] Like many teenage girls in Minneapolis, 17-year-old
] Stacey liked to hang out after school at the Mall of
] America, Minnesota's vast shopping megaplex. Cute,
] blond and chatty, she flirted with boys and tried on
] the latest Gap fashions. One day last summer, Stacey,
] which isn’t her real name, says she was approached by
] a man who told her how pretty she was, and asked if he
] could buy her some clothes. “He was an older guy,
] dressed really well,” she recalls. “He said he just
] wanted to see me in the clothes.” Stacey agreed, and
] went home that night with a $250 outfit.

Newsweek - This Could Be Your Kid

] Unabomber Ted Kaczynski has asked the U.S. government to
] return his personal papers and other materials, including
] a bomb confiscated by the FBI seven years ago.
]
] In papers filed at federal court in Sacramento, Kaczynski
] asked that the government ship the materials to a
] University of Michigan archive that already contains more
] than 15,000 of his papers.
]
] Those items include a pipe bomb and tons of documents
] including his voluminous autobiography, according to R.
] Steven Lapham, one of the federal prosecutors who tried
] the case. Also on the list: Kaczynski's tools, a can of
] matches, a pair of tweezers and a hatchet, which were
] confiscated when he was arrested at his Montana cabin.\

"GIMME BACK MY BOMB! Of course I promise not to detonate it in my cell."

Laughing boy

Unabomber seeks return of papers, bomb

] The Department of Homeland Security is warning that
] Islamic extremists might be plotting suicide airliner
] hijackings to be carried out before the end of the
] summer, with possible targets including sites in Britain,
] Italy, Australia or the eastern United States.
]
] "As of mid-June, Islamic extremists may have been
] planning suicide hijackings to be executed by the end of
] Summer 2003," according to the document obtained Tuesday
] by CNN.
]
] "The plan may involve the use of five-man teams, each of
] which would attempt to seize control of a commercial
] aircraft either shortly after takeoff or shortly before
] landing at a chosen airport."

I tend to think this is just more fear mongering by the Shrub administration. Clearly Al Qaeda arent the sharpest tools in the shed, but they would have to be absolute RETARDS to attempt THAT sucker punch again. Let’s see... 5 terrorists vs. 300 other passengers? What do you think is going to happen to these fuck-tards if they stand up and try to take control of an airplane like that again??

Passenger - "Hmmm... I can sit and do nothing and die, or I can get out of this seat and help deck and seriously FUCK UP a few of bin Ladens boys... Hmmmm..."

I sure do hope they try hijacking one of MY flights in the next few days to and from DEFCON. I'm ANXIOUS to meet al Qaeda.

"Let’s Roll... some HEADS!"

Laughing Boy

Officials: Suicide airliner hijackings possible

] In October, three nuns vandalized a nuclear missile silo
] to protest the use of weapons of war. For that act, all
] three will spend the next several years behind bars.
]
] A federal judge on Friday sentenced Jackie Hudson to 2
] 1/2 years, Ardeth Platte to almost 3 1/2 years and Carol
] Gilbert to two years and nine months. All three were
] given three years of supervised probation.
]
] U.S. District Judge Robert Blackburn departed from
] sentencing guidelines Friday in punishing the women.
] While the maximum term is 30 years, the guidelines call
] for a six-year minimum term.
]
] "We're satisfied," prosecutor Robert Brown said.
]
] Hudson, 68, Gilbert, 55, and Platte, 66, were convicted
] in April of obstructing the nation's defense and damaging
] government property after cutting a fence and walking
] onto a Minuteman III silo site, swinging hammers and
] using their blood to paint a cross on the structure.
]
] Officials said the women caused at least $1,000 in
] damage.

Nuns sent to prison for vandalism - Jul. 26, 2003

] The House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly to
] overturn controversial rules adopted by the Federal
] Communications Commission that would greatly increase
] the number of television stations a single company is
] allowed to own.
]
] The FCC last month voted to ease ownership restrictions,
] lifting the national broadcast "cap" -- or reach of any
] single company -- to 45 percent of the national market
] from 35 percent and letting TV, radio and newspaper
] companies buy each other more freely.
]
] But by a vote of 400 to 21 the House rejected those
] changes.

Thank GOD!!! Stick THAT in your pipe and smoke it, Clear Channel.

US House of Representatives nixes FCC rules expanding ownership

] We all know about the Napster issue, the perfume company,
] the lipstick company, the tire makers... Metallica has
] sued them all. Rightly or wrongly, no one is judging
] that. However, the idea behind this parody was to gauge,
] after all that litigation, just how willing America was
] to buy a story as extraordinay -- as outlandish -- as
] them claiming ownership of a 2-chord progression.

A follow-up on the Metallica lawsuit. It was all made up. Now get back to work.

Unfaith On Metallica Hoax, 7/18/03

] The public has grown increasingly uneasy with President
] Bush's handling of the economy and the situation in Iraq,
] a new poll suggests.
]
] Bush's overall job approval dropped 8 points since May to
] 55 percent, according to a new CNN-Time poll.
]
] A majority in this poll, 52 percent, said the president
] is doing a poor job of handling the economy, and just
] four in 10 say the U.S.-led military campaign in Iraq has
] been a success. That's down from 52 percent who felt that
] way in late March.

QUICK GEORGE - bomb someone else to boost those numbers back up there! Or are you going to wait till a month before the election?

Laughing Boy

Bush's approval rating sags

] Goodbye "e-mail", the French government says, and hello
] "courriel" -- the term that linguistically sensitive
] France is now using to refer to electronic mail in
] official documents.
]
] The Culture Ministry has announced a ban on the use of
] "e-mail" in all government ministries, documents,
] publications or Web sites, the latest step to stem an
] incursion of English words into the French lexicon.
]
] The ministry's General Commission on Terminology and
] Neology insists Internet surfers in France are broadly
] using the term "courrier electronique" (electronic mail)
] instead of e-mail -- a claim some industry experts
] dispute. "Courriel" is a fusion of the two words.
]
] "Evocative, with a very French sound, the word 'courriel'
] is broadly used in the press and competes advantageously
] with the borrowed 'mail' in English," the commission has
] ruled.

I'm told "computer" is a banned word as well. France really IS the butt hole of the western world.

Laughing Boy

France bans 'e-mail' from vocabulary

] "He should turn it in to his professor, get his grade --
] and then they both should burn it," said Richard Clarke,
] who until recently was the White House cyberterrorism
] chief.

And it's your ignorance and inability to face reality that will continue to put our lives in jeopardy, you twit. If this grad student can build such a database, then obviously someone with a lot more motivation could as well. Burying our heads in the sand doesn't help.

Dissertation Could Be Security Threat

] On 25 April 2003, the newspaper Dagbladet (Norway)
] published photos of armed US soldiers forcing Iraqi
] men to walk naked through a park.

] On the chests of the men had been scrawled an Arabic
] phrase that translates as "Ali Baba - Thief."

] A military officer states that the men are thieves,
] and that this technique will be used again.

The Memory Hole: US Forces Make Iraqis Strip and Walk Naked in Public