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Sunday, February 2, 2003
[11:23:01 AM]
Boy, if North Korea had a few long range missiles and a few nuclear warheads, that would sure make a good case for Star Wars, wouldn't it? What evidence do we have that provoking North Korea was entirely a matter of incompetence, and not at all a matter of giving us an actual need for Star Wars?
[11:19:06 AM]
Today is Day 503 Bush's hunt for Osama Bin Laden -- Dead or Alive.
[11:10:46 AM]
"This is the worst president ever. He is the worst president in all of American history."
[10:46:24 AM]
We remain optimistic that stalling on Iraq will prevent war:
"Tony Blair and George Bush yesterday agreed to give the UN weapons inspectors and the intelligence agencies as long as six weeks to persuade a sceptical France and Arab countries to come on board for military action against Iraq. In talks at the White House, Mr Blair impressed on the Americans that European public opinion, including in Britain, will not back a war without an explicit second UN resolution. Mr Blair secured support for this longer coalition-building strategy from the US president in a phone call on Thursday. His call coincides with opinion in the US senate." -- Saddam Gets Six More Weeks 2/2 [guardian.co.uk].
Only psychotic madmen would make war for the reasons Bush gives in public, or for his actual reasons.
[10:37:15 AM]
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
A day of blue sky and chirruping birds...
A pond, perhaps, and mighty oaks' leaves
rustling in a gentle breeze.
And you are there.
A sky filled with screaming jets,
arching missiles, blasts of unlovely fireworks.
The earth shakes. The blasts drown these sounds:
The children cry, the mothers scream.
The fathers desperately throw themselves on top of loved ones
to no avail. A hundred summer picnicers shredded
in an instant by cluster bombs.
Thou art not more lovely, nor more temperate.
You are hell. Damnation. Wrought by old, fat,
rich, white men upon poor brown-skinned families.
In the name of America and democracy?
In the name of God? Always in the name of God,
despite the beauty of God's summer's days.
[10:16:13 AM]
The shuttle was a bad design to begin with. Now the shuttles are old, and we keep diverting money from shuttle maintenance and safety to the military and Republican Campaign Contributors. Boom. Very sad.
The San Francisco Chronicle is freaky. It's a Hearst paper. The "news" section is clearly run to avoid news -- the front-page is mostly given over to sports and other circus-style distractions. Today, the *entire* news section is on the shuttle. Section A. Nothing but shuttle.
Here's an article I didn't see in the Chronicle -- maybe it was there somewhere, but maybe not:
Nasa chiefs 'repeatedly ignored' safety warnings [observer.co.uk].
Of course this crash might not have been caused by any of the claimed safety problems, right? This could be a fluke. It could even be pilot error. We don't know, and we might never know. But it's hard to make a case that enough is being done for shuttle safety when two percent of flights end in disaster.
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