Posts from — September 2006

WFMU’s Beware of the Blog: Tokyo Rose (aka Orphan Ann) Dies at 90

In spite of Iva’s commitment to her American citizenship and the help she offered Allied POWs while employed by Radio Tokyo, Toguri was to be only person ever tried or sent to prison for Japanese WWII broadcasts. Her trial, based wholly upon perjured evidence that U.S. authorities fabricated by threatening two NHK workers, was the most expensive trial in American history up until that time. All of this for being an entirely mythical non-existent figure, for neither she nor anyone else had ever broadcast for the Japanese under the name “Tokyo Rose”, although tales of such a “Tokyo Rose” that arose from the imaginations of Allied soldiers in the Pacific resulted in Iva Toguri paying the price as a scapegoat

In my 8th grade American History book she was a mere blurb in the massive chapter devoted to WW2.  I didn’t know until they had her obituary on the news that she had been pardoned by President Ford and that she had done the broadcasts under duress or that she was a scapegoat.  

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DOGS – DOGS CAN SNIFF OUT PIRATED DVD’S — BUT THERE’S A HITCH

Buh? Brain-break loves. The MPAA apparently trained dogs to sniff out pirated DVDS. But they’ve also smelt out legimate DVDs as well.

Alrighty, then obviously some people are WAYYY too paranoid about piracy.

Somebody needs some sense shaken into them (not that I’m advocating physical violence).

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Have devoured this Lifehacker Post. Made many links in del.icio.us archive and am downloading a lot of podcasts from UC Berkley in areas such as Chemistry, Amercian Cybercultre and Open Source Development. Lovely thing podcasts are. Also, I’ve collected links for various online books and sites and will dig up my Great Books lists.
I’m also going to try to learn French and Japanese and perhaps Chinese as well. Lots of neat things on the web nowadays related to learning new things.

ginmar: Entitlement

Awesome post about sex and how women are responsible for both their own as well as men, who supposedly can’t keep themselves in their pants.

BlondeSense: c l u s t e r f u c k

Very interesting collection of links showing how the government has fucked up the “war on terror”.

I suggest a little housecleaning in the halls of government and some sane rules for enhancing security first, instead of flipping out about water bottles and lotions in carry on bags.

Was reading this in my browsing about. A question. Why the hell do the fact that somebody has boobs make them stupid/whorish/slutty/a liar?

I’ve seen it in fanfic-where an ordinarily nice female chraracter is turned into a raging bitch just so two male characters could get it on. I like slash but good lord. Seems almost like the writers (mostly female to boot) don’t like seeing boobs in their porn.

In the non-Internet world, women are given short-shrift in custody issues, birth-control issues, hell just about anything. A mother can’t get EC without being treated like she was a slut for having sex. A mother is denied custody of her children in favor of the “man” who liked to smack her around.

A bit of a backwards slide, I think.

EC, hell any legally available medicine does not need to have a moral clause added to obtaining it.

Custody shouldn’t be based solely on the idea that one parent may be influencing the child against the other parent. Children see more than adults give them credit for.

Five years ago, I was picking up my paycheck from the nursing home where I worked as a CNA. Emily was in daycare and was just 9 months old. Watched a bit on the TV’s at work then came home and watched it all day until I had to go pick up Emily from daycare. Everything was quiet, still, almost holding breath in utter shock that something like that could happen. I came home and hugged my baby and felt so bad that I had brought a life into such a horrible world where people kill over beliefs and ideologies.
Now, five years later, I write this, getting Emily ready for school and yet the world is still off its axis. The arguments over land, religion, rights and politics continue to go over the same ground over and over and never fix anything.
Yet I still hold hope that the world will get it right someday soon, that life is too short to argue and kill over ideas and beliefs.