WARNING!! – WARNING!! – WARNING!! – WARNING!! – WARNING!! –
If You do a Google search on this subject… Make sure that you have your protection levels up on your computer… Some of these sites are nasty… I had at least four that tried to hijack my browser or install some phony “virus scanner” … Others are just nasty, hateful nut job sites that seek to incite hatred and may seriously offend. One of the sites actually got past all of my defenses set up on Firefox and Mac OS X and proceeded to install a hijacker program… BE CAREFUL!!
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An ugly topic is capturing attention on the Internet: Today the phrase “assassinate Obama” appeared on a list of the top 100 Google search terms.
What I find most disturbing is that at 10:00a.m. PST… There were “only” 2,000 results for the same search on Google… But the number had dramatically increased to over 189,000 by 7:30p.m. PST… All this happened during the media’s breathless run up indicating that Obama was going to win in New Hampshire… What does this say about America?
Secret Service presence has increased for Sen. Barack Obama since his dramatic win in Iowa, amid fears over the safety of the man seeking to become America’s first black president. The Internet is rife with theories that someone may try to assassinate the senator — typing into Google “assassinate Obama” brings up more than 189,000 hits.
Anyone from Islamist terrorists to racist Americans to operatives of Halliburton and Blackwater are speculated about, but other, more nefarious Web sites are for real, according to reports from the Associated Press.
The Illinois senator’s security now rivals that of President Bush, with a dozen Secret Service agents wearing dark suits and earpieces leading bomb-sniffing dogs through event venues, sweeping all equipment brought by journalists and flanking the candidate as he plunges into crowds of supporters. In Fact… Not only has Obama had an unprecedented level of Secret Service protection… He’s had it from far earlier in the campaign than any other candidate.
He’s Definitely His Mommy’s Boy!
He Looks Better Than Hillary!
A True Southern Belle!
Read Part 1 HERE
Before I begin to grouse about what I don’t like about Apple’s New OS X 10.5, Leopard… Let me make this disclaimer… My Mac is not typical. My main machine is a G4 model with dual 1 Ghz processors with 1.5Gb of RAM and 3 internal hard drives and 4 external hard drives… Also… Every expansion slot is stuffed with some kind of card. There’s also 2 DVD burners and 2 ZIP drives and an external floppy drive… Did I mention the TV card? My computer was new in 2003. There are newer machines in the house… But This Old Girl and I get along just fine.
I didn’t have an external drive available to be erased for Time Machine when I first installed Leopard…. Time Machine is Apple’s fancy new way of backing up your entire computer without your having to do anything… Once it sets itself up that is… So I passed on the initial offer to set up Time Machine. Apple should warn people on the box that it wants an empty external drive to make Time Machine work. Anyway… I had a 400 gigabyte firewire drive with nearly 300 GB available at the time…. But I didn’t want to lose 100 GB of stuff… So I had to do some transferring and backing up before I could sacrifice that hard drive. This took a few days to make happen.
I thought it would be short and sweet once I turned Time Machine on. Big Surprise!! It took almost 36 hours to back up nearly 160 gigabytes of data... Admittedly this was over 1,550,000 files… But I was surprised at how long this took. My machine was very greatly slowed down during this process… Given a preference… I would prefer that Leopard took 2 – 3 hours longer to install initially and get all this out of the way… I would have been really upset to have the install take longer than that though. Carbon Copy Cloner (CCC) from Bombich can exactly clone an entire hard drive in much less time… It can also update those clones and they are fully bootable… Time Machine will not boot your machine… I will be keeping CCC for now and may ultimately decide to disable Time Machine… Time will tell.
Also, I’m a bit irritated at Leopard’s need to update boot cache files at shutdown. It adds a bit of time to the shutdown and there is a dialog box that seems like it needs to be recognized before the machine will shut down… This box can be ignored …. But it all seems very Windows like.
Spotlight is also very intrusive and will hog your processor and slow down your machine when it’s indexing… And it wants to do this whenever you mount (attach) another drive… This is very annoying and the process cannot be easily stopped once started… Apple would do well to give us an option to stop this action at will so that it doesn’t slow me down at inopportune times… If I’m attaching another drive to my machine… It’s usually because I need to get at something on that drive pretty quickly… I don’t need to be worrying that my machine is going to slow down on me just for the convenience of being able to instantly search every file on that drive.
I have had one crash… But it was most likely my fault. I was extremely shocked though because I hadn’t had a full machine crash in over two years… No big deal… Just a grey transparent veil that dropped down over the screen and a box popped up that said something like… “Sorry, You’ll need to reboot”… I rebooted and that was that. Of course… That was after staring open mouthed at the frozen menu bar clock in disbelief for about 4 minutes! Somewhere in the back of my mind… I knew that you could crash OS X … But it’d been so long since I’d seen it… That I’d begun to believe it was just another urban legend. And I have to give Apple credit… It took some doing on my part to make it happen… I’d been fiddling around in Activity Monitor… Which is an area that is not normally even seen by the vast majority of Mac users.
All in all… I have to say that the system is sturdy and stable and a bit less snappy than Tiger in my opinion… But then again… My machine is older and has a lot of stuff stuffed into it that the average Mac does not. And Leopard seems to work even with some of my more ancient equipment… My trusty old SuperDisk drive is at least 10 years old.
Bottom Line… My gripes are outweighed by the fact that Apple’s latest Operating System gives me all the new goodies to play with along with the ability to get on with my work and play without worrying about the computer itself. And the fact that I’m doing this on equipment that ranges from 5 to 10 years old says a lot about Apple’s commitment to support it’s users regardless of ability or desire to buy new equipment.
I would recommend going with Apple for anyone considering a new computer purchase, considering that the new machines will run Windows as well as Leopard.
True or not, Web sites name lying spouses, drunks, even bad tippers.
Want to know who’s doing who?… Want to report an idiot driver from your daily commute?… Got a suspicious neighbor? Dying for all the gritty details? Web sites are increasingly naming names, or at least posting descriptions, pictures and license plate numbers, of people supposedly caught in the act of violating social norms.
This kind of turbo-charged tattling, driven by citizen snooping, is creating a host of privacy and ethical issues.
How would you like to be the Arizona woman who is accused of having sex in her purple Ford on a daily basis in a Safeway parking lot?
Here is a list of sites for tattlers:
Shame site links:
drivehonest.com
I Saw Your Nanny
womansavers.com
cheaternews.com
bitterwaitress.com
litterbutt.com
Holla back NYC
ratemyprofessor.com
ratemyteacher.com
YouTube newspaper snatcher
Most of this comes from a commentary by Jim Walker…And while I see he has some good points… All I really want to know is … Is Jesus a Republican or Democrat?… Libertarian or Socialist? … Liberal or Conservative?… Is he registered to vote?… What does He think about those high credit card interest rates???
Today we have Christians who believe in a UFO-Christ connection, Christians who believe that Jesus never died on a cross but lived, got married, and had children, Christians who believe in a Devil Jesus, Rapture-Christians who’s eschatology requires them to believe the world will end soon, and indeed, wish it to come soon, Christians who believe in Jesus, meek-and-mild, and feel willing to sacrifice their hard earned money by giving everything to the Church, Christians who believe themselves as Christ or God, Christians who believe that Jesus only came for peace and love (contrary to the Bible), Christians who believe in a manly war-like Jesus (as did Nazis and many right-wing Christians today), Christians who believe in a miracle worker Jesus who can heal through prayer alone. On and on it goes, everyone’s version varies dramatically from the other.
Incredible as it may seem, many Christians today believe that a god created the universe approximately 6000 years ago. That means that everything in it, planets, stars, moons, comets, and even light itself, must have originated at the time (or after) the Great Creation. Consider that no energy or matter in the universe can travel faster than the speed of light. If you take the speed-of-light back in time 6000 years to the point of the alleged Creation, you get a spherical radius of only around 6000 light-years. This means that a 12,000 diameter light-year bubble represents everything that could possibly happen or exist within the time range of Christian chronology. Consider that the entire Christian universe cannot measure larger than a single average galaxy in the known universe! The miniscule Christian universe would sit as a tiny dwarf within single galaxy such as the Andromeda galaxy (shown above). And astronomers estimate that hundreds of billions of galaxies exist in the universe and that each galaxy could contain hundreds of Christian-sized universes!
Stage #1 — Smart
This is when you suddenly become an expert on every subject. You
know all and greatly wish to express this knowledge to anyone who
will listen. At this stage you are also always right. And of course
the person you are talking with is very wrong. You will talk for
hours trying to convince someone that you are right. This makes for an
interesting argument when both parties are “smart”. Two people talking,
in fact, arguing about a subject neither one really knows anything
about, but are convinced that they are they complete authority on the
subject makes for great entertainment for those get the opportunity to
listen in.
Stage #2 — Handsome/Pretty
This is when you are convinced that you are the best looking person in
the entire room and everyone is looking at you. You begin to wink at
perfect strangers and ask them to dance because of course they had been
admiring you the whole evening. You are the center of attention, and all
eyes are directed at you because you are the most beautiful thing on the
face of the earth. Now keep in mind that you are still smart, so you can
talk to this person who has been admiring you about any and all subjects
under the sun.
Stage #3 — Rich
This is when you suddenly become the richest person in the world. You can
buy drinks for the entire bar and put it on your bill because you surely
have an armored truck full of your money parked behind the bar. You can
also make bets in this stage. Now of course you still know all, so you
will always win all your bets. And you have no concern for how much
money you bet because you have all the money in the world. You will also
begin to buy drinks for all the people in the bar who are admiring you
because you are now the smartest, prettiest, and richest person on the
face of the earth.
Stage #4 — Bulletproof
You can now pick fights with the people you have been betting money with
because you cannot be hurt by anything. At this point you would go up to
the boyfriend of the woman who had been admiring your beautiful self
all evening and challenge him to a battle of wits for money. You have no
worry about losing this battle of wits because you know all, have all
the money to cover this bet, and you obviously win a fight that might
erupt if he looses.
Stage #5 — Invisible
This is the final stage of drunkenness. At this point you can do
absolutely anything because no one can see you. You can get up and dance
on a table; you can strip down to your underwear, to impress the people
who have been admiring you all evening, because the rest of the people
in the room cannot see you. You are also invisible to the person whom
you have picked a fight with earlier in the evening. You can walk through
the streets singing at the top of your lungs (because of course you are
still smart and know the tune perfectly) and no one will think anything
of it because they can’t see you. All your social inhibitions are
gone. You can do anything, because no one will know.
And you certainly won’t remember !
George “No Hard Feelings” Fryer
A man has accused Britain’s National Health Service of breaching his human rights by prescribing him just one Viagra tablet a week.
Dad of two George Fryer, 54, has a bend in his willy which causes erection problems.
The security guard says he is a “stallion” when on the drug and romping with girlfriend Janice Roberts, 39, in Stoke, Staffs.
But he was heartbroken when he found NHS guidelines restricted him to four tablets a month.
George – whose marriage broke up due to his problem – fumed: “This is a ban on my sex life.”
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A married couple was in a car when the wife turned to her husband and asked, “Would you like to stop for a coffee?”
“No, thanks,” he answered truthfully. So they didn’t stop.
The result? The wife, who had indeed wanted to stop, became annoyed because she felt her preference had not been considered. The husband, seeing his wife was angry, became frustrated. Why didn’t she just say what she wanted?
Unfortunately, he failed to see that his wife was asking the question not to get an instant decision, but to begin a negotiation. And the woman didn’t realize that when her husband said no, he was just expressing his preference, not making a ruling. When a man and woman interpret the same interchange in such conflicting ways, it’s no wonder they can find themselves leveling angry charges of selfishness and obstinacy at each other.
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I KNEW I shouldn’t have signed up at Chix-Horses-Watersports-Spank me-Highheels.com using my real email address!!
– Consumers of Internet pornography who secretly signed up for memberships on adult-oriented Web sites in the past few months may be in for a shock — some of their personal information, including e-mail addresses, may have been compromised by a security breach.
Though the breach, which potentially could affect tens of thousands of customers, reportedly did not involve the theft of credit card information, it could nonetheless have a significant impact on the lucrative Internet pornography industry, according to those who monitor the market. These observers note that online porn relies, as much as anything else, on the promise that its customers can enjoy complete anonymity as they indulge their favorite niche pastimes from the privacy of their own computers.
The breach has raised serious alarm in the world of adult-oriented Web sites, with many concerned about the effect on customers if they learn that their most secret transactions are not so secret after all.
Customers may also be more reluctant to report a problem when the issue involved is online pornography. “Would you really want someone out there to know you surf porn sites, and the hardcore bondage stuff?” said Kimmel. “The guy out there buying a membership for his own personal pleasure has no clue.”
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Here’s Hoping We Can Get Back To Some Live Posting On Saturday!
A Real Autopsy – HERE
Falling On His Face Video – HERE
Can You Find Willie? – HERE
What Does 200 Calories Look Like? – HERE
Some Insults!
I didn’t understand why they called it the “rat race” until I met you. – unknown
Someday they’re going to name a disease after you. – unknown
I suppose I should have some sympathy for your handicap. You are obviously paralyzed from the neck up. – unknown
Your house is so dirty people have to wipe their feet before they go outside. -anonymous
I farted to make you smell better. – Sharon
You must be from the shallow end of the gene pool. – unknown
There’s nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won’t cure.– Jack E. Leonard
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