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anotheranonJust when I was talking about rays of sunshine earlier...I may be braindead, but I didn't need to be that cognizant to realize that this is Bad News(TM):
The Martial Plan: Police State Tactics Transform a Nation—Our Own - discusses police/prison abuses of men arrested after September 11, and detainment of foreign correspondents desperate to get a Bennifer Lopez story.
"So what?" We might justly ask - most of us aren't suspected terrorists or journalists. This doesn't have anything to do with me, and the pendulum will swing the other way eventually, etc.
It does get worse: South Carolina Students Were Terrorized by Police Raid With Guns and Drug Dogs, ACLU Lawsuit Charges.
Look at the video at the bottom of the article (I refrain from a direct link out of respect for those on dialup). I admit, I don't know the full situation - maybe the school in question does have a serious drug problem, but am I completely naive to find it extremely disturbing to see armed police casing a public school like it's a crackhouse?
Were I more awake I'd work up a fire and brimstone rant on these abuses, but I'm sure I'm preaching to the choir, and I'm equally sure there are others out there who can righteously condemn these actions more eloquently than I can.
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jlsjlsjls - that fold out sofa still available?
The Martial Plan: Police State Tactics Transform a Nation—Our Own - discusses police/prison abuses of men arrested after September 11, and detainment of foreign correspondents desperate to get a Bennifer Lopez story.
"So what?" We might justly ask - most of us aren't suspected terrorists or journalists. This doesn't have anything to do with me, and the pendulum will swing the other way eventually, etc.
It does get worse: South Carolina Students Were Terrorized by Police Raid With Guns and Drug Dogs, ACLU Lawsuit Charges.
Look at the video at the bottom of the article (I refrain from a direct link out of respect for those on dialup). I admit, I don't know the full situation - maybe the school in question does have a serious drug problem, but am I completely naive to find it extremely disturbing to see armed police casing a public school like it's a crackhouse?
Were I more awake I'd work up a fire and brimstone rant on these abuses, but I'm sure I'm preaching to the choir, and I'm equally sure there are others out there who can righteously condemn these actions more eloquently than I can.
Right now I'm just wondering -
jlsjlsjls - that fold out sofa still available?
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Re: Oh, Canada!
Date: 2003-12-25 06:41 pm (UTC)What is brewis? The name sounds too much like "haggis" for me to think that it's something I'd want to eat, sober or not :P
Way back in the dark ages, "dutchie" was also a synonym for "joint" ... that's the meaning of your song ;-)
I rather suspected, but I've never heard it called that - maybe it's a Britishism? I'd rather prefer the Canadian dutchie though!
Re: Oh, Canada!
Date: 2003-12-25 07:32 pm (UTC)I felt sorry for Jack, truly sorry. I well remembered my own first visit to the fish store (Newfoundland outhouse on the dock) when, perched precariously between wind and water, and surrounded by the pungent tubs of codfish soaking in brine, I had injudiciously looked down to behold a consortium of flatfish, sculpins, crabs, and eels staring hopefully up at me out of the shallows.
Traumatic as the experience must have been, Jack managed to rise above it. But he nearly collapsed when the smell of breakfast struck him. He is a gourmet and a delicate eater. Furthermore he has a weak stomach.
He clutched my arm so hard it hurt and whispered hoarsely in my ear.
"What in God's name is that?"
"That," I explained cheerfully, "is Newfoundland's national dish. A special treat for visitors. It's called fish-and-brewis."
"Never mind the name. What's IN it?"
"Well, basically it's a mixture. You take hard bread or ship's biscuits and soak them all night to make them soft and to get rid of the weevils. And you take some shore-dried salt fish and soak IT all night, "watering it" is the term. Then you boil the fish and the hard bread and when it's all nice and mushy you pour a cup of spitting hot sowbelly fat over it, and then ..."
I never finished my explanation. Jack was already on his way back to visit the sculpins and the eels.
From The Boat Who Wouldn't Float, by Farley Mowat.