The following is NOT anything to do with how many actual fighting men a nation has. It is strictly a count of how many people are considered to be fit for service based on age mainly but also freedom from handicap. Of course, there are about 200 nations and this is just an abbreviated view.…
Monthly Archives: April 2006
OUR FRIENDS AT VANGUARD
The weekly good news from Vanguard Mutual Funds arrived, and it always cheers me up. “This week’s reports painted a picture of a resilient U.S. economy.” I don’t know what that means but I like it. “The economy was strong during the quarter.” I don’t know what that means, but it also sounds good. ‘The…
BETTER GAS MILEAGE
Washington Post……….The Post advocates new laws requiring cars to get better mileage. Not a bad idea but the laws won’t amount to a hill of beans unless they are part of a package of fuel-saving steps. The one that appeals to me is an incentive plan to entice more car-pooling. A system should and could…
RUSSIA WANTS TO CLAMP DOWN ON HATE WEBSITES
Moscow Times………….Need advice on how to pummel kikes, darkies, and slant-eyed monkeys? You can learn how to make people miserable by consulting the “Manual of Street Terror” described by the Moscow Times as a sort of “Dummy’s Guide to Hate Crimes.” The manual is available on dozens of neo-Nazi websites. Russia is working to suppress…
KEN STARR, CHAMPION OF MONEY AND ENEMY OF ORAL COPULATION
Everybody’s favorite darling, Ken Starr, is back in the news. In 2002, Congress passed a law known as Sarbanes-Oxley to fight corporate fraud. It was inspired by the actions of the gangsters at Enron. But, now, Ken is leading an assault on the law because the regulations it imposes violates separation of powers among the…
MONEY, MONEY AND…..MONEY
Get a law degree and go to work for any of the firms listed below. You’ll be glad. Rankings are for 2005 and 2004. Includes percentage increase of earnings from 2004, followed by the number of lawyers in the top ten who work for the firm. 1…… Skadden $1,610,000,000 11.8% ….1,616 2 3 Latham &…
MIDDLE EAST WATCH
Haaretz [Israel] …………Interim Prime Minister Ehud Olmert launched an unprecedented attack on Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in an interview with a German newspaper published Saturday, labelling him an anti-Semitic “psychopath” who “speaks like Hitler.” Olmert told Bild newspaper that the Iranian president “is a psychopath of the worst kind. He speaks like Hitler did of…
PRINCETON SALARIES
It’s good to be smart. The more money you make, the less you work. Most Princeton professors teach six hours per week and the exams they give are graded by their assistants. They also get summer vacations of about 14 weeks and just to be sure they are well rested they get 10 days around…
MISSILES EXPLODE NEAR MOSCOW
Russia Journal………….An air-to-air missile exploded Friday at an air base outside Moscow, killing two servicemen, the head of the Air Force said. Vladimir Mikhailov said the explosion had occurred at 8.30 a.m (4.30 a.m. GMT) at a military base at Sergiyev Posad, 70 kilometers (43 miles) northeast of Moscow. Mikhailov said the missile’s engine had…
IRAN REASONABLE OR NOT?
Haaretz [Israel]………………Iran to allow snap atomic inspections if case returned to IAEA Iran’s deputy nuclear chief said Saturday that Tehran would agree to United Nations supervision of its uranium enrichment process and intrusive inspections of its atomic facilities if its case was referred back to the UN’s nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency. But…
TIMES HEADLINES
We checked the noble NY Times, selected today’s best, and threw out the rest. JUDGE LETS 18 GRANDMOTHERS GO IN PEACE. PUZZLE EMBEDDED IN ‘DA VINCI CODE’ RULING SHE WHO CONTROLS HER BODY CAN UPSET HER COUNTRYMEN ATLANTIC CITY MAY LOSE OUT IN A NEW KIND OF MONOPOLY CONSERVATIVES WIN VOTE OVER IRAQ FUNDING
IT’S OVER / AND WE’RE GLAD
The era of independent counsel probes has come to a close. The Ken Starrs, David Barretts, Lawrence Walshs will not be around to kick us any longer, exhausting tens of millions of dollars in their relentless pursuit of guys who have sex in oval-shaped offices, guys who lies about payments to their mistresses, and a…
AFRICA NEWS
http://www.north-africa.com/free.htm …………..The price of medicines for Moroccan patients will not decrease as they were told a year ago. Lobbying from the pharmaceutical industry convinced or forced the government to reverse its decision to impose a price reduction. The industry association Amip (Association Marocaine de l’Industrie Pharmaceutique) began pressuring the Moroccan government as early as March…
RUSSIA EDITORIALS
Pravda……….It is now proven that the American press — led by the New York Times –helped start the war in Iraq. As the London Guardian notes, every major daily in the U.S. that carried editorials on Secretary of State Colin Powell’s speech to the United Nations asserted that the war was justified by the evidence…
WAY BACK EAST
Prague Post…………Chernobyl was more than a single disaster, however large that one event was. It was the first highly visible crack in the Soviet Union. Things would never again be the same for the evil empire. The West had known the bitter truth of Soviet life for many years before: the 500,000 prisoners in the…
PIG TO HUMAN TRANSPLANT
Dr. Frankenstein would have loved it. Campaign for Responsible Transplantion………… The Campaign for Responsible Transplantation (CRT), a New York-based coalition of 90 international public interest groups, believes that cross-species transplants or xenotransplants should be banned because of the risk of infecting patients and the general public with viruses from genetically altered pigs – biotechnology companies’…
FOIE GRAS BANNED IN CHICAGO
Farm Sanctuary……….Today, in a historic move, the Chicago City Council banned the sale of cruel foie gras within city limits! The passing of this humane proposal, introduced by Alderman Joe Moore, makes Chicago the first city in America to enact such a measure. Pate de foie gras is goose liver obtained after force-feeding geese. It…
CRIME AND CORRUPTION WATCH
St. Louis Post-Dispatch…………A federal judge refused Wednesday to allow former Illinois Gov. George Ryan’s lawyers to interview two of the jurors at his racketeering and fraud trial as they search for ammunition to include in his request for a new trial. Northwest Herald (Chicago) ………….A little-known regulatory agency’s status tends to change when a board…
TERRORIST WATCH
Sydney Herald………….Lebanon to deport Australian suspect. The Australian terrorist suspect Saleh Jamal is likely to be deported when he is released from a Beirut jail early next month, Lebanese security sources say. As police rounded up suspects in the triple bombing of the Red Sea tourist resort of Dahab, two men blew themselves up in…
EARTHQUAKE / 1500 TO THE RESCUE
Russia Journal…………PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY – More than 1,500 rescue workers and 260 units of equipment have been summoned to Russia’s Far Eastern towns hit by a powerful earthquake last week, emergency services said Wednesday. The earthquake with a magnitude of 7.8 points on the Richter scale, the strongest since 1900 in the area, hit the sparsely populated…
TIDBITS
Iraq has time for beauty pageants but not time enough to celebrate them. This year’s winner fled the country after receiving death threats from jihadist thugs. The runner-up declined to succeed her. The second runner-up did likewise. Beauty and politics don’t mix.****Two men planning to walk from the South Pole to London were arrested by…
WHERE THE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS LIVE
I have taken an approximate midpoint of several estimates. These are the major places of habitation for illegal immigrants. California 2.6 million…..Texas 1.5 million…..Florida 900,000 New York 600,000….Arizona 400,000 ….Illinois 400,000 Georgia 400,000….New Jersey 400,000 These states account for about 2/3 of all the immigrants. Pew Research Center……….Americans who live in areas with the highest…
MUSLIM LEADERS REJECT AL QAEDA
Aljazeera…………Hamas and a Sudanese rebel group have distanced themselves from a statement from Osama bin Laden condemning the West for its actions in both countries. [Sudan and Palestine] A spokesman for Hamas said his party and his nation want to have good relations with the West. Hamas leaders have distanced themselves from al-Qaeda, saying their…
LETHAL INJECTION
The NY Times weighs in today on the case of the man who, having exhausted his ordinary habeas corpus appeals, is now claiming lethal injection is particularly cruel. The Times agrees because it is tricky to do it right and, when it is botched, it is gruesome business. The Times adds that any death penalty…
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