FBI: Animal Rights Extremist is Domestic Terrorist April 30, 2009
Posted by Joey in Politics, War on Terror.Tags: Animal Rights, Daniel Andreas San Diego, PETA
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Check it out: The FBI declares the first “domestic terrorist” and he’s not even a right-winger. Imagine that!
I wonder what PETA thinks? 
Animal rights extremist added to FBI’s ‘most wanted’ list.
MOVE over bin Laden. On 21 April, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation released a “wanted” poster naming an animal-rights extremist as the country’s first “domestic” terrorist.
The FBI claims that Daniel Andreas San Diego is “armed and dangerous” and is offering bounties of up to $250,000 for information leading to his arrest. San Diego is wanted for arson attacks in 2003 on two biotechnology companies in California.
Chapter 11 for Chrysler April 30, 2009
Posted by Joey in Automobiles, Bailout.Tags: Chrysler
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Barack Obama forced Chrysler into a “short stay” in chapter 11 bankruptcy. Setting aside the sheer abomination of having a president decide the fate of a corporation, I doubt the stay in bankruptcy court will be as short as Obama believes. I don’t really think Chrysler can be saved, regardless of the billions of tax dollars that Obama seems willing to sink into the morass of Chrysler.
Chrysler LLC will file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Thursday, President Barack Obama said, kicking off what the administration predicts will be a 30- to 60-day restructuring of the third-largest U.S. auto maker.
At the same time, Chrysler entered into a partnership with Italian auto maker Fiat SpA, Mr. Obama said in a noon address. Mr. Obama said the partnership would not only let Chrysler survive “but to thrive.”
The U.S. government will provide up to an additional $8 billion in aid, including up to $3.5 billion in so-called debtor-in-possession financing, to ensure Chrysler survives the historic reorganization process.
The administration had hoped to keep the car maker out of court but decided it was the only option after a deal to cut the company’s debt was rejected late Wednesday by several of the company’s lenders, a senior administration official said.
World Health Organization Panics World With Pandemic Claim April 29, 2009
Posted by Joey in Government, Politics, Science.Tags: Pandemic, Swine Flu, World Health Organization
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The World Health Organization declared a swine flu pandemic today, which is causing governments around the world to act badly. Example: Egypt ordered the immediate slaughter of all the pigs in the country.
Much, much more stupidity to come. That’s what government does best, other than stealing your money to give it to someone else who is politically connected.
This swine flu “pandemic” won’t amount to anything, other that dramatically increasing the power and budgets of bureaucrats around the world.
World Health Organization Raises Swine Flu Alert Level.
The World Health Organization raised the alert level of the fast-spreading swine flu virus on Wednesday afternoon, indicating that a “pandemic is imminent,” on the day that a Mexican toddler who had been hospitalized in Houston became the first person to die from the disease on United States soil.
Margaret Chan, left, director general of the World Health Organization, and Anarfi Asamoa-Baah, the deputy director, announced a raising of the swine flu alert level on Wednesday in Geneva.
Dr. Margaret Chan, the director general of the organization, said that the “phase 5” alert out of a possible 6 levels signified that at least two countries have spread the virus by human to human contact, and that the highest phase 6 was probably imminent.
“It is really all of humanity that is under threat during a pandemic,” Dr. Chan said. “We do not have all the answers right now. But we will get them.”
By Wednesday afternoon, nine countries had confirmed cases of swine flu, the strain known as the H1N1 virus. Several European nations were making plans to regulate travel involving Mexico, where more than 150 people are suspected to have died and at least 2,400 are suspected to have been infected as a result of the swine flu.
Moot is Time Magazine’s “Most Influential Person” (sort of) April 28, 2009
Posted by Joey in Culture, Internet, Media.Tags: 4chan, Moot, Time Magazine
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Anonymous strikes again! The denizens of 4chan hacked Time’s “Top 100 Most Influential People” poll and put Moot, who “runs” 4chan, on the top of the list.
Note: 4chan is not for the faint of heart or the easily offended.
How Anonymous Hackers Triumphed Over Time.
Anonymous, a motley crew of online troublemakers known for hacking Sarah Palin and inducing seizures in epileptics, pulled off an historic coup this week when it successfully rigged Time magazine’s online poll for the “Top 100 most influential people.”
The loose confederation of trolls managed to outwit the techies at Time to arrange the voting results so that the first letters in the top 21 entries spell out the inside joke: Marblecake Also The Game.
The fun started when Time all but invited the online horde to mess with it by seeding the list of possible candidates with “moot” — AKA Christopher Poole — who runs 4chan, an Anomymous stronghold responsible for some of the best and worst of net culture.
XP mode: The End of Microsoft April 28, 2009
Posted by Joey in Software, Technology.Tags: Malware, Microsoft, Windows 7, Windows XP
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A wart on a wart on a wart on a wart on a wart… Microsoft is doomed by a death of a thousand cuts.
Windows 7’s virtual ‘XP mode’ could mean support nightmares.
Microsoft Corp.’s decision to give some Windows 7 users a tool to run Windows XP applications in a virtual machine may have been necessary to convince people to upgrade, but it could create support nightmares, analysts said today.
Last week, Microsoft announced that it would offer an add-on called Windows XP Mode (XPM) to users of Windows 7 Professional, Ultimate and Enterprise when the new operating system ships. Professional and Ultimate are the two highest-priced versions of Windows 7, while Enterprise is sold only through volume licensing agreements.
Microsoft was clear about XPM’s purpose. “Windows XP Mode is specifically designed to help small businesses move to Windows 7,” Scott Woodgate, director of Windows enterprise and virtualization strategy, said in a blog entry last Friday.
EU Warns Against Travel to US and Mexico April 27, 2009
Posted by Joey in Government, Politics, Science.Tags: European Union, Swine Flu
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More bureaucratic posturing over swine flu, this time from the EU health commissioner, who warns against travel to the US and Mexico, even as cases are already present in the EU.
This whole swine flu scare will amount to nothing, other than increasing the budgets of health ministries worldwide.
Europe Urges Citizens to Avoid U.S. and Mexico Travel.
Hoping to head off a global pandemic of swine flu that has surfaced in North America, the European Union’s health commissioner on Monday urged Europeans to avoid traveling to the United States or Mexico if doing so is not essential.
The warning came as health officials in Spain confirmed early Monday that a man hospitalized in eastern Spain had tested positive for swine flu, becoming what appeared to be Europe’s first case of the disease. Health authorities were also testing 17 other suspected cases across Spain, a major hub for travel between Mexico and Europe.
Britain and other European Union nations had already issued travel advisories for those traveling to Mexico, but the European Union’s health commissioner went a step further on Monday in urging Europeans to avoid nonessential trips. Europeans, she told reporters in Luxembourg, “should avoid traveling to Mexico or the United States of America unless it is very urgent for them.”
Atheism: The New Religion April 26, 2009
Posted by Joey in Demotivator, Wacky Religious Beliefs.Tags: Atheism, Demotivator, Secular Humanists
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Here’s my take on atheism:
More Atheists Shout It From the Rooftops.
Two months after the local atheist organization here put up a billboard saying “Don’t Believe in God? You Are Not Alone,” the group’s 13 board members met in Laura and Alex Kasman’s living room to grapple with the fallout.
The problem was not that the group, the Secular Humanists of the Lowcountry, had attracted an outpouring of hostility. It was the opposite. An overflow audience of more than 100 had showed up for their most recent public symposium, and the board members discussed whether it was time to find a larger place.
And now parents were coming out of the woodwork asking for family-oriented programs where they could meet like-minded nonbelievers.
U.S. Declares Emergency Over Swine Flu April 26, 2009
Posted by Joey in Government, Politics, Science.Tags: Swine Flu
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The US declares an “emergency” over a swine flu outbreak.
Yawn.
What, exactly, do the Feds do during an outbreak, besides counting the bodies? Not much really, other than lots and lots of posturing for the cameras. The real work is done by doctors and hospitals at the local level.
But you can count on the CDC asking for more money. That’s what bureaucracies do best.
U.S. Declares Public Health Emergency Over Swine Flu.
American health officials on Sunday declared a public health emergency over increasing cases of swine flu, saying that they had confirmed 20 cases of the disease in the United States and expected to see more as investigators track down the path of the outbreak.
“We are seeing more cases of swine flu,” Dr. Richard Besser, acting director of the Centers for Disease Control, said in a news conference in Washington. “We expect to see more cases of swine flu. As we continue to look for cases, I expect we’re going to find them.”
“This is moving fast,” Dr. Besser said, “but we want you to understand that we view this more as a marathon.”
