Found an article in Mother Jones (a Liberal publication) that sums up a lot of the feelings I was trying to express in my last entry:

http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/columns/2002/01/blaming.html

Recently Ian Anderson, frontman for the British Rock Band Jethro Tull made some comments about the Americans flying the flag, the war in Iraq and other things that have caused quite a stir in the Classic Rock community.

A CIA memo detailing Iraqi Al-Qaeda links from 1990 through 2003 has surfaced. This could prove to be quite a bombshell, but what's curious is the silence of the "mainstream" media on this. Sure the story was broken in a conservative publication, but does that automatically make it an invalid story?

Noam Chomsky, yes, that Chomsky, in an interview in the Hindustan Times, when asked if he ever considered leaving the US permentanly, actually responded "No, this is the best country in the world."

http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_449258,00120003.htm

In just about everything I've read from Chomsky, he seems to have disdain for all things American, so this is a bit of a shocker.

Can the Democrat presidential candidates be honest about anything?

The latest example is John Kerry in New Hampshire blaming Bush, the GOP and faceless oil/gas companies over MtBE in the ground water, which is apparently a problem for some who have wells in NH.

The whole Howard Dean/Confederate Flag flap illustrates a lot of what is wrong with the Democratic party, and why their power keeps slipping away.

Apparantly they are finding unacceptable levels of
fumonisin, a toxin produced by molds that grow on grains in organic cornmeal in the UK. Every sample tested was at least 7X the acceptible limit!

Fumonisin is a known carcinogen, and causes other maladies.

The reason this is a problem for organic corn, is there are no fungicides used.

http://www.techcentralstation.com/110503E.html
http://www.food.gov.uk/news/newsarchive/moremaize

There was news that some French group put out a deck of cards with US leaders. Fine, lots of people have created their own spoof of the Iraqi deck. However, the person behind this new deck..

is the author of a one-time French best seller, "9-11: The Big Lie," claiming that no plane ever crashed into the Pentagon on Sept. 11, and that the attacks were plotted by a faction within the U.S. military.

Interesting piece in the New York Times about how the BBC has become more confrontational, accused of having a leftward bias, and how its ratings are declining. The BBC Loses a bit of its Luster [nytimes.com]

Another article about the coming US labor shortage. http://featuredreports.netscape.monster.com/laborshortage/forecast/

Worried about your job going overseas, and ending up as a burger flipper despite having a CS degree?

Much has been made in the media over the past year about hi-tech jobs being shipped overseas to workers making a fraction of what their US counterparts do.

So the first bits of leaked code look like they were derived from Unix, but it looks like they are in Linux legally, and ironically Caldera may have given the license to allow this.

I wonder if heads will roll at SCO over this leak.

Hopefully this turns the tables and puts SCO on the defensive. They will probably have to release more code without NDA to convince people that they do have a leg to stand on.

I think it's a good time to short SCOX...

I've long suspected that the BBC talkback/Have your say has a political bias in determining what they publish on the site. They've never published any of my comments, (so I gave up trying), but it seems like they'll give a high priority to any anti-American/anti-Bush comment no matter how silly.