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Saturday, September 29, 2001
A possible warning before the attacks?
.: posted by andy 9/29/2001
Friday, September 28, 2001
Interesting satellite photos from GlobalSecurity.org.
.: posted by andy 9/28/2001
One of the more interesting ways our government communicates to the press is through the "Official Leak."
Say hello to Desert Two.
.: posted by Jeremy 9/28/2001
Added the beginning of the Patriotic Archive. Send any forwards or graphics you get regarding the WTC bombings, Afghanistan, bin Laden, or any non-specific patriotic forwards to hungryjoe@hotmail.com.
.: posted by andy 9/28/2001
I teach a Saturday morning class in East Chinatown. I was down there the other day scoping out my territory. The smoke is still pretty thick. It's bad because you know the smell isn't just the buildings burning. Also, the phones still aren't working. There are these trucks by the side of the road where locals can make free 3-minute conversations. Guiliani, who is letting himself go to his head (yes, that's what I meant to type), says that they've hauled out ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND TONS of debris. And that appears to be about 10% of what needs to be taken out. Um. They think it's going to take at least two months.
On a little more amusing note, let me tell you about this class I'm teaching. It's for kids who want to take the specialized New York City Science High School exam. These kids, jeesh. Half of them are of the opinion that they're not fucking getting into Styvesant and might as well leave. The other half of them are of the opinion that if they don't get into Styvesant they're going to fucking kill themselves. Many of them are taller than me, and I have my suspicions that some of them have knives.
On a purely Loretta note, I'm kind of pleased with how my life is going.
.: posted by Loretta 9/28/2001
People in Texas don't like feeling like victims. We like to feel armed to the teeth so that when Mohammed Atta comes at us, we'll be ready. On wednesday the 12th, I opened the gun-safe(i almost mistyped that as "fun-safe." how true that is...), and got out the AR-15, the 15 round clip, and a box of ammo. The gun is leaning against my wall, and the full clip is next to it on the TV-stand. I was feeling a lot more safe about the world until the TV started talking about biological attacks, and I realized I had a sore throat.
.: posted by Jeremy 9/28/2001
Thursday, September 27, 2001
Just watched The Million Dollar Hotel. Was a very good movie, although it made me sad.
.: posted by andy 9/27/2001
Devin and Jeremy were out hunting in the woods. Devin suddenly clutches his chest and falls to the ground. Jeremy, assuming that Devin has had a heart attack, whips out his cell and calls 911. When the operator asks what the problem is, Jeremy frantically says that he thinks Devin is dead. The operator says, "Well, let's make sure." There's a pause, and then the operator hears a rifle shot over the phone. Jeremy comes back on the line and says, "Ok, now what?"
.: posted by andy 9/27/2001
The damn cat just climbed up my neck. I have little gouge marks on the back of my neck from her claws. I have officially announced to Beth that if I can catch Leilu, I'm going to kill her. She's not an adorable frisky little kitten anymore. She's a damn unthinking, untrainable, ungrateful bitch of a cat and I really, honestly hate her. My body is covered with scratches from her. My toes have little holes in them from where she bites through the quilt every single night. She's torn down the drapes in the bathroom twice. She scratches my grandfather's chair, despite the goddamn 25 dollar scratching post one room over. I cannot stand this cat, and the cat knows it. She won't stay in the same room as me anymore. She may not have any sense, but I guess she has a survival instinct.
.: posted by andy 9/27/2001
The best source of news in the world is back, after a two week break. I remember on 9/11 when the news channels played the virgin footage of the attacks with "oh my fucking god" commentary and all. It's interesting that when something really important comes along, our prudery about language seems really stupid.
Of course, now that we've had time to heal, and edit, you don't hear any of those real human reactions from the footage anymore.
.: posted by Jeremy 9/27/2001
Wednesday, September 26, 2001
I would like to make a general announcement to contestants on the Price is Right.
You know what? They people in the audience don't know the answer either. Dammit.
.: posted by Loretta 9/26/2001
Tuesday, September 25, 2001
Damn. Things like this were the original inspiration for this site. One of these two plants is just a mile or so down from my old apartment in Austin. I originally wanted to get a job there so I could live in Austin. This sucks.
.: posted by Jeremy 9/25/2001
Charlie used to have a pissing problem. I found that the best way to teach him not to piss on everything was to get another, bigger dog from the pound that was already house trained. After we got Gracey, it was only six months before Charlie learned not to piss indoors.
.: posted by andy 9/25/2001
What really gets me about his "God Bless America" thing is that I've gotten about twenty pieces of Spam trying to sell me t-shirts with flags on them. Yesterday was the first time I actually saw someone wearing one. So those emails must work. This bothers me because Beth told me the day after it happened that we should go buy all the flags we could find and then resell them at twice the price. That's the American Dream, after all.
Another thing that bothers me is that Bush said on national TV that we were attacked because we are "a beacon of freedom". What the hell? If that's the case, why don't they attack Switzerland or Jamaica or someplace? Or better yet, why not attack Somalia, since it's almost completely anarchic. Everyone wants to say that this attack happened because foreigners have a deep-seated and completely unfounded hatred of the United States of America. No one wants to actually rationally consider that we might have done some pretty nasty things to their region, and that the terrorists, as evil as they are, might have some legitimate grievances.
That said, I hope we fry those fuckers. I hate terrorism. Like I've said ad nauseum ever since Tom Clancy planted the idea in my feeble mind, terrorism is just a flimsy rationalization for sociopaths to kill people.
.: posted by andy 9/25/2001
It's raining out in New York City tonight. It's not thundering, so it's nice and calming. I've been afraid of thunder since it happened. Thunder and airplanes and brown recluse spiders. Well, the spiders were from before. These things are horror-movie scary.
On another note entirely, this whole "God Bless America" thing is scaring the crap out of me. Not to mention the mass-prayer thing that happened this weekend. Doesn't anyone make the connection that jingoism and religious zealotry is the backbone behind terrorism in the first place? Not to mention the fact that no one had even *heard* the song "God Bless America" a few weeks ago. Now all of a sudden it's everywhere but *still* no one knows the words to it. It feels like it's been forced on us from above.
On yet another note, wow am I a bitch or what for noticing how much weight Mariah Carey has gained? Now we know why she's gone into hiding! Heh. Well, the woman bases her entire life on one half of her face -- I feel like I have the right to make fun of her.
.: posted by Loretta 9/25/2001
Why is it that every time I take my eyes off my dog(he's much bigger now) for 5 consecutive minutes, he pisses on the floor? I guess I shouldn't yell at him so much when he does that, coz then he thinks he's supposed to piss on the couch or on my bed. I think I must be doing something very wrong here.
.: posted by Jeremy 9/25/2001
Monday, September 24, 2001
I'm from Spring, TX, this guy is/was living in spring, tx. I'm glad we've returned to the days of ratting-out your neighbors. Maybe we could bring back HUAC?
.: posted by Jeremy 9/24/2001
God Bless America, by the way.
.: posted by andy 9/24/2001
Sunday, September 23, 2001
That's why this is a Republic instead of a Democracy. Democracy is mob rule. Living in a Republic means that cooler heads will prevail.
But seriously, why should the Taliban know where bin Laden is? The Taliban is only in control of the major cities. Bin Laden has been moving between caves for a long time now. I'm pretty sure he doesn't call the Taliban everytime he moves to a different canyon. I can say I'm pretty sure because most of Afghanistan doesn't even have electricity, let alone telephones. There are 25,000,000 Afghans living there, with 31,000 phones to split between them. When the Taliban says it doesn't know something, they're most likely telling the truth.
Not only that, but I'm pissed off about another thing, if you can imagine. The Taliban says they'll turn bin Laden over if we'll show evidence that proves he's responsible for the attacks. Bush says we're not going to do any such thing. Which I guess means he has his heart set on a war, and isn't going to pay any attention to any sort of stupid extradition agreements we might set up. If bin Laden were hiding in Great Britain, and we said "turn him over" and they asked for evidence, you can bet we'd give it. If bin Laden were in Japan the situation would be the same. Same if he were in China. But by God, Bush thinks we can kick the shit out of Afghanistan, so we sure as hell aren't going to tolerate any lip from them, no matter how reasonable it might be.
I guess I'd be hawkish too if my approval rating went up a thousandth of a percent for every American that gets killed.
.: posted by andy 9/23/2001
Ok, so I know that cynicism is supposed to be dead now, but you just can't beat me down like that. I've been seing all these wonderful approval ratings for the president, like 90% overall approval and 95% approval of the speech he gave last week....
And then I saw another statistic saying that 65% of americans would approve of forcing arabs, or muslims, to have special IDs. Maybe something like an armband with a crescent moon would do the trick??
Yeah, I trust the average american's opinion.
.: posted by Jeremy 9/23/2001
Who here is for napalming Kabul? On Wednesday, after my teeth stopped chattering from rage, I thought that we should just slow-cook Afghanistan. Nukes are too good for 'em.
.: posted by Jeremy 9/23/2001
The church we passed on our walk this morning was very full. I said that it was a good thing, because all the extra people going to church would ultimately be good for national unity. Beth said she thought extra church-going would only serve to fragment the nation more, since everyone goes to different churches. But she was wrong.
Then we started complaining about North Carolina. They don't have a lottery here. They also have some of the worst public Schools in the US. According to something I read last week, this is the only state on the east coast without a lottery. The religious right in this state has its priorities, I guess.
.: posted by andy 9/23/2001
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