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14. mars 2003
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Flight attendant drugged toddler
A former flight attendant is charged with drugging a crying 19 month old girl with Xanax, a drug used to treat panic attacks and anxiety. The prescription drug has never been approved for use on children. The girl suffered no serious injury.
Strike "good with children" from resume, please.
8:58:50 PM 
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US "fears" Saddam will strike first
"U.S. officials fear that once President Bush signals the U.S. is headed to war, Saddam Hussein will strike pre-emptively" (ABCNews)
And if he did, politically it would be a gift from heaven for Bush and the pro-war camp.
If there ever was an obvious propaganda story designed to make the public accept a first strike, this is it.
7:55:14 PM
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— US military threatens to bomb independent journalists
According to BBC's veteran war correspondent Kate Adie, Pentagon wants absolute monopoly on reporting from the coming war in Iraq. She told Irish radio that a senior Pentagon officer had told that if a US warplane detects an unauthorised satellite uplink, they will fire at it.
Furthermore, the US military vets journalists who wants to follow US troops what they mean about the war, to prevent war-skeptics from even being in the theatre. At any rate, communications equipment will be controlled by military censors.
Unlike the previous Gulf war, where information was relatively freely available, this time the US military insists on total control of the reporting.
7:37:12 PM
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Hear! Hear!
"Cyber terrorism 'overhyped'" (BBC News)
Exactly.
6:12:07 PM
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Patterns of "justice"
Dahlia Lithwick of Slate describes what is the pattern in the US' treatment of captured terrorist suspects:
"The truly dangerous criminal masterminds are interrogated indefinitely, the insignificant bumblers are tried as dangerous criminal masterminds, and the rest are left to rot in military jails. It's an interesting approach, but one can hardly call it justice."
The article also makes a strong case that Moussaoui, who is currently on "show trial" courtesy of Ashcroft, who wants to prove to the American people he is actually a good guy and not the US answer to Mullah Omar, is everything short of what he's accused of.
5:03:19 PM
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Bush will renew "peace push" for Palestine
President Bush vows to publish the long-expected US "road map for peace" as soon as Palestinian president Arafat appoints a prime minister with "real authority."
Arafat has appointed Mahmud Abbas to the post, and he has said he will accept once his powers are clarified by the Palestinian parliament.
4:34:17 PM
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Happy Birthday to Einstein!
Again, gotta love those google birthday logos.
11:26:48 AM
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Japan threatens North Korea
Japan threatens economic sanctions against North Korea if it tests a ballistic missile.
11:20:43 AM
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But can you take it with you?
As everybody knows, phone companies don't easily let you off the hook if you owe them money.
Sprint sent an invoice for $3.95 to David Towles, Hillside Cemetery, Evergreen Section, Auburn, Mass. 01501. It may look rather odd to have an address at a cemetery, but in the case of Mr Towles it can be excused on the fact that he died in 1997.
Interim Town Clerk Ellen Gaboury was the one who eventually received the bill, and she said she'd have to hold on to it for a while, because "Mr. Towles' credit could be affected if it remains unpaid."
What surprises me is that they actually updated their records with the address of his tombstone.
1:20:14 AM
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© Copyright 2003 Jan Haugland.
Last update: 01.04.2003; 01:33:09.
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