decisions decisions

Dubya's State of the Union or my friend Matt's band, The Prawns? 

i'm a bad american, going to listen to the music!

7:16:05 PM    say what? []

Update..

On the 22nd, I linked you to the story of two teens, who drowned when their car fell through open water on Lake Minnetonka.   They were buried yesterday, side by side.  This bit of the story really hit me...

Family members say Wilson helped Fricke out of the water, where without any shoes or a jacket, she walked and then crawled before collapsing within 100 yards from shore. Her body was found the next morning, curled up with her arms wrapped around her shoulders.

Divers later recovered Wilson's body from the water.

Can you imagine it? 

5:38:35 PM    say what? []

browsing my favs

I found this article, Dark Alliance, The Story Behind the Crack Explosion.  Originally published in the San Jose Mercury News (california) over three days in August of 1996.  A longish read but I think well worth it and eye opening.

edit I did some cursory searching on this story after Jan's comments.  I cringed when I found a review of the same titled book, Dark Alliance by Webb and published in 1999, on Conspiracy Digest.  But I breathed a sigh of relief when I stumbled over to Columbia Journalism Review and read this article from 1997, The Storm over "Dark Alliance".  From about halfway through this article:

 In the very first Washington Post treatment of the San Jose Mercury News phenomenon -- appearing in the Style section on October 2 -- media reporter Howard Kurtz noted "just one problem" with the controversy: despite broad hints, Gary Webb's stories never "actually say the CIA knew about the drug trafficking." In an interview with Kurtz, Webb stated that his story "doesn't prove the CIA targeted black communities. It doesn't say this was ordered by the CIA."

 What did the Mercury News stories actually say? The long three-part series covered the lives and connections of three career criminals: "Freeway" Ricky Ross, perhaps L.A.'s most renowned crack dealer in the 1980s; Oscar Danilo Blandon Reyes, a right-wing Nicaraguan expatriate, described by one U.S. assistant district attorney as "the biggest Nicaraguan cocaine dealer in the United States"; and Juan Norvin (Norwin in some documents) Meneses Cantarero, a friend of the fallen dictator Anastasio Somoza, who a llegedly brought Blandon into the drug business to support the contras and supplied him, for an uncertain amount of time, with significant quantities of cocaine.

I didn't walk away convinced the CIA totally contrived the idea of introducing crack into LA but it confirmed for me that the war on drugs is shady and a sham. 

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