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TOAST
Posted Aug 14, 2004
Here's to all the broken people
Waiting for life to pass them by
Knowing that hope is a fool's fantasy
Knowing that love is just a fairy story
Knowing that the fleeting absence of pain
Is the only joy that can be
Here's to all the broken people
Life is only to be endured
Once they wanted to change the world
Now the world has changed them
Misery and reality are the same
So here's to all the broken people
And the people they once were
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Latest reply: Aug 14, 2004
It's not *always* bad news
Posted Apr 26, 2004
Tariq Khamisa was a 20 year old pizza delivery driver who was shot to death by a 14 year old gang member in San Diego, by the name of Tony Hicks. As a result, Tony was the first juvenile tried as an adult in California, and is now serving a sentence in Folsom Prison.
You'd think that nothing good could come out of a situation like that.
Tariq's father, Azin Khamisa, met Tony's grandfather and guardian, Ples Felix. They mourned for both of the boys together. Then, they decided to do more than mourn.
They joined forces and formed the Tariq Khamisa Foundation, and set about bringing programs for nonviolent conflict resolution into the schools, with more than a little success.
Azin Khamisa's dream is "to be in every school system in the country and in the world. Yes, someday we will be in places like Israel, Palestine and Iraq."
http://www.tkf.org/
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Latest reply: Apr 26, 2004
"Land of the Free"
Posted Apr 24, 2004
Some statistics, from the May/June issue of Utne Reader...
Number of prisoners in the USSR in 1950 (under Stalin) - 1,423 per 100,000.
Number of prisoners in the USA in 2002 - 2,298 per 100,000.
Number of Black men imprisoned the South Africa in 1993 (before the ANC came to power) - 851 per 100,000.
Number of Black men imprisoned in the USA in 2002 - 7,510 per 100,000.
This is not a police state and racism is dead in the United States, right?
Right?
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Latest reply: Apr 24, 2004
*Ring, Ring*
Posted Apr 21, 2004
"Hello?"
"Hi George, it's Dick."
"Dick, it's three o'clock in the morning. YOu'd better not be calling just to whine about the bad publicity Haliburton is getting again."
"No, nothing like that. I've got a question, though. Why haven't we nuked those pesky terrorists yet?"
"It's not like I don't want to, Dick. You *know* the amount of grief I'd get from the d*mn environmentalists, liberals and other types of pro-terrorist wimps."
"Oh, yeah. Airborne radiation and stuff like that, right?"
"Right."
"Listen, George, I've got an idea on how we can get around all that."
"I'm all ears."
"Anyone who's seen a picture of you knows that, but what does if have to do with nukes?"
"Very funny. Get to the point."
"Okay, George, here's my idea. Why don't we develop some low-yield, high radiation nukes and put 'em in earth-penetrating shells? The immediate explosive damage wouldn't make for film footage that the liberals could really use against us that much and the ground would soak up a lot of the radiation, so the environmentalists would have less to moan about."
"You sure that would work, Dick?"
"Sure! We'd just need the right Public Relations campaign. We got the PATRIOT Act through, didn't we?"
"You know, Dick, you're right!" With the right advertising firm, we could probably spin this so it looks like we're really trying to hold back. Every now and then you have one. Who'd have thought?"
NOTE: THE CONVERSATION DESCRIBED ABOVE IS FICTIONAL. THE INFORMATION PROVIDED BELOW IS NOT. IT COME FROM "JANE'S INTELLIGENCE DIGEST," A WELL-RESPECTED SOURCE.
"New weapons for US arsenal"
"In November 2003, President George W. Bush signed new legislation that authorises research into low-yield nuclear weapons, including earth-penetrating weapons and enhanced radiation warheads. In the process of reviewing what the USA should do with its nuclear arsenal, the Pentagon believes that low-yield weapons will reduce the US' dependence on high-yield weapons."
[Jane's Intelligence Digest - first posted to http://jid.janes.com - 21 April 2004]
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Latest reply: Apr 21, 2004
Chernobyl
Posted Mar 28, 2004
Wow.
http://www.angelfire.com/extreme4/kiddofspeed/ offers a photographic "tour," with commentary, of the "dead zone" surrounding Chernobyl.
There are over thirty pages, at three photos per page, so it can take a while go go through the entire "tour."
I think it's worth it.
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Latest reply: Mar 28, 2004
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