May 07, 2008

Ex-Gitmo Prisoner Carries Out Suicide Attack....

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - The U.S. military confirmed Wednesday that a former Guantanamo detainee from Kuwait carried out a recent suicide attack in northern Iraq.

A spokesman for U.S. military's Central Command told The Associated Press that Abdallah Salih al-Ajmi took part in an attack in Mosul.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24504862/

**NOOO! Not an ex-Gitmo prisoner! Gee - I wouldn't have seen that one coming! Seeing as how they're all SUCH innocent people who have been locked up under petty suspision! Right....**

Posted by Mrs Muddy at 03:21 PM | Comments (0)

April 03, 2008

Comcast offers super-fast Internet speeds

Comcast said the new service is aimed at residential and business customers. But at $149.95 a month, compared with about $50 a month for its usual service, it is likely to attract businesses or very heavy residential users, such as video game players or movie download fans.

Reuters

Being a heavy gamer myself I found this funny, what gamer has the need for 50mb connection? Let alone afford it?
Now the "movie download" person, you can put money on is getting his bits and bytes from other users, and not by paying a online movie rental/seller.

Posted by Muddy at 02:30 PM | Comments (1)

February 04, 2008

Clinton Health Plan: Garnish Wages to force Universal Health Care

WASHINGTON - Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton said Sunday she might be willing to garnish the wages of workers who refuse to buy health insurance to achieve coverage for all Americans.

The New York senator has criticized presidential rival Barack Obama for pushing a health plan that would not require universal coverage. Clinton has not always specified the enforcement measures she would embrace, but when pressed on ABC's "This Week," she said: "I think there are a number of mechanisms" that are possible, including "going after people's wages, automatic enrollment."

Clinton said such measures would apply only to workers who can afford health coverage but refuse to buy it, which puts undue pressure on hospitals and emergency rooms. With her proposals for subsidies, she said, "it will be affordable for everyone."

Clinton also suggested that Obama would be more susceptible to Republican attack ads in a general election because he has not been scrutinized for years as she has.

Yahoo! News

One word.
Frightening


In other words, this crazy ***** scares the **** out of me!

Posted by Muddy at 09:22 AM | Comments (0)

December 21, 2007

Oldest U.S. WWI Vet Dies In Ohio At 109....

TOLEDO, Ohio - J. Russell Coffey, the oldest known surviving U.S. veteran of World War I, has died. The retired teacher, one of only three U.S. veterans from the "war to end all wars," was 109.

Coffey died Thursday at the Briar Hill Health Campus in North Baltimore, where he had lived for the past four or five years, said Gaye Boggs, nursing director at the nursing home. No cause of death has been determined, she said Friday. His health began failing in October.

"We're sure going to miss him," Boggs said. "He was our most famous resident, that's for sure."

More than 4.7 million Americans joined the military from 1917-1918. Coffey never saw combat because he was still in basic training when the war ended.

The two remaining U.S. veterans are Frank Buckles, 106, of Charles Town, W.Va.; and Harry Richard Landis, 108, of Sun City Center, Fla., according to the Veterans Affairs Department. In addition, John Babcock, 107, of Spokane, Wash., served in the Canadian army and is the last known Canadian veteran of the war.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071221/ap_on_re_us/obit_coffey

**First off - thanks to all these men listed for their service. Especially J. Russell Coffey....may you rest in peace.

Secondly - and I don't mean this to sound disrespectful but where it says "No cause of death has been determined"....now, I'm no expert on these matters but I think it's pretty safe to assume that the fact that he was 109 years of age was most likely a contributing factor to his demise. But hey, that's just my thought. God bless 'em.**

Posted by Mrs Muddy at 11:24 PM | Comments (0)

December 07, 2007

Pearl Harbor Memories: Billings Man Had Full View Of Infamous Day....

Ed Chlapowski can still see the white smoke rise into the sky right before the USS Arizona exploded.

On that infamous day of Dec. 7, 1941, Chlapowski realized his best friend, Brutus West, was on that ship.

"It hurt terrifically when it happened. You never recover from it," he said.

As the years grow longer and the number of survivors of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor becomes smaller, there's urgency to preserve those memories.
For Chlapowski, 85, the chronology of that Sunday morning 66 years ago may sometimes get the better of him, but the events have never left him.

"Brutus West is still on the Arizona as far as I'm concerned," he said.

As a 19-year-old radioman, Chlapowski had a year of Navy life behind him when the Japanese launched their surprise air attack on the naval base in Hawaii.

He had been stationed at Pearl Harbor for just more than two months under the command of Adm. Husband E. Kimmel, commander-in-chief of the Pacific Fleet. But Chlapowski had been stationed on the Arizona before that, a fact that makes the loss of the ship even more powerful to him.

The morning of the attack, Chlapowski had been on watch from 4 to 7 a.m., when he took his breakfast break in the submarine base cafeteria.

"I saw the roof blow off at Hickam (Field), and I saw the planes flying in," Chlapowski said. "The plane turned, and I saw the 'meatballs' on the wings and the hair on the back of my neck stood up. It still does. I knew it was the Japs."

http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/12/07/news/local/
18-pearlharbor_v.txt

**I realize I just posted two stories on Pearl Harbor but I did that because I really love putting a face (or two) onto history. Besides, I couldn't decide between the two.**

Posted by Mrs Muddy at 02:29 PM | Comments (0)

Pearl Harbor Lives In Hearts Of Its Vets....

After 66 years, some survivors wonder if they are the last reminders of the attack that led the U.S. into war.

Their ranks thinned by age, Pearl Harbor veterans today are commemorating the 66th anniversary of the Japanese attack and wondering whether Americans will remember one of the most defining moments in history after they die.

"When we're gone, we're gone," said 87-year-old Jack Ray Hammett. "We're already just a paragraph in the history books. Will even that disappear when the last one of us dies?"

President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in a speech to Congress, immortalized the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and other military installations on Oahu, Hawaii, on Dec. 7, 1941, as a "date which will live in infamy." Today, those words are remembered mostly by the generation that lived through World War II.

It is a generation in steady decline. About 16 million Americans served in uniform during the war. The Department of Veterans Affairs estimates 2.7 million are living, but they are dying at the rate of about 1,000 per day.

The exact number of Pearl Harbor survivors, though unknown, is smaller, and they are older than the average WWII veteran. Hammett, a former Costa Mesa mayor, said he liked to think of his buddies as "walking, living history."

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-pearl7dec07,0,4471368.story?
coll=la-home-local

Posted by Mrs Muddy at 02:07 PM | Comments (0)

December 01, 2007

CBS Seeking 'Irreverent,' 'Hip' Journalist for Eco-Beat (No Knowledge Required)

CBS is getting desperate.

The network has posted an ad seeking a reporter to cover the “eco beat” – with some interesting requirements.

“CBS is expanding its coverage of the environment,” the ad reads. “We seek a talented reporter/host for Internet video broadcast. We are looking for smart, creative, hard working up and comers, who can bring great energy, creativity and a dash of humor to our coverage. A deep interest in the environment and sustainability issues will serve you well.”

So you would think such a job would require a science background or years of covering environmental news? Not exactly.

More @ Business and Media

lol

Posted by Muddy at 11:13 AM | Comments (0)

November 30, 2007

Overnight shift to be classified as 'probable' cancer cause

Like UV rays and diesel exhaust fumes, working the graveyard shift will soon be listed as a "probable" cause of cancer. It is a surprising step validating a concept once considered wacky. And it is based on research that finds higher rates of breast and prostate cancer among women and men whose work day starts after dark.

Next month, the International Agency for Research on Cancer, the cancer arm of the World Health Organization, will add overnight shift work as a probable carcinogen.

More @ CNN.com

I can see night sift making even more money now, shift diff + hazard pay.

Posted by Muddy at 06:59 AM | Comments (0)

November 26, 2007

Rolling in cash

All Linda Katz had to do was step outside of her house to make thousands on the Internet. Now the Midwestern entrepreneur is building a business selling a piece of the old west online: tumbleweeds.
By KEVIN SITES

Linda started her online business, the Prairie Tumbleweed Farm, as a joke. It was 1994 and she wanted to teach herself how to design a website. Since she lived on the prairie in southwest Kansas, where rolling tumbleweeds are sometimes the only dynamic feature of an endless flat horizon, she invented a farm that sold tumbleweeds, listing prices at $15 for a small one, $20 for a medium and $25 for large.

http://potw.news.yahoo.com/

**This was too funny NOT to post. Kuddos to her! It's amazing how a joke can turn into some pretty decent cash! Be sure to check out her website at the prairietumbleweedfarm. Unfortunately my computer won't connect to it right now (Gee, there's news) but I'm going to try again later. I've got to see this website.:-)**

Posted by Mrs Muddy at 05:47 PM | Comments (0)

November 07, 2007

Cancer Patient Denied ‘Wonder Drug’

A man given 12 months to live is at the centre of Oxfordshire's latest health postcode lottery' case after being denied drugs which could prolong his life.

Kidney cancer sufferer Stephen Dallison, of Iffley Road, East Oxford, has been told that more clinical evidence is needed to support his case, before he can receive Sunitinib, which costs £2,500 a month.

The 33-year-old said: "I've been given approximately a year to live and this drug has been shown to extend life.

"It's not a cure, but it can prolong your life by months, even years, and you can have a much better quality of life while using it."


http://www.oxfordmail.net/news/headlines/
display.var.1780901.0.cancer_patient_denied_wonder_drug.php

**My sister sent me this link yesterday. This is simply appalling! Yes, I understand that according to this article, this drug may only give him a few extra months. BUT it could also give him extra YEARS! By THAT time (a few months OR years) - no telling WHAT other treatments may be on the market to help him better. As a Christian, I value ALL life. Born and the unborn - man and animal alike....but come on! We treat DOGS better than we're treating this man and others like him. This is not the first time someone has basically got down on their hands and knees *begging* their government for medication/medical help so that they may live and unfortunatley, it won't be the last. Please pray for this man and others like him so they may recieve the help they need to just live. Btw....I believe (though not sure) that his appeal has been denied so if you're in England please contact whoever you can (if you can) to help further this man's fight.**

Posted by Mrs Muddy at 11:59 AM | Comments (0)

October 31, 2007

Army tests James Bond style tank that is 'invisible'

New technology that can make tanks invisible has been unveiled by the Ministry of Defence.

In secret trials last week, the Army said it had made a vehicle completely disappear and predicted that an invisible tank would be ready for service by 2012.

The new technology uses cameras and projectors to beam images of the surrounding landscape onto a tank.

the Daily Mail

Hrmm... Interesting.

Posted by Muddy at 11:58 PM | Comments (0)

October 25, 2007

California Fires May Be At Turning Point....

SAN DIEGO - A massive aerial assault and a break in harsh winds helped firefighters make their first major progress against Southern California's firestorm, raising evacuees' hopes of returning home for good. But flames were still drawing perilously toward thousands of homes.

The hot, dry Santa Ana winds that have whipped the blazes into a destructive, indiscriminate fury since the weekend were expected to all but disappear Thursday.

"That will certainly aid in firefighting efforts," National Weather Service meteorologist Jamie Meier said.

The record high temperatures of recent days began succumbing to cooling sea breezes, and two fires that burned 21 homes in northern Los Angeles County were fully contained.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071025/ap_on_re_us/
california_wildfires_292

**The updated news is that these fires have claimed two more lives. Let's pray that ALL of the fires are put out soon and that if there truely was any criminal act behind the start of them that the person(s) will be found and brought to justice. In the mean time, I hope Mooseboy and Keven (I was under the impression that both are from California though I have no idea from what area) are ok and that their homes are still intact.**

Posted by Mrs Muddy at 12:57 PM | Comments (0)

October 23, 2007

Sharp Drop Seen in US Deaths in Iraq

BAGHDAD (AP) — October is on course to record the second consecutive decline in U.S. military and Iraqi civilian deaths and Americans commanders say they know why: the U.S. troop increase and an Iraqi groundswell against al-Qaida and Shiite militia extremists.

Maj. Gen. Rick Lynch points to what the military calls "Concerned Citizens" — both Shiites and Sunnis who have joined the American fight. He says he's signed up 20,000 of them in the past four months.

"I've never been more optimistic than I am right now with the progress we've made in Iraq. The only people who are going to win this counterinsurgency project are the people of Iraq. We've said that all along. And now they're coming forward in masses," Lynch said in a recent interview at a U.S. base deep in hostile territory south of Baghdad. Outgoing artillery thundered as he spoke.

The Associated Press

Good News indeed, I only wish Bush had thought about listening to the Generals before and finished this long ago.

Posted by Muddy at 08:42 PM | Comments (0)

Catholic Condom Ban Helping AIDS Spread In Latin America: U.N.

TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - The rapid spread in Latin America of the virus that causes AIDS is made worse by the Roman Catholic Church's stand against using condoms, a U.N. official said on Monday.

Some 1.7 million people across Latin America are infected with the HIV virus or full-blown AIDS, and the epidemic is spreading swiftly with up to 410,000 new cases in 2006, up from as many as 320,000 new cases in 2004, according the UN AIDS program, UNAIDS.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071023/hl_nm/honduras_aids_dc

**It pains me ANY day when I have to agree with ANYONE from the UN (I think I may need to lie down). The thing that *totally* pisses me off though is this: I don't care WHAT denomination you come from. Whether it's the catholic, methodist, baptist, nazarene - *whatever*! WHY would you and why ARE you listening AND following with*out* question to what the church and/or any MAN tells you to do?

You know....why don't we believers and followers of Christ try walking on "the wild side of life" for a change. Why don't we READ the Bible for OURSELVES, pray and ask God how HE wants us to live our lives as well as asking Him how HE wants us to interpret His word for our own spiritual lives. So if AFTER you read the word and seek God's answers, if you feel God is telling you through His word that premarital sex, and the use of any and all contraceptives are wrong - EVEN inside of marriage – fine. Then once we find ourselves in church listening to the pastor, preacher - or whatever name you give to your clergy - Why don't we try comparing what THEY say to scripture and continue to ask GOD (NOT man) if it's the road HE wants us to travel. I'm telling you....it sounds crazy BUT it just might work!**

End of rant

Posted by Mrs Muddy at 03:13 PM | Comments (0)

October 12, 2007

Shortage of Intelligence in general public creates knee jerk drug recall

CHICAGO, Oct 11 (Reuters) - Johnson & Johnson (JNJ.N: Quote, Profile, Research), Wyeth (WYE.N: Quote, Profile, Research) and other makers of infants' nonprescription cough and cold products are recalling certain medicines in the United States because of the danger of overdose, the Consumer Healthcare Products Association said on Thursday.

Novartis (NOVN.VX: Quote, Profile, Research) and Prestige Brands Holdings (PBH.N: Quote, Profile, Research) are recalling their oral infant cough and cold medicines, as well, because data show that when the medicines are misused, it can lead to overdose, especially in children under 2 years old.

At least three chain stores said they are pulling over-the counter infant cold and cough medicines from their shelves: CVS Pharmacy, the retail unit of CVS Caremark Corp (CVS.N: Quote, Profile, Research), Stop & Shop Supermarket Co LLC and Giant Food LLC.

Reuters

I'm really hoping there is something evil about these drugs and it was discovered, and they are using this lame excuse to pull the drugs... really hoping.

Posted by Muddy at 04:44 PM | Comments (0)

Democratic staffers to get vaccinated for hepatitis for NASCAR Visit

GOP: NASCAR is contagious, but its fans are not

WASHINGTON — Being around NASCAR fans requires no inoculation.

That was the word Thursday from Republican officials after they learned that a congressional committee's Democratic staffers had advised aides to get vaccinated for hepatitis and other diseases before visiting NASCAR events in Concord, N.C., and Talladega, Ala.

Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., said his committee aides were visiting health-care centers, detention facilities and other operations where they could be exposed to communicable diseases. He said the immunizations were routine for health-care workers.


McClatchy Washington Bureau

I don't care who you are, this is funny. =P

Posted by Muddy at 02:33 PM | Comments (0)

October 10, 2007

Microsoft Scrambling to Explain Ballmer Comment on Red Hat Linux

A team of Microsoft spokespeople have been working throughout the day to devise a plausible explanation for a comment made by CEO Steve Ballmer during a company gathering in the UK, which on its face appears to say it is considering litigation against users of Red Hat Linux for patent infringement.

But one spokesperson acknowledged late this afternoon that multiple sources have yet to come to an agreement over what the company should say.

People use Red Hat, at least with respect to our intellectual property in a sense have an obligation to eventually to compensate us. [emphasis ours]

BetaNews


Posted by Muddy at 09:03 AM | Comments (0)

October 05, 2007

Beef: It's what is poisioning you for dinner

Burger Maker Topps Closes After Big Recall

The second-largest beef recall in U.S. history caused Topps Meat Co. LLC to close Friday.

"This is tragic for all concerned," said Chief Operating Officer Anthony D'Urso. "In one week we have gone from the largest U.S. manufacturer of frozen hamburgers to a company that cannot overcome the economic reality of a recall this large."

Topps on Saturday expanded its recall of frozen hamburger patties because of possible E. coli bacteria contamination that sickened more than a dozen people in eight states to 21.7 million pounds from 332,000.

WSJ.com


It's a great time to go vegetarian! (or just stop eating beef)

Posted by Muddy at 01:20 PM | Comments (0)

October 01, 2007

Illegal Alien Welfare Costs Exceed $35 Million

LA County Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich has announced that a new report shows illegal aliens and their families in Los Angeles County collected over $35 million in welfare and food stamp allocations in July. In the report, illegals are said to have collected nearly $20 million in welfare assistance for July 2007 and an additional $15 million in monthly food stamp allocations for an estimated annual cost of $440 million.

“Illegal immigration continues to have a devastating impact on Los Angeles County taxpayers,”said Antonovich. “In addition to $220 million for public safety and $400 million for healthcare, the $440 million in welfare allocations bring the total cost to County taxpayers that exceeds $1 billion a year -- this does not include the skyrocketing cost of education.”

KHTS AM-1220

Hrmm...
I'm sure those bleeding hearts in D.C. see nothing wrong with this, after all they are the kings of pork.

Posted by Muddy at 02:43 PM | Comments (0)

September 22, 2007

Columbia University to be added to sponsor of terrorism watch list

Or it should be...

It seems they are welcoming with open arms the Highlord of hate and intollerance President Mahmoud AhImANeedAJob.
Perhaps the government should look into ways of cutting any funding and support it gives them.
Just a thought.

NYDailyNews

Posted by Muddy at 12:58 AM | Comments (0)

August 20, 2007

Russia orders long-range bomber patrols

President Vladimir Putin placed strategic bombers back on long-range patrol for the first time since the Soviet breakup, sending a tough message to the United States on Friday hours after a major Russian military exercise with China.

Putin reviewed the first Russian-Chinese joint exercise on Russian soil before announcing that 20 strategic bombers had been sent far over the Atlantic, Pacific and Arctic oceans; showing off Moscow's muscular new posture and its growing military ties with Beijing.

"Starting today, such tours of duty will be conducted regularly and on the strategic scale," Putin said. "Our pilots have been grounded for too long. They are happy to start a new life."

Putin said halting long-range bombers after the Soviet collapse had hurt Russia's security because other nations, an oblique reference to the United States, had continued such missions.

"I have made a decision to resume regular flights of Russian strategic aviation," Putin said in nationally televised remarks. "We proceed from the assumption that our partners will view the resumption of flights of Russia's strategic aviation with understanding."

USATODAY.com

One big cup of crazy for Mr. Putin, with a side order of world domination. (hold the mayo)

Anyone else think the Russian people gave up on a democratic society too soon?

Posted by Muddy at 10:26 AM | Comments (0)

Scientists hail ‘frozen smoke’ as material that will change world

A MIRACLE material for the 21st century could protect your home against bomb blasts, mop up oil spillages and even help man to fly to Mars.

Aerogel, one of the world’s lightest solids, can withstand a direct blast of 1kg of dynamite and protect against heat from a blowtorch at more than 1,300C.

Scientists are working to discover new applications for the substance, ranging from the next generation of tennis rackets to super-insulated space suits for a manned mission to Mars.

It is expected to rank alongside wonder products from previous generations such as Bakelite in the 1930s, carbon fibre in the 1980s and silicone in the 1990s. Mercouri Kanatzidis, a chemistry professor at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, said: “It is an amazing material. It has the lowest density of any product known to man, yet at the same time it can do so much. I can see aerogel being used for everything from filtering polluted water to insulating against extreme temperatures and even for jewellery.”

Aerogel is nicknamed “frozen smoke” and is made by extracting water from a silica gel, then replacing it with gas such as carbon dioxide. The result is a substance that is capable of insulating against extreme temperatures and of absorbing pollutants such as crude oil.

Times Online

I found this utterly fascinating myself.
Finally a wonder product NOT made from crude oil. :)

Posted by Muddy at 09:35 AM | Comments (0)

August 08, 2007

Indonesia's West Java hit by strong earthquake

JAKARTA (Reuters) - A powerful undersea earthquake has hit Indonesia's West Java island, a telephone text message from the country's Meteorological agency said on Thursday.

The agency did not give a tsunami warning and there were no immediate reports of damage or casualties, but the quake caused panic in parts of the densely inhabited Java island.

Reuters

Let's all pray the coffee crops are ok. (said the coffee addict)

Posted by Muddy at 02:32 PM | Comments (1)

July 05, 2007

New Chinese Ballistic Missile Submarine Spotted

A commercial satellite image appears to have captured China's new nuclear ballistic missile submarine. The new class, known as the Jin-class or Type 094, is expected to replace the unsuccessful Xia-class (Type 092) of a single boat built in the early 1980s.

The new submarine was photographed by the commercial Quickbird satellite in late 2006 and the image is freely available on the Google Earth web site

Strategic Security Blog

Can we stop with the nuclear build out already?
Need the CIA to arrange an accident aboard all of these in the middle of the ocean.
Oh, side note .. nice work Google ;)

Posted by Muddy at 06:15 PM | Comments (1)

I actually agree with Castro, how strange

For once I agree with Fidel Castro.
Food based biofuels may not be the answer, but another problem.
Take the declining number of farms in America and the explosion of people in third world countries and toss in the food based biofuel industry, now we have something to be concerned with.

I see food based biofuels as cheap bandage for the wound that is the worlds oil consumption.
The real alternative would be something like hydrogen or a water based design.

You can read more from the article below and the rest via the link at the bottom.

The head of the U.N. Environment Program said on Wednesday Cuban leader Fidel Castro and others are justified in raising concern about the potential for ethanol production to threaten food supplies for the poor.

But UNEP director Achim Steiner said the jury is still out on whether risks outweigh the benefits when using food crops to produce ethanol as an alternative fuel.

Castro, who has taken to writing articles since he was sidelined from power last year by intestinal surgery, has attacked U.S. plans to increase biofuels output using crops such as corn, saying this will increase food prices and global hunger.

"What President Castro points to is something the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization has also raised recently: That there is significant potential and risk for competition between food production and production for a global biofuels market," Steiner told Reuters during a environmental meeting in Havana.

Reuters

Posted by Muddy at 05:31 PM | Comments (0)

June 25, 2007

Iwo Jima flag raiser Lindberg dies at 86

RICHFIELD, Minn. - Charles W. Lindberg, one of the U.S. Marines who raised the first American flag over Iwo Jima during World War II, has died. He was 86.

Lindberg died Sunday at Fairview Southdale hospital in the Minneapolis suburb of Edina, said John Pose, director of the Morris Nilsen Funeral Home in Richfield, which is handling Lindberg's funeral.

Lindberg spent decades explaining that it was his patrol, not the one captured in the famous Associated Press photograph by Joe Rosenthal, that raised the first flag as U.S. forces fought to take the Japanese island.

In the late morning of Feb. 23, 1945, Lindberg fired his flame-thrower into enemy pillboxes at the base of Mount Suribachi and then joined five other Marines fighting their way to the top. He was awarded the Silver Star for bravery.

"Two of our men found this big, long pipe there," he said in an interview with The Associated Press in 2003. "We tied the flag to it, took it to the highest spot we could find and we raised it.

"Down below, the troops started to cheer, the ship's whistles went off, it was just something that you would never forget," he said. "It didn't last too long, because the enemy started coming out of the caves."


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070625/ap_on_re_us/obit_lindberg

Posted by Mrs Muddy at 04:37 PM | Comments (0)

June 14, 2007

Baby monitor picks up video from NASA....

Strange but apparently true according to the news article found here:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070614/ap_on_fe_st/baby_monitor_space


PALATINE, Ill. - A mother of two in this suburb of Chicago doesn't have to turn on the news for an update on
NASA's space mission. She just flips on her baby monitor. Since Sunday, Natalie Meilinger's baby monitor has been picking up black-and-white video from inside the space shuttle Atlantis.

"Whoever has a baby monitor knows what you'll usually see," said the elementary school science teacher. "No one would ever expect this."

**I couldn't pass this up. I think it's totally hysterical (though logical once you think about it)! However I must say I feel completely cheated. Muddy and I bought a speaker monitor for our last kid some years ago. We *barely* used it and we NEVER got anything like this. Some people have all the luck.:-)**

Posted by Mrs Muddy at 02:32 PM | Comments (0)

June 06, 2007

D-Day Soldier's Dog Tag Found in Sand


HUNTINGDON, Tenn. -- The family of Pvt. William Bernice Clark never had a funeral for him, never got to say goodbye and never really accepted his fate among the fallen during the Normandy D-Day landings in World War II. That was until his dog tag was discovered in the sands of Omaha Beach.

On Wednesday -- exactly 63 years after that tragic day -- the aged tag was returned to his native Tennessee.

Click here to find out more!
"This feels like an ending," said the soldier's first cousin, 79-year-old Lota Park, who along with another cousin accepted the dog tag at a ceremony in the small town of Huntingdon, about 90 miles west of Nashville.

The tag has blackened with age, but his name, identification number, religion (Protestant) and blood type (Type O) are all clearly visible.

It remained out of sight for more than five decades until a collector from England found it five years ago on the beach, likely near the very spot where the 20-year-old Clark was killed. The collector gave the dog tag to a World War II buff from New Jersey, who turned it over to the National D-Day Memorial.

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/
ats-ap_us17jun06,0,3167950.story?coll=ny-leadnationalnews-headlines

Posted by Mrs Muddy at 11:35 PM | Comments (0)

June 05, 2007

Iran Happy to start WWIII

TEHRAN, June. 05 (ISNA)-Iran’s President announced that the countdown button toward Israel’s destruction had been pushed.

“God willing, in the near future we will witness the destruction of the corrupt occupier regime,” Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said to a number of foreign guests at a ceremony marking the 18th death anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution leader, Ayatollah Khomeini.

Citing last year’s Lebanon war, he said, “With God’s help, the countdown button for the destruction of the Zionist regime has been pushed by the hands of the children of Lebanon and Palestine.”

Ahmadinejad went on to note that “If you make a mistake and create another war against the oppressed Lebanese nation, this time the angry ocean of the nations of the region will remove your rotten roots from the region.”

ISNA

First let's get this straight, President Imaneedajob does not give a hoot about the Lebanese people.
He only cares about power, if he can use them to gain power in the middle east, then so be it.
He is, highly motivated, intelligent and flat out crazy.
This is the same man who wants to bring about WWIII so he can dispose of all those who do not believe as he does.
The same man who took a union leader in Iran who was putting together a protest and took him out in the center of town and slowly cut his tounge out so he would shut up, and silence any others wanting to protest his government.
Sounds to me like it's time to start putting a dent in his plans. (or his head)

Posted by Muddy at 02:27 PM | Comments (5)

June 03, 2007

They call this a consensus?

Here is yet another article that debates the so called concensus on global warming.

Here is a cherry picked excerp;

Somewhere along the way, I stopped believing that a scientific consensus exists on climate change. Certainly there is no consensus at the very top echelons of scientists -- the ranks from which I have been drawing my subjects -- and certainly there is no consensus among astrophysicists and other solar scientists, several of whom I have profiled. If anything, the majority view among these subsets of the scientific community may run in the opposite direction. Not only do most of my interviewees either discount or disparage the conventional wisdom as represented by the IPCC, many say their peers generally consider it to have little or no credibility. In one case, a top scientist told me that, to his knowledge, no respected scientist in his field accepts the IPCC position."

Financial Post

Does any remember the global cooling warning in the 70's? I do and I wonder how many of the scientists then are the same scientists today? I wonder what will be the 'end of the world' doomsday scenario that they will be trying to sell us in another 30 years.

That is if we make it that long! LOL. Not that I dont think that it is good to be much less wasteful and take care of our planet (not to mention getting off our depency on fossil fules) just dont tell me that we are all going to die if we dont.

If the left was smart about it, they would be telling the right that their 401k will be in jepordy if we dont go green. Then something would be done about it. Just dont say 'were all going to die' because everyone is sceptical about those scenario's, yes even the scientific community.

This whole global warming thing has backfired. Now instead of going green because its the right thing to do, everyone is trying to figure out if the myth is true and doing nothing. Again the should have just told everyone that their retirement money would be gone.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_cooling

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June 02, 2007

FDA Says Avoid Toothpaste Made In China....

WASHINGTON - The government warned consumers on Friday to avoid using toothpaste made in China because it may contain a poisonous chemical used in antifreeze. Out of caution, the
Food and Drug Administration said, people should throw away toothpaste with labeling that says it was made in China. The FDA is concerned that these products may contain diethylene glycol.

The agency is not aware of any poisoning from toothpaste in the United States, but it did find the antifreeze ingredient in a shipment at the U.S. border and at two retail stores: a Dollar Plus store in Miami and a Todo A Peso store in Puerto Rico.

Officials said they are primarily concerned about toothpaste sold at bargain retail outlets. The ingredient in question, called DEG, is used as a lower-cost sweetener and thickening agent. The highest concentration of the chemical found in toothpaste so far was between 3 percent and 4 percent of the product's overall weight.

"It does not belong in toothpaste even in small concentrations," said the FDA's Deborah M. Autor.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070601/ap_on_he_me/chinese_toothpaste

****....and some people have considered me "goofy" in the past because I have gone out of my way - for years now (not always to the degree of success that I'd like) - to avoid buying anything "made in China". Maybe those same people wouldn't consider me "goofy" now.****

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May 16, 2007

Microsoft running scared from Linux

Speak to anyone outside of Microsoft who knows anything about Microsoft's claim that Linux software violates 42 of its patents and most of them agree - Microsoft is running scared. Many believe that Microsoft's public announcement smacks of desperation and is a risky move by a company that has run out of ideas.

This is not the first time that Linux has been under attack for alleged patent infringements.

"We've heard all this before with the SCO (Unix) case," says Steven D'Aprano, operations manager for Windows-Linux integration consultant Cybersource. "We know that Microsoft had been funding SCO, tossing them a few million here and there to keep the case alive.

"SCO did their best to show that there was supposed patent and copyright violations in the Linux kernel. While the case hasn't completely finished yet, it has lost steam because SCO has got no evidence to support their claims.

"Until Microsoft start to actually point at particular bits that they claim are in patent violation then talk is cheap."

According to D'Aprano, an open source advocate, if Microsoft actually does put on the gloves against Linux, it will have a tough time deciding who to go after.

iTWire

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May 10, 2007

Disney condemns Hamas Mickey Mouse

The only surviving child of Walt Disney has claimed Hamas is "pure evil" for using a Mickey Mouse rip-off as a propaganda tool for hate.

Diane Disney Miller said she was disgusted that a copy of the famous cartoon character was being used on a new Hamas TV show to encourage Palestinian children to fight against Israel and America.

Ms Miller, 73, claimed it went "against the grain of humanity", before saying: "Of course I feel personal about Mickey Mouse, but it could be Barney as well.

"It's not just Mickey, it's indoctrinating children like this, teaching them to be evil. The world loves children and this is just going against the grain of humanity."

Hamas's Al-Aqsa TV station began to show the children's series, Tomorrow's Pioneers, last month. It features a life-size lookalike of Mickey Mouse called Farfur, who sings about children arming themselves with AK-47s and aspiring for world domination "under Islamic leadership".

Ms Miller said: "What we're dealing with here is pure evil and you can't ignore that."

ITV News

After CNN's Glenn Beck blew the whistle on this new tactic by Islamic Extremists to indoctrinate children to kill Americans and Israelis, the media are finally covering it.
Now they are claiming to be taking it off the air, why do I not believe it will change very much?
CNN article here

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May 06, 2007

Royal's Defeat leaves socialists searching for scapegoats

Let the finger-pointing begin. Ségolène Royal’s defeat on Sunday night left the French Socialist party in disarray and searching for someone to blame. There is hardly a shortage of scapegoats.

It is the party’s third consecutive presidential defeat. The Socialists now face the question of whether they can ever regain power without ditching their anti-capitalist rhetoric, as the mainstream left has done across almost all of Europe.

Ms Royal can argue that she did better than Lionel Jospin, who in 2002 led the Socialists to a humiliating third place behind Jacques Chirac and far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen. But France’s main opposition party still faces a wrenching crisis.

”The left is not credible on so many issues, from the 35-hour working week to immigration and law and order,” says Dominique Reynié, professor at Sciences Po university.


FT.com

From the little I know of this campaign and the content in this article I'd say I have hope for the people of France yet. Here's hoping that Sarkozy can bring the country together and make positive long term change.

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May 02, 2007

Home invasion gone wrong for illegal aliens

Two illegal aliens, Ralphel Resindez 23 and Enrico Garza 26, probably believed they would easily overpower a home alone 11 year old Patricia Harrington after her father had left their two story home.

It seems the two crooks never learned two things, they were in Montana and Patricia had been a clay shooting champion since she was nine. Patricia was in her upstairs room when the two men broke through the front door of the house. She quickly ran to her father's room and grabbed his 12 gauge Mossberg 500 shotgun.

Resindez was the first to get up to the second floor only to be the first to catch a near point blank blast of buck shot from the 11 year olds knee crouch aim. He suffered fatal wounds to his abdomen and genitals. When Garza ran to the foot of the stairs, he took a blast to the left shoulder and staggered out into the street where he bled to death before medical help could arrive.

It was found out later that Resindez was armed with a stolen 45 caliber handgun he took from another home invasion robbery. The victim, 50 year old David Burien, was not so lucky as he died from stab wounds to the chest.

LibertyPost.org

Three words,
You Go Girl!

:-)

*edit*
I have been trying to confirm this but I'm not able to so for now it's a news story with the emphasis on story until I can confirm it.

Posted by Muddy at 06:05 PM | Comments (2)

March 24, 2007

Illegal immigrants allowed at least five strikes

Documents released in the controversy about eight fired U.S. attorneys show that federal prosecutors in Texas generally have declined to bring criminal charges against illegal immigrants caught crossing the border — until at least their sixth arrest.

A heavily redacted Department of Justice memo from late 2005 disclosed the prosecution guidelines for immigration offenses, numbers the federal government tries to keep classified. DOJ officials would not say Thursday whether it has adjusted the number since the memo was written, citing "law enforcement reasons."

The prosecution guidelines have been a source of frustration for years among the ranks of U.S. Border Patrol agents, said T.J. Bonner, president of the National Border Patrol Council. Smugglers can figure out the criteria by trial and error, he said, and can exploit it to avoid prosecution.

"It's devastating on morale," Bonner said. "Our agents are risking their lives out there, and then they're told, 'Sorry, that doesn't meet the criteria.' "

Houston Chronicle

I know there are people that want Bush's head because of Iraq. However I think there is something more sinister happening here. The complete and total lack of protection our boarder has. Bush and his buddies are planning the total destruction of America for one thing, m-o-n-e-y.

Posted by Muddy at 11:45 AM | Comments (0)

March 15, 2007

Food safety scrutiny is forcing changes on Ohio Amish bakers

PFEIFFER STATION, Ohio – Not even temperatures hovering below zero or a foot of snow stopped customers from trekking to Mary’s Amish Market for her fruit pies and Swiss cheese.

State regulators are stopping by for another reason.

The country kitchen and other home bakers in an Amish enclave in northwest Ohio have come under scrutiny for selling meats and cheeses without a license and cream pies and pumpkin rolls without the refrigeration required to thwart foodborne stomach illnesses.

Journal Gazette

I'm curious if the fools in the government have ever had Amish food?
We're talking about real food made with whole ingredients normally organic and massively better for you than the processed crap the regulators are probably eating.
If I'm going to an Amish store and buying goods it's assumed they don't have a fridge or any electric, you'd be a moron to expect to see rows of freezers and refrigeration units.

Of course it's well known you have to give up common sense and good judgment to be in government. :-P

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February 26, 2007

Al Gore’s Personal Energy Use Is His Own “Inconvenient Truth”

Last night, Al Gore’s global-warming documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, collected an Oscar for best documentary feature, but the Tennessee Center for Policy Research has found that Gore deserves a gold statue for hypocrisy. Gore’s mansion, located in the posh Belle Meade area of Nashville, consumes more electricity every month than the average American household uses in an entire year, according to the Nashville Electric Service (NES). In his documentary, the former Vice President calls on Americans to conserve energy by reducing electricity consumption at home. The average household in America consumes 10,656 kilowatt-hours (kWh) per year, according to the Department of Energy. In 2006, Gore devoured nearly 221,000 kWh—more than 20 times the national average. Last August alone, Gore burned through 22,619 kWh—guzzling more than twice the electricity in one month than an average American family uses in an entire year. As a result of his energy consumption, Gore’s average monthly electric bill topped $1,359.

Read More @ Tennessee Center for Policy Research

Nice.
I'm sitting in the dark typing this by candle with the heat off wrapped in blankets and he's sucking up the power.

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February 24, 2007

Mexican anger over US 'trespass'

Mexico's Congress has condemned what it says is a border violation by US workers building a controversial barrier between the two countries.

Legislators say workers and equipment building a section of the barrier have gone 10 metres (yards) into Mexico.

The alleged border violation comes ahead of a high-level meeting in the Canadian capital Ottawa.

US, Mexican and Canadian foreign ministers are to discuss border security and trade issues.

Mexican legislators said they had photographs and video, taken on Monday, of the workers and heavy-duty construction equipment that showed them about 10 metres inside Mexico near the border city of Agua Prieta and the town of Douglas, Arizona.

BBC NEWS

I almost soiled myself laughing when I read this.

Posted by Muddy at 06:23 PM | Comments (2)

February 07, 2007

Harvard: In-Opinion & Feelings & Out-Facts & Understanding

BOSTON (Reuters) - Harvard University announced on Wednesday its biggest curriculum overhaul in three decades, putting new emphasis on sensitive religious and cultural issues, the sciences and overcoming U.S. "parochialism."

The curriculum at the oldest U.S. university has been criticized as focusing too narrowly on academic topics instead of real-life issues, or for being antagonistic to organized religion. Efforts to revise it have been in the works for three years.

One of the eight new required subject areas -- "societies of the world" -- aims to help students overcome U.S. "parochialism" by "acquainting them with the values, customs and institutions that differ from their own," said a 34-page Harvard report on the changes.

Reuters.com

I'm not sure who these parents are that are sending their kids to this establishment, but they need their pulse checked.
As a parent myself I really, really don't get the appeal of sending your kids off to be taught everything wrong, and pay out the nose for it.

Posted by Muddy at 03:38 PM | Comments (0)

January 30, 2007

Intel builds 80-core prototype

Intel's research team has managed to successfully produce a prototype 80-core Tera-Scale processor that uses less energy than the company's current flagship Core 2 Extreme QX6700 quad-core processor.

The prototype was built so that the chip giant's researchers could investigate the best way to make such a large number of processing cores communicate with each other. This was in addition to researching new architectural techniques and core designs.

The chip, dubbed the Tera-Scale Teraflop Prototype, is just for research purposes and lacks a lot of necessary functionality at the moment. However, R&D Technology Strategist Manny Vara said that the company will be able to produce 80-core chips en masse in five to eight years.


bit-tech.net

Holy multiprocessors batman!
With an 80 Core processor you could render games with lifelike quality.
Sweeettttt.

Posted by Muddy at 01:39 PM | Comments (1)

January 29, 2007

Global Warming = Ice Falling from Sky

TAMPA - You probably see ice just about everyday—but not in a big block that has fallen from the sky and totaled a parked car.

But it happened on Hilldrop Court in Town 'n Country around 9:30 Sunday morning.

Neighbors woke up to something they never thought they’d see.

“Came out to find a large piece of ice sitting on the car, and ice all over the place,” said neighbor John Young.

The damaged car, a Ford Mustang, belongs to Carlos Javage’s son.

MyFox Tampa Bay

I sure wish the weather would cooperate with the nut job scientists that now have to change their story, it's going to be global cooling and "the coming ice age" in a few years. Then it will be global warming again, I sure hope they figure out it's all part of the Earth's natural cycle.
*sigh*

Posted by Muddy at 03:39 PM | Comments (0)

January 24, 2007

'Fossil' Shark appears off coast of Japan



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A species of shark rarely seen alive because its natural habitat is 600 metres or more under the sea was captured on film by staff at a Japanese marine park this week.

The Awashima Marine Park in Shizuoka, south of Tokyo, was alerted by a fisherman at a nearby port on Sunday that he had spotted an odd-looking eel-like creature with a mouthful of needle-sharp teeth.

Marine park staff caught the 1.6-metre-long creature, which they identified as a female frilled shark, sometimes referred to as a "living fossil" because it is a primitive species that has changed little since prehistoric times.

The shark appeared to be in poor condition when park staff moved it to a seawater pool where they filmed it swimming and opening its jaws.

smh.com.au

Looks fierce.
Is it possible that since it lives 2000 feet down normally that it being close enough for man to see and caputre it, could it's sickness be the bends?
Just thinking.

Oh, you can also see some video here

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January 19, 2007

Why China's Missile Test Is Troubling

It's springtime for anti-satellite missiles — again — now that China has fired a missile into space and destroyed an aging weather satellite orbiting 500 miles above the earth. The James Bond-style exercise left a several-hundred- meter-wide cloud of scrap metal floating around in space. Some of the debris could pose a threat to spacecraft passing through the region, scientists say, and will remain a problem for hundreds of years to come. And there will be repercussions on Earth, too.

Protests and expressions of concern were lodged over the test by the U.S., Japan, Canada, South Korea and Australia, but Beijing has so far refused to comment on the issue or even confirm the test took place. "The brazenness of this is a bit frightening," says Mike Green, former senior Bush Administration Asia adviser. "It shows that the Peoples Liberation Army has considerable leeway — a great deal of influence if not autonomy — to increase their capacity even at considerable diplomatic cost."

The reason for all the fuss is simple: the test potentially marks a major step forward in China's ability to nullify the huge technological advantage of the U.S. in any clash over Taiwan. While Western intelligence agencies have long been aware that the People's Liberation Army was attempting to develop an anti-satellite system, the successful targeting of a single satellite in high orbit marks a significant milestone. When the Pentagon issued its annual report to Congress on China's Military Power last summer it stated that "China can currently destroy or disable satellites only by launching a ballistic missile or space-launch vehicle armed with a nuclear weapon." All that has now changed.


Time

Yikes, anyone think China lets North Korea do their crazy act to keep our attention elsewhere?

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December 31, 2006

Swiss Pioneer flys like a bird

Man has dreamt of flight ever since our ancestors first saw birds soaring into the sky.

And even after the dream was realised, first with hot-air balloons and later with heavier-than-air aeroplanes, the dream remained unfulfilled.

Because being truly at one with the air, able to swoop and soar like a falcon or an albatross, remained an impossibility. And in legends where the dream became real, as in the myth of the Ancient Greek birdman Icarus, the price was a heavy one; an ignominious crashing to Earth.

But for one brave Swiss pioneer, a former military pilot called Yves Rossy, the dream has become reality.

the Daily Mail


If anyone is looking to get me a late Christmas present, this would be nice.

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December 22, 2006

'Truthiness' is the word of the year

After 12 months of naked partisanship on Capitol Hill, on cable TV and in the blogosphere, the word of the year for 2006 is ... "truthiness."

The word -- if one can call it that -- best summed up 2006, according to an online survey by dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster.

"Truthiness" was credited to Comedy Central satirist Stephen Colbert, who defined it as "truth that comes from the gut, not books."

CNN.com

Stephen is so proud, one man can make a difference. :-)

Posted by Muddy at 01:27 AM | Comments (0)

December 10, 2006

The Arrogance of Man

Scientists apparently can't figure out why the "Bird Flu" virus which had most of the world bracing for a pandemic a few months ago, has mostly disappeared. It may come back of course, disease typically does. For instance, malaria, once on the verge of being irradicated, made a comeback. Smallpox has begun to appear in some third world countries. But for the time being, it is gone.

This is more evidence of the arrogance we display when we attempt to predict the course of nature. Whether it be the hunting patterns of wolves in yellow stone, temperature or disease, we simply are not omniscient. We can, at best, make reasonable assumptions or guesses. But in the end, we only know the present. History isn't even a certainty in this day and age of revisionist historians and scientists using "evidence" to support a predetermined conclusions.

Read more at Yahoo!/AP

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December 08, 2006

4 -year-old Accused of Improperly Touching Teacher

BELLMEAD- A four-year-old hugged his teachers aide and was put into in-school suspension, according to the father. But La Vega school administrators have a different story.

Damarcus Blackwell's four-year-old son was lining-up to get on the bus after school last month, when he was accused of rubbing his face in the chest of a female employee.

The prinicipal of La Vega Primary School sent a letter to the Blackwells that said the pre-kindergartener demonstrated "inappropriate physical behavior interpreted as sexual contact and/or sexual harassment."
Blackwell says it's ridiculous that the aide would misread a hug from a four-year-old. Blackwell wrote to administrators demanding that the whole incident be expunged from his son's academic file because his son is too young to know what it means to act sexually.

KXXV-TV News Channel 25

*scratches head*

Just wondering what kind of hate monger teachers aid freak they have working at that school??
Who gave her the job interview?? They should be fired along with the wack job aid.
Sheessshh!

Posted by Muddy at 01:11 PM | Comments (2)

December 07, 2006

Pearl Harbor survivors meet for last time

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii - With their number quickly dwindling, survivors of Pearl Harbor will gather Thursday one last time to honor those killed by the Japanese 65 years ago, and to mark a day that lives in infamy.

This will be their last visit to this watery grave to share stories, exchange smiles, find peace and salute their fallen friends. This, they say, will be their final farewell.

"This will be one to remember," said Mal Middlesworth, president of the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association. "It's going to be something that we'll cherish forever."

Yahoo! News

Posted by Mrs Muddy at 09:54 AM | Comments (0)

Hero Mother of the day

A 12-year-old boy in Rock Hill, South Carolina, just couldn't wait for Santa to deliver presents this year. According to the local paper, the child unwrapped and opened a present containing a new Game Boy Advance this past weekend--fully three weeks before Christmas. When the young boy's mother found out, she called the police and told them to arrest her son. The boy at first denied all knowledge of the missing portable but later returned it to his mother after she threatened to call authorities. The mother then called the police anyway, and when they arrived at her home, the boy was arrested and taken to the local police station.

The boy was charged with petty larceny, but because he is a juvenile, he did not have to spend time in jail.

News at GameSpot

Good news today, there are still good parents in America. When your kid is on the brink of becoming a life long resident of the pen you do what you must to save them. I applaud this mother for loving her son enough to do what it takes to set him on the right path.

Posted by Muddy at 09:26 AM | Comments (3)

November 30, 2006

AP: CENTCOM to Call Out Fake "Burned Alive" Source Tomorrow

Posted by: Mary Katharine Ham at 5:16 PM

Via Pajamas Media, LGF has word that CENTCOM and Iraqis are planning to address the Capt. Jamil Hussein matter tomorrow:

Sir:

I have just learned from Mr. Costlow, mentioned below, that Brig. Gen. Abdul-Karim Khalaf, the official Ministry of Interior spokesmen, will begin his regularly scheduled press conference at noon tomorrow with a statement that Capt. Jamil Hussein, is not a Baghdad police officer or an MOI employee.

See Dub points out that the AP, in its rewritten "burned alive" story, implied that the blog storm set off by questions about Hussein might have been, umm, encouraged by a P.R. company paid to represent the American military.

The dispute comes at a time when the military is taking a more active role in dealing with the media.

The AP reported on Sept. 26 that a Washington-based firm, the Lincoln Group, had won a two-year contract to monitor reporting on the Iraq conflict in English-language and Arabic media outlets.

That contract succeeded one held by another Washington firm, The Rendon Group. Controversy had arisen around the Lincoln Group in 2005 when it was disclosed that it was part of a U.S. military operation to pay Iraqi newspapers to run positive stories about U.S. military activities.

Townhall.com::Blog::Blog

Interesting, fake anti-U.S. news in the media?
Hrmmm...

Posted by Muddy at 03:14 PM | Comments (4)

November 14, 2006

Oil, Terror & Environmental Pipedreams

By Alan Caruba

(AXcess News) S. Orange, NJ - In late October I attended a luncheon briefing in New York sponsored by the Middle East Forum. The speaker was R. James Woolsey, former director of the Central Intelligence Agency and currently a vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton. The room was filled with men who represent a class of citizenry known as "influential." Woolsey's topic was "Energy Alternatives and the War on Terror."

Normally, I give men like Woolsey a lot of respect because they've earned it. However, it didn't take long before I began to hear views that made me begin to question, not just the wisdom of what Woolsey was saying, but why he was saying it.

"The way strategically over the long run to weaken the enemies of Israel, such as Ahmadinejad, is to weaken the role of oil," said Woolsey. "Oil makes it harder to avoid genocide in Darfur because the Sudanese have a deal with China, and it makes it harder to deal with Iran, because China and Iran have an oil deal."

Say what? Weaken the role of oil? Genocide in Darfur has something to do with China? Iran will not pursue its lunatic Islamic apocalypse because it has an oil deal with China?

AXcessNews.com

Found this interesting read, sad you don't read much truth in the media today, nice to find some sensibility from Mr. Caruba.

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November 10, 2006

Yacht crew happens upon island birth

View Pics @ Fredrik and Crew on Maiken

Wow, this is intense.

Also there is an interesting bit on it Here

Posted by Muddy at 08:29 AM | Comments (1)

November 09, 2006

Is Microsoft really giving Linux its blessing?

Jack Schofield Thursday November 9, 2006 The Guardian

Absolutely not! The deal that Microsoft's chief executive Steve Ballmer has announced with Novell will involve Microsoft handing out thousands of vouchers for what he called "Novell's version of Linux" running on Windows servers. But as Ballmer said in San Francisco: "We're still competitors," and: "The right answer is Windows, Windows, Windows."

For the past four years, Microsoft has been trying to resolve its conflicts with other companies. It has already done deals with Sun, AOL and Real Networks, and the Novell agreement is another step forward, though it doesn't end the anti-trust suit that Novell filed in 2004 alleging anticompetitive practices that hurt its WordPerfect Office business.

Guardian Unlimited Technology


Well it seems to me Microsoft is still doing what it can to destroy Linux, only this time It's the old if you can't beat em', buy em', line of thinking.
Yes, I realize nobody can 'buy' Linux, however creating deals like this with all the major players will put their dirty little mitts into more slices of the pie, so to speak.
If these companies really want virtual, they should just use vmware, that is where the smart money is, imho.

Posted by Muddy at 06:20 AM | Comments (0)

October 04, 2006

Welcome Back DDT!

DDT is back. 30 years after a baseless book and rich white enviromentalists managed to achieve a ban, not to mention millions of deaths in th 3rd world, DDT is back.

Read John Stossel's Column

Posted by Skywalker at 09:06 AM | Comments (1)

October 02, 2006

Good Job U.S. Government

Way to protect us from ourselves, kill jobs and a portion of the economy. Afterall, only the scum of the earth would ever gamble on the internet.

Read the story at Yahoo!/Reuters

Posted by Skywalker at 11:56 AM | Comments (12)

September 06, 2006

Birth of your child or Steelers??

(KDKA) PITTSBURGH A woman from Upper St. Clair owes a big thanks to two of her neighbors today.

Beth Gardner’s neighbors helped deliver her baby on the Parkway West.

State police got a call around 9:30 p.m. last night that a woman was in labor near the Green Tree exit.

Gardner’s neighbors were driving her to the hospital because her husband was watching the Steelers game last night.(

kdka.com

Considering my beautiful daughter made me miss my beloved Steelers in Super Bowl XXX when Neil O'Dufus was paid off to throw the ball to the defense and loose the game for us, I think this guy needs help.
I mean, he missed his kids birth for a meaningless preseason game! 80% of the players in that game were cut less than a week later.
One word, LOSER.

Posted by Muddy at 07:37 AM | Comments (5)

Micro$oft Vista takes price to new levels

Microsoft has set pricing for the Windows Vista operating system for the US market, although UK and rest of the world pricing is not yet available.

The Redmond-based company also confirmed again its commitment to releasing the OS in January, after distributing it to business customers in November.

The upgrade price for those with older versions of Windows is set at between $100 to $259, depending on which version required. The most expensive will be the “ultimate” edition, designed for business users.

The standalone products will cost from $199 to $399.

Pocket-lint.co.uk

*** NEWS FLASH ***
Linux is still 100x more secure & stable.
Linux is also still FREE!.

(Vista buyers = suckers) *snicker*

Posted by Muddy at 07:36 AM | Comments (5)

September 04, 2006

Irwin 'never feared death'

THE Crocodile Hunter's manager John Stainton has admitted he always feared that Steve Irwin would meet his "demise" while working with the wildlife he loved.

But he said although Mr Irwin got into plenty of “close shaves” with his antics involving various dangerous animals over the years, his star charge never feared death.

The larger than life Mr Irwin was killed today by a stingray barb off Port Douglas in far north Queensland while filming for his daughter Bindi's TV series.

Mr Stainton admitted he “always” feared that this day would come during their 20-year association.

“You think about all the documentaries we've made and all the dangerous situations that we have been in, you always think 'Is this it, is this a day that maybe is his demise?',” he said in Cairns today.

“We've been in some pretty close shaves.

“(But) nothing would ever scare Steve or would worry him. He didn't have a fear of death at all.”

The Australian

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September 01, 2006

Mexico Govt. Sets up border crossing training camp

EL ALBERTO, MEXICO -- 'Run! They're on our tails!" shouted a man in a ski mask as he led 15 people down a steep ravine and into a thorn-infested thicket.

Gunshots pierced the night air. Sirens wailed. Then came a voice, sounding like the U.S. Border Patrol. "Don't cross the river!" someone yelled in a heavy accent. "Go back to Mexico where you belong!"

Welcome to one of Mexico's strangest tourist attractions: A park where visitors pay the equivalent of $16 to hike across fields and through treacherous ravines, a gruelling experience aimed at simulating an illegal journey across the U.S.-Mexico border.

"We want this to be an exercise in awareness," said Alfonso Martinez, who acts as the chief smuggler at EcoAlberto park in central Mexico. "It's in honour of all the people who have gone in search of the American Dream."

The park, funded in part by the Mexican government, compares crossing the border to an "extreme sport" and tells participants that they, too, can "trick the migra," slang for the Border Patrol.

globeandmail.com

Considering the comic book they already produced, this is not a shock.

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August 25, 2006

Ray, think before you speak, please

Ray sits in his office, the phone line is quiet, the staff have gone home.
He needs 'Chocolate Town' to be in the news again, but what can he do?
Katrina?
No he has played that to death.
Racism?
No, that also is losing it's charm.
Absurd, moronic and outlandish statements?
Bingo! That always draws attention.

'You guys in New York can't get a hole in the ground fixed'

NEW YORK (AP) -- New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin criticized efforts to redevelop the World Trade Center site when confronted in a television interview about delays in rebuilding his city after Hurricane Katrina.

During the CBS "60 minutes" interview, a correspondent pointed out flood-damaged cars still on the streets of New Orleans' devastated Ninth Ward. Nagin replied, "You guys in New York can't get a hole in the ground fixed, and it's five years later. So let's be fair," according to CBS.

The program is scheduled to air Sunday night. Text and a video clip from the Nagin piece were posted on CBS' Web site Thursday.

CNN


Ray, can I speak freely here?

How about you stop pushing blame around, stand up say "I screwed up and now it's time to fix this mess".
Can you do that Ray, can you?

Your citizens deserve you, the morons who voted for you in N.O. and who keep voting for you and living 'under water' deserve whatever you come up with next.

Posted by Muddy at 06:17 PM | Comments (1)

Shuttle Astronauts Arrive To Prepare For Sunday Launch

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- Atlantis' six astronauts arrived at Kennedy Space Center on Thursday as the countdown clock began ticking toward a Sunday launch of the space shuttle.

"We have a saying back in Texas, 'It's time to walk the walk,"' said Brent Jett, Atlantis' commander, after arriving from Houston by training jet. "We are ready for the challenge ... All we need is a little good weather on Sunday and we'll be out of here."

This mission is the start of a renewed effort to finish building the international space station before the cargo-carrying shuttles are retired in 2010.

WFTV.com

I wonder how much this is costing us? How many kevlar vests, humvee armor upgrades and such could we have bought instead?

Posted by Muddy at 07:00 AM | Comments (2)

August 23, 2006

U.S. Stop Screwing With our Food!

BRUSSELS: Prospects of a European Union ban on import of rice from the U.S. loomed large as EU authorities sought details of a gene-modified and unapproved rice variety developed by Bayer CropScience AG, which may have found way into rice consignments meant for export to Europe.

The U.S. agriculture secretary Mike Johanns had notified the European Commission last week that trace elements of an unauthorized, genetically modified rice were detected in long grain rice samples that were meant for commercial use. While the U.S. authorities have assured Brussels there is no environmental or human health risk by using the rice by humans or animals, the commission is seeking information, which may be indicative of its indication in imposing curbs on imports.

A commission spokesperson, Antonia Mochan, told a news conference that the commission is seeking information that it needs to make a decision from the U.S. authorities as well as Bayer.

EarthTimes.org

As a staunch supporter or organic farming and fair trade food this sickens me. Why we feel the need to screw with the perfect things God made and man has been happily using for thousands of years is beyond me. Rice, so simple so perfect, so let's jack with it so we can make it hold up under the shower of dangerous chemicals we want to spray on it.
Are the buffoons at Bayer AG retarded??
I think I'm starting my own country, organistan. :-P

Posted by Muddy at 06:59 AM | Comments (0)

Dutch F-16's Escort Airliner back to Amsterdam

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Two Dutch fighter planes accompanied a U.S. Northwest Airlines plane bound for Mumbai back to Amsterdam's Schiphol airport on Wednesday, officials said.

A Dutch air traffic control spokeswoman said the plane was in German airspace when it turned back. A spokeswoman for Schiphol said the pilot had taken the decision to turn back but could give no further details.

Security has been increased at airports worldwide after British police said on Aug. 10 they had foiled a plot to blow up planes in the mid-Atlantic using liquid explosives disguised as drinks.

Dutch news agency ANP quoted police as saying a number of people had been taken off the Northwest plane and were being questioned.

Reuters.com

Ah, Islamic extremists. During an election year there is one group we can take everything they say they will do as a promise. Unlike our politicians who make loads of claims, threats and 'campaign promises' that we know they will never keep.

Posted by Muddy at 06:58 AM | Comments (0)

August 22, 2006

Pilotless F-35 breaks cover

Lockheed Martin has taken the wraps off studies of unmanned derivatives of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) as it mounts a concerted campaign to establish itself in the unmanned systems market. Concepts studied by Lockheed's Skunk Works include both optionally piloted and dedicated unmanned versions of the JSF.

"Two to three years ago we started looking at what could be done with the F-35," says Frank Mauro, deputy director unmanned aeronautical systems. The Skunk Works has taken both the optionally piloted and dedicated unmanned JSFs through concept design, he says, and is waiting until all three manned variants have flown before pursuing the idea.

Flight International

It makes you wonder, if they are making this public, what technology beyond this is still being hidden. :-)
I still think the XF-23 beat the pants off the F-22 in it's head to head testing where it lost in the end. If we're spending hundreds of millions on one plane shouldn't we demand the best?
Just my two cents.

Posted by Muddy at 03:37 PM | Comments (8)

August 15, 2006

Terrorism charges dropped in cell-phone case

MARIETTA, Ohio — A southeastern Ohio prosecutor has decided not to seek terrorism charges against two Michigan men arrested after they bought large numbers of cell phones.

Washington County Prosecutor James Schneider said yesterday that he didn't have enough evidence to present the felony terrorism charges to a grand jury. He said in a news release that he needs more information to prove the charges beyond a reasonable doubt.

"At this time we didn't see a link that we could prove," Schneider said in a phone interview, adding he was referring to both terrorism in general and any specific group.

The Columbus Dispatch

They are still being charged with a misdemeanor for lying to police. I'm not sure if that involves a fine for what. It's a double edged sword of sorts, you arrest two suspicious men who begin their relationship with police by lying. Then after a few days let them go and now you have angered the already angry muslim community in America. Typical catch twenty two.

Posted by Muddy at 09:00 AM | Comments (8)

August 14, 2006

Cyclops Baby Born in India

CHENNAI, India -- Medical staff who helped deliver a one-eyed child born here last week believe the mother may have been given an experimental anti-cancer drug, according to an internal hospital report seen by Wired News.

The report, from Kasturba Gandhi Hospital for Women and Children in Chennai, cites two potential causes for the birth defect: Either it was the result of an undetected chromosomal disorder or the mother was exposed to Cyclopamine, a drug that is being researched by a number of U.S. pharmaceutical companies as a potential cancer treatment.

There is no reference in the report on how Cyclopamine became listed as a possible cause.

Wired News

Wow, if you need any evidence that we should be testing on animals THIS is it.
Screw the monkeys, test away i say.
Whoever the pharmaceutical company is that did this needs to fund this girls medical expenses for the rest of her (likely short) life.

Posted by Muddy at 12:08 PM | Comments (1)

August 13, 2006

Dearborn, MI: Battlefront America

NPR has a two part series concerning Dearborn, MI. It's a surprisinglys straight look at the growing war brewing right here in America.

Naim Bazzi sits with about 14 other Lebanese men in a circle in the front living room of his house in an upscale part of Dearborn, Mich. The town is home to the nation's largest Lebanese-American community. Some of the men finger Islamic prayer beads; all are somber. They are here to mourn, to pay respects.

Bazzi left Lebanon in 1976; his parents stayed behind. Last week, Bazzi lost his elderly mother, Amina, in the southern Lebanese village of Bint Jbeil. She was too old to leave when fighting broke out.

From NPR

Honestly I'm shocked NPR would play the audio from the protests, how will they survive the outrage from the kook fringe that wants America to be the evil in every news report.
Only time will tell.

Posted by Muddy at 10:40 AM | Comments (0)

August 07, 2006

US Senate Ratifies Cybercrime Treaty

The U.S. Senate today ratified the Convention on Cybercrime Treaty.
The purpose is to allow greater cooperation between the U.S. and Europe dealing with cybercrimes, however it's very, very broad language could lead to some questionable applications.

Article 1 section C is an example.

c "service provider" means:

i any public or private entity that provides to users of its service the ability to communicate by means of a computer system, and


According to this definition, it does not even have to be the internet. Just providing a null modem cable to direct connect two computers together, or a cat5 crossover cable. Seems to broad to me, I'm all for fighting cybercrime, but let's be logical about this.
Oh crap, I said logical when speaking about government, there goes any credibility I had.
:-/

Full Story @ Yahoo!

Posted by Muddy at 09:22 PM | Comments (0)

August 02, 2006

Marine Names Murtha in Defamation Suit

A Marine Corps staff sergeant who led the squad accused of killing two dozen civilians in Haditha, Iraq, will file a lawsuit today in federal court in Washington claiming that Rep. John P. Murtha (D-Pa.) defamed him when the congressman made public comments about the incident earlier this year.

Attorneys for Frank D. Wuterich, 26, argue in court papers that Murtha tarnished the Marine's reputation by telling news organizations in May that the Marine unit cracked after a roadside bomb killed one of its members and that the troops "killed innocent civilians in cold blood." Murtha also said repeatedly that the incident was covered up.

From Washington Post

Nice to see someone making politicians be accountable for the trash they spew. I have no idea if SSGT Wuterich is guilty or not. However that is not the point.

Posted by Muddy at 05:59 PM | Comments (2)

July 28, 2006

Top Shi'ite backs anti-militia calls

A top Iraqi Shi'ite politician on Friday backed calls to disband the country's heavily armed militias, which are blamed for inflaming a vicious sectarian conflict that has pushed Iraq to the brink of civil war.

Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim, leader of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (Sciri), commanded a mass rally of his followers "to support the government to solve the issue of militias, and to spread the implementation of law and order."

Sciri is allied with the Badr Organization, one of the most feared militias in Iraq, but is also a key member of the two-month-old government of national unity, led by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.

From tvnz.co.nz

While it would be foolish to deny Iraq is full of violence and problems, this is a very positive event.

Posted by Muddy at 04:16 PM | Comments (0)

July 27, 2006

Gaza groups ready to deal on cease-fire, release of Shalit

All groups in Gaza, including Hamas, would now accept a cease-fire deal with Israel which would include releasing Gilad Shalit, according to the Palestinian Agriculture Minister, who also heads the coordinating committee of Palestinian organizations there.

Ibrahim Al-Naja said the factions were ready to stop the Qassam rocket fire if Israel's ceased all military moves against the Palestinian factions in Gaza. They are also ready to release Shalit in exchange for guaranteeing the future release of Palestinian prisoners.

Hamas leaders did not confirm this report on Monday, but if it is true, then this is the first time that Hamas has indicated its acceptance of the Egyptian proposal to solve the crisis.

From Haaretz - Israel News

Is this a Trojan horse or real? Interesting, we'll take the old wait and see approach on this one.

Posted by Muddy at 09:52 PM | Comments (0)

Execution of a teenage girl

A television documentary team has pieced together details surrounding the case of a 16-year-old girl, executed two years ago in Iran.




On 15 August, 2004, Atefah Sahaaleh was hanged in a public square in the Iranian city of Neka.

Her death sentence was imposed for "crimes against chastity".

The state-run newspaper accused her of adultery and described her as 22 years old.

But she was not married - and she was just 16.

From BBC NEWS

This is only one example, this sounds to me like these dirt bags are going to be great negotiating partners, loads of reasons to believe a single word they say.

Posted by Muddy at 08:55 PM | Comments (3)

Hezbollah to launch "rain of terror"

LONDON – The British intelligence service MI6 has established that Hezbollah is poised to launch a new "rain of terror" on Israel with rockets equipped with "dirty bomb" nose cones, reports Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin.

"The nose cones will contain spent nuclear rods from Iran's nuclear programme. The rods are wrapped with conventional explosives. The dirty bombs are primarily intended to create increased panic across an already nervous population in northern Israel," claimed a senior intelligence officer in London.

Meantime, Mossad undercover agents are desperately trying to locate where the "dirty bomb" arsenal is located. It is believed to be in the Bekaa Valley.

The Israeli intelligence service has also told MI6 that it believes Hezbollah now has "up to a thousand" other rockets poised for launch.

From G2 Bulletin

Keep an eye on this one kids, it will be interesting to see how much press this gets once it starts happening.

Posted by Muddy at 12:02 PM | Comments (0)

July 26, 2006

All is not lost: Logic still can win in America


Eminent domain abused
Ohio Supreme Court overrules Norwood home-taking

The city of Norwood cannot take property by eminent domain to give to a private developer, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled today.

In holding parts of Ohio’s eminent domain law unconstitutional, the state’s highest court set a different course than the U.S. Supreme Court did in its landmark Kelo v. New London decision last year.

There, the Supreme Court ruled that a Connecticut city’s taking of property for economic development was constitutional – but made clear that state constitutions could set different standards for property rights.

The Norwood case is expected to be closely watched around the country. It was the first major eminent domain case to reach a state Supreme Court since Kelo.

The case was brought by property owners Joseph Horney, Carl and Joy Gamble and Matthew F. Burton, who argued that the city should not be able to take their properties and deed them over to Rookwood Partners for a $125 million shopping and office complex.

From The Enquirer

I'm shocked to see this kind of logical ruling by the Ohio Supreme Court, maybe my state has hope after all. ;-P

Posted by Muddy at 11:57 AM | Comments (0)

July 19, 2006

US government helped sink The Pirate Bay; goes after other sites

The Pirate Bay may not have been sent to Davy Jones' locker by the recent Swedish police raid on its servers, but the legal assault on the site made a lot of Swedes very förbannade. Some of them apparently thought it would be fun to take down a police website, while others were content to vent their outrage at politicians, who were accused of bowing to pressure from the US. Justice Minister Thomas Bodstrom took to the airwaves to reassure his fellow Scandinavians that this was not, in fact, the case.

Justice Minister Thomas Bodstrom denied allegations in a Swedish television report that the government ordered the crackdown on a U.S. request. "I have never acted individually or spoken about how the police and prosecutors should act, nor will I do it," Bodstrom was quoted as saying by Sweden news agency TT. Sweden's constitution bars ministers from directing police investigations.

It turns out that the minister was choosing his words carefully. While he may not have personally ordered the raid, a new report in the Washington Post claims that US authorities were involved in alerting their Swedish counterparts to the existence of The Pirate Bay. At an April meeting, the US delegation expressed its displeasure at the site.

From Ars Technica

Got to love the RIAA and MPAA's deep pockets, wish I could buy my own politicians so I could force other countries to do my bidding. Bastards.

Posted by Muddy at 07:07 AM | Comments (0)

July 17, 2006

Advertising invading your egg tray

IN September, CBS plans to start using a new place to advertise its fall television lineup: your breakfast.

The network plans to announce today that it will place laser imprints of its trademark eye insignia, as well as logos for some of its shows, on eggs — 35 million of them in September and October. CBS’s copywriters are referring to the medium as “egg-vertising,” hinting at the wordplay they have in store. Some of their planned slogans: “CSI” (“Crack the Case on CBS”); “The Amazing Race” (“Scramble to Win on CBS”); and “Shark” (“Hard-Boiled Drama.”). Variations on the ad for its Monday night lineup of comedy shows include “Shelling Out Laughs,” “Funny Side Up” and “Leave the Yolks to Us.”

George Schweitzer, president of the CBS marketing group, said he was hoping to generate some laughter in American kitchens. “We’ve gone through every possible sad takeoff on shelling and scrambling and frying,” he said, adding, “It’s a great way to reach people in an unexpected form.”

Newspapers, magazines and Web sites are so crowded with ads for entertainment programming that CBS was ready to try something different, Mr. Schweitzer said. The best thing about the egg concept was its intrusiveness.


Full Story @ New York Times

This is going to be a massive failure, most Americans will get pissed off and leave the eggs that have 'ads' on them on the shelf in favor of eggs without ads. -Ed

Posted by Muddy at 07:27 AM | Comments (4)

July 14, 2006

Talk about your "slanted" point of view

Just a quick note, this is more propaganda imho, than it is news.
Each point in the timeline is "look how evil Israel is and how innocent Hamas, Hezbollah, Syria and Iran are." Oh give me a freakin' break.

Aljazeera.Net - Timeline: Israel and Lebanon

Posted by Muddy at 07:05 AM | Comments (2)

BBC: Israel Evil, Terrorists Good

Watching the BBC News this morning you would think that Israel was pure evil and that the terrorists (including Syria) were gentle angels. With exception of the short interview with Sami Khiyami the Syrian Ambassador to England when they asked him why they are supporting Hezbollah, to which he replied "we need to support freedom fighters", huh?

Later (much) they talked to Benjamin Netanyahu (very briefly) and he said what sensible people are saying. "We made an agreement with the Lebanese government that they would dismantle Hezbollah and police their own territory and we would pull out giving them full control, we held up our end of the agreement, they have not."
Thus, anyone bitching about Israel and NOT about Hezbollah, Lebanon and Syria should check their facts.
(note, never did I say Israel were without fault ever, I'm only speaking of this current battle)

I love this line: "But some experts warn that the Bush administration's diplomatic options may be stretched too thin to mediate effectively and prevent major bloodletting." from the sfgate.com

They just don't get it, Hezbollah, Syria and Iran DO NOT GIVE A FLYING CRAP about talking!!, their goal is to kill Americans, Israelis and everyone else who is NOT their version of a muslim. Wake up stupid people of the world. You cannot negotiate with terrorists, it, does, not, work. (ever)

Sensible people who are willing to negotiate don't become terrorists (or Muslim extremists), sensible people also do not abandon their own people and then use them as pawns to create hate, anger and war (cough, cough, Syria).

OK, I'm done ranting.

Need to go to work now. :-)

Posted by Muddy at 07:00 AM | Comments (16)

July 11, 2006

U.S. Hackers Unite!


The State Department is recovering from large-scale computer break-ins worldwide over the past several weeks that appeared to target its headquarters and offices dealing with China and North Korea, The Associated Press