Archbishop Giovanni Lajolo told an Italian newspaper that, The torture [of Iraqi prisoners]? A more serious blow to the United States than Sept. 11. Except that the blow was not inflicted by terrorists but by Americans against themselves And the Vatican certainly knows a lot about bad publicity from torturous interrogation procedures. Source: Prison Abuse…
May, 2004
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The Boston Globe today ran explicit photographs allegedly showing sexual abuse of Iraqi prisoners by U.S. soldiers on its front page today. The photographs are, in fact, fake and are taken from various pornographic Internet sites. The amusing thing is that World Net Daily exposed the photographs as fake more than a week ago —…
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When George W. Bush visited Kalamazoo on May 3, I really wanted to take time off work to go photograph the anti-Bush protest being organized by the Kalamazoo Non-Violent Opponents of War. Unfortunately it was the first day of class and I couldn’t take the risk of being stuck on the opposite part of town.…
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The Bush administration kicked off its term in office by imposing Draconian tariffs on imported wood from Canada and now it seems to likely to bookend its first term with equally stupid tariffs on Canadian pork products. The U.S. International Trade Commission claims that Canada unfairly subsidizes hog farmers. Canadian hog farmers say that’s simply…
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It’s amazing that you can’t even trust major universities to get basic facts straight in press releases these days. Here’s the first couple paragraphs from an April 16 press release from the University at Buffalo about alleged problems with eating a high-fat breakfast (emphasis added), A breakfast of Egg McMuffin and hash brown may taste…
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USA Today has a profile of Spc. Joseph Darby who on January 13, 2004 gave Army investigators copies of the pictures of abuse of inmates at Abu Ghraib prison. One of Darby’s neighbors tells USA Today, He stood up for human rights, not just for prisoners, but for all people. He knew right from wrong.…
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Rep. Rick Boucher (D-Virginia) has introduced a bill that would amend the DMCA to explicitly allow consumers to do things like make backup copies of DVDs. But Fritz Attaway, executive vice president of the Motion Picture Association of America says it would not be in the best interests of consumers to make backup copies of…
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George W. Bush has used this line in some of his speeches referring derisively to people who think that the Third World simply isn’t ready for democracy. Some liberal commentators have suggested that this is a straw man — that nobody is out there saying anything remotely like this. Well, you can add liberal pundit…
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I took my son and daughter along to the local Meijer grocery store today (it’s a Midwestern grocery chain for those of you in other parts of the country). Spent about 45 minutes picking up various things and headed to checkout. So I end up in a checkout aisle that has an endcap designed to…
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Whereas the American people and the world are dismayed by revelations of abuses inflicted upon detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad; (Engrossed as Agreed to or Passed by House) HRES 627 EH H. Res. 627 In the House of Representatives, U.S., May 6, 2004. Whereas the American people and the world are dismayed…