Horseshit.

Dr. Rice insisted that Mr. Bush had had no real choice but to invade Iraq. "The president's judgment to go to war was based on the fact that Saddam Hussein had for 12 years defied the international community, refused to account for large stockpiles of weapons," she said in an interview with Matt Lauer on NBC's "Today" program. "Nobody could count on the good will of Saddam Hussein to tell us that he did not have anthrax or botulinum toxin. He didn't even try.'

But Condi, my dear, that's a far cry from the "Imminent Threat" of the Yellow Cake Sate Of The Union. Lies followed by lies.

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Y'all remember the ISS, right?

NASA has pretty much abandoned it to the Russians.

The head of Russia's space program, Yury Koptev, has also expressed frustration that the United States has yet to give a date for the resumption of U.S. shuttle flights to the International Space Station. A U.S. Space Agency's web site says the next shuttle flight won't take place before mid-September.

NASA grounded the shuttle early last year after the U.S. ShuttleColombia disintegrated on reentry into Earth's atmosphere, killing all seven astronauts on board.

Russia has been handling all cargo and manned flights to and from the ISS ever since.

[From VOA News]

Nothing like a Bush announcing a Mars program to really screw up the U.S. manned space program.

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BoingBoing brings us the story of what has to be the stupidest computer mod EVER.

G5-to-PC modding. This guy's parents gave him a dual-CPU Mac G5 for Christmas, which wouldn't run any of his Windows apps, so he gutted the box and installed the guts of a PC, then donated the Mac parts to a friend who is going to try to jam them into his old G3 chassis.

It's a good thing my parents don't know anything about computers, because I'm sure they would be really angry if they knew what I did. I have to say that I'm happy - I can keep on using XP.

The board is a Biostar Micro ATX, with a 2200 Athlon XP with an Adaptec 29160 SCSI controller and two 36 GB Atlas 10K V hard drives. I am stuck using the onboard video because there is no AGP slot. I had no money for a SATA controller and quite honestly, I swear by SCSI (the G5 comes with SATA drives).

Link

Oy.

UPDATE: It was all a joke, actually.

From Andy the "G5 Killer":

I am sure you are wondering why this all took place.

Are the pictures real? Yes. Is it my own G5 case that has been cut and hacked? Yes. Did I give away two G5 2GHz processors (IBM PC 970)? No! So what happened?

I got a free G5 shell from a buddy of mine and pulled a prank on a Mac loving friend. He got so upset. I wrote up a little story, my imagination and warped sense of humor kicked in. I sent it to OC.com just to see the reaction. I honestly didn't think it was going to be posted. I cannot believe how fast or how far it has spread on the internet. There are an amazing number of people who are emotionally attached to inanimate objects such as computers. Mac fans seem to be much worse that I ever expected. The G5 is amazing, I would never dream of really doing that ;)

1:22:54 PM    

Spirit is with us again!

NASA's troubled teen of a Mars rover, Spirit, is back in communication with Earth and sending photos to JPL.

Click on the photo at right to make it BiG.

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It's impossible to not sound apocalyptic, because, well, Bu$hCo is all about The Apocalypse.

3) Iraq is a fine launching point for the planned Christian missionary infiltration of the last great heathen empire.

The new American empire is Christian. This is the mission, and George Bush was elected to fulfill that mission. The job is already well under way --

the continent of Africa is becoming Christianized at an astonishing rate, and missionaries are swarming around the globe, carrying seed packets and Bibles. The wave of religious conversions is comparable to the sudden impact of Islam in the world 14 centuries ago.

With that goal -- global political and religious hegemony -- it's not surprising that the Bush administration has little time for things like individual civil liberties and balancing the budget. It is, as he said once, a crusade.

God help us all, that is if He isn't too busy making Haliburton even more wealthy and powerful.

12:35:33 PM     leave/read comments []

Or, "Size matters!"

"Oh, I don't care about all that," she said. "I just want to get him a really huge plasma."

If there had been subtitles under this conversation, they would have said: "I don't care about viewing. I care about status."

This woman was about to drop $20,000 on a screen that was ridiculously oversized for her TV room- but didn't care, because it was ridiculously chic.

Sort of sums up America's Supersized attitude towards everything.

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