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Archive for December, 2006
Arabs Celebrate as Saddam Swings
Dec 30th
Saddam was executed at dawn in the streets of Baghdad. The Arab world immedieately celebrated. The world breathes a sigh of relief today and the Baathists and insurgents in Iraq gasp in horror as their cause begins to collapse.
From the AP here:
Saddam Hussein was taken to the gallows clutching a Quran and hanged Saturday.
In Baghdad’s Shiite enclave of Sadr City, people danced in the streets while others fired guns in the air to celebrate the former dictator’s death. The government did not impose a round-the-clock curfew as it did last month when Saddam was convicted to thwart any surge in retaliatory violence.
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World’s Bravest Cop
Dec 29th
Is the Sherrif’s Deputy that works for Buckeye Police Department. He singlehandedly took a coked-up Mike Tyson off the street and into jail. Apparently Tyson almost backed into the police car at a club where the Deputy was working overtime in a Holiday DUI Task force. The cop saw Tyson brushing white powder from the dash of his Beamer and during a search found two baggies of cocaine in Tyson’s back pocket.

From FoxNews here:
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. Mike Tyson, 40, was arrested early Friday on suspicion of driving under the influence and possession of cocaine after police stopped him shortly after he left a Scottsdale nightclub, police said.
Tyson was stopped after his car almost struck a sheriff’s vehicle while leaving the club at about 1:45 a.m., said Sgt. Larry Hall.
“He showed signs of impairment and voluntarily submitted to field sobriety tests,” said Hall, a member of the Buckeye Police Department who was working in the area as part of a holiday DUI task force.
Hall said Tyson, who was alone, was placed under arrest after “showing more signs of impairment” during the field sobriety tests. Police then found cocaine on him and in his car, Hall said.
According to a police probable cause statement filed in court, the officer said he saw Tyson trying to wipe a white powder off the console of his BMW. During a search, the officer found two bags of white powder in Tyson’s back pocket, the statement said.
“He said he was an addict and had a problem,” the report said. “He admitted possessing the bags of cocaine, and said he uses it anytime he can get his hands on it.“
No word yet on whether or not Tyson threatened to eat the officer’s children.
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Sir Paul Hides the Art, Changes the Locks
Dec 29th
The split between Sir Paul McCartney and his one-legged whore is heating up. Heather called the cops to report that Paul “stole” paintings by Picasso and Renoir from a shared property. The cops showed up and then left once they determined it was a civil matter.

From the AP here:
LONDON – Police were called to the country estate of former Beatle Paul McCartney after his estranged wife reported the theft of paintings including a Picasso and a Renoir from the lodge they once shared, police said Friday.
“We checked the premises, and spoke to Heather Mills (McCartney), and as a result it was found to be a civil matter between her and her husband,” Sussex Police spokesman Paddy Rea said. “There’s been no theft.”
Mills called police Thursday night after discovering that paintings valued at an estimated $19.5 million had gone missing, The Sun newspaper reported Friday.
The Sun, quoting an unidentified friend of Mills McCartney, said that McCartney had taken the paintings and reprogrammed the estate’s alarm codes, and informed her Thursday night by text message.
I like the touch that Paul texted Heather. I imagine the text read something like this: “No use hobbling over to the lodge luv. I took it all and changed the locks. Neaner Neaner.”
Paul is a prolific painter himself. I sincerely hope he has also moved to protect his own artwork from the clutches of this harpie.
In his “Band on the Run” album with Wings, Paul sang a song to Picasso to mark his death. The lyrics in part were:
The Grand Old Painter Died Last Night
His Paintings On The Wall
Before He Went He Bade Us Well
And Said Goodnight To Us All.
Drink To Me, Drink To My Health
You Know I Can’t Drink Any More
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Ketch’s Knot
Dec 29th
Saddam will swing. Likely before sunset in Baghdad today. This is another huge milestone in how the Middle East confronts its future. Here’s to hoping that this brutal man’s death will help bring about peace.

From NBC News here:
Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, sentenced to death for his role in 148 killings in 1982, will have his sentence carried out by Sunday, NBC News reported Thursday. According to a U.S. military officer who spoke on condition of anonymity, Saddam will be hanged before the start of the Eid religious holiday, which begins at sundown Saturday.
The hanging could take place as early as Friday, NBC s Richard Engel reported.
The U.S. military received a formal request from the Iraqi government to transfer Saddam to Iraqi authorities, NBC reported on Thursday, which is one of the final steps required before his execution.
Why is it called Ketch’s Knot? Its named after the hangman who made it famous.
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Beatles Stamps
Dec 28th
A set of stamps featuring the Beatles Album covers are expected to be released in England on January 9th. I just ordered the First Day Cover, which features all of the stamps, canceled on the day of issue. The reverse of the envelope will feature the backs of the album covers. You can buy Beatles Stamps from the Royal Mail here.
The stamps are irregularly shaped to appear like a stack of albums. The wife must possess all things Beatles, so even as a sometimes philatelist, this is a must buy for me.





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Rehberg Fires Shriber
Dec 28th
I wrote about this last week. Turns out that Todd Shriber, the weasel press secretary for US Representative Denny Rehberg, was canned by Rehberg’s Chief of Staff for trying to hire a hacker to alter his college grades.

From the Helena Independent here:
HELENA — Todd Shriber, press secretary for Rep. Denny Rehberg, was fired Thursday, immediately after he confessed to trying to hire computer hackers to break into the computers at his former college.
Erik Iverson, Rehberg’s chief of staff, said Friday, that he learned of the hacking incident Thursday after Rehberg’s Washington, D.C., office was contacted by a reporter with the on-line computing journal NetworkWorld.
Iverson said he talked to Shriber, who explained his efforts to hire hackers beginning in August to break into the computers of Texas Christian University and inflating his grades.
“When he was finished, I terminated him,” Iverson said.
Shriber, 28, had worked for Rehberg for about a year.
Iverson said he was surprised to learn about Shriber’s hacking efforts. “Todd is a good person,” he said. “He just did an incredibly stupid thing and, sometimes, when you do those things, there are consequences for your actions.”
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Baby Gene Chop Shopping
Dec 28th
I doubt that this is a true story, or that Doctors would go along with a patient’s request for this, but it does pose an interesting ethical question. Should a parent that is disabled be allowed to genetically engineer a disabled child? Should you be allowed to request a dwarf? A deaf child? If homosexuality is truly a genetic function, how about a gay baby?

From the Washington Times here:
CHICAGO — The power to create “perfect” designer babies looms over the world of prenatal testing.
But what if doctors started doing the opposite?
Creating made-to-order babies with genetic defects would seem to be an ethical minefield, but to some parents with disabilities — say, deafness or dwarfism — it just means making babies like them.
And a recent survey of U.S. clinics that offer embryo screening suggests it’s already happening.
Three percent, or four clinics surveyed, said they have provided the costly, complicated procedure to help families create children with a disability.
Some doctors have denounced the practice, others question whether it’s true. Blogs are abuzz with the news, with armchair critics saying the phenomenon, if real, is taking the concept of designer babies way too far.
But the survey also has led to a debate about the definition of “normal” and inspires a glimpse into deaf and dwarf cultures where many people do not consider themselves disabled.
I think that parents who insist on creating handicapped children may not be mentally or emotionally fit to be a parent. They should be referred to a counselor by their doctor to deal with their own prejudices.
And remember, if they can identify the genes to make people a dwarf, or deaf, or gay, or color blind, then humanity is one step closer to a eugenics program in which undesirable genetic types are removed from the populace. The same people that would want to create a disabled baby are, in my opinion, on the same level ethically as anyone that would do genetic testing to weed out those traits in the human gene pool.
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I Feel Violated and Dirty
Dec 28th
My whole life has passed by so far without me sitting down on my living room sofa to watch violent gay porn. At least until last night.

We watched Jackass 2 on DVD. Those. Sick. Bastards! I was uncomfortable the entire time I was watching, and several times my wife had to leave the room. Once she puked in her mouth a little, but she’s pregnant, and I was surprised it didn’t happen more than just that one time.
But Knoxville’s gang of idiots have totally degraded from tasteless stunts to hard core man on man action. There was the streaking, the nut slaps, the glory hole and the snake, buttplay, and way too many ballsacks. I doubt I would have seen as much full frontal male nudity in most pornos.
Was it entertaining? Highly! I laughed many times, but I must confess that my favorite parts were when horrible injuries were inflicted. I took much delight when an anaconda munched on Johnny’s arm. But when it was over, I felt dirty.
Here’s to hoping they make Jackass 3, the plot of which should be a man orgy followed by the severing of limbs.
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Tired of Spam, God Deploys Undersea Firewall
Dec 27th
With his email inbox filling up with spam, and frustrated with the lack of a working technical solution to filter the flood of chain letters, pump and dump scams, and penis growth cream advertisements, God lashed out on Tuesday and severed the undersea cable to China.
With a flick of his almighty wrist, God created an undersea earthquake that measured precisely 7.1 on the human “Richter Scale.” The results of the sea floor upheaval was the snapping of the fiber optic cable to Taiwan, through which most of the Asia-Pacific region communicates with the Western Hemisphere.
Reached by email via Bishop Wilkerson, God justified his actions by saying, “I have a nice data pipeline hosted at Level 3, and I’m tired of the rates I’m forced to pay because of botnet attacks, scans, and the spam, spam spam. I mean, L3 has done a great job for me by filtering a lot of traffic at my borders, and I use all of the latest AV products, including a spam filter. But despite those actions, APNIC addies are still seen as the source of a lot of this malicious traffic. Enough is enough.”

From AFP here:
HONG KONG (AFP) – Internet and phone services have been disrupted across much of Asia on Wednesday after an earthquake damaged undersea cables, leaving one of the world’s most tech-savvy regions in a virtual blackout.
But officials could not put a timeframe on when business lines would be fixed. “It is not a matter of days,” said Hong Seoung-Yong, a ministry official handling the problem on Wednesday. “It will take longer than that to repair the damaged lines.”
A 7.1-magnitude earthquake off the coast of Taiwan on Tuesday night, which was followed by several smaller quakes in the region, apparently damaged the vast network of underwater cables that enables modern communication.
“The Internet capacity in Taiwan is about 40 percent now, so the service is jammed,” said a spokesman for Chunghwa Telecom, Taiwan’s largest phone company.
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Hemingway’s Horny Housecats
Dec 27th
There is trouble brewing down in Key West, Florida. The Hemingway House, where novelist Ernest Hemingway wrote the novel “A Farewell to Arms” is famous for its lineage of cats, each of which have six toes. All of the cats are descended from Hemingway’s cat Snowball. A neighbor down the street from the Hemingway House and museum became upset when one of the six-toed Tomcats started mating with her own cats. So she called the Federal government to do something about the Hemingway cats. If the Museum loses, there could be fines and the cats could be confiscated.
Here is a picture of Ivan, the orange Tomcat who is getting aggressive with the other kitties.

From USA Today here:
The legendary American novelist Ernest Hemingway lived in Key West for a decade in the 1930s, in a stone mansion on Whitehead Street with his wife, Pauline, and a six-toed cat named Snowball.
Hemingway divorced Pauline in 1939, but Snowball stayed on. Today, about 50 of Snowball’s descendants roam the grounds, to the delight of many tourists who visit the Hemingway Home and Museum. But the cats won’t be roaming much longer, if the federal government has its way.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has cited the museum for violating a 1966 federal animal welfare law, and has threatened to impose stiff fines or confiscate the cats if the Hemingway Home does not do more to control the felines.
The cats “are born and raised and live their lives in Key West,” she says. “They’ve been doing so for over 40 years.
The dispute began when a USDA inspector showed up at the museum in October 2003 in response to a complaint about the cats.
Much of the dispute revolves around the wanderings of Ivan, an orange tomcat born in 2004, the year Hurricane Ivan killed dozens of people in the Caribbean and the USA.
“I saw Ivan many times loose,” she says. “Ivan is a very unneutered, very macho male cat, and in each case, he had one of the street cats pinned down,” she says. “We have an ordinance that says a nuisance cat can be removed.”
I don’t know why the Feds are even involved. A city ordinance could easily clear all of this up. If you want to go the official site of the six-toed cats, click here.
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Christmas at Arlington National Cemetary
Dec 24th
It is a mild Christmas Eve in Washington DC. My Wife’s Grandmother is in town and we drove in to the city to see where her husband is interred. The wreaths in front of the grave markers are beautiful, and it adds to the peaceful tranquility of those hallowed grounds.

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The Night Before Christmas
Dec 24th
I stumbled across this the other day and wanted to share it with everyone. Its Walt Disney’s Silly Symphony, “The Night Before Christmas” featuring Santa Claus. Its cute and awesome. Click the pic below to watch the cartoon.
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Tracking Santa’s Sleigh
Dec 23rd
Its almost Christmas eve, which means that the military staffers and volunteers at NORAD will be answering phonecalls and responding to thousands of emails from children to provide updates on the Jolly Elf’s whereabouts. The official NORAD Santa tracking site is here.

NORAD carried out its first Santa tracking in 1958 after inheriting the tradition from CONAD. Since that time, Canadian and American men and women who work at NORAD have responded to phone calls from children personally. Additionally, media from all over the world call NORAD on Christmas Eve for updates on Santa’s location. Last year this Website was visited by millions of people who wanted to know Santa’s whereabouts. This year, the information is provided in six languages.
NORAD relies on many volunteers to help make Santa tracking possible. Hundreds of volunteers spend part of their Christmas Eve at the Santa Tracking Operations Center answering phones and emails to provide Santa updates to thousands of inquiring children worldwide.
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Dog Gone it, Diddy Did It!
Dec 22nd
I just found out on Drudge that Diddy has been selling his fabulous Sean John line of overpriced hooded jackets lined with genuine dog fur from the mean streets of China.

From the AP here:
NEW YORK – Macy’s has pulled from its shelves and its Web site two styles of Sean John hooded jackets, originally advertised as featuring faux fur, after an investigation by the nation’s largest animal protection organization concluded that the garments were actually made from a certain species of dog called “raccoon dog.”
“First these jackets were falsely advertised as faux fur, and then it turned out that the fur came from a type of dog,” said Wayne Pacelle, president and CEO of the Humane Society of the United States.
Pacelle added that the issue is an “industry-wide problem” and its investigation demonstrated that retailers and designers “aren’t paying close enough attention to the fur trim they are selling.” He added that the issue is especially problematic when “the fur is sourced from China where domestic dogs and cats and raccoon dogs are killed in gruesome ways.”
Puff Daddy rips off his customers anyways for the ridiculous prices of his clothing. The coat pictured above with the genuine Chinese dog fur is regularly priced at over 235 dollars. You would think for a price that high he would use domestic clothing manufacturers. But he outsources it so he can keep even more money. And he is obviously not checking on the quality of his garments.

Remember, any clothing with fur on it needs to be checked to ensure it was not made in China. China has no problem cutting corners and using dogs or any other type of roadkill it can find for its goods.
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50 Greatest Cartoons
Dec 22nd
As judged by the animation industry in 1994. Cityrag has compiled this list and managed to find all of the cartoons online. So if its a slow day, click your favorites and enjoy! Thanks to BWE for the link.
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Duke Lacrosse Whore Not Sure She was Raped
Dec 22nd
The whore who accused the Duke Lacrosse players of raping her finally changed her mind and decided that maybe she might not have been raped. The prosecutor, Mike Nifong, will drop the charges of rape against the Lacrosse players, but will still pursue charges of kidnapping and sexual assault.

From the AP here:
Prosecutors dropped rape charges Friday against three Duke University lacrosse players accused of attacking a stripper at a team party, but the three still face kidnapping and sexual offense charges, a defense attorney said.
Joseph Cheshire and attorneys for the other players have said for months the woman told several different versions of the alleged assault.
Cheshire said Friday that the accuser now says she does not know if she was penetrated, which he said led District Attorney Mike Nifong to dismiss the rape charges.
The players Dave Evans, Collin Finnerty and Reade Seligmann all say they are innocent.
The stupid whore seemed to know she was penetrated when she filed the charges. She was getting plenty of penetration according to the evidence, but she must have confused the Duke Lacrosse party with another gang bang. With so much sperm from so many men swishing around in her womb, she must have sounded like someone shaking a carton of Egg Nog when she danced.
The players should immediately sue Janette Rivers for falsely accusing them of rape and nearly ruining their lives. And while they are at it, they need to sue to get back the 400 bucks they spent for a strip show that she was too stoned to do.
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Hill Staffer Attempts to Hire Hackers
Dec 21st
Todd Shriber, the Communications Director for Montana Republican Congressman Denny Rehberg,?tried to hire hackers to break into his college in order to alter his Grade Point Average.? Apparently he had been lying about his GPA and needed it changed, pronto. Rather than coming out with the truth, he solicited people via email to commit felony computer fraud, and in the email corrspondence, he stated he understood the risk of jail time he was facing.
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The whole hilarious email exchange is here.? A writer for Network World did some digging and found out who Todd Shriber was, and the communications director admitted to the writer that he had made the solicitation, but “no action was performed.”?
From Network World here:
The communications director for Montana’s lone congressman solicited the services of two men he falsely believed to be criminally minded hackers-for-hire — with the expressed goal of jacking up his college GPA — during an exchange that spanned 22 e-mails over two weeks this past summer.
Todd Shriber, 28-year-old press aide to U.S. Rep. Denny Rehberg, R-Mont., e-mailed the security Web site attrition.org on Aug. 9, writing: “I need to urgently make contact with a hacker that would be interested in doing a one-time job for me. The pay would be good. I’m not sure what exactly the job would entail with respect to computer jargon, but I can go into rough detail upon making contact with a candidate.”
After initially denying knowledge of the exchange, Shriber told me this afternoon in the final of our three phone conversations: “I did something that’s greatly out of character for me and it’s a mistake that I regret.”
Two members of attrition.org, “Lyger” and “Jericho” (a.k.a. “security curmudgeon”) corresponded with Shriber and fooled him into believing that they would carry out his wishes, with Jericho warning him at one point: “You are soliciting me to break the law and hack into a computer across state lines. That is a federal offense and multiple felonies.”
Shriber wanted Lyger and Jericho to break into the computer system at Texas Christian University, from which he graduated in 2000.
In the final e-mail on Sunday, Aug. 27, Lyger tells Shriber that his hacking attempts had been detected and “we are SO busted.” He urges him to “duck and run if you can” in an exaggerated, obscenity-filled — and completely fictional — missive that put an end to their working relationship.
Shriber is a liar and an underhanded cheat.? And he is a dork because he uses a Jeff Gordon Nascar reference for his Yahoo email address.? Will he be fired?
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Man Catches 480LB Blue Marlin
Dec 21st
With a Speargun! This Florida man has set a world record for catching the largest fish ever with a spear gun. He just happened to be in the water at the time that he encountered the huge Blue Marlin. No one in their right mind would deliberately jump in the water with one of these animals. Click the photo to watch the amazing video.
He broke the previous record by over 200 pounds. It took 4 people to wrestle the fish aboard his boat.
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Virginia DMV Still Negligent
Dec 20th
Two Richmond VA men, Will Carsola and Dave Stewart went into a DMV in Richmond with outlandish disguises to get Drivers Licenses. They were making a prank film and wanted to capture on tape the incredulous looks of DMV employees who would refuse to issue licenses to idiots in disguises. But DMV issued the drivers licenses anyways. Dave and Will posted the video on YouTube. Click the photo below to see the video
So Will and Dave went back twice more, each time with more ridiculous disguises, including a red spray painted face. They remarked that they were treated like a terrorist, but were given a license anyways. Funny? Not really. The Virginia DMV has a history of issuing licenses to real terrorists. The terrorists who crashed flight 77 into the Pentagon on 9-11 received drivers licenses from a DMV at the Springfield Mall with the help of illegal aliens who helped forge some documents.
From NBC4 here:
The Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles said Wednesday it’s ordering two men to get their license photos retaken — this time without the red-painted skin, spray-on hair and fake teeth — or lose their driving privileges.
Will Carsola and Dave Stewart posted Internet videos of their pranks, which included scenes of Carsola spray-painting his face and neck bright red and Stewart painting the top of his head black and sticking a row of fake buckteeth in his mouth in an Asian caricature. They each enter the DMV office and return with real licenses with photos of their new likenesses.
Stewart and Carsola, both 27, said Wednesday they will get their “real” photos taken, and were surprised at how easy it was to get their driver’s licenses, outlandish getups notwithstanding.
DMV needs to get over their stupidity and fear of being politically correct and begin confronting suspicious persons that attempt to get identification. You can see a great Vent episode at Hot Air that deals with the VA DMV and its deadly shortcomings.
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Insider Attempted to Destroy Pharmacy Databases
Dec 20th
You don’t hear too much about logic bombs anymore. But one Medco systems administrator tried to launch a logic bomb and was busted by other sysadmins on the network. A logic bomb is a piece of code written to perform a damaging routine at a specific time or when the right condition is triggered. Usually logic bombs delete critical data or worse, encrypts data with a key known only to the attacker.

From the AP here:
NEWARK, N.J. – A Medco computer administrator upset over the possibility of losing his job planted an electronic “bomb” in the systems of one of the nation’s largest prescription drug management companies, prosecutors said Tuesday.
Even after surviving a round of layoffs, Yung-Hsun Lin, 50, kept the code in the system and tinkered with it in an attempt to set it off, prosecutors said. The bug eventually was discovered and neutralized by the company.
Among the targeted databases was one that tracked patient-specific drug interaction conflicts, prosecutors said. Before dispensing medication, pharmacists routinely examine that information to determine whether conflicts exist among a patient’s prescribed medicines.
In addition to the drug-interaction information, other data on the targeted servers included patients’ clinical analysis, rebate applications, billing and managed-care processing.
Authorities said that on Oct. 3, 2003, Lin created the bomb designed to delete virtually all data from the 70 targeted servers by modifying existing computer code and adding new code. It allegedly was set to detonate automatically on April 23, 2004 ? his birthday.
Due to a programming error, it didn’t go off. Even after surviving a round of layoffs, prosecutors said, Lin modified the bomb’s code to have it detonate on his next birthday. But the company found and disabled it before it could cause any damage.
The New York Times has another little bit of info on the attacker here:
Mr. Lin, who was born in Taiwan and came to the United States in 1987, used a Chinese translator during a brief court hearing Tuesday at which his bail was set at $500,000. He will formally enter a plea at arraignment, scheduled for Jan. 3. He could face 10 years in prison if he is convicted.
So the pharmacy company decided to grant access to critical backend databases to a non-English speaking foreign national? That was a risky move. They need to do more checking around to see if other crimes, such as intellectual property was stolen too.
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