Also, one battalion-sized task force is operating in KabulThe Finns are [...]
SARS: Gone But Not Forgotten
Aug 13th, 2003
COUNTRY DEATHS DEATHS + RECOVERIES DEATH RATE(DEATHS/(DEATHS+RECOVERIES) [...]
Quagmire, Part III
Aug 6th, 2003
Bigwig over at Silflay Hraka bought the book I quoted (via on-line sources), and posts a nice graph of post-war resistance in the British sector of Germany. If I count correctly, 81 attacks on Allied personnel in the 15 month period covered by the graph. It’d be interesting to turn it into a stacked bar [...]
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No Ordinary Day
Aug 27th, 2003
September 11, 2001 dawned for me like many had that summer, sunny and warm. I was out of work for nearly a year, working a 4 hour per day temp job at the time. About 9 or so my boss came in and asked if I had a news station on my radio in the [...]
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