1. 09 February 2006

    1064 days ago

    Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the 22nd amendment to the Constitution.

    And I thought the fucker would be out of a job come 2008 no matter. The 22nd amendment?

    No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once.

    via Kjell Olsen1064 days ago

  2. 17 June 2005

    1302 days ago

    Report on Nagasaki just after the atom bomb hit

    As one whittles away at embroidery and checks the stories, the impression grows that the atomic bomb is a tremendous, but not a peculiar weapon. The Japanese have heard the legend from American radio that the ground preserves deadly irradiation. But hours of walking amid the ruins where the odor of decaying flesh is still strong produces in this writer nausea, but no sign or burns or debilitation. 1

    Men, woman and children with no outward marks of injury are dying daily in hospitals, some after having walked around three or four weeks thinking they have escaped. 4

    Disease X, as it was called, baffled most Japanese Doctors, because in certain cases it resembled radiation poisoning, but in others light burns just kept spreading over the skin and eventually killed the patient.

    At first the a-bomb didn’t appear so impressive…

    The U.S. government at the time wanted to play down the effects radiation had on health and feared that Weller’s story would affect American public opinion and it possibly affected development of a nuclear arms race. >

    On the same day, Weller visited two Nagasaki hospitals and realized the symptoms peculiar to radiation poisoning. He wrote of seeing a woman who had initially suffered only a minor burn, yet was now unable to speak and her legs and arms were speckled with tiny red spots. >

    via Kjell Olsen1302 days ago

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