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I like Klaus Nomi. Guess who else likes Klaus Nomi – WTF?

Hello. Do you use Dreamweaver 3 under Ubuntu Linux using Wine? Then perhaps you can help me with a little bug I’m having. Thanks.

Kohat, Kabul, US Base at Adhamiya, Palestine Street Base, Al Qaim, Jalalabad, Camp Whitehorse, Packhorse, Sednaya, Far Falastin, Kandahar, Sheberghan, Gardez, Badram, Camp Iron Horse, Al Jafr, Camp Rhino, Ariana, Camp Base Tycze, BIF, LSA Diamondback, USS Bataan, USS Peleiu,Asadabad, Diego Garcia, Camp Bucca, Camp Cropper, Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib.

Welcome to Godchecker – your Guide to the Gods. We have more Gods than you can shake a stick at. Over 2,150 Gods now online!

The BBC reports: A court and execution chamber could be built at the US detention camp in Cuba under plans being drawn up by military officials. [...] Pentagon rules for the tribunals permit death sentences to be passed and the construction of a death chamber at the camp is among options being considered. [...] All have been classified as “enemy combatants” and as such are not entitled to legal representation or a civil trial. NONE HAVE BEEN CHARGED though cases are being prepared against 10 or more detainees. After the detention centre opened in January 2002, US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld called its inmates “among the most dangerous, best trained, vicious killers on the face of the Earth”. But many are now thought to be low-level fighters. [emphasis added]

[People being swept up from their homes, shipped to secret prisons, hidden from the Red Cross, tortured, having no access to legal representation, never being charged and soon to be put to death. What is the proper name for such behavior, and what is to be done?]

Sonic Supper is a friendly venue that uses the telephone to share curious music. It’s that simple: call 718-303-9553 to listen; leave a message (if you like) to let us know what you think. New music is featured about every week. Around 3000 listeners call each week. This is an opportunity for musicians to reach a large and broad audience regardless of their access to fancy production technologies. Anyone with a phone can submit music for consideration.

M.I.A. – do your own research to learn about and see this artist, but pleasant is here to help you with the mp3s… Favela on Blast by Diplo and Piracy Funds Terrorism by M.I.A. and Diplo… Funky Do Moro (“This archive is intended to share the hip hop beat produced in the hills of Rio, the favelas of Sao Paolo, and the streets of Salvador – funky do morro: the funk of the hill.”)… Fat Planet (“new international music”)… and oh my goodness there is more, but the above will keep you busy and happy for now.

“She messages all the corners on my body and I feel the freshness of life.” You may be able to find the source for this quote if you search for it, but I like it just as much out of context.

What is the United States government keeping Sibel Edmonds [google news, 9/11 timeline] from revealing?

“The intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy.” “The intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy.” “The intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy.” “The intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy.” “The intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy.” “The intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy.” “The intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy.” “The intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy.” “The intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy.” “The intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy.” “The intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy.” “The intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy.” Since I’m not seeing this excerpt from the Downing Street Memo in the mainstream news at all, I thought I’d help them catch up by printing it several times in this obscure blog.

The Downing Street Memo, recently leaked, reveals that President George W. Bush decided to overthrow Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in summer 2002 and—determined to ensure that U.S. intelligence data supported his policies—”fixed” the intelligence and facts relevent to WMD. What has come to be known as the Downing Street “Memo” is actually a document containing meeting minutes transcribed during the British Prime Minister’s meeting on July 23, 2002. This meeting was held a full 8 months PRIOR to the invasion of Iraq on March 20, 2003. The Times of London printed the text of this document on Sunday, May 1, 2005. When asked about the document’s validity, “British officials did not dispute the document’s authenticity.”

The Nevermen by Phil Amara and Guy Davis is a wonderful comic book published by Dark Horse Comics that doesn’t have a good Web page that I can find. So go check it out at a local store, or from the Library (like I did).

Back in Ann Coulter’s Ass-Saddle, Again.

It is my intention to add to my photographs at flickr every day.

The challenge: Convert the Atheist to your religious belief for fun and profit! If you’re convinced that what you believe is right, I’d like to hear what convinces you. If you can persuade me to convert to your religious belief, I will pay you a minimum of $1,000, with the prize increasing by $1.00 for each failed attempt to convert me.

In 1895 a number of ancient Greek-language documents were discovered in an ancient garbage dump outside the Egyptian city of Oxyrhynchus. The documents were too damaged by time to be read, but recent technical advances have allowed us to recover the texts. Among them is a 1,500 year old fragment from the Book of Revelation, the oldest (and therefore likely to be more authentic) fragment so far discovered. The fragment includes the famous lines about the ‘number of the beast,’ or the sign by which the faithful can know that the Anti-Christ walks the Earth. That number is… 616. Now that there is definite evidence that the number of the beast is not 666, I’m sure the publishers of Bibles will make the appropriate changes and Christians will amend their sermons and analysis of current events.

Science, at least by Karl Popper’s definition, is always and forever open to criticism. No matter how sure a thing seems, it can always be tested. No matter how many times a thing has been tested, it can always be tested again. No matter the authority of who tested a thing, it can always be tested again by ‘amateurs.’ Contrast this with magic, which never hesitates to say something is a mystery (“shut up” he explained) or that it is parts of a centuries-old tradition (you ask too many questions, kid). That is why when something like theosophy, Golden Dawn, Crowley, Gurdjieff, Wicca, TOPY, chaos magick, etc. pops up people get excited – they can feel the weight of their chains and the idea that they can question tradition is liberating. I have benefited from learning about all of these things, but at the end of the day I refer each of them to the James Randi Educational Foundation to collect their million dollars. More often than not these sparks of thinking for oneself in the occult world are (a) led by charismatics (b) ossify into tradition once more. It is science that is anti-authoritarian, not groovy / spooky / hip / alt magic.

A co-worker of a friend of mine is a swinger. She has sex with strangers while other strangers look on. But she won’t try any ‘weird’ food like, well, like anything except hamburgers and pizza. This is another reminder to me that people are funny little monkeys and there isn’t much of a way to tell what someone is like based on any one thing they do or don’t do. I’d have thought a person who is adventurous in one way would be adventurous in other ways, but nah. Funny little monkeys.

Since June 2002, The Memory Hole has offered an online video of President George W. Bush being told his country is under attack and doing nothing about it. The video lasts two minutes and ten seconds. More recently, another copy of this video is being offered by The Memory Hole that lasts more than twice as long. But the President didn’t sit around for five minutes and then get busy; five minutes is just when the video ends. Read all about what Bush did and didn’t do on what he called “an interesting day” here.

BetOnIraq.com – ‘Genuine, New Iraqui Currency Delivered Right To Your Door.’ If I understand this correctly, the idea is to buy Iraqui currency now while it is inexpensive and then sell it if it becomes more valuable later. That the US and not the government of Iraq is responsible for their being such a thing as new Iraqui currency makes this seem rather unsavory.