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Decoy:
I'll hook the search script back up as soon as I get the chance. ok?
(Sun Feb 16, 2003 - 4:54:49 pm)

Decoy:
Perfect bowling attire, by the way.
(Sun Feb 16, 2003 - 4:55:24 pm)

Queenie:
if you could do it for just like five minutes, then take it back down, that would be so amazingly great
(Sun Feb 16, 2003 - 4:58:06 pm)

Queenie:
would capri pants and that vest be good for bowling?
(Sun Feb 16, 2003 - 4:59:09 pm)

Queenie:
do the kids still wear capri pants? i'm so out of touch.
(Sun Feb 16, 2003 - 5:00:46 pm)

Capri pants?
(Sun Feb 16, 2003 - 5:07:28 pm)

France? Fuck them Frogs. Even the Krauts are smart enough to know when to kowtow the Yanks. 95 pence may not be a pound, but it's still better than a Euro....
(Sun Feb 16, 2003 - 7:42:07 pm)

Decoy:
Upon investigation, it appears that the ISP took the search script off the server. We are searchelss at least until I find a backup and restore it. Sorry, Queenie. The deep-web search engines must have been abusing it.
(Sun Feb 16, 2003 - 8:04:36 pm)

Heruka:
I had one of those military meals tonight. Those are pretty good. The drink stuff was a little rough though...
(Sun Feb 16, 2003 - 8:59:22 pm)

Decoy:
You did huh?
(Sun Feb 16, 2003 - 9:13:37 pm)

Myk Murphy:
where does one find military meals, and why would one seek this out? there had to be something better in the pantry than that.
(Sun Feb 16, 2003 - 9:18:53 pm)

Myk Murphy:
well, i'm going to bed early. too much snow, too much shovel, all that stuff.
(Sun Feb 16, 2003 - 9:19:47 pm)

Heruka:
I'm preparing for the apocalypse. The big war. When I have to live in the woods. Off the land. When most of humainty has been wiped out. Actually, I'm testing prepared foods for the big trip. When out at sea, the last thing anyone will want to do is cook a meal in a rolling, bouncing boat. These, just add hot water type stuff.

(Sun Feb 16, 2003 - 10:19:03 pm)

Queenie:
boy that was a fun photo shoot at the bowling alley. stephanie dragged in all bleary-eyed, hadn't slept all night kind of rock star style, it was a riot. she's a great model.
(Sun Feb 16, 2003 - 10:33:17 pm)

:
More than a third of subjects in the study recalled that theme-park moment -- impossible because Bugs is not a Disney character -- after a researcher planted the false memory.

Other research, of people who believed they were abducted by space aliens, shows that even false memories can be as intensely felt as those of real-life victims of war and other violence.

The research demonstrates that police interrogators and people investigating sexual-abuse allegations must be careful not to plant suggestions into their subjects, said University of California-Irvine psychologist Elizabeth Loftus. She presented preliminary results of recent false memory experiments Sunday at the national meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Loftus said some people may be so suggestible that they could be convinced they were responsible for crimes they didn't commit. In interviews, "much of what goes on -- unwittingly -- is contamination," she said.

The news media's power of suggestion also can leave a false impression, Loftus said.

"During the Washington sniper attacks, everyone reported seeing a white van," she said. "Where did it come from? The whole country was seeing white vans."

A key, researchers said, is to add elements of touch, taste, sound and smell to the story.

In the Bugs Bunny study, Loftus talked with subjects about their childhoods and asked not only whether they saw someone dressed up as the character, but also whether they hugged his furry body and stroked his velvety ears. In subsequent interviews, 36 percent of the subjects recalled the cartoon rabbit.

In another study, Loftus suggested frog-kissing incidents that 15 percent of the group later recalled.

"It is sensory details that people use to distinguish their memories," said Loftus, who has conducted false memories experiments on 20,000 subjects over 25 years. "If you imbue the story with them, you'll disrupt this memory process. It's almost a recipe to get people to remember things that aren't true."

In other research presented Sunday, Harvard University psychologist Richard McNally tested 10 people who said they had been abducted, physically examined and sexually molested by space aliens.

Researchers tape-recorded the subjects talking about their memories. When the recordings were played back later, the purported abductees perspired and their heart rates jumped.

McNally said three of the 10 subjects showed physical reactions "at least as great" as people suffering post traumatic stress disorder from war, crime, rape and other violent incidents.

"This underscores the power of emotional belief," McNally said.

(Sun Feb 16, 2003 - 10:40:24 pm)

Decoy:
Brrr.
(Mon Feb 17, 2003 - 5:22:20 am)

Bring it on, you little fuckwad:
(CNN) SEOUL, South Korea -- In another verbal barrage aimed at Washington, North Korea says it will win any nuclear conflict with the United States thanks to Pyongyang's "army-first" political system.

"Victory in a nuclear conflict will be ours and the red flag of army-first politics will flutter ever more vigorously," a North Korean state radio broadcast said, as reported by South Korea's Yonhap news agency.

"Our victory is certain and the future ever more radiant."

North Korea is the world's most heavily militarized society, with a million-strong army and a military budget expenditure of over $5 billion annually -- equal to a little over 30 percent of North Korea's gross domestic product, according to CIA figures.

(Mon Feb 17, 2003 - 5:27:31 am)

Decoy:
Its like he's my twin brother:
"The official news agency KCNA reported that Kim has flown fighter aircraft, written operas and shot 11 holes-in-one in his first try at golf. "
(Mon Feb 17, 2003 - 5:31:54 am)

Chewing Wax:
It's amazing, it was only four years ago and you chuckle heads are rewritting history as if you weren't there. The inspectors were pulled out, not expelled. Get your facts right at least.
http://www.fair.org/extra/0210/inspectors.html

(Mon Feb 17, 2003 - 5:40:51 am)

Chewing Wax:
Don't you guys, well... don't you kind of remember? It was only a little more then four years ago. What color was the sky back then? Or are you waiting for the Fox News Network to tell you?
(Mon Feb 17, 2003 - 5:58:52 am)

Froupie:
the world's a mess. sigh.
(Mon Feb 17, 2003 - 6:22:00 am)

Decoy:
I know I read that. It may be wrong, but I didn't make it up;) Sorry you had to stay up all night researching that :)
(Mon Feb 17, 2003 - 6:25:49 am)

Decoy:
Should I upgrade my Tivo sub to Series2? They're letting original owners transfer their sub. So tempting.
(Mon Feb 17, 2003 - 6:26:52 am)

Decoy:
An August 8 USA Today article that described how Saddam Hussein is "complicating U.S. plans to topple his regime" repeated a common myth about the history of U.S./Iraq relations. Reporter John Diamond wrote that "Iraq expelled U.N. weapons inspectors four years ago and accused them of being spies." But Iraq did not "expel" the UNSCOM weapons inspectors; in fact, they were withdrawn by Richard Butler, the head of the inspections team. The Washington Post, like numerous other media outlets, reported it accurately at the time (12/17/98): "Butler ordered his inspectors to evacuate Baghdad, in anticipation of a military attack, on Tuesday night."
(Mon Feb 17, 2003 - 6:28:17 am)

Decoy:
USA Today. Fucking complimentary hotel copy. Always accept free beer, never accept free news.
(Mon Feb 17, 2003 - 6:28:58 am)

Decoy:
search on google: weapons inspectors expelled iraq

There's a huge number of pulications that seem to still think they were "expelled."

Just to terrify you more on your news habits - This quote if from the US STATE DEPARTMENT website:

"But in 1998, the inspectors were expelled and, because they have been unable to investigate the nuclear programme, uncertainty about its progress grows with every passing year.

In February George Tenet, the CIA director, insisted that Saddam Hussein "never abandoned his nuclear weapons programme". "
(Mon Feb 17, 2003 - 6:33:31 am)

Decoy:
Next, I'll be checking on the definition of expelled ...
(Mon Feb 17, 2003 - 6:34:17 am)

Decoy:
http://usinfo.state.gov/regional/nea/iraq/
(Mon Feb 17, 2003 - 6:35:40 am)

:
Date: 14th century
1 : to force out : EJECT
2 : to force to leave (as a place or organization) by official action : take away rights or privileges of membership
(Mon Feb 17, 2003 - 6:41:30 am)

Tony Blair:
Good morning. Look, we all believe Saddam has weapons of mass destruction. Now if we don’t attack him, then he might not use them, and in that case we’ll never know whether he’s got them or not. And you know, that’s not a risk I’m prepared to take. Besides if we do conquer Iraq, and remove Saddam Hussein, there’s a chance we could win the Nobel Peace Prize, and you know, frankly, isn’t that something worth going to war for?
(Mon Feb 17, 2003 - 7:01:57 am)

Myk Murphy:
if they left and weren't allowed to come back, it's de facto expulsion. a sort of exile, no less. at this point, i believe the question is "how many angels can dance on the head of a pin?" ...we're straying off the point. oh, and no one gets a nobel for kicking out tyrants. you only get one by giving tyrants a big kiss. rabin and arafat, jimmy carter... you get the idea.
(Mon Feb 17, 2003 - 8:14:26 am)

Detlef Sping:
"the future ever more radiant" Oh yah it'll be radiant alright.
(Mon Feb 17, 2003 - 9:36:40 am)

Myk Murphy:
i was thinking the same thing. heh heh.
(Mon Feb 17, 2003 - 9:40:36 am)