More rain in San Diego.. Feels very strange to have a week of rain.
The Pentagon is debating whether to set up elite hit-squads to target leaders of the Iraq insurgency in a new strategy based on tactics used against leftist guerrillas in Central America 20 years ago. Unbelievable. It is pretty hard to believe there are people out there that think what the US did in Central and South America was a good thing.
If you had any doubts, the Hindu caste system is still crap: Low caste survivors denied food and water
Bayard Foreign Marketing is the newest owner of a U.S.-registered Gulfstream V executive jet reportedly used since Sept. 11, 2001, to transport suspected Al Qaeda operatives to countries such as Egypt and Syria, where some of them claim to have later been tortured.
A new generation of children is growing up as “life incompetents”, unable to sew, care for their clothes, or even realize that potatoes are boiled before being mashed. Interesting article about social ineptitude in the UK, but it is an issue for western countries. I grew up with parents that put me to work, so I couldn’t really claim ignorance when I went out on my own. I think something like my grade 8 (or 8th grade, depending on where you live) experience should be widespread. It was mandatory that everyone try 2 weeks of each offered elective. So everyone that went through that system had to learn to do things like sew a shirt, make meals, fix things in shop, draw, paint, & sculpt.