Prometheus 6

This is the chairman of the Clinton campaign.

I suggest you reflect on all the things Fox says about his boss as you consider whether the network is 'fair and balanced.' Then, whether your answer is yes or no, think about what it means for Mrs. Clinton to align herself with that network.

It really is becoming grotesque. 

I think the point where I went fuck it , is when a law student, a couple writers, and a professor basically endorsed a book  and  MISSED in reading something they were ATTACHING their names to .

Racist comics, about MY PEOPLE. Yeah MY PEOPLE, being KILLED and destroyed to save a white man and give a white woman the “courage” she so desperately desires .

And people fell over themselves to excuse them . Cause they’re learning

I know it's just two folks so far, but they are among the best.

Dancho Danchev, an independent security analyst, has a decent write-up on signs that Web site owners can look for to tell whether their site has been hit by this attack. Danchev said all of the hacked sites appear to have Javascript coding adding to their page source that silently pulls down malware from a few domains in China, namely nihaorr1.com, and haoliuliang.net. 

Hundreds of Thousands of Microsoft Web Servers Hacked

Hundreds of thousands of Web sites - including several at the United Nations and in the U.K. government -- have been hacked recently and seeded with code that tries to exploit security flaws in Microsoft Windows to install malicious software on visitors' machines.

I'm assuming there are a few still working.

According to reports, the chair of the state Republican Party in North Carolina is planning to move forward with its plans to air its racially divisive campaign ad despite John McCain's emailed complaints. While the McCain campaign made a show of protesting the ad, McCain made no mention of the fact that key officials in the North Carolina GOP are members of McCain's state steering committee and McCain donors. Nor did he mention the fact that the state chair who is bucking his leadership is a member of the arrangements committee of the Republican National Convention.

We know you like McCain. But this is evil, and you know it.

Karnythia, also from The Angry Black Woman.

I once sat in a class on the psychology of sexual harassment (the only black woman in the class) and had the lovely experience of a white woman trying to challenge black women on their support of black men despite the misogyny in rap music and the Clarence Thomas case. She literally could not see (despite my efforts to beat reason into the conversation) a problem with her attitude. When I pointed out that white men weren’t immune to misogyny and no one was asking white women to abandon them? Yeah, there was a whole riff about how enlightened the men in her life were and so clearly there was hope for white men. Another white woman who had been sitting there listening politely pointed out her racism and suddenly she could see it. Because clearly the 20+ times I’d pointed it out just did not matter at all.

Yeah.

Have you noticed that I will explain my positions without trying to convince anyone to adopt them?

I'm going to tell you the truth...if it were up to me, I'd just institute the Racial Preferences Licensing Act. 

Check this out:

A million dollar skateboard park? Why not spinning rims for their fish's bicycle? Between bombings and traffic and gunfire, where the hell are they going to use them, other than the skateboard park? Kids ride them damn things all day everywhere to get good at it.

This is so stupid it must be propaganda for American construction..."they got an amusement park over there, it can't be that bad..." "The troops have free use of an amusement park during their down-time."

Anyone Seen My $4.2 Billion?
There's a lot of money out there in the economy that people used to spend on CDs. The question is, where, exactly, did it go?

When the Associated Press did its (now annual) story about How the Music Industry Is Failing this past January, it tried to answer my question with one sentence: "The recording industry has experienced declines in CD album sales for years, in part because of the rise of online file-sharing, but also because consumers have spent more of their leisure dollars on other entertainment, like DVDs and video games." This is a rational explanation supported by the precipitous commercial rise in both idioms. (Video-game revenue has more than doubled since 2000, and DVD sales grew from $2.5 billion in 2000 to $23.4 billion last year.) The only problem is while CDs, DVDs, and video games are physically similar, and they're sold in the same outlet, the experiences they offer aren't logically connected. I don't see why not having to pay for a Band of Horses album would make a person any more likely to buy a copy of Knocked Up, as opposed to buying four gallons of gas or a pair of sunglasses or a turtle. I don't think young people swap out items in their "leisure" budget that explicitly.

Paul Krugman took his place.

Tellingly, the Obama campaign has put far more energy into attacking Mrs. Clinton’s health care proposals than it has into promoting the idea of universal coverage.

Mrs. Bill campaign has put far more energy into attacking Mr. Obama’s health care proposals than it has into promoting the idea of universal coverage.

I'm assuming he's discounting simple pronouncements of support for the idea.

But how negative has the Clinton campaign been, really? Yes, it ran an ad that included Osama bin Laden in a montage of crisis images that also included the Great Depression and Hurricane Katrina. To listen to some pundits, you’d think that ad was practically the same as the famous G.O.P. ad accusing Max Cleland of being weak on national security.

One little-noticed finding was that 6 percent of Clinton's own voters said that they would defect to John McCain in the fall against Clinton herself. These Pennsylvania Democrats clearly were not Clinton enthusiasts.

3 Detectives Acquitted in Bell Shooting
By MICHAEL WILSON

Three detectives were found not guilty Friday morning on all charges in the shooting death of Sean Bell, who died in a hail of 50 police bullets outside a club in Jamaica, Queens.

Justice Arthur J. Cooperman, who delivered the verdict, said many of the prosecution’s witnesses, including Mr. Bell’s friends and the two wounded victims, were simply not believable. “The testimony of those witnesses just didn’t make sense,” he said.

His verdict prompted several supporters of Mr. Bell to storm out of the courtroom, and screams could be heard in the hallway moments later. The three detectives — Gescard F. Isnora, Michael Oliver and Marc Cooper — were escorted out of a side doorway. Outside, a crowd gathered behind police barricades, occasionally shouting, amid a veritable sea of police officers.

Basically, I'm linking it all.

I said earlier it was none of my business. I still sort of feel it's not. And truth, I stopped watching...I got a lot of confidence that WoC in the blogosphere would handle their business.

But these pictures, which I found via nojojojo at The Angry Black Woman, are deeply problematic.

The art director for this project didn't expect any Black folks to buy this book.  

The site on which the pictures are posted (which is refreshingly titled Dear white feminists, Quit goddamn fucking up.) is unlikely to be further updated.

I’m not a blogger. I have no wish to start a blog. The sole purpose of this page is to issue a plea to the white feminist community. I, too, am a feminist who has white privilege. I believe in our cause. I believe in the struggle for equality of all people regardless of gender, race, sexual orientation, ethnicity, etc. This struggle means recognizing and fighting discrimination wherever it exists.

This is especially true when it is within our own ranks. So let’s stop burying our heads in denial. Let’s recognize the hypocrisy of claiming to fight oppression while simultaneously acting as oppressors ourselves. Listen to the words of your sisters who do not have your white privilege. Do not get angry and blame them for your faults. Instead, listen.

Because it’s okay to make mistakes. It’s okay to be wrong sometimes — everyone is. But it’s not okay to deny those mistakes, to refuse to change or learn from them, to insist we are perfect the way we are. In doing so, we keep the same old systems of hierarchy and oppression in place.

And isn’t that just what we criticize patriarchy for doing?

Pity. Because the only actual post on the site is so on point that I want to to set aside a reasonable block of time. I want you to read the post, follow the links to understand what happened. You will also be introduced to a vast assortment of truly excellent writers and thinkers. I'm going to warn you, a bunch of them are Black. A bunch are gay. There's some transexuals in the mix, not clear how many. If you're bothered by that, skip it...it will be your loss.

Who made up those rules? And who would ever think they are fair?

You did.

The writer is a strategist for Sen. Hillary Clinton's campaign.

If you hadn't started race baiting (Penn, Shaheen, Kerry, et al...all your nonsense about it starting with Mr. Bill in South Carolina is just that: nonsense), you wouldn't be operating in such an unforgiving context.

Fair Is Fair
By Geoff Garin
Friday, April 25, 2008; A23

What's wrong with this picture? Our campaign runs a TV ad Monday saying that the presidency is the toughest job in the world and giving examples of challenges presidents have faced and challenges the next president will face -- including terrorism, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, mounting economic dislocation, and soaring gas prices. The ad makes no reference -- verbal, visual or otherwise -- to our opponent; it simply asks voters to think about who they believe is best able to stand the heat. And we are accused, by some in the media, of running a fear-mongering, negative ad.

The day before this ad went on the air, David Axelrod, Barack Obama's chief strategist, appeared with me on "Meet the Press." He was asked whether Hillary Clinton would bring "the changes necessary" to Washington, and his answer was "no." This was in keeping with the direct, personal character attacks that the Obama campaign has leveled against Clinton from the beginning of this race -- including mailings in Pennsylvania that describe her as "the master of a broken system."

Top House Democrat denounces Clinton campaign tactics
Posted by: Richard Cowan

WASHINGTON - “Scurrilous” and “disingenuous” were among the words a top Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives used on Thursday to describe Hillary Clinton’s campaign tactics in her bid to defeat Barack Obama for their party’s presidential nomination.

House Democratic Whip James Clyburn, of South Carolina and the highest ranking black in Congress, also said he has heard speculation that Clinton is staying in the race only to try to derail Obama and pave the way for her to make another White House run in 2012.

“I heard something, the first time yesterday (in South Carolina), and I heard it on the (House) floor today, which is telling me there are African Americans who have reached the decision that the Clintons know that she can’t win this. But they’re hell-bound to make it impossible for Obama to win” in November, Clyburn told Reuters in an interview.

Early warning system
Apr 24th 2008
From The Economist print edition

It is possible to predict human errors from brain activity

ANYONE undertaking a repetitive or routine task knows the problem: suddenly something they have done dozens or hundreds of times before goes wrong. In a factory it might mean that a component has to be thrown into the scrap bin. But in some occupations, like operating a giant crane or piloting an aircraft, the consequences can be devastating.

Human errors are often put down to a momentary loss of concentration. But it now appears that sometimes a localised change in brain activity can be involved. Not only does that change contribute towards making a mistake, but also the type of brain activity is detectable before the mistake is made. That means it could be used to help predict, and so possibly prevent, some human errors.

It is Rush Limbaugh, apparently setting up the next Oklahoma City bombing.

Hey, Rush, don't you remember that denial you had to write for Time Magazine, denying culpability for that bombing? Don't you remember you had to drop out of sight until folks forgot?

June 6, 2007

Additionally, on the June 6 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, Rush Limbaugh accused Obama of "inciting riots" in the June 5 speech: "He's talking about there's a quiet riot brewing in America today because Bush doesn't care, because Bush isn't doing enough. This guy was inciting, he was inciting riots. ... And to talk about a quiet riot that is brewing out there it is dangerous, it is reckless."

April 23, 2008

"We want this to go on! We want the superdelegates to have [to] make this decision, not the voters in the Democrat Party. This is about chaos. This is why it's called Operation Chaos! It's not called Operation Save Hillary. It's not called Operation Nominate Obama. It's called Operation Chaos! The dream end... I mean, if people say what's your exit strategery, the dream end of this is that this keeps up to the convention and that we have a replay of Chicago 1968, with burning cars, protests, fires, literal riots, and all of that. That's the objective here."

Deliberate use of the radio airwaves to foment racial and political riots. Nice.

Full transcript on Limbaugh's site (in here he asks his supporters in North Carolina and Indiana to avoid wearing their "Operation Chaos" t-shirts and hats into the polls, but instead to be more inconspicuous, and to even outright lie to exit pollsters if asked).

Again, there's not a single word from Obama in this crap. Hell, I wish he did support reparations. He's not that kind of guy, though.

Obama and the Drive for Slavery Reparations
AIM Report  |  By Cliff Kincaid  |  April 21, 2008

Barack Obama is the most radical candidate ever to stand at the precipice of acquiring his party’s presidential nomination and the American presidency. It is apparent that he is a member of an international socialist movement which hopes to use the United Nations as a vehicle to shake down U.S. taxpayers for trillions of dollars in slavery reparations. One group, the African World Reparations and Repatriation Truth Commission, is demanding an astronomical $777 trillion.

In 2001, Obama’s Trinity United Church of Christ passed a resolution declaring that:

“WHEREAS: The institution of Slavery is internationally recognized as crime for which there is no statute of limitations, AND

Can't wait for the War on Christmas, huh?

“Call the Senate Commerce Committee at 202-224-5115. Tell the committee it is abhorrent to have Larry Lessig parroting Google's call for open networks while Google censors and denigrates Christians.”

Obama and Google's Mutual Adviser: Jesus is gay, wears a diaper, and gets run over
By Erick Posted

Just the other day I posted about the Obama voters at the University of Washington. On their way home from an Obama rally they videotaped themselves ridiculing Christian voters and were kind enough to put it on the web.

Now comes word that Larry Lessig and Google really could care less that so many of us revere Jesus. This time the Lord is not in a jar of urine, but singing "I will survive" in a diaper before being run over by a bus. If you are really curious, you can watch this work of blasphemy here.

Judge Rules on Terrorism Watch Lists
By NEIL MacFARQUHAR

A federal magistrate judge in Chicago has ruled that protecting state secrets is not a valid argument for the government to refuse to tell American citizens whether they are on the terrorism watch list, the Terrorist Screening Database. The ruling, signed on April 16 but made public by the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois on Wednesday, ordered the Department of Homeland Security and the F.B.I. to give the court the files regarding the 10 Muslim or Arab-American plaintiffs who filed a lawsuit starting in 2005, seeking court protection from what they contend is unwarranted harassment at the border. The magistrate judge, Sidney I. Schenkier of Federal District Court, said the court could review the information to decide whether it should remain classified. The F.B.I. said it had no comment.

On the other hand

The hosts of the Beijing Olympics should bring home the freighter and its unwanted cargo and reflect on whether China intends to become a compassionate global citizen or the very type of capitalist predator it fought a revolution to defeat.

...any American chastising any other nation about becoming a capitalist preditor ought to be ashamed of his hypocrisy.

Stopping the weapons flow
Three African nations bar the 'Ship of Shame' from delivering its deadly cargo to Zimbabwe.
April 24, 2008

It's a rare moment when three African nations, in an effort to forestallviolence, block a shipment of weapons to a neighboring country in political turmoil. It's perhaps even a historic development when those weapons were sold by a great power and were bound for a government that is not under United Nations sanctions and has every legal right to buy arms -- though no moral right to do so. So let us praise the courageous peoples of South Africa, Mozambique and Zambia for refusing to allow the Chinese freighter An Yue Jiang to unload its deadly cargo: 77 tons of rockets, mortars and ammunition, manufactured by a Chinese state-owned enterprise, purchased by the government of Zimbabwe and virtually certain to be used by President Robert Mugabe to repress his opposition following an election that he may have lost.

Because the Food and Drug Administration is unlikely to approve the use of drugs for performance enhancement, individuals who experiment with these substances are on their own, testing drugs on themselves in a wild, crowdsourced, ad hoc brain-enhancement experiment. They join a scientific tradition of self-experimentation that stretches back to Santorio Santorio, a 16th-century physiologist.

Jamie Heywood, who runs a social network for medical patients, PatientsLikeMe, even coined a phrase for the new era of experimentation: "personalized research."

Wired.com Readers' Brain-Enhancing Drug Regimens
By Alexis Madrigal
04.24.08 | 12:00 AM 

If Wired.com readers are any indication, performance-enhancing drugs are moving from the sports field into the office.

We're not talking steroids; we're talking brain steroids.

Surprisingly large numbers of people appear to be using brain-enhancing drugs to work harder, longer and better. They're popping pills normally prescribed for narcolepsy or attention-deficit disorder to improve their performance at work and school.

Unfortunately I can't get specific about who it is trying to annoy me by hitting the Contact link relentlessly. I really think it's the slavebreaker we had to smack around. That or the guy I wrote a filter to block.

It's an automated thing...there were 30 attempts yesterday, 20 so far today.

The sad thing is, there's software for sale intended to defraud online systems.

A company called TuneBoom Pro claims it can artificially inflate MySpace play counts over a thirty day period for any artist, charging on a sliding scale:

$147 for 1K plays
$417 for 5K plays
$747 for 300K plays

Caroline Valand, executive director of the N.C. Democratic Party, said the ad represents a return to the Republican Party's "Southern strategy" of using race to appeal to white voters.

"They don't have the money to put behind it," Valand said, "so they're using old, Southern, racial politics."

N.C. GOP refuses McCain's demand to pull Wright ad
TV spot links gubernatorial candidates Perdue and Moore, who back Obama, to his former pastor
David Ingram, The Charlotte Observer

RALEIGH - The N.C. Republican Party says it will not back away from a planned television ad that uses footage of Barack Obama's controversial former minister, despite objections from the expected GOP presidential nominee, John McCain.