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Archive for August, 2007
No Second Wife for You!
Aug 7th
An American plumber converts to Islam and then thinks that his religion allows him to take on a second, younger, hotter wife. So he pushes his own wife into going along with it. She violently disagrees.
From Philly.com here:
A Muslim man who had taken a second wife in Morocco earlier this year was shot to death in his bed on the day he was to travel there, and his first wife has not been ruled out as his killer.
Jereleigh Morton’s first wife, Myra, told police she chased the intruder who shot him Sunday in their $1 million suburban home. But police found no signs of a break-in and focused their attention on the victim’s marriages after reading Myra Morton’s diaries.Her 47-year-old husband was shot twice, at least once in the head. A gun holster was found on a dresser, and a handgun was outside a sliding glass door that leads from the bedroom to the yard.
Myra Morton, 47, had reluctantly agreed to her husband’s second marriage and even traveled to Morocco this year to sanction it under Muslim law, authorities said. Prosecutors, however, think her husband may have married the other woman — a woman in her 20s whom he met on the Internet — even earlier than Myra knew.
Myra Morton wrote in her diary that her husband married the Moroccan woman in March. “Before this he was showing strange behavior to me, going out staying late, on computer all the time,” she wrote, according to the affidavit.
She discovered that her husband had sent the woman money for a dowry.
Myra Morton wrote that she went to Morocco and even ran around to get the paperwork in order, only to have her husband grow increasingly aloof.
Ibrahim Hooper, a spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said that a minority of Muslims take second wives, and that Islamic scholars would differ on whether one could do so while living in the United States.
The Mortons converted to Islam about 20 years ago. They lived in a small city row house until reportedly receiving an $8 million medical malpractice settlement in 2005 over their teenage daughter’s death. Jereleigh retired from his job as a plumber to dabble in real estate.
Why the hell does CAIR get a mention in this article, plus, when does any justice system in this country give two rat turds what Islamic scholars think about taking multiple wives in the United States? I have news for the followers of Mo. Bigamy is illegal in all 50 states, even if you are Muslim.
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Aug 7th
Its time to upgrade again, especially if you haven’t upgraded in a while. Two words you don’t want to see when it comes to the software that sits on the front-end of your website is “Zero-Day” and “Worm.”
Researcher Ben Flesch discovered seven vulnerabilities, some of which are remotely exploitable and require no administrative account access. And he created a proof of concept worm that can go around patching vulnerable servers. While its cool, it also means that hackers can reverse-engineer that code and create a worm that goes around mass-defacing sites or injecting shellcode into systems.
Patch now by going here.
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Aug 7th
This was found from a link on Drudge today. I had written previously about China employing electro-shocks to torture teens to help “cure” their so-called “internet addicitions.” And the government, which was running these torture sessions, were charging the kids’ families up to ten years’ worth of salaries to dole out this “cure.”
Well, I guess the program wasn’t working because now there is a new experimental program starting up, and they are looking for some volunteers to be cured of their cyber-addictions.
From Reuters here:
China is launching an experimental summer camp for 40 youngsters to try to wean them off their Internet addiction. The 10-day program would accept youngsters aged between 14 and 22 once they had undergone a psychological test and evaluation.
About 2.6 million — or 13 percent — of China’s 20 million Internet users under 18 are classed as addicts (by the communist chinese government).
The youngsters at the summer camp would be treated for depression, fear, unwillingness to interact with others, panic and agitation. It would appear to be offering a softer option than the Internet Addiction Treatment Centre near Beijing which uses a blend of therapy and military drills to treat children addicted to online games, Internet pornography and cybersex.
In a joint effort with the camp, Shanghai’s education commission has organized a volunteer group to patrol the city streets and stop minors entering Internet cafes.
I wonder if the groups stopping teens are the same groups used to destroy family dogs in the streets because the government did not want to spend 35 cents per animal on rabies vaccines?
Internet addicts in China don’t go around killing dogs in the streets.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Growing Pains
Aug 6th
As a parent, I have yet to experience my child doing stupid, painful things. But I don’t know who to sympathize with more in the picture below- the kid or the mom.
“Eat your green beans, or no dessert for you.”
“AAaaiiigghhh! Mama, my gdose!”
Fail.
The bad thing is that looks like a run-of-the-mill restaurant fork. This is yet another reason parents don’t often go out to eat.
Thanks to Neatorama and 24.com.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Priceless Art Stolen From Museum
Aug 6th
Sounds like a job for the FBI’s Art Crime Team. Maybe they should setup a field office in France.
Four works of art, including the Sisley piece pictured below called “Lane of Poplars at Moret-sur-Loing” were stolen by masked and helmeted men.
From Reuters here:
Armed thieves marched into an open museum in the southern French city of Nice and stole four paintings by Impressionists Monet and Sisley, and Flemish painter Jan Brueghel the Elder, police said on Monday.
The four men, wearing masks and helmets, forced staff at Nice’s Cheret Museum to lie on the ground on Sunday before they took the works of art and left at around 1 p.m.Police said the men were probably working to order as the stolen works — Claude Monet’s “Cliffs near Dieppe,” Alfred Sisley’s “Lane of Poplars at Moret-sur-Loing,” and Brueghel’s “Allegory of Water” and “Allegory of Earth” are well known, making them hard to sell.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...White Marlin Open Underway
Aug 6th
Over 3 Million dollars in prize money to the team that catches the biggest white marlin off the coast of Ocean City, MD this week. A photo of last year’s largest Blue Marlin is below. Its 737 pounds.
My brother has a boat in the competition again this year. You can track it at this link here.
Strategies on how to rig the lines and lures is available here.
And why is the White Marlin so difficult to catch? Its because they do not just swim up and eat the bait. The angler must watch as the big fish smacks at the bait with its long sword bill, and then allow the bait to sink by free-spooling the correct rod. This tricks the fish into thinking that the bait was stunned, and only then will the fish try to bite the bait. As explained at the official WMO website here:
The white will sometimes take minutes to look over the baits and to decide if he is interested enough to eat. It can be very frustrating for the angler as he races from one rod to another, trying to guess which bait the fish will choose. The fisherman must use all his skills to lure the marlin to strike. Sometimes the angler will quickly reel the bait away from the fish in the hope that the marlin will strike out of anger. Often the white will club the bait with its bill. When this happens, the angler must “free spool” or let out line to imitate a stunned bait. At that point, the marlin may mouth the bait to see if it’s to his liking. The angler must now make another decision. If he lets the marlin mouth the bait too long, the marlin may drop it. If he tries to set the hook too soon, the fish may not have enough of the bait for the hook to stick.
Update! Intrinsic, my brother’s boat in the tournament, caught 5 white marlin today, and one of them weighed 71.5 pounds, and is currently the big prize leader. That fish is possibly worth 2.6 million dollars, but there are lots of fishing days left.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...His Shoes! Did You See That?!!
Aug 6th
I caught bits and pieces of the X-Games in the pub over the weekend, including the part that showed Jake Brown take a four story dive from a skateboard. It was the most wince-inducing pummelling I have seen in a long time.
Most of the judges were impressed that Jake did a 720 in competition. Listen to the video below and you will find that one judge was amazed at Jake’s shoes.
Reports say that Jake had a bruised liver and bruised lungs, but amazingly no broken bones. Jake even got up and walked away from the fall.
Seriously, tho- Why would anyone want to stand on a skateboard and go down this ramp like this? Does it get them lots of cute and intelligent women? No? I think they do it so they can be admired by other dudes.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Great Beach Weekend
Aug 6th
We had the first travel away from home weekend with the baby, and it went very well. In fact, it went so well we may have to do it again very soon. We took a trip to Hampton Roads to visit family, who were wonderful enough to watch the baby while we went to Virginia Beach and to a local pub for drinks.
This was the first time that my wife has really been separated from the baby since he was born 7 weeks ago, and allowing anyone to babysit, even family, was tough for her.
At one point we were both holding hands and bobbing up and down in the ocean water as the swells washed into shore to the delighted squeals of other tourists and beach-goers. Not too far from us a school of bait fish were jumping out of the water, and a chevron of Pelicans were skimming the waves in perfect formation. My wife turned to me and said, “I miss the baby.”
To which I replied, “What??! Why??!”
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...10-Day All-Bran Challenge
Aug 2nd
This commercial is an example of genius marketing. Need to feel invigorated and replenished with energy? Its what the guy says in the commercial, but I don’t think that is the message this commercial is attempting to convey. Not really. It just makes you have to poo. A LOT. Like a steaming pile of bricks dumped on the ground.
Thanks to BWE for the link!
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Man on the Moon
Aug 2nd
I was in kindergarten the last time man walked on the moon. And it looks like I will have waited 47 years before it happened again. NASA says that we will go back there around 2020 or so.
And when we go, we will be going in a spacecraft that looks much like the capsules used during the Apollo series, called the Orion. Great photos of the Orion and the Constellation program is here, and worth checking out.
From CNET here:
NASA officials said Wednesday that the space agency is on track to launch its first flight test in September 2008 of the Orion spacecraft, the successor to the space shuttle that’s expected to take astronauts back to the moon by 2020.
NASA is halfway through the key portion of its contract with Lockheed Martin, which is building the spacecraft, before it begins tests at the White Sands Missile Range next fall, according to Skip Hatfield, Orion manager at NASA’s Johnson Space Center.
“We’re making great progress,” Hatfield said during a press conference here at NASA Ames Research Center. The conference was organized to provide an update on the progress of NASA’s development of the Orion spacecraft, as part of the Constellation Program.
And have you seen Google Moon? Its like Google Earth, but its the Moon. I suggest you zoom in closely to look at the surface contents.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Giant Newborn Baby Girl
Aug 2nd
Thanks to Neatorama for the link to the Flikr site showing Ron Mueck’s sculpture being installed at the Ft. Worth modern art museum. I would love to be able to see some of this odd and creepily lifelike artwork.
“A Girl” is prepared to be installed for the Ron Mueck exhibition at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. The exhibition is on view at the Modern through October 21.
My own kid looked something like this (but scaled down, of course) when he was born- puffy, wrinkled and unhappy.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Minnesota Bridge Collapse
Aug 2nd
It is way too early to know the exact cause behind the catastrophic failure of the 35W Bridge in Minneapolis. But one fact is already beginning to emerge- someone made the bad decision to ignore DHS risks and safety assessments.
Minnesota has been given over 150 Million dollars in Homeland Security Funding since 2002. Along with that funding came federal guidelines on how the funds should be spent, with the majority of it going toward law enforcement. But a good chunk of it was supposed to be used to determine critical infrastructure risks, not only to terrorism, but also to natural and other disasters. And such risk assessments were done on the 35W bridge, and those risks were reported back up the chain to DHS for use in calculating funding and threat analysis.
The White House was quick to point out that they had the data on that specific bridge. Remember, President Bush was burned once by a state that ignored all of the DHS assessments and refused to implement the emergency plans when a disaster loomed- remember hurricane Katrina?
From the AP here:
The White House said Thursday that an inspection two years ago found structural deficiencies in the highway bridge that buckled during evening rush hour in Minneapolis.
White House press secretary Tony Snow said the Interstate 35W span rated 50 on a scale of 120 for structural stability.“This doesn’t mean there was a risk of failure, but if an inspection report identifies deficiencies, the state is responsible for taking corrective actions,” he said. The bridge was 40 years old.
This bridge was being resurfaced at the time of collapse, and I do not know what other construction was taking place. But if the deficiencies noted in previous reports went unheeded, as looks to be the case, the Minnesota government may be to blame.
And I’m waiting for some Democrat somewhere to blame this on Bush.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...iPatch Before You Get iPwn3d
Aug 1st
Did you know that Apple has its own patching festival? On Tuesday they released 48 patches for OSX and other Mac software, including critical updates for the iPhone. I call Tuesday “iBlack Tuesday” for Mac owners who had to go through the very stressful procedure of updating their systems.
I’m the iHacker, and you are iPwn3d.
From Brian Krebs article in the WaPo here:
Apple on Tuesday pushed out security updates to fix at least four dozen security holes in its Mac OS X operating system and other software. Perhaps most notable among the patches are several designed to plug security holes in Apple’s much-hyped iPhone. Also included in the patch bundles was another set of security fixes for the beta version of Apple’s Safari browser designed for use on Microsoft Windows machines.
Apple reports that iPhone users will need to fetch the fixes via iTunes. The instructions, per Apple’s Web site:
Apple appears to have fixed a few vulnerabilities in its implementation of Samba, a suite of programs that facilitate file-sharing between OS X and Windows computers. Exploit code showing bad guys exactly how to attack the flaw to compromise vulnerable Mac systems has been posted online.
Wow, 48 fixes for flaws at once? This surely means that some vulnerabilities were languishing for quite some time pending a patch.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...CBS New Reality Show- Kid Nation
Aug 1st
40 children without parents, stuck in a Ghost Town for 40 days and 40 nights. What could possibly go wrong? Will it be Lord of the Flies, or will it be like that episode of Star Trek where there were no adults? I loathe reality television gameshows, but I might check this one out to watch little kids completely freak out and run around with sharpened sticks.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...What’s Wrong With People?
Aug 1st
I had heard about the problem they are having in Orosi, California earlier this year. Some stupid disgusting woman keeps having babies and dumping them in local dumpsters. Three so far, and they were genetically proven to come from the same woman. Two were found in time and rescued. One died.
So what does the city do? Why invent a wonderful international symbol bumpersticker of depravity! This will be placed on all of the dumpsters behind grocery stores to kinda remind the sicko baby-dumping bitch that she could drop the baby off at the hospital. Think it will work? Thanks to Neatorama.
Disturbing decal: School official Cyndee Garcia shows off a sticker that will soon be placed in various locations in Orosi, Calif., in hope of dissuading mothers from abandoning their babies. Three newborns, all genetically linked to the same mother, have been left in the same neighborhood in the last few years. The most recent one, a girl, died.
They have made an arrest in this case. A 22 year old woman named Nancy Ortiz is in jail and cops are pretty sure its her. DNA confirms that she is the mother of the dead baby girl.
From the WashingtonPost here:
Ortiz was being held without bail in a Tulare County jail on suspicion of homicide, child endangerment and abandonment, said Lt. Keith Douglass of the Tulare County Sheriff’s Department.
The first newborn was discovered Feb. 10, 2005, a barely breathing boy swaddled in a blanket on a bench a block from Ortiz’s home, the umbilical cord still hanging from his tiny body. On Jan. 8, 2006, a resident discovered a full-term baby girl inside a pickup two blocks away, clothed in an undershirt and pants. Those babies became wards of the state.
Then a neighbor in Ortiz’s subdivision found the baby girl, enveloped in a sweat shirt and deserted in the back of a truck on Dec. 3. A coroner determined she was alive for less than a day and had died of exposure to the cold.
Genetic tests have since confirmed that Ortiz was Angelita’s mother, and officials said there was an “extremely high probability” that she also gave birth to the other deserted newborns.
Ortiz’s toddler and another 4-year-old child have been placed in protective custody.
California and 46 other states allow parents to legally abandon a child at a hospital or other designated safe zones within 72 hours of birth, no questions asked.
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