tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53391242009-08-23T13:55:31.064-07:00SpeedkillWhere men are men and sheep run scaredSpeedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.comBlogger137125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-1085984825698531362004-05-30T23:26:00.000-07:002004-05-30T23:27:05.700-07:00Testing...Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-1058429968717771122003-07-17T01:19:00.000-07:002003-10-25T16:13:51.873-07:00Blog is moving.......to here. Plan accordingly.Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-956368672003-06-13T11:02:00.000-07:002003-06-13T11:02:40.766-07:00Posting will be lax....... today and this weekend, most likely.Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-955766992003-06-11T21:13:00.000-07:002003-06-11T21:13:35.666-07:00The arrogance of it all Rumsfeld Chides Europeans for Lack of 'Vision' BRUSSELS, Belgium — On his first visit to Germany since the war in Iraq, U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld revived the issue of Western European opposition to the conflict, suggesting it resulted from a lack of vision. .... "The key, I believe, is that even as they are busy looking inward and rebuilding their Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-955612412003-06-11T12:38:00.000-07:002003-06-11T21:04:55.000-07:00Pay articles on the net suck You can only see the first paragraph or so, but that alone says plenty: Censorship of the press in Iraq. Paul Bremer has ordered his legal department in Baghdad to draw up rules for press censorship. A joke, I concluded, when one of the newly styled Coalition Provisional Authority officials tipped me off last week. But no, it really is true. Two months after "Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-955608602003-06-11T12:27:00.000-07:002003-06-11T12:27:45.583-07:00War crime vote fuels US anger at Europe The US has bitterly attacked European leaders for trying to stop the UN security council voting tomorrow to renew America's exemption from prosecution by the new war crimes tribunal. The Bush administration has accused the EU of "actively undermining" American efforts to protect its peacekeepers from prosecution by the international criminal court, Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-955605972003-06-11T12:20:00.000-07:002003-06-11T12:20:43.600-07:00Your days of influencing bands are over From Blistering: In the same interview, Hammett predicted that METALLICA's new album would influence other metal bands to play harder and faster once again and implied that another well-known arena act has already pulled the plug on their new release after getting an advance earful of "St. Anger". "I have a suspicion that once this album drops and Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-955216372003-06-10T14:04:00.000-07:002003-06-10T14:04:24.800-07:00You can have guns, but not Shania Twain Hammerdown points out Wal-Mart's hypocrisy in hiding mags like Maxim and FHM while allowing gun mags to continue to be sold. It's pretty pathetic that our culture is much more afraid of sex than violence. Look at the attacks directed toward the Clintons, and the lack of questioning over the WMD issue. It's sad, and a bit scary, really. Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-955214082003-06-10T13:57:00.000-07:002003-06-10T13:57:43.273-07:00Roadmap to...............where was it, again? Israel attempts assasination of HAMAS leader. Hamas Vows Revenge After Attack by Israel This must be a detour on the Roadmap. Or it's one really fucked up roadmap to peace.Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-955208492003-06-10T13:42:00.000-07:002003-06-10T13:42:30.916-07:00Speaking of Alterman..... Altercation has a nice list of quotes by the Bush administration regarding WMD. Memorize your favorite today! Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-955207362003-06-10T13:38:00.000-07:002003-06-10T13:46:15.000-07:00My books have arrived Two of them, at least. 9-11 and The Fateful Triangle both by Noam Chomsky. I have a book by Alterman on it's way as well. Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-955201662003-06-10T13:23:00.000-07:002003-06-10T13:31:50.000-07:00U.S.: 'High Probability' Al Qaeda Will Use WMD in Next Two Years "Al Qaeda will continue to favor spectacular attacks but also may seek softer targets of opportunity, such as banks, shopping malls, supermarkets, and places of recreation and entertainment." The report said the terrorist organization "will continue its efforts to acquire and develop biological, chemical, radiological, and nuclearSpeedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-954975232003-06-10T01:09:00.000-07:002003-06-10T01:09:52.083-07:00Wow, nothing I posted was really interesting at all yesterday (technically, but it still feels like Monday). I'll be back later in the morning/afternoon with a vengeance. Good night.Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-954756442003-06-09T11:57:00.000-07:002003-06-09T11:57:20.100-07:00The Nets lost last night, but the Mariners avenge their earlier loss to the Mets, which broke their 9 game winning streak, by a combined 20-1 in two games yesterday. So, all in all, not too bad of a day. Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-954754612003-06-09T11:52:00.000-07:002003-06-09T11:52:50.263-07:00Report on 'unimposing' Saddam was suppressed Downing Street is to come under fresh pressure this week to explain why an intelligence report, which said there was no proof that deposed Iraqi president Saddam Hussein posed a growing threat to the West, was suppressed. Ah, who cares, it was all about liberating the Iraqi people.Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-954749222003-06-09T11:36:00.000-07:002003-06-09T11:42:23.000-07:00Captives Deny Qaeda Worked With Baghdad Found via Kos, buried in the NY Times. WASHINGTON, June 8 — Two of the highest-ranking leaders of Al Qaeda in American custody have told the C.I.A. in separate interrogations that the terrorist organization did not work jointly with the Iraqi government of Saddam Hussein, according to several intelligence officials. Abu Zubaydah, a Qaeda planner and Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-954376912003-06-08T14:49:00.000-07:002003-06-08T14:49:52.496-07:00Trailers as germ labs story continues to fall apart But chemical weapons experts, engineers, chemists and military systems experts contacted by The Observer over the past week, say the layout and equipment found on the trailers is entirely inconsistent with the vehicles being mobile labs. .... Questions over the claimed purpose of trailer for making biological weapons include: · The lack ofSpeedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-954141812003-06-07T13:44:00.000-07:002003-06-07T13:44:28.996-07:00O'Reilly on the WMD situation Always entertaining to go through these, so let's begin. Unfortunately, the WMD situation is now been politicized. Fanatics on the left are screaming about lies and conspiracies. Fanatics on the right are yelling it doesn't matter if any deadly weapons are found in Iraq. Both sides are wrong as usual. The truth is the WMD issue does matter, and President Bush Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-953985612003-06-06T22:21:00.000-07:002003-06-06T22:21:39.436-07:00Yes, the Nets won by 2 tonight. I missed the game because of work, though. My Mariners had their winning streak snapped tonight by the Mets of all teams. I hate NY.Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-953837542003-06-06T13:01:00.000-07:002003-06-06T13:01:50.213-07:00Fair and Balanced, 6 to 1 Amplifying Officials, Squelching Dissent Nearly two thirds of all sources, 64 percent, were pro-war, while 71 percent of U.S. guests favored the war. Anti-war voices were 10 percent of all sources, but just 6 percent of non-Iraqi sources and 3 percent of U.S. sources. Thus viewers were more than six times as likely to see a pro-war source as one who was anti-war; with Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-953809282003-06-06T11:42:00.000-07:002003-06-06T11:42:56.186-07:00Hamas Leader Breaks Off Truce Talks GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - A senior Hamas official said Friday the militant group was breaking off cease-fire talks with the Palestinians, a surprise reversal that threw into doubt a key component of a Mideast peace plan. The Middle East peace process crumbling again? The article at least suggests there's still hope: However, a Palestinian Cabinet minister Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-953805532003-06-06T11:33:00.000-07:002003-06-06T11:33:21.760-07:00U.S. Secret Report Raises Questions Over Iraqi Weapons As the Bush administration was pushing last fall for a war against Iraq because of alleged weapons of mass destruction, a defense department report said it did not have enough "reliable information" Iraq was amassing these weapons, a defense official said on Friday. .... Last week CIA Director George Tenet defended his agency's Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-953620522003-06-06T00:58:00.000-07:002003-06-06T00:58:53.660-07:00Ashcroft Pushes Anti-Terror Law Expansion Ashcroft held aloft what he said were copies of terrorist declarations of war against America. One quoted Nasser al-Fahd, a prominent Muslim cleric known to be sympathetic to al-Qaida, as saying it would be permissible if a bomb killed 10 million Americans. Ashcroft also read aloud the names of people killed in the Sept. 11 attacks as he defended the Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-953440022003-06-05T14:34:00.000-07:002003-06-05T14:39:34.000-07:00Why the Israel and Palestine situation will never be settled. Tens of thousands of right-wing Israelis, many of them Jewish settlers, rallied tonight in the center of Jerusalem and vehemently denounced the prospect of a Palestinian state as sketched by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. .... In Gaza, the militant Muslim groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad both said that for now, they were not willing to Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339124.post-953437062003-06-05T14:25:00.000-07:002003-06-05T14:26:20.000-07:00I would just like to point out that Bill O'Reilly, who led a boycott of French goods, called boycotting "unamerican" in his book, The No Spin Zone. And apparently he has been spotted eating at a French restaruant. Maybe he's calling off the boycott since it appears that the French were right? Nah, probably not.Speedkillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203347348498356023noreply@blogger.com0