Andymatic

Month: September 2005

  • Federal DNA Database Advances in Senate

    With the title Violence Against Women Act, legislation is moving through the Senate that would: [C]reate a national registry of DNA taken from any person who has been detained by the police, even if the person is not arrested or convicted. The database is an amendment to the original legislation.

  • New Orleans Anthrax Labs

    Russ Kick again proves his mettle for scaring the shit out of me: (via Defense Tech) So with all the known and probable Level-3 biolabs in and around New Orleans, what’s happened to the infected animals? Are they free and roaming? Are they dead, with their diseased bodies floating in the flood waters? And what […]

  • US Can Detain US Citizens Indefinitely

    [T]he US Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled unanimously that José Padilla, a suspected al-Qaeda operative who US officials say was planning to carry out a terrorist attack inside the US, could be detained as an “enemy combatant” without any review by US civilian courts… Mr, Bush had been given such powers by the congressional […]

  • New Business, Old Business

    It has been awhile since I’ve written some of the more introspective parts of my blog. This is usually when my dad calls and says, "So how’s Andy doing?" The hurricane and ensuing tragedy and farce have really drained me. It really shows the deep divide between two schools of thought: That it is our […]

  • America Support You Freedom Walk

    From the site: The Freedom Walk is free and open to anyone who registers. Registration closes at 10 a.m. on Friday, Sept. 9, 2005. There will be no on-site registrations the day of the event. and:  Park Police Chief Dwight Pettiford says anyone who joins the march or the subsequent concert on the Mall without […]

  • Iraq War Leaves Us Over-Extended, Over-Exposed

    From Democracy Now:  And what it says is, while we’re fighting a war in Iraq, we have to depend on the charity of other countries, including donations like $25,000 from the tsunami-ravaged country of Sri Lanka or $1 million from Bangladesh, one of the poorest countries in the world. Those offers are being accepted because […]

  • FEMA Blocks Photos of Dead

    The US government agency leading the rescue efforts after Hurricane Katrina said on Tuesday it does not want the news media to take photographs of the dead as they are recovered from the flooded New Orleans area. The Federal Emergency Management Agency, heavily criticized for its slow response to the devastation caused by the hurricane, […]

  • FEMA Confuses Charlestons

    A South Carolina health official said his colleagues scrambled Tuesday when FEMA gave only a half-hour notice to prepare for the arrival of a plane carrying as many as 180 evacuees to Charleston. But the plane, instead, landed in Charleston, West Virginia, 400 miles away.  

  • Andymatic 011

    Here’s an interview I taped today with Daniel from The DC Unity Walk. September 11, 2005 in DC:  http://dcunitywalk.com/ Yeah so the hardware I bought kept crashing my computer and I couldn’t figure out why – it doesn’t work with Celeron processors. Guitar Center wouldn’t take it back so I’m selling the MF on eBay. […]

  • Jesse Jackson: ‘Refugees' Connotes Racism

    From Yahoo News: What do you call people who have been driven from their homes with only the clothes on their backs, unsure if they will ever be able to return, and forced to build a new life in a strange place? I’d call them refugees. Jesse Jackson says: It is racist to call American […]