Guess that answers that question.

Nice Engrish guys.

FUCK CANADA! : Crusader Bay : CafePress.com

It’s just as bad going the other way, dumbasses.

Oh yeah, another one of my all-time favorites… I present the lovely and talented Cat Schwartz from Tech TV (now G4 and loaded with all kinds of sucktitude and no Cat):

You would think if they were trying to attract young guys, Cat would be a definite keeper. Instead she vanished right after Call for Help went off the network, which was another dreadful decision.

In fact, I can’t think of a good decision G4 has made regarding Tech TV since they brutally raped and sodomized it into some pathetic wannabe hipster videogame network took it over.

Yahoo! News – Tel Aviv Suicide Bombing Kills at Least 4

By GAVIN RABINOWITZ, Associated Press Writer

TEL AVIV, Israel – A Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowd of young Israelis waiting outside a nightclub near Tel Aviv’s beachfront promenade just before midnight Friday, killing at least four other people, wounding dozens and shattering an informal Mideast truce.

Oh yeah. This was stunning.

Inisgnificant Thoughts, February 8, 2005:

Pay attention to how this one gets broken. I can guarantee you it won’t be an Israeli suicide bomber in one of the refugee camps the Palestinians keep their brethren in, or one of the many refugee camps Palestinians are kept in in Jordan and Syria.

No, it’ll be a Palestinian bomber. A young male dying for his 72 virgins by killing women and children on a bus for the penalty of going about their lives. And as the death of every one of those people hangs in the air, all the handshakes in the world won’t mean a damned thing, and we’ll be right back where we started.

I just wish for once I’d be wrong about the situation in Israel. It wasn’t a bus, but it was a Palestinian suicide bomber.

1. Hunter Thomspon blew his brains out. Big fucking deal. Sorry to hear about it. Next…

2. The snow… We know it snowed. We don’t need a damn news alert every five minutes to show a street with slush in it. Move on assholes.

3. The President smoked a joint. So? At least he didn’t lie about it or mitigate it (only smoked it, never inhaled it). No one ever asked, he didn’t volunteer it. And even if he did, it’s a joint. Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.

4. Some reporter had something to do with gay porn. Whoopdeedoo. Certain female bloggers are starfuckers anyway. Ironically, I care nothing about either.

5. The Gates: All you fuckers who join the crowd loving it on Friday before they opened and hating it when all the “critics” started bashing it can just go to hell. Fucking poseurs. Once something isn’t trendy, you lose interest.

6. Vin Diesel’s voicemail is out there… Big deal. It’s every bit as boring as he is.

7. Sirius signed NASCAR. Here’s the play by play: “And there goes Martin… He makes a left… Then he goes straight, and makes another left!” Auto racing is a television sport.

8. Paris Hilton’s privacy was invaded… Interesting that she’s all upset now, considering she was invaded privately, taped it, and watched it shoot around the world. I’m not banging her or talking to her, and I really don’t care what’s on her voicemail.

9. G4TechTV is now just G4. After decimating all the staff, firing people, and killing great shows, the G4 monster now officially takes over the entire channel and removes all links to TTV. Along with it go all its street cred with the geek set. No Cat Schwartz? No Vinny.

10. Air America is moving into another market. Their fan is happy.

11. Jerry Springer is on his own radio show. Something tells me the three hundred pound fatty banging a transsexual midget just won’t be as interesting on radio.

Please join us again next week when I bring you more News Stories I Don’t Give a Shit About!

A girl’s phot was banned from a yearbook in Plano, Texas. Why? Because she wore a tux.

That’s it.

Of course, the damn Local6 website had to bring up the fact that she was a lesbian… As if it mitigated the stupidity of the school’s actions.

Just another example of adults being stupid in front of kids. Are we seeing more of this lately, or is it just me?

Many times I’ve heard that the right is going to be the death of the country. A bunch of stuffed shirts that like to control morality for the rest of the country. Uptight churchmoms who don’t want anything remotely related to sex or violence anywhere near their precious babies.

It goes on and on.

But what you rarely hear about is the very same thing when it’s done by the left.

Take for instance the latest bit of stupidity from the save fido loonies. Apparently Kraft is now selling gummy roadkill candies. This, of course, offends animal rights activists because, to quote one of their loons:

“It sends the wrong message to children, that it’s OK to harm animals. And that’s the wrong message, especially from a so-called wholesome corporation like Kraft,” said society spokesman Matthew Stanton.

Now that’s not from some fringe group… It’s a wacko in a very mainstream group, the New Jersey SPCA! I just don’t understand how roadkill candy sends any message. Maybe I’m just not into reading into things way beyond their intent.

Kids love gross shit. I’ve seen booger candy, gummy worms, chocolate rats, and licorice roaches. I have literally seen it all. So what’s the big deal with this candy? Because it’s got a tire tread on it.

It’s candy, guys. Real roadkill is gross and disgusting, so of course kids are going to love it. If kids are going to love it, why not sell it? And the NJSPCA is now not only concerning itself with actual animal cruelty, but the implication of cruelty to animal shaped candy is enough to set an almost-governmental organization into a feeding frenzy of offended press releases.

Kraft is no better. Kraft, bowing to the pressure exerted over this ridiculous controversy, has pulled ads showing headlights and animals and all kinds of implications.

So here’s the way it’s going for kids these days…

They can’t play with toy guns (it’s probably easier for most of them to get a real one).

They can’t eat fake dead animals because it raises animal cruelty concerns.

They can’t play dodgeball because it’s too violent.

They can’t point their finger at a kid in the shape of a gun because of the idiotic and illogical zero-tolerance laws.

And they can’t take an aspirin in school because of the zero-tolerance drug laws.

And we wonder why our kids are more often than not growing up to be clueless idiots. Look at the idiot adults that are paving the way for them!

What happens when an ad later turns out to not be true? Do you have to retract it?

The New York Association for Better Choices is an organization founded by the Dolan family (who owns Cablevision, Madison Square Garden, The Theater at the Garden, Radio City Music Hall, News 12, the Knicks, Rangers, and Rockettes) in order to oppose the construction of the West Side football stadium. It’s long been insinuated by many in this city that the Dolans are only interested in stifling competition and putting a stadium on the West Side would mean that the Garden wouldn’t be the premiere venue anymore for entertainment in the city.

With the Knicks being one of the worst teams in the NBA, and the Rangers perennial underachievers, the revenue from the teams is shrinking as attendance is bleak.

But Mayor Bloomberg has always contended that we need the Olympics in this city. I vehemently disagree and don’t want the Olympics anywhere near my damn city, but that’s me. The mayor also contends that in order to make that happen, we have to have the stadium built.

Approximately two days after the mayor officially announced that he would pursue the sale of the railyards to build the stadium in the interest of getting the Olympics in New York City, the New York ABC ran the following ad (click here, and play the Olympics ad).

That ad has been parroted all over the place as the wooden stake through the stadium’s heart. Done, they say. It ain’t gonna happen now, and the mayor looks like a liar.

Does he?

This morning, the Newark Star Ledger reported the following:

05 OLYMPICS
IOC Hints N.Y. Needs Stadium OK

New York’s bid for the 2012 Summer Olympics will be in jeopardy if a proposed West Side stadium isn’t approved before the July 6 vote, two International Olympic Committee executives strongly suggested on Thursday.

“We are following (the stadium controversy) very closely,” IOC Evaluation Commission Chairwoman Nawal El Moutawakel said at a midtown Manhattan news conference that concluded the panel’s four-day tour of the city. “We have promises, and hopefully this effort will be successful. Otherwise, it is part of the risk assessment.”

That’s not a very subtle hint on their part, is it? So obviously the mayor was right and to contend in the final selection we do need the Stadium to get started. Should be interesting to see how the Dolan’s start spinning the stadium now that they can’t argue we don’t need it for the OIympics.

Thanks for the apt description, cuz; Dirty Librarian really is the perfect term…

Anyway, without further adieu, my all time favorite Dirty Librarian:

Does anyone epitomize the “Dirty Librarian” look, as my cousin calls it, better than Lisa Loeb?

“You think the Republican National Committee could get this many people of color in a single room? Only if they had the hotel staff in here”.

-Howard Dean at a speech in Baltimore before the Congressional Black Caucus

He’s a walking soundbite, that man… Of course, his comment wasn’t actually racist. Dems are incapable of that.

Honestly, I don’t think it was; but it doesn’t matter anyway. I mean, if Hillary can say Gandhi worked in a gas station in Saint Louis and not catch one single nasty remark…

I don’t know what it is, but I just love the geeky girl next door look. Tina Fey is no exception…

It’s very easy to get your voicemail without your knowledge. T-Mobile and Sprint, in the interests of convenience have decided to leave a gaping security hole in their network enabled by default. However, with one quick change, you can close the hole and protect your privacy.

In the interest of convenience for their customers, Sprint and T-Mobile, by default, do not require you to enter your PIN when dialing in from your phone to check your voicemail. Instead, they both authenticate your password by reading the Caller ID on the incoming call, and if it matches the number of the mailbox, the call is transferred to the main menu of the voicemail system for that user instead of playing the outgoing greeting and allowing you to record a message.

This wouldn’t be a problem, except that now you can spoof Caller ID with little or no effort whatsoever.

I demonstrated this hack to my friends at work. First I went into my phone system at work and changed the outgoing caller ID on my extension to a friend’s T-Mobile mobile number. Then, I called their mobile number. Man, were they freaked out when their own number showed up on their screen.

It gets worse, though, because once the ringing stopped, the real fun began. Instead of hearing “Hi you’ve reached _________________________, at the tone please leave a message…” we heard, “You have 5 new voicemail messages. To get your messages, press 1.”

The flaw is an obvious one. The security of your voicemail depends on something as insecure as Caller ID authentication. Years ago, this was not an issue, but with the advent of easily accessible spoofing methods, this is a major gaping hole. Someone with only your mobile number can swipe your email quite easily.

This is quite an easy thing for either carrier to fix. All the carrier would have to do is note whether or not the call was made in-network. For example, on T-Mobile, Cingular, Sprint, and Verizon, there is some sort of plan that allows you to only make calls from within the network. A simple verification of the number on T-Mobile’s network to make sure it really is a T-Mobile call from within the network and not a spoofed outside number, would eliminate this vulnerability altogether. I imagine this is already being worked on; or at least I hope it is.

To fix the problem for T-Mobile: Log into your voicemail, press 4 for Personal Options, and 8 for Enable Password.

If you know how to fix the issue on Sprint, please send it to me and I’ll post it also.

Be safe out there people. If something is a “convenience,” it’s probably not safe or secure.

Just wait until the Pope calls the idea of gay marriage evil:

“It is legitimate and necessary to ask oneself if this is not perhaps part of a new ideology of evil, perhaps more insidious and hidden, which attempts to pit human rights against the family and against man,”

See, leftists only like the Pope when he’s talking about the war being wrong and capital punishment being wrong.

But at this point, the Pope mentions gay marriage as being wrong and abortion as being wrong. Wonder how many lefties who loved the Pope’s anti-war views and anti capital punishment views will be bagging on him for calling this wrong.

Or they just won’t mention it at all, and you’ll have to drive spikes into your ears to stop the crickets.

February 22, 2005 — CHER is not a fan of the younger generation of pop stars. During a concert in Auckland, New Zealand, last weekend, she told 20,000 fans: “I’m not going to give up show business but I’m going to give up touring because, you know, there are all of these young girls coming out like Britney [Spears] and J.Lo.” The crowd booed at the names and, according to New Zealand wire reports, Cher smirked: “I know — they are ho’s, aren’t they?” A rep for Spears and Lopez told PAGE SIX: “For someone who has had their fair share of bad press, it is surprising she would comment on two women she hardly knows.”

I guess she’s basing it on stage attire, which of course is an accurate measurement of weather or not you’re a “ho,” right? Well in that case, remember this getup from Ms. Cher?

Not for nothing, but that isn’t really the pic I was looking for but it still makes the point. Anyone really remember the one from the If I Could Turn Back Time video? I mean, if we’re judging artists by what they wear…

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I’ll admit it. When I first heard about Christo’s The Gates, I was skeptical. I thought it was a silly idea, had no function, and would be a complete waste of time to do, money to pay for it, and police presence to protect it. After hearing that approximately 1 million people were expected to visit it in the time it was to be set up, I started to realize this may have been a better move than I originally thought.

Christo paid for the entire thing, and after 30 years and 37 million dollars, finally got to do it.

My wife and I went down there earlier today to see what all the fuss was about. When the “exhibit” first opened, the buzz was that it was awesome, amazing, and so on. Then it became fashionable to bash it, and all the people who loved the idea when it was cool, hated it now. Go figure. Who knew people were such fickle poseurs?

Anyway, we entered the park on 72nd street, and saw the mosaic dedicated to John Lennon. People were crowding around it to get as many pictures as possible (me being one of them). Even standing at that very spot, you start to look up and realize the scale upon which The Gates exists on. It’s huge! Everywhere you go through the park, there are gates. Tons and tons of orange gates. It wasn’t as impressive as I expected it to be, but it was still massive. Every walkway had gates. The wider walkways had wider ones, the smaller walkways had smaller ones, and so on.

My wife and I walked around the walkways for awhile, just kind of in awe of the hugeness of it. Not really shocked, but just surprised at how much ground they covered, while at the same time being a bit disappointed that there were so many gaps in the continuousness of the gates.

The views from some of the landmarks were great. We went to the Bethesda Fountain, the Boathouse Restaurant, Lewis Carroll’s statue, and Belvedere Castle, and at every spot we could see nothing in the distance but the orange gates. Here is where I think doing the exhibit in February was basically a stroke of genius. If you look at the pictures I took, you’ll notice pretty much one thing. The park was gray and cold, and the only color you could really see where the orange arches with the flowing fabric underneath them, and while the fabric wasn’t as bright and eye catching as I thought it was going to be, it definitely grabs your attention amidst the backdrop of a somewhat overcast day and leafless trees. It was very well done in that respect.

The debate about this “exhibit” is whether or not it’s actually “art.” As cool as I thought it was, it would be hard for me to call it artistic in any real way. It’s large, it’s bright, and it’s attractive. It adds a splash of color in a colorless park. But art? I’m not sure. I see art, in my mind, as something that can never be replicated, immitated, or done again to the same effect. As original as this may be, and as original as dressing all the walkways in Central Park is, it just doesn’t strike me as something amazingly original. Oh sure it’s never been done, and anything after this is just immitation, but it’s an easy immitation to do!

I liked it. I think it brings something to the park. Seeing how crowded the park was today, a lot of people obviously agreed with me. It’s worth a trip, being free and all, and the park is always a nice place to go (from what people who frequent it tell me). If you’re in the area, go in with an open mind and just soak it all up. While you’re at it, try to take in the interest of people walking through the gates as the look up at them in awe.

Some people are utterly impressed by it. Others think it’s a waste. I probably fall somewhere in the middle of the two. Either way, I’m glad I went and I hope the city and other artists try to do something interesting with the park during the winter months in the future.

Pictures from my visit available here.

Haven’t posted one of these in awhile. Just wanted to bring you all up to date. Once Spring comes by and it’s not the same thing every week (IE: weight stayed the same, up a pound, down a pound) I’ll get back to doing this once a week. As of right now, though, I have a milestone to share

Starting:

Jan 19, 2004
351 lbs
BMI of 47

Current:
November 20, 2004
271 lbs
BMI of 36

Loss for Week: 3 pounds
Total Loss: 80 pounds
Goal Loss: 136 pounds

Yep, I finally hit that magical 80! My net weight loss for the winter has been around 3 pounds. Most of the time, people gain weight over the winter. I not only have maintained, but if I keep this up, I will have lost weight by the time it’s over. That is probably my biggest success since I started doing this.

Every once in awhile, someone on Bikeforums.net posts a story that just slights the hell out of cyclists. Usually, I think it can be said that the stories just aren’t completely examined before they’re thrown onto the air, but sometimes the misinformation is so blatant it almost seems intentional.

Take for instance this story, which appeared on KCTV5 a few days ago. There are a few glaring ommissions in it, namely reference to the following section of the Missouri Traffic Law:

“304.016. 1. (1) The driver of a vehicle overtaking another vehicle proceeding in the same direction shall pass to the left thereof at a safe distance and shall not again drive to the right side of the roadway until safely clear of the overtaken vehicle.”

That’s an interesting tidbit. Do you see where this puts the driver at fault? Just in case you can’t, my letter to the news desk appears after the jump.

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AP Wire | 02/11/2005 | House panel approves measure to make abortion a felony
BRAD PERRIELLO

PIERRE, S.D. – Abortion should be a crime in South Dakota if states are given the right to outlaw the medical procedure, a House panel recommended Friday.

The State Affairs Committee unanimously approved HB1249, which would make it a felony to do abortions if Roe v. Wade, the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion, is overturned. The bill would allow exceptions in cases where a pregnant woman’s life is at risk.

Those who do abortions could face up to two years in prison and a $2,000 fine.

I guess calling murder a felony is a good place to start. Kudos to South Dakota for doing something to end the baby-murder-factory that is the abortion industry in this country.

(via Drudge)

I know just as much as the next guy that most of our troops are honest upstanding soldiers. I also know that soldiers do some pretty horrific things in the “fog of war.”

But when you hear a story like this, you just have to wonder where people’s heads are.

Al-Jamadi died in a prison shower room during about a half-hour of questioning, before interrogators could extract any information, according to the documents, which consist of statements from Army prison guards to investigators with the military and the CIA’s Inspector General’s office.

One Army guard, Sgt. Jeffery Frost, said the prisoner’s arms were stretched behind him in a way he had never before seen. Frost told investigators he was surprised al-Jamadi’s arms “didn’t pop out of their sockets,” according to a summary of his interview.

Frost and other guards had been summoned to reposition al-Jamadi, who an interrogator said was not cooperating. As the guards released the shackles and lowered al-Jamadi, blood gushed from his mouth “as if a faucet had been turned on,” according to the interview summary.

The military pathologist who ruled the case a homicide found several broken ribs and concluded al-Jamadi died from pressure to the chest and difficulty breathing.

This is just wrong on so many levels. Whoever shackled him this way should be shackled the same way and left to hang the same way.

I’m not saying all soldiers do stuff like this, but this is just so heinous I had to bring it up. The soldiers / interrogators who did it should be shot for killing this man and for damaging the reputation of the good soldiers in Iraq who aren’t doing this sort of thing. I mean, who’s the media gonna tell the story of? These monsters, or the good guys?

It’s a disgrace, it’s conduct unbecoming of the US Military, and someone needs to really get to the bottom of it.

Stevie Wonder is listed as a potential witness for Michael Jackson.