Strange Days

Strange days have found us

Strange days have tracked us down

They’re going to destroy

Our casual joys

We shall go on playing

Or find a new town

Yeah!

Strange eyes fill strange rooms

Voices will signal their tired end

The hostess is grinning

Her guests sleep from sinning

Hear me talk of sin

And you know this is it

Yeah!

Strange days have found us

And through their strange hours

We linger alone

Bodies confused

Memories misused

As we run from the day

To a strange night of stone
--Jim Morrison & The Doors

Rosa Parks, the mother of the civil rights movement has died.

Then number of U.S. military dead in Iraq reaches 2,000,
just as the Iraqis announced the ratification of their new constitution making Iraq an Islamic Republic.
News of which has the U.S. military so excited that they have revived the popular Vietnam War practice of announcing “enemy body counts” to show us the impact of their counterinsurgency operations, so that there is no doubt in American minds that our troops are kicking the crap out of the enemy.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/23/AR2005102301273.html


Meanwhile a triple bombing kills at least 17 in Baghdad.
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/world/12987978.htm
But the President says the war in Iraq is not the cause of rising terrorism.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=aduP_7xj9mig&refer=us
And Bush calls on us to spend more time and sacrifice more lives in Iraq and rejected calls for a U.S. pullout.

Back at the ranch, the whole White House staff is waiting for Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald to announce who will be indicted and for what.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1151AP_Cheneys_Role.html
Dick Cheney, Scooter Libby, Carl Rove, are all holding their breath, because they all know they lied us into a war and then lied to discredit the people who tried to expose the lies. The question really isn’t “are the people in the White House criminals?” The question is “will we be able to prove it in a court of law, or whether we will have to try these thugs in the court of the blogosphere?”
http://www.upi.com/InternationalIntelligence/view.php?StoryID=20051023-104217-9679r

On the trivial side, Infinity Broadcasting thinks David Lee Roth can be just as annoying as Howard Stern.
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8DF9CJO9.htm?campaign_id=apn_home_down&chan=db

And on the Big Brother front, those tiny dots produced by your color laser printer are really a secret code that allows the government to track down who printed what, when and on what printer.
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/1025-08.htm
So don’t print any color leaflets for those November 2nd, Day of Resistance demonstrations.
http://www.worldcantwait.org/

Strange Days indeed, Jim.