] President Bush on Monday night warned Americans of
] "difficult days ahead" in Iraq that may "sometimes appear
] chaotic,"

Thats right, days that appear chaotic. Not to be confused with the general anarchy that currently exists.

"Apparently the Rocket Propelled Gernade is the Iraqi equivalent of 'Aloha!'"
-The Daily Show

CNN.com - Bush outlines Iraq transition - May 24, 2004

] Since it is clear that we cannot leave until they stop
] killing us, and equally clear that they will not stop
] killing us until we leave, I propose the following exit
] strategy:
] 1) Kill all the ones who are trying to kill us, in
] such a way that none of those who presently do not want
] to kill us suddenly start wanting to kill us.
] 2) At the moment of the death of the last person who
] wanted to kill us, race quickly out of the country before
] some additional person suddenly decides he/she wants to
] kill us, thus necessitating our continued presence in
] Iraq, in order to kill him/her.
] 3) Having left Iraq quickly, do not look back, so as
] not to witness individuals claiming they would have liked
] to kill us, which would then necessitate a return to
] Iraq, in order to etc., etc. (See No. 2, above.)

Good ole Slate. Better before MSN, but they are currently showing a surprising amount of Kerry support. This particular article is very tongue-in-cheek, so don't get your knickers in a bunch. :-)

-janelane

How to leave Iraq in three simple steps.

] The PNAC is quite controversial, and has raised the
] concern of many because it can be viewed as proposing
] military and economic domination of land, space, and
] cyberspace by the United States, so as to establish
] American dominance in world affairs for the indefinite
] future:hence, "the New American Century".
]
] PNAC declares itself to be dedicated to the fundamental
] propositions that
] * American leadership is good both for America and
] for the world;
] * Such leadership requires military strength,
] diplomatic energy, and commitment to moral principle;
] * Too few political leaders today are making the case
] for global leadership; and The United States Government
] should capitalize on its military and economic
] superiority to gain unchallengeable superiority through
] all means necessary, including military force.

... holy shit. I had heard of this group and that most of the top members of our government were present or former members, but wasn't really aware of what the organization stood for.

Kind of sheds some light into the Bush Administration' actions of late (especially the role of the UN vs the role of the US in the world)

You become the world's shining light of freedom by example, not by global military action

Project for the New American Century - Wikipedia

] So what were we to do when we in America were attacked on
] September 11, that infamous day? I say we should have
] done then what we never did before: stop speaking to the
] people we labelled our enemies and start listening to
] them. Stop giving preconditions to our peaceful
] coexistence on this small planet, and start honouring and
] respecting every human's need to live free and
] autonomously, to truly respect the sovereignty of every
] state. To stop making up rules by which others must live
] and then separate rules for ourselves

This is rather similar to Marilyn Manson's repsonse of what he would say to the Columbine Students: "I wouldn't say a single word to them, I would listen to what they have to say and that's what no one did."

George Bush never looked into Nick's eyes

] When reporters asked him about footage on Arabic
] television of a child's body being lowered into a grave,
] he replied: "I have not seen the pictures but bad things
] happen in wars. I don't have to apologise for the conduct
] of my men."

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | 'US soldiers started to shoot us, one by one'

To prove if time travel exists, you shouldn't go reading a Modern Physics book or Scientific American, I propose you could do it all but conclusively with a study of history.

If people have, in the future, figured out how to travel to the past, I assume there will be traces. Traces that further travel is, for some reason, unable to erase or prevent. I have no way to know or prove this assumption is true. If, however, it is, we should be able to find these traces in history.

We are looking for someone who appears suddenly in a culture they are unfamiliar with, and would have to use their advanced knowledge of either technology/science or knowledge of future events to survive. Look for people who had advanced ideas or are generally viewed as "ahead of their time," whose lifestyle or views dramatically clashed with their culture (they had difficulty adapting to what they see as a primitive or stupid cultural rules like slavery, inequality, religous rule, etc), and/or whose origins and birthpalce are in question. Someone like say Galileo or better yet Bohr. Detailed examinations of their works could share clues to higher knowledge not possible to the time period (ie a^x+b^y=c^z with no proof in the margin of a math text). Further, look for isolated discoveries (use of geometry before greeks, etc). While this could be simply derived works (greeks learned geometry from someone else) geographically isolated areas help support this (geometry in South America). An examine of how unique this knowledge is to see the chance of it independentally being discovered (ie the pyramids look the same in SE asia, Egypt, and SA not because of aliens, but because the only way to build tall structures with primitive materials is to distribute the weight of the higher levels over larger, lower layers, [ie a triangle], and hence a pyramid)

As someone could influence events without seeming personally responsible, examine people in an advising capacity, especially during war periods. Looking at events that all seemed to "by chance" favor one side, and apply a normal distribution to these outcomes. Did the outcomes favor one side more than they should have. Then see if technology/intrigue unnaturally influenced the distribution (ie did the US always seem to have luck on their side because they had borken codes?).

It seems to me the ideal time frame to examine would be 500 AD - 1950. During this time the ability/money/culture to educate large quantities of people were minimized, and an outstanding person would be easier to find.

Discuss, and remind me never to eat lots of chicken while staying up until 3am readin "Rise and Fall of the 3rd Reich"

Yesterday I went to buy a PCMCIA Network card for my laptop. Its an old Sony Vaio ultrathin which dual boots Mandrake 9.1/Windows 98. I settled on DLINKS 690TXD because it was the cheapest, and had no dongle.

The box simply listed the hardware specs needed for both PPC and x86 architectures, no OS requirements. It does say it comes with drivers for Windows, Mac OS, and Linux 2.2+.

However they don't have precompiled Linux Driver. Instead they have dfe690.c as well as 2K Text file on using GCC to compile the driver, and use in a range of distros, including making loadable Kernal Modules.

DLINK, my hat goes off to you.

(On an interesting side note, Windows 98 still refuses to work with this card, but Linux detected it automatically.)

Dlink 690TXD and Linux : Wow!

] "When America treats its friends this way, then they are
] in big trouble," Chalabi said.
] He called Thursday's raid "the penultimate act of failure
] of the CPA in Iraq."
] He said his relationship with the CPA is now
] "nonexistent."

How much of a government will there be to turn control over to in Iraq? The head of the council has been assassinated, and council itself seems plagued with rival factions all trying to cut each others throats. And we think the country will be able to survive, let alone organize and execute a general election?

What is the world smoking? Wake the hell up. June 30th is a bullshit date.

Iraqi Counsil attacks each other

] Carrie Fisher, Princess Leia in the original trilogy, has
] said that "When George was directing, he'd only say
] two things: 'faster' or 'more intense.'" Fire Lucas
] as director, who has no sense of control over his
] storyline, encourages flat and affectless acting, and
] shellacs every scene with such a frenzy of special
] effects that they assault your senses like a strobe
] light.

Amen brother. That "running through the fields love montage" in Episode II was of 1pm-on-a-Sunday-TBS-made-for-TV shit.

Lucas is sinking some of my favorite childhood memories with the crap he's been filming. I have a feeling I'm only going to show my kids Starwars 4-6, and any kids at school who tell them there are 3 more Starwars movies are just lying like the time they said Santa wasn't real.

MSNBC - Can Star Wars: Episode III be saved?

] "We are not talking retarded people here," the clinic
] spokesman said. The two "were simply unaware, after eight
] years of marriage, of the physical requirements necessary
] to procreate."

[ Ok, how sheltered do you need to be to miss out on this knowledge. I mean, on top of that, wouldn't biology... you know, instinct, take over at some point. I guess they sleep in separate beds and don't talk about things like desire or certain physical alterations that may accompany it? Some kinda marriage.

Fuck it, I think the clinician is wrong... these people *are* retarded... in the strictest sense of the word. Their stupid families retarded them by not telling them things. So much so that some seriously fundamental human bahaviors were totally blocked. If I were them, i'd be on the phone with mom and dad right now like "HEY, WHAT THE FUCK!?"

I'm holding back the rant I want to make, but suffice it to say that i don't approve of fundamentalist bullshit or 'protecting' kids by telling them nothing, ever. This would be funny if it wasn't so sad. -k]

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