News is coming in that at least in Shanghai, you can no longer access Wikipedia.
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Update (10/30) Now Typepad is blocked, too.
Tags: Wiki, Wikipedia, Blogs, Blogging, Freedom of Speech, China
China Blocks Wikipedia ?
Posted on October 21, 2005 ·
Outsource Homeland Security
Posted on September 9, 2005 ·
… says The Tennessee Guerilla Women blog.
Fact: the Canadian rescue team reached New Orleans days before the US military.
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Watching TV News before going to sleep yesterday, split screen, left showing studio, right showing a Chinook helicopter lifting 3 huge sandbags.
Wait, what’s that unusual decal on the side? Zoom-in: Republic of Singapore Air Force
Tags: Katrina, International Aid, Disaster Aid, Politics, Outsourcing, Homeland Security
A Picture’s Worth a Thousand Words
Posted on September 9, 2005 ·
These two making the rounds on the Net, the first one supposedly from New Orleans, the next from Sky News.
P.S. Before I get flooded with comments, yes, I know the Fishing in New Orleans pic is a fake – but it shows what many consider is wrong with the the President’s Attitude.
Pat Robertson “Misinterpreted” ?
Posted on August 24, 2005 ·
Tags: Pat Robertson, Right-Wing, Politics, Christian Media, 700 Club, Assassination, Crime, Freedom of Speech
Pat Robertson now claims his call for the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has been misinterpreted:
“I said our special forces could take him out. Take him out could be a number of things including kidnapping…
There are a number of ways of taking out a dictator from power besides killing him. I was misinterpreted.”
Yeah, right… But how about this quote:
“If he thinks we’re trying to assassinate him, I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it.”
It
must be my poor understanding of the English langugae … would somebody
please explain how this could be “misinterpreted”?
Update (8/24). Admitting there was no “misinterpration” Pat Robertson apologized:
“Is it right to call for assassination? No, and I apologize for that statement. “
Pat Robertson Publicly Calls for Assassination
Posted on August 23, 2005 ·
Pat Robertson uses his broadcast to call for a political assassination:
“Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson has suggested that American agents assassinate Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to stop his country from becoming “a launching pad for communist infiltration and Muslim extremism.”
Thanks God the US abandoned it’s earlier policy to assassinate political leaders we don’t like. No-one should get away with public solicitation for a crime under the auspices of Freedom of Speech. Especially not in the media where “wardrobe malfunctions” or improper language result in fines and bans from the air waves.
ABC TV got banned from Russia for airing a terrorist’s views. What do we do with “The 700 Club”?
Update (8/23) This is funny.
GOP Senator Says Iraq Looking Like Vietnam
Posted on August 21, 2005 ·
When I read the Army was preparing for 4 more years in Iraq, my first though was: Vietnam.
But I don’t even have to say it, a GOP Senator just voiced the same ….
Update (8/28) The Vietnamization of Bush’s Vacation (NY Times)
Tags: Iraq, Vietnam, 4 More Years, Bush, Politics
Slap In the Face
Posted on August 21, 2005 ·
It must be my twisted mind again … I always link two seemingly unrelated events / articles together.
Jeff Nolan asks why SF Supervisors decided to ban a historical monument, the USS Iowa from becoming a permanent exhibit in San Francisco.
Quite a coincidence that just today the Chronicle is lamenting on why Bush does not ever visit San Francisco. No, I don’t like the President, and could not care less whether he comes this way, but, hey, it’s a bit hyppocratical to whine about it while the City slaps not just the government, but the nation’s history in the face.
The President of the United States should not single out only one major city and boycott it, no matter what it’s political leaning is. Likewise, the battleship that participated in World War II, as well as Korea is a monument that should be displayed for our kids to see and learn about, no matter what the current policies of the Pentagon are.
Perhaps not every aspect of our lives should be driven by politics and partisanship…
Update (8/21) Apparenly I am not that twisted … Jeff Jarvis came to the same conclusion.
Update 2 (2/21):
Quote of the week – Jerry Sandoval
Technorati Tags: Politics, San Francisco, Bay Area, Bush, USS Iowa
Presidential Bike-ride with Lance Armstrong
Posted on August 19, 2005 ·
President Bush will ride the bike with Lance Armstrong. He is well prepared for the experience:
– fell off a Segway (isn’t that almost impossible) in Maine
– fell off a mountain bike in Texas
– fell off a bike at the G8 summit, hitting a local cop.
Is this really such a good idea?
Tags: Bush, Politics, Humor, Lance Armstrong, Sport
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