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:: 1.12.2006 ::  



Unacceptable

This entry is lifted wholesale from Tom Tomorrow's blog.
Supporting the troops, Republican style:
A secret Pentagon study has found that as many as 80 percent of the marines who have been killed in Iraq from wounds to the upper body could have survived if they had had extra body armor. Such armor has been available since 2003, but until recently the Pentagon has largely declined to supply it to troops despite calls from the field for additional protection, according to military officials.
Christ almighty, if you’re going to send these people — kids, most of them — out on such a fool’s errand, at least give them a fighting chance of surviving their tour of duty. Repeal the goddamn tax cuts and buy them the basic armor they need. Or run up the deficit a little higher. Or just add on a special “armor tax” to this year’s tax return — I’ll pay it happily. Hell, I’ll throw in extra. Eighty percent might have survived. Eighty percent. Words fail me.
Pretty awful. "Support our troops," indeed.

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:: 1.09.2006 ::  



This film looks interesting

Why We Fight: a look at the military-industrial complex and how the profitability of war has caused us to wage more of it.

Recommended: Good Night, and Good Luck; Syriana; Jarhead; The Aristocrats; Brokeback Mountain.

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:: 1.02.2006 ::  



More storms on the horizon
Bill Gray of Colorado University uses turbo-charged computer models that crunch data on global sea-surface temperatures and atmospheric conditions to forecast the number and intensity of hurricanes that will hit the US each year.

Gray, whose track record is startlingly good, says 2006 will be no picnic -- 17 named tropical storms, nine hurricanes and five major, high-wind hurricanes, nearly twice the historical average in all categories. [emphasis added]
From YahooNews, link courtesy of Fark.

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