I have not been able to figure out if Students for War is a subtle pardoy or if the people behind it really are sincerely insane. A WHOIS search turns up an essentially anonymous registration (registered to “Concerned Citizen.”) If it’s really mean to be serious, a) again, they’re insane, and b) I’m not sure…
November, 2003
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Voice of America reports that MPs representing the northern region of Uganda staged a walkout of parliament to protest the government’s inability to deal decisively with the Lord’s Resistance Army’s continuing violent incursions in that part of the country. Lira district MP Margaret Ateng complained that after 16 years the Ugandan government still doesn’t seem…
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Members of Parliament from Lango, Uganda, urged the government to supply more rifles to pro-government militias fighting the Lord’s Resistance Army in Lango. The LRA recently released letters promising to undertake widespread killings in Lango. Kampala newspaper The Monitor quoted Lango member of parliament Omara Atubo as saying, Imagine 2,000 people being given only 800…
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The Mail and Guardian reports that earlier this week Lord’s Resistance Army troops murdered several children they had previously kidnapped in Uganda’s Lira district, UgandaÂ’s LordÂ’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebels on Tuesday bludgeoned to death nine children they had earlier abducted as well as three others they found in a village in northern Uganda, army…
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Africa Online reports that Nigeria is creating a special government commission to crack down on 419 scammers. Of course you have to remember that Nigeria is one of the largest oil exporting countries in the world, but it’s government has not been able to solve the country’s long-running gasoline shortages. So don’t expect to see…
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Okay, so the mini-scandal of the week was the revelation that a person apparently part of Republican Orrin Hatch’s staff managed to access a Congressional server that contained drafts of memos by Democrats. The person in question then posted some of those memos on the Internet and/or leaked them to media people. How could this…
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One of the reasons I and others swear by Conversant to manage our web sites it that 90 percent of the time if I think of a really cool feature I’d like to have, I can create it myself without having to know any programming or having to hope enough other people want it to…
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Macrobyte recently added a few features to Conversant (the CMS/groupware system that drives this web site) that I had requested. The one that made the biggest difference on this site was an additional field of metadata for directories. A brief re-cap here: everything on this site is saved as an entry in a database. Various…
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The debate over allowing Americans to import drugs from Canada — where they are generally cheaper — is fascinating if only to watch free trade Republicans come out in favor of protectionism and protectionist Democrats suddenly find the free trade religion. I agree with those who believe Americans should be able to buy imported drugs…
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There is some support in the United States for “solving” America’s health care problems with a state-run health system like Canada and European countries have. Fortunately, although there might be a lot of support for a generic health care system like this, such support tends to vanish when people start seeing the details (e.g. HillaryCare).…