2008 June

(CNN) — Sen. Joe Lieberman, the Democrat-turned-Independent who is a strong supporter of Republican John McCain’s White House bid, suggested Sunday the United States will likely face a terrorist attack in 2009.
What I find most interesting about this is that I’ve been hearing about it for a long time in other-than-mainstream news circles. Now [...]

Mufon sent this fellow a video of an unidentified flying object taken from an airplane.
Here’s a news report from the United Kingdom. Southampton has been the site of a number of UFO reports lately… [both from About.com - Billy's UFO blog]
Then there’s the Chicago O’Hare sighting. It was seen by many, both on the ground [...]

I mentioned that we’re virtualizing our servers at work. We just got done a five day jump-start program and are slowly doing what is necessary to reach our goals (see page above for details on how that went).
Since I run linux as my main OS, lack of a linux Virtual Center client poses a [...]

I’m not entirely sure what it was today but the Bad Driving Brigade was out in full force.  They behaved reasonably well on the way in but on the way home all bets were off.
Pennsylvania has a new sport: light jumping.  I’m not exactly sure that’s what it’s called but if you’re stopped at a [...]

I’ve already mentioned my great love of local news. I don’t think I realized how inane it was until I saw it again after years of getting my news from other places.
My wife was watching local news when I got home from work today. They went to commercial, which featured the female lead [...]

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain unveiled details of his economic policy today, telling an audience in Ohio that if elected he would support a real estate tax holiday for beer heiresses.
Sen. McCain said that his tax holiday plan could lead to a revival for the U.S. economy, arguing, “The key to this country’s economic [...]

Nearly three weeks after security vendor Symantec released a free tool to clean up PCs crippled by the Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) update, Microsoft issued a fix that should reestablish lost Internet and wireless connections.   networkworld.com]
It’s ok - take your time.   Get it right.   We’ll wait…..

A new study by a nonpartisan research group shows that lawmakers’ stock holdings in various companies doing business with the Defense Department totals more than $196 million, earning the congress critters millions in profits individually since the start of the war in Iraq.
I believe that this is what’s referred to as a conflict of interest. [...]

I just read this online. It seems to have a ring of truth about it. That having been said, I’d ask you to read it critically and do some investigating for yourself. It is a fact that we were not told the truth about 9-11. I suspect there’s enough [...]

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran has discovered an oilfield within its southwestern Farsi oil block, an oil official said on Saturday, without giving details of estimated reserves.
Uh-oh… I hear in the distance the subtle swell of the drums of war… in DC they’re frantically trying to come up with any plausible-sounding reason to invade. This [...]