30 October 2010
TSA going to start ball and boob fondling.
Will gays go for pat-downs now?
No articles mention the Chechen women bombing two russian planes out of the sky.
Apparently toner cartridges are now dangerous. At least those from Yemen to synagoges.
29 October 2010
In some countries (eg Yugoslavia, Iraq) this is a big deal. It overwhelms some electronic voting concerns, actually.
Paper rules for voting though. The purple finger is a nice touch, won't fly in the US.
Built Ford tough, for plowing through infidels.
"The websites in which feature his message would categorically not be allowed in the UK," she said. "If they were hosted in the UK they would be taken down."
-- British Minister of Security Pauline Neville-Jones
Another parasitic nanny, needing hanging.
28 October 2010
"We will definitely look at that," Metro Transit Police Chief Michael Taborn tells WTOP.
and thus begins the rise of fascism in neo-amerika
http://www.wtopnews.com/?nid=25&sid=2097181
27 October 2010
26 October 2010
A Chester County judge offered 29-year-old Makeda Jahnesta Marley a choice: a shorter prison term or a long stint on probation. She opted for the latter and risks being jailed if she violates her probation terms.
Marley was arrested in 2008 after police say they found her removing plants from her basement when officers arrived on a domestic-dispute call. She pleaded guilty in September.
Marley's probation calls for her to undergo random drug tests and stay away from drug users.
Her attorney, Thomas Schindler, tells the West Chester Daily Local News that won't be a problem. He called growing marijuana an "aberration.
25 October 2010
This was posted in response to a story about the jade buddha coming to santa ana. Note the italicized comment.
CATHERINE90
6:26 PM on October 24, 2010
I think about 9/24/10 report:
http://www.ocregister.com/news/center-268061-body-worship.html
A decomposed body found at a Buddhist worship center is believed to be a nun who hasn't been seen since May, Orange County sheriff's officials said.
No one from the worship center filed a missing persons report for the woman. "They believed that she just left, but her personal belongings were still at the temple.
While the worker found the body about 3 p.m., sheriff's officials weren't notified until about 7 p.m. Thursday.
----Did Buddhist leaders have a moment of silence to remember that tragic death of one of its members who died on a buddhist temple grounds?
Clearly this Catherine does not "get" death or buddhism
24 October 2010
Ex-NPR analyst Juan Williams said Sunday that his firing over a comment about nappy-headed Muslims amounts to "censorship," (although NPR is not a governmental agency) adding that it was "despicable" for an NPR executive to later suggest he was "unstable."
Williams was fired as a news analyst for the public radio network after saying on Fox News that he gets nervous when he sees nappy-headed passengers in Muslim clothing on a plane. "A ho in a veil, no way, show some tail!" The incident sparked a national controversy over free speech and political correctness.
23 October 2010
WL also attempts to be a robust publisher, resistant to say government attacks. More resistant than say the NYT.
Compared to Cryptome.org, you don't have to work as hard to submit anonymously to WL. And Cryptome.org's servers are not physically distributed, though it has been robust to attacks, and its data is widely replicated and restorable. Its the same idea.
And there's always P2P seeding of documents one wishes to publish via cafes with disposable WiFi cards.
So, WL is just the evolution of the printing press and the postal service. Allowing whoever wants to post irretrievably, anonymously.
Deal with it.
"Beware foreign entanglements" -G. Washington
How does the FDA regulate execution drugs for safety and efficacy?
If Arizona obtained the drug from an overseas supplier, they argue, it may be substandard and violate Food and Drug Administration rules for importation.
Kent Scheidegger, legal director for the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation, a group that supports the death penalty, said that arguing over the safety of a drug for executions is “absurd.”
“As long as it’s a real drug manufacturer and not mixed up in somebody’s garage, it doesn’t matter where it came from,” Mr. Scheidegger said. While the Food and Drug Administration is supposed to determine whether drugs are safe and effective, he said, “in this case, safe and effective are opposites.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/23/us/23execute.html?_r=1&ref=us
22 October 2010
Poestenkill Question
A young woman of highschool age was being routinely molested by her father or step-father, and it may have been established that he was raping a younger sister too. Same old story. Happens every day. Somewhere in this great land of ours, this is unfortunately probably happening right now; as you read, and as I type.
But in this story the abuse is ended. The abuser had pulled the car into the garage, but passed out behind the steering wheel sleeping off a binge. Dawn Cruickshank, the girl, got the family shotgun and went to the garage, where she confronted him and then blew him away.
I think she got twenty years in one of New York State's dismal prisons. She's probably been out of jail for some time now. She was a hero to many, a tragic figure to all.
I used to wake up at 6 o'clock in the morning when the local classical radio station began broadcasting, and I would read the Albany Times Union before riding off to highschool. Now with computers I can still read at least portions of my old newspaper-on-the-doorstep every morning again.
The Times-Union followed Dawn's trial closely.
JUAN GONZALEZ: What about the issue of the government raising the specter of attempting to prosecute Julian Assange, when the reality is he is not doing this in the United States? He is releasing documents in another country. And—
DANIEL ELLSBERG: Well, they’re trying to get the other countries to prosecute him under their laws, which are, in many cases, of course, more stringent than ours. Even Britain, where I’ll be going tomorrow, has an Official Secrets Act, which we don’t. We had a revolution and a war of independence and a First Amendment, which they don’t. But if these prosecutions proceed and if they’re successful, if they’re carried—if they’re held up, if they’re supported by this Supreme Court, which might well not have been the case forty years ago, then we’ll have an Official Secrets Act, and the effect of—in effect.
JUAN GONZALEZ: But what about that policy, given the fact that President Obama came into office talking about a more transparent and open government and appears to be going in the opposite direction?
DANIEL ELLSBERG: Well, that promise has gone the way of his promise to close Guantánamo and a number of other promises. In no way, in the general defense and homeland security area, is he less opaque, more transparent, than Bush. And as I say, he’s being even more aggressive in pursuing prosecution.
21 October 2010
Woman drove around with mummified body for several months
The plans
To date, she has invested and raised about $500,000 for the facility near Frederick that will feature a museum, memorials representing all branches of the military, statues representing those currently serving and veterans who are still living, a 24-hour counseling center, a chapel and a restaurant. She hopes to break ground by the end of this year or early spring 2011.
The estimated cost of the memorial is at least $100 million. To finish the museum, she needs to raise $17 million.
“You have to realize, this memorial is seven to 10 times the size of the World War II memorial
The plans
To date, she has invested and raised about $500,000 for the facility near Frederick that will feature a museum, memorials representing all branches of the military, statues representing those currently serving and veterans who are still living, a 24-hour counseling center, a chapel and a restaurant. She hopes to break ground by the end of this year or early spring 2011.
The estimated cost of the memorial is at least $100 million. To finish the museum, she needs to raise $17 million.
“You have to realize, this memorial is seven to 10 times the size of the World War II memorial
20 October 2010
Anwar Al-Awlaki may be the first American on the CIA's kill or capture list, but he was also a lunch guest of military brass at the Pentagon within months of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, Fox News has learned.
Documents exclusively obtained by Fox News, including an FBI interview conducted after the Fort Hood shooting in November 2009, state that Awlaki was taken to the Pentagon as part of the military’s outreach to the Muslim community in the immediate aftermath of the attacks.
The Pentagon has offered no explanation of how a man, now on the CIA kills or capture list, ended up at a special lunch for Muslim outreach.
19 October 2010
"Where in the Constitution is the separation of church and state?" O'Donnell asked him.
When Coons responded that the First Amendment bars Congress from making laws respecting the establishment of religion, O'Donnell asked: "You're telling me that's in the First Amendment?"
18 October 2010
about a memorial to an imminent dam collapse.
You think its funny, but Irvine Ca has built a Vietnam-Wall like memorial to the Iraq / Afpak wars. Which are ongoing. This is the first and only memorial to ongoing
wars ever in the US. There are space for 8K names, but its more than half full. So they're going to update it yearly with new names. Northwoodmemorial.com
Seriously.
So soldiers could go and see where there names will be carved when they come back as corpses. Wow.
On the left, the NYC ufos. On the right, something over texas. They're both in the same triangular formation! Goodness!!!
Morons.
I mean, what are the chances that three hot air balloons would appear in a triangle from the ground? Pretty much 100%
Though actually, I may have to launch a few tonight to see if they get noticed.
17 October 2010
More than 40,000 people, many inebriated, had taken their goats to the Tildiha village temple in Bihar state to offer sacrifice and prayers to the goddess Durga on the last day of the Navratri festival.
As the worshipers lined up before the butcher, a scuffle broke out and some people were trampled, Banka district spokesman Gupdeshwar Kumar said.
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"People were vying with each other to get their goats sacrificed first, and they had a verbal duel with the butcher," Kumar said.
http://www.latimes.com/news/la-fgw-india-stampede-20101018,0,3569876.story?track=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+latimes/mostviewed+(L.A.+Times+-+Most+Viewed+Stories)
Will noone think of the chiildren?
16 October 2010
Some conservative critics have suggested that Obama's remark about blacks not watching "Meet the Press" is an invidious stereotype.
Or, truth.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/16/world/middleeast/16military.html?_r=1&hpw
In an interview, Private Stoner was described by Specialist Winfield’s lawyer, Eric Montalvo, as the platoon’s effective drug dealer.
15 October 2010
Amazing this could catch on. Realize I've been into it 30 years. And largely discounted western civ and its inhabitants for failing to get it. (The vast majority, half of whom are below average intelligence, yet allowed to vote.)
Clearly any publicity for Rand is a good thing. I hope we gut the Dems, historically.
if you toast a loaded jet into a building, you get all kinds of interesting metallurgy in the results. That doesn't mean thermit sabotage.
And the 'explosions' in some videos are just collapses. But to a rube, every bang is an explosion.
And anyway: its not hallowed ground, except perhaps to the NYC rats that cleaned up the toasted corpses.
11 October 2010
07 October 2010
Very very clever. Googlawyers are probably just as scary as your engineers.
I wonder if it'll come down to google vs. medical firmware.
06 October 2010
appointment of a high functioning jewish autistic on some disability council.
The phrase, "Sorry about that, and in the interest of getting along I will try to
fix X which you've objected to" is useful. X should be detailed, so the conversant can correct your interpretation, or be pleased with your understanding, or both.
It doesn't work after you've run someone's dog over, but it helps with say front lawn disputes.
05 October 2010
I finally get a compiler, the MS Express rev of its visual studio, clean the code, then debug it in an hour. Last night tried to get GCC but there was some Win7 problem I think. What a pain learning the vagaries of a rev of an IDE while trying to take a coding test.
Clouds overhead. Did ok though. Been doing C for 20+ years.
04 October 2010
Senior U.S. District Judge Jack T. Camp was arrested Friday minutes after he handed an undercover law enforcement agent $160 for cocaine and Roxycodone, a narcotic pain medication, that he intended to use with the exotic dancer, authorities said in a court document released Monday. They said they also found two firearms in the front seat of his vehicle.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/04/AR2010100405548.html?hpid=moreheadlines
And who says Ga is filled with inbred idiot redneck fascists?
Much cooler than the penis-pumping judge, or the pedo judge, or any number of otherwise insane so-called "judges" in the insane "legal" system.