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his guns on decisions he didn't make or hear of until it was published by the media and yet supports as the
right decision he didn't make none-the-less. (That sentence hurt me, is there any logic to the way Bush
thinks?)
Excerpt:
After Republican leaders warned President Bush that the House and Senate appeared ready to
block Dubai Ports World from taking over some U.S. port terminal operations, the company said
it would give up its management stake in the deal.
The Thursday announcement was a blow for Democrats, who were pushing for a Senate vote on
an amendment that would halt the deal. A few minutes later, the Senate voted to ignore GOP
requests to wait until a 45-day review of the deal is completed before they try to stop it.
Why is this a "blow" to the Democrats? This is what they wanted, right? To not have the ports in the
control of Mid-East interests. It looks to me like we won on the issue with the help of Republicans who
realized that their fearless leaders isn't infallible and decided, for once, to do the right thing.
band to play a gig here in 20 years
And here I was looking for an excuse to get the hell out of Hilo for a weekend. Dang it.
squash any civil war
loyal to the idea of an independent Kurdistan than they are to a functioning Iraq.
Excerpt:
Iraqi forces, not American troops, would deal with a civil war if one erupts in Iraq and U.S. troop
cuts remained possible despite a recent surge in violence, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld
said on Thursday.
Rumsfeld also told a Senate committee that Iraqi leaders, who have failed to assemble a new
government since the December 15 parliamentary elections, must promptly form a "unity
government."
"The plan is to prevent a civil war," Rumsfeld responded to Sen. Robert Byrd, a West Virginia
Democrat, "and to the extent one were to occur to have the ... Iraqi security forces deal with it
to the extent they're able to."
Yeah, let the Iraqi forces deal with it since they are going to be part of the civil war when it becomes
full-blown. The police are Sunni, the military is Kurd and everyone else with a gun are Shiite. This can
only turn out well, don't you think?
staff votes "no confidence" in the way he runs things
walrus, crushes me beneath his girth."
Excerpt:
The U.N. Staff Union voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to express no confidence in U.N.
Secretary-General Kofi Annan and his top managers after Annan announced plans to overhaul
the U.N. bureaucracy.
A motion "to express a statement of no confidence in the secretary-general and his senior
management team" was opposed by just two of the more than 500 U.N. employees attending a
closed-door emergency meeting of the staff group, said Staff Union official Guy Candusso.
Annan two days earlier had introduced a 33-page report on U.N. management reform that
proposed outsourcing some U.N. work or moving staff out of the United States for some
translation services, document production, printing and publishing and information technology.
I haven't read the report but the word "outsourcing" always strikes a chord in me and makes me wonder
what's up.
it? I am not too familiar with this moon, we didn't
really cover it in my astrogeology class but my
bet is that future classes will cover it extensively
from now on
Excerpt:
It's almost 1300-million kilometres from earth but scientists believe they have discovered
evidence of water on one of Saturn's icy moons -- rekindling hope in the existence of life
outside planet Earth.
The surprising discovery, made by the Cassini spacecraft, shows evidence of liquid water
reservoirs that erupt from geysers (natural hot-springs) on Saturn's moon Enceladus.
"High-resolution Cassini images show icy jets and towering plumes ejecting large quantities of
particles at high speed," a NASA press release stated Thursday.
Carolyn Porco, Cassini's imaging team leader said Thursday that the discovery was a "smoking
gun" that proved water existed on the planet.
I like cryovolcanism. It's cool stuff.
years found alive and well chillin' like a villin in Laos
Excerpt:
It has the face of a rat and the tail of a skinny squirrel — and scientists say this creature
discovered living in central Laos is pretty special: It's a species believed to have been extinct
for 11 million years.
The long-whiskered rodent made international headlines last spring when biologists declared
they'd discovered a brand new species, nicknamed the Laotian rock rat.
It turns out the little guy isn't new after all, but a rare kind of survivor: a member of a family until
now known only from fossils.
Nor is it a rat. This species, called Diatomyidae, looks more like small squirrels or tree shrews,
said paleontologist Mary Dawson of Pittsburgh's Carnegie Museum of Natural History.
First it's the crazy discovery of hundreds of cool species in New Guinea, now it's rat squirrels in Laos.
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profs that are in it for the co-ed tail. I
think he's saying, "When I finally get
The Bomb my penis will grow to this
big."
Excerpt:
Iran's hard-line president on Thursday warned the West will suffer more than his country if it
tries to stop Tehran's nuclear ambitions, vowing to press ahead with the program as the
confrontation moved into the U.N. Security Council.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's comments came as Tehran struck an increasingly
threatening tone, with the top Iranian delegate to the U.N. atomic watchdog agency warning a
day earlier that the United States will face "harm and pain" if the Security Council becomes
involved.
"They know that they are not capable of causing the least harm to Iranian people," Ahmadinejad
said during a visit to Iran's western province of Lorestan, according to the ISNA news agency.
"They will suffer more."
Ahmadinejad did not elaborate. Some diplomats saw the comments as a veiled threat to use oil
as a weapon, though Iran's oil minister ruled out any decrease in production. Iran also has
leverage with extremist groups in the Middle East that could harm U.S. interests.
This just gets better and better. Iran needs to figure out that they aren't in the position to warn or threaten
until they actually get The Bomb. Anything prior to that is nothing more than the international version of
shortman's syndrome, also known as a Napoleon complex.
Excerpt:
Gifts, trips and cash were used to pave the way for air time for certain songs at radio stations
owned and operated by Entercom, the nation's fifth-largest chain, according to a lawsuit filed by
New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer.
I hate big radio. I'll say it again, the worst thing Clinton ever did while in office was to push for and sign the
1996 Telecommunications Act.
The $67 billion pythonic swallowing of BellSouth by AT&T is the latest evidence that the telecom industry is
merging itself toward monopoly. Before we are all inside the snake, we might remember why we left it two
decades ago.
It was not really that Ma Bell charged high prices, though on long distance it did. Mostly, it was that it was
not service-oriented or much interested in anything new. A generation ago, the phone company would not
allow you to plug in a phone. That began to change before the 1984 federal break-up of the Bell system,
and after it, change accelerated.
The scene is different now, with DSL, satellite service, wireless and cable. We are reminded that there is
competition, ferocious competition, which there wasn't in the days when Ma Bell's position was set by
government franchise. AT&T is an able competitor; it offers DSL service at $12.99 a month, which it claims
is the cheapest in the nation. Its acquisition of BellSouth will unite the ownership of Cingular, one of the
most aggressive cellular systems.
It would also, however, take a large step toward what some are calling a duopoly, meaning two companies
dominating a market. It means Pepsi versus Coke or, in this case, AT&T versus Verizon, which serves
Snohomish and Skagit counties, having swallowed GTE. There are a few smaller ones, such as Qwest,
which serves Seattle. There is speculation that Verizon will make a meal of Qwest, about which a Verizon
spokesman says the company has no plans. Which guarantees nothing.
The cable companies, led by Comcast, provide the pipe for voice-over-Internet phone service. But by
AT&T standards, the Comcasts and Vonages of the market are small, and those that don't own the pipe
may be vulnerable to a squeeze from those that do.
Maybe duopoly will never come, or will work better this time. Certainly, the market feels much different than
in the Ma Bell era. But history is not reassuring. Beyond a certain point, gigantism in industry becomes a
disease.
The Justice Department and the Federal Communications Commission approved the last grand
combination, SBC and AT&T, without much objection. We hold with Glenn Blackmon, regulatory director at
the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission, that regulators should hold this merger to a
higher standard.
It is a big step. They should not be afraid to reject it.
Excerpt:
Robert Oppenheimer agonized over building the A-bomb. Alfred Nobel got queasy about
creating dynamite. Robert Propst invented nothing so destructive. Yet before he died in 2000,
he lamented his unwitting contribution to what he called "monolithic insanity."
Propst is the father of the cubicle. More than 30 years after he unleashed it on the world, we
are still trying to get out of the box. The cubicle has been called many things in its long and
terrible reign. But what it has lacked in beauty and amenity, it has made up for in crabgrass-like
persistence.
I am glad that in all the years I worked doing crap with computer networks I was never kept in a nerd-pen.
The freedom that came from instead being housed in places like mobile homes in a back lot behind where
everybody else does there crap will stick with me forever...
"Why are the networks down, Houston!?"
"Gee, let me think... Maybe it's because you have $100,000 in servers housed in a 40ft shipping container
that sits in direct sunlight."
"Don't get smart with me, just fix it."
"OK, If I am going to fix it here's where I need to start--with you. You're fired for being a tool. Also, I
hereby approve the construction of a new kind of building. One with windows and air conditioning so that
the new servers will have a comfortable home away from extremes in humidity or temperature. From this
point on this new building will be referred to as the "computer room" and it will have a mini fridge that
doesn't ice over and drip rust-water on my lunch. There will be wheelie chairs from the most recent
decade and door that will have a knob and not a padlock."
Excerpt:
With the close of talks in Vienna, the United Nations Security Council takes up the challenge of
trying to convince Iran to drop its nuclear ambitions.
But a British official warned the Council yesterday that it should move fast as it was
“reasonable” to think that Iran could acquire the technology to make nuclear weapons “within a
year”.
Okay, crazy McPresident of Iran, sorry I made the small penis joke earlier. Please don't kill me.
programs like AmeriCorps
Excerpt:
In Washington, President Bush returned to a familiar theme: Faith, and its potential to reshape
how the government works.
"If you're addicted to alcohol, and if a faith program is able to get you off alcohol," the president
told leaders of religious charities on Thursday, "we ought to say Hallelujah and thanks at the
federal level."
OK, we solved drinking. So then how do we deal with the epidemic sweeping the nation of people addicted
to religion? Get them drunk?
Here.
Excerpt:
As he finished helping a friend move in Irving on Feb. 11, Bryan McManus could feel his
blood-sugar level dropping.
That was a sign to the 37-year-old diabetic that he needed to hurry home in Euless to eat
something to help it go back up.
But McManus didn't make it home quickly.
McManus, a technician, went into diabetic shock on the side of a highway just a block from his
home, then he was shot with pepper spray and a stun gun by police, who believed he was
intoxicated and became unruly, authorities said Wednesday.
Patrol officers used pepper spray on him then shocked him three times with a Taser before
they were able to handcuff him, according to Euless police reports.
Excerpt:
Japan's central bank took a leap into the economic dark yesterday by ending a five-year policy
of zero interest rates, ignoring government warnings that the shift could harm the country's
fledgling recovery.
The bank's board voted seven-to-one after a two-day meeting to abandon the policy,
introduced in March 2001 to help fight the deflation that had crippled the world's
second-largest economy for years.
Japan has just the opposite problem as the U.S. Here no one saves anything in Japan they don't spend
(unless they are on vacation to Hawaii) and instead save everything they earn. Thus, we have inflation
and they have deflation.
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degrees for teachers and refers to the Civil War as the "War of
Northern Aggression," rejects letting Creationism curriculum into
public schools
Excerpt:
The state Board of Education on Wednesday voted down a proposed revision to the state
biology standards that would have required students to study the work of scientists who
attempt to poke holes in the theory of evolution.
because of Texas law
Excerpt:
The take-home message is clear: "These comparisons suggest that the laws are causing kids to
have fewer abortions and carry their pregnancies to term," said lead researcher Ted Joyce, a
professor of economics at Baruch College, part of the City College of New York.
Teen parents are always good for an economy. Africa proved that.
that the whole thing is displayed on projector behind his head
A Suffolk University professor is under investigation by university officials following
accusations of alleged pornographic misconduct.
According to Emily Macdonald, a student in the class, Professor Luis Garcia, allegedly watched
porn on his computer, which was unknowingly connected to a monitor that was behind him.
The class ended half an hour following the display, and the students never tried to intervene.
I remember when I was working on the networks at Olympic College and there was this guy who looked
exactly like the comic book store owner form "The Simpsons" was sitting right there in a computer lab full of
people watching kiddie porn on his computer.
There was so much on his screen that after the police came and hauled his ass away I spent the next 5
minutes trying to close all the windows. If you are going to look at porn do it on your own time on your own
computer. Preferably not one in a crowded room or attached to an LCD projector.
Just a little advice for all of you.
Here.
Excerpt:
Okay, it’s time to get worried, if you weren’t already. The White House is going after Capitol Hill
Blue.
I always thought that website was hanging it out there about as far as possible. They broke the
story about presidential temper tantrums months before Newsweek ran it. They also claimed to
have sources close to the Secret Service agents at the Cheney shooting incident, who claim he
was clearly drunk.
It looks like the White House is fighting back.
Recently Capitol Hill Blue’s Doug Thompson received one of hundreds of “National Security
Letters” the FBI is sending out to reporters’ employers, credit card companies, banks, etc…to
turn over records. We have a White House trying to prosecute reporters and their sources, to
keep Bush administration misdeeds under wraps, secret from the public.
I often think Capitol Hill Blue is just making stuff up but doing so in an educated way such that there is a
good chance that what they are guessing is actually going on. More often than not I think they end up
being right. Capitol Hill Blue is the ultimate shot in the dark type publication. Even if they are lying through
their teeth 100% of the time they are still protect by the First Amendment. Fascism is coming, it's just
slower this time.
Excerpt:
Missiles test-fired by North Korea this week are "a quantum leap forward" from its previous
weapons with greater reliability and precision, the commander of the U.S. military in South
Korea said.
Speaking before the U.S. House Armed Services Committee on Thursday in Washington,
General B.B. Bell said North Korea was also moving ahead with the development of
longer-range ballistic missiles that could hit Alaska and targets in the continental United States.
Gee, I wonder if Seattle will eventually become one of their targets? This is what we get for going into Iraq,
thus creating more troubles in the world, rather than deal with the problems that were there first.
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eliminated if the US beats South Africa tomorrow. I don't understand the way this works.
Cuba beat the holy hell out of the Dutch 11-2. I predicted that.
Venezuela just gets by Australia 2-0 to move on to round 2.
The Dominican Republic smacks Italy (the fake team) 8-3 to stay undefeated.
Netherlands/Panama. A losers game like when Taiwan played China...
Puerto Rico/Cuba. This will be a good game to establish who gets a better seed in round 2.
Australia/Dominican Republic. The DR is going to flat-out rape Australia. Plus, Vlad is back!
(Personally I am betting that either Korea or the Dominican Republic win it all.