Sunday, June 03, 2007
Slowly Sunday
Macedonia willing to join N.A.T.O. under F.Y.R.O.M. acronym
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/06/03/europe/EU-GEN-Macedonia-Greece.php
considering how Greeks and Macedonians fight over that acronym, I find this an amazing development!
The cameras were ready, the revolution was not..
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/03/movies/03ridi.html?em&ex=1181016000&en=52aa0e7a0609c419&ei=5087%0A
This looks like a movie I want to see!
Major Human Trafficking Ring Broken
http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKL0170321120070601?rpc=401&
I am always glad when such rings are broken, people really suffer as a result of trafficking. It would be better, FAR better to have reasonable immigration laws so people could travel legally where they'd like to go. Another thing though its it's easy for traffickers in an environment where people aren't aware what is happening outside their own countries, sometimes outside their own neighborhood. I don't know about now, but American women used to be trafficked in Japan pretty regularly and both countries are modern countries where such things should not be happening. The traffickers lured the women from America with promises of jobs teaching English and since lots of Japanese ARE learning English, it seemed plausible to the Americans, and they ended up working in brothels and strip clubs. It was pretty awful. It worked because of the language barrier and the lack of information on Japan on the part of the American girls. Most people who go to visit Japan have a nice time, it's a lovely country, but they do have gangs and crime the same as ALL countries do.
U.S. calls for round-up of remaining Balkans war criminals
http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200706/200706030009.html
I'm tired today from all the outings yesterday. The guy who did the work came by and we talked about other stuff to do around here, trimming the rest of the tree, and trimming the lilacs, and what to do about the accumulation of leaves. I realized they'd make GREAT mulch, it's Really Hot in the Gulag, I decided I'd just shovel the leaves onto the roses, for mulch. The other odds and ends of crap can just go in the trash, there isn't a lot of that sort of thing.
I am calling the real estate agent Monday, and just get the sign up.
Good News for a change
http://www.focus-fen.net/?id=n113919
Ah, look at this crazy sandwich! Via MetaFilter:
Crazy sandwich food sculpture
http://basik.ru/handmade/3919/
I think there were some cool cakes there before
and courtesy of MeFi again, did you ever wonder where the Hell cats go all day? What are they doing? Cat Cam
http://optronik.tripod.com/cgi-bin/loader.pl?pe_catcam1.htm
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/06/03/europe/EU-GEN-Macedonia-Greece.php
considering how Greeks and Macedonians fight over that acronym, I find this an amazing development!
The cameras were ready, the revolution was not..
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/03/movies/03ridi.html?em&ex=1181016000&en=52aa0e7a0609c419&ei=5087%0A
This looks like a movie I want to see!
Major Human Trafficking Ring Broken
http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKL0170321120070601?rpc=401&
I am always glad when such rings are broken, people really suffer as a result of trafficking. It would be better, FAR better to have reasonable immigration laws so people could travel legally where they'd like to go. Another thing though its it's easy for traffickers in an environment where people aren't aware what is happening outside their own countries, sometimes outside their own neighborhood. I don't know about now, but American women used to be trafficked in Japan pretty regularly and both countries are modern countries where such things should not be happening. The traffickers lured the women from America with promises of jobs teaching English and since lots of Japanese ARE learning English, it seemed plausible to the Americans, and they ended up working in brothels and strip clubs. It was pretty awful. It worked because of the language barrier and the lack of information on Japan on the part of the American girls. Most people who go to visit Japan have a nice time, it's a lovely country, but they do have gangs and crime the same as ALL countries do.
U.S. calls for round-up of remaining Balkans war criminals
http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200706/200706030009.html
I'm tired today from all the outings yesterday. The guy who did the work came by and we talked about other stuff to do around here, trimming the rest of the tree, and trimming the lilacs, and what to do about the accumulation of leaves. I realized they'd make GREAT mulch, it's Really Hot in the Gulag, I decided I'd just shovel the leaves onto the roses, for mulch. The other odds and ends of crap can just go in the trash, there isn't a lot of that sort of thing.
I am calling the real estate agent Monday, and just get the sign up.
Good News for a change
http://www.focus-fen.net/?id=n113919
Ah, look at this crazy sandwich! Via MetaFilter:
Crazy sandwich food sculpture
http://basik.ru/handmade/3919/
I think there were some cool cakes there before
and courtesy of MeFi again, did you ever wonder where the Hell cats go all day? What are they doing? Cat Cam
http://optronik.tripod.com/cgi-bin/loader.pl?pe_catcam1.htm
# posted by Katja R. @ 10:21 AM 
