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Story’s here. There is a bright side though:

“We need a secure environment to be able to operate,” Annan said on arrival at U.N. headquarters. “We will go forward but of course if it continues to deteriorate, then our operations will be handicapped considerably.”

via LGF

Self-deprecating as ever, he told his audience that he had nothing special to teach them. “You should know that I have nothing to offer, nothing just a lot of fla, fla, fla,” he said, giggling and mimicking a mouse with his hand. “Then a few minutes go that way.”

From the Telegraph (reg. req.)

If you want to hear Bob picking on me, listen to this. (The link is the text that says, “listen to audio”.) It’s somewhere around 8 minutes in. Too bad you can’t hear all my “friends” laughing at me, I could though. You might as well listen to the whole thing and learn something.

See what I have to put up with? I do too think of things like that. And I figure there’s nothing like a little controversy for building listenership. No one appreciates my talents. Woe is me.

Episcopalians. Meh.

If you want a good right-wing reading list, go here. If you don’t, what the heck’s the matter with you? Are you retarded? Uh, mentally, what is it these days, I can’t keep up.

Cats, they’ll make you mad.

via Inoperable Terran

UPDATE: See?

I’ve never understood why nations with great cheese don’t have better armies. Right now to my left I have a plate that contains six chunks of Stravecchoio Grana Padano, each wrapped in a gossamer-thin scarf of prosciutto. Any Italian worth his mettle would take one bite, contemplate the perfection this combination represents, and decide that his nation should – no, must muster the forces required to repulse anyone who would take such cheese from his countrymen. Cheese this fine would cause armies to cross the Alps to have it; surely they demand armies sufficient to protect it.

From The Bleat.

Woohoo! From the Mirror:

SADDAM Hussein has been in secret negotiations with US forces in Iraq for the past nine days, we can reveal.

The Iraqi dictator is demanding safe passage to the former Soviet republic of Belarus. In exchange, he has vowed to provide information on weapons of mass destruction and disclose bank accounts where he siphoned off tens of millions of dollars in plundered cash.

Is that crazy Lukashenko still in charge of Belarus? That would make sense, birds of a feather and all that. I’ll look into that and get back to you. Probably.

This is either treason or just stinking hilarious:

The United States has vowed never to negotiate with Saddam and want to take him dead or alive, but the White House hopes the clandestine talks will allow them to pinpoint the tyrant’s exact location.

Shh, don’t tell him we’re just talking to him to lure him out into the open…

He has apparently run out of black hair-dye and will almost certainly have white hair.

Oh, the horror!

And then there’s this non sequitur at the end of the article:

-AN American soldier shot and killed a tiger in Baghdad’s zoo after it attacked a colleague who had put his arms through the bars to feed it. “They turned up after the zoo was closed and were both drunk”, an Iraqi keeper said.

Sooo, the American soldiers are trigger-happy jerks or what? Was there a point?

UN wants to get more involved with the internet.

Handel’s Messiah may not be appropriate for Apple users.

via Fark

The road to Mordor.

via the multiloquent Volokh Conspiracy

All the good news that’s not fit (apparently) to print.

Or is that Ni!

Monty Python and the Holy Grail coming to Broadway? Noooooooooo!

via Slashdot

ATM’s to start using Windows-lite by 2005.

While the infamous blue screen of death may haunt many desktop computer users, the banking industry and security experts dismiss the fear that someone will break into Windows-powered ATMs to empty bank accounts. For one, the ATMs will use a stripped-down version of Windows NT that is quite different from the software on desktop computers.

“They have tried to cut out the unnecessary rubbish that clutters up the typical PC. How good a job they’ve done, I just don’t know….

via Slashdot

Chief Wiggles has something to say.

If only they had really big wheels to run in. But really, who wants giant rodents running around?

Elephants not the fittest either.

Victor Davis Hanson day.

So beneath the hysterical headlines of quagmire, Vietnam, and stalemate, we have sorely hurt our enemies. We have driven the remnants of the Taliban into the Pakistani coffeehouses, the terrorists into caves, Saddam Hussein into a low-rent apartment, his sons into the Inferno — and replaced them all not with dictators, but real opportunities for freedom and consensual government. Instead of more skyscrapers exploding in American cities, 7,000 miles away jihadists and Islamic terrorists are being hunted down in their own once sacred enclaves.

Compare and contrast with Albright’s recent discussion. Note: I didn’t make it to the end, so who knows what that was all about.

Okay one more VDH quote:

Work with the U.N.; heap lavish praise on the U.N.; protect the U.N. in Iraq; show it deference and respect. Invite it in for humanitarian help. But, by God, don’t allow it to take over operations in Iraq.

To coin a phrase, heh. Indeed.

Yep. It’s today. Arrr! That’s all you’re getting from me. Well, and this.

Headline: Man who took hostages called troubled

Here it comes.

Remember the good old days when the Braves were the only team worse than the Padres? Yeah, those were the days.

Samizdata says. The comments are interesting too.

Justin Timberlake.

via DrudgeReport

The latest gimmick:

In the beginning was the Word but the Word alone is now no longer enough: a new version of the Bible targeted at teenage girls offers beauty tips and advice on boyfriends as well.

Lions not the fittest, apparently.

Five seconds is just too long for a healthy lifestyle.

Speaking out. And when not worried about getting shot, he seems much more reasonable.

You know those pesky problems? It’s all Saddam:

* When you heard your kids swearing and was like, “Where did they learn that language?” They learned it from Saddam.

* That horrible Pepsi Blue – all Saddam’s idea.

* You know how Perot reentered the presidential race in 1992 and helped get Clinton elected? It was Saddam who convinced him to get back in.

Read the rest over at IMAO.

Interesting article and some really bad theology.

Here. And I’d like to point out that there’s no such thing as a tall cappuccino. Unless you wanted 12 ounces of foam. If you’re ordering that, stop. You look silly.

Showing some diversity. Think it’ll last?

via Inoperable Terran

Drudge Report headline:

Bill on Hil: It’s a maybe; His hint she may run in ’04 shocks Dems!

These “shocked” Democrats are either lying or stupid. Or maybe they don’t read enough blogs. Either way this can’t be a surprise.

Worker blows up building. Divorce becoming prevalent.

From Wired.

Brownback said he created the legislation in response to the legal fights between ISPs and the music industry. Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.) also has expressed concern with the RIAA’s tactics in the file-sharing battle, and will hold hearings on the subject Sept. 30.

Yeah, right. I think what they call them are “press releases”. There’s no way he could do it. It’d have to be cleared by so many people and departments by the time they got through with it, it would be the most insipid, lamest thing ever.

Oh, Jonah agrees. Or more appropriately, I agree with him.

Finally someone has a clear understanding of world politics.

“I wouldn’t worry,” Harvard political analyst Gregory Peters said. “Sure, the U.S. makes Them mad, but since we have unilateral military supremacy, it’s not as if They can do anything about it.”

hat tip: Kelsey, who is just to darn busy to update apparently.

The classic Ballad of Bilbo Baggins by Leonard Nimoy VIDEO! You just couldn’t find this sort of stuff before there was an internet. Thank you, Al Gore.

obviously via Dave Barry’s Blog

Internet Software Consortium vs. Verisign’s Site Finder.

via Slashdot

Auf Wiedersehen, goodbye Arafat.

The word meme could never be used again and I wouldn’t mind at all.

meme n. A unit of cultural information, such as a cultural practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another.

Heh.

Former U.N. chief weapons inspector Hans Blix believes that Iraq destroyed most of its weapons of mass destruction 10 years ago, but kept up the appearance that it had them to deter a military attack.

Well, whoever Saddam’s advisors were, they were dead wrong.

According to seattlepi.com

Unofficial returns showed voters were rejecting Initiative 77, which had become known as the latte tax, by a 2-1 ratio.

Slashdotters have been saying this sort of thing for a while, but here’s more proof.

I heard that!

RFIDs coming to a store near you next week. Probably.

via DrudgeReport

Bandanaed bandits burgle Pier 1. Yeah it falls apart there at the end.

Police said a robber, armed with a large-caliber automatic handgun and wearing a bandana, enters stores not traditionally targeted for stickups.

I wonder if they mean “semi-automatic handgun”. How many “automatic handguns” are there? They gotta be illegal.

8 Simple Rules to continue. Geez.

via DrudgeReport

Isn’t it more of a tradition to wait until there’s an emergency to delcare a state of emergency?

The next chapter. The South sure seems popular lately. Maybe because the West has been conquered. They were honing their skills and now they’re taking on the bible belt.

I’ve seen this about a dozen times already:

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

Please don’t email it to me. Thanks. And if you’re new to the internet: Good Times

UPDATE: Ack! Another one! Stop the madness!

Married over 50 years, wife attacks husband with knife because he won’t help her prepare for Hurricane Isabel until half-time.

via Fark

What causes feedback? You can read their technical explanation, but I can tell you, it’s too loud. Turn it down. Just because your instrument isn’t the loudest doesn’t mean you can’t hear it.

Here. I can’t do it justice.

This is the fashion headline at the Telegraph: “Brilliant colour is the new black” You can’t make stuff like that up. Also, tin foil appears to be the next thing (Tin foil: it’s not just for hats anymore).

interviews Milton Friedman.

Star Trek and bashing communism. All in one post! What a country!

via Inoperable Terran

has a point.

* And why is everyone down on punch card ballots because they’re more prone to voter error? Voter error is just God’s way of making sure that people too dumb to follow simple instructions are not the ones deciding the future of our nation.

Canada can’t even sell drugs right.

via DrudgeReport

Blogger symposium about the California Recall, with an actual Californian, over at Right Wing News.

See what Google has to say about Instapundit. Heh.

Fill in the blank for other famous or semi-famous people and places and things. Great fun for the family. (Don’t do John Ashcroft. It seems he’s not well liked.)

The sculpture of a winged pig, weighing more than 7,000 pounds, was carved out of the equivalent of 26,666 bars of Ivory soap.

It may not fly, but it’ll float.

That’s entertainment?

via Fark

MIT want its athletics taken more seriously.

“We get no respect. People just think we’re a bunch of geeks.”

It has even buffed up its Beaver mascot, making it a little fiercer-looking and accompanied by a new slogan, “Fear the Engineers.”

The Engineers so far have inspired anything but fear in the hearts of their opponents. The school’s football team was 4-5 last season in the New England Football Conference. The baseball team was 1-26 and 0-12 in conference play.

I wonder why?

Legislating Christianity out. No, not in America, in Indonesia.

Over at Scrappleface and Joyful Christian. Quit wasting your time here and go read something intelligent.

Mark Steyn talking common sense.

Electronic devices wreaking havoc on airplane electronics. I always thought they were joking when they made that announcement.

via Slashdot, who bring up the oh-so-comforting thought of terrorists using this to crash planes with the flip of a switch.

When another religion shows more sense than many Christians.

Here.

You might as well carry a roll around with you. Go get one now. Ready, go.

I’ve got errands to run this morning, check the links to your right for news and information.

UPDATE: Never mind, slackers have freed up my day by setting everything back.

Until the Alliance notices Gwyenth Paltrow claimed to be a hobo-whacker? Will they make the connection?

Being an employee myself, I respect an employer that is willing to stick up for his employees.

“Dalton McGuinty,” the statement said. “He’s an evil reptilian kitten-eater from another planet.”

Conservative Leader Ernie Eves blamed the release on a staffer who apparently “had too much coffee this morning … too much time.”

But he refused to retract the statement.

No matter how weird they are.

via, naturally, Dave Barry’s Blog

This editorial has a good point, I think. The actual article is at Jerusalem Post (registration required, you’re on your own).

He’s a smart guy.

Part II. (Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics) Do you know why Gore is doing well? Because he’s not saying anything.

“These results are stunning, considering that Al Gore is the only potential candidate who’s been out of the limelight since last December,” says Draft Gore Chair Monica Friedlander.

If he were to come out and give us his views on say, Iraq, I bet he would nose-dive.

Even Instapundit has joined the Alliance in the battle against, er, Instapundit. Heh.

From the Times of India:

The US “is teetering from its wounds in Afghanistan and Iraq”, his deputy claimed. “What you saw until now are only the first skirmishes — the true epic has not begun.”

Meanwhile the Europeans invent the Cone of Silence. Except it’s even more impractical than Maxwell Smart’s. I’m sure there’s a lesson in this somewhere.

The Japanese always get the cool stuff first.

Picture, in Japanese.

via SlashDot

To appear on Abu Dhabi TV.

Stranded, this dude macgyvers his cellphone with camera batteries and a band-aid. He should have known ALWAYS BRING DUCT TAPE. And as we learned from this story, ALWAYS GET A FISHING LICENSE. Whether you go fishing or not. It might save you a few bucks.

Actually not, but I thought so when I first glanced at the date. Stupid metric time. Anyway, I can’t figure this out. Maybe it suffered in the translation.

Johnny Cash and John Ritter. Wow.

Freaks and weirdos.

China may have gained access to classified info from spy plane. No, they were just hanging on to it because they wanted us to friends with them.

Over at Sgt. Stryker’s. For further reading on this, go to the best, Francis Shaeffer. Granted, I have some friends who would say Ravi Zacharias (book) is better, but they’re wrong.

and stolen from Fark:

I heard that!

Dave Barry. The Telemarketers. Can there be peace in our time?

From the Telegraph (registration required):

Its [The Pentagon’s] research arm recently solicited bids for a new breed of space-based unmanned hypersonic bombers, capable of taking off from American soil and striking targets on the far side of the globe within two hours, without waiting for permission to use bases, or for overflight rights.

The ultimate aim is to leave America’s enemies in fear of a strike from a clear blue sky at any second or, in the Pentagon’s words, “to hold adversary vital interests at risk at all times”.

Asking a lot of questions.

Scott’s been funny lately, but I assume you visit my links to your right, so I haven’t been pointing it out. In case you forgot:

The producer hinted that Nightly News anchor Peter Jennings may personally “run some guns” from Canada into Detroit later this year.

Two years ago today, I was asleep on the floor of my sister’s Georgetown apartment. I was visiting our capital, something I’ve always wanted to do. Monuments to freedom and our founding fathers, the Smithsonian, that sort of thing. Having ignored the phone that kept ringing, my sister finally answered it, jabbered something at me and there on CNN it was. Later I wandered down to Key Bridge to snap some photos of the smoke rising from the Pentagon.

Being far from home and friends added a layer of incredulity to the day. I would have given anything to be home and at the same time, I’m glad I was there. It gave me a completely different perspective than I would have had from 2500 miles away. And I was shocked by my friends when I did get home, they just didn’t understand because they weren’t there. I can’t really fathom what people that live there and in New York went through. So, since we can’t kill the bastards that did this, let’s make sure it never happens again.

Pope frail and weak. Yet, he keeps on going and going. Like the Energizer bunny, but in Latin.

In the deep-fried (DF) wars, DF Oreos go head to head to head with DF Twinkies and DF candy bars. My taste buds are the absolute and final judge. There are no appeals.

The DF candy bars come out on the bottom, heavy and super-rich it’s hard to get through one. DF Oreos are creamy and vaguely chocolatey. DF Twinkies are very similar, creamy with a hint of Twinkie flavor.

More testing is indicated as I can’t decide between the Oreo and the Twinkie. I’ll take either one, any time. Except right now, I’m sorta full.

How mankind got along so many centuries. People blithely eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches with no regard for the allergies of others. I bet that’s the real cause of the Plague.

I got my first permalink ! This is the first step in my grand master plan to take over the world!!! (And possibly Mars, if my operatives make it there intact.)

Reacts to protestors at his speech:

Rumsfeld, watching from below, turned back to his audience and said: “Well, now.”

UPDATE: More on Rumsfeld and his detractors (not the idiots in the balcony, other ones).

via The Corner

The key is B-flat.

via Fark

This guy would be in jail, no doubt.

It’s showing.

via Instapundit

Talk about your boring news days. Well, it’s today, so far. So, here’s some stuff to go buy. Stephen Lawhead’s Byzantium. Or Empyrion. Both are a good weekend read. I prefered Empyrion, but that’s just how I feel about it. Take your pick.

Might as well start now. They’re gonna sue all 4 million or so file-sharers.

via Instapundit

Opus to make a comeback.

Dave Barry vs. The Telemarketers.

Suing Boeing, NY city, and the Port Authority for 9/11.

Sounds like a bad idea to me.

Under the new program, the airline will send information about everyone who books a flight to the TSA, including full name, home address, home telephone number, date of birth and travel itinerary. If the computer system identifies a threat, the TSA will notify federal or local law enforcement authorities. The agency has not indicated the number or type of personnel needed to oversee the program.

The TSA will check each passenger in two steps. The first will match the passenger’s name and information against databases of private companies that collect information on people for commercial reasons, such as their shopping habits. This process will generate a numerical score that will indicate the likelihood that the passenger is who he says he is. Passengers will not be informed of their color code or their numerical score. The second step matches passenger information against government intelligence combined with local and state outstanding warrants for violent felonies.

So, the tin-foil hats weren’t so far off, eh?

via DrudgeReport

This is just wrong.

On immigration.

Girls call sheriffs cell phone *twice* wanting to buy marajuana.

“Not only did they do something wrong, but they should have been in school,” Amazi said.

metricsucks.com

Spider Robinson on the state of Science Fiction and why no one has grand dreams of the future anymore.

Incredibly, young people no longer find the real future exciting. They no longer find science admirable. They no longer instinctively lust to go to space.

He has a point. Just try finding a good SF book these days.

via Slashdot

Will this long-accepted acoustic truth stand against science? Find out here.

Protests over proposed coffee tax. They already pay 8% sales tax. Crazy Washingtonians.

I love this line:

In this city where fancy coffee is a way of life….

Them gole durn fancy coffees. We don’t need no fancy I-talian roasted Sumatran blend. Why here, it’s Folgers or nothing.
via Instapundit

New attacks, blah, blah, blah. Eradicate memory of 2001, blah, blah, blah. Ranks have doubled, blah, blah, blah.

What are they gonna do, bleed on us?

We’ll bite your kneecaps…

You’re a loon!

Debate ends in brawl in Azerbaijan.

IBM WINS!

via DrudgeReport.

Nifty.

Via the super-smart and ultra-cool Volokh Conspiracy

The proliferation of acronyms and it’s implications on freedom.

Don’t forget: Acronym Finder

Joyful Christian has a new home. It’s not quite unpacked and ready for company yet, but go visit.