Posted on February 19, 2008 by Jason Barr
Well, unless you live under a rock you’ve probably heard by now that 143 million pounds of beef coming from a particular meat factory in California have been recalled due to concerns over health and safety related to the improper health-related treatment of certain “downer” cows. A few thoughts:
1) I saw on the news today [...]
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Posted on September 11, 2007 by Jason Barr
I wasn’t going to do this, I was just going to let the post about Stirling Bridge stand as my statement about 9/11, but I just wrote this for my Livejournal and thought it was worth sharing here.
“Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, [...]
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Posted on March 7, 2007 by Jason Barr
That’s how Democratic Senator Charles Schumer of New York refers to the current scandal regarding the treatment of wounded Iraq vets at Walter Reed hospital.
While comparisons may be apt on the count of massive government negligence and indifference regarding both the poorer denizens of the Gulf Coast and the wounded soldiers returning home from Iraq, [...]
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Posted on February 18, 2007 by Jason Barr
By the way, the article by Nik Ansell I referenced in the previous post can be found online in PDF format.
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Posted on February 9, 2007 by Jason Barr
Pentagon official’s prewar intel faulted | Top News | Reuters.com
Senator Carl Levin, Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, this morning, said, “The intelligence relating to the Iraq/al Qaeda relationship was manipulated by high ranking officials in the Department of Defense to support the… Administration’s decision to invade Iraq when the intelligence assessments of the [...]
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Posted on September 30, 2006 by Jason Barr
Here’s one for you from The Smirking Chimp:
Future Shock: Evidence of Plans to Torture US Demonstrators
I do not see any way our government can even pretend to uphold the supposed traditional American values of little things like liberty and justice for all, that whole pursuit of happiness bit. The only reason it’s even possible [...]
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Posted on August 30, 2006 by Jason Barr
For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs. — The Apostle Paul (1 Timothy 6:10)
Or, as it is rendered in The Message, by Eugene Peterson:
But if it’s only money these leaders are after, [...]
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