Moon on Feb 24th, 2004
February 27th, 2004
Enlarged smaller area with craters and a mountain range at the edge of light and darkness.
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Archive
Archive for February, 2004
Pleiades (M45)
February 26th, 2004
First time…
February 25th, 2004
Bush Backs Amendment Banning Gay Marriage
All 27 amendments to the US constitution, were made to increase the freedom and rights enjoyed by US citizens. If this madness goes through the process, this will be the first time when an amendament will limit rights of its citizens. The history of USA is full of struggles to remove all forms of discimination to provide equal rights for all. This will go against all that and be discriminatory towards gays and lesbians.
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A bit of color
February 24th, 2004
Changed stylesheet of the blog. Added a bit of color to my original boring grey color-scheme.
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Halliburton criminal probe
February 24th, 2004
Finally a step in the right direction.
Pentagon opens Halliburton criminal probe
After not only allegations, but, Halliburton accepted overcharging in at least two cases and returned money to the government.
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Not just oil…
That’s it???
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National guard, College education, etc.
February 24th, 2004
Other than the fact that they belong to the republican party, former vice president, Dan Quayle has quite a few things in common with the current president.
Both Mr. Quayle and Mr. Bush were in the National Guard during the Vietnam war. Both were accused of using influence to get into the National Guard rather than active military. Mr. Quayle denied the use of influence, but, unlike Mr. Bush, he was forthright about the reasons for getting into the National Guard.
“Obviously, if you join the National Guard, you have less of a chance of going to Vietnam,” he (Dan Quayle) said on “Meet the Press” some time later. “I mean, it goes without saying.”
In the current controversy about George W’s military record, it is taken for granted that he used his father’s political influence to get ahead of a 500-man waiting list to get into the National Guard. But, he makes a big deal about how it was as important to serve in the National Guard as in the active military and how he fulfilled (or not) his requirements in Texas and Alabama.
General Colin Powell wrote in his book “My American Journey“:
The policies–determining who would be drafted and who would be deferred, who would serve and who would escape, who would die and who would live–were an antidemocratic disgrace. I can never forgive a leadership that said, in effect: These young men–poorer, less educated, less privileged–are expendable (someone described them as “economic cannon fodder”), but the rest are too good to risk. I am angry that so many of the sons of the powerful and well placed and so many professional athletes (who were probably healthier than any of us) managed to wrangle spots in Reserve and National Guard units. Of the many tragedies of Vietnam, this raw class discrimination strikes me as the most damaging to the ideal that all Americans are created equal and owe equal allegiance to their country.
It is amazing that General Powell didn’t say anything about W’s use of influence to get into the National Guard. The very same behaviour that he so angrily condemned in his book.
During his political life, Mr. Quayle suffered through much ridicule about his spelling abilities and hence, his perceived intelligence. Similar questions about Mr. Bush’s intelligence and language skills have been raised since he started his run for the White House. If one looks at the academic records, Mr. Quayle had a C+ average, better than Mr. Bush’s straight C average. Surprisingly, vice president Mr. Cheney, who seems so smart and intelligent flunked out of Yale twice.
Information in this post is taken from Calvin Trillin’s Op-Ed in The New York Times.
Op-Ed Contributor: Quayle, Reconsidered
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Superbowl hypocrisy
February 19th, 2004
Comments heard at the lunch table today:
- Total area of Janet Jackson’s body covered by clothing during the Superbowl halftime show was more than twice of the cheerladers.
- Why do certain US lawmakers object to mullahs ordering women to wear burkas, when they can’t stand the sight of human flesh themselves?
- Why is it OK to show mangled dead bodies in the evening news or the gruesome things they do in ‘Fear Factor’, and Superbowl halftime show was deemed obscene?
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