More snow funny bits - 18 December 2008
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silveradeptWarning, warning - If you have/run IE, you are vulnerable to this particular exploit.. That means you, too, Royal Navy (Okay, it's the Register. I always get the feeling they're the Sun of the tech world. I don't know if that's true or not.)
Up top, lest you think that the United States military devotes their time entirely to secular purposes, several missionaries were embedded in combat troop deployments, so as to witness to the native Afghans. We know this because it was filmed and then distributed by the organization that embedded the journalists. Lawsuits ahoy.
It is near the end of the year, which means, it's time for pictures of the news, as published by Reuters, and also a set as published by the Boston Globe, part one of three.
Internationally, a plane that should not have been in the air at all has disappeared into the Bermuda Triangle, the government in Iraq has arrested several security ministers on the suspicion that they were attempting to revive Saddam Hussein's political party, (latest nation to indicate they will be removing troops from Iraq: Albania, with the possibility of Blackwater joining the list), the U.N. convicted a colonel for his part in the 1994 Rwandan genocide and sentenced him to life imprisonment, and plans ordered for the closure of Guantanamo. Might be a couple years before it all gets done completely.
In the domestic sphere, a judge ordered a new trial for a defendant after determining that he did not receive a fair trial through the incompetence of his lawyer.
Mr. Drew Peterson is engaged to be married again. This despite, as![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
theweaselking notes, it following the pattern of his last three wives, all who disappeared under suspicious circumstances.
The Treasury department has designated a New York firm a front for an Iranian bank and seeks seizure of their assets, officials believe that Russia will prod at the President-elect on arms issues, and Socks, the cat of President Bill Clinton, is fighting off cancer.
The transition piece between news and opinion is cause for serious flames - Rick Warren, of Saddleback church fame, has been selected to give the invocation at his inauguration. The pastor is fairly well-known for his hostility to the LGBT crowd, equating homosexual marriage with incest, his anti-choice stances, and a belief that the social part of the gospel was Marxism. Laboring under the belief that the President-elect selected the pastor, instead of a committee, the President-elect may have lost a significant part of his base. I wonder whether the selection committee decided they wanted to undercut the President-elect in such a manner.
Yet more dispatches from the VEWPRF fronts, Chuck Norris is unafraid to cast his lot against atheism, calling them fools, ignorant, liars, and potentially idolaters, because of the sign in the Washington Legislature Building and his own beliefs about those who don't believe. After such a bold statement, The General suggests Chuck sign himself up to be one of the embedded missionaries mentioned above.
The Chicks on Anime take a look into pornography and how some women view it, or like it, or have quite the market for it.
William Greider thinks he's got a solution to how Republicans can use the filibuster threat to get what they want from the Democrats - amend the rules to take that power away from them, such that the ending-filibuster vote only takes 55 or 51 votes. Elsewhere, Turd Blossom continues to declare how much the Obama cabinet stinks and that the President-elect will have to wrangle them if he wants a prayer of success, as Bruce Bialosky tries to turn Al Gore into an Evil Mastermind, suggesting that his statements of "no credible opposition" to anthropogenic climate change are now being used by the Obama cabinet to push consumer bailouts, government-run health care, and other bogeymen. W. Thomas Smith, Jr. tells President Carter to stop meddling in the Middle East and taking terrorists like Hezbollah seriously, Dick Morris and Eileen McGann believe that the incoming administrations of Israel and the United States will run at cross purposes, with out diplomacy-loving president set against the military-solution prime minister. Assuming that's how the elections in Israel turn out, that is. Larry Elder gives a backhanded compliment by comparing the show-throwing incident now, where the journalist is imprisoned, to if it had happened during Saddam's reign, where he would surely be dead, with the subtle hint "See? Our invasion means that this man's life is okay, rather than dead." Excepting then, he probably wouldn't have thrown the shoe, knowing he would die for it, and perhaps not having a reason to do so, as opposed to his frustrations with the person that invaded the country and then took six years to stand it back up after toppling it. Kathleen Parker talks about dynastic rule in America and that the way Caroline Kennedy gets Hillary Clinton's seat is similar to how Blagojevich was willing to sell Obama's, just not nearly so blatant about it, and John Stossel makes a subtle push for libertarianism through the purse strings, noting that governments get to tax, the rest of us have to bargain, and thus, those best at being bad will become the best at being politicians. And that's without the WSJ grousing at the Fed over proposed rules to limit how credit card institutions handle interest rates and complaining about the request of universities for some federal funds for projects that can't be used by state legislators as justification for trimming budget dollars.
In technology, The Weasel King ignites flint and tinder with a suggestion on how to avoid getting hit by the latest Windows/IE-based exploit, and it involves browsers and add-ons that are not Internet Explorer.
I'm waiting for our work machines to get smacked by it because they only use IE.
Also, one step closer to a spaceport in New Mexico, the need to reignite interest in the space program through definite planning and beginning of a manned mission to Mars, where they could study interesting things like rock varnish to see if there is life on board, a robot teddy bear that can be controlled remotely, with video feeds and actions and possible speech synthesis. Perfect for long-distance hugs. Additionally, trying to develop computers that learn, building supercomputers from PS3s, an anti-theft sandwich bag, beef-scented body spray, and increased hybrids and no increases in oil usage projected for 2030.
Last for tonight, Federation starships must find a new computer voice. And Deanna Troi loses her mother. Majel Barrett Roddenberry died today. Hopefully they send her up to be with her husband.
Up top, lest you think that the United States military devotes their time entirely to secular purposes, several missionaries were embedded in combat troop deployments, so as to witness to the native Afghans. We know this because it was filmed and then distributed by the organization that embedded the journalists. Lawsuits ahoy.
It is near the end of the year, which means, it's time for pictures of the news, as published by Reuters, and also a set as published by the Boston Globe, part one of three.
Internationally, a plane that should not have been in the air at all has disappeared into the Bermuda Triangle, the government in Iraq has arrested several security ministers on the suspicion that they were attempting to revive Saddam Hussein's political party, (latest nation to indicate they will be removing troops from Iraq: Albania, with the possibility of Blackwater joining the list), the U.N. convicted a colonel for his part in the 1994 Rwandan genocide and sentenced him to life imprisonment, and plans ordered for the closure of Guantanamo. Might be a couple years before it all gets done completely.
In the domestic sphere, a judge ordered a new trial for a defendant after determining that he did not receive a fair trial through the incompetence of his lawyer.
Mr. Drew Peterson is engaged to be married again. This despite, as
theweaselking notes, it following the pattern of his last three wives, all who disappeared under suspicious circumstances. The Treasury department has designated a New York firm a front for an Iranian bank and seeks seizure of their assets, officials believe that Russia will prod at the President-elect on arms issues, and Socks, the cat of President Bill Clinton, is fighting off cancer.
The transition piece between news and opinion is cause for serious flames - Rick Warren, of Saddleback church fame, has been selected to give the invocation at his inauguration. The pastor is fairly well-known for his hostility to the LGBT crowd, equating homosexual marriage with incest, his anti-choice stances, and a belief that the social part of the gospel was Marxism. Laboring under the belief that the President-elect selected the pastor, instead of a committee, the President-elect may have lost a significant part of his base. I wonder whether the selection committee decided they wanted to undercut the President-elect in such a manner.
Yet more dispatches from the VEWPRF fronts, Chuck Norris is unafraid to cast his lot against atheism, calling them fools, ignorant, liars, and potentially idolaters, because of the sign in the Washington Legislature Building and his own beliefs about those who don't believe. After such a bold statement, The General suggests Chuck sign himself up to be one of the embedded missionaries mentioned above.
The Chicks on Anime take a look into pornography and how some women view it, or like it, or have quite the market for it.
William Greider thinks he's got a solution to how Republicans can use the filibuster threat to get what they want from the Democrats - amend the rules to take that power away from them, such that the ending-filibuster vote only takes 55 or 51 votes. Elsewhere, Turd Blossom continues to declare how much the Obama cabinet stinks and that the President-elect will have to wrangle them if he wants a prayer of success, as Bruce Bialosky tries to turn Al Gore into an Evil Mastermind, suggesting that his statements of "no credible opposition" to anthropogenic climate change are now being used by the Obama cabinet to push consumer bailouts, government-run health care, and other bogeymen. W. Thomas Smith, Jr. tells President Carter to stop meddling in the Middle East and taking terrorists like Hezbollah seriously, Dick Morris and Eileen McGann believe that the incoming administrations of Israel and the United States will run at cross purposes, with out diplomacy-loving president set against the military-solution prime minister. Assuming that's how the elections in Israel turn out, that is. Larry Elder gives a backhanded compliment by comparing the show-throwing incident now, where the journalist is imprisoned, to if it had happened during Saddam's reign, where he would surely be dead, with the subtle hint "See? Our invasion means that this man's life is okay, rather than dead." Excepting then, he probably wouldn't have thrown the shoe, knowing he would die for it, and perhaps not having a reason to do so, as opposed to his frustrations with the person that invaded the country and then took six years to stand it back up after toppling it. Kathleen Parker talks about dynastic rule in America and that the way Caroline Kennedy gets Hillary Clinton's seat is similar to how Blagojevich was willing to sell Obama's, just not nearly so blatant about it, and John Stossel makes a subtle push for libertarianism through the purse strings, noting that governments get to tax, the rest of us have to bargain, and thus, those best at being bad will become the best at being politicians. And that's without the WSJ grousing at the Fed over proposed rules to limit how credit card institutions handle interest rates and complaining about the request of universities for some federal funds for projects that can't be used by state legislators as justification for trimming budget dollars.
In technology, The Weasel King ignites flint and tinder with a suggestion on how to avoid getting hit by the latest Windows/IE-based exploit, and it involves browsers and add-ons that are not Internet Explorer.
I'm waiting for our work machines to get smacked by it because they only use IE.
Also, one step closer to a spaceport in New Mexico, the need to reignite interest in the space program through definite planning and beginning of a manned mission to Mars, where they could study interesting things like rock varnish to see if there is life on board, a robot teddy bear that can be controlled remotely, with video feeds and actions and possible speech synthesis. Perfect for long-distance hugs. Additionally, trying to develop computers that learn, building supercomputers from PS3s, an anti-theft sandwich bag, beef-scented body spray, and increased hybrids and no increases in oil usage projected for 2030.
Last for tonight, Federation starships must find a new computer voice. And Deanna Troi loses her mother. Majel Barrett Roddenberry died today. Hopefully they send her up to be with her husband.
