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Archive for November, 2009
Botnets Download KidzPr0n Then Calls FBI for Lulz
Nov 9th
The old dirty trick: Swatting. Swatting is where you trick the police into sending swat teams into a stranger’s house to terrify the family. The new dirty trick? Use your botnet to frame strangers for trafficking in child pornography.
From the AP here:
Of all the sinister things that Internet viruses do, this might be the worst: They can make you an unsuspecting collector of child pornography.
Heinous pictures and videos can be deposited on computers by viruses — the malicious programs better known for swiping your credit card numbers. In this twist, it’s your reputation that’s stolen.
Pedophiles can exploit virus-infected PCs to remotely store and view their stash without fear they’ll get caught. Pranksters or someone trying to frame you can tap viruses to make it appear that you surf illegal Web sites.
Whatever the motivation, you get child porn on your computer — and might not realize it until police knock at your door.
Such situations are complicated by the fact that actual pedophiles often blame viruses — a defense rightfully viewed with skepticism by law enforcement.
One case involved Michael Fiola, a former investigator with the Massachusetts agency that oversees workers’ compensation.
In 2007, Fiola’s bosses became suspicious after the Internet bill for his state-issued laptop showed that he used 4 1/2 times more data than his colleagues. A technician found child porn in the PC folder that stores images viewed online.
Fiola was fired and charged with possession of child pornography, which carries up to five years in prison. He endured death threats, his car tires were slashed and he was shunned by friends.
Fiola and his wife fought the case, spending $250,000 on legal fees. They liquidated their savings, took a second mortgage and sold their car.
An inspection for his defense revealed the laptop was severely infected. It was programmed to visit as many as 40 child porn sites per minute — an inhuman feat. While Fiola and his wife were out to dinner one night, someone logged on to the computer and porn flowed in for an hour and a half.
Prosecutors performed another test and confirmed the defense findings. The charge was dropped — 11 months after it was filed.
Yet another reason to keep your computer safe. I admit I find it hard to pity someone that allowed their computer to become victimized like this, but patches are free to download. And prosecutors and defense attorneys alike need to ramp up their computer knowledge so they understand digital evidence.
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Loading ...Why New Age Spiritualists Are Idiots
Nov 9th
James Ray, the self-help guru, lured about 60 idiots out into the Arizona desert so he could starve them for three days and then try to bake them in a home-made oven he jokingly called a “sweat lodge.” Three of the idiots died. If you go back and read some of the comments I have received on those stories, it seems the most flak I’ve received is because I properly refer to the victims as “idiots.” Make no mistake, the definition fits. They may have been intellectual in many areas of their life, but when it came to the God-granted gift of common sense, and the god-given instinct of judgment, they chose to blind themselves. This made them idiots.
Carl Welser has a great definition of why this is so:
Where have all the guiding principles gone? For lack of guiding principles, idiocy rules the day.
We are living in an age of irresponsibility. Because a few people act irresponsibly, the many are held to a higher standard of responsibility. Weighty rules designed to force responsibility pave the road to idiocy.
Idiocy is running rampant among us. We may have difficulty agreeing what levels of idiocy we face today. But we dare not lose sight of the truth that every child must grow up imbued with a workable set of guiding principles, else irresponsibility becomes the rule.
Simply stated, idiocy rises out of a lack of agreeable and workable guiding principles.
Idiocy is not necessarily deadly. Acts of idiocy still stand a step above some truly evil stuff. It is beyond idiocy when parents murder their own children in bizarre fashions. Or when people entrust themselves to die at the behest of an overwrought guru in an unventilated community sweat lodge, as happened last month.
Acts like that are beyond the pale of idiocy. Those actions are lost in the realms of insanity.
The primary tenet of liberalism and new age spiritualism is “do not judge.” The second is “keep an open mind.” Therefore, without judgment, there can be no right or especially, wrong. If you do not allow yourself to ask whether or not something is good, successful, correct and right, because to do so would be to violate your prime creed, then without guiding principles, idiocy ensues.
And anyone who participates in rituals that include a teepee which has a yin-yang symbol surrounded by pink dolphins is an idiot times three. Correct me if I’m wrong, but neither the Indians nor the Chinese were pink dolphin experts.
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(1 votes, average: 6.00 out of 6) Loading ...Army Shrink to Infidels: I Behead You and Pour Boiling Oil Down Your Gullet
Nov 9th
Major Nidal Malik Hasan tricked his fellow doctors at Army Reed Hospital to attend a presentation of his- supposedly on a medical issue. Then he did the ol’ switcheroo and did his presentation on the Koran and how all indidels should be beheaded and have boiling oil poured down their headless gullets. Yet no one bothered to report this to the authorities.
From the Telegraph here:
Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the gunman who killed 13 at America’s Fort Hood military base, once gave a lecture to other doctors in which he said non-believers should be beheaded and have boiling oil poured down their throats.
He also told colleagues at America’s top military hospital that non-Muslims were infidels condemned to hell who should be set on fire. The outburst came during an hour-long talk Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, gave on the Koran in front of dozens of other doctors at Walter Reed Army Medical Centre in Washington DC, where he worked for six years before arriving at Fort Hood in July.
Colleagues had expected a discussion on a medical issue but were instead given an extremist interpretation of the Koran, which Hasan appeared to believe. Fellow doctors have recounted how they were repeatedly harangued by Hasan about religion and that he openly claimed to be a “Muslim first and American second.”
One Army doctor who knew him said a fear of appearing discriminatory against a Muslim soldier had stopped fellow officers from filing formal complaints.
Hasan, armed with two handguns including a semi-automatic pistol, walked into a processing centre for soldiers deploying to Iraq and Afghanistan, where he killed 13 and injured more than 30.
Score one for political correctness. Fear of reporting a deranged Muslim out of fear of being perceived as racist caused the deaths of 13.
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(1 votes, average: 6.00 out of 6) Loading ...7 PM Music: Weezer – “(If You’re Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To”
Nov 8th
I love Weezer and downloaded their new album from iTunes Yesterday. Amazon has it too, so click below to get it from there. I love this new song and hope you do too.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...How the Government Spots Terrorists
Nov 8th
The Federal Government is urging everyone not to blame Islam for the recent massacre at Texas Fort Hood Army base by a radical islamic crazed psychiatrist who shouted “Alahu Akbar” as he slaughtered 13 and wounded 29. Finally, a Senator is going to call this like he sees it: A Terrorist Attack.
Under Obama, this is how well DHS looks for terrorists
From the Wall St. Journal here:
A senior U.S. senator on Sunday said the shootings at Fort Hood could have been a terrorist attack, and that he would launch a congressional investigation into whether the U.S. military could have prevented it.
Sen. Joe Lieberman, an independent from Connecticut who heads the Senate’s Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, said initial evidence suggested that the alleged shooter, Army Major Nidal Hasan, was a “self-radicalized, home-grown terrorist” who had turned to Islamic extremism while under personal stress.
Mr. Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, had opened fire Thursday at a soldier processing center at Fort Hood, Tex., killing 13 and wounding 29 in the worst mass shooting on a military facility in the U.S.
I don’t need a Congressional inquiry to call it like it is. This was a terrorist attack.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Mini-Me Has a Little Legal Problem
Nov 7th
Dimunitive actor Verne Troyer has been accused of stalking an ex girlfriend.
From the Telegraph here:
Former beauty queen Yvette Monet, 25, alleges that Troyer, 40, sent her abusive and threatening emails and text messages after they split up.
A judge in LA temporarily banned Mr Troyer from coming within 100 yards of her home, work or vehicle after she told a court: “I’m afraid for my life”.
Ms Monet explained that she split up from Mr Troyer several months ago, and that he bombarded her with messages referring to her as a “hooker”.
The model also said he warned her she “better watch out” because he had friends with guns.
“I have moved on, [but] he keeps emailing me, calling me and texting me awful messages like ‘I hope God is with you’… Calling me names like hooker,” Monet wrote in a court declaration obtained by E! News.
“He will not stop. I’ve asked him more than 10 times to leave me alone… He said that he won’t stop because he doesn’t want me to see anyone else.
This drunken dwarf seems to have a superpower to attract hot women. But if she wants to stay away, why not just buy some stilts?
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Dirty Soccer
Nov 7th
I was out with friends last night at a pub when I saw this video on the sports channel. Elizabeth Lambert of University of New Mexico punches, face kicks and yanks pony tails all throughout the match in which they ultimately lost to Brigam Young University by 1 to 0.
From ESPN here:
Video footage of the game shows Lambert, a junior, committing a series of excessively rough plays, including kicking, tackles, a forearm shiver to the back — in response to an elbow to the ribs — and yanking BYU forward Kassidy Shumway to the ground by her hair.
Lambert was assessed a yellow card during the 76th minute, apparently for tripping.
On Friday, Lambert apologized for her actions, saying she was “deeply and wholeheartedly regretful.”
“I let my emotions get the best of me in a heated situation. I take full responsibility for my actions and accept any punishment felt necessary,” Lambert said. “This is in no way indicative of my character or the soccer player that I am. I am sorry to my coaches and teammates for any and all damages I have brought upon them.”
Lizzie, this is precisely indicative of both your character and your playing abilities. You are a cheater and you are not as good as your peers if you have to resort to playing this way. Nice way to end your soccer career.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Obama Brings Slackerdom to New Heights
Nov 6th
Unemployment topped 10 percent for the first time since 1983. This means that one in ten of us are sitting on their ass, probably getting high and making crappy performance art. Thank you President Obama for your sound economic policies that can finally make being a slacker mainstream.
From AP here:
The unemployment rate has hit double digits for the first time since 1983 — and is likely to go higher.
The 10.2 percent jobless rate for October shows how weak the economy remains even though it is growing. Rising unemployment also could threaten the recovery if it saps consumers’ confidence and makes them more cautious about spending as the holiday season approaches.
Nearly 16 million people can’t find jobs even though the worst recession since the Great Depression has apparently ended.
The unemployed rate jumped to 10.2 percent, the highest since April 1983, from 9.8 percent in September, the Labor Department said Friday. The economy shed a net total of 190,000 jobs, more than economists had expected.
I really don’t think the recession has ended. And with so many people out of work I don’t see how it can get better soon.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...The Obama Angel Drumline
Nov 6th
I have no idea what these ornaments are supposed to represent? Is the manufacturer saying that if a schoolbus full of bandmembers explodes then the drumline gets to take their drums to heaven with them?
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Fort Hood Massacre
Nov 6th
A muslim Army Major, Nidal Malik Hasan, who was a psychiatrist and treated soldiers returning from the war went on his own jihad, killing 13 and wounding 30 at Fort Hood Army Base in Texas.
Some great comments at the Breitbart site:
doogle November 5th, 2009 – 7:46 pm
Thank God we don’t allow profiling…james November 5th, 2009 – 8:01 pm
wow… whether it is considered poliitically incorrect or not, having a psychiatrist who has converted to be a Muslim, and has publicly expressed his displeasure with Americans being in Iraq and Afghanistan, being happy about that Muslim killing people at an Army recruiting centre earlier this year and at the same time having him counsel troops going to and coming back from the war…. what the hell were they thinking in the military? IDIOTSNo Convert November 5th, 2009 – 8:05 pm
A cousin, Nader Hasan, told Fox News Malik Hasan had “always been a Muslim” and was not a convert as had been reported.
You don’t have freedom of speech in the US Military. There are restrictions on things you say, and someone should have put a stop to this man long ago.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Reagan Building
Nov 5th
I’m at the beautiful Ronald Reagan building in downtown DC and blogging is light. I’ll be back later with fresh content. In the mean time check out the archives or click on the music category to listen to my tunes.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Old Ass Hippies Infiltrate Nuke Base
Nov 4th
This story is full of Government and Military WIN. 5 ancient codgers and grannies broke into a nuclear missile base to protest nuclear weapons. The government responded exactly the way they should:
From Ekkllesia.com here:
A Catholic priest and a nun, both in their 80s, were hooded, handcuffed and held faced down on the ground for four hours before being arrested after a protest against nuclear weapons yesterday.
Father Bill ‘Bix’ Bischel, 81, from Tacoma, Washington and Sister Anne Montgomery, 83, of New York, were arrested along with three others at Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor.
They entered the base in the early hours of the morning on All Souls Day with the intention of calling attention to the “illegality and immorality” of the existence of the Trident weapons system.
Susan Crane, 65, of Baltimore, Lynne Greenwald, 60, of Bremerton, Washington and Steve Kelly, 60, of Oakland, California were also arrested.
The group entered the base through the perimeter fence and then made their way to the Strategic Weapons Facility – Pacific (SWFPAC). They cut through the first chainlink fence surrounding SWFPAC and then cut the next double layered fence, which was both chain link and barbed wire, and entered the grounds of SWFPAC.
As they walked, they carried a banner with the words: “Disarm Now Plowshares : Trident: Illegal + Immoral”.
When they were caught, they were thrown to the ground face down, handcuffed and hooded. They were then held there for four hours on the wet, cold ground. Still hooded, they were carried out through the holes which they had made in the fence for questioning by the base security, FBI and NCIS.
Moonbattery says that the group was pretty bizarre:
As they walked onto the grounds, they held a banner saying…… “Disarm Now Plowshares : Trident: Illegal + Immoral”, left a trail of blood and hammered on the roadway, hammered on the fences around SWFPAC and scattered sunflower seeds throughout the base.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Googley Eyed Governor Accepts Free World Series Tickets
Nov 4th
Googley-eyed New York Governor David Paterson accepted free baseball tickets to the World Series, featuring the NY Yankees. The problem is that Major League Baseball is a state registered lobbyist, so it made the free ticket gift illegal. As to why a blind guy would want to go to a baseball game he couldn’t see is anyone’s guess.
From NYDailyNews here:
Gov. Paterson insisted Tuesday he always planned to pay for four of the five tickets he got for Game 1 of the World Series.
He told reporters he thought he was entitled to a free seat as governor because the World Series represents an important event for the state.
“We paid for all the rest of the tickets,” Paterson said Tuesday. “The issue as to what I should be doing is important.”
A Paterson spokeswoman said checks to cover four of the five $425 seats, which were behind home plate, have been mailed. A team spokeswoman said the club got payment for two of the seats.
Public officers are barred from taking gifts from groups with business before the state that cost more than, say, a cup of coffee.
You could put the governor in a room with the baseball game on TV in surround sound and just tell him he’s at the game.
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(1 votes, average: 6.00 out of 6) Loading ...I Voted for McDonnell
Nov 3rd
I just got back from the polls in Virginia where I filled in the bubble for Bob McDonnell for Governor. I think his win in Virginia will send a huge slap in the face to Obama.
I didn’t know, but Fairfax county went backwards in technology to a paper ballot. I understand that electronic voting is more expensive but it is much easier to tamper with old school paper ballots. Perhaps the left was successful in demonizing electronic voting.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Trade Center Steel Goes Home in USS New York
Nov 2nd
The large Navy ship, the LPD 21, USS New York, steams past ground zero in New York City. Its hull contains steel from the World Trade Center. The Navy will never forget.
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(1 votes, average: 6.00 out of 6) Loading ...Saving the Turtles
Nov 2nd
I go through a lot of Diet Coke. I buy them by the case at Sam’s Club, and as a result, I throw away a lot of plastic soda-rings. For a while after I first got married, Jess used to go behind me, pick the rings out of the trash and cut them up with scissors, to prevent sea turtles from somehow strangling themselves on them. I would protest on two counts- first, don’t garbage pick, because Ewww! and second, we don’t dump Fairfax County garbage into the freakin’ ocean. I was pretty sure the turtles were safe.
She doesn’t cut them up any more.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...That’s a Lot of Bacon
Nov 2nd
This AP photo shows a huge wild hogzilla bagged in Alabama. The caption reads:
In this Thursday Oct 28, 2009 photo, Hunter Adam Stagner and Matt Pryor killed this 780-pound feral hog in north Mobile County, Ala. The massive beast is one of the biggest free-ranging hogs ever bagged by a hunter. The boar measured 6 feet 11 inches long, and 3 1/2 inch-long cutter, bottom tusks.
I think if I were out hunting for deer, I would shart if I stumbled across a huge wild boar.
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(1 votes, average: 6.00 out of 6) Loading ...Not a Pumpkin Rooster
Nov 1st
Cartney went trick-or-treating as Nemo last night. As he walks down the street in this costume, his tail fins swish back and forth and its adorable. One of our neighbors said “So cute! What is he? A Pumpkin rooster?” She obviously had no children of her own. Or knows anyone else with kids either, apparently.
Not everyone was home. Cartney didn’t respond well to this fact. He would knock on a door and if no one answered, he would have a near-meltdown, shouting “Trick or treat! Yeeerrgh!” and then smash his pumpkin full of candy onto the screendoor of the house. Shaking down strangers for candy is serious business to the little fella.
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(1 votes, average: 6.00 out of 6) Loading ...Facebook Hell
Nov 1st
I’m not on Facebook. This video reminds me of why. Look I think I have an awesome blog which draws about a thousand of lookie-loos per day, which is more than the traffic I would get if I just stuck to something like a social networking site. But I do know about Facebook and all of its drawbacks. This video best represents the hellish reasons why I refuse to join:
Man in the Box 2013 Facebook Abuse – Watch more Funny Videos
But if you want to share this video on Facebook, click the share icon below and let all of your friends know about it! Thanks to Dan for sharing this with me!
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