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Monday, January 12, 2004
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We Just Bombed Britain
Oops!
US jet accidentally drops unarmed bomb in Britain. The United States Air Force is investigating how one of its fighter jets dropped an unarmed bomb onto the countryside in northern England last week, a spokesman said on Monday. There were no injuries and only "limited property damage" in the incident, which happened near the town of Market Weighton in Yorkshire at around 1715 GMT on Thursday, the air force spokesman said. The 25 lb (11 kg) practice bomb was dropped by a F-15E Strike Eagle on a routine training run from a base in eastern England. "Trained and experienced base personnel including Ministry of Defence, and local constabulary authorities responded to the scene and an investigation team is determining the cause the incident," the spokesman said. [Reuters, January 12, 2004]
You crazy sonsofbitches! Not you Brits -- us stupid bloody Yanks! We are NOT to be trusted!
Jesus!
My sincere apologies for a nation gone out of control. Please understand: That bomb was not dropped in my name.
So, why didn't we hear about this for a week?
We Just Bombed Britain 8:03:40 PM
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Zippity-Doo-Doo
Just another sign of the times, folks:
Disney Closes Orlando Animation Studio. The Walt Disney Co. is shuttering its Orlando, Fla.-based animation studio, cutting about 258 jobs, as the company shifts from hand-drawn animated films to computer-generated features and videos. Some of the employees will be offered jobs in Burbank, Calif., Disney said Monday in announcing the move. The company has been steadily trimming its animation department for the past few years, from a peak of 2,200 employees in 1999 to 600, all based in Burbank after Monday's announcement. Disney decided to shift from having a large number of animators on staff to hiring on a per-film basis. The company also has been scaling back on its traditional, hand-animated films, which are more labor intensive and cost far more than films animated by computers. ... [Gary Gentile, Associated Press, January 12, 2004]
Zippity-Doo-Doo 2:17:31 PM
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Toilet Terrorism?
Why Mom always told you to squat, not sit:
Woman gets burns from toilet. WELLINGTON - A woman will require plastic surgery for serious burns after she sat on a New Zealand public toilet smeared with an unknown chemical, media reports. The woman was one of four to suffer burns from the chemical, which had been smeared on seats and other areas in a public toilet in a park in the city of Christchurch, in the early hours of Saturday, the New Zealand Press Association reported on Saturday. "It appears that a clear, gel-like substance had been smeared on the toilet seats, press-down buttons and on the building's walls," said Senior Sergeant Neru Leifi. ... [Reuters, January 10, 2004]
Toilet Terrorism? 2:11:16 PM
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'Ragheads and Camel-Riders' - Now, That's Nice
Camp Delta Briton claims racial abuse. Guards at Guantanamo Bay are racially abusing inmates by calling them "ragheads" and "camel-riders", the family of a British detainee claims. Shafiq Rasul, who has been held at the base since spring 2002, alleged the abuse in a letter to his family. According to his elder brother Habib, he wrote: "Everything's OK in Guantanamo. It's just that sometimes some of the guards are OK with us, and some are saying things to us, calling us names like camel-rider and raghead." Mr Rasul said: "It's blatantly racist and Islamophobic. Shafiq's from Tipton - he's never seen a camel in his life." Amnesty International said that such abuse, if true, would be "totally unacceptable and alarming". ... [Tania Branigan, The Guardian, January 12, 2004]
I take it "alarming" means "appalling," and not necessarily "surprising."
'Ragheads and Camel-Riders' - Now, That's Nice 2:09:56 PM
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Yeah, What's 500 American Corpses, Give or Take?
Nice take on Georgie's cavalier attitude re WMD:
President Bush: "So What's the Difference" if Your Sons and Daughters are Now Dead Because I Lied. DIANE SAWYER: (You) stated as a hard fact, that there were weapons of mass destruction as opposed to the possibility that he could move to acquire those weapons still - PRESIDENT BUSH: So what's the difference? "So what's the difference?" if he lied, said our President plainly. "So what's the difference?" if hundreds of our sons and daughters are dead and still dying, if we killed thousands of Iraqis, if the American taxpayers have spent over $100 billion dollars, sending the nation even further into massive debts. "So?" "So what's the difference," if it was all just a trick and a bunch of lies on his part? ... The President had become the arrogant gangster boss who just told the chief of police, "Yeah, so what if I'm running a drug cartel - what are you going to do about it?" ... "Yeah, so what if I'm lying?" the belligerent, wife-beating husband tells his wife. And then, figuring she will not have the courage to respond or take action, he acts as if what he said was no big deal and goes on like everything is normal and he never said what he said. ... [The Moderate Independent, January 1 - 25, 2004]
Yeah, What's 500 American Corpses, Give or Take? 2:06:46 PM
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Nah, No Global Warming Here!
Freak summers 'will happen regularly'. The 2003 heatwave in Europe that killed at least 20,000 people and triggered losses of an estimated £7bn could be a taste of things to come, according to research released today. Climate scientists from Zurich report in Nature online that the summer heatwave that broke all records in France, Germany and central Europe had been extremely unusual, even given the steady rise in average global temperatures over the past 150 years. Christophe Schär and six colleagues said this increase could not explain why European thermometers had risen so high, and stayed at the danger level for so long. But the heatwave, of the kind experienced once in 450 years, may not have been a freak. ... [Tim Radford, The Guardian, January 12, 2004]
Alert after Bristol twister. Onlookers watched amazed as this 2,000ft high tornado swept up the Bristol Channel yesterday. The 30ft wide twister whipped along off Cardiff and Barry, then travelled inland - but did not cause any major damage. Nigel Evans, 33, from Barry Island, said: "It carried the spray up to 50ft off the sea." Meanwhile, weathermen warned of severe storms and winds of up to 90mph today - mainly in the South. ... [Online Sun, January 11, 2004]
Nah, No Global Warming Here! 2:04:30 PM
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Do Us All a Favor, Would You...
...and make sure your machine isn't infected? Thank you!
Trojan Horse Poses As Windows XP Update. A new Swen-style Trojan horse posing as a critical update from Microsoft has been detected on the Internet, and users who open the E-mail message may find their machines loaded with a back-door Trojan that can steal passwords or be used in conjunction with other systems to conduct major denial-of-service attacks. Dubbed Trojan.Xombe, as in zombie, by most security firms, the Trojan shares some characteristics of the Swen worm line in that it masquerades as a message from Microsoft and purports to carry a security update in its file attachment. However, unlike Swen, a worm that first appeared last September, Trojan.Xombe doesn't self-replicate. ... The faux message, which sports a spoofed sending address of windowsupdate@microsoft.com, uses the subject line "Windows XP Service Pack 1--Critical Update" to trick recipients into opening the attached file. "Window [sic] Update has determined that you are running a beta version of Windows XP Service Pack 1 (SP1)," the message's text reads in part. ... [Gregg Keizer, TechWeb News, January 8, 2004]
Do Us All a Favor, Would You... 1:56:06 PM
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About Bloody Time Poodle Boy Admitted Something
Blair admits weapons of mass destruction may never be found. Tony Blair yesterday signalled that weapons of mass destruction may never be found in Iraq, in his first admission of fallibility over the central justification he gave for going to war with Iraq. In his most downbeat assessment of the contentious issue so far, the prime minister said he did not know whether WMD would be unearthed, and conceded that this flew in the face of widespread initial expectations. "I do not know is the answer," he admitted. "I believe that we will but I agree there were many people who thought we were going to find this in the course of the actual operation ... We just have to wait and see". ... [Sarah Hall, Richard Norton-Taylor and Julian Borger, The Guardian, January 12, 2004]
We've waited, and all we've seen is a lot of shuffling of feet. Give it up, lapdog - you couldn't embarrass yourself more if you piddled on the carpet.
About Bloody Time Poodle Boy Admitted Something 1:35:12 PM
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