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Friday, November 02, 2001
He who controls the past, controls the future. More 1984 for you. "Alberto" Gonzales is the president's legal counsel. Previous to that he was appointed by GW Bush to several different Judge positions in Texas. Previous to that he was GW Bush's personal lawyer. Previous to that he dated my next door neighbor for a few years, and then married her. My little sister used to argue politics with him when she was about 11. My family has a strong slant toward labor issues, and well, Al is Bush's chief legal cousel.
.: posted by Jeremy 11/2/2001
Thursday, November 01, 2001
They call them anomalies, I call it highly maneuverable.
.: posted by andy 11/1/2001
Wednesday, October 31, 2001
I really think that the Sci-Tech and Space sections of CNN.com are underutilized. They tend to have the most interesting stories. For example, today the Space section had an article explaining how we know the world will come to an end tonight. They also had an article about a test of a scramjet in Australia that failed because of "flight anomolies".
.: posted by Grand Inquisitor Fnord Moco 10/31/2001
Today I dressed up for halloween at work. I am presenting myself as the founder and chief demagogue for the HAT(Hawaiian-Shirted engineers Against Terrorism).
I wore a hawaiian shirt and my floppy hat. I'm handing out business cards so people will understand. I better get some free pizza for this.
.: posted by Jeremy 10/31/2001
Monday, October 29, 2001
Devin, was your word jingoism?
.: posted by Jeremy 10/29/2001
We're also a nation founded on immigration. So if russians don't want to be oppressed by the brutal FBI in russia, they are welcome to move to chicago where they'll be at least partially sheilded from them. Also, we are a nation state. Nation states have a duty to their own citizens, and to hell with everybody else. On that same token, if some rednecks in Tulsa were planning an attack on the Namibian embassy, I'd feel just fine if the Namibian Intellegence Service decided to take them out in self defense.
CIA. I agree with Devin about the CIA trying to do the military's job. Let them gather the intel, give it to the military, and let them do the shooting. Like a sniper/spotter team.
.: posted by Jeremy 10/29/2001
So, there are a few things that have been bothering me for a while.
First, www.willworkforflooz.com dersn't work anymore. Hasn't worked for me in a week, at least. It seems kinda futile writing this stuff so that only Andy and Jeremy can see it. Of course, if this site didn't exist, I'd be writing this crap in emails to them anyway. Does anyone know the IP or some other method of seeing the real site?
Second, there is this pervading attitude amoung Americans, or at least American governmental agencies which is a word I can't think of right now. It's stronger than elitism, not quite the same as imerialism or xenophobia, but similar to all.
A while back sadmind had a link to a story on the FBI catching Russian gangsters doing bidness in the US by completely violating their rights, and in the process subjugating the soveriegnty of Russia, and then saying that since the investigation wasn't conducted in the US, wiretap and privacy regulations didn't exist, and they could pretty much do anything they goddamned well pleased, since the pesky ACLU is, after all, the American Civil Liberties Union. Another part of this is the CIA coming out and saying that they feel that targetting specific terrorists for murder doesn't violate Reagan's Executive Decree against assassination.
Now, lets take a hypothetical situation where Timothy McVey's heretofore unknown secret sect decides to go into action. They're all basically a bunch of rednecks near Tulsa, and they start amassing fertilizer. Now, because of heightened security precautions, the manager of the lawn and garden section of the local Walmart gets suspicious and hands this info over the the FBI. The fibbies are too busy closing down airports, so the CIA picks up the lead, sends in a group of operatives who 'neutralize' this terroristic threat. Seems like that wouldn't fly so well. Now lets say that instead this happens in Namibia. Suddenly it's all well and fine.
As an American, I pride myself on the ideas of natural freedom, that I live a nation, the greatest nation, founded on these ideas. We are not great because we have the most expensive military in the world, or because we can (most of the time) put a munition on a one meter target. It's not because we consume 30% of the world's production and resources. It's because of the novel idea of our forebearers, the ideas represented in our Constitution, our democracy, and our freedoms. I'm not entirely sure that these ideas and the concepts they represent were supposed to be for the few. Was the pledge of allegiance supposed to represent rights available only to those who swore that oath?
We are at war, as it has been called, and I will kill him that would kill me, and I feel we must bring those sociopaths to justice who planned and carried out the attacks on innocent people, on September 11, on the USS Cole, on the US Embassies in Africa. While we seek justice, we should also remember the other thing we promise to uphold in the pledge of allegiance, freedom. I for one do not like the idea of hegemonic liberty. The right to subjugate is not in the copy of the Bill of Rights that I have. While war is a separate circumstance, at all other times we should not colonialize other nations, either through economic or political methods. Perhaps if our 'informal representatives', businessmen, travelers, and citizens and members of government were not so elitist and subjugating, and our international policy didn't undermine the soveriegnty of other nations, we wouldn't be hated by quite so many peoples.
As for the CIA making a list of people they don't like and killing them, I say let the CIA make lists and gather information (hence the name Central Intelligence Agency), and let the military carry out the acts of war. If a person is deemed to be an enemy in the war, send the Marines after her.
Stick that in your slippery slope pipe and smoke it.
.: posted by Grand Inquisitor Fnord Moco 10/29/2001
Sunday, October 28, 2001
Houston is still in the running for the 2012 olympics. Dallas is not. I'm sure this will make a lot of people here happy. Houstonians have an inferiority comlex when it comes to Dallas, similar to the way kids at A&M feel towards UT. And in that same way, I'm sure Dallasites are just vaguely aware of it, but that's all.
.: posted by Jeremy 10/28/2001
The spinner motor in my 3-5 month old DVD player has died. Everything else works, but it just wont spin the damn dvd. If I were an electronics technician, I could probably replace the motor, but I'm not. Consumer electronics are made so poorly. And the lack of documentation is pretty amazing, too.
.: posted by Jeremy 10/28/2001
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