Bank of America to the BoyScouts: Goodbye and Goodluck
Bank of America has withdrawn their financial support for local and national Boy Scouts programs because the Boy Scouts do not admit homosexuals as scout masters. This is a practice by the Boy Scouts that was upheld by the United States Supreme Court, just like abortion. Like it or not, its the law of the land.
According to the letter here, Bank of America has some new corporate guidelines that discriminates against organizations that do not include gays. So, no money for you, Boy Scouts. If you are a community center in upscale San Francisco that caters to gays and lesbians ONLY, you get 150,000 dollars, however.
If this outrages you as a Bank of America customer, you should switch banks, and tell your bankers why you are going with another bank.
If this doesnt outrage you as a Bank of America customer, you should switch banks anyways because, despite the money Bank of America saves on refusing to donate to the Boy Scouts, they do not spend that money on Internet and ATM security. The bank is RIFE with hackers and vulnerabilities.
Quite simply, your money is not safe with Bank of America, and neither is your identity.
From CNET Here:
Bank of America’s security compromised
Greg Sandoval
CNET News.com
February 10, 2006, 09:20 BSTAn undisclosed number of debit cards have been reissued by the largest bank in the US following a security breach
A security breach involving an undisclosed company has prompted Bank of America to cancel the debit cards of numerous customers, a spokesman for America’s largest bank said on Tuesday.
Rather than inform all customers that there was a hacker on their internal network that was compromising card account holders, they replaced only those cards that they had proof that were compromised.
Also, remember that Bank of America had, for YEARS, run their ATM network using Windows 2000 machines that were vulnerable to a SQL server vulnerability that would give hackers full remote control over the PC, and that control could have been used to steal swiped ATM information, and compromise customer accounts.
How is this possible? Is this the first time you have heard of this? Take a look at this article here, which talks about how SQL slammer took down their ATM network-
On Saturday, the spread of the worm was so severe that the majority of Bank of America’s 13,000 automatic teller machines “were unable to process customer transactions”, the Washington Post reports. The paper quotes the bank saying it was able to restore services on Saturday evening but a Seattle-based Reg reader tells us he was “unable to make a deposit to my Bank of America Account on Sunday at about noon Pacific time”.
The SQL slammer worm took advantage of a hole in MS SQL server that had been published MONTHS before the worm hit. Hackers had been exploiting that vulnerability to perform sql injections for quite some time before the worm was unleashed. And because Bank of America’s ATM’s were affected by Slammer, it means that their ATM network was connected to the Internet through Bank of America’s corporate network. This means that for MONTHS, Bank of America refused to patch their systems and had likely allowed hackers to exploit vulnerabilities on their network, including their ATM hosts.
Many banks have developed fraud monitoring that will prevent customer accounts from being drained by suspicious transactions. Bank of America is still playing catch up in that department too. See this article here in which an unsuspecting customer had 90,000 dollars transferred to Latvia without Bank of America performing any safeguard checks.
The important thing to note about all of this is that Bank of America does not discriminate in how it fails to protect its customers. You can be gay, straight, black or white, and Bank of America will still fail to protect your identity and money from hackers. But if you are in the Boy Scouts, you are on your own.
Boy Scouts have surrendered on the gay topic because we have lost information war on homosexuality. I don’t know why people defend a useless dangerous conduct such as homosexual/lesbian conduct & I don’t know the apologism for transexuality which is surgically mutilating people with dangerous hormones to make them fake opposite sex members & they should make that illegal.
Main ideas of science and math are always the same (such as freezing temperature is 32 Degrees Fahrenheit & lower, 2+2=4) and with main ideas of science, unless new information is found which changes prior conclusion (such as when they found a whale is a mammal not a fish as scientists first thought), the main ideas of science stay the same. I do not believe mainstream science/psychology in the 1960s to early 70s discovered anything new to change long held conclusions on homosexuality when they removed homosexuality from DSM in 1973. They have as said since 1973 become ideological on gay/lesbian topic. I don’t deny possibility homosexuality could be genetic or inborn for some but that is unproven. Even if it’s true that homosexuality is inborn for some people, homosexual/lesbian conduct would still be bad for health.
Homofobia is telling truths, theories and speculations which offend homosexual groups. While they have not conclusively proven homosexuality/lesbianism is inborn genes, homosexual groups often use this theory as definite by saying how they are born this way-which possibly can be the case for some but more studies are needed. But when facts are raised about the link between childhood sex abuse and a kid doing homosexual and lesbian activities in adutlhood, homosexual groups often get offended, condemn it as homofobia.
With homosexuality being found among animals, cannibalism, stealing, etc. are also found among them, so it’s a bad idea to say that because animals do something people do. It’s best for gays/lesbians to be celibate until cure is found for this. No gays, don’t choose orientation, but they choose their sexual behavior.
Any facts which show homosexuality/lesbianism to be bad and put negative views on this is condemned. Homosexual/lesbian conduct is bad for health as smoking is and needs to be marginalized like smoking is. People who engage in homosexual/lesbian conduct have more medical problems caused by homosexual/lesbian conduct. I believe the negative views of homosexual/lesbian conduct is the right view because there is something wrong with homosexual/lesbian conduct and they must make it a crime to do sex changes. I know my view offends homosexuals, but most smokers do not get offended by negative views of tobacco use. So homosexuals/lesbians have to hear others give negative views of their sex lives, because there is something wrong with this just as there’s something wrong with smoking.
Yes, it’s a proven fact that childhood sex abuse is a major cause of homosexual/lesbian conduct in adulthood. Anybody who denies the link is dishonest, delusional or both. Never have I heard straights blame childhood sex abuse for reasons a man has sex with a woman and fathers children with her. Yet sometimes have heard gays and lesbians say childhood sex abuse is reason they do same sex behaviors.Any conduct can be learned and this includes sexual conduct. There are homosexuals and lesbians who say that childhood sex abuse (especially those who are victims of a gay priest) are reasons why they think they do same sex behaviors in adulthood. Had they not been repeatedly molested, would they have turned out straight instead of gay or lesbian? It doesn’t take an expert to know that sex abuse in youth can mess up the mind and cause people to behave in ways they normally wouldn’t. Of course, not all who are sexually abused in youth become gay in adulthood-but the risk is higher.
A kid can become a mugger by living in high crime neighborhood, seeing muggings in childhood and learning this conduct. Yes, there are muggers who were not raised in high crime neighborhoods but still became muggers, but that does not rule out other causes. Many emphysema victims did not smoke and were not exposed to 2nd hand smoke and got emphysema due to bad genes but it would be dishonest to deny truth that if a person smokes, he or she is more likely to get emphysema. Since homosexuals and lesbians (transexuals) often suffered childhood sex abuse, it’s no surprise that homosexuals and lesbians think childhood sexual abuse is OK when it’s homosexual activities.