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Saturday, June 8, 2013

Vishal Thakkar, Oklahoma Man, Sues After Plastic Surgery Leaves Him Without A Nose

I suppose this truly is cutting off your nose to spite your face…

Vishal Thakkar, Oklahoma Man, Sues After Plastic Surgery Leaves Him Without A Nose

Alexa Ray Joel on lots of stuff

I like Alexa Ray Joel—not as much as a friend who harbors a long standing crush on her.. But I find her talented like her dad. The problem is she doesn’t have the same attitude that tells the world to go to hell.

Here’s info on an interviewwith her in which she opened up about bullying and plastic surgery.. She appears to have never gotten over when Perez Hilton labeled her a slut at the age of 19..

Worth reading..

Whoa!

And asteroid four times closer than the moon just flew by earth.. It was the size of a truck..

And if you’re wondering why you didn’t hear about it until now, it’s because it wasn’t discovered about a day ago..

When will earth’s luck run out?

Friday night fevers

Parenting is great….until he weekend virus hits. I assume they occur to my son at the end of the week because five days of germs and filth at day care..

It hopefully will be a silent and peaceful night for the boy. He needs sleep.

As does his parents..
Wish us luck.

Friday, June 7, 2013

Obama orders US to draw up overseas target list for cyber-attacks

Day three; another GUARDIAN blockbuster report…

Obama orders US to draw up overseas target list for cyber-attacks

Google Official Blog: What the ...?

Amazing how all of these tech companies suddenly DON’T know what we are doing online when they bragged for years that they knew everything..

Everyone wants to.. Break out of the PRISM they suddenly find themselves in…

Google Official Blog: What the ...?

Interesting.. Zuckerberg responded to the Prism program, stating in part that Facebook never even heard of it..
Stories are not adding up.

The ricin diaries

News of the strange got stranger as an actress has now been arrested in connection with the recent batch of ricin mailings..

Investigators believe Shannon Rogers Richardson, also known as Shannon Rogers Guess, mailed the letters, a law enforcement official with knowledge of the investigation said.

She has appeared in WALKING DEAD and the VAMPIRE DIARIES..

I better watch my diet.. I do not want to end up like the chalkboard rendition of myself.. (On the left of course)

Documents: U.S. mining data from 9 leading Internet firms; companies deny knowledge

U.S. intelligence has access to the servers of nine Internet companies as part of top-secret effort.

I suppose if the government would have attempted to extract data from Tumblr servers, they would have consistently received the same message that users typically receive when they try to update their websites: ‘WE’RE SORRY, SERVICE IS TEMPORARILY UNAVAILABLE’

Documents: U.S. mining data from 9 leading Internet firms; companies deny knowledge

SO do you know who this is (*my hashtag may give it away*)?

Thursday, June 6, 2013

Boy, 9, shot while riding with mother: 'Mommy, I'm shot'

Police believe a 9-year-old boy was shot by a gunman who had been aiming at his mother’s boyfriend as they drove on the South Side.

Stories like this do nothing but make me sick… totally sick, and frustrated with the inhumanity people harbor..

Boy, 9, shot while riding with mother: 'Mommy, I'm shot'

President Obama’s Dragnet - NYTimes.com

Wow.. This is a MUST read from the NEW YORK TIMES..

And this was written BEFORE we found out that the FBI and the NSA tap directly into severs of nine top net companies getting just about everything that everybody does online..

Wow..

President Obama’s Dragnet - NYTimes.com

NSA has direct access to tech giants' systems for user data, secret files reveal

The UK GUARDIAN reporting continues.. This new amazing story is rocking the rest of the world that wasn’t rocked by the Verizon story this morning…

NSA has direct access to tech giants' systems for user data, secret files reveal

Matt Drudge was right

15 years ago, the Internet pioneer was remarkably prophetic about where journalism was headed.

Interesting story.. And he was right, regardless of your opinion on him. He called this one..

Every era of news reporting has a pioneer.. And often they are flawed, often we’re in awe.. but in the end they are human.

Reporters 15 years ago had disdain for Drudge. They may have more now that he turned out to be spot on..

Matt Drudge was right

Iraqi Birth Defects Worse than Hiroshima

There are some pretty tough images to see in this story.. But we need to perhaps at least be aware of the issue. If this claim is true, then we are seeing horror before our eyes taking place.

Read the story at your own risk..

No images re-printed on here on purpose..

Iraqi Birth Defects Worse than Hiroshima

YES. We hear you. And you hear us.

The world of telecommunications was rocked today when the UK GUARDIAN reported that a FISA court ordered Verizon to provide records of calls of millions of Americans on an ongoing, daily basis. And now the Obama Administration is defending the program as ‘critical’ for safety and the fight against terrorism..

An opinion written on CNN provides this thought on the program: A ‘different kind of creepy’..

Another report on CNN attempts to break down what exactly the Verizon/FISA/NSA/FBI/Patriot Act issue means for you.. the report concludes that the government cannot hear what you are saying.. At least we think that according to the document released today in the GUARDIAN. We don’t know what other documents exist that have not been leaked…

Lots of people are angry. Some, including Senator Lindsay Graham, assert that they are fine with it because they didn’t do anything wrong…

But the far-reaching program appears to presume someone is doing something wrong.. Constitutional questions are involved.. privacy questions are involved.. Lots of big issues are at stake. This is important, and another issue of government surveillance that hits directly into every home across the United States.