guantanamo bay
Posted on Saturday, June 30, 2007
Ever wonder what where we keep all those terrorist bad-guys? Check out Guantanamo Bay on Google Maps. I wanted to check it out after watching Michael Moore's latest film, Sicko, where he travels to Cuba with some sick people to experience their health care system. But it make me wonder ... if we hate Cuba so much, why (and how), do we have a base there?
From Wikipedia:
Guantanamo Bay Naval Base at the southeastern end of Cuba has been used by the United States Navy for more than a century, and is the oldest overseas U.S. Navy Base and the only one in a country with which the United States does not have diplomatic relations. The United States controls the land on both sides of the southern part of Guantanamo Bay (Bahia de Guantanamo in Spanish) under a lease set up in the wake of the 1898 Spanish-American War. The lease was established in a 1903 agreement between the two governments, and its terms were modified in a 1934 treaty. The current Cuban government considers the U.S. presence in Guantanamo to be an illegal occupation of the area, and argues that the Cuban-American Treaty, which established the lease in 1903, now violates article 52 of the 1969 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, though the issue is still open to argument. However, Article 4 of the same document states that Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties shall not be retroactively applied to any treaties made before itself.
Since 2002, the naval base has contained a military prison, the Guantanamo Bay detainment camp, for persons alleged to be militant combatants captured in Afghanistan and later in Iraq. Prior to July 11, 2006, the Bush Administration maintained that these detainees are not protected under the Geneva Convention.
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what the hell?
Posted on Monday, June 11, 2007
 "Toying with many of the big-bang endings predicted (and wished for) by plenty of opinionated viewers in a final episode he wrote and directed himself, Chase (1) didn't turn Tony over to the witness-protection program; (2) didn't expose Paulie as a turncoat who would sell out his boss; (3) didn't let AJ kill himself, or Meadow distinguish herself, or Dr. Melfi take T back as a patient, or the Russian mobster come back out of the Jersey Pine Barrens. Hell, Chase didn't even let Silvio live or die — just left him there in a dreamless coma so very different from Tony's, hooked to a breathing tube while his wife clipped his toenails and Little Miss Sunshine (family, redefined!) played on the hospital TV screen." (from EW.com)
"Others imagine the blackout signifies Tony's death, coming in a flash. As Tony told Bobby Bacala while fishing earlier in the season: 'You never see it coming.' In this scenario, Tony perishes having seemingly reached a level of peace; he chooses Journey's optimistic 'Don't Stop Believin'' on the juke box, not Frank Sinatra's backward-looking 'My Way.'" (from the AP)
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try this...
Posted on Wednesday, June 06, 2007
While sitting at your computer desk, lift your right foot off the floor and make clockwise circles. Now, while doing this, draw the number "6" in the air with your right hand. Your foot will change directions.
Weird, right?
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spoil to the world
Posted on Monday, June 04, 2007
Someone please buy me this t-shirt. It so fantastically ruins so much, for so many.
And anything that puts [the often underrated] Donnie Darko on the level of Star Wars, Planet of the Apes and The Matrix, while also destroying all of their endings in one foul swoop, raises its level of awesomeness to staggering new heights.
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