Author: david

  • Be Prepared

    HANOI (Reuters) – The spread of Asia’s deadly bird flu to Europe is a “troubling sign” and the world must work faster to prepare for a potential flu pandemic, U.S. Health Secretary Mike Leavitt said on Friday. —————– I hear that Bush White House officials are assembling a team of top Public Relations experts from…

  • More on “Appearance of a Conflict of Interest”

    I am inspired by Dumpster’s post below, to make a general point about “The Appearance of a Conflict Interest.” I believe the meanings of the key terms here have become distorted and compromised in recent years. It may not affect this EPA ruling directly, but the Inspector General did contribute to the convenient confusion surrounding…

  • The “Barbara Bush Principle”

    Papers Offer Peek at Miers’s Views Washington Post Miers, President Bush’s nominee to the Supreme Court, said in her 1995 letter to Bush that the legislation was a blatant attempt to protect a “handful of greedy, but immensely rich and powerful” trial lawyers. ————————– DKo: The legislation in question protected the use of a lawyer’s…

  • In Honor of the Yom Kippur Fast

    This is from the weekly prophetical reading that is designated for Yom Kippur (Beginning this year on the evening of October 12.): Jeremiah 58 6 …this is the fast I desire: To unlock the fetters of wickedness, And untie the cords of the yoke To let the oppressed go free; To break off every yoke.…

  • Sorry Gallows Humour

    The real problem with medical marijuana, the DEA says, is not its specific effects on health, but that it “sends absolutely the wrong message to elderly people.” This age group tends to view debilitating diseases as “cool,” and statistical studies indicate powerful peer-pressure for illness and pain at this age. It may also be a…

  • Shock and Opossumism

    Bush ‘encouraged’ despite report on Iraqi troops, Reuters During congressional testimony on Thursday, Gen. George Casey, top U.S. commander in Iraq, and Gen. John Abizaid, top U.S. commander in the Middle East, said the number of such battalions [that can go into combat without the help of the U.S. military] had dropped since July to…