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Saturday, October 05, 2002
Jeremy, that's exactly how the former CEO of Healant found out about sadmind.com. He told me that he had new-found respect for me after finding my site. Which I guess was a good thing...
.: posted by andy 10/5/2002
Friday, October 04, 2002
You know what's cool? If you google bpmicrosystems, the company website comes up listed third or so. And then immediately after that is a link to a post on willworkforflooz. The blurb that goes along with the link is andy's post about me being the alpha male of bpmicrosystems. I think that's funny. Every time some schmoe does a search on my company and our products, they get to read about how I make everybody's life hell at work.
.: posted by Jeremy 10/4/2002
Here's a good article about the Nuclear Emergency Search Team. Two factoids from article: of the 125 events the team has mobilized for, 30 are not classified as hoaxes; Aleksandr Lebed reported that the Russian government could not account for more than 70 suitcase nukes. There's a lot of speculation about the Russian tactical "demolition munitions." Lebed pushed very hard for a thorough investigation, but didn't seem to make much headway. He died last Spring in a helicopter crash.
Bush is trying to get the use of these specialized nukes approved. I forget if it's in the legislation they're pushing right now. I don't really think it's such a bad idea. Who knows? We might have gotten Saddam if we hadn't been limited to conventional bunker-busters.
This editorial suggests that Saddam Hussein is only a tiny corner of the overall nuclear threat to the US. The author advocates spending more money to secure nuclear material.
Here's Atomic Annie, a 280mm artillery piece designed to fire tactical nuclear rounds. I saw one of these on display at Fort Sill in Oklahoma when I was a Boy Scout. I don't think this program went very far. As rocket technology developed, artillery efforts faded into the background. This looks like an insanely interesting article about the development of the Space Gun, and how one of its biggest proponents was killed by the Mossad after he tried to sell his technology to the Iraqis. There was a comic book character called the Punisher who was, at one point in the Sicilian Saga (I think), tied across the business end of a giant artillery piece developed by the Iraqis. I think it was the Iraqis, anyway. The comic book referred to them as the Sunis. Luckily, his fingernails were diamond-tipped and he managed to cut his way to freedom. Good stuff. I wonder what happened to all of my comic books...
.: posted by andy 10/4/2002
Thursday, October 03, 2002
Der ver zwei peanuts, valking down der strasse, and von vas... assaulted! peanut. Ho-ho-ho-ho.
.: posted by Jeremy 10/3/2002
Back to the war on Iraq again: The military has ordered 150,000 bottles of sunscreen.
.: posted by andy 10/3/2002
Forget about the war with Iraq for a minute, if you can. I just read that the sun is going to explode in six years! Alarm, alarm!
Of course, if this were true, the sun would be turning whiter and getting smaller, which it is not. I should know--I spend at least half an hour staring at the sun every day.
.: posted by andy 10/3/2002
W and Saddam should fight a duel in order to settle everything civil-like.
I like this idea. Saddam wins, we leave them alone for good, drop sanctions, and pay fair market value for iraqi oil. W wins, saddam flees to iran, or something, along with all his cronies, and we set up a puppet democracy.
I'm thinking the medium for the duel should be W in an F4, or whatever he flew in the Air National Guard, and Saddam manning a SAM site and/or AAA battery.
.: posted by Jeremy 10/3/2002
The goal of the United States in pressing for war on Iraq is to establish the Pax Americana.
I think this article is entirely correct.
.: posted by andy 10/3/2002
Tuesday, October 01, 2002
Also, some guy in a Jeep tried to run over one of the Critical Mass stoners, down in Austin. There's video of the whole thing on the page I linked to. If you read the text, you'll find out that one of the bike hippies slashed the guy's tire while he was out of his Jeep making noise and pretending like he wasn't scared to get in a fight.
.: posted by andy 10/1/2002
In an almost completely non-Iraq-or-Israel-related turn of events, this British woman spent 12 years meditating in a cave in Tibet. At one point so much snow fell outside her cave that she almost suffocated while digging her way out.
.: posted by andy 10/1/2002
A Story of Village Life, satire.
.: posted by andy 10/1/2002
Monday, September 30, 2002
Notice this article's headline--"Iraq Intensifies Attacks, says US." Which is a funny way of saying that the Iraqis are trying harder to shoot down American warplanes in Iraqi airspace. I just skimmed the article, but I don't think it mentions that the US has also intensified its self-defense, in the form of bombing raids on Iraqi defensive infrastructure. Is it possible that that two go hand in hand?
.: posted by andy 9/30/2002
Sunday, September 29, 2002
Some interesting news about Iraq's nuclear weapons capability. Apparently Bush and Blair are flat-out lying when they make any reference to IAEA reports about Iraq's nuclear weapons programs. This will most likely not make any front pages, either. On the other hand, President Bush claiming the Iraqis will destroy Western civilization in six months will make the front pages all over the US and Great Britain. Any evidence to the contrary will be buried, if it's picked up at all.
.: posted by andy 9/29/2002
I don't think it's making the news because it turned out to be a non-event.
But, to make it interesting, I'd like to introduce this conspiracy theory. The men smuggling the uranium were actually working for the CIA, and were planning to smuggle the Uranium into Iraq via the Kurdish-controlled region to the north. The plan was for UN weapons inspectors to find the Uranium in Iraq, justifying Bush's maniacal obssession with Saddam Hussein. After the men's capture, our government got on the horn to Turkey, which in turn revised its statement regarding the quantity of radioactive material from 33 pounds of Uranium to less than one pound. The Turkish authorities then released the American operatives, along with the remainder of the material. Said operatives quickly disappear, and the plan is either scrapped or put back into motion. This theory also explains why our government didn't go into hysterics at the first sign of Uranium that close to Iraq. If the arrests had been a surprise to Bush, I think he would have immediately dialed the level of rhetoric up to unbearable levels.
.: posted by andy 9/29/2002
Why is this the 6th story on MSNBC? Why isn't it even on the front page on CNN. Stephanie tried to dismiss it as the typical f-ed up priorities of the american media, but it's not on the front pages or even the international pages of BBC news or LeMonde either.
.: posted by Jeremy 9/29/2002
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