http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060620/ap_on_re_us/new_orleans_national_guard_14
I believe we had this discussion before as per the right to firearms. Now it seems the mayor, responding to a weekend of blood (6 deaths) is deploying the National Guard to patrol the streets. Is this the right thing to do? Is this a signal of bad things to come? I have also read that they are going to be closing down several of the public housing facilities in NO and issuing rent vouchers. There are also widespread cases of releif abuse by the citizens.
Is there a light at the end of the tunnel for NO?
Link
Just after the lightning takeover of Baghdad by U.S. forces three years ago, an unusual two-page document spewed out of a fax machine at the Near East bureau of the State Department. It was a proposal from Iran for a broad dialogue with the United States, and the fax suggested everything was on the table — including full cooperation on nuclear programs, acceptance of Israel and the termination of Iranian support for Palestinian militant groups.
What?! WHAT!? So right now, our major crisis is that Iran might get a nuke and do something with it. And in 2003 they came crawling on their knees to discuss ANYTHING and EVERYTHING!? So what did we do?
But top Bush administration officials, convinced the Iranian government was on the verge of collapse, belittled the initiative. Instead, they formally complained to the Swiss ambassador who had sent the fax with a cover letter certifying it as a genuine proposal supported by key power centers in Iran, former administration officials said.
Are you joking? Seriously joking? We wouldn’t even talk to them? Now we have Ax with his broken camel’s back because we went crawling to them as opposed to engaging in diplomacy when one of the ‘effin AXIS OF EVIL was so scared of us that they offered us their lunch money.
Yea, they might have reneged, but can you image the hit they would have taken as an administration that they negotiated with the Great Satan? You want regime change, you publicly undermine the regime.
I just am so dumbfounded. This sh!t keeps happeneing. When will we just get rid of this positively incapable administration? This is the straw that broke my camel’s back.
-Midnight
It’s time for my periodic telling folks what’s good post. I know, you read fark and drudge so you know all the cool stuff, right?
Sorry. The kids have been out there making new exciting things on the interweb using technology that soulds like diseases and cleaning products and it’s cool. Are you ready to be cool and tell other people?
First we’ll be funny. ZeFrank has a couple mintues of commentary daily and he’s pretty darn good. A little crazy, but it’s fun stuff. And he doesn’t blink. Then there are those questions where your life experience just won’t do, and you need to Ask A Ninja. Thankfully a ninja hasn’t killed you yet, so you get a chance to visit this website.
You are probably cool enough to have Firefox, but the question is do you have all the cool stuff? Do you want to be able to cut down on spam and instantly create disposable email addresses? Gish Puppy has got you covered. Right click and in one step you have a site customized disposable address. Tab Mix Plus customizes your tabs. ForecastFox Enhanced will give you a quick three day forecast in the bottom of your browser, but even cooler than that is it will give you radar images too. You already use del.icio.us so you should have the extension installed. Since baseball is no longer the new hotness, you have to stay up on your football scores. And Update Notifier will keep all of your extensions current, so you stay cool. (you could try to be extra cool and use flock, but trying to be cool is so uncool. But I think flock might just be cool.)
But Midnight, doesn’t anyone surf websites anymore? No. You can Digg (but it’s not better than the dot).
I remember Napster… No Napster, no Pirate Bay, just mininova. And torrents, get Azureus.
“I’m more of an email type of person”, you say. So play games by email.
That should be enough to get you by for a while. For anything else or stuff that you were afraid to ask… well, you’ll find it.
And now your moment of zen.
You’re Welcome.
-Midnight
I’m frustrated, annoyed, and angry. How could Bush do this?
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/06/06/D8I2PI2O0.html
This is completely unforgivable, especially in light of the stunning failure of the exact same policy with North Korea. Why don’t we just install Bin Laden as president of Iraq?
It’s official. Bush has given up on the war on terror and we will be paying the price for decades to come.