Yes, this article comes from Prison Planet - and that's a pretty far out site - but the MEMO on this article IS real, and so is the threat. Similiar threats are popping up all over the place. Tardy kids, absent kids = kids in trouble, parents in jail.

School Says Police and Social Services will Snatch Kids of Late Parents

I am so embarrassed to live in Georgia.

RE: Georgia mom seeks Harry Potter ban - BOOKS - MSNBC.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

I got a few - 13- but that's all I could get - Pumpkin Head, 12 monkeys, Invisible man, Pirahna, Lepechan, rosemary's baby, Silence of the Lambs, Children of the Corn, The Birds, ect.

RE: 50 Dark Movies in One Painting

Short and sweet: I can find out what you have been searching Google for from JavaScript. I can put this JavaScript on any site either because I own it (How much do you trust memestreamas.net?) or because I have a XSS vuln that lets me inject JavaScript in the site.

Think the AOL leakage... only for everyone on the internet.

Some fun use cases:

-HMO’s website could check if a visitor has been searching other sites about cancer, cancer treatments, or drug rehab centers.

-Advertising networks could gather information about which topics someone is interested based on their search history and use that to enchance their customer databases.

-Government websites could see if a visitor has been searching for bomb-making instructions.

Whitepaper: http://www.spidynamics.com/assets/documents/JS_SearchQueryTheft.pdf
Proof of concept: http://www.spidynamics.com/spilabs/js-search/index.html

My name is Billy, and I want to destroy the Intarweb with JavaScript.

Stealing Search Engine Queries with JavaScript

I saw an interview with Clinton recently where he was saying that the Democrats biggest mistake was not fighting back. He then talked about it a bit and said that the Democrats were going to HAVE to start fighting the constant berating and put downs with facts and ire at being constantly falsely accused.

So...when I saw this happen, my first thought was that Clinton is trying to lead the party by example.

I never saw him as being "purple faced" or "infuriated" only righteously indignant and defensive.

I applaud him - boy did he show how an eloquent politician can TALK. It made Bush's and his stumbling over his lower lip look really BAD.

Clinton PWNS Chris Wallace on Fox News - Clinton Interviewed on Fox News Sunday - Google Video

I so wish we had national healthcare. It is outrageous the profit that is made on the life and death of human beings. Regardless, the insurance agencies now approve or disprove your treatment - and even with GOOD insurance - there is NO CAP on out of pocket expenses anymore- at least on our expensive bc/bs policy. I have a chronic, disabling illness. My insurance company over requires so many different doctors visits that my copays can run over 200 a month easily - then they don't want to cover my medications - I can only get covered on OLD medicines - at 35 dollars a month per prescription.
You just don't KNOW how bad this insurance stuff has got until you really get sick.
It makes me so sad - recently I did my best to take care of a friend who got her finger tip cut off with a lawnmower- who DID NOT go to the hospital because of no insurance and no real money to speak of.

During this time I found out that very few of my friends HAD insurance - they either couldn't afford it or couldn't get it - Nice very educated folks with familes. SAD

Insurance Horror Stories - New York Times

An interesting idea found off cryptome....

"One of the most powerful groups in the USA is the "intelligence community" that operates from secret budgets estimated at $44 billion a year. One must assume that they might use their influence and money to insert spooks into Congress to serve their needs.
This has already happened, as this debate in the halls of Congress revealed:
Congressional Record: June 23, 2004"

Spooks In Congress

This site lets you list old CD's that you don't want. After you list 10, you get a free CD. After that, for every CD that you send out (YOU pay postage) you get a CD credit for a free CD sent to YOU free of charge.

Alternately, you can buy a 'credit' for less than 3.00 and order any that are listed.

This is a great site to get rid of older CDs and get ones you really want.

There IS a lot of good stuff being posted.

I've joined a similiar site - www.paperbackswap.com and I have been able to get rid of a ton of books I didn't want, while picking up books I DO want. I mostly swap through their "Box of Books" program which makes the postage very affordable.

They both seem to be very well ran sites - if you like to read or listen to music, I think you'd do yourself a favor by checking it out. :)

Want Music Cheap? Got old CD's laying around?

Patrick McFarland, one of the outspoken critics of Rob Levin (lilo of Freenode/PDPC) and someone incredibly hell-bent on turning Freenode/OFTC into a high-school-esqe popularity contest, has posted what I would consider to be a load of crap on his blog about Rob Levin's passing.

"I was critical of his actions at times when he was alive,"

Translation: I made unsubstantiated accusations of tax fraud, embezzlement, and worse against Rob Levin on a regular basis.

"I just hope that since he’s gone now, Freenode can continue on without him there to lead anymore. I may have not agreed with his choices, but I don’t think there are any people out there that could have brought Freenode this far."

I also find this hard to believe, considering how often McFarland made it appear that he felt that quite possibly, lilo was the worst thing to ever happen to Freenode, and that he was also accusing Rob of demolishing projects and services through foot dragging and politics.

Note also that the reek of untruth of this post is tailed by the "No comments" flag, meaning McFarland doesn't really want anyone to call him out on this... even though one of the other things he's been critical of lilo about was one of censorship.

Now, I also felt that Spinhome was a little farcical (C'mon, a winnebago to keep an IRC operator mobile? That's overkill on the level of venture capitalism.) but I certainly wasn't getting this bent out of shape about it, since there wasn't a whole lot of donating towards this going on. Perhaps one day Freenode would have become important enough that such a thing would be warranted (which might well have been about the time they hit the $310K-mark on donations), but this sort of thing tends to be self-regulating (people don't donate to projects they feel are stupid) and attacking PDPC and Levin in the manner McFarland was engaging in was nothing but juvenile.

In closing, I find it very odd that even with the disinhibiting factor of the Internet, people still find it necessary to say things they don't believe for a moment as "last respects". McFarland should have just left well enough alone rather than make a cheap last-minute bid to try to pretend that he wasn't being a knobgoblin to a competing project.

Patrick McFarland's spotty memory