Saturday, December 11, 2010

Maybe it's someone's birth certificate?

Julian Assange has made a threat. He says he has a secret. If any harm comes to him personally, or if WikiLeaks is somehow wiped off the Web, there will be consequences. "It's locked up so tight that even sophisticated military computers can't crack it open. Assange has said that if he or WikiLeaks croaks, the key gets sent out as well, and the whole world gets to see the great big secret inside. Unless that happens, though, what's in that file is anybody's guess -- and the mystery is what makes it such a powerful life insurance policy." Technology News

If you wait long enough


everything comes back in style. But I'd probably have to take out the crinoline in the 1960 dress.

The Pigford President: Obama Signs Black Farmers Settlement

In Pigford I settlement the USDA said we had some 18,000 black farmers, and made payments to 14,500 for some loan discrimination. (The original investigation turned up a possible 205 problem loans.) Then in Pigford II they somehow found 97,000 black farmers who claimed discrimination, but not a single government employee has been investigated or fired? Remember that under Bush people went to jail for misspeaking about Valerie Plame's job assignment, but billions during a recession and no one loses his job?

And the Commander in Thief said, these billions (reparations under any other name . . . ) are "the principles of fairness and equality and opportunity."

This was all brought up by then-Senator Obama in 2007, who in a hanging chad moment, decided surely 80,000 black farmers must have missed the deadline for filing, and in probably the only significant act of his senate years, decided to reopen the case.

» The Pigford President: Obama Signs Black Farmers Settlement - Big Government

Pigford: Racism Against Black Farmers or Government Fraud? | The Stir

Weigel : A Black Farmer Against Pigford

CRS: The Pigford Case

Me & Mrs. Sherrod — And The $1.25 Billion Pigford II Black Farmers’ Settlement - Big Journalism

Faux finishes--are they gone yet?

I don't know when faux finishes became popular, but I know the guy decorators of our place were here before 1990. Most of the faux is gone now except for one tiny room. We discovered sanding down a faux comb glaze was virtually impossible and spread dust throughout the house, so we ended up just painting over it and having an odd texture show through the new paint.

The walls used to be the color of the blue carpeting, with a comb glaze.

According to the WSJ, the new color for 2011 is sort of a hot pink; the color for 2010 was turquoise. Not sure what khaki and peanut are, but that and this very pale gold will be with us for awhile.

Democrats help Chinese firm chase stimulus dollars

Although this is no big surprise, it is a bit of a shock that MSNBC is reporting it. Apparently, this doesn't count as "shipping US jobs overseas." We're just giving the Chinese the entire country, not just the jobs.
    "Top Democratic fundraisers and lobbyists with links to the White House are behind a proposed wind farm in Texas that stands to get $450 million in stimulus money, even though a Chinese company would operate the farm and its turbines would be built in China.

    The farm’s backers also have close ties with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., who, at the height of his hard-fought re-election bid this fall, helped blunt congressional criticism over stimulus dollars possibly going to create jobs in China by endorsing a proposal by the Chinese company to build a factory in his home state. Although his campaign received thousands of dollars in donations from the wind farm’s backers and Reid stood on stage with them at a campaign event they hosted, his office declined to answer any questions about the wind farm’s organizers or their plans for Nevada."

It looks like one American had the decency to hang his head.

The Chinese still get to use coal and petroleum, while these same Democrats stop our energy souces in the Gulf, California, Texas, the Appalachian states like southern Ohio, our life blood, and Alaska. What a piece of work!

Dems help Chinese firm chase stimulus - Business - Going Green - msnbc.com

Fewer children adopted after equality rules force agencies to shut

Many Lutherans are misled about the end result of the push for equality for all things homosexual. Our congregation, UALC, has recently left the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, which had decided to impose on its 10,000 congregations the minority belief that God will bless non-celebate gay clergy. As one Lutheran writer (not of that synod) noted, it is a form of secular fundamentalism, whereby the prevailing culture must be obeyed or you are not a loving, giving congregation. When I say misled it's because, 1) most of those 10,000 congregations never even got a chance to vote, or were unaware that the task force after of 20 years of failing kept rewriting and nudging and finally won in August 2009, and 2) this isn't the end of the story.

In the UK, there are adoptable children going without parents because Christian agencies closed rather than place children against their Biblical principles of married couples. In Canada, which has recognized gay marriage for some years and discussion of it negatively from church pulpits is hate speech, the courts are now reviewing polygamy, polyandry and polyamory for legal status and inclusion in employee benefits.

In the U.S. the definition of hate crimes was expanded in 2010 (and the word FAMILY was redefined for employee benefits) in the Defense Appropriations Act, and it's not a stretch to see that it will go from bodily harm to speech causing mental or spiritual distress. In the U.S., the most vulnerable population is not the unborn who can be sliced and diced and ripped from the womb with approval of our President, but an extremely small special demographic with the highest income and education.

So, even if a Christian agency or a Christian church decides to "go along to get along" with the culture, they will then have to face the next hurdle. I'm sure the next ELCA task force on sexuality is already meeting. If a gay couple in a loving stable relationship is acceptable, why not a family where wife #4 hasn't been able to conceive and wants an infant of her own to share with the sister-wives, or why not a woman with four boy-toys who decides she wants to raise a toddler and she can provide a more economically secure home with five incomes instead of one or two, than a married couple with one?

Fewer children adopted after equality rules force agencies to shut - Telegraph

Polyamorists decry anti-polygamy law - The Globe and Mail

Read The Bill: H.R. 2647 - GovTrack.us

Still taking applications

Almost 5 years ago I wrote a blog about the perfect daughter-in-law. Someone today responded and said she was having issues with her mother-in-law and would look at my list for help. Well, apparently my ideas weren't very good because I still don't have a daughter-in-law. I say that as a joke, because obviously, I have no say in the matter.

I suspect it's my son . . . he just can't get over the idea that he wants to be wrong only 50% of the time. Can you imagine?

This was most likely the proverbial straw

Although I didn't technically leave the Democratic party until 2000 when I voted for Bush (about whom I knew little) instead of Gore (whom I actually liked at that time), today I accidentally came across a straw--don't know if it was the "last straw"-- that I think mattered to me more than Clinton's deplorable behavior in office. The Rwanda genocide in 1994 and the United States' nonresponse (except for hand wringing). The USA didn't mind smacking other governments around if we needed their natural resources, but killing a million people in a matter of months? Black people? No big deal. Not even black Democrats cared much--their leverage was with the wrongs of the 18th and 19th century. And the United Nations? What a piece of worthlessness!

My disaffection with liberalism had a long history--we hadn't been a good match for a number of years dating back to the mid-1970s. I had always been pro-life and since I enjoyed reading history the humanism base of liberalism was pretty hard to swallow. It seemed pretty obvious just from the genocidal and "death by government decree" (USSR, Maoist China) and action in the 20th century, that humans were not perfectable no matter how much money you threw at them through government programs, and that there would be no perfect kum-by-ya harmony in any government's plan. And then in 1994 when we became a "small business" the barn door was left unlocked and all the horses upon which I'd ridden for years began to escape.

So it was personal, spiritual and political, but I left and have never been sorry. Conservatives turn into Republicans who turn into RINOs, but at least conservatives seem to understand that human beings are not perfectable, which all of history, common sense, and trillions of debt confirms. I don't know, maybe liberals don't really believe it either--but I know I did despite all evidence to the contrary, my own behavior, and the church's teachings.

Friday, December 10, 2010

Paula Priesse - "Petro Detector"

Paula decides to live petroleum free with her friend's help and a petro detector.

The Obama-Stockholm Syndrome

"Debates in Washington revolve around "saving" the people from crises Democratic policies exposed them to in the first place. The way it usually works is that the Democrats create a program the federal government shouldn't have established at all, the program inevitably fails, and then they rush in to "reform" it." writes George Neumayr

The American Spectator : The Obama-Stockholm Syndrome

Obama was elected, according to his far left base, to punish the rich and steal their wealth. The tax deal hammered out this week isn't going to fly, because although it amounts to a new stimulus (extending unemployment to 2012) and doesn't raise taxes on anyone (thus saving the Democrats' lunch), and could save the economy, it's no dice for the die hard Communists.

Tax-cut plan moving ahead in Senate - Carrie Budoff Brown and Carol E. Lee - POLITICO.com

I heard an MSNBC guy interviewed on a local program describe the extension of the current Bush tax rates as giving money to the rich (instead of taking it from them) and call the Republicans stingy and mean (I'm paraphrasing) for not wanting to extend unemployment payments to 2012 (a bigger gift to Obama than the original stimulus). Then Politico calls Obama's plan a tax cut (it isn't), and Morning Bell calls Reid's "tax cut" plan "buying votes" of Cantwell, Boxer and Harkin. Ah, political language. Isn't it something?

Tax-cut plan moving ahead in Senate - Carrie Budoff Brown and Carol E. Lee - POLITICO.com

Cybersecurity: Pro-Wikileaks Attacks More Slap in the Face than Kick in the Head

Technewsworld says, not to worry. It's just a front page of Mastercard, not the guts of the operation, or an inconventient slow down for shoppers. Yeah? What about if the dirty laundry of various technology news sites were spread around the internet, or information about their investors, or their bank accounts? Would it seem more serious then?

"Cyberattacks this week by supporters of Wikileaks on the home sites of Visa (NYSE: V) and MasterCard (NYSE: MA) may have been designed to grab headlines rather than actually disrupt the companies' financial operations.

The wave of electronic assaults, referred to as "Operation Payback" by the activists mounting the attacks, were aimed at the home sites of the credit card companies. Those sites have high profiles but relatively low traffic levels -- traffic levels that make them more vulnerable to a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. Such attacks deliberately spike the traffic to a site and make it inaccessible.

"These are their public-facing websites," Nicholas Percoco, a senior vice president with Chicago-based security firm Trustwave, told TechNewsWorld. "They're not taking down transaction processing. They're taking down brochureware websites."

"It's more of a pie-in-the-face tactic," he added."

We know Assange is a Communist and has Soros money behind him. So who exactly are these supporter/hackers?



Technology News: Cybersecurity: Pro-Wikileaks Attacks More Slap in the Face than Kick in the Head

Van Jones: Grab the whip, run the plantation

The Van Jones (former White House insider who was pushed out into the arms of John Podesta when his Communist ties were revealed by Glenn Beck) video shown last night on Glenn Beck was not a brief clip--but it was certainly chilling. Jones first complimented his audience (don't know who but from his speech they seemed to be black Obama supporters and liberal white mush brains who've never studied history) for taking Congress and the White House in their revolutionary struggle for power from 2006-2010. Then he said something to think about. He told them that once they had power, they didn't know what to do with it--they had overcome the Master, grabbed the whip, but didn't know how to run the plantation.

The plantation metaphor is very popular when speaking to African Americans--as though no other people on the planet are enslaved at this time, even though slavery has bigger numbers today than in the 17th century Atlantic slave trade. Now when conservatives say so-and-so (usually a black Republican) has left the plantation, they are called racists. It's OK for a Communist to say it, because they need to stir up trouble. When your downtrodden are driving SUVs, watching HDTV and getting fat at McDonald's, it's really hard to stir up the masses. He also said the 2012 campaign would be the "mean against the dumb"--imagine if a conservative said that, unless he meant the Tea Party against the RINOs, with which many of us agree.

But think about it all you leftists, Communists and Progressives. All you Democrats who think your party couldn't be swallowed whole by an outside group. Do you really want the SEIU running the pharmaceutical companies that produce the drugs keeping your son alive or treating your cancer? Do you want the released convicts determining your child's acceptance to college or what they are taught (Oh wait--scratch that--there's Bill Ayers, faculty at the U. of I. Chicago). Which disaffected, rabble rousing, sluggard who hasn't worked in 10 years do you think can get an automobile off the assembly line or drive a long distance refrigerated truck or fix your computer or even manage the bagel slicer and latte machine at your favorite coffee shop where you plan the revolution?

The second thing about the plantation metaphor is that he didn't say the slave and master relationship was evil or bad--just that he wanted to reverse the roles. That's probably the biggest goal for Communists--not that power is bad or evil, but it should rightfully belong to them, and the government should be the master and the citizen the slave.

Donor Pays For Marine’s Medical Flight To Boston

Laurel Johnson, whose husband Robert died of a brain tumor the day after Christmas last year, knows something about the pain and suffering of cancer. She has contributed the cost of a special medical flight for Jessica Shepard, who is too fragile and ill for a helicopter or a commercial flight.

Johnson says: “If he’d been alive he would have said we’ve got to send money to this family. It’s the kind of thing firefighters do,” she said. Johnson was a captain with the Harwich fire department for 30 years.

Donor Pays For MA Marine’s Medical Flight To Boston « CBS Boston – News, Sports, Weather, Traffic and Boston's Best

Thursday, December 09, 2010

Has over 5 millions hits--the silent Monks

Forbes blogger falls for Soros lies--Warns U.S. Could Be On Verge Of Dictatorial Democracy, Slams Fox, Glenn Beck

I must have missed something in history class and 50 years of reading newspapers and watching TV news, but I can't recall a talk show host ever taking over a government, but a Communist? Yeah. Many times. Anyway, Robert Lenzer adds to Soros' smears by chiming in with:
    "Soros was especially bitter and harshly critical of the rolke played in our political discourse by the Fox News Channel, owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. as a very dangerous precedent for the “open society” that has prevailed in the U.S. for 200 years. Soros also characterized Fox newscaster Glenn Beck, who has been falsely vilifying Soros publicly, as a throwback to the wild and crazy radical elements that never before were given such a public pedestal to foment their hate. Beck has been trying to stir up public hatred of Soros, suggesting that the investment genius and significant philanthropist was maliciously trying to take over the U.S. for his own purposes."
Lenzer needs to stop having his information filtered through Soros supported Media Matters, and start watching Beck personally.

Forbes has probably lost credibility with millions of loyal Beck fans. Lenzer apparently doesn't grasp the difference between news and opinion, perhaps because so much of what we get from our media is opinion in place of news reporting. Soros is Beck's schtick--not the news team.

Then our legislators, most of whom are on the dole from their Democrat supporter fat cats, chime in about the "good old days" of honest reporting and bipartisanship. As Dan Witte of Forest Park, IL noted: "Politicians are consistently bipartisan on earmarks--self-serving and disingenuous."

Lenzer has been invited to appear on the Beck program to defend his point of view that Beck has falsely accused Soros of being something he isn't. Prove it Mr. Lenzer. As Beck always tells his viewers, DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH.

Soros Warns U.S. Could Be On Verge Of Dictatorial Democracy, Slams Fox, Glenn Beck - Robert Lenzner - StreetTalk - Forbes

E-mail scams--Oh the creativity!

Yesterday I got one with great graphics--was supposed to be from the FBI although I don't remember exactly what I was being offered. Here are excerpts from the 3 or 4 a day I get. I only get them through my OSU mail account. Road Runner, being a business seems a bit better at catching them and dumping.


I am delighted to inform you that the Guarantee Trust Bank Plc (GTB) Management through the office of Mr. President have decided to call back all approved fund payment through offshore payment center following directives from UNITED NATIONS & WORLD BANK and have concluded arrangements to pay your beneficiary/contractual fund by cash through Diplomatic Agent. The Agent will be delivering the cash in a Machine sealed consignment to your door step as my bank have temporarily stopped further payment via wire transfer this quarter.

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Since his death, I decided not to remarry or get a child outside my matrimonial home which the holly Quaran is against. When my late husband was alive he deposited the sum of (£ 2.3 Million Pounds) with the a security company here in London, Presently, the fund is still with the security company. Recently, my Doctor told me that I have serious sickness which is cancer problem. The one that disturbs me most is my stroke sickness having known my condition I decided to donate this fund to an Organisation,Company or individual that will utilize this money the way I am going to instruct here-in.

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For some time now,i have not be able to make any long distance travel because of my health, so i wanted my investment liquidated and transferred to my account by Swift, but the Investors insist, they can not transfer the funds to any bank account outside United State due to their new company policy trigered by the prevailing economic meltdown.

Meanwhile, i wanted to travel to the US to get the funds myself but my doctor advice against it ,that due to my present state of health i can not make such a long distance trip. So i was told to provide someone in the United State to receive the funds on my behalf.

Please let me know if you can handle the funds on my behalf and forward to me. You shall be entitle to 10% of the money you receive and forward me the balance 90% WITHOUT YOU SPENDING A SINGLE CENT FROM YOUR END.

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I am Assistant Manager in banking institution, For your kind attention, I will be very glad if you do assist me to relocate the sum Million of Dollars to your personal bank account for the benefit of both of us as a foreign partner. The fund belong to a late Spanish contractor here, he died in an accident on his way going back to construction site four years ago.

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To be precise; I am Dr. Huck Laman Senior manager of ABSA BANK Limited
Johannesburg South Africa. In my department, we discovered an abandoned sum of US$ 43 Million(Forty Three Million United State Dollars) in an account that belongs to one of our customers who died along with his entire family in 1988 Lockerbie Pan American Airline plane crash. Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money because we cannot release it unless somebody applied for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking procedures, but unfortunately to no avail and nobody has come forward to claim the money.

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My condition is serious and according to my doctor, he said it is obvious that I will not survive it. I have some funds that my late husband WILLED to me in cash, the sum of $3,700,000.00 million United States of American Dollars, which is deposited in my bank. After my prayers, I searched the internet were i found your email address and I decided to contact you for the usage of the funds for the less privilege or the poor.

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I know that it will sound so strange when receive this Email. Hope you will treat it kind I want use this medium to ask for your assistance. My father died in bomb explosion, which occurred on Jan. 2008 in Republic of Togo. When he was alive he was an oil marchant and also the chairman of Republic of Togo Oil producing Development Area he lodge a ver huge amount of money into my account whats of $ 16million US dollars. My problem now is that my stepmother who want me died because of this money. She is after my life now also doing her possible best to get this money from me. Please I want you to assist to secure a foreign account where I will lodge this fund into without any delay.

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Because of the elaborate global scam, we decided to contact you for confirmation. If after two working days, no responce is received from you, it will be assumed that you are dead and as such authorisation and approval will be granted on behalf of Messers Jacobs enterprises to claim/receive your fund.

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I was told by the doctor that I was poisoned and has got my liver damaged and can only live for some months. When my let husband was alive he deposited the sum of us$7.3 Million Dollars with one of the Bank here in Abidjan Cote D'Ivoire. and I cannot think of anybody trying to kill me apart from my late husband business associate in order to inherit the money, because my son is only eight years old. I will issue you the vital document that will prove to you the present beneficiary of the fund.

The poisoned liver one just came today. Nice touch. Occasionally I glance through them and wonder. . . Do people really fall for this? If they do, they deserve what they get--a scam and a hoax based on greed.

Wednesday, December 08, 2010

The government redefined "FAMILY" in June

I must have been out of town. The government redefined the word and meaning of family through a minor agency called Office of Personnel Management. I noticed it in

Federal Register 33491
Vol. 75, No. 113
Monday, June 14, 2010:

5 CFR Part 630
RIN 3206–AL93
Absence and Leave; Definitions of
Family Member, Immediate Relative,
and Related Terms
AGENCY: Office of Personnel
Management.
ACTION: Final rule.

As part of OPM’s
continuing efforts to support the needs
of the Federal workforce during times of
sickness, funerals, and medical or other
emergencies, we are making the
definitions of family member and
immediate relative more explicit
to
include more examples of relationships
that are covered under the phrase ‘‘[a]ny
individual related by blood or affinity
whose close association with the
employee is the equivalent of a family
relationship.’’ These examples include
stepparents and stepchildren,
grandparents, grandchildren, and samesex
and opposite-sex domestic partners.
In addition, OPM’s final regulations
define the terms committed
relationship, domestic partner, parent,
and son or daughter
. . .
Although it has always been appropriate
to consider same-sex domestic partners
as a family relationship under the
‘‘related by blood or affinity’’ clause for
the purposes covered under these
regulations, agencies have not been
consistent in their interpretation of the
clause. These changes do not reflect an
additional benefit provided to a ‘‘special
interest group’’ or a fundamental change
in the Government’s human resources
policies. On the contrary, these final
regulations are meant to ensure that an
employee has an entitlement to use his
or her leave for purposes authorized
under applicable law and regulation.
Therefore, OPM believes it is
appropriate to specifically include
same-sex partners in the definitions of
family member and immediate relative
to ensure consistent application across
the Federal Government. We are
keeping domestic partners as part of the
definitions of family member and
immediate relative under 5 CFR part
630, subparts B, H, I, J, and K, for the
use of sick leave, funeral leave,
voluntary leave transfer, voluntary leave
bank, and emergency leave transfer to
ensure agencies meet the needs of a
diverse workforce. . .
Based upon the
comments received, we agree to revise
the definitions of family member and
immediate relative to clarify that the
parent of a domestic partner is included
in these two definitions. Therefore, we
are revising the proposed definitions of
family member and immediate relative
to add language to paragraph (6) to state:
‘‘domestic partner and parents thereof,
including domestic partners of any
individual in paragraphs (2) through (5)
of the definition.’’

And much more too lengthy and complex to copy.

Black Christians condemned Obama's inclusion of gay fathers in his Father's Day Message in June

Obama Proclaims that Homosexuals "Two Fathers" Can be Considered Fathers, in the Normal Sense of the Word, in his Father's Day Proclamation;Question: Where are the Megachurch Pastors and Prophets of God to Publicly Rebuke this Unwise President - BCNN1

SIPRNet: The US army Secret IP Router Network

The primary reason you don't hear much about the real culprit of Wikileaks, PFC Bradley Manning, is that he is/was an unhappy homosexual in the Army and we're in the midst of a "don't ask don't tell" debate. We're also in a debate about the security of Muslims in the armed forces during our War on Terror, so you hear very little about Nidal Malik Hasan.

SIPRNet: The US army Secret IP Router Network | Privacy Lover

But both the Manning and Hasan stories, personal motivations of hate aside, show the Army is incredibly sloppy in its security.

Who will play Julian the Movie version?

I definitely have made my pick.