Baghdad Burning: "Difficult Days...
They've been bombing houses in Tikrit and other areas! Unbelievable� I'm so angry it makes me want to break something!!!! What the hell is going on?! What do the Americans think Tikrit is?! Some sort of city of monsters or beasts? The people there are simple people. Most of them make a living off of their land and their livestock- the rest are teachers, professors and merchants- they have lives and families� Tikrit is nothing more than a bunch of low buildings and a palace that was as inaccessible to the Tikritis as it was to everyone else! "
Thursday, November 20, 2003
World Toilet Organization - World Toilet Support Centre (WTSC): "World Toilet Support Centre (WTSC)
The support centre assists toilet Non-Government Organizations (NGOs) around
the world "
The support centre assists toilet Non-Government Organizations (NGOs) around
the world "
Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full News Coverage: "The two-year-old World Toilet Organisation (www.worldtoilet.org), which aims to raise global awareness of toilet and sanitation standards, marked its annual World Toilet Day on Wednesday with a call for people to speak out against poorly designed or filthy latrines."
The Miami Herald | 11/16/2003 | Manatees remain threatened: "But listen to this: ``The reality is the manatees are flourishing. They're doing great.''
This sunny and surprising announcement comes from a fellow named John Rood, quoted in the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel. Rood is not a biologist; he's a developer and broker of apartment buildings in Jacksonville.
And his definition of ''flourishing'' is somewhat peculiar. Last year, 95 manatees in Florida were killed by watercraft -- the most ever, and the toll is rising proportionally faster than the mammals' population."
This sunny and surprising announcement comes from a fellow named John Rood, quoted in the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel. Rood is not a biologist; he's a developer and broker of apartment buildings in Jacksonville.
And his definition of ''flourishing'' is somewhat peculiar. Last year, 95 manatees in Florida were killed by watercraft -- the most ever, and the toll is rising proportionally faster than the mammals' population."
Tuesday, November 18, 2003
Reason: Defending Tolerance: Values, liberty, and democracy: "Why, then, should the state deny itself the power to drain bogs and fence off precipices so as to save the unwise and unwary from themselves?
Here is one answer: People have different concepts of the good life, and any attempt to impose one favored view will be contentious. Contention leads to war, and war is the antithesis of civil peace. So better to leave people to their own ways, wayward though they be.
Here is another response: We are fallible beings who do not always judge correctly concerning matters of right and wrong. Therefore we do well to let people go their own ways rather than take the risk of imposing on them what might be mistaken moral concepts."
Here is one answer: People have different concepts of the good life, and any attempt to impose one favored view will be contentious. Contention leads to war, and war is the antithesis of civil peace. So better to leave people to their own ways, wayward though they be.
Here is another response: We are fallible beings who do not always judge correctly concerning matters of right and wrong. Therefore we do well to let people go their own ways rather than take the risk of imposing on them what might be mistaken moral concepts."
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