Barack Hussein Obama’s wife, Michelle just might be this guy’s downfall. While speaking to women, she discouraged them from going for advanced degrees, and going into corporate America. Instead, she encourages them to enter the service industry.

“You know, become teachers. Work for the community. Be social workers. Be a nurse.”

All this, while whining about how much it costs her to send her kids to piano and dance lessons (about 1/3 of the average income of the group she was speaking too).

Mrs. Obama also bemoaned the amount of money she has to spend — nearly one-third of the median household income in Zanesville — on piano, dance, and other lessons for her two children.

How many years have women in American struggled to get where they are today? To be able to be captains of industry? To be able to run for President of the United States, and actually have a shot? And Michelle wants women to go back to the 60’s and be nurses and teachers? What kind of crap is that? What next? Never leave the house without your husband? Wear head to foot coverings? Sheesh.

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These are his own words. This isn’t some editorialized story. Watch the video. He wants to drastically cut the arms budget. Slow down our military arms research. And get rid of all of our defensive weapons.

No, really, just watch the vid.

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In a dissapointing 180 degree turn of sensibilities, the Vatican came out and publically sided with Islam regarding the re-printing of Kurt Westegaard’s cartoon depicting Muhammed with a bomb in his turban.

While I certainly understand the Vatican’s position that calls for respect of all faiths and the like. They have, in the past, issued similar statements when so-called ‘artists’ create their art by putting a crucifix in a jar of urine. Or by creating a portrait of Mother Mary made from fecal matter. However, when was the last time the Church put a bounty on someone’s head for offending Christ?

How much respect can you give a religion, where they stone a rape victim? Where a woman can be killed to maintain family honor? Where simply reading the Holy Bible can get one killed? And where converting to Christianity, or any other religion for that matter, is a certain death sentence?

Sorry, Il Papa, but I cannot, nor will I ever, respect a religion with those ideologies. Those kinds of actions are the antithesis to what God means to me, and what I have been taught, about Him by the Catholic Church.

At least Il Papa could have also issued a statement regarding how wrong it is for Westegaard to have a death sentance hanging over his head for publishing the cartoon. Has the Vatican said anything about that? Not that I’ve heard.

You can see all of the cartoons that stirred the ‘Religion of Peace’ to such a fury here.

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Google has updated their PageRank numbers. Your’s truly has gained a point in the ranking system (now 4/10). Who knew people would actually come here and read this stuff?

Thanks Google. But more importantly, thank you, intrepid reader, for coming by and reading, and leaving the occasional comment.

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I’ve said time and again, what happens on the Internet, stays on the Internet…FOREVER. Now I’ll have to change that ‘what happens anywhere in what could possibly remotely be considered cyberspace, stays in cyberspace…FOREVER’.

Case in point; a pair of Einsteins named Derrick McCreary and Jonathan Hunter. McCreary and Hunter (sounds like some 70’s movie title doesn’t it?) went around robbing credit unions. Netting around $300K, were finally caught and convicted. Part of the evidence used to convict these Thunderbolt & Lightfoot wannabes were text messages they had sent to each other. The messages were retrieved from their provider – SkyTel – via a subpoena.

Did you know that your mobile provider is archiving your messages?

I’ll bet you dollars to doughnuts that Google archives all of your Google Talk messages too (they really aren’t the ‘do no evil’ company they want you to believe they are).

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Map of Betrayal

Click thumbnail to view high rez flyer (300dpi). Fits letter size paper. Suitable for flyering your town or campus.

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Our freedom loving *cough* allies in the middle east made a rather huge faux pas over the weekend. The benevolent and democratic *cough* government of Pakistan decided that the YouTube contains content that is blasphemous, and that the free people of Pakistan should not be allowed permitted forced to watch such trash. So they issued a mandate that the YouTube was to be blocked so that the intelligent and free *cough* people of Pakistan would not be subjected to such filth.

One Pakistani ISP decided the best way to stop the nefarious YouTube from breaching Pakistani’s peace loving *cough* borders was to change, in the BGP tables in their routers, where the YouTube was located to a server within Pakistan.

This seemed to work out very well…but probably was not fully thought out. Because when the ISP’s router began broadcasting the change, it was picked up world wide, causing all traffic meant for the YouTube – worldwide – to be re-directed to said server. This caused the YouTube to be unreachable for about an hour, and for the telecom delivering the majority of Pakistan’s bandwidth to shut down their connection while things were sorted out.

I’m certain this ‘poisoning’ of the Internet was completely unintentional. Just an example of someone probably wanting to take a short cut in their work without fully realizing how their equipment worked (and these are the people we outsource tech support to? – no, wait, that’s India, never mind). But this got me to thinking about something similar happening maliciously.

For instance, say someone altered their BGP tables to point charlesschwab.com to a server they controlled with a website which had the same look and feel of the real charlesschwab.com. Now, it is fairly easy to tell a phishing site from the real website, if the address is something like www.charlesschwab.com.itakeyoumoney.net, then one is probably not at the charlesschwab.com website. But with the users being re-directed at the level we’re talking about, the address would still see www.charlesschwab.com. How would one know? So you enter your username and password and get an error about the site being down for maintenance or some such, and to try back in an hour or so. And when it is tried again, this time going back to the real charlesschwab.com website, everything works and nobody’s the wiser.

Kinda scary to think it about…isn’t it?

Now I haven’t been in the hardware side of the house for a long, long time, and even when I was, my knowledge didn’t go that deep. But the scenario sure seems plausible on the surface. There are probably a wide range of reasons it wouldn’t work.

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At least, according to the News Journal columnist Rhonda B. Graham, that is, if she truly believes what she wrote in this column. Oh, she tries to disguise it as the Reagan ideal of “volunteerism”, but really what she is advocating is forced labor. She starts of making some sense:

the idea that Americans at some point in their lives must do a volunteer stint to improve the country is worth pursuing.

But quickly heads down the path to indentured servitude:

But enforced community service at this time in American history could bring immeasurable benefits to the nation’s psyche as it grapples with housing foreclosures, doped-up national sports heroes and serious challenges to our international image as world leaders.

In the 80s, Ronald Reagan, our 40th president, coined the phrase volunteerism.

By definition, a volunteer is “a person who performs a service willingly and without pay.” She somehow thinks that by invoking the venerable Ronald Reagan, people will somehow associate his idea of people volunteering out of patriotism, with people being forced to work without pay. That sounds an awful like like slavery…or at the very least indentured servitude.

All of this shows the underlying fascism in Grahams philosophy. Volunteering because it is the correct thing to do, because it shows your willingness to make your community a better place to live and it does build character is a noble thing. But being forced to work for free leads to resentment and leaves a terrible taste in the mouth of the consignee.

And, while I’m still a few hours short of my law degree, I’m pretty damned certain that forcing someone to work, against their will and without just compensation (or any compensation for that matter) is against not only the Constitution, but several other laws of the land.

h/t Cristy Li

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Somebody I’ve never heard of named Shirien Elmasraya wrote the following in a rather wordy, yet oblique column in the LSU Daily Reveille:

People always parrot the words “free speech,” but if you ask people to explain what exactly this concept entails, they will often give you a blank look.

Freedom of speech is so vague.

Um…no, not really. Freedom of speech is not vague at all. It is exactly as it implies. People here in the United States of America are free to speak their minds without fear of reprisal by the government. Exceptions are…fraud. That is about it. We are free to tell lies, we are free to tell truths, we are free to tell half-truths. We are free to criticize our government, we are free to criticize our neighbors. We are free to say “Hey, I don’t like what that group of people are doing.” There is not vague or ambiguous about it at all.

Elmasraya goes on to take issue with fellow columnist Daniel Lumetta’s quoting form Mark Steyn’s book “America Alone” where Steyn discusses the fact that Muslims in the west are reproducing at a much greater rate than non-Muslims. Where Westerners tend to have two kids, Muslims tend to have five or six. With that rate of re-population, it won’t be long before Muslims are the majority. Personally, that doesn’t bother me, unless they decide that Sharia Law is what should be the law of the land. The fact is that in the Middle East, which is primarily Muslim, the laws are so strict that simply converting to a different religion is punishable by death. That is what Steyn was getting at. If the strict Muslims have their way, we will all be either Muslim, or dead. No in-between.

Elmasraya continues to shove foot into mouth by discounting the statement that Lumetta made about the American culture being the greatest culture in the world. Saying:

This view usually emanates from people who have not traveled very much and have not seen different cultures for themselves.

Which is just another way to say “American cutlure is not the greatest culture, and only an idiot would say so.” Well, the fact is that the American culture is the greatest the world has ever seen. If one refuses to see that, they simply aren’t looking hard enough.

The American culture is unique in the world. It has evovled over the last several hundred years. America’s policies of welcoming (legal) immigrants from around the globe, from any and all countries and cultures has created the greatest culture. America’s culture is hodge-podge melting pot of each and every other culture in the world today (and in the past couple hundred years). America’s culture is created from the best all the other cultures have to offer, while discarding the crap. We discard the female genital mutiliation, we discard the honor killing rites, we throw out performing human sacrifices, we leave outthe part where a thief is dismembered, we frown upon polygamy, we toss out the mysoginistic tendancies of some cultures, and keep the good stuff.

How can all the good stuff from different cultures, combined into one not be the greatest? In what other culture does a woman have greater opportunity and equality than in the American culture? What other culture can produce a great leader from the son of the town drunk, or from a pauper’s upbringing by an abusive step father? Where can that happen but for America?

Elmasraya goes on to claim:

Saying American culture is superior to all other cultures without actually experiencing even just a couple of other cultures is an abuse of freedom – and perhaps an even bigger abuse to society at large by instilling these views into the public.

Ummm…okay, but I don’t have to experience the sensation of sticking a hot needle in my eye, to know that I’m not going to enjoy it. So it is an abuse of free speech to look at all the other cultures (without having to actually be immersed in them) and claim, hey, this is the best? What kind of crap is that? How is that an abuse of anything? With the ready availability of information today, one need to travel to foreign lands physically to know what their cultures are like. For instance, I have never been to India, but I know and have interacted with many, many people from India. I know their divorce rate is very low. I know they are some of the most polite folks I have ever met. Those aspects of the Indian culture, I really like, but counter to that is the caste system, arranged marriages and honor killings. Sorry, but American culture trumps theirs.

Look at the culture of the Middle East. While they have some great things going for them, low divorce rate, high rate of belief in God. They have no freedom of religion. Their women are treated as little more than chattel. They have honor killings. Women who are raped are punished by the courts. Hmmm…yep, American culture beats that hands down.

How about something closer to home? Canada? People are going to jail for speaking their minds. It is illegal to say something which would hold another to contempt or ridicule. No freedom of speech – not really anyway. Yeah, America has that one beat as well.

China? Tienamin Square – ’nuff said.

Cuba? Puh-leeze.

Elmasraya claims:

Sometimes the best form of speech or communication is to know when to not speak at all.

Apperantly, the ‘when not to speak at all’ part comes in when something is said that Elmasraya takes offense with. I wonder if the quote about the demographics had been about Mexicans, or Catholics, or Mormons, if Elmasraya would have taken such offense. My guess is not.

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The un-American racist group La Raza’s president and CEO Jante Murguia is at it again. Wanting to remove the debate over immigration from the national discourse. Railing against ‘rhertoric’ and inferring that any one who wants to quel the problems we have with illegal immigration is actually ‘anit-immigration’ and racists.

She wants news shows to stop interviewing folks who believe that America should be able to control her boarders. She wants removed from public debate those poeple who advocate for a rational, reasonable immigration policy which does not include complete open borders.

“Anti-immigrant rhetoric has filled the debate with code words that demonize Latinos as a threat to the American way of life,” Murguia said.

Code words that demonize people. Would that be like saying people against illegal immigration are completely anti-immigration? Isn’t anti-immigration itself a code word, meant ot demonize the rational, thinking American populus? Looks like it to me. By and large Americans are not anti-immigration. They all know that we all came from somewhere else, at least our ancestors did (ang that includes you Native Americans too, y’alls ancestors came across that landbridge up by Alaska). Immigrants have created some of the best innovations we have ever seen.

La Raza, which, BTW they tell us means “The People” or “The Community” is truly translated as “The Race.” The term they would use for “The People” is “La Gente” and “The Community” would be “La Communidad.” So when the un-American card-carrying member of La Raza tries to tell us that their name is mis-translated, they are perpetrating yet another lie to further their cause – and we all know that is the cause of complete and open borders…at least on the US side. They probably don’t want Americans running around Mexico, opening businesses and making money and sending it back home (but I could be wrong).

A perfect example of how La Raza does not believe that the 1st Amendment should be the primier law of the land is their statement that their new website is meant to;

“take the hate and vigilante groups off the air,” “clean up the rhetoric,” and track hate crimes and offensive comments.

Track offensive comments. Like, oh, I dunno, some kind of ‘thought police’? Since we do not live in Canada, we have the right to say offensive things. We have the right to hold people up to scrutiny and ridicule. We are gauranteed by the First Amendment to be able to say things which hurt other people’s feelings.

It seems that La Raza wants to have the last say in what is offensive, in what should be allowed to be uttered, in who can say what and when. La Raza’s mission, belief, goal and purpose for being is completely antithetical to liberty, freedom and the American way.

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