Volume 2 Issue 122

August 14, 2003

Summertime

Planting SAM's on people, Arnold staffs up, and John Edwards needs fashion advice

UPDATE, 7:00PM: So now we see the Bush Administration's new energy policy...just turn it off. Deregulation strikes again! Is it any wonder we can't get the power on in Iraq when we can't even keep it on here?

Crime adverted...or crime planned? After the original shock of the arrest in New Jersey this week of a man trying to bring a surface-to-air missile into the country went away, some began noticing that the government's case looked a lot like a set up...and that without the government not only supplying the buyer and the product, it may not have happened. Is this "glorious victory against the teeth of terrorism" just a set up?
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/wnt/World/missile030813_sting .html

If they would just stop shooting one another, the crime rate would go down: Months after the DC police chief was given a 1% raise for every 1% increase in crime (17% over his tenure), the city is in chaos as the murder rate skyrockets. Five shootings were recorded last night alone -
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56781-2003Aug14.html

It's Hot: Over 3,000 have now died in France during their worst heat wave ever -
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/08/14/paris.heatwave/in dex.html

And in Iraq, US troops are facing a new killer...the 120 degree heat, which has killed at least 2 US GI's so far, and maybe as many as 5 -
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A56016-2003Aug13

California, Land of the Crazy: Well, it's signed, sealed, and delivered. 135 candidates will be on the October 7 recall ballot -
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-me-recall14aug14,1,7007807.story?coll=la-home-headlines

Here's the list -
http://www.sfgate.com/gate/special/pages/2003/recall/

In a strange move, Arnold Schwarzenegger has brought Warren Buffett, a liberal Democrat, onto his campaign team as economic adviser. This is certain to not sit well with the conservatives already pissed at Schwarzenegger for running -
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-fi-buffett14aug14,1,6519214.story?coll=la-home-headlines

After having Schwarzenegger announce on his show, Jay Leno has decided to invite all of the candidates to appear on the Tonight Show in September -
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A56047-2003Aug13

Look Who's Running for President: The John Kerry cheesesteak controversy continues!
http://www.philly.com/mld/dailynews/6528601.htm

Bad John Edwards Photo of the Day:

Can anyone get me a new tie?

Vanishing History: The wreck of the White Star Liner Titanic is disintegrating on the ocean floor much quicker than expected -
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/americas/08/13/titanic.deterio rates.reut/index.html

Computing in the future? While e-mail has been part of university culture for almost 15 years now, and instant messaging for over 5, one school has a system developed in the 1980's that could be a glimpse of the future. In fact, Dartmouth students even report that cell phone usage has dropped to almost nothing due to the ubiquitousness of the "blitzmail" system -
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/14/technology/circuits/14blit .html?8hpib=&pagewanted=all&position