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ok one more time. there were no wmd
madc0w pr0d
While both of the terrorist pilots who crashed into the World Trade Center were students at Venice Florida’s Huffman Aviation, the flight school's owner Wallace J. Hilliard, 72, of Naples, FL., was simultaneously pursuing a diplomatic opening to Fidel Castro’s Cuba.
But it's Hilliard’s involvement with ADNAN KHASHOGGI, arms merchant and international fugitive, which we find most intriguing. The SAUDI BILLIONAIRE’s name has now surfaced in connection with the ownership of two of the election service companies whose performance in the 2004 Presidential contest has inspired heated controversy.
Glad to have Randy Johnson as a Yankee (better he were 10 years younger) but he’d better adjust to the big city. He’s on Letterman tonight, and this incident prompts me to predict an item:
Top 10 ways for a sportswriter to get punched out:
#1: Ask Randy Johnson why they call him “the Big Eunuch”
You come up with the other 9.
"WASHINGTON (AP) - The Bush administration paid a prominent black journalist to promote President Bush's education law and give Education Secretary Rod Paige media time, records show.
Armstrong Williams, a nationally syndicated radio, print and television personality, was paid $240,000 by the Education Department to promote the No Child Left Behind Act."
[just add the sound of a democracy swirling down the tube]
(gifs in kind)
miscellaneous parking lot theory links
Kennedy Fried Chicken, JFK Fried Chicken, JF Kennedy Fried Chicken, etc (cory always finds the best stuff)
Tennessee Fried Chicken, Arizona Fried Chicken, etc.
"Security by Microsoft" -- Hole in MS Media DRM allows rogue media files to trigger the download of popups, installation of adware, etc.
something for backyard birdwatching, doctor?
Mr. Wilson, your skills might be needed in the war on terror:
German authorities thought they heard a bird chirping in one of Bin Laden's audiotapes this year, and brought in ornithologists to identify the species — and its habitat — according to reports in the German media."And I would have gotten away with it too, if it wasn't for you meddling ornithologists!"
CA to dmt: Happy Holidays
u.s. to world : fuck you
comment spam on Movable Type blogs is straining servers
T.Whid has more
"The right stuff," "radical chic," and "the Me Decade" (sometimes altered to "the Me Generation") all became popular phrases, but Wolfe seems proudest of "good ol' boy," which he introduced to the written language in a 1964 article in Esquire about Junior Johnson, the North Carolina stock car racing driver, which was called "The Last American Hero."
media matters
in case you missed it over at tmn: My friend, on the payment of a further sum, obtained a curious little box which contained some small black lozenges, consisting of the resin of hemp, henbane, crushed datura seeds, butter, and honey, and known in India as Majoon, amongst the Moors as El Mogen.