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Saturday, August 24, 2002
The FBI is attempting to intimidate our elected representatives into toeing the line.
.: posted by andy 8/24/2002
Thursday, August 22, 2002
The "federal judiciary has no power over U.S. military policy being carried out in a foreign nation." Also, just because you're an American citizen doesn't mean you have the right to legal representation.
I don't know why I even bothered posting this stuff. Everyone knows it's going on, and my posting it doesn't make anyone more or less concerned. Something about the sound and the fury...
.: posted by andy 8/22/2002
On Sept. 11th, the NRO was planning to stage a plane crash into one of its four headquarters buildings. This was intended as a test of their employees' emergency preparedness. There was no actual plane involved--they were just going to close off certain stairwells and exits to simulate the damage from a small plane crashing into the building. I tried pretty hard, but I couldn't see any way to get a conspiracy connection out of this.
.: posted by andy 8/22/2002
Satan's Cheerleaders?? Not anymore.
.: posted by Jeremy 8/22/2002
Wednesday, August 21, 2002
Also, Trisa has this house with two cars in the garage, and she wants to get rid of both. She says one is a rotted out '57 Chevy Bel Air, and the other is a '77 Carmengia. I guess if anyone is interested in hauling off some fixer-uppers, email me and I'll pass the word along. By the way, I think the cars are located in or near Philadelphia.
.: posted by andy 8/21/2002
The Japanese are planning to clone a mammoth. Can you believe that? I think it's pretty neat, but I have some reservations about it. I'm not a big eco nut or religious wacko or anything, and I don't believe in any of this Mother Earth Gaia nonsense, but it does seem like maybe we're going a little overboard in tampering with the natural order of things. Or maybe I just can't see the forest for the trees. Maybe this is the natural order of things. Maybe we're just another force of nature, despite our lofty idea of humanity as over, above, and beyond.
Do you think that this single mammoth in existence will be lonely? Aren't mammoths, like elephants, herd animals? Shouldn't they long for others of their kind? Do you feel a kind of sadness when you think of this solitary animal in an amusement park in Japan, whose peers have all been dead and gone for 10,000 years? What happens when it dies?
Can you believe that there are 10 freaking million mammoths buried in the permafrost in Siberia? What else have they got hidden in there?
.: posted by andy 8/21/2002
Tuesday, August 20, 2002
This article is worth reading just for the second to last paragraph, which I will paste here so that you can skip the article if you're pressed for time.
"We are interrogating him here (Santo Domingo)," [Dominican General Fernando Cruz] said. "He doesn't have any prior record but we have the impression we are dealing with a nut."
.: posted by andy 8/20/2002
Woe to you Jeremy, for living in such a ridiculous place.
.: posted by andy 8/20/2002
.: posted by andy 8/20/2002
Monday, August 19, 2002
.: posted by Jeremy 8/19/2002
Andy, you only believe that because you're a terrorist.
Texas Child Protective Services are holding two teenage daughters from their mother because their mother is a lesbian. Back when I was a nazi teenager I believed that my dad's pro-choice views were morally wrong, but I wasn't going to run away and have the local baptist church sue for my custody.
.: posted by Jeremy 8/19/2002
A fairly good editorial about Reichschancellor Bush. Ha ha, I called him "Reichschancellor," as if to say that Bush is as bad as Hitler was. But that's crazy-talk. Bush is nowhere near as bad as 1940s Hitler. Bush is more like a 1933 Hitler...
.: posted by andy 8/19/2002
Sunday, August 18, 2002
Harry Stephen Keeler, master of the webwork novel. It's interesting to read how terribly implausible these stories are, considering how popular movies written in a similar vein are. Memento, Pulp Fiction, Magnolia, and Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels all come to mind.
.: posted by andy 8/18/2002
Artomat machines. What a great idea, and believe it or not, there's one in Greensboro! I guess no one else will be excited. Beth sure wasn't.
.: posted by andy 8/18/2002
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