Month: March 2003

  • "I was wrong."

    This was very touching. Take a read.

  • Finger pointed at Iraq over missiles

    Turns out that those missiles the Iraqi’s are blaming for the civilian deaths are actually failed Iraq air-defense missiles. The question I have is, are the peaceniks going to aknowledge that this is just another (perhaps intentional) play by Saddam to tug at the world’s heartstrings? I sure as hell know the Arab media wouldn’t…

  • Eurythmics Use Ferrets Lay Cable For Y2K Gig

    LAUNCH: ” [Ferrets] were utilized by organizers of Greenwich, England’s Party In The Park millennium eve concert — featuring the Eurythmics, Simply Red, Bryan Ferry, and the London Symphony Orchestra — to lay sound, lighting, and television cables through underground tunnels for the event, reports the BBC.“

  • Morocco offers US monkeys to detonate mine

    UPI: A Moroccan publication accused the government Monday of providing unusual assistance to U.S. troops fighting in Iraq by offering them 2,000 monkeys trained in detonating land mines. The weekly al-Usbu’ al-Siyassi reported that Morocco offered the U.S. forces a large number of monkeys, some from Morocco’s Atlas Mountains and others imported, to use them…

  • Support our troops!

    Check out the shirts I designed for the pro-war rally Sunday: http://www.cafeshops.com/defendamerica

  • this is kinda cute: MSNBC:

    this is kinda cute: MSNBC: “K-Dog, a bottle-nose dolphin belonging to Commander Task Unit trains with Sgt. Andrew Garrett in the Arabian Gulf. These units are working to ensure shipping lanes are clear of mines for humanitarian relief.”

  • La-La Land Economics

    La-La Land Economics March 23, 2003 Recently, the professor of my economics class discussed the “flaws of markets,” claiming, “markets are only more efficient than state run intervention when they approach perfect competition.”  She then addressed public choice theory, the idea that government bureaucracies are inefficient because bureaucrats tend to care mainly about their budget…

  • Peaceniks in Iraq 'Shocked back to reality'…

    UPI:”A group of American anti-war demonstrators who came to Iraq with Japanese human shield volunteers made it across the border today with 14 hours of uncensored video, all shot without Iraqi government minders present. Kenneth Joseph, a young American pastor with the Assyrian Church of the East, told UPI the trip “had shocked me back…

  • A note to my audience:

    If you have been reading my blog and would like to take on my ideas, I recommend two Yahoo Groups I frequent (and moderate): The NEW A&M Objectivist Club Discussion List (for philosophy)http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TAMUObjectivismClub/ ..and my own Politics and Economics Discussion List (for politics and such)http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ProFreedom/

  • This is great:

    http://komo1000news.com/audio/kvi_aircheck_031003.mp3The best line:“In 10 years, will people shake your hand and say “Thanks for my freedom”, or will they shake my hand and say “Thanks for my freedom”? I think you and I already know it.”