http://www.davejustus.com None Sine Causa Fri, 09 May 2008 13:28:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I recieved my Kindle yesterday, the e-book reader from Amazon. So far, I love it. It is great for just sitting and reading, the device 'dissappears' and after a few minutes it feels just like reading a book, except it is even less intrusive as the page turning ... http://www.davejustus.com/2008/05/09/kindle/ New York Times The Chaitén volcano in southern Chile blasted ash and what appeared to be lava a dozen miles into the air on Tuesday, leading the government to order the immediate and complete evacuation of everyone living within a 30-mile radius of it. Until now considered to be inactive, Chile’s Chaitén ... http://www.davejustus.com/2008/05/07/volcano-in-chile/ Reuters Russia's deployment of extra troops in the breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia has brought the prospect of war "very close", a minister of ex-Soviet Georgia said on Tuesday. Separately, in comments certain to fan rising tension between Moscow and Tbilisi, the "foreign minister" of the breakaway Black Sea region was quoted ... http://www.davejustus.com/2008/05/06/georgia-says-very-close-to-war-with-russia/ Today's primaries prompted a few thoughts that I think are worth sharing. If the Democratic Party has any one unifying theme, it is providing influence and power to those who are marginalized by society. The downside of this, is that the marginalized by society are quite likely to ... http://www.davejustus.com/2008/05/06/the-democratic-party/ I expect that Clinton will win Indiana by about 7 or 8 points and that Obama will win North Carolina, but only by about two or three points. This result won't change the dynamics in the race all that much, but it will certainly give Clinton plenty of reason ... http://www.davejustus.com/2008/05/06/indiana-and-north-carolina/ Michael Yon writes: The great victory of the past year and a half has been the decision of Sunni citizens to turn against Sunni outlaws. Now, neither we nor the Iraqi government can maintain our credibility with the Sunni if the Shia militias are allowed to remain outside the law. The militias, ... http://www.davejustus.com/2008/05/05/in-iraq-a-storm-before-the-calm/ CNN.com Almost 4,000 people have died and another 3,000 remain missing in Myanmar as a result of this weekend's devastating cyclone, state media reported Monday amid fears that the death toll could continue to soar. art.harbor.afp.gi.jpg Diplomats summoned to a government briefing on Monday said the foreign minister acknowledged that as many as ... http://www.davejustus.com/2008/05/05/myanmar-death-toll-could-reach-10000/ I took a week off and was barely aware of the news at all.  It was nice.  I'll probably have another post up today if I can find anything worth commenting on. http://www.davejustus.com/2008/05/05/back-from-vacation-3/ Macleans Palestinian Arabs present a challenge to Israel that is at once more straightforward and infinitely more difficult to solve. Within one or two decades, the number of Muslim and Christian Arabs living under Israeli control including in Gaza, the West Bank and Israel itself will surpass the number of Israeli ... http://www.davejustus.com/2008/04/25/israels-dilemma/ International Herald Tribune China's government agreed on Friday to a meeting with an envoy of exiled Tibetan leader the Dalai Lama, a step that follows weeks of calls from world leaders for dialogue in the wake of anti-government protests in Tibet. "In view of the requests repeatedly made by the Dalai side ... http://www.davejustus.com/2008/04/25/china-says-it-will-meet-dalai-lamas-representative/