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Well, as details come pouring out about the latest “accident” involving United States planes mistakenly bombing civilians in Afghanistan, it seems that we have a couple things afoot:

1. Please, please! Don’t read the first reports that come out about ANYTHING overseas at this point. The articles with so-called confirmations of 250 dead at a wedding, etc. seem grossly overstated.

2. Even with all of our technological advances, smart-bombs, and other devices, we still have human error and spur of the moment judgements being made. Of course, this ends up being our downfall in some circles, but in reality, it just brings us back down to earth with the rest of the world.

I think the problem with incidents like this is that they get minimized with the standing line of “there’s a war going on over there, and these things happen.” which is just bullsh-t. Let’s be realistic here. Towns or villages as a whole are being blown up. Not once or twice, though. This is quite a few times. I’m so surprised that Karzai and the new Afghan regime hasn’t kicked us out of their country yet for these “slip ups”.

I understand that it seemed that our pilots were in danger, shots had been fired into the air in celebration or something, depending on where you read or who you ask, but there comes a point where we have to realize these things are happening more often than not. And they *will* be publicized in a big way, because the newshounds like myself in the U.S. aren’t getting any scoop on finding Osama or destroying al-Qaeda cells or whatever, so whenever there’s a mess up, it makes front page news on the Times.

Fodder for this article here via MSNBC

via drudge: al qaeda warns u.s. to be ready for another attack. posturing or reality?

update

now i’m usually a good conspiracy guy, and here’s a blatant one. reuters references alneda.com in the article above. it doesn’t come up – some message like “there is no web site configured here at this time” comes up.

and if you go to visit whois services at verisign, this domain comes up as an error. fascinating. i’m sorry, but that’s *someone* stopping these sites from working. which means someone has also seen that i’ve been there…. oooh, i’m really scared. next you’ll be telling me that there are these little text files on my computer telling people where i’ve been surfing! or that people can enter my computer through the internet. or that people can get a hold of my email address and send me bothersome messages too.

it’s a great sunday morning, and i’m going to head out and run some errands and go to riverfest in red bank with p/c. should be a good time, although it’s always ridiculously crowded because it’s the best thing to do in the area. i’ll let you know if i see anyone like jon bon jovi, etc., as he’s a resident just across the river. yeah, like he’s going to be strolling the streets of red bank looking for a good place to get zeppoles or something. mmmm, zeppoles.

pitched a no-hitter last night with mike mussina on playstation against the orioles. should have been a perfect game, but loser nomar garciaparra on my yankees team threw a ball away letting someone get on first. twas very upsetting. and then costas and howard reynolds don’t even say anything about my masterpiece! how upsetting is that. you would think i could at least get a little recognition from a system with a little bit of a.i. to it.

more later, peoples.

you know, you’d think at this point in society we’d technologically be able to have bridges that would close correctly even with expansion/contraction. apparently not – these folks in connecticut spent some four hours or so on a train today waiting for such an event.

wow – at least around here land disputes usually just end up with people egging their neighbor’s car or something… i didn’t think it was commonplace for gunmen to open fire and kill 26 innocents.

uh oh – you knew it would happen, but our bandwidth is beginning to run thin. forget your remote control for the vcr opening the garage door – now things are on the same wavelengths as your wireless devices! read about it here.

the germans thrashed the saudi arabian team today 8-0 in world cup action, apparently breaking a whole bunch of records in doing so.

oh no – spidey’s on steroids too? nahh, just a good little article at espn’s page 2.

just got back from seeing “the sum of all fears” with crazy ewok. it was actually pretty good, and ben affleck actually played a pretty good jack ryan. except for the fact that the story seems a little out of whack now because they made the movie take place in ‘02, and that he is younger in this flick than he was in all the other clancy movies, it was darn good.

after seeing the previews a bunch of times, i knew exactly when the bomb scene was coming, and it was just like my friend at work had said at a press viewing he’d gone to a few weeks ago – dead silence – it was pretty dramatic, but went over pretty well.

obviously not knowing if anyone else in the theatre had been down at the ground zero area on that horrible day in september, i don’t know if they all thought the same way about anything, but i don’t think that the people who put the movie out were “wrong” to do so. i think that’s just the politically correct police bearing down on us all repeatedly. frankly, while some p/c things make sense, some of them are flat out annoying. we might as well just go all out and move into a police state already.

okay so i just *destroyed* the blue jays on playstation like 23-12 or something. i put up 10 in the first. pretty crazy.

we’re having a *massive* thunderstorm at the moment and i’m probably going to shut down shortly, which i never do, but this is really bad.

we’ll see.

change of tune

anyway. just surfing around and had come across the daniel pearl video that had been on and off the web. i’m totally a first amendment person, but i’m not sure how i feel about watching it now that i just did. i think it was worse because he speaks about things for a few minutes before anything happens. i’m surprised it was cut up like it was though. they didn’t show a lot of the “impact” if you will, but a little bit after it.

do groups really feel that they will get what they *want* by doing things like this? it just doesn’t work on the whole, don’t people know? at least not with americans. we don’t give in and we probably never will. sometimes i think people just don’t get it.

i don’t know if any fellow google answers ™ people are out there, but is it just me or is it really frustrating to try and make any money doing this, when 9000% of the time someone answers the questions for free within the comments. i mean, you *could* still answer the question, but that would be cheezy, and i’m just not that way. i know that the comments need to be there, but i mean, there’s a difference between people doing things to be nice, and people doing things as a paid service. i dunno, perhaps i’m just being too capitalistic or something at the moment.

haven’t had time to post until now as i get home. long day, but a good one. gotta love those fridays. went out with folks from work tonight and to the sheryl crow show. was a little different than the last time, but it was a good deal. gotta love free concerts in city parks =)

today was really busy, have a ton of things to prepare for next week. fabulous, the bear, djm and i went to this place called rosario’s down near the south end of the manhattan and had some great grub. i had a pasta and calamari dish which i was amazed i could eat all of – and that was the small size!

in other news, i apparently have a poison ivy type thing going on in the ankle area that seems to have subsided since earlier this morning. i’m usually good at stuff like this dying off quickly, thankfully. plus, the calamine (sp?) lotion does the trick when you reach itchy-land.

not sure what’s up for the weekend yet. have to do some errands, pay some bills, and other random things like that. otherwise, no big plans, unfortunately.

onesome. healthy. tell us about one thing you did for yourself that’s healthy – and not just physical, mental and emotional health matter, too!

hmmm… i think i definitely keep myself mentally sane by doing things like posting on my blog, or just talking to my friends whenever i have something irking me. i hate keeping random stuff inside that doesn’t need be, which tends to make me more verbose sometimes than need be, but oh well. we’ll see how it all pans out. as for physically healthy, i think i’m pretty “in tune” with myself overall, and have pretty good (knock on wood) sickness avoidance…

twosome. wealthy. what in life makes you feel wealthy in your heart?

i’d have to say having a lot of really great friends, both from way back in like elementary school up to now as well as through my last couple jobs… it’s kind of cool to have friends to just hang out with whenever, people to talk to randomly who actually understand you, et al.

threesome. wise. share your favorite proverb or motto… or just make one up yourself

i’m sure i could come up with eight or nine. but my favorite fake “moral” to a story was one that i came up with while writing a story in spanish class we had to make a video for. most people did something dramatic, but you could do music, or cooking, or whatever. ours was:

“no comes pollo frito en el lunes del marzo.” – which is “don’t eat fried chicken on mondays in march.”

always remember that. one day, it’ll become apparent. or not.

for those faithful readers out there, you might remember me posting about a man in new jersey crashing his car in the early morning hours into a mcdonald’s, killing some folks inside. well apparently he was trying to commit suicide – you can read about it here, via metafilter.