This is no longer an interesting coincidence. It is an unmistakable message from God. I hope everyone is listening.

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These damn people and their Gods! This only blinds to the real truth; the truth you cannot take. This is terrorism! Another battle in the war against the ideology of death.

This is clearly another example of Bin Laden using his weather machine to attack America. Right now he is sitting on his magic carpet, hovering over the Azores, plotting the course of the next killer storm. He has had success with Florida, however he will likely start shifting to the use of Nor'easters and winter storms. El Queda is just probing our weaknesses. This is only the beginning.

We must not give into the terror! El Queda must not be allowed to have an effect on our elections. Screw Bin Laden. Screw his magic carpet. And most of all, screw his infernal weather machine. The sky will not fall on my watch!

FURTHERMORE: Check the storm tracks for proof that we will win the war on terror! Both Ivan (think recent Russian terror attacks) and Jeannie (everyone has a bitch) have been backtracking. We are winning. We are forcing them to retreat! Like the blasts over Ft. McHenry, let the blowing winds tell you that our flag will only wave in these gusts, never to fall to the ground.

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] The Department of Homeland Security ordered a United
] Airlines jet flying from London to Washington rerouted to
] Bangor, Me., on Tuesday afternoon so it could intercept a
] passenger, Yusuf Islam, the musician formerly known as
] Cat Stevens, two government officials said.
]
] Mr. Islam was "denied entry into the United States," said
] an official, and was in the custody of Immigrations and
] Customs Enforcement. The plan on Tuesday evening was to
] deport Mr. Islam, who is a British subject, the officials
] said.

The peace train Stevens was riding on was forced to land in Maine. Officials made a statement saying we should just remember there's a lot of bad and beware, beware, oh baby baby it's a wild world. Cat Stevens can no longer get by on just a smile, because he gave money to the wrong people.

The New York Times | Cat Stevens, threat to national security

] The creator of one of the world's most famous guns, the
] AK-47 assault rifle, has launched another weapon in
] Britain -- Kalashnikov vodka.

Brandtastic!

CNN.com - Kalashnikov launches liquid weapon - Sep 20, 2004

] Government experts are investigating a claim that an
] unarmed nuclear bomb, lost off the Georgia coast at the
] height of the Cold War, might have been found, an Air
] Force spokesman said Monday.
]
] The hydrogen bomb was lost in the Atlantic Ocean in 1958
] following a collision of a B-47 bomber and an F-86
] fighter.

And to think treasure hunters have been focusing all their attention on the Caribbean.

] The United States lost 11 nuclear bombs in accidents
] during the Cold War that were never recovered, according
] to the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank.

Collect em' all!

CNN.com - Lost nuclear bomb possibly found - Sep 13, 2004

Amazon has created a new search engine. Result ranking appear similar to Google, although it references a number of other sources as well. It also saves your search history and makes it available to you. The interface to all its various functions seems very nice as well.

A9.com

] There's been a big discussion - especially since Iraq
] about whether America is an empire or not.
] Certainly we're involved in a lot of countries, and we
] have a kind of imperial reach, and people see us that
] way. But Americans are really not comfortable with this.
] They don't like the idea of ruling other people, and
] they're not in it for the long haul. They have no desire,
] like the British did in India, to rule in perpetuity. One
] of the big problems is that we are subject, as a
] democracy, to momentary enthusiasms for undertaking
] projects of various sorts. But a lot of times we don't
] have the staying power to see them through to the end.

Johns Hopkins Magazine - Fukuyama interview

In this article for The National Interest, Francis Fukuyama rips into the viewpoints of Charles Krauthammer, which have acquired strong influence inside the Bush Administration foreign policy team and beyond. The primary subject is nation building in Iraq, the larger context is America's relations with our allies and the Middle East, our position as the only superpower, and the war on terror.

Suggested reading. Fukuyama is a very clear thinker. All his points here are valid, relevant, and well supported.

Fukuyama: The Neoconservative Moment

] Each day a different image or photograph of our
] fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief
] explanation written by a professional astronomer.

Some days are more interesting then others..

Astronomy Picture of the Day

Punk Legend Johnny Ramone Dies At 55. Guitarist Co-Founded The Ramones In 1974.

All real punks die of... cancer?

NBC 4 - Entertainment - Punk Legend Johnny Ramone Dies At 55

] German scientists have shown that the changeover from
] free-flowing traffic to a traffic jam (in which cars on a
] highway are greatly slowed or halted, at least
] temporarily) conforms to the well-known physics of phase
] transitions, an example of which is the transition from
] water to ice. In other words, traffic jams are not random
] patterns, but are deterministic in nature; that is, when
] a parameter exceeds a threshold value--such as the flux
] of cars--then local perturbations can grow, possibly
] leading to jams, analogous to the nucleating effect of
] tiny ice grains in a body of water being frozen. Once
] formed the jam moves along the highway as if it were a
] kind of "solid," with identifiable edges and with a
] "vapor" of comparatively free cars in front of and behind
] it. The information gained in this sort of research, the
] researchers believe, might lead to more accurate traffic
] forecasts and could be used in future "intelligent"
] transport systems.

The physics of traffic jams