Get yo mudda-fuggin' war on!

"Maybe the plan is to feed all the hungry Afghans using the bodies of dead Iraqis?"

"If that's the case, let me just say one thing: I hope leftover Iraqis enjoy the taste of North Koreans!"

www.mnftiu.cc | get your war on

"I talked to the own of Cafe Coco today, and we have come to an agreement concerning a barter - to work for food. He has several outdoor tables that are in disrepair, and are in need of new and more durable tops. So, I will be covering them with mosaic tile. It's a chance for me to be a little creative, as well as earn more of my keep. "

There are some interesting thoughts in here about the difficulty of working out of homelessness, panhandling, etc..

The Homeless Guy: Blog run by Nashville area homeless guy

"PhreakNIC is Nashville's annual hacker con. Anyone is welcome to attend. We create an environment where people who are interested in the more underground elements of technology can meet, exchange ideas and hopefully teach/learn. The primary focus is on computers and computer security, but we also cover other topics, such as radio (ham, pirate & low-power/community), SETI work, robotics, high-power rocketry, satellites, phones and phreaking, cryptography, etc. We are planning interesting things for our sixth year - please join us."

PhreakNIC Hacker Convention

"The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) says the probability of Iraq initiating an attack on the United States without provocation in the foreseeable future was "very low." But the CIA said that if attacked, the likelihood Iraq would respond with biological or chemical weapons was "pretty high."

Iraq: CIA Says Unprovoked Strike By Baghdad Unlikely

"NEW YORK - Think formal education helps in business? Think again. Chief executives who went to graduate school don't seem to make any more money for their shareholders than those with no advanced degree. MBAs may actually do worse than those with no advanced degree, although they fare better than lawyers. "

Forbes.com: Keep Your CEO Out Of Grad School

"Attacking Iraq - Countdown Timeline"

Very interesting timeline. The lock is at 29 days and counting down, see Nov. 5th.

Attacking Iraq - Countdown Timeline

Silent J

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This one was too good not to meme :)

'...not so you could throw light switch raves!!!'

More evidence showing that the U.S. ignores the U.N. when convenient but attempts to use it for it's own purposes when it needs the world body.

United Nations - In making the case for military action against Iraq for its defiance of UN resolutions, President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair have repeatedly argued that the credibility of the world body is at stake.

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However, a handful of countries, including U.S. allies, are violating scores of Security Council resolutions without facing any threat of military reprisal. Stephen Zunes, an associate professor of politics at San Francisco University, counts more than 90 resolutions being violated by Israel, Turkey, Morocco, Cyprus, Armenia, Croatia, Indonesia, Sudan, Russia, India and Pakistan.

"The main point is that Iraq is not alone in violating UN resolutions," said Zunes, who compiled the list for the Institute for Policy Studies, a liberal-leaning Washington-based think tank. "And ironically, in 80 percent of the cases, the violators receive substantial military, diplomatic and monetary support from the U.S."

The two top violators are Israel, which has failed to comply with 32 resolutions since 1968, and Turkey, which has violated 24 resolutions since 1974, according to Zunes' list.

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Since the early 1970s, the United States has used its veto nearly 50 times, more than the four other permanent council members combined. In most cases, the United States cast the only dissenting vote.

Zunes said the United States, with its frequent use of its veto power and failure to force allies like Israel and Turkey to abide by UN resolutions, appears hypocritical to the rest of the world by threatening Iraq with force.

"The U.S. appears smug and self-righteous by arguing that violations by a country we don't like harm the credibility of the UN," Zunes said. "Meanwhile, we ignore violations by U.S. allies."

Art of Resolution Conflict - U.S. uses the U.N. for it's own purposes.

Jacqueline Cabasso, Executive Director of the Western States Legal Foundation: "The hypocrisy in this speech -- and in the Bush Administration’s overall national security strategy -- is monumental. If having weapons of mass destruction and a history of using them is a criteria, then surely the United States must pose the greatest threat to humanity that has ever existed. While Bush warns that 'we cannot wait for the final proof.... the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud,' his September 2002 National Security Strategy states that 'America will act against...emerging threats before they are fully formed....by acting preemptively.' And his top-secret Nuclear Posture Review, leaked to the New York Times earlier this year, reveals that 'U.S. nuclear forces will continue to provide assurance.... in the event of surprising military developments....Current examples of immediate contingencies include an Iraqi attack on Israel or its neighbors....' It doesn’t take a lot of imagination to predict that if Iraq is attacked by the U.S. it might launch whatever it has at Israel -- itself a nuclear power. Further, while the U.S. is massively expanding its biological weapons research capabilities ­ for example by upgrading its bioresearch facilities at the Livermore and Los Alamos Nuclear weapons labs to aerosolize live anthrax and genetically modify bioorganisms ­ it is blocking a protocol to the Biological Weapons Convention that would allow international inspectors into U.S. facilities. The Bush Administration’s unilateral headlong rush to war threatens to unleash unprecedented regional instability and potentially catastrophic loss of life. It’s hard to image a more self-destructive course of action."

Analysis of Oct. 7th George W. Bush Speech in Support of War with Iraq

"Last year," I told him, "I picked up a woman in labor who had three contractions in 12 minutes in my cab. We made it to the emergency room just in time. Her husband told me they'd been calling for over an hour. You had to wait only 40 minutes."

Why Is It So Hard to Get a Cab in San Francisco?