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Friday, December 20, 2002
1400 years into Islam, you get nonsense violence like this. What kind of person thinks this is a reasonable course of action? The only answer is a sociopath who has adopted a cause. Like serial killers who murder prostitutes. I guess this isn't unique to Islam, though. 1400 years into Christianity, you had the same thing.
.: posted by andy 12/20/2002
Thursday, December 19, 2002
Afghanistan is progressing quickly towards western style democracy and media. The writer of the article thinks it's ironic that "Indian films and images of women singing are regularly shown in Kandahar" because it was the home of the Taleban. The writer fails to mention that Kandahar is also the moral home of NAMBLA.
.: posted by Jeremy 12/19/2002
Can we just skip straight from christmas eve to the day after valentines day, please? Thanks.
.: posted by Jeremy 12/19/2002
I got a message on my answering machine at 1:30 today that was a male voice with non-descript accent saying hello once, then hanging up. The caller id listed the number as 025-2000-0001. I was immediately suspicious of some sort of international toll call scheme, but after looking around, it looks like dialing that number would get me nothing, or at best, the operator. Google didn't list any reference to it, so I decided to add the number to the collective conscience which is the internet, in case some other curious soul has a similar experience.
.: posted by Grand Inquisitor Fnord Moco 12/19/2002
Here's John McCain's Pork Barreling page. Mmmmm, pork...
Highlights from this year's Defense Spending Bill:
� $19 million for International Sporting Competitions
� $1 million for Animal Modeling Genetics Research (sharks with lasers, I'm sure)
� $3.4 million for the Next Generation Smart Truck
� $12 million for the 21st Century Truck
� $1 million in Polar Fleece Shirts
It would be an interesting project to go down the list of this year's appropriations and see if we can find out what each one is. We could make a hyper-linked list.
.: posted by andy 12/19/2002
Apparently the Eli Lilly/Homeland Security mystery has already been solved. It was Texas' very own Dick Armey. What a fucker.
"It's a matter of national security," Armey says. "We need their vaccines if the country is attacked with germ weapons."
What a slimeball. He did this because the Republicans, and particularly the White House, are in bed with the pharmaceutical industry. You shouldn't be surprised to hear that Eli Lilly's CEO is on Bush's Homeland Security Advisory Council, and Bush the Elder served on the board of directors for Eli Lilly.
.: posted by andy 12/19/2002
Look who else is a loose cannon these days. I guess the Republicans don't have a monopoly on whack-jobs, after all.
.: posted by andy 12/19/2002
Wednesday, December 18, 2002
If you have to spill beer on your futon, spill something that smells good, like McEwan's Scotch Ale. yep yep.
.: posted by Jeremy 12/18/2002
Help find the Eli Lilly bandit and win $10,000! Someone in Congress sneaked two paragraphs into the Homeland Security Act protecting Eli Lilly from civil cases involving a vaccine they manufacture. Now no one will step up to the plate and admit to it, including Lilly's lobbyists.
.: posted by andy 12/18/2002
This might be a helpful resource for you if you're thinking about buying any absinthe. They say King's Absinthe is awful.
.: posted by andy 12/18/2002
4 bottles are only .7 gallons. Let me get back to you...
.: posted by Jeremy 12/18/2002
Tuesday, December 17, 2002
And I leave you with this. Five dollars goes to the first person who guesses how I stumbled upon it.
.: posted by Grand Inquisitor Fnord Moco 12/17/2002
It appears to be illegal to manufacture or distribute for consumption, as it's regulated by the FDA as a food additive, as opposed to a controlled substance. Importing alcohol would require a license unless you ordered less than 1 gallon in a 90 day period. Here is one company's opinion on the matter. If you do order some, and are interested in cost effectiveness, I recommend this site, specifically the four for two deal on this. I'll go in half with you if you want. Of course, we don't get the avowed best and purest absinthe, "Absinthe King"(third one down), but we get four bottles instead of one.
.: posted by Grand Inquisitor Fnord Moco 12/17/2002
So, what are the laws regarding absinthe in this fine country of ours? More specifically, would I be breaking any if I were to have some shipped to an address in Harris county, Texas?
The transco tower thing didn't work out how I expected. It obviously didn't turn out how the media claimed, either. I'll save that story for some other time, though.
.: posted by Jeremy 12/17/2002
Talk about bad marketing; or would that be good marketing?
"It is recommended to drink it in small doses for its well known hallucinogenic effects and ecstasy. In small doses it does not cause health damage and has healing effects for its herb content."
.: posted by Grand Inquisitor Fnord Moco 12/17/2002
Buy Absinthe over the web.
.: posted by andy 12/17/2002
.: posted by andy 12/17/2002
Monday, December 16, 2002
A Marine died of a bacterial infection. Poor guy. Doctors suspect Strep A, which they've got a problem with at the Marine Recruit Depot. 50 cases of bacterial infection, including one confirmed Strep A who's in the hospital right now. They vaccinated all 5000 recruits and personnel at the Depot as a precaution, but there isn't a Strep A vaccination, oddly enough. So now everyone wonders what they were vaccinated with.
Strep A can lead to necrotizing fasciitis, which is just a nasty thing to get. It's the flesh-eating bacteria you always hear people joking about. I never thought it was real until they mentioned it on Scrubs the other week.
I had Scarletina on or around my seventh birthday. That was ugly, too. No one believed me when I said I was sick, but I proved it by throwing up twice my body-weight in a single 24 hour period. That wasn't from the Scareltina, though, that was because my parents consistently tried to off me until my sister was born (that I survived for 7 years is evidence of my wilyness and my parents' incompetence as assassins. They did have some success--I had false teeth by the time I was four). In any case, I think I had Scarletina as a secondary infection to whatever it was that made me so sick to begin with.
.: posted by andy 12/16/2002
Check it yo! Easy to build modular dwellings. We could build one of these up at the Camp for pretty cheap, and then we wouldn't have to pitch a tent when we go up there to visit. Werd!
.: posted by andy 12/16/2002
This sounds like something Jeremy would do. Jeremy, are you still with us?
.: posted by andy 12/16/2002
I have NO CAVITIES!!! Ha ha ha. Everyone thought my teeth were doomed, but a year and a half since my last appointment and still NO CAVITIES!!! Behold the structural soundness of my teeth and tremble, ye plaque-ridden non-flossers.
My dentist also recommended that I have my teeth coated with cadmium so that they're whiter. Sounds good to me!
.: posted by andy 12/16/2002
This is weird, when I left my house this afternoon, my computer was not online, but when I got home I'd apparently been logged on for hours, seeing as I got an IM at 8PM, over three hours ago. Whenever I'm just surfing the web, I always lose connection a lot more often than that.
Since I'm here, I figured I may as well post something.
So, Chavez doesn't look like he's gonna back down or resign anytime soon. I think this isn't really a bad thing, coz from where I sit, it looks like the union of the national oil company is probably corrupt, and Chavez is the elected president. Not that Chavez was a really good person himself, having staged his own coup then getting thrown in jail in the early 90's. These people need to read Machiavelli. The cardinal rule of politics is to kill your enemies and those you've wronged, or else they'll eventually rise up against you. Of course, Chavez could take note too, and remember never to anger the nobility, coz if the poor are against you but the nobility are with you, you are secure, and the poor soon forget. Nobility never forget and will wait for the right time to turn on you.
I think the final solution to the whole problem is to privatize and break up the national oil company into a few separate oil companies, coz in capitalism corruption in management of one of the oil companies would just drive it out of business, and any restructuring of these companies wouldn't politicized. The big problem would be to keep multinationals from swallowing the new oil companies up.
.: posted by Grand Inquisitor Fnord Moco 12/16/2002
Sunday, December 15, 2002
Stop everything! No more work will be done this week. When David was here visiting, he wanted to know if I could find him an old game called Nobunaga's Ambition. Well, we searched around and found it. We also found gamebird.dk, possibly the best site ever. And check the buttons at the bottom of the page for similar sites. So far I've downloaded two games I always wanted but never had the money or a compatible computer for. I swear on Jeremy's life that I won't accomplish anything helpful until the beginning of next semester. Woohoo!
.: posted by andy 12/15/2002
North Korea needs some counseling. Badly. And when their emotional problems are worked out, they need some lessons in effective propaganda.
.: posted by Jeremy 12/15/2002
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