Blog Heap of Links for the day 15 June 2009
Obamanation
After the CIA director apparently told The New Yorker that he thinks the former vice president is crossing his fingers for another attack on America, Dick Cheney says he hopes his "old friend" didn't really say those words.... Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., called on Panetta to "retract immediately" his statement, arguing that the director crossed the line....
Wars and Rumors
The United States has determined that the nuclear test conducted by North Korea last month yielded an explosion of a few kilotons, the U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence
Modern Medicine can be Dangerous
may be an association between use of stimulant medications used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and sudden cardiac death in healthy children... [BUT THEY SAY, KEEP GIVING THEM THE DRUGS!!]
Digital Tyranny
One of the Chinese developers of the "Green Dam" filtering software pledged to patch the software's vulnerabilities, while intimating that he may take legal action against the authors of a U.S. report that discovered them. [BWAH HAHAHAHAHHA]
some of the blacklists the software uses to filter sites was taken from U.S.-based Solid Oak Software, maker of Cybersitter... It wasn't just that "blacklisted" URL addresses appeared to be copied directly from Cybersitter; "a news item, almost like a press release that Cybersitter sent to customers was included in the shipping version of Green Dam software," Halderman said. "It appeared to be copied into Green Dam by mistake."...
Bartlesville - prairie frontier town
On Tuesday, June 16, thirty young adults with Bike & Build Inc., a national non-profit committed to affordable housing, are bicycling into Bartlesville on their journey across the United States.
Repeal! Repeal! Repeal!
Bartlesville -- Westside Community Center Director Morris McCorvey is free on bond after his arrest on marijuana-related offenses following a raid on his Bartlesville home Sunday evening... also found what appeared to be a "grow room..."
Digital Business
Google.... co-founder Sergey Brin is so rattled by the launch of Microsoft's rival search engine that he has assembled a team of top engineers to work on urgent upgrades to his Web service
Iran
Iran's hardline Islamic Basij militiamen killed at least one person on Monday and wounded more when their building was attacked by demonstrators protesting an election they say was stolen
Urantiana
There is a similarity between Scientific Theory and Religion and The Urantia Book. There is a popular idea that the origin of humans began in Africa. This idea is promoted by scientists that specialize in these areas, such as paleoanthropologists. So it is a difficult task to change that idea. But looking at their findings there are serious objections to the idea that humans arose in Africa.... -Frank Jakubowsky
Sarah Palin 2012
Let's come together and boycott products that advertise on Letterman's show.... The media wolf pack attacks on women candidates observe no political boundaries...
it seems that Palin and her husband, the first dude of Alaska, feel the need to keep this ball up in the air.... I used to feel sorry for Palin, a not-very-smart person ... [Another dirty old man supporter]... she reminds me of my sister when she was in 10th grade. I never had a sister, but you know what I mean. [OH, and an IDIOT]
In this age of out-of-control political correctness, it never ceases to amaze me how thin our skins have become. Can anyone around here take a joke anymore? I'm referring to the latest — and utterly ridiculous — furor being made over the comments David Letterman made last week about Sarah Palin's daughter. Palin, of course, went ballistic.... [Well, guess we know where "Chuck Barney" stands on the filthy old man issue.]