http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/anthraxsuspect.html

You know, the Ft. Detrick scientist who had been terminated yet was shown on videotape entering the anthrax lab without authorization?

From antiwar.com:

Also uncovered was a tape from a surveillance camera showing the entry of an unauthorized person into the lab, at 8:40, on January 23, 1992, let in by Dr. Marian Rippy, lab pathologist. The night visitor was Lt. Col. Philip Zack, a former employee who had left as a result of a dispute with the lab over his alleged harassment of Dr. Assaad. The Courant reports:

"Zack left Fort Detrick in December 1991, after a controversy over allegations of unprofessional behavior by Zack, Rippy, [lab technician Charles] Brown and others who worked in the pathology division. They had formed a clique that was accused of harassing the Egyptian-born Assaad, who later sued the Army, claiming discrimination."

And let's not forget this Salon column from 2002 with its gee-whiz-I-wonder-who-done-it tone:

http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2002/01/26/assaad/index.html

Here we are at the water. Thirsty?

And she's significantly easier on the eyes.

instead of informing the Murcun Sheeple as to why the dollar doesn't buy as much gasoline, or spreading the word of what could be a disastrous situation in Georgia.

He cheated on his wife. A dry-look pretty politician. Wow, who'd have figured? At least he's not a closeted gay (as far as we know). It's not news. It's a distraction from genuine issues.

http://www.debka.com/article.php?aid=1358

Israel backs Georgia in Caspian Oil Pipeline Battle with Russia

>Georgian tanks and infantry, aided by Israeli military advisers, captured the capital of breakaway South Ossetia, Tskhinvali, early Friday, Aug. 8, bringing the Georgian-Russian conflict over the province to a military climax.

>Jerusalem owns a strong interest in Caspian oil and gas pipelines reach the Turkish terminal port of Ceyhan, rather than the Russian network. Intense negotiations are afoot between Israel Turkey, Georgia, Turkmenistan and Azarbaijan for pipelines to reach Turkey and thence to Israel’s oil terminal at Ashkelon and on to its Red Sea port of Eilat. From there, supertankers can carry the gas and oil to the Far East through the Indian Ocean.

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Vet the servers before you launch anything new. Sheesh(tm)

I know that I love my daughter far more than I love Merck's stockholders and that there is no way I'd let her get a vaccine which has KILLED and injured some of its users.

That Merck was able to get Texas to briefly plan on mandatory Gardasil injections seems insane.

>Two words:

>Zbigniew Brzezinski.

>Enjoy Obama's foreign policy.

Slam and dunk.

And he is patently insane in the clinical sense of the word.

Rat in a drain ditch
caught on a limb
You know better, but I know him

Be very afraid.

Ah, regulation -- that wonderful word that allows bow-shoe-wearing church ladies and their Baptist-minister mates to take it upon themselves to protect the world from anything and everything.

This may well be a Homeland Security issue. Any inappropriate underwear ought to be confiscated at the nation's borders. In fact, that old Woody Allen movie where the new dictator announces that everyone must now wear their underwear on the outside of their clothing should be seen as prescient, a guiding light.

We need pinch-faced church-goers to divine hidden sexual (flare nostrils while pronouncing "sexual") connotations in children's clothing. In fact, we need full-on overt censorship. More than we already have, I mean.

The fact of the matter is that people simply cannot be trusted to make good fashion choices, and OUR CHILDREN ARE IN DANGER. THIS IS NO TIME TO THINK. WE MUST ACT AT ONCE. GOVERNMENT-ISSUED UNDERWEAR FOR EVERYONE.

The early-70s triumvirate of seminal sci fi films.

I wish that I were even a little bit excited about this animated film. But I'm not.

Loved the first film in 1977. I found a DVD of the infamous "Star Wars Holiday Special" which I'm looking forward to watching this coming holiday season.

But aside from my ancient letterbox VHS copy sans Lucas' later "improvements" I'm just not interested in sitting through any more half-baked fx-laden shit. Who knew that Jedis were boring intergalactic cops?

I'm hoping my kids aren't interested in seeing this film. "Clone Wars" seems like yet another serving of glop to sell plastic trinkets and video games based on what has become a claustrophobic franchise.

Overgrown gardens, beginning to collapse. The buoyant heat and enthusiasm of June and school letting out survived through July and half of August. Tourists leave. Now the fall and school loom on the horizon. Almost time to start building. But a couple more weeks of vacation and decay first.

At least where I live huge thunderheads tower over the distant mountains this time of year. Too early for brush fires, but there's a clear taste of change in the air. Summer is dying and that suggests the tragic or lost sound of, say:

Reptile, The Church, 1980s sometime: tragic, lost riff, failed romance.

Cowboy Song, Thin Lizzy, 1970s early: Down below the border, in a town in Mexico / I got my job bustin' broncs for the rodeo

1983, Jimmy Hendrix: Killer deep-aqua-blue guitar coupled with not just the end of summer, but the end of life on dry land... the glorious romantic suicide of late summer.

Summer has crested and the long smooth glide into the abyss of fall and winter begins.