2003-09-26

Not Bush

Yaay. So I was finally gonna get off my butt and donate some money to one of those damn candidates. But guess what – great news - turns out I can’t ... As I can't answer yes to the following question: " I am not a foreign national who lacks permanent residence in the United States.".

Ahh.. mores' the pity eh.

PS. Kucinich's donation web-site lacks a little bit in the area of 'spiff' mores the pity.

PPS. I guess it will be Wesley Clark.. which I can definitely live with [CORRECTION: Actually that would suck. But the main thing to understand here is - anything except Bush !!]. Got that people! Right.

[Later further addition:
Juast checked out this site that demonstrates the effect of Instant Runoff Voting. Thought it was very cool. Anyway of the choices they offered, I picked, Ralph Nader, then Dennis Kucinich (despite a feeling in my gut that I shouldn't trust that man - dont ask me why theres just something about him), then Al Sharpton then Howard Dean... and aobut that point I trail off into obscurity. Definitely 100% NOT that evil, drug dealing conspirator Hillary Clinton]

2003-09-24

Flying Rods

Let me state for the record, that of all the outlandish, far out, wild and unbelievable conspiracy theories, I have heard, I happen to think that the roswell rods thing holds more water than you would imagine at first glance.

Let me get it clear though, I have no reason to believe this involves aliens. What makes a *lot* more sense - given that many of these 'sightings' are in the vicinity of the advanced (and not suprisingly, secret) American air force aeronautic testing grounds - is that this is some new form of propulsion being tested out by the US airforce. Can't wait to see it for real.

Also I have a close friend who described seeing something like this from out of a normal commercial flight over the mid-west USA. Obviously you have no reason to trust my hearsay, but I trust him. This was before I saw the 'roswellrods' site, as it happens.

Remember, you heard it hear first - well uh.. unless you'd heard about it before ;_)

Guantanamo Bay Secrets

Hmmm.. Its interesting that yesterday they were reporting that a suspect had been detained for two months for *posessing information about Guantanamo bay* and now there are reports that he is being accused of passing information to Syrian nationals. Suddenly a story, involving a chaplain and an air force commander *having* information about who was at Guantanamo bay (ie something that might, just maybe, turn out to be whistle blowers or people of good conscience being silenced through unlawful detentions) turns into a story involving Traitors selling secrets to hostile governments. Forgive me for being deeply cynical, but maybe there are Pentagon spinmeisters at work on this?

[Update: When it came down to it they dropped the espionage charges down to, uh.. what was it ? Adultery? Is that still a crime. Come on guys, you can do better than that? Hmm does this mean I was right in my original suspicions that maybe these folks were whistleblowers trying to get out information about what its like in that god forsaken place? ]

2003-09-23

Dasher

Discovered this dasher thing today.

Its really kinda cool - a lot cooler than it looks until you actually try it for yourself. Here's some of the text I produced whilst letting it generate randomly.
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Quote from Bush's recent speech to the UN General Assembly:

Events during the past two years have set before us the clearest of divides: Between those who seek order and those who spread chaos; between those who work for peaceful change and those who adopt the methods of gangsters; between those who honor the rights of man and those who deliberately take the lives of men and women and children, without mercy or shame.

Yeah... Right.