Sherlock says

Friday, 2 April 2004

All your base are belong to us could have been worse. It could
have been:

Western calendar 2101 fight started.

Captain: Just that how it did, word you bore!

Engineer: No person it seems that it could set up the explosive according to.

Communication operator: Captain! Communication entered!

Captain: No!

Communication operator: Vision comes to the main screen.

Captain: As for you!

CATS: Don’t you think? Busily so is, the ladies and gentlemen.

CATS: With the cooperation of the Federal Government troop, everything received your base.

CATS: Also your warship, gradually probably is end.

Captain: Foolish…!

CATS: You appreciate in your cooperation.

CATS: Before making the life which at the very most remains and is little, important…

CATS: Ha-ha-ha-ha…

Communication operator: Captain…

Captain: In ZIG all machine takeoff instruction!

Captain: Already, only you entrust to them.

Captain: Our future desires…

Captain: It is the ZIG!

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10 steps to solve the problems with America

Saturday, 27 March 2004

If we only can find the courage to deal with these 10 issues, America will become a paradise.

#1 The media. They’re out of control. Advertising pays for them to print and air so they are never completely honest or fair. They’re paid not to be. They shouldn’t just be allowed to say anything they want because, as we’re learning the hard way, they often fabricate the news. There needs to be more government oversight of media and what people are allowed to say to the public in general.

#2 Hand guns. These weapons are too dangerous and too easy to get. It needs to be illegal to own guns.

#3 There is a chance that terror will return to the American shores, and soon. We need a law to ensure that troops can mobilize anywhere in the US and count on having housing and board available.

#4 It’s too difficult for local and national police to fight terrorism and crime when they can’t even investigate it. We need to have sweeping changes to make it legal for the police to investigate crime. Why do the criminals have more legal protection than the victims?

#5 In addition to it being too difficult to investigate, it’s too difficult to interrogate. Think of all the lives that could have been saved if only the courts and police were allowed to compel testimony. We must make getting the truth easier if we ever expect to have truth.

#6 Trials. Trials are bungled or plea-bargained down to nothing because they are required to run too quickly. There’s too much pressure and too much expense. If a defendant cannot afford an attorney, why should the taxpayers pick up the tab? Self-representation is a great American tradition and it should become law. Doing something in a hurry means doing it half-assed. If it takes something a little longer to come to trial so much the better.

#7 Juries. Juries are often not educated well enough to understand the decisions they make. They’re not professional court employees and we can’t expect them to rise to that level. Jury trials have glutted the court system and are slowing America from ever having a real sense of justice. Judges are experts and already make decisions on their own or with their peers. Jury trials are unnecessary and unreliable—they should be abolished.

#8 Crime is worse than ever in America. Yet it’s very low, almost unheard of, in many Islamic countries. The only real difference is the penalties for crime. If we want crime to end, we have to be realistic about what it will take. A drug dealer kills his customers—murder—and destroys the fabric of society. There is already a death penalty for senior drug traffickers. There should be a death penalty for street level drug dealers. High fines and corporal punishment for misdemeanors and lesser felonies would also help return America to the garden.

#9 We need to spell out the rights of everyone to protect us all. Only when we have a formal, legal list of exactly what is and what isn’t a person’s rights will we be safe.

#10 Finally, the states have too much power. Look at this gay wedding mess. It shouldn’t be legal to go to whores in one state, get high in another, and get married to your same-sex cousin in a third. We need to create a normalized code of law for the whole country and stop letting maverick states create their own little chaotic fifedoms.

Hope for the persistence of America

I hope. I hope you didn’t. I hope you’re not that stupid. I hope their rhetoric is as transparent to you. I hope you see that even dropping one of them means losing the other nine becomes that much easier. I hope you see that it’s a tapestry that’s beautiful but aged and wearing thin in spots. Don’t go pulling threads in it—you will find much more unravels than you expect and that weaving it back together isn’t possible.

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If they were up your ass you’d know

Thursday, 25 March 2004

Barnaby says a lot of mean things. Sometimes he says them to me!

One of the things he says a lot is: if it was up your ass you’d know. He says this whenever you say something like, “I don’t know where I left that CD.” Even if you’re looking for the CD to give it to him! He’s mean.

WMDs found

The first time he said it to me I didn’t even get it. What? Why would I know then? I finally got it. He was insinuating that if the lost object were up my ass it would be easier to locate since my head was presumably up there already.

I didn’t like it once I got it. I didn’t even think it was that funny. I hope you can forgive me, Barnaby.

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Strangers have said to me unprompted

Tuesday, 23 March 2004

Please don’t kill me, sir.
Boise, ID. A 20 year-old male skater type. No idea why he thought I might. I didn’t.
What’s your fucking problem?
’Burque, NM. I had some copier toner in my eye. The homophobic moron thought I was winking at him.
Oh, we got a real badass here.
UNM. He and his football player buddy were verbally harassing CM and me, and wanted it to go further. I took off my earrings and watch. CM sat grinning. They backed down.
Oh, my God. You’re beautiful.
Downtown Seattle. Her friend physically stopped her from following me down the street.
Fuck Reagan.
Venice, Italy. Don’t know what reaction he expected—he was probably pleasantly surprised.
Hey, Barnaby.
UNM. My name isn’t Barnaby. We don’t even look alike. Except maybe that we’re both white, you hypocritical prick.
Can I see some ID?
Cops. All over the US, Lord love ’em. If this is the treatment an edge of the curve hair cut gets you, I can’t imagine what it’s like having an edge of the curve skin tone.

I have said to strangers, with prompting

Seems like an awful long walk for such a short fight.
’Burque, NM. To CM’s little brother who inquired if I’d care to step outside.
You’ve got a pretty big fucking mouth for someone your size.
Downtown Seattle. Turned out he had a HWP automatic though. The only loss on the balance sheet today.
It would probably fit too.
Arroyo Hondo, NM. The operant had just offered to “stick his dick” in Cort’s ear as a way to settle a debate.
Can I help you, officer?
’Burque. To the cops who coasted their cruiser behind me one night for a block, perhaps thinking to get me to run and put the beat down on me. When I stopped and walked to the car to ask the question, they gunned it out of there.
Are you sure you want to do this?
UNM. To 5 drunk frat guys who politely invited me to tussle. The only semi-sober one mangaged to head them off and corral them back at the House.
I fucked your mother.
All over the place. I have no idea why men get so upset at me that their mothers have such difficulty remaining upright.
But truthfully it’s because I just can’t stand screwing around. Do you want to fight, or what? I’ve got things to do.
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Nathan Hale Cross Country girls caught skinny dipping

Tuesday, 23 March 2004

Three teen girls—I’m guessing 16—just jogged down the road took off their clothes and got in Thornton creek at the fish weirs. In approximately that order. Two Caucasians, mostly blond, and an Asian girl. All long hair.

It was quite half-baked as far as skinny dipping goes. But still, as that rocky beach in LA can attest, it’s difficult to just throw down the robes and go for it.

You might like photos but that’s not appropriate; even taking them would be illegal and probably with good reason.

So why write about it? Just so the girls have a chance of finding out someone witnessed their little expedition. That’s why.

Nathan Hale Cross Country team unless I miss my guess.

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Today is the day

Monday, 22 March 2004

Later today the Supreme Court of the United States of America will hear the Supreme Court of Nevada case #38876; Larry D. Hiibel v. Sixth Judicial District Court of Nevada.

It doesn’t seem like a big deal maybe. It renders to this.

Show me your identification.

The Supreme Court decides today if that phrase has legal power against the law abiding citizens of the USA. In most of the rest of the world, it does. They’re not free. We’re not either but we’ve been so and we’re still mostly free. For example, we’ve been free in the past to not respond to a demand of “Show me your papers.” All the German accents it connotes.

Today we find out if the USA is still special in this regard or if we all might as well be living in Sweden or Costa Rica because there’s not much fucking difference beyond the weather anymore.

A ruling in Hiibel’s case is expected by July.

And the loser is…

06/21/04 Today Anthony Kennedy, William Rehnquist, Sandra Day O’Connor, Antonin Scalia, and Clarence Thomas decided US citizens do not enjoy a constitutional right to refuse to reveal their identity when requested by police.

Combined with the 1968 “Terry stop” ruling which decided that cops don’t need probable cause to detain you, cops now have the right to know who you are on the spot without any real reason whatsoever. This likely means—since IDs are easily forged or forgotten—cops will eventually be able to take DNA samples and fingerprints without a warrant too.

I’m very tired with my country today.

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Referring countries

Friday, 19 March 2004

Visitors to Sedition·com between September 2002 and March 2004 came from the following 155 countries.

Countries (alphabetically)

  1. Albania
  2. Algeria
  3. Andorra
  4. Angola
  5. Antigua and Barbuda
  6. Argentina
  7. Armenia
  8. Australia
  9. Austria
  10. Azerbaijan
  11. Bahamas
  12. Bahrain
  13. Bangladesh
  14. Barbados
  15. Belarus
  16. Belgium
  17. Benin
  18. Bermuda
  19. Bhutan
  20. Bolivia
  21. Bosnia and Herzegovina
  22. Brazil
  23. Brunei Darussalam
  24. Bulgaria
  25. Burkina Faso
  26. Côte d’Ivoire
  27. Cambodia
  28. Cameroon
  29. Canada
  30. Chad
  31. Chile
  32. China
  33. Colombia
  34. Costa Rica
  35. Croatia
  36. Cuba
  37. Cyprus
  38. Czech Republic
  39. Denmark
  40. Dominican Republic
  41. Ecuador
  42. Egypt
  43. El Salvador
  44. Eritrea
  45. Estonia
  46. Ethiopia
  47. Fiji
  48. Finland
  49. France
  50. French Polynesia
  51. Gambia
  52. Georgia
  53. Germany
  54. Ghana
  55. Gibraltar
  56. Greece
  57. Greenland
  58. Guadeloupe
  59. Guam
  60. Guatemala
  61. Holy See
  62. Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China
  63. Hungary
  64. Iceland
  65. India
  66. Indonesia
  67. Iran (Islamic Republic of)
  68. Ireland
  69. Israel
  70. Italy
  71. Jamaica
  72. Japan
  73. Jordan
  74. Kazakhstan
  75. Kenya
  76. Kiribati
  77. Kuwait
  78. Kyrgyzstan
  79. Lao People’s Democratic Republic
  80. Latvia
  81. Lebanon
  82. Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
  83. Liechtenstein
  84. Lithuania
  85. Luxembourg
  86. Macau
  87. Madagascar
  88. Malaysia
  89. Maldives
  90. Malta
  91. Mauritius
  92. Mexico
  93. Monaco
  94. Mongolia
  95. Morocco
  96. Myanmar
  97. Namibia
  98. Nepal
  99. Netherlands
  100. New Zealand
  101. Nicaragua
  102. Nigeria
  103. Northern Mariana Islands
  104. Norway
  105. Oman
  106. Pakistan
  107. Palau
  108. Panama
  109. Papua New Guinea
  110. Paraguay
  111. Peru
  112. Philippines
  113. Poland
  114. Portugal
  115. Puerto Rico
  116. Qatar
  117. Republic of Korea
  118. Republic of Moldova
  119. Romania
  120. Russian Federation
  121. Rwanda
  122. Saudi Arabia
  123. Senegal
  124. Singapore
  125. Slovakia
  126. Slovenia
  127. Solomon Islands
  128. South Africa
  129. Spain
  130. Sri Lanka
  131. Sudan
  132. Suriname
  133. Sweden
  134. Switzerland
  135. Syrian Arab Republic
  136. Taiwan Province of China
  137. Thailand
  138. Togo
  139. Trinidad and Tobago
  140. Tunisia
  141. Turkey
  142. Uganda
  143. Ukraine
  144. United Arab Emirates
  145. United Kingdom
  146. United Republic of Tanzania
  147. United States
  148. Uruguay
  149. Uzbekistan
  150. Venezuela
  151. Viet Nam
  152. Yugoslavia
  153. Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, the former
  154. Zambia
  155. Zimbabwe

Countries (in rank of total visitors)

  1. United States
  2. Japan
  3. Canada
  4. United Kingdom
  5. Germany
  6. Australia
  7. France
  8. China
  9. India
  10. Spain
  11. Italy
  12. Philippines
  13. Netherlands
  14. Republic of Korea
  15. Brazil
  16. Belgium
  17. Switzerland
  18. Saudi Arabia
  19. Austria
  20. Mexico
  21. Sweden
  22. Singapore
  23. Finland
  24. New Zealand
  25. Malaysia
  26. Turkey
  27. Poland
  28. Israel
  29. Portugal
  30. Denmark
  31. Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China
  32. United Arab Emirates
  33. Iran (Islamic Republic of)
  34. Slovenia
  35. Ireland
  36. Egypt
  37. South Africa
  38. Norway
  39. Taiwan Province of China
  40. Argentina
  41. Greece
  42. Czech Republic
  43. Romania
  44. Thailand
  45. Kuwait
  46. Russian Federation
  47. Chile
  48. Pakistan
  49. Indonesia
  50. Hungary
  51. Venezuela
  52. Croatia
  53. Peru
  54. Estonia
  55. Lithuania
  56. Bulgaria
  57. Lebanon
  58. Yugoslavia
  59. Algeria
  60. Viet Nam
  61. Slovakia
  62. Jordan
  63. Iceland
  64. Colombia
  65. Malta
  66. Cyprus
  67. Oman
  68. Ukraine
  69. Bahrain
  70. Kenya
  71. Latvia
  72. Sri Lanka
  73. Trinidad and Tobago
  74. Puerto Rico
  75. Qatar
  76. Bosnia and Herzegovina
  77. Costa Rica
  78. Nigeria
  79. Dominican Republic
  80. Luxembourg
  81. Bangladesh
  82. Guam
  83. Guatemala
  84. Bahamas
  85. Syrian Arab Republic
  86. Tunisia
  87. Morocco
  88. Nepal
  89. Mauritius
  90. Barbados
  91. The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
  92. Uruguay
  93. Bolivia
  94. Bermuda
  95. United Republic of Tanzania
  96. El Salvador
  97. Belarus
  98. Republic of Moldova
  99. Zimbabwe
  100. Georgia
  101. Namibia
  102. Macau
  103. Liechtenstein
  104. Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
  105. Albania
  106. Ethiopia
  107. Ecuador
  108. Eritrea
  109. Ghana
  110. Papua New Guinea
  111. Maldives
  112. Jamaica
  113. Azerbaijan
  114. Panama
  115. Armenia
  116. French Polynesia
  117. Brunei Darussalam
  118. Paraguay
  119. Gibraltar
  120. Fiji
  121. Myanmar
  122. Andorra
  123. Senegal
  124. Northern Mariana Islands
  125. Cameroon
  126. Monaco
  127. Mongolia
  128. Lao People’s Democratic Republic
  129. Cuba
  130. Sudan
  131. Antigua and Barbuda
  132. Madagascar
  133. Cambodia
  134. Côte d’Ivoire
  135. Angola
  136. Togo
  137. Kazakhstan
  138. Bhutan
  139. Greenland
  140. Solomon Islands
  141. Holy See
  142. Burkina Faso
  143. Uzbekistan
  144. Kiribati
  145. Rwanda
  146. Benin
  147. Zambia
  148. Suriname
  149. Guadeloupe
  150. Nicaragua
  151. Kyrgyzstan
  152. Palau
  153. Chad
  154. Uganda
  155. Gambia
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The Secular Commandments

Friday, 19 March 2004

Thou shalt not bend thy knee.
Thou shalt not inherit dirt.
Thou shalt remember all bleed red.
Thou shalt speak aloud all words thy knoweth.
Thou shalt leave the children out of it.
Thou shalt have no God in common with another.
Thou shalt not commit multiple homicide.
Thou shalt not twist thy tongue.
Thou shalt not look away.
Thou shalt not duck.
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What I did on my summer vacation

Wednesday, 17 March 2004

I promised a report based on the pages views of this: I am selling a nuclear bomb… I’m not in the mood to write it but a promise is a promise. I wish my dead aunt Dotty had felt that way while living. All I wanted to do was go riding. She promised.

Countries trying to destroy America

These are the 39 countries who want to either obtain nuclear weapons or just kill Americans (47 visits were not traceable to a country).

Egypt, Australia, Sweden, Russian Federation, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Pakistan, Bulgaria, Norway, Canada, China, South Africa, Singapore, Finland, Ireland, Portugal, Greece, Latvia, Turkey, Italy, Philippines, Germany, Republic of Korea, Iceland, Belgium, New Zealand, Mexico, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China, Maldives, Yugoslavia, Netherlands, Brazil, Japan, France, Croatia, Poland, Malaysia, Israel, India, and Denmark.

You think you know who your friends are.

Nuclear weapon FAQs

The most asked questions were as expected (454 visitors had no discernible or English query). A total of 162 distinct questions brought visitors in 1,103 times between the time the page went up and now.

how to make a nuclear bomb, and variants (503 times).

nuclear bombs for sale, and materials variants (35 times).

fucking americans (2 times).

how to make a nuclear bomb to kill bush (2 times).

yankee pig dogs (2 times). I like being called yankee pig dog. It has the same level of acerbic mordancy that I’m sure billionaires feel when being called capitalist swine by kids doused in patchouli.

i’m going to bomb america. Listen, boys… I know the FBI is looking out for #1 but you’re not going to catch anyone this way. McVeigh didn’t have a website.

The punchline is too obvious and too tiring to cover up. The number one position for trying to find out how to build, buy, or borrow nuclear weapons is the 40th country on the list. The United States.

Raw data

Now, the who, the how many, and the selected highlights.

United States, 600.

We seem to know a bit about them already. Surprising number of references to actual models.

  • ajax bomb
  • b61 nuclear bomb
  • b61-7 nuclear weapon
  • buy nuclear bomb -book
  • do you sell h bombs
  • how to get a nuclear bomb
  • how to make a nuclear bomb
  • kill americans bomb
  • kill all americans (whoops! how did that slip in?)
  • nuclear bombs in america and why they are good (optimism over spring, I imagine).
  • triton icbm
  • uranium hexafluoride dirty bomb

United Kingdom, 154.

Our best friends. Yay for friendship!

  • dirty bombs
  • how to make a nuclear bomb to kill bush
  • i want to buy a ss-n-20
  • i want to buy nuclear weapons
  • i want to buy plutonium
  • i want to buy weapons grade plutonium
  • i’m going to bomb america
  • nuclear bombs and where to buy them
  • where can i buy a nuclear bomb?

Canada, 58.

Close reliable neighbors are so important.

Australia, 47.

So like us.

No country (secret shoppers), 47.

  • b61-7 nuclear weapon
  • buy a nuclear bomb
  • how do i make a nuclear bomb
  • how to make a nuclear bomb
  • how to make a nuclear bomb to kill bush
  • how to make nuclear bomb
  • i want to buy weapons grade plutonium
  • i want to buy weapons grade uranium
  • nuclear bombs for sale

Finland, 16.

Well, if I were Finnish I’d be thinking about getting some protection too.

  • fucking americans

Netherlands, 15.

Hookers and heroin aren’t distraction enough?

India, 12.

We’ll be outsourcing our own production soon so you’ll get all the schematics you need.

Italy, 10.

E tu?

Belgium, 10.

Still mad we call them French fries, eh?

New Zealand, 9.

Hey, we prop up your economy with fantasy epics!

Japan, 9.

Well, that’s a fine konichiwa.

  • fucking americans

Denmark, 9.

Still and forever rotten.

China, 8.

They don’t ask much because…

  1. Don’t need to—have plenty already.
  2. Risk being shot in the back of the head for visiting my site.

France, 7.

One is tempted to ask: And how about the Rwandans?

Israel, 7.

Well, I’m sure it’s difficult to spell in Hebrew too. Or Bedawi, Fellahi, and such.

  • nuclear detonator (the only difficult part of an a-bomb)
  • israel nuklier strategic
  • israel nyucler
  • newclear bombs
  • newclear weapon

Germany, 6.

You had your turn turns. Let someone else play.

Also ran

The runners up in this beauty pageant.

Brazil, 5.

Sweden, 4.

Republic of Korea, 4.

Pakistan, 3.

Surprisingly poor showing.

Norway, 3.

Oi san—what a brother does to a brother.

South Africa, 3.

What?

Portugal, 3.

What? What?!

Philippines, 3.

Switzerland, 2.

That’s not very neutral of you.

Ireland, 2.

Greece, 2.

Mexico, 2.

Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China, 2.

Malaysia, 2.

Egypt, 1.

Surprising lack of Internet cafés in Egypt.

Russian Federation, 1.

Bulgaria, 1.

Singapore, 1.

Latvia, 1.

Turkey, 1.

Iceland, 1.

Maldives, 1.

Yugoslavia, 1.

Croatia, 1.

Poland, 1.

Not gonna do it.

Conclusion

You can’t call me a liar, anyway.

07/28/2004 The second report is here.

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Non sequitur mit Spargel

Sunday, 14 March 2004

There were two Germans in the St Georg hotel bar in Bavaria, Regensburg, yelling at each other about Hitler. That much translated. I think it’s safe to say it was a pro and con discussion since no one would raise his voice trying to decide if Hitler was more or less evil than Stalin.

Never before in my life did I care that German is the only Western European language with which I can’t rub two sticks together. Would’ve traded all the crêpes à l’orange in Paris to have been able to understand everthing said.

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