My Thoughts on Changes

Hmmm, you mean that to be a “blockade” you need to have the U.S. Navy stationed around the island and to be an “embargo” is just to use economic means to accomplish the same thing? Ah… I thought so… It isn’t lost to the whole world but the U.S. that the “embargo” only hurts the people of Cuba, not the elite. (I learned English, learn some Spanish, it won’t hurt you…)
Herald.com | 10/16/2005 | Cuban ‘blockade’? U.S. objects to word

The 17 leaders began discussing the Cuban issue at the start of the annual summit, prompting the U.S. Embassy in Madrid to object to the word ”blockade” instead of ”embargo.” Spanish officials countered that the word ”blockade” had been used in U.N. resolutions as well.
”We call on the United States of America to comply with that laid down in 13 successive resolutions approved by the General Assembly of the United Nations, and to bring an end to the economic, trade and financial blockade it maintains against Cuba,” one of a set of final statements said.

As for the UN Resolutions, good luck, for all they care about those around here, unless they sponsor them, of course…

…only Karl Rove doesn’t think of himself as the condom but as the spermicidal: he believes he’s still in control after a leak…
A Day of Questioning, More Questioning and . . . No Questions

While Rove testified, three women dressed as condoms, and a fourth with a stocking over her head, distributed “Karl Rove Brand” prophylactics in front of the courthouse. The nine demonstrators, coordinated by the antiwar group Code Pink, chanted “Some things should never leak! Fire Karl Rove!”The hot-pink condoms, with a smiling photo of Rove on the wrapper and the same “Some Things Should Never Leak” message, promised to be effective against pregnancy, AIDS and STDs.”Any of the condoms want to say something to the microphones?” one of the camera operators asked. But the latex-clad demonstrators had nothing to add.

While W&Co. play “gate keepers” for the second largest reserve of oil in the world, the real “action” may be happening not too far to the north of Iraq. The focusing on Arab Muslims may prove to be a fatal distraction. Arab Muslims are, more or less, easy to profile at an airport… While there is no respect for other cultures and religions, and equitative sharing of resources among the people, the result will always be discontent and discontent is fertil ground for fanaticism.
And no, this is not a full stop, 90 degree turn to the portside of political views (i.e. socialist or communist views); it is a pragmatic observation of reality as it unfolds before our collective eyes. Pay attention.
Bloomberg.com: Top Worldwide

Oct. 13 (Bloomberg) — Russian troops killed more than 50 rebels who attacked a regional capital in the North Caucasus, raising concern that Muslim separatist unrest is spreading beyond Chechnya.

Can’t they leave us, “humans”, out of that equation? Mind you, I don’t want a passing-by race of “advance intelligence” aliens to confuse the rest of us with the guys that “manufactured” the Iraq War…
CIA acquires new US clandestine leadership role

With the new clandestine service based at his agency, Goss will have a dual role as CIA director and “National HUMINT Manager.” HUMINT is bureaucratic parlance for human intelligence.

Now, if the Bush administration’s logic in the war on terror is to bring the war front to the “terrorists”, in places like Afhganistan and Iraq, and specially Iraq, to avenge the death of about 2900 people in the World Trade Center in NYC, wouldn’t the same line of thought indicate that to avoid a global pandemic of avian flu, that in some estimates could kill as many as 150 million people worldwide, the problem should be tackled where it starts?
This administration feels entitled to spend as much as $520Billion by 2010 on a hare-brained war based on lies but cannot think out of box for something that could kill ten thousand fold as many people worldwide as almost any act of terrorism that can be cooked out by desperate, hare-brained religious fanatics…
Virologists tell West to divert flu shots to Asia – Health & Science – International Herald Tribune

NEW YORK To head off a global pandemic of avian flu, some virologists have proposed a novel front-line strategy: Poultry workers and farmers in Asia, they argue, should be given the same flu shots that Americans get.

…you mean there are people that actually “like” Karl Rove?
Rove Redux

Still, the only thing we know for sure, thanks to Matt Cooper’s account, is that Rove discussed Valerie Plame with the Time reporter.
But judging by the way this is played on TV, you can almost hear the reporters salivating for indictment. Not because they don’t like Rove–a lot of them have probably dealt with him on background–but because it would be such a juicy story.

Did anyone catched W this morning on CNN answering a question about Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers saying that she would be a great “Supreme “Gore’ Justice”and then he corrected himself to say “Court” . I swear to it!!! Somebody who was ready and recorded it, or CNN itself, can attest to that.
Lapsus linguae…