Remember all the pre-2004/2006 election hype about how the Republicans would be re-instating the draft if they were re-elected? Well we just passed the 2006 elections and sure enough there is a bill being introduced to re-instate the draft ... but not by Republicans. This is Charlie Rangel's (D-NY) 3rd attempt to re-instate the draft actually:  From Newsday.com and the AP - "Rep. Charles Rangel, a fierce opponent of the Iraq war, on Thursday called for a ne...

     Just a follow-up to this post . Cisco had in fact been in negotiations with Apple for a long time over the iPhone name and was prepared to make them a deal so Apple could use it. Cisco was extremely surprised by Apple's unveiling of the phone when they hadn't closed the deal though. As I said earlier I think this will cost Apple a bunch of cash and will likely delay the launch of their phone unless they rename it or settle quickly.      I really ...

     Full Disclosure : I am not a Christian, Muslim, Jew, Shintoist, Buddhist or adherent of any religion whatsoever (unless beer is a religion?).      Are we extending the term "hate crime" to include inanimate objects? More importantly are we extening it to include only non-christian inanimate objects? Mary covered in dung and surrounded by porn is not only O.K. it is state sponsored "art".  Same goes for "Piss Christ".  Someone throws a...

     I already have an iPhone. I have had it for two weeks already. Yupper, sitting right on my desk at home. "How can that be?" you might ask, since Steve Jobs only announced the iPhone today at Macworld 07 ?     I will tell you how. Apple doesn't, didn't, and likely won't ever make a product called iPhone. Cisco and it's subsidiary Linksys did, do, and likely will make the only iPhone (it's a VOIP phone). They have owned the copyright on iPhone sinc...

     I wonder if sheepherders in Anatolia ever had to deal with being accused of fearmongering against wolves?           Grey the Shepherd "Hey Bobby! That Wolf is getting real close to your sheep! Looks mighty hungry too!"           Bobby the P.C. Shepherd : "Shut up Grey, you're just rascist against Wolves! Most Wolves don't kill sheep, they just live peacfully in the f...

     I will continue to flog this deceased equine because the hits just won't stop coming. This week from The Guardian : "An undercover investigation has revealed disturbing evidence of Islamic extremism at a number of Britain's leading mosques and Muslim institutions, including an organisation praised by the Prime Minister." "Secret video footage reveals Muslim preachers exhorting followers to prepare for jihad, to hit girls for not wearing the hijab, and to creat...

     A few days ago I posted an article about the commentary from the Kos Kidz regarding Michelle Malkin's upcoming trip to Iraq. The response was mainly positive with only two exceptions: By an Anonymous Coward- "First of all. learn to SPELL. People judge you two ways. First, by the way you look, l then by the way you speak (write). They can overlook your lack of beauty, but if you speak as an idiot, that is the way that they will think of you. As an idiot that ...

Wibu wants to see hacker's skills in action and they are willing to pay for it . "Wibu-Systems USA is challenging hackers around the globe to take their best shot at cracking their encryption technology. It's a winner-take-all contest, and the prize is $40,000. It is slated to begin at 6 p.m. EST Jan. 31 and end at 5:59 p.m. EST March 14—or when someone defeats CodeMeter, Wibu's dongle-based anti-piracy tool, and shows the company how it was done. " My only question is how long ...

     Many people took me to task over rasing the issue of the UK's steady march towards Dhimmitude in these articles . Today Mr. Sarfraz Manzoor's piece in the Guardian argues that the real problem is that the UK simply isn't Muslim enough .      Regarding the London bombings by Muslim men : "the dominant response to the London bombings was confusion over how anyone raised in this country could commit such atrocities... Whether the danger...

      I try and read the Daily Kos on accasion to keep some persective on things from the extreme Left side of the aisle. Today I didn't get very far though. The actual post isn't bad, it is the commentary from the Kos Kidz that really makes me want to vomit.      For those who don't know, Michelle Malkin is a blogger who is going to be imbedded in Iraq . Before her imbed application was approved Eason Jordan (formerly of CNN fame) offered...

     There is a great article discussing Alan Reynold's new book, "Income and Wealth" over at TCS daily that prompted me to remember this. As a long time employee of Domino's pizza I already knew that America's "poor" are actually quite rich. Let me briefly explain.      Each week as a Domino's driver I would routinely delivery the most pizza to trailer park homes, rent-controlled welfare housing, and low-income apartments. Thats right, not to the ho...

***Full Disclosure : I, Greywar, have wholeheartedly despised the most recent crop of General and lesser officers in general for quite some time. I am in fact quite biased on this issue.***      That being said I am less than stunned and mainly saddened to see this from Army Chief of Staff Schoomaker :   "The Joint Chiefs of Staff have openly expressed their objections to the surge option. General Peter Schoomaker, the Army Chief of Staff, has wa...

     For the folks who don't know : I have moved job sectors and am back in government services again. Specifically I am maintaining the TLA stacks for the Army's NIPR (just read that as internet) connected istallations. As such I have many accounts (somewhere around 100) on many different computer systems. The Army has recently moved to a new password system that requires a 15 character password with 2 uppercase letters, 2 lower case letters, 2 numbers, and 2 speci...

     Should there be any lingering doubt as to the massive influence wielded by the "Eunuch Nations", President Ahmadinejad of Iran reacted to the august body's latest U.N. "resolution" in the following manner :      "The United Nations, which unanimously passed a resolution imposing sanctions on Iran, have been "dismissed" by Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who calls the resolution a "piece of paper" and also says that its in "the best inte...

     Some commentors have taken me to task over two of my recent articles highlighting the possibility that the UK and Europe are slowly drowning under a slow but rising tide of Politically Correct Dhimmitude. Some of them seem almost desperate to believe that I and others are exaggerating, even to the point of mounting a "defense" that goes something like this (paraphrased): "It isn't bad that Christmas references are off limits in many cities in the UK be...