Archive for June, 2005

9/11 and Iraq

Posted by 3wire on June 29th, 2005

Andrew C. McCarthy on Iraq It’s All About 9/11 The president links Iraq and al Qaeda — and the usual suspects moan. …On September 12, 2001, no one in America cared about whether there would be enough Sunni participation in a fledgling Iraqi democracy if Saddam were ever toppled. No one in lower Manhattan cared [...]

Islamic rules for beating your wife

Posted by 3wire on June 28th, 2005

From Gandalph 23 Sheik Aal Mahmoud: If the husband wants to use beatings to treat his wife, he must never ever do it in front of the children. It must remain between him and her. It must be done according to the following conditions: He must not cause bleeding or bruise her body. He should [...]

Anti-war Lunatics

Posted by 3wire on June 25th, 2005

You don’t have to be a total moron to be against the war on terror, but it helps. 9/11?, these bone-heads claim that Bush’s “regime” planned the whole thing. With “citizens” like these , who needs Islamo-facists?

Supreme Court Rules Cities May Seize Homes

Posted by 3wire on June 24th, 2005

This is a sad day for civil liberty. “The 5-4 ruling – assailed by dissenting Justice Sandra Day O’Connor as handing “disproportionate influence and power” to the well-heeled in America”. Netscape Supreme Court Rules Cities May Seize Homes

USA PATRIOT Act- Why should I care?

Posted by 3wire on June 24th, 2005

Have you read the PATRIOT Act? Of couse not. Then how can you have an opinion? Here’s the Act. Electronic Frontier Foundation’s take on the The USA PATRIOT Act. EFF: USA PATRIOT Act

The IPod Killer No One Is Talking About

Posted by Q Ball on June 23rd, 2005

It is called the Cowon iAudio X5, and it kicks the IPod’s ass. As you go through the list of features I’m about to give you, you need to remember one thing: the X5 costs is the same price as an original IPod. Features: Audio playback- mp3, WAV, OGG Vorbis, WMA, ASF and FLAC; Video [...]

The Science of Your Brain on Games

Posted by Maverick on June 22nd, 2005

Xbox: The Science of Your Brain on Games “We had a hard time finding kids who were bad at school but good at games” “successful gamers must have patience, develop a willingness to delay gratification, and prioritize scarce resources”

EFF: RFIDs in Schools

Posted by 3wire on June 21st, 2005

EFF: RFIDs in Schools Across the nation, public schools are using RFIDs to turn campuses into pervasive surveillance networks. EFF is fighting to stop these schools from tracking students using RFID technology.

Gov. Perry Signs Bills to Protect Gun Owners’ Rights

Posted by 3wire on June 20th, 2005

God I love living in Texas. This from the TSRA. TSRA Members and Texans: OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR R i c k P e r r y For Immediate Release June 17,2005 Gov. Perry Signs Bills to Protect Gun Owners’ Rights AUSTIN – Gov. Rick Perry today signed legislation aimed at clarifying existing firearm laws, [...]

British government to announce widespread smoking ban

Posted by 3wire on June 18th, 2005

Another example of governnent “protecting” their subjects….ah I mean citizens. British government to announce widespread smoking ban – Yahoo! UK & Ireland News

Anti-gun/Anti-science insanity

Posted by 3wire on June 17th, 2005

This story is so maddening I almost don’t know where to begin. A couple of kids in Amherst Mass spend time and money on a science fair project that shows how dangerous BB guns can be. Sounds like a good applied physics and engineering project to me. And very worth while because BB guns can [...]

EU Constitution

Posted by 3wire on June 16th, 2005

Gandalf 23′s take on the EU constitution. As he often says,”WTF“.

PBS budget under attack.

Posted by 3wire on June 16th, 2005

PBS’s funding is under attack. Peggy Noonan (really smart person) thinks its worth saving. Click here to find out why.

Let’s leave the government out of it.

Posted by 3wire on June 13th, 2005

This is an excerpt from interesting article by a heath activist William Campbell Douglass II, MD, who has been calling for government intervention on the behalf of school children for some time. It seems he has had an epiphany about government involvement in people’s lives. I attached the whole doc below as it is from [...]

Chinese Gamer Sentenced

Posted by Maverick on June 11th, 2005

Chinese Gamer Sentenced – News From 1UP.COM A chinese gamer, angry that someone sold his virtual sword that exists only in the virtual world of a Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPG), stabbed another to death. This is just crazy.

Materialism and Islamo-Fascists

Posted by Q Ball on June 10th, 2005

The Islamo-Fascist bin laden gives, as one of his reasons for hating us, our “materialism” and he somehow thinks that that has corrupted us. Some people are material and some are not, that is called the real world. Recent events have shed a light on something that I think is worth pointing out: the extreme [...]

Student gets low grade for mentioning God

Posted by 3wire on June 9th, 2005

From: American Center for Law and Justice In her English 101 course, Bethany Hauf, a freshman at a community college in California, was told that she could pick the topic to be discussed in the quarterly term paper. She chose to discuss “Religion and its Place within the Government.” The professor, Michael Shefchik, responded by [...]

9/11 “Memorial” Hijacked

Posted by 3wire on June 8th, 2005

The 9/11 “memorial” may have more about Abu Ghraib than New York’s heroic firemen. Debra Burlingame , sister of Charles F. “Chic” Burlingame III, pilot of American Airlines fight 77, which was crashed at the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, tells how George Soros and others may be subverting the 9/11 memorial. Article

The Cost of the War on Terrorism

Posted by 3wire on June 7th, 2005

I discovered The American Spectator yesterday and linked to one of Ben Stein’s articles. He has an interesting perspective. Here is a excerpt from another one of his articles on the true cost of the war on terror, written after visiting children who have lost parents in the war . “I WISH I WERE ELOQUENT [...]

Deep Throat and Ben Stein

Posted by 3wire on June 6th, 2005

My kids were asking me about the whole Watergate thing the other day. I gave them my views on Nixon. When I was a kid growing up in Texas I had friends that had bomb shelters in their back yards because we were afraid that the Soviets would rain hydrogen bombs down on us. You [...]