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morning jabber

Last week i read an article that painted a rather grim picture of the order of things in the United States political system. Specifically the article addressed the US military justice system. Premise of the article, was the story of a top military defense attorney Colby Vokey who is leaving his post early next year. [...]

iran and things…

As many of you (especially those that are in school) know Iranian president was speaking in New York today. First at the National Press Club and then, at the Columbia University. Although I have my own views on the middle east I have to admit it kind of makes me a little uneasy to [...]

it’s wednesday…

as i was doing some afternoon reading i ran across some website that led me to another website ….and… to make long story short i ended up on PETA’s “don’t take the kids to circus” website. (it was all downhill from there)
only in America do people have time and money to finance and organize these [...]

Oprah has all the answers!

….after reading of todays news i was enraged, literally… Sometimes I can’t believe that we are living in 2007, because based on some of the stuff that’s going on in Russia and such, it seems as though it’s early 80’s. The cause for todays morning rage to go along with the morning coffee is the [...]

daily news

This is why posting pictures of yourself in the bathroom mirror on myspace is a bad idea….
For those of you following the AutoAdmit message board scandal, this just in:
The Law Blog has learned that law firm Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge rescinded its job offer to Anthony Ciolli, the 3L at Penn Law who resigned [...]

what a waste of time

Today as i was scanning through the headlines of wall street journal i noticed one article that caught my eye. it wasn’t soo much that i was interested as to what it had to say, but just the general idea. The article was entitled “Washington Wire: Massacre Spurs Gun Debate”. I clicked on the article [...]

iRack

not that i care to partake in the Bush-hating or criticizing his war policies, etc. But this particular MADtv clip is simply brilliant, watch it for yourself…

click here to view video

To continue on my “Ukrainian” theme, today during lunch i was reading a little more on the political drama in my home country. Few weeks ago the president there disbanded the parliament and is dealing with some serious resistance from people. While i can’t claim i know much about the political system in Ukraine, from [...]

ahh the joys of China…

This afternoon i came across an interesting article on WSJ. Unfortunately it’s only available with a subscription so I posted it in the previous password protected post (to prevent from being picked up by search engines). Feel free to check it out in it’s entirety, password is wsj.
Basically to sum it up, China is getting [...]

iraq…

As usual, this morning began with sipping on some coffee while sifting through the news, wall street journal, new york times, reuters, bbc all of these sources typically bring about the same information in slightly different format. However this post is not about the sources themselves but rather the information reported.
Yesterday most of the popular [...]