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27. mars 2003
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The ultimate bunker-buster: women
Certainly a strong argument for female combattants in the military:
Take all American women who are within five years of menopause - train us for a few weeks, outfit us with automatic weapons, grenades, gas masks, moisturizer with SPF15, Prozac, hormones, chocolate, and canned tuna - drop us (parachuted, preferably) across the landscape of Afghanistan and Iraq and let us do what comes naturally. [Read the rest]
Not entirely new, but updated and polished, and certainly worth a laugh for both women and the scared men who love them.
10:48:47 PM 
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But is it the real George Bush?
You just have to love good satire.
Yesterday President George Bush made his first public appearance since the start of the war, speaking to service personnel at the MacDill airforce base in Tampa in an obvious bid to reassure Americans and boost the morale of the armed forces. But how do we know this is the real George Bush?
Yes, how indeed. Read it all.
10:31:11 PM
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Not-so-friendly fire
As many as 37 US marines are reported to be injured, some seriously, after two different US units sent to engage the same Iraqi group apparently ended up firing at each other.
I think I have a winning formula for Saddam Hussein: withdraw.
1:05:09 PM
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CompAtlanta refuses to sell to Canadians
Outraged that Canada does not support US military action against Iraq, CompAtlanta refuses to sell products to Canucks. David Ingram from Vancouver won a bid on a laser printer, but received the following message:
At the present time, we do not ship to, or accept bids from, Canada, Mexico, France, Germany or any other country that does not support the United States in our efforts to rid the world of Saddam Hussein. If you are not with us, you are against us.
I wonder who people like this think they are hurting?
11:08:15 AM
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Warblog guide
The Guardian posts a quite useful warblog guide, with some of the usual suspects but probably some you haven't heard of, too.
I am probably the last person in the blogsphere to find Saddam Hussein's blog. Some joker just had to do that, right?
10:55:26 AM
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A formula for chart success
"Record companies are to test a "juke box jury" computer program that can tell if a song is likely to top the charts." (Ananova)
Can't be any worse than the drones that appear to make the record companies' decision these days. They can just as well make it official they look for pop clones and not innovation or talent.
8:44:28 AM
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Possible evidence of earliest religious rituals
 Some scientists are arguing that a pink stone age, found among the fossilised bones of 27 ancient humans may be the earliest evidence of symbolic thought, and that at a far earlier stage than previously believed. The find is 350,000 years ago, and the archaic humans belong to the species Homo heidelbergensis, which are believed to have given rise to both Homo sapiens neanderthalis and what became modern humans.
From before, we have evidence of burial rituals, which strongly indicates symbolic thought, including religious ideas and a belief in the afterlife, from the neanderthals.
There were no other artifacts at the site, and neither any animal remains. Scientists are also pointing to the fact that the stone axe had a distinct colour, pink, which indicates it had a specific meaning.
Other scientists are not entirely convinced, pointing to evidence that this was a secondary deposit and that the location of the axe could be accidental, unlikely though it would be that so many specimens were located at one place.
5:34:13 AM
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Vodka battery
"An enzyme-catalysed battery has been created that could one day run cell phones and laptop computers on shots of vodka." (New Scientist)
That's brilliant. Then it's not only me going for refueling in a bar.
PS: In fact, Vodka Battery is supposedly the most popular mixed drink in Norway these days. It consists of, unsurprisingly, vodka, and a caffeine drink named battery. If you ad a splash of Red Russian, you have a drink called Duracel. Imaginative, eh?
3:22:27 AM
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'Inaccurate intelligence'
How is that for understatement of the day? A thousand-vehicle strong column of Republican Guard elite troops moving south from Baghdad may not have existed after all.
3:00:51 AM
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Anti-Americanism: a lack of proportions
What would it take for the majority of people in Europe to realise who the real enemy is? Right, Bush may be a moron, but Saddam and Bin Laden would have no qualms about slaughtering us all wholesale. Even without a UN resolution, imagine that!
It's a massive lack of proportions when the US (and UK) are made out to be villains when they are fighting a man who is the living ruler responsible for the most human deaths on this planet.
I certainly don't believe the US should be exempt from criticism in any way, but when we have hundreds or thousands people marching in the streets denouncing the US and effectively supporting the regimes of butchers who have slaughtered tens of thousands of people, there is a sense of lost proportions.
These are the children (in some cases, literally) of leftists who supported Pol Pot, Mao and Stalin, murderers of millions, and at the same time loudly condemned US for passively allowing friendly dictatures to kill thousands. Of course I agree that the US has erred, but let us get our proportions right!
I have done my share of "America-bashing" myself in the past, but have to say that now the popular anti-Americanism has tipped over the scales into pure insanity. It's about time people stop reacting knee-jerk to braindead slogans like "no blood for oil" and start thinking, on the whole, who has been our friend and protector through many decades (errant and arrogant as they may often be) and who are our sworn enemies who would have no qualms whatsoever about murdering us wholesale.
Let's face it: Europe has downplayed its security and slept while US troops have manned our defenses. So successful has the US been, in fact, that many ignorant and naive Europeans deny that these defenses were ever needed.
Still, I bet the next time we have a yugoslavia-like disaster anywhere in Europe, the same people who now condemn the US for "war crimes" will start whining for American troops to save us and protect us.
And perhaps, next time, Americans will remember our betrayal and let us handle the mess ourselves.
2:38:25 AM
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Last update: 01.04.2003; 01:34:48.
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