A husband and wife have been indicted on charges they tried to pass off a filing cabinet as a security device that could protect people against chemical and biological attacks in the wake of the 2001 terrorist attacks.
Federal authorities say the filing cabinet, which was painted yellow and had a siren and flashing red light attached, was promoted by Stewart Kaiser in a press release that helped him sell his company’s stock at inflated prices.
it seems that filing cabinets painted yellow with flashing lights attached don’t offer much protection against biological or chemical weapons, or, for that matter, fraudulent business people.
hong kong phooey would do something about this.
posted by roj at 7:54 pm
it took a while to find a local source, but the story from the statesman journal as opposed to a wire service. i hope the link lives for a while.
i’m sure it’s a completely rational decision on the part of the church leadership, but they do answer to a higher authority.
if this catches on, it could put a bit of a damper on the republican deficit solution i mentioned a while ago.
posted by roj at 8:49 am
just thought i’d say congratulations to the geeks of technorati:
3, 004, 601 weblogs watched.
(i’ve added technorati links here in the footers)
update (8:30am): more from the horse and the joi.
posted by roj at 2:21 am
i’ve been watching, casually, for the past several days, and it’s finally happened. this afternoon, the university of connecticut announced that their amorphophallus titanum is blooming.
you can avoid the smell (of rotting flesh), and still take a peek via the webcam linked in the press release.
posted by roj at 8:28 pm
i still think this is a good idea….
kerry, run the cabinet.
posted by roj at 6:15 pm
“KERRY’S CHOICE Dem picks Gephardt as VP candidate,” blared the banner headline in the Post, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp and is openly supportive of Republican President Bush.
The paper’s editor-in-chief, Col Allan, said he ran the story because the newspaper received information it believed to be correct.
“We unreservedly apologize to our readers for the mistake,” Allan said in a statement.
maybe the post had the information on the wmd as well…?
posted by roj at 4:54 pm
according to reuters, bush is sending rice to china.
Rice’s Beijing stop on July 8-9 will be sandwiched between talks in Tokyo with Japanese Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi and meetings in Seoul with South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun and other senior officials.
the last thing china needs is rice. sandwiches, maybe.
posted by roj at 11:49 pm