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From the wonderful makers of the Nigerian 419 scams comes the Pumpin Helmet!  Rather than carry around real helmets, motorcyclists in Nigeria are making their own helmets out of gourds and pumpkins because the “real ones might have bad mojo.”

The helmets only cost about 30 bucks, but if the motorcyclists think the helmets are haunted or cursed, then let them do without.  Darwin wins again.  From the BBC here:

Motorcyclists in Nigeria have been wearing dried pumpkin shells on their heads to dodge new laws forcing them to wear helmets.

Road safety officials said calabash-wearers would be prosecuted. Calabashes are dried pumpkin shells more commonly used to carry liquid.

Thousands of motorbikes have been impounded around the country and drivers have staged protests.

Motorcycle taxis, called “achaba” in the north of the country and “okada” in the south, are a cheap way for Nigerians to get around congested and chaotic city streets.

Many drivers of the motorcycle taxis are furious over the new law, which came into force on New Year’s Day.

They say passengers often steal the helmets once they reach their destination which can cost up to $29 (£20).

Stories have also appeared in the local papers highlighting passengers’ fears that the helmets could be used by motorcyclists to cast spells on their clients, making it easy for them to be robbed.

“Some people can put juju inside the helmets and when they are worn the victim can either lose consciousness or be struck dumb,” passenger Kolawole Aremu told the Daily Trust newspaper.

You’d think that they could email a lot of people and ask for donations to buy helmets.

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Barack Obama’s twitter page was hacked yesterday.  A message was posted by the hackers, impersonating Barack Obama, urging people to answer a survey to win a gasoline card.  The page was actually setup to drive visitors to a site that pays affiliates for traffic.

No imagination on the part of the hackers.  They could have done so much more to make this hack epic, such as declaring that ladies can no longer wear bras- or even declaring that marijuana would be legalized.  Telling people to take a survey was LAME.  Why not direct people to show up to a store some where, like a KFC in Detroit?

From MSNBC here:

Social networking tool Twitter was hit by a major hacker attack on Monday, with several “high profile” accounts — including that of President-elect Barack Obama — taken over by computer criminals.

The hackers then impersonated a series of famous users by sending out fake, sometimes embarrassing messages. Among them was a Twitter message posted on CNN anchor Rick Sanchez’s blog that said Sanchez “might not be coming into work today,” because of drug use.

Obama’s Twitter page urged visitors to take an online survey and win a gas card, but the link actually sent visitors to a site that pays commissions to affiliates who generate traffic.

Britney Spears’ Twitter page included obscene language. A note critical of anchor Bill O’Reilly was apparently posted on the Fox News Twitter page.

I guess even hackers are in the tank for Obama.  Such a wasted opportunity.  Oh, and way to secure your critical systems, Twitter!

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I wrote about Terry Childs, the San Fran sysadmin who implemented his own “final solution” and locked everyone out of the network. Some government IT professionals with a “hackers mentality” may be planning their own personal vendetta against their ogres of a boss according to this article below. So to prevent your sysadmins from locking the doors and swallowing the key, or worse, deleting everything, you should take steps to monitor employees and reduce stress.

From GovTech here, with thanks to Don,

When Terry Childs, a network engineer for the city and county of San Francisco, locked co-workers out of the city’s computer network in July 2008 and refused to hand over access codes - even to the police - it took a jail-side visit from Mayor Gavin Newsom before the rogue IT worker surrendered the password.

Childs’ actions caused a sensation in the IT community. The threat posed by insider sabotage is real. In 2007, (NASCIO) released a report that suggested public scrutiny of government employees may reduce aggressive oversight and compliance regarding insider threats. The report cautioned CIOs about IT experts within state IT departments who have a hacker mentality, because “his or her expertise and resulting ability to exact a significant amount of damage which could garner unfavorable headlines.” Although the NASCIO paper doesn’t detail the underlying causes, it does show insider attacks are rising rapidly.

These findings mirror a 2006 survey conducted by the U.S. CERT, which found that 68 percent of cyber-attacks originated from within an organization.

Stress could be one factor behind the rise in internal attacks. Thirty-six percent of CIOs interviewed said bigger workloads are the greatest source of stress for their teams. Twenty-two percent cited the pace of new technology as the biggest stressor, followed by office politics at 18 percent.

39 states faced budget shortfalls, while half of the states already cut spending for fiscal 2009. With IT viewed as a major cost in government, CIOs and their workers - in virtually all government sectors - should expect to see further pressure to curtail IT budgets, along with a rise in worker-related stress.

So with more stress and smaller budgets sqeezing out skilled workers, 2009 may just be the year when insiders cause significant damage to organizations.

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Over at Sans’ Stormcenter here, there is a report of cyber warfare being conducted against Israel in response to the invasion of Gaza. So far, hundreds of servers have been defaced and there are DDOS attacks reported against several sites. However, none of these attacks have prevented Israel from slicing Gaza in two.

This just goes to show that real warfare beats the cyber kind hands down. Compared to a rolling column of tanks, a web defacement is just an angry nerd tapping on a keyboard.  And when it comes to privacy, an army rampaging in your town will typically do more to invade your privacy than a data leakage.

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Drudge has a story today about how many of the houses built by Habitat for Humanity and Jimmy Carter, along with Hollywood celebs like Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp and Christian Bale are falling down around their occupants. What is the cause? The fact that amateurs can’t build houses, or is it the poor ungrateful louts who live in them? Either way, the Habitat for Humanity program is a failure.

From the TimesOnline here:

RESIDENTS of a model housing estate bankrolled by Hollywood celebrities and hand-built by Jimmy Carter, the former US president, are complaining that it is falling apart. Fairway Oaks was built on northern Florida wasteland by 10,000 volunteers, including Carter, in a record 17-day “blitz” organised by the charity Habitat for Humanity.

Eight years later it is better known for cockroaches, mildew and mysterious skin rashes.

A forthcoming legal battle over Fairway Oaks threatens the reputation of a charity envied for the calibre of its celebrity supporters, who range from Johnny Depp and Brad Pitt to Colin Firth, Christian Bale and Helena Bonham Carter.

The case could challenge the bedrock philosophy behind Habitat for Humanity, claiming that using volunteers, rather than professional builders, is causing as many problems as it solves.

One man pulled up his floorboards to find rubbish 5ft deep under his kitchen. Other complaints include cracking walls and rotting door frames that let in rats and ants. Many residents have complained of mildew and mysterious skin rashes.

This is simply what happens when you give valuable to people who did nothing to earn them.  They don’t take care of the homes and before you know it, the house becomes a rundown crapshack.  Add this to the dozens of rundown crapshacks around it, and you got yourself a real nice ghetto there, which basically makes Democrats slumlords.  Which is fine, as long as they toe the line by staying out of the rich Democrat areas and vote Democrat on election day.

Somehow I get the feeling that taxpayers will bail out these failures- either by paying for new homes or paying off steep mortgages these fools took out on their crappy free homes.  Michelle Malkin has more.

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All wiccans are just too stupid to follow the rules of a real religion, and too poor to join a cult. They are also desperate for attention, which is why this old fool who lives in the mountains of Mexico sent out a press release saying his tarot cards predict that the US will move their troops from Iraq to Mexico.

From the AP here:

Mexico’s self-proclaimed “Grand Warlock” says the United States will pull troops out of Iraq in 2009 and send them to the border with Mexico in an attempt to expand its territory.

The prediction from Antonio Vazquez comes with a word of warning though: his record of projecting the future is spotty at best.

Vazquez has been making predictions since 1980 on events ranging from international events to the private lives of celebrities, based on his reading of tarot cards.

Vazquez erroneously predicted last year that oil prices would be stable and that Cuba’s Fidel Castro and singer Britney Spears would die. This year, he says Spears will continue to triumph.

If this moron is wrong so often why did they run his picture in the paper?  Oh yeah, so everyone can make fun of the elderly idiot.  Like all witches, he should just be burned at the stake.  If he’s a real psychic warlock, he will be able to sense the approaching mob and will fly away on his magic broom cackling “Blessed be!”

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Some women in Australia were complaining about this ad for Kotex U.  Frankly, I don’t see what the bloody hell they are bitching about.  Must have their panties in a twist or sand in their vaginas.

Aww, here is a video of a wet beaver. Boy those pads sure are absorbent!

And that Kotex website has some great advice. They say:

At U by Kotex®, we think it’s high time we all stopped being so damn shy about our vaginas. You don’t need to do a Paris or Britney, but being able to talk about it without going red is a good start. After all, we’ve all got one. In fact, we’ve only got one, so make sure you take good care of it with U by Kotex®.

Whether you call it Va-jayjay, Map of Tassie or even Hilary Muff, one thing’s for sure: we love naming them.

And of course, the website goes on to list names of the area down under for women who live down under.

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Santa came through! I quit my job at PlxxxCo yesterday and I start with a new company on Monday. PlxxxCo’s going down like a sinking ship, and when someone tosses you a lifesaver, you grab it!

There is an outstanding article here at EWeek that talks about the 15 reasons why people quit their jobs in the IT field, and to my surprise, about 8 of them were reasons I quit.  So below are my 15 reasons why I quit PlxxxCo.  The first 8 are from the article.  The last seven are my own.

1. Bad Cultural Fit Yeah, I was a bad cultural fit.  I am very results oriented and the company was not.  Plus they had outsourced so many of the jobs, I was a white man among a bunch of Indians.
2. On the Road to Nowhere I had a management job dangled at me as if it was a ball of yarn and I was a cat.  But upper management did not make any moves to put me in that slot, but they had the expectation I would do much of the role of that job for the same pay.
3. No Coaching, No Feedback The company outsourced its IT staff and were planning to cut more headcount.  They were going to allow attrition to make up for the inability of management to make a decision on who should stay and who should go.  A good way to promote attrition is to stop acting like you care for your employees.
4. You’ve Been Frozen Yep.  No bounses; no raises.  I got lots of beer on the company dime though, so that counts for something, I suppose.
5. Loss of Confidence in Senior Leaders The CEO was clueless and the company’s stock has been declining steadily for years.  And the board never held him accountable.
6. Shocker Occurred PlxxxCo outsourced all of their IT to another company.  Everyone was still doing the same lousy job, but drawing a paycheck from somebody else.
7. Doing the Work of Two I wasn’t the first to leave the team.  Others were leaving as well, and work was piling up with no end in sight.  I didn’t sign on for that kind of madness.
8. No Work-Life Balance I often worked way into the night-  mostly because the west coast was the primary HQ, and the long hours were beginning to put a drag on my homelife.
9. Crackheads stole my Computer Chair.  I had a nice Aeron chair.  I worked from home for three days straight and some asshole stole it.  I leave everyone else’s stuff alone and expect others to leave my stuff alone too.
10. It took 6 months to install a simple security solution.  After taking too long to plan and design the solution, the security architechts couldn’t find anyone to actually install the devices on the network.
11. My cubicle neighbor just wouldn’t shut the hell up.  He was loud, boorish, and tried to crack jokes, but he lacked the necessary sense of humor and the wit to do it correctly.  He reminded me of Michael Scott from The Office, but without the intelligence, charm and approachability.
12. Nobody could get their servers patched.  They could come up with some great excuses though.
13. I was getting at least one mass email per week about corporate efforts to “go green.”
14. Despite the efforts of several persons, laptops were never encrypted.  Data loss was just not a priority for the company.
15. They swiped my phone number.  They were paying for my phone, but when it came time for me to leave, they turned off my service and made it too difficult to get my own number back so I could port it to my new phone.  I sent them a notice 4 days prior to my last day that I would be leaving and to turn off the number on Friday.  They cut me off on Tuesday.  That was my only phone since I’m one of those people who don’t use a land line.  I was supposed to have an exit interview with my supervisor, but without a phone, what was I supposed to do?

I didn’t have a local supervisor at my field office, so there was no one to take my badge, laptop, and dead cellphone.  So I quit to the lady in the mail room by having her ship all my equipment to my ex-boss on the West Coast.

I do have a new phone now- a shiny iPhone.  Yes, I have gone over to the “dark side,” but I can save that for another post.  I have a new phone number now, but that number apparently was last used by a Latina woman who ran out on her bills.  I keep getting calls from her collection agencies.  So I give those bill collectors a new number for the deadbeat Latina-  and that’s the number that really belongs to the lady at PlxxxCo who botched my cellphone switchover. Oops.

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Sex Offenders in the state of Georgia must turn over all of their screen names and passwords under a strict new law that began yesterday. The purpose is to give law enforcement the ability to use their logon information to monitor the offenders’ activities online. While this might have been a good idea in theory, it is a horrible idea in practice.

Registered Georgia Statuatory Rapist Dannie Lee Clinage

From Daily Tech here by way of Hot Air:

An aggressive new law is set to take effect today which will force sex offenders to hand over their internet passwords, screen names, and e-mail addresses to the government for monitoring purposes.  Several other states also have efforts that track sex offender’s email and screen names.  However, Georgia, which has 16,000 registered offenders, will be the first state to demand the sex offenders’ passwords as well.

Critics of the law say that it not only violates the privacy rights of offenders, but it also places undue stress on the already tight-for-cash Georgian law enforcement.

State Sen. Cecil Staton (R.) who wrote the bill argues that it is necessary to strip the rights of some citizens to protect the rights to life and liberty of others, particularly children.  He states that the benefits of the bill, which will allow law enforcement to detect stalking by predators sooner “outweighs a lot of the rights of these individuals.”

He states, “We limit where they can live, we make their information available on the Internet. To some degree, we do invade their privacy.  But the feeling is, they have forfeited, to some degree, some privacy rights.”

First of all, if you are worried about child molesters re-offending and molesting more kids when they get out of jail, there is a real easy solution-  longer jail sentences.

Secondly, providing the usernames and passwords will be completely ineffective.  It is easy enough to provide law enforcement with bogus active accounts and hide other ones that the offender uses to stalk children online or participate in other improper activity.

Parole officers are not trained computer forensics experts either.  They will probably not be able to tell that a parolee is using a hidden account on the internet.

The best way to monitor these offenders is to provide them a hard-coded computer that forces the offender to use a web proxy that law enforcement can monitor.  Or better yet, the ISP’s can simply route all internet connectivity of sex offenders through a monitored VLAN.  The technology exists and monitoring could be effective.  But making State Troopers manually log onto web services by hand is time consuming, stupid, and will ultimately FAIL.

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Does this article from the Associated Press mean the war in Iraq is over and that we’ve won? Sure sounds like it to me.

A puppy sleeps beneath the hat of a US serviceman in Iraq

From the AP here:

Iraq’s prime minister says the handover of the heavily fortified Green Zone and the presidential palace is the most visible sign his country has regained its sovereignty.

Nouri al-Maliki spoke Thursday during a ceremony marking the takeover by Iraqi authority of Saddam Hussein’s large palace.

The takeover is part of a security deal with the United States. After the 2003 U.S.-led invasion the palace had served as the U.S. Embassy and headquarters of the U.S military in Iraq.

Al-Maliki says he will propose Jan. 1 as a national holiday to commemorate what he described as “Sovereignty Day” — the day Iraq took the lead in security from U.S. forces of its airspace and a wide swath of Baghdad’s Green Zone.

Congrats to the people of Iraq for taking control of their country.  I hope they never let anyone like Saddam Hussein bully them again.

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This hilarious children’s writing essay is swiped from Threedonia here.

Is the kid writing about streetwalkers or the teachers that work at his school?  And was it the teacher or the parents who put this up on the internet?  If it was the teacher, she should be fired for allowing this kid to be such a bad speller.

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I tease McDonald’s Corporation for airing commercials that appear to be racist to a white dude like me. I blogged about that here. But the company has one of the best charities- the McDonald’s House, which provides room and board for families while a child is coping with disease. They also run the McJobs program which helps adults with mental retardation. These are both charities and community programs that are immensely rewarding to our society.

But I wonder. If McDonald’s could have found a black kid with Down’s syndrome, would they have made him dance in a commercial?

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As we await to pop the champagne corks and bid a relieved farewell to a turbulent 2008, I thought I would help readers to remember some of the best posts or find them for the first time.

Personal Highlights
Family occupied most of my time this year, and comprises most of my best memories of the past year.  First there was the run-in I had with a neighbor because her dog ran over my car.  Cartney did a Gene Simmons impersonation, and my wife Jess smacked me with Twizzlers candy, which hurts REAL BAD!  Jess made some shocking remarks to a waiter, and I went to Carolina for Fragile X.  And check out my Lil Monster.

Website Recognition
I received a prestigious Poppy Award for being a prolific blogger, and my website was almost choked off the net when I posted this story which got picked up by Glenn Beck of CNN, Hot Air and Michelle Malkin, and even Greta Van Sustren of Fox News.

Biggest Idiots of 2008
Some hippies can be really dumb, like this one who wants you to pay her to enslave you for a day.  And this one who hitchhiked across the middle east to bring “Peace to Israel” but was found murdered.  And this idiot deserved what he got.  This idiot was downloading kidz pr0n from Limewire.  And of course, there’s Andy Dick.

Worst Way to Die in 2008
Get stoned and go pet the tigers.  Or get optical poptitude.  Exsanguination between meaty bear paws.  Balloons, a lawnchair and the priesthood.  Ask a toothy crocodile for a blessing.  Try to give a snake a tylenol.

Biggest Hypocrites of 2008
People that say one thing and then do the other are often highlighted on this blog.  This includes black people demanding people work like slaves, and a gay marriage activist that raped a little boy.  Al Gore’s mansion is burning up more energy than ever and a group of school teachers skipped school to try to make kids gay.

Eco-Worshipping Kooks of 2008
Lunatics that think trees and animals are more of a god than Jesus are sources of scorn around here.  For instance, one mom claimed she switched to cloth diapers to save the environment.  A gross anarchist uses a cup to catch her period blood because cotton pads are somehow bad for the city dump.  And watch these hippies mourn the loss of a bush.

Perverts of the Year
Teachers aren’t supposed to molest the children they are paid to teach.  But teachers rank 1, 2 and 3 on this year’s list.  First up is a teacher that raped a retarded kid.  Next, a teacher out on bail for raping a kid, goes to the victim’s house and rapes him again.  And this teacher stuffed her vaj with every little boy she could catch.

Religious Stupidity of 2008
In 2007, Muslims took all of the top honors in this category.  This year its Wiccans and Witches, Blessed Be!  First up is a Wiccan who killed his stepdaughters in ritual sacrifice.  In Africa, they still hang witches.  A child bride files for divorce.  Albinos are hunted by Witchdoctors in Africa.  This wacky wiccan hacked off his own leg, and this fat wiccan cast a stalking spell.

2008’s Most Deserved Firings
New York Governor Spitzer was banging whores.  Wafaa Bilal and his terror art were booted from RPI.  A stupid schoolteacher said some really stupid things on her Myspace and listed which school she worked at.  Air Force General Michael Wynn was focusing all his attention on cyber warfare and forgot to lock the cabinet where they store the nukes.  And Aircraft Carrier’s Captain and XO were keelhauled.  Symantec’s John Thompson was shown the door.

Chinese Travesties of 2008
China hosted the Olympics this past year and they just couldn’t get their act together.  One Chinese zoo has all of the animals there on the menu.  This poor Chinaman is the victim of socialized medicine.  Poisoned dumplings from China leaves a bad taste in Japan’s mouth.  Puppy paws anyone?  The chinese dairy farmers are killing babies, and boy does their donkey meat taste funny!

Global Warming Hoax Stories of 2008
Global Warming is a fraud and I link to stories that prove it.  For instance, if Global Warming was real, would it snow in Baghdad?  The winter of 2008 reversed 100 years of warming.  And Global Warming supposedly killed the Loch Ness Monster and will give you kidney stones.  If you want to solve Global Warming, kill more whales.

2008 Best Cyber Stories
Pakistan took down YouTube.  Want to know what hackers buy and sell on the Internet?  Hannaford Grocery hacked.   Spearphishing using court documents, and this is how secrecy is supposed to work.

Scariest Trends of 2008
Eco-terrorists burn down homes.  Women pimping babies here and here.  People are worshipping Obama, including kids.

2008 Father of the Year
John Edwards.  He wins twice.

2008 Mothers of the Year
There are so many to choose from, but lets start with the Katrina survivor who went to Nigeria to get married, and abandoned her kids for a week.  Or maybe Lori Drew.  Or how about this mom who nuked her newborn?  I think many would also vote for Casey Anthony.

The Coolest Stuff of 2008
The spider-man tattoo.  The dog and the duck.  The website is down! And finally, are McDonald’s commercials racist?

That’s it for this year.  Thanks to all my regular readers!  Stay tuned this year for lots more of the same!

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Mychal Bell, the thug who stomped on the face of Justin Barker, was busted trying to steal clothing on Christmas Eve, because when you commit a hate crime and thousands of foolish blacks march across the city on your behalf shouting “No Justice, No Peace,” it entitles you to steal stuff on the night baby Jesus was born.  Anyways, Mychal was embarrassed that he was busted acting like the criminal he is so he took a .22 caliber handgun, which, naturally belongs in the hands of a known felon, and shot himself in the chest.  He botched the job of course and lived.  He turned an epic suicide into a suicide fail.

From the AP here:

A teen convicted in the “Jena Six” beating case shot himself in the chest and was taken to the hospital Monday, days after his arrest on a shoplifting charge.

Mychal Bell’s wound isn’t life threatening. The 18-year-old used a .22-caliber firearm in the shooting around 7:40 p.m.

Cops believe Bell was upset over media coverage of the arrest last week.

The severity of the original charges brought widespread criticism and eventually led to more than 20,000 people converging in September 2007 on the tiny central Louisiana town of Jena for the largest civil rights march in decades.

Bell was in the news again after he was arrested on Dec. 24 and booked on charges of shoplifting, resisting arrest and simple assault. Bell tried to steal several shirts and a pair of jeans from a department store and fled when a security guard and off-duty police officer tried to detain him. After they found him hiding under a car, Bell “swung his arms wildly” and one of his elbows struck the security guard with a glancing blow. He was freed on $1,300 bond.

I’m sure the gun was stolen.  No one is supposed to sell a firearm to a guy who attempted to murder a white boy.  He should have stolen a bigger gun.  Hey Michal-  Suicide?

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Maine East High School Ass. Principal Mike Pressler finished his school work Monday afternoon, locked his door to his office, fought traffic to get to the lakeshore outside of Chicago, and publicly engaged in oral and anal sex with a member of the Blue Man Group, because, sex on the beach with one of those freaky performers is just too good to pass up for a public educator.

Don’t let the Blue Man Group babysit!

From WBBM here:

A Blue Man Group actor and the assistant principal of Maine East High School were arrested at a park along the lakefront on the North Side and charged with public indecency Monday night.

Darren Stephens, 45, and Michael Pressler, 48, were arrested without incident about 5:45 p.m. in the 4500 block of North Simonds Drive, police said.

Pressler, who is the Asst. Principal at Maine East High School in northwest suburban Park Ridge, and Stephens, who is a performer with the Blue Man Group, were both charged with public indecency, a misdemeanor, after they were found engaged in a sex act on Chicago Park District property.

Is it ironic that the High School mascot is the Blue Demon? Hey, speaking of the Blue Man dudes laying pipe, here is an old video for the Intel chip:

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Cynthia McKinney is the wild-haired moonbat and former member of Congress who failed as the green party Presidential candidate this past year.  Not satisfied at being an attention whore for having failed her Presidential bid, she wants to use the Israel/Hamas war in Gaza to put herself back in the spotlight.  She, along with a bunch of other moonbats, flew to Cypress to get aboard a yacht to attempt to run Israel’s blockade to give a paltry collection of items they call “aid” to the people of the Gaza Strip.

Noooooo!  Its the Israeli Navy!  Abandon Ship!

From the Atlanta Journal Constitution here:

A boat carrying international peace activists, including former Georgia congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, and medical supplies to the embattled Gaza Strip sailed back into a Lebanese port on Tuesday after being turned back and damaged by the Israeli navy.

The boat, which set off from Cyprus Monday wanted to make a statement and deliver medical supplies to embattled Gaza. The trip’s organizers said the boat was clearly in international waters, 90 miles off the coast of Gaza, at the time of its close encounter with the Israeli navy.

“Our boat was rammed three times, twice in the front and one on the side,” McKinney told CNN Tuesday morning. “Our mission was a peaceful mission. Our mission was thwarted by the aggressiveness of the Israeli military.”

Yigal Palmor, a spokesman for Israel’s Foreign Ministry, denied there had been any shooting although the two ships had made “physical contact.”

Palmor said there was no response to a radio warning to the Dignity, and the vessel then tried to out-maneuver the Israeli patrol boat, leading to the collision.

International aid to Gaza is still being delivered by Israel and Egypt.  This was purely a stunt by a group of anti-semites who were hoping to provoke a reaction. Hot Air has more. Thanks to Michelle Malkin for the original story.

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It pisses me off that liberal newspaper writers have to trot out complete frauds like Coconut Grove Witch Sandra Cheryl Richardson during the Christmas season in a bald attempt to promote Wiccans and the Winter Solstice festival they celebrate. The stupid bitch prattles on in this article in the Miami Herald about her psychic powers and how she is a paranormal investigator, which means she makes a living ripping off stupid people. She should be a real wiccan like these two fellas in the picture below. For their winter solstice, they didn’t screw around with gay tarot cards and chanting the winds around a spicy-smelling candle. They gashed a little boy- the nephew of one of them- in the throat with a knife, killing him instantly. They needed his head to make a wealth potion. Blessed Be!

These are real practitioners of Wicca.  They don’t mess around with stupid incense and candles.

From the Uganda Daily Monitor here:

Police have arrested three men for the Boxing Day ritual murder of a 12-year-old boy, Eriya Kalule.

The three suspects confessed to police that they had murdered Kalule after receiving money from a witch.

The suspects are the witchdoctor, Mr Joseph Kitamirike, who allegedly ordered the sacrifice of the child. His accomplices are Mr Patrick Makonzi, 19, an uncle to the slain child, and Mr Patrick Otuba, 38, of Nambula village.

Mr Makonzi offered his nephew as a sacrifice and later helped Mr Otuba to hack the teenage boy to death. He also tasked Mr Otuba to dig up a grave of a man who had died rich and get him the bones, along with the child’s head for use in performing the rituals.

Mr Otuba paid Mr Makonzi Shs50,000 and asked him to find him a child for sacrifice. “He is the one who brought the money and said we were going to get more if I got them my nephew’s head,” Mr Makonzi said, pointing at Mr Otuba.

Mr Makonzi said he lured his nephew to a thicket during lunch hours on Friday, promising that they were going to eat fene (jack fruit).

Mr Otuba was already waiting and they dragged the boy away and slit his throat, killing him instantly, Mr Makonzi said.

The wiccans in Africa probably laugh their black asses off at the posers here in the US who profess to worship the “goddess” and wear all black and purple and put glitter in their hair.

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The last we saw John Lennon’s ghost, it was on a pay per view special where he spoke from beyond the grave. Now we know what John had to say thanks to the One Laptop per Child program, the organization that is deliberately throwing away one billion dollars on a stupid laptop giveaway.

I had originally planned to talk about Rich Steinnon’s excellent post here at ThreatChaos who, at the request of the OLPC president, posted a video depicting kids using the windup laptop instead of being child prostitutes in Malaysia. I commented on his post that I thought the OLPC program was a huge waste of resources and will do nothing to deter child prostitution or poverty or warfare.

His response was that it was worth a try. Kinda like John Lennon’s plea to just give peace a chance. It sounds nice and would work if the world ran on rainbows, butterflies and unicorn poop. But only capitalism can erase poverty. If those poor communities had good infrastructure and meaningful products to produce at a profit, those poor kids might have their own money to buy their very own laptops. And if they had their own money, I don’t think they would buy anything with a freakin’ hand crank.

See my previous OLPC posts here, here, here and here.

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I used to play soccer when I was a kid.  I wasn’t very good at it, and often used aggressiveness in place of skill while on the field.  I never scored any goals, but I had my share of fouls.  I stopped playing mostly because I just wasn’t improving and I got bored.  And I remember the shinpads being either sweaty or scratchy.  But I would have played longer if soccer was played the way that Striker David Pratt plays the game.  He set a world record for the fastest red card.  3 seconds into the game, he took out a player from the other team.

I laughed when I read this from Reuters here:

A player with English minor league club Chippenham Town has set a record for the fastest-red card when he was sent off for a wild tackle three seconds after kickoff.

Striker David Pratt, 21, was dismissed in a Southern Premier League game against Bashley on Saturday.

In 2000 an English amateur player, Lee Todd, was sent off after two seconds when he responded to the referee’s whistle to start the game by saying “f*ck me, that was loud!” and was dismissed for foul and abusive language.