http://dickdestiny.com/blog1 Aka George Smith e-mail: webmaster at dickdestiny Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:08:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Yesterday, Science magazine published a news article entitled: "Silicon Mystery Endures in Solved Anthrax Case." Here. "What about the silicon?" asks the piece. That question has confounded investigators throughout the probe into the 2001 anthrax letter attacks, which the U.S. government formally concluded in February. Scientists inside and outside the government say there ... http://dickdestiny.com/blog1/2010/03/19/anthrax-from-science-to-conspiracy/ People wonder if the US has lost its mojo. Well, yes. Yes it has. There is daily proof, often from the grassroots. Here is some, beyond satire -- school science projects in Delaware. "I surveyed like 50 people and asked them if they had ever been discriminated at an amusement ... http://dickdestiny.com/blog1/2010/03/19/student-science-choice-help-fat-people-or-shoot-sharks-with-emp/ Montgomery County school officials have not yet closed gaps in their computer system that allowed students at a high-performing Potomac high school to change dozens of grades using a device that can be bought from Amazon.com for $69. And other school systems, including Fairfax County, remain just as vulnerable, school ... http://dickdestiny.com/blog1/2010/03/18/achtung-cheaters-the-paller-scope-is-watching/ One of the headmen of the Cult of Cyberwar, James Lewis of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, admits the cult has overdone it in recent months. This in a short essay, "The Cyber War Has Not Begun," here. Lewis writes: No nation has launched a cyber war or cyber attack against ... http://dickdestiny.com/blog1/2010/03/18/cult-of-cyberwar-chieftain-admits-cult-has-overdone-it/ The most in-the-news duo of fuglemen for the US bioterror defense industry, the small operation known as the Graham-Talent WMD commission, will no longer be the Graham-Talent commission when its federal lease on life is not renewed this year. In short order. It couldn't come soon enough. During 2008-09 the Graham-Talent Commission ... http://dickdestiny.com/blog1/2010/03/18/bioterror-defense-industry-mouthpieces-left-forlorn/ The Cult of EMP Crazy can't let a week go by without getting into print. Anything will do -- stories in major newspapers and magazines, opinion pieces or long letters. Even when a journalist writes a weakly critical piece for something like Foreign Policy, as Sharon Weinberger did about a ... http://dickdestiny.com/blog1/2010/03/17/cult-of-emp-crazy-boffin-insulted/ Today, fresh from the predatory career-advice industry: Traits that will guarantee you that raise in the US corporate workplace. 1. Think for the Boss Find out the key initiatives your company president wants to achieve. If the president said in the annual report that he wants to increase profit by 15 percent at ... http://dickdestiny.com/blog1/2010/03/17/five-ways-to-a-better-lickspittle-you-get-that-raise/ There are fewer more poisonous articles than those which lash nabbed terrorists together in search of a trend or a growing problem. "Recent cases show challengeds of US terrorists," reads the latest, from Associated Press. Reporters Eileen Sullivan and Devlin Barrett lash together a collection of designated bad people in the news ... http://dickdestiny.com/blog1/2010/03/17/bad-people-everywhere-so-lets-have-endless-war/ The Univerity of Pittsburgh Medical Center has announced a new alliance for biosecurity, but without that old name. This is after it was compelled to separate from the old 'Alliance for Biosecurity' last year because of the taint of cronyism which news articles attached to it, the Department of Homeland ... http://dickdestiny.com/blog1/2010/03/16/crony-bioterror-defense-machine-announces-big-plan/ Today, this in from Yahoo News on absurd potential changes in public school history textbooks for Texas. The reason being, as goes Texas, so everyone else must suffer equally. A greater emphasis on “the conservative resurgence of the 1980s and 1990s.” This means not only increased favorable mentions of Schlafly, the ... http://dickdestiny.com/blog1/2010/03/15/john-bircherism/