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If a chemical weapon follows you home, try to act casual.

Bush: Listen to me. It’s very simple. First Saddam must compile 200% with the UN inspectorers, and I mean activated compilation, not passivist compilation. Second, he must disarm fully, in keeping with UN revelation 1441 and the next one coming, 1441B, which will require him to disarm even more fully that. Then he must destroy all Samoud missiles and any other weapons of mass destruction he is found, or not found, to be possessive of, without being asked. Finally, there is one more task he must perform, which I am not at liberty to revulge. And even that will not be enough.

More in the Guardian.

I’m lazy. So instead of actually reviewing this new Ramones tribute album, I’ll just link to the edited log of the chat that happened while I broadcast it on DJ Crypticons shoutcast station. In case you can’t be bothered reading that (who can?), here’s the summary:

This is a cover album of major label acts covering Ramones songs. Here’s the tracklist:

1. Havana Affair performed by Red Hot Chili Peppers - 2:15
2. Blitzkrieg Bop performed by Rob Zombie - 2:43
3. I Believe in Miracles performed by Eddie Vedder / Zeke - 3:01
4. 53rd & 3rd performed by Metallica - 2:21
5. Beat on the Brat performed by U Two - 2:34
6. Do You Remember Rock ‘N’ Roll Radio performed by Kiss - 3:34
7. The KKK Took My Baby Away performed by Marilyn Manson - 3:43
8. I Just Wanna Have Something to Do performed by Garbage - 2:26
9. Outsider performed by Green Day - 2:17
10. Something to Believe In performed by Pretenders - 4:29
11. Sheena Is a Punk Rocker performed by Rancid - 1:50
12. I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend performed by Pete Yorn - 2:50
13. I Wanna Be Sedated performed by Offspring - 2:18
14. Here Today, Gone Tomorrow performed by Rooney - 2:54
15. Return of Jackie & Judy performed by Tom Waits - 3:28
16. Daytime Dilemma (Dangers of Love) [*] performed by Eddie Vedder / zeke - 3:31
20. Untitled - Untitled - 2:20

I liked Rob Zombie and The Pretenders and hated Garbage.

JackUzi liked KISS and hated Metallica, Marilyn Manson.

Mekajinn liked KISS, Green Day and hated Red Hot Chili Peppers, Metallica.

Worth a download. Absolutely not worth buying. Beware, Kazaa is flooded with fakes of this right now.

You know that game you play where you put two artists who have absolutely nothing in common and put them together like “hey Michael Bolton and Prodigy…that’d be funny hah!”

Well now lookee here

In a service taxi from the bus station to downtown Amman (capital of Jordan), our young wiry driver asks if I am one of the hundreds of American military personnel now in Amman awaiting the war. I say no, stating my opposition to war as the solution to disarming Iraq. My answer yields a diatribe.
“What happens now is a crime! Saddam is not dangerous; Israel with it’s nuclear weapons, it’s hate for Arabs, they are the problem. Saddam dared to try and equal them, he always spoke for freedom of the Palestinians and the Isrealis hate this and want him gone.”

“A revolution would be good, we must, all Arab people, come together and free ourselves of the rulers and take our countries back from them and from the Western powers that keep thieves in control so that they can take the oil, take whatever they want from us and leave us nothing!”