Chinese Election Timing is Perfect

AFP - 10/6/2006

Computer hackers based in China have launched sustained attacks on the computers of a US Commerce Department technology export office, a department official said.

I am the great and powerful Foley scandal!... Pay no attention to the Chan behind the curtain, twiddling the knobs and pulling the levers!

The official, who requested anonymity, said the attacks had originated from websites registered with Chinese Internet service providers.

It's good to see somebody making use of that high bandwidth ARPA technology we developed to protect our country.

Chinese-based hackers, especially in the Chinese province of Guangdong, have mounted systematic efforts to penetrate US government and industry computer networks in order to access secret information, according to computer security experts.

Why are these guys trying to work the hacking angle, to penetrate the US government networks? All they need to do is offer on-line sex to a few congressmen and they will be in like Flynn.

The experts and some US lawmakers believe the attacks are sanctioned by Chinese government agencies.

You mean they are not the good friend and trading partner we thought they were, when we bought that Belgian Waffle maker at Target for the irresistable price of $9.99?

The attacks on the Commerce Department have been so persistent that the affected office, the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), has been forced to replace hundreds of computers and set up a new computer system.

They got a good deal on the new systems, complete with up to date BIOS security from Chinese giant Lenovo.

The bureau's work is sensitive because it supervises US exports of software and technology for commercial and military uses, as well as commodities.

They will still be supervising the Guangdong bittorrent service. If Guangdong doesn't follow their download, with a full upload to the Russians and the Venezuelans, there will be U.N. hell to pay.

"BIS discovered a targetted effort to gain access to BIS user accounts," said Richard Mills, a Commerce Department spokesman, without commenting on the origin of the attacks.

I'm sure those BIS users didn't use sensistive passwords like 'pooky' and 'snookums'. The Chinese would never guess those.

"They took a series of immediate action steps to ensure that no BIS data is compromised. We have no evidence that any BIS data has been lost or compromised," Mills said.

They changed the passwords to 'pooky123' and 'snookums123'.

Department officials are concerned about the hacking attacks because the bureau retains sensitive commercial and economic information on US exporters as well as data related to law enforcement records.

Yeah. They retain the information by letting bureaucrats bring unsecure laptops home, so they can continue to browse internet pRon uninterrupted.

In a bid to ramp up security, the bureau has restricted employees' Internet access to stand alone computers that are not linked to the bureau's network.

Darn! Now they have to use a credit card for pRon, instead of the Guangdong gratuity account.

The government squashed the deal with Lenovo after US lawmakers raised opposition to the plan on national security grounds.

Whew! Now they can order those computers from U.S. builders, using (heh) non-Chinese motherboards.

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Shooting Blanks

I wonder if Kim is suffering from some Freudian delusion, driven by violent repressed, impotence and/or homosexual denial.

I wonder if he is engaging in projection, as is evidenced by an unhealthy fascination with metal cylinders called Taepodong-2.

One thing is for sure. After seven tries, he still can't get anything up.
There are those on the left who still insist on putting a rational face on this maniac. Of course, I still remember back in November of 2005, when red North Koreans ran Christian church leaders over with steam rollers, in front of fainting crowds.

I guess that event was not on the Ted Turner tour.

Everybody seems so concerned about North Korea's ability to hit the U.S. or Japan. They do not even need to make it that far. They could airburst a nuke over Taiwan or the Phillipines, which would take out a large chunk of the U.S. high tech economy, which heavily relies on the region for electronic fabrication.

I am sure the Chinese would be crying over the pile of money they would make, as U.S. interests desperately shift production over to the red mainland. I am sure they would poo-poo our concerns about stolen intellectual property. No doubt they would reward the little bastard with a state parade, and a large supply of Western movies on stolen DVDs.

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Twelve Impeachable Men

Senators Back Guest Workers
Panel's Measure Sides With Bush
By Jonathan Weisman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, March 28, 2006; A01

I love the way the media cherry picks the language they use for their stories. Here I provide a translation of key points in Weisman's piece, inserting the appropriate language.

A key Senate panel broke with the House's get-tough approach to illegal immigration yesterday and sent to the floor a broad revision of the nation's immigration laws that would provide lawful employment to millions of undocumented workers while offering work visas to hundreds of thousands of new immigrants every year.

Insolu-Translation:

A key Senate panel committed felonious and treasonous conspiracy with an invading foreign power yesterday and sent to the floor a broad gutting of the nation's largely un-enforced immigration laws that would wipe out the parts of those laws which point out their hypocrisy and failure.

With bipartisan support, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 12 to 6 to side with President Bush's general approach to an immigration issue that is dividing the country, fracturing the Republican Party and ripening into one of the biggest political debates of this election year. Conservatives have loudly demanded that the government tighten control of U.S. borders and begin deporting illegal immigrants. But in recent weeks, the immigrant community has risen up in protest, marching by the hundreds of thousands to denounce what they see as draconian measures under consideration in Washington.

Insolu-Translation:

With liberal and greed driven support, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 12 to 6 to commit treasonous abrogation of constitutional duty by employing a general approach to an criminal foreign invader issue that is dividing the country, fracturing the Republican Party and ripening into one of the biggest political debates of this election year. Conservatives have loudly demanded that the government tighten control of U.S. borders and begin deporting illegal immigrants. But in recent weeks, the illegal criminal invaders and their felonious conspirators have risen up in protest, marching by the hundreds of thousands to denounce what sensible American citizens see as enforcement of the rule of law.

"There is no issue outside of civil rights that brings out the kind of emotions we have seen," said Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.), one of the bill's primary sponsors, who called the controversy "a defining issue of our times."

Insolu-Translation:

"There is no issue outside of hatred for Bush and being rich enough to buy your way out of negligent homicide that brings out the kind of emotions we have seen," Said Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.), one of the primary felonious conspirators, who called the controversy "a great club to beat conservatives with."

Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) rushed committee members to complete their work to meet a midnight deadline imposed by Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.), who favors a tougher approach more in line with the version passed by the House last December. But once the committee had acted, Frist declined to say last night whether he would substitute the committee's legislation for his own, which includes no guest-worker program.

Insolu-Translation:

Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) rushed committee members to complete their act of seditious negligence to meet a midnight deadline imposed by Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.), who favors law enforcement. But once the committee had acted, Frist declined to say last night whether he would substitute the committee's legislation for his own, which includes no criminal invader amnesty program.

Frist's efforts to wrest control of the issue from the Judiciary Committee could produce a power struggle among Republicans once the majority leader brings up the issue for debate and votes in the full Senate, probably this week. Specter and the other committee leaders may have to muscle their bill through as an amendment if Frist refuses to back down.

Insolu-Translation:

Frist's patriotic efforts to preserve the meaning behind writing laws, could produce a power struggle with liberals and greed driven conspirators, who insist we ignore enforcement of laws they don't like.

"Congress needs to pass a comprehensive bill that secures the border, improves interior enforcement, and creates a temporary-worker program to strengthen our security and our economy," Bush said yesterday at a ceremony to swear in 30 new U.S. citizens from 20 countries. "Completing a comprehensive bill is not going to be easy. It will require all of us in Washington to make tough choices and make compromises."

Insolu-Translation:

"Congress needs to chisel more incomprehensible Hieroglyphs on the books of congress that babble on about border security, interior enforcement, and creates another temporary mood soothing program to strengthen our political position," Bush said yesterday at a ceremony to swear in 30 new U.S. citizens from 20 countries. "Completing another epitaph, dedicated to the death of national will and pride, is not going to be easy. It will require all of us in Washington to make tough grammar choices and sound bites, which haven't already been used to spin this issue."

But the immigrant community has been galvanized by what it sees as a heavy-handed crackdown on undocumented workers by Washington. The House in December rejected calls for a guest-worker program and instead approved a bill that would stiffen penalties on illegal immigrants, force businesses to run the names of each employee through federal databases to prove their legality, deploy more border agents and unmanned aerial vehicles to the nation's frontiers and build massive walls along sections of the U.S.-Mexican border.

Insolu-Translation:

But the criminal mob has been galvanized by what it sees as an attempt to enforce the law on foreign invaders by Washington. The House in December rejected calls for an invader amnesty program and instead approved a bill that would add more feel-good harsh language to the congressional register, asking felonious business criminals, if they would be nice enough to run the names of each employee through federal databases to prove their legality. Wink, nod, if Jose Morales shows up a million times, your worker is probably OK. They also deployed more border agents to arrest American citizens for defending their land and unmanned aerial vehicles to identify and treat thirsty desert travelers.

At least 14,000 students stormed out of schools in Southern California and elsewhere yesterday, waving flags and chanting to protest congressional actions. About 100 demonstrators, including members of the clergy, appeared at the Capitol yesterday in handcuffs to object to provisions in the House bill that would make illegal immigrants into felons and criminalize humanitarian groups that feed and house them. More than a half-million marchers protested in Los Angeles on Saturday, following protests in Phoenix, Milwaukee and Philadelphia.

Insolu-Translation:

At least 14,000 felonious conspirators, pot smoking liberals and tax-sucking illegal parasites stormed out of schools in Northern Nuevo Mexico and elsewhere yesterday, waving Mexican flags and chanting to protest law enforcement. About 100 demonstrators, including members of the clergy, appeared at the Capitol yesterday in handcuffs to engage in the usual ridiculous, symbolically ignorant posturing. More than a half-million illegal marchers protested in Los Angeles on Saturday, following mobs in Phoenix, Milwaukee and Philadelphia.

"The immigration debate should be conducted in a civil and dignified way," Bush said. "No one should play on people's fears, or try to pit neighbors against each other."

You mean, like a mob of half a million foreign invaders, playing on the fears of politicians, Mr. President?

"We are eager, once the Senate passes this bill, to sit down and talk with them, but there are certain fundamental principles which we simply cannot compromise on," said Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who cosponsored the bill that passed the Judiciary Committee largely intact last night. "It has to be a comprehensive approach. As we all know, just building walls and hiring more border patrols are not the answers to our immigration problem."

Insolu-Translation:

"We are eager, once the Senate passes this bill, to sit down and congratulate ourselves for a nation well screwed. We won't mind talking with them, once the bill's passed, since talk means nothing after that. Free talk for everyone!," said Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who cosponsored the bill that passed the Judiciary Committee largely intact last night. "It has to be a comprehensive amnesty for criminal invaders. As we all know, building walls and hiring more border patrols is more cosmetic than anything else."

Specter, the committee chairman, had tried for weeks to find a middle ground between senators advocating a generous guest-worker program and those categorically rejecting amnesty for illegal immigrants. In the end, that search for a compromise failed because advocates of the guest-worker program had more than enough votes to overcome conservative opposition.

Insolu-Translation:

Specter, the committee chairman, had tried for weeks to find a middle ground between enforcing the law and breaking the law. In the end, that search for a compromise failed because advocates of breaking the law had more than enough votes to overcome conservative opposition.

The panel's bill would allow the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in this country to apply for a work visa after paying back taxes and a penalty. The first three-year visa could be renewed for three more years. After four years, visa holders could apply for green cards and begin moving toward citizenship. An additional 400,000 such visas would be offered each year to workers seeking to enter the country.

Insolu-Translation:

The panel's bill would impose restrictions that illegal criminal invaders will ignore, but sound like punishment to the American public. After four years, American citizens will realize just how useless this was, only they will then have a population of 13 million criminal foreign invaders.

Senators also accepted a proposal by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) that would offer 1.5 million illegal farmworkers a "blue card" visa that would legalize their status. The committee also accepted a provision by Sen. Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.) that would shield humanitarian organizations from prosecution for providing more than simple emergency aid to illegal immigrants, rejecting an amendment by Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.) to require humanitarian groups providing food, medical aid and advice to illegal immigrants to register with the Department of Homeland Security.

Insolu-Translation:

Senators also accepted a proposal by Vincente Fox, to have Mexican presses start to vigorously print "blue card" visas, that would legalize their status. The committee also accepted a provision by Sen. Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.) that would shield humanitarian organizations from prosecution for being outright criminal accomplices, by supplying more than simple emergency aid to illegal immigrants.

Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) protested that the Feinstein proposal was more focused on offering illegal immigrants a path to citizenship than meeting the labor demands of agriculture. Cornyn suggested the Judiciary Committee bill was moving toward creating a caste of second-class workers.

But Cornyn may have summed up Senate fears when he referred to energized voters protesting what they see as amnesty for people who violated the nation's laws and made a mockery of its borders.

"The American people are thinking, 'Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me,' " he said. "The only way we can get the confidence of the American people is to convince them we are absolutely serious about border security and law enforcement."

Insolu-Translation:

None needed, for the honorable, patriotic Sen. Cornyn and Sen. Kyl.

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The Criminal Invasion Continues

Ah, Yes. The incompetence of our government, never ceases to amaze me.

(CBS) PHOENIX Thousands of immigrant rights supporters filled a major Phoenix thoroughfare Friday morning as they marched toward the office of U.S. Sen. Jon Kyl in a rally call for a more humane reform of immigration laws.

Humane of course means free, unobstructed invasion of our soil, without any documented accountability for anything. How many of these punks, who are not here illegally, have visited an emergency room lately? Oh. I forgot. They are all ideological liberal yoots, who want everyone with a real job, to pay both their health insurance and free state sponsored medial care for criminal alien invaders.

Many of the protesters said they were most incensed by one immigration reform proposal approved by the U.S. House of Representatives in December that would make it make it a felony to be in the country illegally.

It is much better to wait for that felonious rape, murder and theft by the criminal invader. Then we have a genuine citizen victim to support AND a wetback criminal to feed in jail. At least we can claim a felony was committed on moral principles, other than criminal invasion.

Kyl, a Republican, is sponsoring a bill along with Republican Sen. John Cornyn of Texas that would give illegal immigrants up to five years to leave the country. They would then be able to apply from their home country to return, either as temporary workers or for permanent residency.

Wow. How terribly inhumane of Sen. Cornyn. He wants to tell everyone that pushes their way in front of the line, to see the popular movie 'The American Dream', sponsored by that famous producer John Q. Taxpayer, to go back to the end of the line and wait like everyone else. Take his popcorn and soda away folks.

The protests come as President Bush has urged lawmakers to approach the contentious immigration issue in a way that avoids pitting groups against each other.

Err... you mean like pitting that group of law-abiding citizens and taxpayers against that group of entitlement-sucking criminal alien invaders?

The Senate is scheduled to take up the immigration issue next week. State and federal lawmakers have come under pressure by voters to find a way to deal with an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants already in the country.

Insolutip:

Here is how to deal with them.

• Put them to work building a 30 foot above ground concrete wall, running 20 feet deep into the sand of the U.S./Mexican border.
• Provide free delicious, iced GOP cool aide and bologna sandwiches for that hot work, under the Mexican sun.
• Next, push them over the top of the wall.
• Finally, tell them the check is in the mail.

Some states have taken steps to try to limit or cut state services to such immigrants.

Try to limit? As Yoda says, "There is no try. There is only Do!"

Lawmakers have also been considering bills that would impose new penalties on employers who hire illegal immigrants. Another proposal is to erect fences along one-third of the U.S.-Mexican border.

How about enforcing the penalties that already exist on the books? It is a felony, by the way.

The proposals have angered many in the Hispanic community.

Looks like we should commission a Berkeley study about whiny, foreign ingrates who grow up to be illegal, entitlement demanding parasites.

On Thursday, more than 10,000 people filled the streets of Milwaukee in what was billed as "A Day Without Latinos" to protest efforts in Congress to target undocumented workers.

Beautiful. We just identified 8,800 criminal invaders, who can be rounded-up right away, and 1,200 criminals who can be busted for drug possession.

Hundreds of Los Angeles students walked out Friday morning to call attention to immigration issues.

They have my attention. This is a good thing. It is one less school day full of the liberal brain blender, set to puree, courtesy of the LA public school system.

In Georgia, activists said tens of thousands of workers did not show up at their jobs on Friday after calls for a work stoppage to protest a bill passed by the Georgia House on Thursday. That bill, which has yet to gain Senate approval, would deny state services to adults living in the U.S. illegally and impose a 5 percent surcharge on wire transfers from illegals.
Teodoro Maus, one of the organizers of the Georgia protest, estimated as many as 80,000 Hispanics did not show up for work Friday.

This reminds me of the anarchist youths burning France right now, committing national security suicide, in the name of job security. It is just drawing the attention of the American citizen to the real scope of the disaster, promulgated by both the President and the liberal Democrats, every time they openly fail their Constitutional sworn duty, to enforce the law.

About 200 people converged on the steps of the Georgia Capitol, some wrapped in Mexican flags and holding signs reading: "Don't panic, we're Hispanic" and "We have a dream, too."

Note the choice of flag those people are draped in. It is a Mexican dream; not the American dream. We should panic.

Mr. Bush said Thursday that his message is: "If you are doing a job that Americans won't do, you're welcome here for a period of time to do that job."

Wrong, wrong, forever in error. Drive over to Houston, and give those Katrina evacuees, who seem to have all the free time in the world, a Ray Nagin bus ride to the job site. They can pull up their welfare entitlements, and earn their keep.

The president is working hand-in-hand with employers who want cheap labor to clean hotel rooms, pick crops and do other tasks that they say keep their businesses competitive. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., says he understands those economic issues, but his focus is on the main concern voiced by the social conservatives national security.

This is more economic gobbledygook bull shite. Frist should not even bow to deference on this ridiculous score. This does not keep employers competitive. It puts the few employers, who legally employ American citizens and legal aliens, out of business. If you want to eliminate the need for a minimum wage, you can use the same feedback mechanism used to eliminate inflation. They control inflation by regulating the money supply. You can regulate wages by controlling the labor supply. Build that wall. Control the rate of immigration. The wages will follow.

The public appears to be more on the side of tougher border control. Three-quarters of respondents to a Time magazine poll in January said the United States is not doing enough to keep illegal immigrants from entering the country. Roughly the same amount said they favor a guest worker program for illegal immigrants, but 46 percent said those workers should have to return first to their native countries and apply. About 50 percent favored deporting all illegal immigrants.

And you can be sure, if those are the numbers came from a Time magazine poll, the real figure is more like 70-30 for deportation.

"We've scheduled two weeks of debate," his spokeswoman said, underscoring the divisiveness of the issue. "We need all two weeks."

Insolu-translation: We have scheduled two more weeks of nascent, Dr. Feel Good, unproductive D.C. gum flapping and butt slapping. This will spray a little sweet lilac water on this festering public abscess. We dearly hope that this, combined with some well placed tranquilizing, mind-numbing MSM sponsored committee Valium, will squeeze us by another election. Then someone else can saw off the putrefied, gangrenous limb. Meanwhile, we can all gather in the sauna, trade some earmarks, some lobby swag and some laughs at the expense of those poor suckers, paying the freight.

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., backed by labor unions, has said he will do all he can, including filibuster, to thwart Frist's legislation. So has Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., who said legislation seeking to criminalize undocumented immigrants is not in line with Republicans' stated support for faith and values and "would literally criminalize the Good Samaritan and probably even Jesus himself."

Now this is Hillary-ous. Vincente Fox's bogus, corrupt Mexican cartel, swimming in oil revenues, is shipping their problem over here, demanding services, demanding political power, declaring war on our nation, by virtue of a criminal alien invasion. These two dancing clown DNC marionettes tell us the Republicans are to blame, for not being compassionate Samaritans. What about the 'teach a man to fish' story, you inflated, varicose, pathetic media whores.


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Smart Bombs for the Drug War

The science of genetic modifying plants, to provide commercial benefit, has been around for quite some time now.

Production of heroin is at an all time high. (pardon the pun) They are talking about another decade of fighting heroin exports and billions wasted in that fight.

Why can't we put these two issues together?

Why not contract Monsanto or ADM to develop a version of the poppy plant, with the drug production gene crippled? Then you fly over Afghanistan, dusting those poppy fields with the GMO pollen.

Before they know it, the drug producers are saddled with an enormous labor burden, making them weed out unaffected plants, and compromising their distillation processes. Black markets go through the roof, and addicts dry out.

Do the same for that high potency pot, and you have the added benefit of pissing off all of the Organic anti-GMO moonbats, crying over their empty bongs.

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Are they as good as those GPS jammers?

I might consider quaking in my boots over this claim...

Putin Touts Russia's Missile Capabilities
Jan 31 9:30 AM US/Eastern

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV
Associated Press Writer

MOSCOW

President Vladimir Putin boasted Tuesday that Russia has missiles capable of penetrating any missile defense system, Russian news reports said.

"Russia ... has tested missile systems that no one in the world has," the ITAR-Tass, Interfax and RIA Novosti news agencies quoted him as saying at a news conference. "These missile systems don't represent a response to a missile defense system, but they are immune to that. They are hypersonic and capable of changing their flight path."

If they weren't touting the stopping power of those GPS jammers they sold to the Iraqi's before the war.

Whew!

What a ride it has been, and still is.

Your’s truly and a small, dedicated band of friends have spent the last several years developing a data management system for our group within our company. It started, at first, being a hobby style project, to improve our collective ability to analyze engineering test data. The last several weeks have been an all out effort to make this system palatable to the company as a global solution for managing the company’s data. We still have much work to do.

As Dr. Phat Tony duly noted in his remarks, it has been a wonderful, exciting, seething capitalist plot to improve gross margins. I’m sure that somewhat dry financial rhetoric could be metaphorically extended to some sort of buxom, sexual context that would please both Tony and Uber. Have at it, you two.

I am also glad to see that Peakah has a new look again. Josh, although your last blog layout was visually stunning, this one is friendly to my dial-up.

JimmyB, I like that recent reality graphic, courtesy of the NRO, one of my favorite news sources.

Ssssteve expresses his recent view of Bush’s speech on democracy; A view I share, BTW.

FIAR, in his pajamas, is still being the perpetually unblemished, evil conservative propagandist we all know and love.

Please offer your hopes and prayers to Difster’s friends and their two premature babies, now struggling for life.

It looks like GunnNutt has finally staked out victory in all territories, at Walter Reed. She also has a great piece, interposing a soldier’s art with the bigotry of his detractors.

On the Alito subject, I hope Kerry pulls a filibuster. Bullies like that drunken Leprechaun Kennedy gave conservatives an entire pot full of golden audio clip daggers. They positioned that pot perfectly, right at the dead foot of the confirmation committee rainbow. The eyes of conservative pundits will be wide with unbridled glee, at the brimming trunks of ideological booty that a good old-fashioned hour hand spinning filibuster will produce. The only thing more valuable to us, than a drunken, poorly scripted, pompous old senator from the gay state, is two hung-over, sleep deprived, script-exhausted senators from the gay state. It is far more difficult to smear a clean moral person with feces, than cover up a lump of feces with a bright candy shell. Case in point: Ted Kennedy.

As for Hamas, this is also a good thing. I am with the president on this one. Democracy is a two edged sword. They think they are sending an important message to the world. They are right. This is the perfect chance to sever financial support, and walk away. The dogs can fight it out. Any suicide bombings and terror attacks against Israel, can now be argued as acts of war, sanctioned by the population of Palestine. The Hamas leadership is out in the open, admitting their intentions.

We will see what happens.