Sunday, July 21, 2002

The Future According To Bush. L. Neil Smith at The Libertarian Enterprise - The Future According To Bush - Neil imagines the future that GW and friends are creating, something they don't share enough brain cells between them to see, even if they wanted to, which is unlikely. [tle] Stay in your place, do what's expected of you (and only what's expected) and you will prosper -- before taxes. But dream the wrong dreams, hope the wrong hopes, wish the wrong wishes, sing the wrong songs, and you will vanish -- to the relief of your neighbors, and the greater glory of the State -- like that useless old relic, the Bill of Rights. [End the War on Freedom] comment () trackback ()  5:54:09 PM     British Report Blames Rifle Problem. The government has come under pressure to scrap the modified SA80-A2 rifle after troops reported it had misfired and jammed during anti-terrorist operations. [...] According to The Sunday Telegraph newspaper, the report blamed the problems on soldiers not cleaning and maintaining the weapon properly. [FirearmNews.com] This sounds exactly like what happened when the M16 was first issued, and got many American soldiers killed by jamming in battle. The US government tried to blame the solderis then, too, but eventually were forced to admit there were problems with the rifle and the issued ammunition. It wouldn't surprise me if the same sort of thing is going on with the SA80A2. comment () trackback ()  4:25:42 PM     Sybase Solves Financial Services Industry USA PATRIOT Act Compliance Challenge. Sybase Solves Financial Services Industry USA PATRIOT Act Compliance Challenge - This is incredibly scary. GW's "know your customer" is way above what we fought against in Klinton's time. [pournelle] [End the War on Freedom] Between this and Larry Ellison's support for a National ID (using Oracle software, of course), it seems that both of the major database companies are run by government collaborators. comment () trackback ()  4:20:40 PM     Israelis Back Down on Deporting Kin [AP World News] Headline aside, what actually happened was that the Israeli Attorney General determined that deporting relatives of exploding Arabs was illegal. I don't see how it would have helped, anyway. They would only have been "deported" to Gaza, thus shifting where the terrorists were concentrated. What's the point of that? The Israelis don't really have the option of really deporting people, since not a single Arab country will accept Palestinian refugees. comment () trackback ()  4:14:16 PM

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