Archives for February 2004

I have just this very minute resigned myself to the very likely possibility that no amount of searching in Iraq is going to reveal any credible, substantial evidence that Saddam had any weapons of mass destruction.

This resignation leaves me with a few possible resultant possibilities:

1. The international intelligence community never really believed that Iraq was in imminent possession of such weapons.
2. Saddam pays close attention to U.S. news sources and managed to hide all evidence of such weapons programs when he saw that U.S. military action was inevitable.
3. Bush is a Nazi.

If (1), am I willing to accept being lied to, considering that it was for a good cause (the liberation of the Iraqi people)? No.

If (2), am I willing to trust the intelligence when it says there was evidence prior to Saddam cleverly destroying it? No.

If (3), am I willing to repeatedly view Flash animations of Bush’s face morphing into Hitler’s? No, but I am tempted by the "Bush or Chimp" sequences.

I am inclined to think that the concerns about programs for weapons of mass destruction were too premature to yield any credible evidence thereof, so at worst, I was lied to, and at best, the facts were stretched. Why couldn’t Saddam’s support of terrorists, and his brutal crimes against his own citizens, as well as his attempt against a former U.S. President’s life be used as the reasons for invading Iraq? I would have considered those to be sufficient!

Not much to say about this. Mike Tyson is flat-out broke.

ESPN.com: Documents: Tyson financial situation is dire

France has taken yet another step toward fascism. The National Assembly voted 494-36 to ban Muslim headwear, crosses, skullcaps, and other religious symbols from public schools. The law is set to go before the Senate on March 2nd, where it will likely pass by another huge margin.

France’s large Muslim population is rightfully outraged.

Read More at NYtimes.com: Ban on Religious Apparel Advances in France

A new virus, a variant of the MyDoom virus that spread throughout computers last month, is “planting evidence” on people’s computer. “Doomjuice,” which infects people currently infected with one of the original two MyDoom viruses, places the source code to the first virus on the user’s hard drive. This would be the equivalent of placing exact duplicates of a murder weapon in the house of every person in area of the murder. Looks like he’s probably going to get away, as he doesn’t seem like the stupid type.

ZDNet News Story: MyDoom author may be covering tracks

A Finnish millionare just been given the largest traffic ticket ever.

Yahoo! News Story: Millionaire Hit with Record Speeding Fine

In an apparent preemptive strike against a future swarm of Massachusetts-married homosexual couples, the state of Ohio has banned same-sex marriages from being recognized in their state. Governor Bob Taft was quoted as saying “It’s about time we did something. Our families are finally safe. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I need to go home and have heterosexual sexual relations with my woman-wife.” When questioned further about what dangers were threatening Ohio’s families, he responded, “Gay stuff. Mostly. Some of the gyms in our state have discounts if you get your spouse to join. We’re just making sure that these discounts aren’t abused.”

Taft went on to call marriage “an essential building block of society” and stressed that it needed to be reaffirmed. “Sure, just like with Legos, it is quite easy to dismantle the building blocks of society… sometimes the pieces don’t fit together well enough and sometimes your dog eats the ONLY laser turret piece in the entire set. But I still think it is a good analogy.” When asked how he would respond to those who would say that the state of marriage in this country is already deteriorating, especially when considering the divorce rate of nearly 50%, Taft replied “I would tell them that I would rather have twenty heterosexual divorces than see one homosexual couple get married. Sometimes marriages don’t work out, and that’s okay, but it’s never okay to hurt families and children, and that’s what homosexual marriage is going to do. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go home and take pride in the fact that my wife is a female woman who is heterosexual.”