Two items on the front page of the hometown rag, the Kalamazoo Gazette, left Lisa and I scratching our heads over lunch. First, the other day a dismembered body was found on the side of the road. Police still don’t know who the victim is or even what the cause of death was (autopsy was…
January, 2004
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Seeing the writing on the wall after John Kerry’s big win in Iowa, Wesley Clark decides to test out John Edwards’ proposed job retraining program:
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More than four years after his 1999 arrest, International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda convicted former minister of higher education Jean de Dieu Kamuhanda of both genocide and crimes against humanity. The 51-year old Kamhuanda personally led militias to a church and school to slaughter Tutsis who had sought protection there. Kamuhanda was sentenced to life…
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Nathan Yengler has created a very handy Creative Commons RDF License Validator.
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Over the past year or so I’ve been occasionally posting pictures of protests by a local group called Kalamazoo Non-Violent Opponents to War (KNOW). On the one hand this group has done a lot of anti-Patriot Act and anti-Ashcroft stuff which I agree with. On the other hand, you’ll also find nonsense like this in…
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The most pathetic moment blogging the State of the Union and the Democratic response has to go to Dave Winer who writes, The most pathetic moment last night was not in Bush’s speech, although it was close, the prize goes to Nancy Pelosi, who misquoted JFK’s “Ask not what your country can do for you…”…
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If you need to contact me via e-mail and I don’t already already know you, the best option is to either post the message to this or any of my other web sites, or use this web e-mail form if the inquiry is of a more private nature. E-mail sent directly to brian@carnell.com that is…
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A group calling itself the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative began circulating petitions back in November to put a question on the November 2004 ballot on whether or not to ban racial discriminatory admissions policies at universities and colleges in Michigan. Many of the leaders of the Republican Party came out against the idea. One of…
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Wow, here’s a shocker — according to the New York Times, the Bush adminstration is proposing to further increase federal spending! President Bush will increase Medicare payments to health maintenance organizations and other private health plans by a record 10.6 percent in an effort to persuade them to enter the Medicare market and increase benefits…
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Has there ever been a major candidate as completely inept as Wesley Clark? I personally can’t stand John Kerry or most of what he stands for, but this comment by Clark is way out of bounds, It’s one thing to be a hero as a junior officer. He’s done that, I respect that. But I’ve…