1 Fuck Allah. How can anyone justify killing in the name of God? What sick backwards culture.

2 Fuck you whoever you are. I'm not a racist. Stop impersonating me.

3 Fuck Allah. Praise Bush. Long live The Jawa Report. Rusty is God!!!!

4 I have got to stop posting in this blog. It's getting too hot around here. I'm a marked man.

1 Indeed.

2 My best to Glenn. Looks like she was a great lady and with a great smile too.

3 So sorry for your loss, Glenn.

1 Whew ! Howie, good thing Rusty was there to remind YBP to let you up, otherwise you and old St. Pete would be meeting face to face. That would have been a little awkward to explain how you died. "Yeah, I was getting RE-baptized and they kinda forgot to let me up" I can see St. Peter rolling around on the clouds laughing his rump off. Hey, maybe that's where thunder really comes from, St. Peter ROFLAO when someone dies in a really stupid manner.

2 You forgot the part where your fellow Muslims issue a death sentence for being dunked.

3 Yikes. Now that Howie has left islam, it is now the duty of good muslims everywhere to kill him. Sorry, but them's the rules, apparently.

4 Yes you can divorce them quite easily but you know they are rather expensive to replace. When I lived in Afghanistan the bride price was about 1500 dollars. About 5 years pay for a common man.Now she would come with a dowry, but that leaves with her on divorce, they have a much lower rate of divorce than here in the USA.Death in childbirth is common, so if you can afford it is good to have a spare.

5 John do you have any sense of humor at all?

6 test

1 Whatever it is, make sure that blogging doesn't go on the chopping block.

2 Do what I do Rusty and write for four or five magazines each month. Sure, the pay sucks and the hours are horrible, along with that frenzied scribbling to catch up when forgetting a deadline, but what's not to love? Nothing quite as enjoyable as some stranger telling you that they enjoyed a story you wrote.

3 LOL, you've been watching too much South Park Rusty.

4 Move to DC and join the company. The CIA is looking for your type. They may even let you keep the name Rusty Shackelford.

5 Really sorry to hear this, Rust-man. Unless you consider programming a form of writing, I can't help you. There's got to be something you could do in the blogging area that at least pays the bills. Hey, I got it! Couldn't you solicit a $20 mil grant from the Saudis to create a Middle Eastern Studies department?

6 Rusty.. whatever you end up doing, you have to keep blogging! Some of us depend on this blog for ammo to fight the libtard hordes. And you're very good at it. I've always thought the writing on this blog really stands out.

7 Dr, Rusty Shackleford is the greatest. Hang in there.

8 Thanks all, but I'm totally serious about this. Dick, how does one go about writing for magazines? Let me pitch my first article: "You'll never believe what happened the other day when I accidentally walked into the girls dorm, but I swear it's true...." Brad, I'd love to work for "the company". I wonder how one goes about getting a CIA job when the only related skill I have is surfing Arabic sites and making fun of Muslim extremists?

9 I just thought they could put a sharp PHD like you to work for the good of the country. That way we all benefit. I donÂ’t want you to end up like me, doing part time concrete work to pay the kids tuition. Go home to CA and find something close to the family.

10 I think that writing's something to consider Rusty, be it magazines or columns. You're articulate and you know your way around the important (and the not so important)issues. Whatever you do, please keep on blogging.

11 Rusty, I've missed out on four or five dream jobs by now (I am beginning to lose count) - hang in there, and it will eventually happen for you.

12 I'm a copywriter for a medium-sized branding firm; all my life, I couldn't do math, geography or anything else ... other than tell a decent story. "Well, let's get paid for that," I decides years ago. Pretty cool job if you don't mind shilling for the man. Good luck

13 There's a change in Academia coming. The bottom line is that there are a lot of parents who don't want their kids corrupted with the sort of nonsense that currently dominates academe. So they'll be shopping around for some no-nonsense universities where their kids can get good substancial training in something that's useful, and well as a decent grounding in the "liberal arts" (by which I don't mean deconstructionist feminism or anti-Americanism). They also want their kids to be able to put up a good argument against the left, if and when it's appropriate... like having an innoculation against the virus. Why this hasn't happened yet is puzzling, but maybe GMU winning the national championship in basketball would help the engine kick over. Stanger things have happened. (Not that there aren't some extremely left-leaning faculty at GMU, but they don't have anything like the monopoly they do on most campuses. I can't believe you're not an excellent teacher though. You made that part up, I'll bet.

14 Demosophist: Thanks for the link to the NAS, thats a really interesting idea, hopefully they can make a difference. Politics really has no business in non-politically related courses anyways. Rusty: Have you ever considered writing a book on whatever it is that you specialize in (I'm afraid I don't know what your field of expertise is)? What about emailing prominent bloggers to see what they do for a living and if blogging makes them enough to get by comfortably? I've always thought it might be interesting to work on a sort of "open-source" intelligence network sort of like threatswatch.org or www.strategypage.com I don't really know how much money if any would be in that though.

15 Or you could find honest, manly work, such as construction. I've recently gotten back into the trade after a long hiatus, and my only money problems consist of finding places to stack it.

16 I don't think there's enough money in blogging yet to make it pay. I doubt that Glenn even makes enough that he could quit his day job. The best bet is to assist in establishing autonomous programs that cater to specific orientations, like these programs at George Mason: Krasnow Institute, School of Public Choice, School of Public Policy, Program in Social and Organizational Learning, Institute for Humane Studies, Mercatus Center. These are places where academics of significant gifts but politically correct liabilities can find a home. That would ultimately make academe more Madisonian. Oh yes, that reminds me. Forgot to mention Princeton's James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions.

17 Will Blog for Food--Is it time to leave academia? I'm pretty depressed about not getting that job. the trades are good, i'm a general and still run a small biz, albeit at a snails pace now. everything was fine and then everything went whoomp there it is, about 3 years ago. hemodialysis..check new liver..check lots of pills every day..check lots and lots of tune ups at the Big Box Hospital..check by my lites anyway your blog counts!!, the trades are fine, but be sure not to "trade" your problems with anyone else. whoomp there it is.

18 Have you considered contacting your favorite local talk radio to see if they might hire you for research or content? Your blog is alot like talk radio because it offers timely news coverage within a select range of topics, with an entertaining or controversial angle. I'm sorry I can't offer something more concrete. (like an actual job!) but I wish you good luck. Based on this web site, I think you will do very well.

19 Rusty, I have two friends who got hired by the CIA fresh out of a masters program at UT. They weren't even that knowledgeable about politics and world events as far as I'm concerned. If you have an advanced degree, you should apply. You might be surprised!

20 but ps., Rusty, they both quit after about a year. They HATED the job (analysts). One is now doing a phd in Ohio, and the other is doing some consulting job in Dallas. It's not all it's chalked up to be, apparently.

21 Rusty, I would like to see you continue your career in academia. We need people like you at our colleges and universities. Just because you didn't get the job you wanted at the present time, that doesn't mean you won't get it at a later date. Steady as she goes, Rusty.

22 Rusty, My brother went to some Training in DC and the Trainer recruited him to work for Homeland Security on the spot. They need people and how. The recruiter told him that he could even work from home in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area because he was reluctant to move. You should check into it. Blog on the side. Solve the world's mysteries full-time.

23 Consider the future of education. Look at your university: if they're like any other, they're looking over their shoulder, eyes wide in alarm at the oncoming prospect of on1ine education -- a la carte education that the student (or parent) selects, cafeteria style, and that the teacher sells directly, cutting out the middlemen of college administration and the the groupthink of the academic monastery. The future is going to belong to the education entrepreneur, the guy who can figure out how to deliver the best educational experience over broadband. From this point of view you're unique, eh? You've got credentials in both fields -- on1ine delivery and traditional academics. You could be one of the pioneers. You could make a fortune. Problem #1 is, of course, being a pioneer means there isn't any established paradigm for the transition. You could talk to U of Phoenix, maybe, or snif around for one of the few start-ups in this field (I'm in one, but I don't think you're in the right field for us). Problem #2 is that it's not a way to relax, or get rich quick. It's a way to work really hard doing something really new, and (if you've chosen right) get rich later, as well as live on in the history books, for what that's worth. Good luck.

24 Follow the one's who succeed. For example... Andrew Sullivan ...grovel for donations by claiming the "expense" of blogging will cause you to close down. Ted Rall ...claim to be "libeled" by Ann Coulter and convince gullible Liberals to donate to your legal fund.

25 Ahhh, just run for congress.

26 I'm curious--were you to become tenured, would you cease blogging anonymously, or would you choose to remain anon b/c of the rather delicate subject matter you've chosen to make your niche?

27 Freelance writing is a terrible way to make a living. Very few people earn enough to support themselves much less a spouse and children. Your best bet is to apply for writing/policy analysis jobs at foundations and think tanks. Some may be hiring bloggers as well. If you try to piece together short-term jobs here and there, you'll spend all your time selling yourself to people who know there are thousands of other would-be writers out there wiling to work a little cheaper. You could keep your day job and try freelance writing for extra income. Buy the latest copy of Writers' Market, which has information on how and who to query. Media Bistro (online) has good "how to pitch" info as well. I've been freelance for five years, starting with great media contacts and lots of experience. My financial solution -- marrying a guy with a steady job and health benefits -- is not open to you.

28 does this blog have any impact on being hired ?

29 Rusty (or is it Dale?), one suggestion: Pretend you are an observer looking at yourself. What advice would you give yourself, all things considered? You won't get better advice from anyone else.

30 Rusty - My two cents is - go for it. I went BS (chemistry), Big pharma (3 years), PhD, postdoc, adjunct status, industry R&D 15 years (associate director of R&D), laid off when whole research center eliminated, more adjunct status, NEW career in sales (same field fortunately) and I love it. wouldn't go back to academia or industrial R&D. In sales there is a direct connection between results and compensation - bottom line after all my experience etc, in my second year in sales highest salary ever. I am damn glad I took the plunge and changed. Your whole job/career security is NOT in some organization - it is WITHIN you.

31 Rusty, take Joanne Jacobs' advice about freelancing. If you want tips from a magazine editor who works with freelancers, drop me a line. My mag doesn't cover current events, but my experience might help you avoid errors that can make the difference between "yes, I'll pay you to write that article" or "no, the editorial calendar's chock-full now."

32 It was their loss! Keep your chin up!

33 Just remember that "open-source intelligence analyst" is just a nice way of saying "blackmailer" if you ask for money when you find out stuff about other folk.

34 I hear there's an opening at the WaPo for a conservative blogger ...

35 I think everyone has pretty much covered the bases, but, working for the University of Louisville, I see daily what it is for a conservative like us to survive. We need people like you doing what you are doing from within. Remember Ross Perot, from the outside, only destroyed his conservative potential (by getting Bush defeated) ... you have to work WITHIN the system to make a difference. GOOD LUCK and hang in there! Paul @ TheFORUM (currently down due to unrelenting comment spam.

36 If the term "Left" makes you think of wackos like Chomsky or sickos like N.A.M.B.L.A it's no wonder you'd think you'd have a problem working for "anything on the Left." I'd have a problem with working for "anything on the Right" if "Right" meant David Duke or Fred Phelps.

37 Dr. Shackleford, I would hire you, but I already hired Pepe. He works for beans!

38 "...I need the money and I'm sick and tired of dealing with barely literate students with inflated senses of entitlement." I'm only an adjunct professor at a local university, but I deal with the same thing. I used to hear the following: "I'm pre-med. I should be getting better grades." My reply is that if they're actually pre-med then they should be getting better grades. Unfortunately for them, they had to earn their good grades.

39 Rusty, have you considered approaching some of the conservative think-tanks?

40 This reminds me of a line in the movie "Get Shorty" where the guy asks the question: what kind of writing pays the best? Answer: randsom notes. Don't be discouraged, just write from the passion that's in your heart and that will resonate with someone. Brodda

41 Oops, I mean "ransom" (should've previewed first!)

42 I bailed out of academia about eight years ago, when it became apparent that I was a better software engineer than electronic engineering doctoral student. Having said that, the longest period I've been unemployed in my life is about four hours. I'm really into this whole 'eating and having a roof over my head' thing. Guess I sold out to The Man.

43 I am shocked that you would even consider a career in academia. Shocked. If it makes you feel any better, I quit going to school in Dec. (I have 3 semesters left until graduation) because I hated every day I had to go to class. Now I am getting in shape for boot camp and will hopefully become a Marine. I haven't told anyone in my family (they are going to be pissed) and I am scared that I will be killed or lose my eyes/hands/balls (lost feet would be acceptable), but for some reason I feel like I just broke out of prison. My crappy advice is just go for whatever you want even if it is a bad idea. Get the monkey off your back and go for it.(it will probably be better then Iraq

44 Rusty, Cake and eat it too! Get out of the big, research driven U. environment. I am at a small U. where the faculty doesn't attack me anymore for being sensible and I have an opportunity to really have an impact. Teaching students to think, rather than just "feel" is a calling - it isn't a job. Budget here is small, but the change in lifestyle is worth the cut. We have a few openings every year.

45 Rusty-- Prof Scott's got it right. The other thing you could do is put a PayPal button up there. You won't make a fortune, but heck . . . people value what you do.

46 I'd be interested in speaking with you personally. There's more to be done on the Internet than we're seeing right now. If you email me, we can talk about ideas.

47 Sorry to hear about that, Rusty! But, good people like you will always come out on top in the end. Keep your chin up.

48 I think you need to deconstruct yourself, seriously. You are on planet earth for 60odd years and you care here only once. You can choose to live in zombie-techno-murder-land (USA) and work on crap-intangible-mind-manipulation of yourself (auto-soiling-your-brain) or others or both. You can also detach, and go for what is most important on earth... measured by MAGNITUDE OF PROBLEM (-solving). OK, so you do not understand what I am on about, and it all sounds hostile to you and your way of thinking. Of course, for US-americans that means that there is nothing to what I say. Zombie-land, Q.E.D. You and the other commentators here are trained to live with inherent contradictions, the biggest being: USA is great, but we kill lotsa innocents. re-concile... yourself with earth. Maybe your wife will understand once you moved to France ... then Botswana. Maybe not. In any case, it would be only the start of your rehabilitation. I suspect it would take you 2 years of exposure to people. Learning the new language is indispensable for the change in thinking. It is by no means certain that you mend your dogmata, even then. If you still don't have ANY idea what I could be talking about, how about this thought: Our society contains no method of serious self-criticism for the simple reason that it is now a self-justifying system which generates its own logic

1 "Hey, James Bond ain't got nothin' on me."

2 Phil came to realise that his grandmother's warnings were only partially correct. Yes it does cause vision problems, but the hair doesn't always end up growing on your palms.

3 "It only gets like this when I'm guilty."

4 Play that funky music white boy!

5 Surprise witness - Fabrice the Hairdresser: Yes! I'd know that hair anywhere! That's him, you're honor!

6 although his face did not betray him, the testimony was indeed, shocking

7 If you put enough hairspray on that helmethead hairdo, then yes, it most definitely can be used as a lethal weapon. Thta is... if you don't die laughing first.

8 "... but I did not shoot the deputy."

9 "What? What are you looking at? Is my fly open?"

10 No matter what those pricks say, it's the last god-damned time I let them talk me into playing with one of those static ball thingies. Even if I'm drunk.....

11 "Venom reacts to the news that Vinnie didn't do this week's Caption Contest." Or, "The Dread Pundit Bluto, with hair." Or, "Dr. Rusty Shackleford after spending the last 3 days in a tent with the in-laws." :-)

12 Vinnie I thought you were on hiatus.

13 I'm not blogging right now, is all.

14 "C'mon, man. Disco Stu loves the ladies. He doesn't kill them in cold blood. Ya dig?"

15 "The reception in here is terrible."

16 I'm SHOCKED! Shocked and appalled @ these accusations against me!

17 We have recieved inteligence that Iraq's WMDs may have been transfered out of the country to be hidden on Phil Spector's head, the President has announced that troops are on their way following a preempive "shock-and-awe" airstrike.

18 "Yes your honour, my client did kill, but a man has a limited tolerance when it comes to people blowing on his head and then yelling: "What kind of lame a** dandelion is this?"" Just at that moment, Matlock touched his frying pan and was shocked by his malfunctioning electric stove. Elsewhere at that same moment, a frustrated James Brown was pretending to be asleep as fellow passenger Howie continued to talk: "Yeah, I like Motown music, but what I really love are nipples!"

19 Perhaps the result of too much LSD back in the seventies?

20 "Yes, your honor, this man IS former Yankee outfielder Oscar Gamble. I didn't believe it myself at first, but once he took off the helmet..."

21 "Damn that toaster"!

22 "Don't hate me because I'm beautiful."

23 "So, if I go to jail, will my Pr0pecia prescription continue to be filled? Bummer." (I guess the spam filters are on - apparently "Pr0pecia" is "questionable content.")

24 But I swear I'm NOT Phil Specter, I'm Hair Bear, doesn't anyone remember me ? C'mon, call Bubi or Square Bear or Mr. Peevley, they'll vouch for me.

25 I think James and I woul dbe discussing Hot Pants. Get up off of that thing.

26 OK, when they're not looking I'll climb up into my hair and wait to be swept out of the court as an extremely large dust bunny.

27 Today, I am a little dog named sparky, and I want my mommie to take me home.

28 Ok I cant' win well becuase I already names winners and I work for Rusty but; Every time a brain cell pops another hair goes wild.

29 ... And to think, he woke up this morning and styled his hair liked that, looked in the mirror and thought, 'Damn, I look good'.

1 dag nabbit, keep working at it. It will come.

2 Sorry it didn't work out Rusty. You'll get there.

3 Screw you you numeric troll bastard. we find you and I'll personally punch you in the mouth Mr numeric at hotmail dipwad. come on punk I'm ready for ya. this jerk is using proxys so I have had to ban several Ip addys. that means if any of the rest oyou use that proxy you will be unable to post comments until we get this guy nailed. Sorry for the trouble if you get a banned message and it's not you email me. Also I'm having to close comments on some thread a comment closed does not mean you are banned. I win, punk. Better check out your windows. Johnny may be closer then you think.

1 I cannot believe the Republicans in my state chose Topinka. She is a Republican in name only and even if she wins it won't be an improvement over that idiot Blagojevich. Illinois is doomed to 4 more years of crappy governors whoever wins.

1 Now that's funny.

2 These delusional leftards are the same ones that were against the war the "house of hubris" got this country into in the first place. I'm not sure if these marchers are right about getting out of Iraq now, but I'd listen to them before I listen to the Chalabi, Cheyney, Rummy, Bush, Krauthammer, Hinderaker crowd who were WRONG, WRONG, WRONG about this war.

3 Don't worry Robert, you're safe as long as you keep your head wrapped in tinfoil and emplaced firmly in the ground.

4 since Michelle don't take comments: Oh lord won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz.. That's it Hee ha heh.

5 Well you wouldn't expect a trust-fund baby to go to a protest in anything but the classiest ride, would you?

1 Great post!! M.W.

1 You are one fortunate man!

2 how's that joke go ... got any naked pictures .... just funnin' - no death threats please!

3 Well done. Gloria Steinem, cram it. Sideways.

4 Get her a gun and techer her to use it and defend herself against rapists,robbers and wolves

1 I think you showed a lot of class by not even mentioning the camel toe.

2 Those are great breasteses

3 Breasticles REMF, breasticles.

4 I find the salivating over a French journalist (okay, yeah she's one hot croissant)to be highly unpatriotic. Where are the nudie pics of Barbra Walters?

5 Yeah, but who is #1 on google for "melissa theuriau naked"?

6 *tee hee* I'd like to see my pic of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on a dog leash in the top 10 GIS listings when you search his name. Or the ones of him flashing his pierced man nipples. /Call it a hobby. I can't stop photoshopping the guy!

7 That little tattoo she has on her stomach, is that a Star of David or are my eyes deceiving me?

8 What a magnificent body and beautiful flat stomach. If her breasts weren't so tiny, I'd "cross the street" and become bi-sexual in a heartbeat.

1 It would be interesting to know; did they grill you about your political persuasion or did they stick to things like, well, your actual credentials? Just curious.

2 Which Allah would that be? Link Mecca Allah or Filthy Allah?

3 Welcome back Master. We'll keep our fingers crossed.

4 The particular institution I was interviewing at has a reputation for having a "conservative" orientation. In academic parlance it means that there are a lot of Democrats, but very few Ralph Nader supporters.

1 I wish you the best of luck! - Max

2 done

3 ditto

4 praying for you, brother.

5 Rotsa ruck, Rusty.

6 I praying that you get this job and that you won't be too busy to blog, when you get the job. Does that make sense?

7 GEORGIE PORGIE ALL PUPPING AND PIE.KISSED THE GIRLS AND MADE THEM CRY.WHEN THE BOYS CAME OUT TO PLAY. GEORGIE PORGIE RAN AWAY.

1 DON HO where are you? your missing your TINY BUBBLES

2 If you will take the fermented juice and put it in the ol' fridge 'til well chilled, the yeast will shut down and sink to the bottom... makes siphoning a lot easier and a much prettier product. You might also poke around the internet for some better yeasts. Some will give you much better alcohol return and less headache.

3 Yeah I've looked at some brewers yeast I need to try that one of these days. After it stops working (yeast dies from too much alcohol or no sugar left) it will clear right up and there will be a layer of nasty at the bottom (no fridge required and I'm afraid to stop it that way, once I drank it would it not just fire right back up there is those screaming shits again). Moving it just stirs it back up. What I really need is a jug with a spigot about two inches above the bottom. It's calmed down a bit since yesterday the foam was all the way around the top and the top was moving quite a bit. Another thing I want to try is starting from fruit. I've helped Grandpa with that before it's a mess but it usually turns out pretty good.

4 Scholars Call for Release of 9/11 Information TO THE MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AND OF THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:* PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT, On Behalf of the People of the United States of America, the Undersigned Scholars for 9/11 Truth Hereby Petitions for, and hereby demands, Release of the Following kinds of documents, video and films, and physical evidence to the public for study by experts and scholars investigating the events of 9/11: 1. Immediate release of the full Pentagon surveillance tapes, of which five frames (only) have been released via the official ASCE report, as Judicial Watch has also requested. We further demand release of the video tape seized by FBI agents minutes after the Pentagon hit, from the fuel service station near the Pentagon, as well as any other videotape which shows the 9/11 strike on the Pentagon. 2. Immediate release of 6,899 photographs and 6,977 segments of video footage held by NIST, largely from private photographers, regarding the collapses of WTC buildings on 9/11/2001 (NIST, 2005, p. 81). In particular, all footage relating to the collapse of WTC 7 (including shots before, during and after the collapse) must be released immediately, without waiting for the NIST report on WTC 7, which is long overdue and may be prolonged indefinitely. 3. An explanation from Vice President Richard Cheney regarding the "orders" described by Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta in his testimony before The 9/11 Commission. Secretary Mineta stated that while in an underground bunker at the White House, he watched Vice President Cheney castigate a young officer for asking, as a plane drew closer and closer to the Pentagon, "Do the orders still stand?" The officer should be identified and allowed to testify at a deposition under oath. 4. The documents generated by Vice President Cheney's energy task force have been kept from the public. A court case brought forth a few maps that display oil fields in the Middle East. We hereby put Congress on notice that there is probable cause with regard to criminal activities by the Cheney Energy Task Force involving a criminal conspiracy to launch illegal wars and/or terrorist activities. We therefore demand that Energy Task Force document that comprise, discuss, or refer to plans to invade the Middle East, including Iran, and Venezuela or other sovereign nations be released immediately. See Cheney v. District Court 542 U.S. 367 (2004) and United States v. Nixon 418 U.S. 683 (1974). 5. Audio tapes of interviews with air traffic controllers on-duty on 9/11 were intentionally destroyed by crushing the cassette by hand, cutting the tape into little pieces, and then dropping the pieces in different trash cans around the building. We demand an explanation for this destruction of evidence and ask that the possible existence of other copies of such tapes or perhaps of written transcripts of the interviews be pursued. All air traffic controllers on-duty on 9/11 should be allowed to testify during a public forum under oath. 6. The Secret Service, which is highly trained to protect the President from danger and to move him to a secure location in the event of a threat, breached its own standard procedures by allowing President Bush to remain at a public location for 25 minutes after it was known that the nation was under attack. All Secret Service personnel who were at Booker Elementary School with President Bush on 9/11 should be required to testify in public and under oath about these events. 7. On the morning of 9/11, some five "war games" or "terror drills" were being conducted by U.S. defense agencies, including one "live fly" exercise employing aircraft. These drills reportedly included the injection of false radar blips onto the screens of air traffic controllers. In addition, the government was running a simulation of a plane crashing into a building the morning of 9/11. Who was in charge of coordinating these war games and terror drills? Who had the ability to issues orders in relation to their conduct? On which screens were "false radar blips" inserted? When did such false injects commence? When were they purged from the controllers' screens? What was the effect of these activities on standard procedures for interdicting hijacked aircraft? 8. It has been reported that the FBI long ago found three of four "black boxes" from the two airplanes which hit the Twin Towers, yet has consistently denied that they were ever found. Their data would be of the greatest importance to understanding the events of 9/11. This matter must be investigated and the data they provide released to the public. For each of the four sites under investigation, the 9/11 Commission reported that two Boeing 757s, and two Boeing 767s (FAA, Part 121, airliners) owned by United Airlines and American Airlines were hijacked by novice pilots and were subsequently crashed, resulting in an unimaginable loss of life. Approximately 3,000 people died the morning of 9/11 as the direct result of these officially reported hijackings and subsequent crashes. These four scheduled airliners were reported to have carried a total of 266 passengers and crew members, which, under FAA and NTSB regulations, demands a comprehensive investigation of the primary and contributing causes of each. In the case of suspected criminal foul play, the NTSB would normally assign the lead investigative role to the FBI, with assistance of investigators from the NTSB and FAA. A comprehensive investigation of each aircraft crash is not a regulatory option: they would have been mandatory. Therefore, we demand public release of each comprehensive crash investigation report, including access to all physical evidence that was required to have been collected and secured at a suitable facility. Such evidence should have included a large assortment of indestructible parts, including landing gears, surface actuators, engines, black boxes, and so on. The serialized parts would be invaluable in identifying each aircraft and, contrary to some reports, could not have "vaporized" upon impact. Considering the enormous loss of life and financial collateral damage, if no crash investigations were conducted, who made the decision to disregard the FAA, Part 121, regulatory requirement? In the absence of the Part 121 investigation reports, the identity of the responsible authorities who made the decision not to investigate must be released, and they should be made immediately available for deposition under oath. 9. In the weeks before 9/11, the US Stock market showed rather high levels of activity on companies that would subsequently be affected by the attacks. The afternoon before the attack, alarm bells were sounding over trading patterns in stock options. A jump in United Air Lines some 90 times (not 90 percent) above normal between September 6 and September 10, for example, and 285 times higher than average the Thursday before the attack, have been reported. A jump in American Airlines put options 60 times (not 60 percent) above normal the day before the attacks has also been reported. No similar trading occurred on any other airlines appear to have occurred. Between September 6-10, 2001, the Chicago Board Options Exchange saw suspicious trading on Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley, two of the largest WTC tenants. An average of 3,053 put options in Merrill Lynch were bought between Sept. 6-10, compared to an average of 252 in the previous week. Merrill Lynch, another WTC tenant, saw 12,215 put options bought between Sept. 7-10, whereas the previous days had seen averages of 212 contracts a day. According to Dylan Ratigan of Bloomberg News: "This would be the most extraordinary coincidence in the history of mankind, if it was a coincidence. This could very well be insider trading at the worst, most horrific, most evil use you’ve ever seen in your entire life. It’s absolutely unprecedented." On September 18, 2001, the BBC reported: "American authorities are investigating unusually large numbers of shares in airlines, insurance companies and arms manufacturers that were sold off in the days and weeks before the attacks. They believe that the sales were by people who knew about the impending disaster". According to the London Independent, October 10, 2001: "To the embarrassment of investigators, it has also emerged that the firm used to buy many of the 'put' options—where a trader, in effect, bets on a share price fall—on United Airlines stock was headed until 1998 by 'Buzzy' Krongard, now executive director of the CIA." The 9/11 Commission, after looking into the pre-9/11 stock trades, never denied their unusual nature. Instead, the Commission declared that al-Qaeda did not conduct the trades, and asked no further questions. Who, if not al-Qaeda, performed the incriminating trades? This information exists, it can be easily obtained, and it needs to be made public. Moreover, illegal money transfers may have been processed through computers housed at the World Trade Center shortly before planes crashed into the Twin Towers on 9/11. We demand a disclosure of the source of the put options and that this whole sordid affair receive a complete and public investigation. 10. Eyewitness testimony and a substantiating photographic record suggest that a large sample of slag from the World Trade Center is being held at Hangar 17 of the John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City. Access to the slag sample should be made available to appropriate physicists in order to conduct non-destructive X-ray Fluorescence tests and other forms of examination, which should reveal evidence of the cause of the collapse of the Twin Towers. Based on these tests, we further demand two small samples (about the size of a fist) be extracted from this large piece for further scientific analysis. 11. Release of a complete inventory of the plane wreckage and debris from flights 11, 77, 93 or 175 or any other aircraft that crashed or was destroyed on September 11, 2001, including, but not limited to: (a) the location (whether warehouses or otherwise) of all such items; (b) a catalog of photographs and videotapes taken of any and all such items; and (c) a list of all tests and examinations concerning any and all such items, including reports of such tests or examinations. 12. Release of a complete inventory of any steel, other metal or other material from the World Trade Centers, including, but not limited to: (a) the location (whether warehouses or otherwise) of all such items; (b) a catalog of photographs and videotapes taken of any and all such items; and (c) a list of all tests and examinations concerning any and all such items, including reports of such tests or examinations. On behalf of the People of the United States of America, we demand that the cover-up in this case end and that the kinds of documents, video and films, and physical evidence described above be provided to the public for experts and scholars to evaluate and assess in their efforts to expose falsehoods and reveal truths about events on 9/11. FOR THE SOCIETY: James H. Fetzer, Ph.D. Founder and Co-Chair Scholars for 9/11 Truth Steven E. Jones, Ph.D. Co-Chair Scholars for 9/11 Truth 7 March 2006 *An online version of this petition -- with clickable links -- may be viewed here: http://st911.org/petition

5 Why would anyone want to view that shit, Greg?

6 Greg, your in my way. At what point can you bottle the wine with a cork? That giant bottle looks really cool. I understand the doodad, but do you take the wine out, and put the wine in another container until the yeast is finished?

7 I believe the "doodad" in question is also known as an "air-lock"? I've done a few batches of homebrew beer that turned out pretty well, never done any wine though, I should give it a try sometime. Apparently you can make a "wine" from just about anything that contains sugars in it, I know someone that has even made a "sugar wine" just dissolving loads of sugar into water and adding yeast, not sure how this would taste though. Goodluck with this batch, and hope it doesn't give you "the screaming shits"!

8 Waht heppens is eventualy for whatever reason the yeast dies and settles out. You can tell because the doodad don't bubble no more. If you were to bolltle it before that you get carbonation or and explosion one. My cousin made some like that you have to till it slows down a lot. What I do is wait for it to stop bubbling give it about a week to clear and use old liquor bottles. I siphon (again being careful not to stir the gregs into those. Chill a bit and haved a glass Oh about 3 or 4 times a month. The little woman drinks some too. I also like to give away a bit to family or the old man down the road. Thinking last night of the song copperhead road. Hunnerd pounds of yeast? No it's hunerd pounds of sugar. start with as little yeast as you like and grow more.

9 http://www.home-brew.com/index.html?token=1111043670-1284457346-221343300&A=25&B=YEAST Good source for real wine yeasts... Can make a fantastic difference in your homebrew, and they cost about $1.25. The best part is, that since they're alive, you can keep them growing forever!

1 Good luck Rusty.

2 Good Luck Rusty, I'll say a prayer for you!

3 I hope you get it. Good Luck!

4 HOpe u get what you yearn for...

5 Keepin' my fingers crossed.

6 Thanks all!

7 Gee, Rusty, good luck and all, but what the hell is a walleye? Is it edible?

8 May you catch as many jobs as you have fish. Hopefully be the time you finish this process you will have em fighting over you.

9 Are you sure you aren't mistaking a walleye for a brown trout? As for the interview, if it starts to go south, tell the chair that the jerkstore called, and their running out of him.

10 May the Force be with you, Rusty.

11 The walleye looks a lot like perch (and belongs to the same family) only much bigger, and found in most of Northern US; the brown trout looks like the less-dramatic salmon, the family and genus it belongs to. It's referred to as circumpolar because of its broad range (it is found in Europe and China as well as North America and many other places), and the record was caught four years ago in Little Red River, Arkansas: 40 lbs, 4 oz. We caught a brown in a Southern Wisconsin stream that was four inches, so we've relocated it to a friend's tank until it's big enough for the pond. Don't know how it survived in that tiny branch of Raccoon Creek. Must have been a lucky plant. Good luck fishing, Rusty. You know where to go. (Didn't I mention Beloit College, which could use someone unsteeped in blue kool-aid?)

1 Nothing better than sitting around with a good friend, a fishing pole in one hand and a beer in the other. I love fishing.

2 Look out fish.

3 So now Oyster can do a brake job and loves to fish & drink beer. Is she not the "perfect" woman?

4 She would be perfect if she would just clean them, Howie.