Friday, October 18, 2002
Clayton Cramer discusses a disturbing increase in profound autism in California, as reported in the NY Times and Wired.
Quick summary: High tech enclaves draw together concentrations of high-functioning people, some of whom might have autistic tendancies, leading to an increase of profoundly autistic children. Historically such people did not find mates, but that is changing with the growth of geek on geek love.
Estrada questioned the approximately 18-hour lapse between the time the smugglers dropped the initial load and the time the Sheriff's Department was notified. He also questioned why Ranch Rescue members moved the bundles from the spots they were dropped to a place near the ranch house.And by that I take it to mean that the Sheriff could have gotten much better media coverage."Obviously they wanted the impact of this particular event to reflect favorably on their presence, and they wanted the media there before we got there," Estrada said. "It could have been handled much better."
For some reason this story reminds me of Super Troopers, and I just have to wonder if the land owner or law enforcement don't like anyone busting mules from their team.
Don’t believe me? Just ask the liberals. Even the Ithaca Times has picked up on the “no republicans welcome in Ithaca” vibe. In their recent “Welcome to Ithaca” issue they advised newcomers: “If you are Republican, get a thick skin. Ithaca has been liberal for about as long as anyone can remember, and …Republicans usually have a hard time here.”In other words, even the liberals are admitting we are a minority.
Which got me thinking some more.
As any good liberal can tell you, minorities are always repressed and discriminated against by the majority. So, obviously, we aren’t just a minority. We are a REPRESSED minority.
Thursday, October 17, 2002
Suddenly, everyone driving a white van around the nation’s capital, especially one with a ladder rack on the roof, is being treated like Public Enemy No. 1.
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The day police fingered a van with a ladder rack, “I had a lot of people give me funny looks,” said electrician Jim Mollenauer, who drives one. He even had a colleague ride with him to a Home Depot to experience the suspicious looks.
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Then when police added white vans to the lookout list - not quite like Byrne’s, but close enough - Byrne found herself on the other side of suspicion. As she dropped her two sons at her mother’s townhouse, two neighbors stared at her, muttering.“I was annoyed because I thought `Why is she staring at me?”’ Byrne recalled. Her husband told her it was the van. “I’m very aware of people looking at me now in the white van.”
Diplomacy with North Korea has scored a resounding triumph. Monday's draft agreement freezing and then dismantling North Korea's nuclear program should bring to an end two years of international anxiety and put to rest widespread fears that an unpredictable nation might provoke nuclear disaster.It gets worse after that, or better, if you enjoy seeing liberals being exposed as fools.
She also played down the significance of the weapon used in the shooting, an M4 assault rifle.At least not when it's"You should not get hung up on the word 'rifle,' " Hunt told reporters.
the FBI shooting an innocent
boy in the face, anyway.
"I know that many people think rifles are these huge, horrible guns."
A block away from Mrs. Hunter, a group of black-clad F.B.I. agents jumped out of a truck and swarmed a white van, guns drawn, yelling to to the driver: "Hands off the wheel! Hands off the Wheel!"And for some, I am sure, the police are doing far too much. How many times, on average, do you suppose each white-van-with-ladder-racks in DC has been stopped over the past two weeks?After they cleared him, they jumped back in their truck and zoomed off, presumably to stop another van. [I sure hope Christopher Braga is not working on any of these crews.]
For some people in these anxious suburbs, it seems, the police cannot do enough.
I wonder if Edmunds or Kelly Blue Book has started a depreciation of the local value of white DC area Astros, Safaris and Econolines?
[Another poster]For some reason, officials and the media seem loath to tie these types of things together.Now, why the police aren't talking about it, I don't know. I do know, from having lived there for a few years in the late 1990's, that Montgomery County Maryland is just about as liberal a place as you can find below the Mason-Dixon Line. I'm not willing to ascribe political motivations to the MCPD just yet.That reason: The coming national elections.
The media loathes tying this to terrorism because they fear it will drive voters to pull the lever for Republicans as a show of support for President Bush. [and the Bush Doctrine.]
I have no doubt that their tune will change after election day.
- Helsinki Shopping Center Rocked by Explosion, Twisted Sister
- Bill Maher Calls D.C. Sniper "Courageous"
- Brolin Nearly Ready to Relinquish Money Over Streisand Dumbfuckery
- Rumsfeld Congratulates Carter on Winning "Nobel Wuss Prize"
Wednesday, October 16, 2002
I doubt that they learned this any of this at school, at least not in the 5th grade. I figure kids are learning a lot of high end skills and information off of the web. A lot.
Example: I support a lot of my friends' and co-workers' PC's, VCR's, stereos, TV's ... you get the idea. I'm the tech guy, the engineer, the fixer and the installer.
Anyway, I got a call the other day for help from one of my coworker's kids, an eleven year old who had a question about setting up their wireless network. A good question. A high level question. A question I really had to think about to answer. A question that told me he really got it.
There is hope.
Hope for the next generation. Hope for the future.
Hope that we aren't going to lose entire generations to the squishy, fell-good pap offered up by soccer moms and NEAcolytes.
Hope that little up-and-comers will grow back the spines that government schools have been surgically removing since kindergarten. Hope that we might see future citizens who have more in common with our parents than they have with their parents.
Hope. A rare emotion on this page, for sure, but not a lost one.
Tuesday, October 15, 2002
OK, so I added the stains to the page, but the crossed out and fixed Zip+4 is real, as is the twice-folded, crumpled, bent, spindled and mutilated look of the paper on which the address is printed.
That pretty much sums up the investigation so far, though it might be appropriate to add some mustard stains to the Chief's shirt collar. Oh, that's right, he doesn't have a collar.
[Under normal circumstances will the Post Office even deliver mail to an address that has not so much as a name, "resident" or "current occupant" as part of the address?]
He said the rail car had been in Matamoros, Mexico just across the border from Brownsville, Texas, and had entered the United States on June 15. The car was held in Oklahoma until it arrived in Denison on Oct. 13.A rail equivalent to Asians in container ships.
The Washington Times had an updated piece on the Houston MACFU last week.HOUSTON — One of the biggest mass arrests in this city's history — 273 persons hauled in during a predawn raid in mid-August — has turned into a financial and emotional trauma for local law enforcement.The police chief might go to prison for perjury. The captain who led the raid might eventually be fired. Twelve other officers have been relieved of duty. And the city faces millions in potential legal costs.
The 5,300-man Houston Police Department is in turmoil, many aligning themselves behind either Capt. Mark Aguirre or Police Chief Clarence Bradford.
Also, the Houston Chronicle did a piece a few weeks ago detailing the growing number of civil suits that the city faces by victims of the MACFU.
Except perhaps Senior Assistant City Attorney Robert Cambrice, after his boss learned of the stupid things he was willing to say to a Chronicle reporter.Senior Assistant City Attorney Robert Cambrice said the city has not been served with any of the lawsuits filed so far. He could not estimate what the liability for the city could be."Each case has to stand on its own," Cambrice said. "If a person claims to see a doctor or psychiatrist over this and other factors."
He added, "But no one was beaten, shot or clubbed."
UO has a theory that the DC shooter has a (retail) work schedule that keeps him/her busy on weekends. UO provides a timeline of the shootings, and is asking managers in the DC area to compare the timeline to their work records from the past few weeks.
Monday, October 14, 2002
Great, I hope the Unabomber isn't reading this. Or the anthrax mailer.
On at least two occasions since the beltway sniper started terrorizing DC area residents, sports reporters at the Calgary (Alberta) Sun used "sniper" as descriptive praise for sporting acumen.
Ithaca College student Lucas Shapiro told the crowd that the college's Student Government Association last week voted by a 3-1 margin to approve a resolution opposing a preemptive military strike on Iraq, on the heels of a similar resolution passed by Ithaca's Common Council.
The D.C. sniper's (snipers') first shot hit not a person, but a window of a crafts store. Is there a message here? The internet experts on the art (craft?) of sniping make a point that .223 is not suitable for shots to be made through windows. The D.C. Sniper's first shot, presumably taken with a .223, passes through a window hurting no one, at a craft store.
So far as we know, not a single shot has 'missed' its mark since that first shot. Was that first shot truly off its mark?
Why no snipings on weekends?
- Religious observance.
- Poor work ethic.
- Lack of access to vehicle on weekend
- Out of town nookie runs.
- Lack of traffic to use as a cover.
- Football fanatic can't peel self away from TV.
- Allowing prey to get lulled back into a false sense of security.
- Sniper(s) has a weekend job.
- Travels extensively on weekend e-savers.
- Has to watch all the shows TIVO'ed while out sniping.
- Tend to "Honey do" list.
- Jet-cars, funny-cars, race-cars.
- Goes home on weekends to do laundry at parents.
- Appearing in community theatre production of "The Mikado."
comTuba Boy
