“Morality cannot ge legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the hearts, but they can restrain the heartless.”

MLK jr.

when Bama loses a game in double over time!

Linky

Had some serious downtime there - things still aren’t all back up.

Yesterday this server locked up at 11:30 - I ran home at lunch and rebooted it, it locked up again at 1:00 and sat in that condition until I got home that night, backed it up, and started rebuilding it.

Once, there was a donkey, who loved grazing in the meadow. Although an obstinate, stupid creature, the donkey thought he knew everything.

Along came a gopher, who wasn’t exactly the sharpest tool in the shed either, but who had travelled and seen more than the donkey

So, I was looking for some interesting unknown movie and came across this one: Equilibrium. Sci-Fi with stunning fight sequences? What the hell, why not.

When I first heard that they were making a Starsky & Hutch movie, I thought it was the stupidist idea I had every heard.

Then I read this review and I may have to see it opening night.

End summary:

“2.5. Overall Risk Rating
The system, as implemented in policy, procedure, and technology, is at high risk of compromise. “

Full report

In an interview with Egypt Press, Colin Powell said:

“We had a good discussion, the Foreign Minister and I and the President and I, had a good discussion about the nature of the sanctions — the fact that the sanctions exist — not for the purpose of hurting the Iraqi people, but for the purpose of keeping in check Saddam Hussein’s ambitions toward developing weapons of mass destruction. We should constantly be reviewing our policies, constantly be looking at those sanctions to make sure that they are directed toward that purpose. That purpose is every bit as important now as it was ten years ago when we began it. And frankly they have worked. He has not developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass destruction. He is unable to project conventional power against his neighbors.”
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“May I just add a p.s. that if I was a Kuwaiti and I heard leaders in Baghdad claiming that Kuwait is still a part of Iraq and it’s going to be included in the flag and the seal, if I knew they were continuing to try to find weapons of mass destruction, I would have no doubt in my mind who those weapons were aimed at. They are being aimed at Arabs, not at the United States or at others. Yes, I think we should…he has to be contained until he realizes the errors of his ways. “

transcript from the State Dept

For those who didn’t know, Evil_Bastard is an author with a technical sales support day job. Past stories from him have included a unique method of time travel and a class struggle with unlikely protagonists. Let’s offer him up some plotlines to stimulate his rusty brain.

I’ll go first - a superhero who’s powers are consuming extraordinary amounts of alcohol and making women hate him finds himself going up against a supervillian trying to destroy American hockey.