"ATLANTA (AP) -- A bill clearing public high schools to teach Bible classes has been approved by the Legislature and is on its way to Gov. Sonny Perdue to be signed. The Senate voted 45-2 on Monday to agree to some House changes to the plan, which would let local school systems create classes on the Old Testament and New Testament.

The proposal, originally introduced this year by a group of Senate Democrats, surprised many Republicans, who hold majorities in both the House and Senate. Republicans quickly substituted their own version, which specifies that the Bible itself would be the course textbook."

Georgia Govt Votes In Bible Classes for High School

I really wonder if they are thinking of the occult practice of sexual magic in doing this? Just first thought that popped into my head when I saw that. Whatever - maybe it will work, but I don't think the world is ready for peace yet - too many really mean, ignorant people that think they know the right way for all of us around.

Calif. couple calls for orgasm for peace

predictable bullshit.

Boing Boing: Paramount/MPAA: it's illegal to put DVDs on iPods

Death Row Inmates on MySpace

I personally like hearing what they have to say.

27B Stroke 6

Update: Ed Markey put out a press release today softening his stance on this.

Congressman Markey,

While I'm not one of your constituents, your statements and actions often have an impact that reaches beyond your district. Yesterday you were quoted in several news media outlets as having called for the arrest of Christopher Soghoian, a PHD candidate at the University of Indiana Bloomington, because he created a web page that generates phoney airline boarding passes. As you are likely aware, your call was answered by the FBI who reportedly broke into Soghoian's house last night and seized all of his computer equipment.

I am a professional computer security researcher. I work for one of the worlds largest IT companies. My job involves finding vulnerabilities in software systems and getting them fixed. Responsible vendors are usually very responsive and willing to work with my team when we contact them with information about problems with their products. Through this process we are able to locate and repair vulnerabilities in IT infrastructure before the bad guys can find them and exploit them. However, there are always a few unsophisticated people who seek to shoot the messenger instead of dealing with the flaw.

Christopher Soghoian is one of the good guys. He is not a criminal and he is not enabling criminals. He did not create the vulnerability in the boarding pass screening process. This problem has existed for years, and it has been noted in other quarters, most recently by Sen. Chuck Schumer. However, the problem hasn't been fixed. Soghoian's website was intended to demonstrate how simple this is, and he has clearly and repeatedly stated that his intent in creating the site was to raise awareness about the problem so that it will be fixed. His website does not make this much easier than standard desktop publishing software available on anyone's personal computer.

Your call for his arrest, and the subsiquent events that have unfolded over the past 24 hours, have done serious harm to the national security of the United States. You could have simply contacted him, informed him of the legal problems that one could face for operating such a website, and discussed shutting it down. By choosing instead to prosecute him you are sending a message to security professionals in this country that if you observe a problem with national security policies or practices and make people aware of those problems in good faith so that they might be fixed, the government will treat you as an enemy and will prosecute you if possible. The inevitable result will be that people will hold their tongues, and problems will persist until they are discovered by someone who has malicious intent.

I strongly urge you to reconsider your position on this matter. The current course of action is not in the best interests of this country.

Respectfully,
Tom Cross

My Letter to Ed Markey

A post about Travolta's fly-in house.

Google Sightseeing Jumbolair

This webpage will produce a boarding pass good enough to get anyone past TSA, and thus, into the "secure" gate areas of the airport terminal.

I have a big "i told you so" (tm) to say about this one...

btw, i can just see the headlines now "Juniper Researcher Michael Lynn helps terrorists board planes illegally" for posting this link...heres hoping that ellen messmer doesn't read my blog...

The Northwest Airlines Boarding Pass Generator

National Geographic often shows dual standards in the way it portrays women from different cultures. While they would never print a full-page picture of a topless 19 year-old Californian girl, they have no problems doing to with a native African woman. This practice has been called colonial and is, in a way, also censorship – although not made with black ink.

Pictures of western magazines censored by the Iranian government. I wonder how many copies of these come into the country and how many people they employ blacking out flesh?

j|turn » More pictures of Iranian Censorship

Canadian troops fighting Taliban militants in Afghanistan have stumbled across an unexpected and potent enemy -- almost impenetrable forests of marijuana plants 10 feet tall.

This is really...rather...funny.

Canada troops battle 10-foot Afghan marijuana plants - CNN.com

http://tinyurl.com/md39x That's an interview with the teacher and her lawyer.

Yes, this is ridiculous - the public deemed the art acceptable and even paid a lot for it, lol, but one parent didn't like it - in the interview turns out it was more than one that complained - its just rabid.

I am so glad that I homeschool. If I want to take my son to a 'sex museum' and he wanted to go, we'd just go. To hell with this sort of mentality.

The most civilized cultures of all times had highly refined, proportionately superior sculpted nudes.

Why some people in this country want to put up curtains and fire teachers over looking at the beauty inherent in the art form is just crazy.

I don't want people that hate beautiful classical art in my world. I'd like to sentence them to a world devoid of art.

Museum Field Trip Deemed Too Revealing - New York Times