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Ebola-style killer virus sweeps Afghan border. This story is a few days old, I missed it. Perhaps you didn’t…

Suspicious Incident at Md. Subway. Behold as you darkest fears may well be unfolding before your eyes… Imagine an enemy that you can’t see, that can strike where you won’t know, using weapons that you don’t know exist, or even if they are there.

I’ve finally updated the software page for October, damned those terrorists.

Rush looks thin, trim and deaf. Wow, that is like perfect irony in action. Although I wish no harm to anyone and in a superstitious manner, I am not glad this has happened. However, I am currently rethinking my position as an agnostic.

Grief fills psychics’ waiting rooms. ”My feelings say we’re OK right now,” Frattalone said, eyes narrowed and voice lowered…. “However, I’m afraid for Jennifer Aniston’s baby…” (no, not really… I said that).

The 2,988 Words That Changed a Presidency: An Etymology

Oil flowing again after repairs made to trans-Alaska pipeline. Guess what? The distributors of petrol never even blinked from their artifically compressed $1.25 a gallon…. Were this to happen 3 months ago, we’d have been paying $5.25 a gallon with lines going around the corner. Not to mention the fact that this asshole just showed a major weakness in our infrastructure, to god knows who.

Ridge Is Sworn In as terrorism Czar. Let’s hope the war on this goes better than the war on drugs has. I hate to fund high profile positions that are completely ineffectual. God speed to Gov. Ridge.

CNN.com – Powell reassures allies after strikes – October 8, 2001 U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell plans to travel to India and Pakistan at the end of the week… Holy crap I wish they wouldn’t do that. And, by the way, has anyone seen Dick Cheney alive and walking around? I think that his head is being kept alive in a jar up in an orbiting command center in a geosyncronous orbit at 80,000 feet. Christ, I’ve seen Elvis more than this guy… where is he?

Anger spills into Pakistan?s streets Violent protests erupted in several Pakistani cities on Monday as Muslims opposed to the U.S.-led attacks on Afghanistan?s regime took to the streets. Even as Pakistan?s military leader, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, insisted on television that the nation was behind the strikes on the Taliban, angry mobs in the northern city of Quetta clashed with police and set fire to several buildings, including the local offices of UNICEF, the U.N. agency that distributes aid to children. Violent protests also rocked the Pakistani cities of Karachi and Peshawar, and the disputed region of Kashmir and the Gaza Strip.

Oh shit. Anthrax again.

I was reading back on the Metafilter Comments from 9/11 about the WTC/Pentagon attacks, chilling reading. What an archive.

Bin Laden Says U.S. ‘Full of Fear’ and that American will never dream of security until the infidels armies leave the land of Muhammad. The tape shows Bin Laden in the daytime (obviously before the attacks) and was aired on an independant network.

Enduring Freedom is underway as missles fly. American and British forces unleashed a punishing air attack Sunday against military targets and Osama bin Laden (news – web sites)’s training camps inside Afghanistan (news – web sites), striking at terrorists blamed for the attacks that murdered thousands in New York and Washington. Reports of power failures in Kabul are also coming in.

Bin Laden family member breaks silence. Speaking out for the first time, one of the 54 children, siblings of Osama Bin Laden tells a very interesting story. Sent in by hambone.

The Ig Nobel Award Winners were announced today. From the Annals of Improbable Research (AIR). The awards recognize research that “cannot or should not be reproduced.” Here’s some examples:

Category Unknown – Awarded to the creators of UnderEZ, an undergarment created to “eliminate the foul odor caused by flatulence.”

Astrophysics – Awarded to Jack Van Impe for determining that Black Holes fulfill all the technical requirements for Hell.

Technology – Awarded to the person who applied for and received an Australian patent for the wheel in 2001.

Public Heath – Awarded to a NIMH scientist for determining that nose picking is a common activity in adolescents.

Wow, I cleaned my VCR today, what a hoot… It worked and I did not electrocute myself. Of course, you’d think that is not a big deal but, I saved myself about $50.00. Do you have to clean a DVD player (no, I don’t have one yet… can you imagine?)

NYC attack could cost $105B. “The attack on the World Trade Center will cost New York City as much as $105 billion over the next two years, the city comptroller’s office said Thursday, in the first official estimate of the costs from the Sept. 11 attack.”

Recorder catches passengers’ fight with hijackers. Analysis of the voice recordings recovered from United Flight 93 confirm that passengers rushed the cockpit and fought with hijackers before the plane crashed in Pennsylvania.

Pakistan Accepts Evidence Against Bin Laden. Okay, I’ll accept that unquestioningly. I’ve come to realize that no matter what evidence they have, it is probable that bin Laden is responsible. However, this does not mean that there weren’t other factions involved… I’m sure there was.

Russian Plane with 76 Aboard Plunges Into Black Sea. A pilot of an Armenian plane flying in the area said he saw a passenger plane exploding in the air and disintegrating into the sea.

Miami Herald: Surging heroin flow could fund Afghans’ war effort. The Taliban may be flooding the market with opium and refined heroin in an attempt to fund a military defense. Well no shit sherlock, that’s the only and biggest export that they have… To to tune of 85% of the world opiate supply. Can any paxtonland readers that are junkies report any price differences that they are seeing in heroin? Thanks!

Pakistan Says Afghans Face U.S. Attack and End of Taliban. The president of Pakistan said today that he believed that the United States would take military action against Afghanistan and that the Taliban government’s days in Afghanistan were numbered.

Gary wrote a shoot Osama game as well, this time you are required to toss grenades at him. Great fun… thanks Gary.