tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53391242011-04-21T19:46:45.178-07:00SpeedkillWhere men are men and sheep run scaredSpeedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.comBlogger1371100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-1085984825698531362004-05-30T23:26:00.000-07:002004-05-30T23:27:05.700-07:00Testing...Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-1058429968717771122003-07-17T01:19:00.000-07:002003-10-25T16:13:51.873-07:00Blog is moving.......to here. Plan accordingly.Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-956368672003-06-13T11:02:00.000-07:002003-06-13T11:02:40.766-07:00Posting will be lax.......
today and this weekend, most likely.Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-955766992003-06-11T21:13:00.000-07:002003-06-11T21:13:35.666-07:00The arrogance of it all
Rumsfeld Chides Europeans for Lack of 'Vision'
BRUSSELS, Belgium — On his first visit to Germany since the war in Iraq, U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld revived the issue of Western European opposition to the conflict, suggesting it resulted from a lack of vision.
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"The key, I believe, is that even as they are busy looking inward and rebuilding their Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-955612412003-06-11T12:38:00.000-07:002003-06-11T21:04:55.000-07:00Pay articles on the net suck
You can only see the first paragraph or so, but that alone says plenty: Censorship of the press in Iraq.
Paul Bremer has ordered his legal department in Baghdad to draw up rules for press censorship. A joke, I concluded, when one of the newly styled Coalition Provisional Authority officials tipped me off last week. But no, it really is true. Two months after "Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-955608602003-06-11T12:27:00.000-07:002003-06-11T12:27:45.583-07:00War crime vote fuels US anger at Europe
The US has bitterly attacked European leaders for trying to stop the UN security council voting tomorrow to renew America's exemption from prosecution by the new war crimes tribunal.
The Bush administration has accused the EU of "actively undermining" American efforts to protect its peacekeepers from prosecution by the international criminal court, Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-955605972003-06-11T12:20:00.000-07:002003-06-11T12:20:43.600-07:00Your days of influencing bands are over
From Blistering:
In the same interview, Hammett predicted that METALLICA's new album would influence other metal bands to play harder and faster once again and implied that another well-known arena act has already pulled the plug on their new release after getting an advance earful of "St. Anger".
"I have a suspicion that once this album drops and Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-955216372003-06-10T14:04:00.000-07:002003-06-10T14:04:24.800-07:00You can have guns, but not Shania Twain
Hammerdown points out Wal-Mart's hypocrisy in hiding mags like Maxim and FHM while allowing gun mags to continue to be sold.
It's pretty pathetic that our culture is much more afraid of sex than violence. Look at the attacks directed toward the Clintons, and the lack of questioning over the WMD issue. It's sad, and a bit scary, really. Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-955214082003-06-10T13:57:00.000-07:002003-06-10T13:57:43.273-07:00Roadmap to...............where was it, again?
Israel attempts assasination of HAMAS leader.
Hamas Vows Revenge After Attack by Israel
This must be a detour on the Roadmap. Or it's one really fucked up roadmap to peace.Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-955208492003-06-10T13:42:00.000-07:002003-06-10T13:42:30.916-07:00Speaking of Alterman.....
Altercation has a nice list of quotes by the Bush administration regarding WMD. Memorize your favorite today! Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-955207362003-06-10T13:38:00.000-07:002003-06-10T13:46:15.000-07:00My books have arrived
Two of them, at least. 9-11 and The Fateful Triangle both by Noam Chomsky. I have a book by Alterman on it's way as well. Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-955201662003-06-10T13:23:00.000-07:002003-06-10T13:31:50.000-07:00U.S.: 'High Probability' Al Qaeda Will Use WMD in Next Two Years
"Al Qaeda will continue to favor spectacular attacks but also may seek softer targets of opportunity, such as banks, shopping malls, supermarkets, and places of recreation and entertainment."
The report said the terrorist organization "will continue its efforts to acquire and develop biological, chemical, radiological, and nuclearSpeedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-954975232003-06-10T01:09:00.000-07:002003-06-10T01:09:52.083-07:00Wow, nothing I posted was really interesting at all yesterday (technically, but it still feels like Monday). I'll be back later in the morning/afternoon with a vengeance. Good night.Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-954756442003-06-09T11:57:00.000-07:002003-06-09T11:57:20.100-07:00The Nets lost last night, but the Mariners avenge their earlier loss to the Mets, which broke their 9 game winning streak, by a combined 20-1 in two games yesterday. So, all in all, not too bad of a day. Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-954754612003-06-09T11:52:00.000-07:002003-06-09T11:52:50.263-07:00Report on 'unimposing' Saddam was suppressed
Downing Street is to come under fresh pressure this week to explain why an intelligence report, which said there was no proof that deposed Iraqi president Saddam Hussein posed a growing threat to the West, was suppressed.
Ah, who cares, it was all about liberating the Iraqi people.Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-954749222003-06-09T11:36:00.000-07:002003-06-09T11:42:23.000-07:00Captives Deny Qaeda Worked With Baghdad
Found via Kos, buried in the NY Times.
WASHINGTON, June 8 — Two of the highest-ranking leaders of Al Qaeda in American custody have told the C.I.A. in separate interrogations that the terrorist organization did not work jointly with the Iraqi government of Saddam Hussein, according to several intelligence officials.
Abu Zubaydah, a Qaeda planner and Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-954376912003-06-08T14:49:00.000-07:002003-06-08T14:49:52.496-07:00Trailers as germ labs story continues to fall apart
But chemical weapons experts, engineers, chemists and military systems experts contacted by The Observer over the past week, say the layout and equipment found on the trailers is entirely inconsistent with the vehicles being mobile labs.
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Questions over the claimed purpose of trailer for making biological weapons include:
· The lack ofSpeedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-954141812003-06-07T13:44:00.000-07:002003-06-07T13:44:28.996-07:00O'Reilly on the WMD situation
Always entertaining to go through these, so let's begin.
Unfortunately, the WMD situation is now been politicized. Fanatics on the left are screaming about lies and conspiracies. Fanatics on the right are yelling it doesn't matter if any deadly weapons are found in Iraq.
Both sides are wrong as usual. The truth is the WMD issue does matter, and President Bush Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-953985612003-06-06T22:21:00.000-07:002003-06-06T22:21:39.436-07:00Yes, the Nets won by 2 tonight. I missed the game because of work, though. My Mariners had their winning streak snapped tonight by the Mets of all teams. I hate NY.Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-953837542003-06-06T13:01:00.000-07:002003-06-06T13:01:50.213-07:00Fair and Balanced, 6 to 1
Amplifying Officials, Squelching Dissent
Nearly two thirds of all sources, 64 percent, were pro-war, while 71 percent of U.S. guests favored the war. Anti-war voices were 10 percent of all sources, but just 6 percent of non-Iraqi sources and 3 percent of U.S. sources. Thus viewers were more than six times as likely to see a pro-war source as one who was anti-war; with Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-953809282003-06-06T11:42:00.000-07:002003-06-06T11:42:56.186-07:00Hamas Leader Breaks Off Truce Talks
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - A senior Hamas official said Friday the militant group was breaking off cease-fire talks with the Palestinians, a surprise reversal that threw into doubt a key component of a Mideast peace plan.
The Middle East peace process crumbling again? The article at least suggests there's still hope:
However, a Palestinian Cabinet minister Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-953805532003-06-06T11:33:00.000-07:002003-06-06T11:33:21.760-07:00U.S. Secret Report Raises Questions Over Iraqi Weapons
As the Bush administration was pushing last fall for a war against Iraq because of alleged weapons of mass destruction, a defense department report said it did not have enough "reliable information" Iraq was amassing these weapons, a defense official said on Friday.
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Last week CIA Director George Tenet defended his agency's Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-953620522003-06-06T00:58:00.000-07:002003-06-06T00:58:53.660-07:00Ashcroft Pushes Anti-Terror Law Expansion
Ashcroft held aloft what he said were copies of terrorist declarations of war against America. One quoted Nasser al-Fahd, a prominent Muslim cleric known to be sympathetic to al-Qaida, as saying it would be permissible if a bomb killed 10 million Americans.
Ashcroft also read aloud the names of people killed in the Sept. 11 attacks as he defended the Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-953440022003-06-05T14:34:00.000-07:002003-06-05T14:39:34.000-07:00Why the Israel and Palestine situation will never be settled.
Tens of thousands of right-wing Israelis, many of them Jewish settlers, rallied tonight in the center of Jerusalem and vehemently denounced the prospect of a Palestinian state as sketched by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
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In Gaza, the militant Muslim groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad both said that for now, they were not willing to Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-953437062003-06-05T14:25:00.000-07:002003-06-05T14:26:20.000-07:00I would just like to point out that Bill O'Reilly, who led a boycott of French goods, called boycotting "unamerican" in his book, The No Spin Zone. And apparently he has been spotted eating at a French restaruant. Maybe he's calling off the boycott since it appears that the French were right? Nah, probably not.Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-953435532003-06-05T14:20:00.000-07:002003-06-06T12:31:53.000-07:00The Niger connection: Tony Blair, forged documents and the case for war
Report on the forged Niger documents the U.S. and Britain provided the U.N. This has been known for a while now, but I still wish the U.S. media cared even a little bit about the truth. There's a full blown scandal going on in Britain, almost nothing here. It's pathetic.
The Bush administration must be ecstatic about Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-953187382003-06-04T23:09:00.000-07:002003-06-04T23:09:22.380-07:00Well, Nets lose by 12 in game one. They were close at times in the 2nd half (I missed the 1st half) but couldn't make a comeback. If the Spurs are gonna hold on to leads the Nets have problems.Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-952959592003-06-04T12:06:00.000-07:002003-06-04T16:28:20.000-07:00Wolfowitz made some interesting comments yesterday.
From The Guardian:
Asked why a nuclear power such as North Korea was being treated differently from Iraq, where hardly any weapons of mass destruction had been found, the deputy defence minister said: "Let's look at it simply. The most important difference between North Korea and Iraq is that economically, we just had no choice in Iraq. The Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-952941712003-06-04T11:20:00.000-07:002003-06-04T11:22:08.000-07:00A Lesson in Propaganda
Exhibit A: CIA says al Qaeda ready to use nukes
Al Qaeda terrorists and related groups are set to use chemical, biological and nuclear weapons in deadly strikes, according to a new CIA report.
"Al Qaeda's goal is the use of [chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear weapons] to cause mass casualties," the CIA stated in an internal report produced last month.
"Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-952495662003-06-03T12:19:00.000-07:002003-06-03T12:19:11.696-07:00Standard Operating Procedure
And anyone who talks about an "intelligence failure" is missing the point. The problem lay not with intelligence professionals, but with the Bush and Blair administrations. They wanted a war, so they demanded reports supporting their case, while dismissing contrary evidence.
Hooray for Krugman! This point needs to be pounded home until EVERYONE gets it.Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-952493132003-06-03T12:12:00.000-07:002003-06-03T12:40:02.000-07:00Bush, US losing global support: poll
Man, it says 76% of French, 57% of Germans want less to do with us. We already know most of the world didn't support the Iraq war. Just think, if it's this bad around the world, think of his ratings at home, where they actually have to deal with the guy. What? They're at 60-something percent? WHAT THE HELL? Oh, yeah. And this too.
UPDATE: More Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-952068492003-06-02T13:37:00.000-07:002003-06-03T00:04:07.000-07:00'You Lied to Us'
Yeesh, I'm not really familiar with William Safire, but this column is out to lunch.
Quick — what was the biggest intelligence misjudgment of Gulf War II?
It was the nearly unanimous opinion of the intelligence community, backed by the U.S. and British military, that the 50,000 elite soldiers of Saddam's well-trained, well-equipped Special Republican Guard would put up a Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-952059232003-06-02T13:13:00.000-07:002003-06-02T13:13:19.783-07:00O'Reilly and Franken Spar at Book Show
Reading the article, and reading other reports on it, I think this is a bit sympathetic to O'Reilly. But, I haven't seen the video or read a transcript, so I could be wrong. Al Franken is great, though. Another transcript I need to find.Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-952055102003-06-02T13:02:00.000-07:002003-06-02T13:02:30.596-07:00If anyone knows where I can find a transcript of Noam Chomsky on C-Span yesterday, it'd be greatly appreciated.Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-952054592003-06-02T13:00:00.000-07:002003-06-02T13:00:58.550-07:00'Bust-Enhancing' Pills Are Bogus: Researcher
SON OF A BITCH!!
You mean to tell me spam e-mail lies? Never!Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-951739652003-06-01T19:45:00.000-07:002003-06-01T19:53:28.000-07:00'Evidence of WMD'
THE CIA planned to present US lawmakers with new evidence of Iraq's alleged weapons programs as early as next week, as the US civil administrator for Iraq urged patience in the hunt for Saddam Hussein, Time magazine reported today.
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Officials at the Central Intelligence Agency told Time that they would present US lawmakers with fresh evidence, in a bid to overcome growingSpeedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-951731672003-06-01T19:23:00.000-07:002003-06-01T19:23:18.006-07:00French hold up weapons deal
Let the French bashing begin!
President Jacques Chirac, who exchanged a curt handshake with Mr Bush when the two men met for the first time since their fallout over Iraq, was resisting the White House's call for sweeping powers to allow ships to be intercepted on the high seas on suspicion that they were carrying weapons destined for terrorism.
Is "high seas" an Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-951455142003-06-01T00:09:00.000-07:002003-06-01T00:09:20.983-07:00Finally, the archive links stop being a pain in the ass. And if anyone knows of a good template site, it'd be much appreciated. I'm not all that skilled at html or creative enough to do my own, and I've been coming up empty searching on the web.Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-951278162003-05-31T11:53:00.000-07:002003-05-31T11:53:16.323-07:00The trailer find breaks down some more.
The trailer story becomes even shakier. What Really Happened also has some more debunking. The trailer appears to have a half an air conditioner in it. Odd.......Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-951276302003-05-31T11:46:00.000-07:002003-05-31T11:47:03.000-07:00Can the Nets upset the Spurs in the NBA Finals, beginning Wednesday? No one seems to think so. And I would have to agree. The Spurs are clearly the best team in the NBA at the moment, while the Nets are in the Eastern Conference. That about says it all. I say Spurs in 6, I hope for Nets in 7. Let the games begin!Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-951122662003-05-30T23:27:00.000-07:002003-05-30T23:29:24.000-07:00Straw, Powell had serious doubts over their Iraqi weapons claims
The source of the transcripts is questionable at this point, but that's pretty damaging stuff. Damaging to the one figure who may have some credibility left. At least to people skeptical of Bush, but not completely against him like me, or any of the blogs in my links. This will likely be a big deal in Britain, but not so much Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-951116742003-05-30T23:02:00.000-07:002003-05-30T23:02:25.726-07:00Thanks to Swopa at Needlenose, who links to my post about Bush's satisfaction.Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-950939512003-05-30T12:53:00.000-07:002003-05-30T12:53:37.830-07:00Terror Alert Drops To Yellow
Whew. I guess it's safe to go outside again.Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-950935842003-05-30T12:43:00.000-07:002003-05-30T12:43:12.550-07:00Wouldn't it be nice if Bush got the same amount of pressure as Blair on the WMD issue? The British gov't is in an uproar, and Bush is "satisfied." I really wish people weren't mindless zombies when it comes to politics around here.Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-950934682003-05-30T12:40:00.000-07:002003-05-30T12:40:08.806-07:00Waggy Dog Stories
Latest Krugman article. I don't even need to point out that it's good.Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-950933102003-05-30T12:35:00.000-07:002003-05-30T12:35:23.703-07:00"For bureaucratic reasons we settled on one issue, weapons of mass destruction, because it was the one reason everyone could agree on,"
- Paul WolfowitzSpeedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-950931762003-05-30T12:31:00.000-07:002003-05-30T12:31:28.870-07:00My internet connection hates me. Five disconnects in the span of an hour and a half.Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-950707162003-05-30T00:21:00.000-07:002003-05-30T00:21:21.080-07:00Rumsfeld involved in minor car crash
I will refrain from any malicious jokes or comments.Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-950699702003-05-29T23:49:00.000-07:002003-05-29T23:49:23.716-07:00Bush 'satisfied' with Iraq intelligence
PRESIDENT George W. Bush believed that US charges about Iraq's unconventional weapons had been "borne out", despite the post-war failure to locate such arms, White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said today.
"The president is indeed satisfied with the intelligence that he received," he told reporters, citing the discovery earlier this month of two mobile Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-950507492003-05-29T14:09:00.000-07:002003-05-29T14:09:59.146-07:00al-Qaida Said to Scour Australia Targets
Hey, Howard's trying his luck at some of Bush's tactics. I doubt they work.Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-950266952003-05-29T00:06:00.000-07:002003-05-29T00:06:11.786-07:00No Bunker where U.S. Bombs Targeted Saddam-CBS
Oopsy.Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-950249192003-05-28T22:57:00.000-07:002003-05-28T22:57:37.196-07:00I'm bored, so I might as well go through O'Reilly's Talking Points Memo from the other day.
Before the Iraq war, I told you that the removal of Saddam Hussein would have positive consequences throughout the world. Those who oppose the war said I was nuts, that the conflict would hurt America and the world.
Well, first evidence says we were right... As Israel is now compromising with the Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-950130802003-05-28T17:29:00.000-07:002003-05-28T17:29:44.176-07:00Trucks Could Be Linked to Iraq Bioweapons
WASHINGTON - The discovery of two Iraqi truck trailers equipped with fermenters is the strongest evidence yet that Saddam Hussein had a biological weapons program, a U.S. intelligence report said Wednesday. But officials still have found no such weapons.
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"Examination of the trailers reveals ... an ingeniously simple, self-contained bioprocessing Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-949981792003-05-28T10:54:00.000-07:002003-05-28T10:54:11.960-07:00Happy Birthday to me.Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-949980642003-05-28T10:50:00.000-07:002003-05-28T10:53:38.000-07:00Tom Tomorrow gets a response from Time about the letter they printed originating from the GOP website. He vows to keep going. Good.Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-949970552003-05-28T10:26:00.000-07:002003-05-28T10:26:19.106-07:00Came across this story on Fox News.
Officials are threatening businessman Bob Foor with 30 days in jail if he refuses to remove the 3 1/2-feet-tall and nearly 100-feet-wide flashing red sign from a massive old building he owns in the heart of the borough's historic district.
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The row began a year ago when Foor sought permission from the borough's historical review board to put up the signSpeedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-949681632003-05-27T19:15:00.000-07:002003-05-27T19:15:44.303-07:00Man, if you can, catch The Daily Show's Iraq: A Look Back show. SO funny. All the great stuff I missed at my Comedy Central-less college.
And why does Blogspot suck? I try loading up Hammerdown, and it never gets there. A pain in the ass I tell you.Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-949506032003-05-27T11:28:00.000-07:002003-05-27T11:28:03.846-07:00Euro Soars to Record High Against Dollar
The euro soared to a record high against the dollar Tuesday in a major boost for many U.S. exporters but deepening the pain for the continent's struggling economy and American tourists in Europe.
We're inching closer to OPEC turning to the Euro instead of using the dollar. Then you should be worried. Very worried.
Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-949500882003-05-27T11:12:00.000-07:002003-05-27T11:12:45.196-07:00U.S. Plans Death Camp
Prisoners would be tried, convicted and executed without leaving its boundaries, without a jury and without right of appeal, The Mail on Sunday newspaper reported yesterday.
Well, we know they're guilty, they don't need rights. Trust us.
I have no comment on the location of the 1000s of tons of WMD at this point in time.Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-949291442003-05-26T23:34:00.000-07:002003-05-26T23:34:30.903-07:00Patriotism
Patriotism is all the rage nowadays. People waving flags, holding signs, flags on porches, etc. The most potent weapon supporters of Bush have is questioning someone's patriotism. The mere mention causes people to vehemently defend themselves. If a righty doesn't like something, he merely calls you unpatriotic and you have to defend yourself, changing the subject. Just as the Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-949283232003-05-26T23:03:00.000-07:002003-05-26T23:03:40.100-07:00UN chief warns of anti-American backlash in Iraq
I believe he was proven right weeks ago.Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-949279512003-05-26T22:50:00.000-07:002003-05-26T22:50:43.783-07:00It's Memorial Day for another 13 minutes. No, there's really no point to that comment.Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-948383742003-05-24T14:01:00.000-07:002003-05-24T14:01:23.236-07:00Homeland Security Buys N.M. Town for Training
Comes with free illegal immigrant test subjects.
Point not included.
Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-948382622003-05-24T13:56:00.000-07:002003-05-24T13:56:39.836-07:00Iraqi Doctors Worry About Use of Uranium
I'd be worried if I was a soldier, as well. But the gov't doesn't actually care about our troops, so it isn't surprising.Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-948380952003-05-24T13:49:00.000-07:002003-05-24T13:49:17.786-07:00What was it, 24 million or so that voted on American Idol? And these are the same people that say their vote doesn't make a difference in political elections? But it does on a stupid TV show? What did I miss?Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-948213922003-05-24T01:43:00.000-07:002003-05-24T01:43:32.803-07:00Also, I just finished What Liberal Media? by Eric Alterman the other day. Very good book. Now I need another political book to read.Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-948213662003-05-24T01:41:00.000-07:002003-05-24T01:41:53.086-07:00NY Times: Pulitzer-Winning Reporter Bragg Used Unattributed Material
Yeesh, more of this stuff at the NY Times.
I swear, I just read Krugman, that's it.Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-948213162003-05-24T01:39:00.000-07:002003-05-24T01:39:31.753-07:00Proof the Media Isn't Liberal
A solid point. Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-948212012003-05-24T01:29:00.000-07:002003-05-24T01:29:48.463-07:00Fear of a Quagmire?
Another good Krugman column. On economics, not my favorite subject (or Bush's, for that matter), but an interesting column, nonetheless.Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-948211542003-05-24T01:26:00.000-07:002003-05-24T01:26:50.860-07:00Blix casts doubt on WMDs
"Given the tense security situation, it would not at present be practically feasible to send UN inspectors to Iraq," Mr Blix said. "I also have the impression that the negative attitude toward UN inspectors ... is turning into a generally defensive attitude toward the United Nations."
Ya don't say.Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-948211132003-05-24T01:24:00.000-07:002003-05-24T01:24:29.136-07:00Well, that was a bit longer break than I was planning on. Anyway, consistent updates from now on. I promise.Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-940333752003-05-08T21:37:00.000-07:002003-05-08T21:37:13.010-07:00I am home. I don't feel like blogging, so don't look for much in the next couple days. Go read the links on the left (a double meaning, hmmm).Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-939534002003-05-07T15:30:00.000-07:002003-05-07T15:30:46.853-07:00Hooray, I'm done with all things related to college for almost 4 months. Except for the leaving here part. Bastards expect you to clean your room. HA!Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-939443862003-05-07T12:32:00.000-07:002003-05-07T12:32:49.733-07:00Microsoft Plans Toilets With Web Access
The beginning of the end for newspapers.Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-939441872003-05-07T12:28:00.000-07:002003-05-07T12:29:36.000-07:00Blogging will likely be light the rest of today, seeing as I have one more final and I need to clean out my room. More than likely I won't be blogging tomorrow; if I do, it'll be late. And from then on, blogging will be lighter, and likely later in the day. I can't be bothered to get up before Noon during my summer break. Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-939406252003-05-07T11:14:00.000-07:002003-05-07T11:16:52.000-07:00From Atrios:
Conservatives make their voices heard with a rising tide of hard-hitting student newspapers:
In an eight-hour session that bore little resemblance to a traditional journalism class, the students were taught how to start their own conservative newspapers and opinion journals. And how to pick fights with lefty bogeymen on the faculty and in student government.
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By the end of Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-939051622003-05-06T20:34:00.000-07:002003-05-06T20:34:55.063-07:00The blog is officially one week old now, I will be celebrating by doing........................nothing.Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-938954622003-05-06T17:33:00.000-07:002003-05-06T17:33:14.276-07:00Terror Groups May Be Planning New Attacks, State Dept. Says
It was a calibrated caution to Americans traveling or living abroad that while clear progress has been made in the fight against terrorism — and dramatically so against militants belonging to Al Qaeda — risks of terrorism have hardly vanished.
You still need to be scared; we still need blind emotional support for further wars.Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-938941962003-05-06T17:06:00.000-07:002003-05-06T17:06:41.213-07:00Three finals down, one more to go.Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-938797922003-05-06T12:28:00.000-07:002003-05-06T12:28:44.760-07:00Man on Horseback
An excellent article by Paul Krugman in the NY Times.Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-938756842003-05-06T11:07:00.000-07:002003-05-06T11:07:30.566-07:00Bad Bet by Bill Bennett
I haven't posted anything of Bill Bennett yet, basically because blogs like Atrios have done it, and I don't know all that much about him. So I'll comment on what O'Reilly said about him.
What O'Reilly and his guest said yesterday, was that if you have to be perfect to criticise others, no one could do it. Ok, pretty obvious. But Kinsely did say this:
There are Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-938467162003-05-05T23:16:00.000-07:002003-05-05T23:16:15.846-07:00U.S. Officials 'Confident' of Weapons Lab Find
The vehicle resembles an 18-wheeler Secretary of State Colin Powell said in a Feb. 5 presentation before the U.N. Security Council was a mobile weapons lab that had been moved around to elude weapons inspectors.
Of course, the weapons inspectors said they found the vehicles Powell talked about, but that they weren't mobile labs.
But, I suppose Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-938372292003-05-05T18:58:00.000-07:002003-05-05T18:58:08.713-07:00Neat, this blog just got it's hundredth hit. I believe that means it's time for me to retire. It was a good run, I had lots of fun, and hopefully you people learned something. So long!
P.S. I'm joking. I'm going to keep at this whether you like it or not. Or if you don't care. Which is the most likely sentiment towards this place.Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-938289572003-05-05T16:15:00.000-07:002003-05-05T16:16:40.000-07:00Who Wants to Be a Martyr?
As logical as the poverty-breeds-terrorism argument may seem, study after study shows that suicide attackers and their supporters are rarely ignorant or impoverished. Nor are they crazed, cowardly, apathetic or asocial. If terrorist groups relied on such maladjusted people, "they couldn't produce effective and reliable killers," according to Todd Stewart, a retired Air Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-938141892003-05-05T11:35:00.000-07:002003-05-05T11:35:46.806-07:00Iraq's 'Mrs. Anthrax' Taken Into U.S. Custody
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. forces have taken into custody a U.S.-educated microbiologist dubbed "Mrs. Anthrax" who was active in germ warfare development under President Saddam Hussein, defense officials said on Monday.
We got Mrs. Anthrax! See, her nickname has Anthrax in it. So, she counts as a WMD, right? No? Why not? I mean, her nickname Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-938123832003-05-05T11:00:00.000-07:002003-05-05T11:00:54.660-07:00Bombs in the WTC
Interesting article, goes into things I haven't seen about the suspected bombs in the WTC during 9/11. About half way through, though, the authors goes off into the all to common unfounded speculation of Israeli involvement. Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-938111182003-05-05T10:37:00.000-07:002003-05-05T18:45:24.000-07:00Faking it
A report by The Guardian tells us about a website claiming a picture of re-joicing Iraqis was doctored. I'll go look for this in a minute, but really, the pictures of the statue fall didn't have all that many people, and there's been other celebration pics doctored? At least they could change it enough to convince people.Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-938106762003-05-05T10:29:00.000-07:002003-05-05T10:30:50.000-07:00Got the idea from This Modern World
Iraqis Dig Up Mass Graves Near Holy City
Something to remember: Bush v1.0 told the Iraqi people to rise up and fight, then abandoned them when they did.Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-937852892003-05-04T23:04:00.000-07:002003-05-04T23:04:21.833-07:00Current CD rotation (or rather, CDs ripped to MP3 rotation):
Lacuna Coil - Unleased Memories
Rapture - Songs for the Withering
Agalloch - The MantleSpeedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-937846832003-05-04T22:47:00.000-07:002003-05-04T22:47:07.400-07:00Well, look what we have here, I'm listed on Google now. Interesting.Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-937840262003-05-04T22:30:00.000-07:002003-05-04T22:33:47.000-07:00A post on Atrios got me thinking.................I believe Ann Coulter is a robot. See, everything she says is exactly the same. "Liberals are bad; it's all the liberals' fault." She's just stuck on an infinite loop. There's been an error in the program that runs her, and nobody's been able to fix it. It's the only plausible explanation. They must have noticed it though, because sooner or Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-937689992003-05-04T17:13:00.000-07:002003-05-04T17:30:28.000-07:00I watched some of the Democratic debate today. So far I kinda like Dean and Gephardt. I have a feeling it'll be Lieberman, though, and I don't really like him. Oh well.
Election 2004 slogan for me:
Anybody but Bush.Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-937592152003-05-04T13:12:00.000-07:002003-05-04T13:12:48.930-07:00Just something kinda interesting:
Syria Shut Offices of Palestinian Groups U.S. Labels Terrorists, Powell Says
Powell specifically mentioned three groups -- the Islamic Resistance Movement, or Hamas; Palestinian Islamic Jihad; and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command -- in his conversation with Assad, according to a senior State Department official who briefed Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-937584962003-05-04T12:54:00.000-07:002003-05-04T12:55:04.000-07:00Well, the Magic drop 3 games in a row and lose the series to Detroit. I am now in favor of going back to the five game first round series. Looks like all that's left is to root against the Lakers.Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-937333552003-05-03T21:12:00.000-07:002003-05-03T21:14:07.000-07:00More catching up on what I missed:
Prosecutors Seek to Limit Questioning in Terror Trial
WASHINGTON, April 23 — The Justice Department is seeking broad new powers to prosecute terrorist defendants by urging an appeals court to deny Zacarias Moussaoui the right to question a captured member of Al Qaeda who features prominently in his indictment, according to a newly declassified court brief Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-937287052003-05-03T19:10:00.000-07:002003-05-03T19:11:38.000-07:00I missed Eric Alterman's column from two days ago, so here's the link, two days late.
"I'm saddened, saddened that this President failed so miserably at diplomacy that we're now forced to war. Saddened that we have to give up one life because this President couldn't create the kind of diplomatic effort that was so critical for our country." (Tom Daschle, March 18)
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Here's what happened Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-937280362003-05-03T18:50:00.000-07:002003-05-03T18:50:40.046-07:00Smacking by childminders to be banned:
"Tens of thousands of childminders are to be banned from smacking. In one of the most significant anti-smacking moves since corporal punishment was outlawed in state schools in the 1980s, 70,000 childminders in England will be prevented from smacking or using any form of corporal punishment against children under eight, even if they have the written consentSpeedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-937175882003-05-03T13:22:00.000-07:002003-05-03T14:32:08.000-07:00This is a couple days old, but I just noticed it. It's pretty funny; a satire on the last two years if Gore hadn't been screwed out of the Presidency. There's one thing I wanted to point out:
"In 2002 The New York Times revealed that oil companies with close political connections to the Democratic Party had schemed with Gore to run an oil pipeline across Afghanistan from Turkmenistan to Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-937133012003-05-03T11:27:00.000-07:002003-05-03T11:27:08.250-07:00Well, Orlando lost for the 2nd time in a row. At least I got to watch some of the game this time.Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-936818822003-05-02T18:14:00.000-07:002003-05-02T18:19:42.000-07:00Wow, I agreed with something O'Reilly said tonight. Affirmative Action. I agree, it should be class based, not race based.
And ya know who're a good band? Rapture. Awesome.Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0