Friday, December 30, 2005

Unbuffered Leftest Rhetoric

Well the MSM blatantly uses known lefties for their experts now -- got to love the desperation.

ABC Fails to Note Bush-Bashing “Constitutional Scholar” Writes for Far-Left Magazine | NewsBusters.org

Without identifying David Cole as the “legal affairs correspondent” for the far-left magazine The Nation, Friday’s World News Tonight on ABC featured his denigration of the probe into who leaked the secret eavesdropping story to the New York Times and his expert declaration that “the President of the United States violated a clear criminal prohibition on warrantless wiretapping.”

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Why Speed Cameras are Bad

I cannot stand the idea of speed cameras or stop light cameras for that matter... In this case, if you follow all the links, you will find that the man was actaully going 18mph but the camera got him going 47mph -- what if he wasn't an engineer. BTW engineers rock!
Engineer Bryn Carlyon was issued a ticket by a traffic speed camera in Cardiff, UK. But he used multiple timed snaps by the camera, plus a little basic math, to prove that he could not have been traveling at the speed on his citation.


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Thursday, December 29, 2005

Just an FYI

Another flaw and an FYI for those that read this blog!
Techworld.com - Hackers exploit Windows flaw
Security firms have warned that patched systems running Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 can be successfully attacked by malicious hackers. The attacks can be carried out thanks to a newly discovered vulnerability in those operating systems' handling of corrupted .WMF (Windows Metafile) graphic files.

To the ACLU -- Make Up Your Mind!

The ACLU cannot make up their mind! They have campaigned against "racial profile" in favor for "behavioral profile" over and over and over.... Now they are proving they don't want "behavioral profiling" either -- please, MAKE UP YOUR MIND. (Hat tip: Michelle Malkin)

American Civil Liberties Union : ACLU Letter to the House Urging Members to Co-Sponsor the End Racial Profiling Act of 2004
Law enforcement based on general characteristics such as race, religion and national origin, rather than on the observation of an individual's behavior, is not only an inefficient technique;

Safe and Free // Post - 9/11 Resources: Racial Profiling, Discrimination and Immigrants’ Rights
Racial profiling is as flawed an approach to the war on terrorism as it was to the war on drugs. The ACLU is not alone in this belief: shortly after September 11, leading intelligence experts cautioned against using this counterproductive tool. In Assessing Behaviors, a memorandum first reported in the Boston Globe, the specialists advised law enforcement to focus on behavior, not race, in efforts to foil terrorist plots.

Behavior detection implemented at Maine airports - Boston.com
The federal Transportation Security Administration implemented its pilot program for behavior detection -- the practice of analyzing people's actions to determine if they have something to hide -- at Boston's Logan International Airport in 2002.
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The TSA is facing opposition from the American Civil Liberties Union, which filed a lawsuit in Massachusetts last year claiming behavior detection can be easily abused because TSA officers have to guess who is suspicious, leading to racial profiling.

Sunday, December 25, 2005

Merry Christmas

Our Christmas wish is that all had a wonderful and blessed Christmas -- and we hope that your best day is the worst you experience in the coming year Posted by Picasa

Happy Birthday Browser

Interesting trivia -- " Fifteen years ago today the Web browser was invented.

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Google Standardize IM?

Let's hope so -- should have happened sometime ago.

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Friday, December 23, 2005

Ahh Shucks!

Wondering why democrats are not trumpeting the "polls" -- well a quick glance shows the polls are moving in the wrong direction for them and doesn't support their "gloom and doom" wishes.

Thursday, December 22, 2005

Jumped The Gun

Instead of treating it like renting an apartment we are treating like rent to own - one month at a time.
Congress Extends Patriot Act for One Month - Yahoo! News
WASHINGTON - Congress on Thursday approved a one-month extension of the Patriot Act and sent it to President Bush in a pre-Christmas scramble to prevent many of its anti-terrorism provisions from expiring Dec. 31.

A Little Longer

Well at least we are proactively pursuing terrorist for a little longer -- I just don't get the problem. The NYT says it can't find anyone that has been wronged utilizing this, and we all know they would try to find anything to make the President look bad, and senators agree we need something to ensure 9/11 doesn't happen again. What is the problem? Are we just going to extend this thing six-months at a time like renting an apartment.
Senate Votes to Extend Patriot Act for 6 Months
A much-debated domestic surveillance law won a reprieve last night when senators agreed to continue it for six months to allow House and Senate negotiators to resume efforts next year to rewrite it for the longer term.

Wednesday, December 21, 2005

This is Scary - no Sad

Trust me -- "there is no atheist in a foxhole"! Trying to censor a chaplain, officially or unofficially, is wrong. If the only chaplain at your disposal is of the Jewish faith we (military members) are intelligent to know that "in Jesus name" want be used, but most are aware if the chaplain's faith is Protestant then surely they will use "in Jesus name".
Military chaplains told to shy from Jesus -The Washington Times
I am a Navy chaplain being fired because I pray in Jesus' name,' said Navy Lt. Gordon Klingenschmitt, who will be holding 6 p.m. prayer vigils daily in Lafayette Park.
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[b]About 80 percent of U.S. troops are Christian[/b], the legislators wrote, adding that military "censorship" of chaplains' prayers disenfranchises "hundreds of thousands of Christian soldiers in the military who look to their chaplains for comfort, inspiration and support."
Official military policy allows any sort of prayer, but Lt. Klingenschmitt says that in reality, evangelical Protestant prayers are censored. He cites his training at the Navy Chaplains School in Newport, R.I., where "they have clipboards and evaluators who evaluate your prayers, and they praise you if you pray just to God," he said. "But if you pray in Jesus' name, they counsel you."
Muslim, Jewish and Roman Catholic chaplains are likewise told not to pray in the name of Allah, in Hebrew or in the name of the Trinity, he added.

Wikipedia in the News Again

Wikipedia just can't stay out of news lately -- not sure if this "good" "free" publicity or just bad?
Public edit logs reveal that Wales has changed his own Wikipedia bio 18 times


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Year End Google Zeitgeist

Saturday, December 17, 2005

Moore on Lincoln?

How would a Michael Moore movie sound that was about Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War? Maybe like this. (click to watch)

Great Question!

NewsBusters has a great question - "What suddenly overrode the Times’ reasonable and legitimate concerns for national security issues that lead it to release this story yesterday after keeping it under wraps for twelve months?"Could there be a political motive? Say it ain't so -- from a non-bias publication like the New York Times, yea right!

Read more at What the New York Times Didn’t Report in its “U.S. Spying” Article

Annan in Pain

Saying this had to hurt!

Read more at Annan Tells Bush Iraq Vote Went Well

The President Responds

The President responds to the New York Times attempt to undermine our nations security. The below is what I find to be the most important comments -- I would have used words much differently then "unauthorized disclosure" -- treasonous disclosure comes to mind or maybe "aid and comfort to the enemy"... Nope, treasonous covers.
Radio Address by the President to the Nation
unauthorized disclosure of this effort damages our national security and puts our citizens at risk. Revealing classified information is illegal, alerts our enemies, and endangers our country.
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Leaders in Congress have been briefed more than a dozen times on this authorization and the activities conducted under it.

Friday, December 16, 2005

Wikipedia Accurate?

Since I posted the negative news on Wikipedia last week I need to be fair...

Read more at Wikipedia survives research test

Pelosi - "No Plan and That's Good"

Nancy Pelosi admits Democrats have no plan, but says that is a good thing. I have a question -- if it is so good not to have a plan why are they demanding one be introduced, though one they choose to ignore has been introduced.
Pelosi Hails Democrats' Diverse War Stances
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said yesterday that Democrats should not seek a unified position on an exit strategy in Iraq, calling the war a matter of individual conscience and saying differing positions within the caucus are a source of strength for the party.

Thursday, December 15, 2005

Christmas Bible Trivia Test

How is your Christmas knowledge -- go here let us see.

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Gmail Goes Mobile

Excellent -- and the improvements continue.

CNN, MSNBC, ABC, and CBS Forget to Report

Gas prices are falling and continue to fall -- hmm, where was the headlines? There was not delay in reporting the rise -- Go figure!

Read more at AAA: Gas prices are falling...

The actual title from this "local" news website does have "for now" -- see they haven't given hope that there will bad news to report.

Freedom

Democracy at work! Posted by Picasa

Great Day for Iraqis - Bad Day for Democrats

I am not sure how this will be spent as a negative -- but at the end of the day it is good news for Iraq and freedom, which translates to bad news for the "gloom and doom" democrats.
Heavy Sunni Turnout Is Reported; No Large-Scale Attacks by Rebels - New York Times
BAGHDAD, Iraq, Dec. 15 - In a day remarkable for the absence of large-scale violence, millions of Iraqi voters, many of them dressed in their best and traveling with other family members, streamed to the polls today to cast ballots in a nationwide election as Iraqi leaders predicted that the vote would split almost evenly between secular and Islamist parties."
n spite of some explosions in Baghdad and Ramadi, voting appeared to be strong in many parts of the country, including in Sunni neighborhoods where many people boycotted the last election.
"The numbers are larger than the previous election," Zalmay Khalilzad, the United States ambassador here, told CNN this morning.

Google Safe Browsing for Firefox

Google enters the "anti-phishing" fray with this extension for FireFox... Cool!
Read more and get it here Google Safe Browsing

Saturday, December 10, 2005

Told You So!

Lieberman's Iraq Stance Brings Widening Split With His Party - New York Times
In my most recent post I said "let us watch what happens, politically, to him!" -- well as I thought, he is on the outside looking in. Remember Democrats claim to be the party of inclusion, inclusion as long as you agree with everything they say! Some excerpts:
WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 - Five years after running as the vice-presidential nominee on the Democratic ticket and a year after his own presidential bid, Senator Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut has become an increasingly unwelcome figure within his party, with some Democrats seeing him more as a wayward son than a favorite son.
In the last few days, the senator has riled Democratic activists and politicians here and in his home state with his vigorous defense of President Bush's handling of the Iraq war at a time some Democrats are pressuring the administration to begin a withdrawal.
Mr. Lieberman particularly infuriated his colleagues when he pointed out at a conference here that President Bush would be commander in chief for three more years and said that 'it's time for Democrats who distrust President Bush to acknowledge that.'

Tuesday, December 06, 2005

Uncommon Democrat

Joe Lieberman doesn't speak the party line where Iraq is involved -- let us watch what happens, politically, to him!
OpinionJournal - Our Troops Must Stay
What a colossal mistake it would be for America's bipartisan political leadership to choose this moment in history to lose its will and, in the famous phrase, to seize defeat from the jaws of the coming victory.

Example of Football Reported by Reports in Iraq

A look at how a MSM report would report Monday night's (11/28/05) football. Although the Colts won they must be loosing:-)
Carolina Journal | Imagine MNF Being Covered Like Iraq
The insurgent Steelers, striking sporadically with lesser equipment against the hegemonic Colts, inflicted serious damage with several tackles, a sack and some pass breakups, holding Indianapolis to only two field goals in the 15-minute span. Observers said it looked as if the tide were turning in favor of the insurgent Steelers.

In the third period, the Steelers again held the Colts to a single touchdown, damaging the Colts’ aura of invincibility and giving hope to the insurgents that their time would come. Some critics pointed to the stands as some Colt fans began filing out, saying that this showed the Colts losing support at home.

Democrats Love Saddam!

Is the below information a surprise to anyone? Not to me!
Dems Back Saddam Hussein in New Poll
Democrats have given Saddam Hussein a shocking vote of confidence in the latest Fox News Opinion Dynamics survey, with a solid plurality saying the world would be better off if the Butcher of Baghdad was still in power.

Forty-one percent of Democrats gave Saddam a thumbs up, while just 34 percent said Iraq is better served with the murderous dictator gone, reports the New York Post.

What Will the ACLU Say

Oh My! A Federal employee praying -- May God bless him! Posted by Picasa

Monday, December 05, 2005

Wikipedia Tightens Rules

After this Story -- Wikipeida tightens the rules for submitting entries after some bad "press".

Saturday, December 03, 2005

Proud to be an American

Good video -- work a click and watch.

Don't Depend on Sites Like Wikipedia

Snared in the Web of a Wikipedia Liar - New York Times
I found this interesting and it should be a warning to anyone that depends on sites such as Wikipedia to back their ideas. I utilize Wikipedia, mostly Answers.com, to gather general information -- knowing that some might be flawed, especially that collected by Answers.com from Wikipedia... For references purposes here is an Answers link to information about John Seigenthaler Sr.. Some excerpts from the article.
The case triggered extensive debate on the Internet over the value and reliability of Wikipedia, and more broadly, over the nature of online information.
Wikipedia is a kind of collective brain, a repository of knowledge, maintained on servers in various countries and built by anyone in the world with a computer and an Internet connection who wants to share knowledge about a subject. Literally hundreds of thousands of people have written Wikipedia entries.
Mistakes are expected to be caught and corrected by later contributors and users.

Thursday, December 01, 2005

Ah Shucks Say the Environmentalist

Like this is news to those of us that have a life -- Al Gore, might be on the rampage soon.
NOAA Magazine Online
NOAA research shows that the tropical multi-decadal signal is causing the increased Atlantic hurricane activity since 1995, and is not related to greenhouse warming.

Hypocrisy Galore

Neither political party is above having scum -- the difference is Republicans seem to acknowledge their scum more while Democrats ignore theirs... (Get more information here.) Posted by Picasa