“Freedom of choice” does not mean freedom to ignore the law; the state law, federal law, or the universal law of morality and common sense. (See how I did that all “PC” and didn’t mention God and the Bible? It wasn’t easy.) If you’re “pro-choice” (another piece of PC monkey hurlage), you need to know that the people inside this industry are not the saints you may believe they are. You need to know that abortion is an industry and it destroys lives (both born and unborn) en mas every day. And it’s not some righteous campaign to empower women. Do you think they’re empowering this “14-year-old” rape victim? No. They’re making money as fast as they can with no regard for human life, or even human dignity.
This is a remix of a Russian singer popular in the 70’s. In the original, he real does sing a whole song with no discernible words. But I think you’ll agree this version is much more entertaining.
Do you have fat fingers? Have trouble doing things like dialing a phone or typing on a regular keyboard? Yeah, well, me too. My hands look like two hams with five bratwursts sticking out of them. So, for people like us, there are a few helpful tools. Check out this over sized TV remote.
And how about the latest and greatest technology out there? Are your fingers too fat to use an iPhone? Well, hallelujah and glory be. Those big brains over at Apple finally have a solution for fat fingers like yours and mine. It’s their much anticipated iPad.
Of course, it’s not actually an iPhone. In fact, it’s not a phone at all. It’s just a … well … a giant iPod Touch really, perfect for fat fingers like yours and mine! It also costs up to twice the price of an iPhone ($800!). It does have a high speed data connection so you can surf the web, but you can not call in for dinner reservations at Frankies Fat Finger Frankfurter Hut. (Although, the image of someone holding that behemoth up to their ear is much funnier than this bit I’m doing now.)
Oh, and in case you haven’t figured it out by now, yes, this is for real. I’m serious.
If your like me (God help you.) you’ve got accounts on dozens of websites. Your bank, credit cards, eBay, PayPal, Facebook, Twitter, your blog, and any number of forums or hobby sites. Each one has a login and password. How in the world do we keep track of it all?
For most folks, the solution is simple. Simply stupid, that is. They use horribly insecure passwords. A colleague just sent me a link to the Top 20 Most Common Passwords which in turn links to the Top 500 Worst Passwords (Parental Advisory!! Some people have potty-passwords!) Way too many people use names, common words, or easy to guess combinations, like “121212” or “qwerty.” These people are easy marks for hackers. Don’t be an easy mark!!
The advise I’m about to give you is not unique. I claim no mystical knowledge. You can find it on any number of web sites, but I do think it’s worth sharing.
First off, I strongly recommend that you create what I like to call a spam email account. Use hotmail, yahoo, etc. to create a free email account that you’ll only use for signing up on websites. That way, you’ll have a place to get the inevitable confirmation email, but you won’t be risking your personal email address to spammers.
Now, for passwords:
1 – Don’t use words or names.
2 – Don’t use common non-words. (ex. “qwerty” or “asdf” [Keyboard patterns] or “NCC1701” [Registration number of the Enterprise on Star Trek. Don’t laugh, it’s #139 on the 500 worst passwords list!])
3 – Don’t use common personal information like birth or anniversary dates or phone numbers.
4 – Don’t use only numbers.
“Well, good grief,” you might be saying. “What am I going to use?!” In a word, acronyms! Do you have a favorite song, movie quote, or Bible verse? Here’s an example:
Twinkle twinkle little star, how I wonder what you are.
Now as an acronym password, that becomes “ttlshiwwya”.
5 – Add special characters and use both upper and lower case letters.
For our example above, we could use “*” instead of “star” in our acronym. We could also use “R” instead of “are.” We could replace the lower case “l” with a number “1”. And we could capitalize the first word of each phrase. Now we’ve got “Tt1*HiwwyR”. That’s a pretty good password… except that I just published it on the internet, so now it’s junk. Don’t use it!
Now for one more rule that I have not heard anywhere else, so I am claiming as my own.
6 – Come up with a system that incorporates something unique about the website in question.
Remember I said we’ve got dozens of sites for which we own passwords. It does no good to have a rock solid password that you use everywhere. What happens if, say, Facebook gets hacked and someone steals your rock solid password? The hacker is not going to make any money off of hacked Facebook accounts. Where he butters his bread is taking those passwords and trying them out on eBay, PayPal and major financial websites. If you’re Facebook password is the same as your bank, you’re in big trouble. Likewise, you may want to create multiple spam email accounts or login names that are related to the website. This will decrease the chances of someone cross hacking your accounts.
Come up with an easy to remember keyword for each site.
Bank website -> Money
eBay -> Junk
Stamp collectors forum -> Lick
Online T-shirt store -> Threads
You could even use the name of the site (not as secure, but easier to remember). Now, obviously, you’re not going to use these keywords as your password, but you can use them as part of your password.
Let’s say we take “Tt1*” from the example above. We’ll call that our password root. Now we need a password for our bank, “1st Secure Bank of Awesomeness” whose website is “www.1stsecurebank.com”. Take the last three letters of the website: “ank” (Not “com”… duh.) and inject that into your password root. We could just tack it on the end (“Tt1*ank”), but that might be too easy. How about we interweave the two. So “Tt1*” and “ank” become “Tatn1k*”. Now, you need a password for your stamp collecting forum, “WeLoveStamps.com”. Using the same method, we get “Tmtp1s*”. Get it? Now you’ve got a unique password for every website you visit that is nigh impossible to guess.
But what’s this?! You’re bank wants you to answer some simple questions to help identify you in case you forget your password! What’s your mother’s maiden name. What was the name of your childhood pet. Where did you go to school. These are easy questions! No problem, right? WRONG!
Remember a while back when Sarah Palin’s email was hacked. Guess how the hacker got in. “What school did you go to?” Umm. “Wasilla High School?” Bingo! I promise your bank won’t reject you for inventing a fake answer to these questions. In fact, I would recommend that you give the answer to a different question.
Q) Where did you go to school?
A) 1992
Q) What year did you graduate?
A) Amarillo High School
Q) What was the name of your childhood pet?
A) Sarah Parker
Q) What is the name of your closest childhood friend?
A) Freckles the Fish
The trick here is to remember what answer goes with what. If you don’t think you can pull that off, you might be better off just making something up. Be sure it’s something you’ll remember.
Q) Where did you go to school?
A) Gotham High School
Q) What year did you graduate?
A) 1939
Q) What was the name of your childhood pet?
A) Batty
Q) What is the name of your closest childhood friend?
A) Alfred
Did you catch that? Batman? Eh? Nudge nudge? Pretty smart, eh?
Now, I fully expect you to spend the next two hours going to every website you’ve ever been to and changing your passwords and your security questions. You’ve got work to do, buddy! You’d better get crackin’!!
We now have material evidence to show us all what happens when you put highly intelligent, well trained, militant minded terrorists in a U.S. court room. Please follow the link to read the low-lights from the trial of Aafia Siddiqui, an M.I.T. educated, Pakistani microbiologist and Al-Qaeda terrorist who, after captured, tried to shoot an American soldier with his own weapon.
Today, the U.S. Federal Government’s debt is $12,245,872,000,000. In news speak, that’s $12.2 trillion. That number tends to fall way outside the normal person’s ability to grasp so, as a service to my readers, I offer the following imagery.
Of course, by “worms” I mean “(big “L”) Liberal democrats in the White House and Congress” and by “turned” I mean “developed complete amnesia over the last 48 hours and expect all the world to see them as rosy cheeked, bi-partisan, can’t-we-all-just-get-along centrists, forgetting the last 12 months of extreme, leftist, socialist, bare-knuckled bullying.”
After months and months of wrangling, strong-arming, and flat out bribing members of their own party to vote in favor of what I will hear-to-after refer to as OPRAH (Obama-Pelosi-Reid Abomination of Healthcare), the tone has suddenly and dramatically changed.
House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, told reporters in California Monday that the legislation would move forward not matter what.
“Let’s remove all doubt,” Ms. Pelosi said. “We will have health care one way or another. … Certainly the dynamic will change depending on what happens in Massachusetts,” Ms. Pelosi said. “Just the question of how we would proceed. But it doesn’t mean we won’t have a health care bill.”
Abandoning the health care overhaul is not an option, a senior White House official said. Questioned about the fate of health care legislation, David Axelrod said, “It’s not an option simply to walk away from a problem that’s only going to get worse.”
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi refused to acknowledge [compromise or abandonment] as a possibility. “Massachusetts has health care. … The rest of the country would like to have that too,” Pelosi, D-Calif., said. “So we don’t say a state that already has health care should determine whether the rest of the country should. We will get the job done. I’m very confident. I’ve always been confident,” she added.
“There are certain things the members simply cannot support,” Pelosi said. She cited the tax on so-called “Cadillac” insurance plans, and the special perks for Nebraska as major grievances. “I don’t think it’s possible to pass the Senate bill in the House,” Pelosi said. “I don’t see the votes for it at this time.”
George Stephanopoulos’ Exclusive Interview with President Obama, release this morning (abridged)…
Obama: I would advise that we try to move quickly to coalesce around those elements of the package that people agree on. [ed. “Those elements” do not exist.]
Stephanopoulos: So start again with a smaller core package?
Obama: Well, look, I’m not going to get into the legislative strategy. [ed. This is an important non-denial. He’s washing his hands, yet again, of the dirty work.]
The Scott Brown election has shifted the Democratic machine into full reverse. Check out this quote from staunch Liberal whacko John Kerry welcoming his new colleague to the Hill.
“You have to work across the aisle here to make things happen,” said Kerry. “There have got to be some basic things here that we can all agree on.”
For the last 50 years or so, the only thing any Massachusetts senator has ever done “across the aisle” is throw rocks and daggers.
Remember this, children. Don’t forget. Burn it into your memory. When Liberals got full control of the White House and both houses of Congress, that ran, nay, sprinted as far left as fast as they could. So far, in fact, that many of their own ranks were scared out of voting with them because they knew that their constituents would run them out of town an a rail come election day.
There was no bipartisanship. There was no transparency. There was no compromise. It was balls-to-the-wall socialism and God have mercy on any soul that dared stand in their way. These people have a one track mind and that track is to collect as much power as possible as quickly as possible. You will see over the next 10 months, and, if we’re lucky, the next decade these same people wringing their hands and wailing over how we all must learn to work together and compromise and get along.
IT… IS… AN… ACT! It’s a mask. The man has gone back behind the curtain and fully expects us to believe in Oz again. DON’T FOLLOW ALONG!! Get these people out of our government as fast as you can.
We must remember this day each and every time we step up to an election booth and never let this happen again.
It seems like every day I see another nail added to the global warming coffin. This one was particularly good. Good enough to be blog-worthy.
The Un scientific panel for global warming proselytation, known as the IPCC, will very likely be forced to retract a warning that the Himalayas will be ice free by 2035.
The official Un report was based on a single scientific article published ten years ago which was, in turn, based on a single telephone interview with an Indian scientist who, in turn, based his information on an unpublished and unreviewed report, which, as it turns out, did not mention any specific date for the Himalayan glaciers to melt. That same Indian scientist now admits that the data from his interview was “speculation” and was not supported by any formal research.
Good job, Un. With this kind of rigorous scientific investigation, you’re doing the skeptics job for them. Keep up the good work!
Ok folks. I’ve been hording up links for years and putting this off for far too long. Today, I read a story that broke the polar bear’s back. (Don’t worry. It’s linked below.)
Are you ready for the news flash? Here it is:
The global warming crisis is a lie!
There. Now, don’t you feel better? No? Ok. How about this:
The hole it the ozone layer is a lie!
Still not feeling all warm and fuzzy? Ok.
The acid rain crisis is a lie!
The end of fossil fuels is a lie!
The dangers of coal and nuclear energy is a lie!
The extinction of the whales is a lie!
The deforestation crisis is a lie!
The global over-population crisis is a lie!
Are you starting to see a pattern yet? Well. Let me spell it out for you, just to be sure.
All, yes each and every one, of the above manufactured, sky-is-falling catastrophes were created by, more or less, the same people, for, more or less, the same reason. There are people in this world who truly and religiously believe that mankind is a virus. That you and me and our TVs and our running water and our big fast-food-fed butts are enemies of their beloved Earth. These people really and truly believe that the only way to save their blessed planet is to reverse human productivity, progress, comfort, and happiness (and thus reduce human population).
You might think I’m exaggerating, but, sadly, I’m just scratching the surface. Now, I’m not going to go into all of the psychosis and human-hating logic. All I want to do in this post is expose their modus operandi.
Here’s how it works:
The current eco-crisis of the day begins to lose favor when the supposed catastrophe doesn’t materialize, or the media starts to lose interest, or actual scientists manage to find their way into the main stream far enough to debunk the scare tactics.
A new eco-crisis must be created and it must meet the following criteria:
It must be tangible. It has to be something people can point to and/or touch and say, “See! The sky IS falling!” (ex. “Hurricane Katrina was awful! Darn that global warming!”)
It must be something impossible (or at least very difficult) to disprove. (ex. “How can you say there is no such thing as acid rain. Prove it!”)
It must be something so terrible that it would cause (were it true) human suffering on a massive scale. (ex. “If we cut down all the trees, there will be no more oxygen for your children to breath!”)
The only possible solution to the crisis must involve curtailing, taxing, regulating, or in some other way decreasing human convenience. (ex. “The only way to save the world is for you to sell your big, safe, convenient SUV and buy a cardboard tissue box with wheels.”)
As an added bonus, the crisis and it’s imaginary resolution should be profitable for the people who join the cause. This way, they’ll be well funded and/or carry political clout that can be spent on the next eco-crisis when this one peters out. (ex.**ALBERT FREAKING GORE**)
Now, to get the word out. Conveniently, 90% of the Lame-Stream Media is populated by ex-Berkeley-hippies who thrive on sensationalizing suffering and making everyone who is happy feel guilty about it.
After it’s had some time to soak in the nightly news… You know, a pseudo-scientific report here, bit of clever video editing there… It’s time for Mr. Smith to head to Washington. Thank goodness that politicians build their careers on public sentiment rather than facts.
Now that this newly minted crisis is in the forefront and; through careful planning, back-door deals, and out-and-out fraud; the critics have been kept at bay (ex. “Denying global warming is on par with denying the Holocaust!“); it’s time to brain wash the children. Make sure that all the cartoons and kids shows are reinforcing our crisis. “Remember kids, your mommy’s SUV is polluting the sky and killing cuddly wuddly polar bears! We may have to cancel Christmas!“
At this point, just ride the wave, collect as much fame and money as you can before the crisis-de-jour begins to ebb.
Rinse and repeat.
I want you to look this over carefully. I want you to really internalize it. Study it. Know it. Why? Because I am now certain that we are at the tipping point. In the next few years, global warming is going to peter out.
But this time, thanks to smart people like you and me, and thanks to this marvelous series of tubes, things might just go a little differently.
See, the global warming crisis set a new precedent and it wasn’t a good one for the Earth hugging human haters. This was the first post-internet crisis. For the first time in human history, everyone, millions upon millions of people, have access to the new main stream medium. Smart people with real data can now tell the world the truth. In the next decade, more people will get their information from right here on the web than from the talking heads on the nightly news. Finally, there will be no filtering, no spinning, no iron-fisted control of the facts.
Plus, for the first time, you’ll be able to link back to my posts about the folly of global warming as you, on your blog, tell your readers about the equal folly of whatever is coming next. Let’s just hope it’s more creative than global cooling. Cuz, seriously, how many times are they going to try that? (Hint: I’ve already posted about it here.)
I just couldn’t pass up this story. It’s just too nutty.
According to the Rapid City Journal, Marguerite Engle, 45, from Sturgis, South Dakota, was found, passed out, behind the wheel of a stolen delivery truck just off the highway. She submitted to a blood alcohol test and was released on bond.
After she missed her court date, she was found, passed out, behind the wheel of yet another stolen car. Thankfully, she was jailed immediately.
Now here’s where the story get’s blog-worthy. Her initial blood alcohol test returned the highest (by 40%) blood alcohol ever recorded in South Dakota, possibly in the universe. She clocked in at .708! Yes, her blood was almost 1% alcohol. That’s almost ten times the legal limit, and nearly twice what is commonly considered as lethal (.4).
This woman’s blood had as much alcohol in it as a strong, brewed root beer. It begs the question: How much alcohol percentage is required before human blood becomes flammable? Hmmm.
Ok folks. I’ve been hording up links for years and putting this off for far too long. Today, I read a story that broke the polar bear’s back. (Don’t worry. It’s linked below.)
I just couldn’t pass up this story. It’s just too nutty.