The Slamlander

Obviously, UK doctors don’t cook and neither does , as we see here.:) Hej is being cute.

Of course, my personal favorite kitchen cutter is a Chinese cleaver. You wouldn’t believe the damage I can do … using it as a weapon. and it fits the blunt-end proposal just fine, thankee. Someone ought to show those UK doctors a blunt-end … <grrr>.

What’s next, licensing requirements for cooks to have cooking tools? Or maybe a requirement that we all are not allowed to cook at home? Oh, I get it … all cooks shall be registered as potentially deadly weapons! (how many cases of food poisoning every year?)

UK doctors may be smart but, many don’t have the good sense that God granted a pumphandle. The rest aren’t even that gifted. That seems to apply to all UK Bureau-rats as well. Well, why should they be much different from US Bureau-rats?

Weapons of opportunity are weapons of opportunity. Knives are used because they are handy. Fireplace pokers have also been used, as have sticks, bottles, chairs, and rocks. The first law of martial arts: never hit someone with an empty hand. The second law: everything is a weapon. So, let’s ban everything and make learning self-defence illegal, as well. (that should sit very well with the thieves and burgler’s guilds)

At the LA times and the Yahoo pages.

1. A 55/45 vote is not a crashing majority! 65/35 yes, but 55/45, non.
2. France is being their usual obstructionist self.
3. Yes, there is fallout but, it’s not a major disaster.
4. In large chunks of the EU, the local “Royals” have an override and they are NOT going to give up their sovreignty anyway. Arguments to that effect are based on ignorance and failing to understand what Monarchies are.

Edit: For the record …

1. Yes, I agree that the EU Constitution is too fat with bureaucratese and legalese and that they should have KISS’d it. OTOH, the EU is unique in that they are trying to aggregate economic power and avoid aggregating political power. That is not a task that is simply done. The EU is not trying to Federalize. In fact, yesterday’s vote was an objection to that. This is where almost all American commentators completely miss the point.
2. Unlike the US, each country in the EU keeps their political sovreignty but gives up a share of economic power to the greater EU.
3. EU model is not the US model.

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1. Migrate from 192.168 to NET 10
2. DNS
• Move root zone to Goshawk
• Create script to fetch and auto-build from InterNIC every month.
• Parse root zone into mySQL database (Perl::DBI)
• Create build scripts to extract and create the new Caselle root zone.
3. Make new TLD called VPN
• Instantiate Registry.VPN, Mail.VPN, and NIC.VPN
• Migrate old MHSC.NET registry software to NIC.VPN
4. Delegate Caselle.VPN to the PDC
5. Rebuild Postfix to handle new virtual domains and NET10
6. Fix Win2K PDC (Possible rebuild)
7. Install SquirrelMail on Goshawk.Caselle.VPN using CNAME of Mail.Caselle.VPN

A California Senator is working directly against the interests of her state. Senators are supposed to represent the legislatures of their state.

If the US had put all the money spent on Homeland Security and the War on Iraq towards capturing or killing Bin Laden, he’d be either dead or captured by now. There’d still be change left over, Iraq would still be stable, and the US economy would be producing jobs instead of increasing debt.

I can understand and condone Afghanistan, as they were definitely and defiantly harboring Bin Laden. Neither is/was there any doubt that they were exporting terrorism and advocating global civil unrest, global Islamic militantism, and general hooliganism. That they were a rogue country. There was never any question that Afghanistan was Bin Laden’s fort (and Clinton should have been the one to take it out anyway). However, Iraq has always promised to be a quagmire that would make Viet Nam look like a mudhole and removing Saddam, as stupid as he was, would actually be doing Bin Laden a huge favor. Elder Bush’s policy of containment (supported by Clinton as well ergo, a bi-partisan policy) was working good enough, for Iraq and the rest of the ME. It wasn’t broke so they didn’t need to fix it. Now, it’s seriously broke.

The domestic War on Terror is all about curtailing American freedoms, period. The Department of Homeland Security has all the earmarks of the old German SS and USSR KGB rolled into one. What’s Guantanimo but yet another Gulag? … they even have American Citizens incarcerated there, unconstitutionally. Americans cannot travel without being tracked, traced, and analyzed by DHS. Impromptu luncheon jaunts to San Francisco are prohibited, by DHS (24-hour notice for air travel). All financial transaction of over 1,000USD are monitored, tracked, traced, and analyzed by DHS. US citizens, traveling abroad have to continuously update their status, with DHS. Any phoneline, anywhere, can be tapped by DHS at anytime. All Internet transactions are subject to interception and monitoring.

Americans can’t even sneeze without Big Brother being both aware and there. The sad part is that Americans don’t seem to care or rather, those of us that do are vastly outnumbered by the majority that don’t.

(hmph, I wrote a lot more than I originally intended to)

– your friendly neighborhood

but I’ll be catching the big yellow bus over the hill. I should still be there on time.

Blame it on a time warp.