newsblurb: July 2002 Archives

"The Recording Industry Association of America's Web site was unreachable over the weekend due to a denial-of-service attack.

""Don't they have something better to do during the summer than hack our site?" asked the RIAA representative, who asked not to be identified. "Perhaps it at least took 10 minutes away from stealing music.""

-- CNET.com

This has all the maturity of a junior high girl complaining how boys act.

"An eyewitness who identified himself by his first name, Konstantin, said that the plane had banked hard on its left-hand side, hit the ground and exploded.

"Vasily Nayuk, an official with the Emergency Situations Ministry, said that according to preliminary information 14 people were killed. Two flight attendants survived and were hospitalized in critical condition. "

-- Salon.com

Okay... dead people = bad. But could someone tell me why there were flight attendents on a cargo plane?

Man robbed after sucking nipples smeared with knock-out drops

Rob me! Please!!!!!!!!

Sarah Lawrence: The Burqa Incident

"The basis for the complaint was that they were believed to be reading Islamic newspapers," she said.

-- Naples Daily news

They were whispering and reading a newspaper in a library? Well someone call out the fucking swat team. They sure have cahones, don't they?

"Do you and your fellow Muslims hate us because our women proudly show their faces in public rather than cover up like a shameful whore? Do you and your fellow Mulsims hate us because we drink wine with dinner, or celebrate Christmas? Do you and you fellow Muslims hate us because we have befriended Israel, the ONLY civilized nation in the entire middle-east? And if you and your fellow Muslims hate us, then why in the world are you even here? Are you here to take our money? Are you here to undermine our peace and stability? Are you here to destroy us? If so, I want you to leave. I want you to go back to your desert sandpit where women are treated like rats and dogs. I want you to take your religion, your friends, and your family back to your Islamic extremists, and STAY THERE! We will NEVER give in to your influence, your retarded mentality, your twisted, violent, intolerant religion."

-- Restore America

And you wonder why Americans are viewed as ignorant, red-necked, inbred, sheep-shaggers?

Note: A man using a radical, misleading interepretation of this country's founding charter to assault people on the basis of a radical misinterpretation of a major religion's founding charter.

I swear to anything you hold holy, they get more stupid all the time.

A. Do the record companies believe they will engender any sympathy, support, or even respect for their fight by sueing and/or jailing individuals?

B. Will the make annnnnnnyyyy money off these lawsuits? No? You say they are just trying to get a message across? See point A.

Does anyone else find it way too coincidental that shortly after Universal Vivendi announced they would pull their ass out of the dark ages and start distributing their music in the format people have been asking for for years, that they are forced to declare bankrupcy? That this new intiative of theirs would have gone directly against the goals and aims of the RIAA?

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Does every member of the RIAA still take pride in their membership? Or has this organization become the stuff of science fiction stories? The beast that emerges from the collective consciousness of its constituents, so powerful it can no longer be controlled by those member parts.

"The Israeli army has apologised for causing the deaths of six-year-old Ahmad Abu Aziz and his 13-year-old brother Jamil, but said the tank crew opened fire to deter Palestinians breaking a curfew and approaching them.

"However, the footage shows a tank firing the first of two shells, at close range, at a group of civilians who are running away."

-- BBC News

It's not hard to agree with Isreal's right to defend itself. Living here in Washington, we were given just one small taste of the unreasonable fear of death and the unknown. Try living under that every day.

And the Isrealis know who their attacker is. I have still yet to see the evidence that convicts anyone in the September 11th attacks.* Everyone including the attackers and their government admit Palestinians are implimenting their attacks.

So we feel bad for Isreal. They are trying to be the 'bigger man'. They are trying to ethically fight back against an enemy willing to do anything to get their point across.

Bull-fucking-shit.

The isreali defense forces have razed homes of admittedly innocent people to send messages to their families. They have taken over whole cities; instituting cerfews and travel restrictions backed up with lethal enforcement, that can and likely will result in starvation for a majority of the Palestinian people living in those cities. Now they are caught firing on children running away with a fucking tank.

There is no bigger man here.

You have two governments, both being run by former (and current) human butchers, who will defend their people, no matter how many of their own lives it costs.

And the best the rest of the world can do is present peace plans that do little more than quote Rodney King and Reginald Denny?

"Can't we all just... get along?"

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* The automatic assumption of binLaden's guilt makes that hard to remember. The american government assured foriegn leaders it had damning evidence that convicted the Al Queda in the destruction.

I don't remember them ever showing it to us, though. The american people they represent.

I saw video tapes. I don't happen to know anyone in the area who speaks arabic who could translate for me. But even taking the government translations, (which took way too long to just 'translate') as literal, binLaden admits to nothing but joy over the success of the attacks.

That may be sick, but it is hardly evidence, and hardly shocking. I would be amazed to learn that at least a third of the world weren't happy to finally see the US get bitch-slapped. We are not well liked people. And when I am forced to listen to Joe-Bob and Bertha telling me how they wished they could get out there and help kill those damn A-rabs in Aphgany-stan, I don't have trouble understanding why.

Show me the fucking evidence.

Or was the evidence more in the nature of the US pointing out to these foriegn leaders that if they went along with this campaign, it gave them free reign to take out (translation: kill) every force they could declare subversive to their own beliefs?