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Bill Owen

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Thursday, March 27, 2008 05:07 PM

@ Danielgree - I have an amazing offer for you

Dear Mr. Gree

My Name is SADIQ ABDUL, an Iraqis National from the Kurds an Accountant

in Oil refinery in Durra. I am presently in Amman, Jordan Capital since

U.S.strike Iraqi, few days to the expiration of the 48 hours Ultimatum

before the strike.

I moved $45.5M dollars call-deposit to a Security/finance Company Abroad

for safe-keeping. In my capacity as the accountant to the oil refinery in

durra, I was the only person aware of this financial transaction

call-deposit with the security company to be released to whom I will

introduce to them as the beneficiary of $45.5M dollars call-deposit the

oil installation company is been owed since I cannot travel to any part of

the country as l was decleared wanted by the government.

Now that my movement is been monitored for me to travel Abroad, I am

seeking for your assistance if i can present you as the beneficiary of the

call- deposit to the security company for the release of the deposit to

your Account or any of your destination as part of the money being owed to

you by Durra oil Refinery Company Iraq.

As soon as this deposit is released to your Account by the security

company to any of your destination,I will then inform you on how you will

safeguard my share{70%}for investment in your country as l have decided to

offer you {30%}.

On your acceptance on this transaction I will send to you the deposit slip

Certificate for the call deposit to you as the beneficiary to be release

to you as part of the refunds owed to you by Durra Oil Refinery company

Iraq.please endeavour to contact me through my alternative

E-mailaddress:abdulsadiq55@shuf.com

Of course this email is no more true than the nonsense you are spouting, but I am sure that you will email Mr. Sadiq immediately because you are obviously a credulous fool.

Please tell us in detail with references how things are better in Iraq. The goddamn power is on in Baghdad less than a hour a day. The water is filthy. What's better? I must have missed it?

Tell all the dead people that things are better because of your vaunted surge.

Why aren't you there? How many more people must die for your febrile dreams?

Thursday, March 27, 2008 06:08 PM

The Surge is working!

Okay so the civil war is over, but the war on the US continues. Must be "Baathist party remnants" or something.

This just in today.

US diplomats instructed to take cover in Baghdad after attacks

Associated Press

The State Department has instructed all personnel at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad not to leave reinforced structures due to incoming insurgent rocket fire that has killed two American government workers this week.

In a memo sent Thursday to embassy staff and obtained by The Associated Press, the department says employees are required to wear helmets, body armor and other protective gear if they must venture outside and strongly advises them to sleep in blast-resistant locations instead of the less secure trailers that most occupy.

"Due to the continuing threat of indirect fire in the International Zone, all personnel are advised to remain under hard cover at all times," it says. "Personnel should only move outside of hard cover for essential reasons."

"Essential outdoor movements should be sharply limited in duration," the memo says, adding that personal protective equipment "is mandatory for all outside movements."

"We strongly recommend personnel do not sleep in their trailers," it goes on to say, offering space inside the Saddam Hussein-era palace that is the embassy's temporary home as well as room at an as-yet uncompleted new embassy compound and a limited supply of cots.

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/03/27/america/Iraq-Embassy.php

Thursday, March 27, 2008 06:41 PM

"The cease-fire is over; we have been told to fight the Americans..."

This article says the fighting is more over the future face of Iraq than sectarian.

There are indications that the unilateral ceasefire declared last year by the nationalist cleric Muqtada al-Sadr is collapsing. "The cease-fire is over; we have been told to fight the Americans," one militiaman loyal to al-Sadr told the Christian Science Monitor's Sam Dagher by telephone from Sadr City. Dagher added that the "same man, when interviewed in January, had stated that he was abiding by the cease-fire and that he was keeping busy running his cellular phone store."

http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/80580/

Thursday, March 27, 2008 07:23 PM

@ Sysprog - Epic Fail

I tried to run that program you wrote and it took down my whole network. It obviously has some serious bugs in it! LOL

Thursday, March 27, 2008 07:34 PM

@ Sysprog - C.O.B.O.L

So COBOL now stands for Crazy Old Bastard Off Line

Yup, that McSame!

Thursday, March 27, 2008 08:16 PM

@ nabalzbbfr I know a good psychiatrist....

Man, you sound seriously disturbed, "stalwart Iraqi military". "Stalwart", who the hell are you? Rudyard Kipling?

Even Kipling lost the taste for blood and empire after his son was killed in WWI.

What will it take for a sap like you?

And you want to go into Iran? How will that help exactly? You're nuts!

Thursday, March 27, 2008 09:04 PM

Inside tech: Gizmos, people and big ideas

"Machinist: Inside tech: Gizmos, people and big ideas"

It is? I don't need to see this kind of National Enquirer crap here. I am not a prude. The internets are awash with this stuff. It's boring, old 'news" and completely uninteresting.

Cheap, trashy article with some failed lamer attempts to relate it to tech. Nothing goes away on the web? In the case of this post, that is most unfortunate.

Friday, March 28, 2008 07:54 AM
Original article: Modern slaves

Inmate Labour

Is not slavery. No, that was hyperbole on my part. Actual slaves don't have any rights. Inmates do have some.

I should have said it is forced labour. Yes, inmates have a "choice" but can and are punished for not working. Most Americans still think that inmates have some kind of life of luxury. This is simply not true. Prison life in America is nightmarish.

http://www.alternet.org/rights/80440/

China is often criticized for using inmate labour.

Friday, March 28, 2008 10:16 PM

"Whorehouse"

Women selling sex for money = whores.

Farhad selling sex for money = Journalist?

If this article was really about website design packages, why do we get T&A and not screenshots of the app in question?

I really have to stop reading this blog, it just pisses me off.

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