Morse code and Macbeth

Morse code

So now that we've poisoned enough people, we can finally admit that oil dispersants are bad for us?

What young people need to know about porn.

The 1% are becoming aware the peasants are getting restless.

Women's right to choose.

The water wars of the near future.

Ian McKellen does Macbeth's soliloquy .

Embranglements

Following the Silk Road.

 

 Oh noes! Even our power strips are spying on us! Power Pwn: This DARPA-funded power strip will hack your network

Summary: The Power Pwn may look like a power strip, but it's actually a DARPA-funded hacking tool for launching remotely-activated Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and Ethernet attacks. If you see one around the office, make sure to ask if it's supposed to be there.

When did the first people arrive in the Americas?

Monsanto has actually something intelligent to say? Monsanto asks its scientists if global warming is real

There goes the other 50% of voters....Mitt Romney vows to ban pornography by installing a filter on every U.S. PC

 "Dramatic" New Maya Temple Found, Covered With Giant Faces Archaeological "gold mine" illuminates connection between king and sun god.

They still look horribly uncomfortable: 600-Year-Old Bras Found in Austria

Heading for the cliff.

Man blames cat for downloading child porn

Dogs have been blamed for eating homework - now a Florida man says his cat downloaded child pornography.

Police are charging Keith Griffin of Jensen Beach, Florida with 10 counts of possession of child pornography after finding more than 1,000 images on his personal computer.

Griffin told police he had been downloading music, and that his cat jumped on the keyboard when he left the room. He said "strange things" appeared on the computer when he returned.

Sorry about that

I find I've got to put up the stupid filter thingie for comments. Some porn/pharmaceutical spammer dumped massive piles of crap in the back pages of my blog.

Who the hell is stupid enough to click on porn spam as hilarious as it is? I mean.... really?

It doesn't fit their vision

Of what our 'Onward Christian Soldiers' should be doing when not fighting the holy Rapture war to the death.

Steve Benen of Crooks and Liars:

Don Wildmon and the American Family Association have a new obsession: U.S. troops’ access to adult materials.

Ten years after Congress banned sales of sexually explicit material on military bases, the Pentagon is under fire for continuing to sell adult fare, such as Penthouse and Playmates In Bed, that it doesn’t consider explicit enough to pull from its stores.

Dozens of religious and anti-pornography groups have complained to Congress and Defense Secretary Robert Gates that a Pentagon board set up to review magazines and films is allowing sales of material that Congress intended to ban.

“They’re saying ‘we’re not selling stuff that’s sexually explicit’ … and we say it’s pornography,” says Donald Wildmon, head of the American Family Association, a Christian anti-pornography group. A letter-writing campaign launched Friday by opponents of the policy aims to convince Congress to “get the Pentagon to obey the law,” he adds.

It's so hard to have your end of the world fantasies destroyed by the soldiers who are supposed to be fighting for the glory of God actually not giving a damn about this being the war of biblical proportions, the war predicted in Revelations. The Bible didn't mention soldiers getting to read Playboy...
Has anyone told these fanatics that soldiers are often ... *gasp* Democrats, too? Maybe gay? Divorced? Unwillingly there? Human? And not at all interested in dying for a holy war?

When none of the slime you are throwing sticks

Bring in the big guns and accuse the other party of collecting child porn:

CONCORD – Investigators not only found no evidence state Democratic power broker Raymond Buckley possessed child pornography, but also seriously considered charging Manchester Republican Steve Vaillancourt with making a false report for lodging what proved to be a baseless complaint, the state attorney general said yesterday.

The eight-week criminal probe into the allegations raised by Vaillancourt -- a state representative who was Buckley's housemate for 16 years until 1999 -- revealed a "complete lack of evidence" that Buckley ever possessed child pornography, had it mailed to him, searched the Internet for it, or expressed a sexual interest in minors, Attorney General Kelly A. Ayotte said.

"Simply put, Mr. Vaillancourt's allegations that Mr. Buckley was involved in the possession of child pornography are unsubstantiated and unfounded," she said.

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Maybe there will be justice?

Buckley's attorney, John Kacavas, thanked Manchester police and the Attorney General's Office for their "thorough, fair and professional investigation" into a "scurrilous allegation that devastated what was Mr. Buckley's life-long dream to become Democratic Party chairman."

"This transcends politics," Kacavas said. "To accuse someone of this kind of a crime is human savagery. ... It devastated him. It devastated his family and friends. And it devastated a life-long goal."

Kacavas said he has advised Buckley of his legal options to bring a defamation lawsuit against Vaillancourt.

"I'm meeting with my attorney, and we'll be looking at that some other day," Buckley said.

Ayotte released a six-page report detailing the findings of two Manchester police investigators working in consultation with a state prosecutor. It revealed police twice interviewed Vaillancourt during which he conceded never seeing Buckley smuggle child pornography into the country, instead saying Buckley "just told me about it."