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Rats.

I can’t seem to locate this excellent article I’d read earlier this week; it was written by some geek that I follow on Twitter…. he wrote about a WordPress plugin that creates comment spam on other blogs. He was appalled that he was actually asked by the plugin’s creator to review the plugin! The geek basically said that the plugin harvests emails and urls from your blog commenters, and targets other blogs that write within your blog’s niche, and sends automatic comments to those blogs. IF I’m remembering it all correctly. Anyone see that article?

Well anyway, now I know where all the tons and tons of spam comments are coming from. :-p

For the first time in years, this year I’ve had to shop for women’s apparel. I’ve been pleasantly surprised by prices. I usually hold on to my clothing FOREVER. I don’t get bored with outfits at all, so I only buy new articles when my old has worn out (or I’ve outgrown them). Prices haven’t climbed too much in a decade, I see. Nice to know.

Thanksgiving is almost here. I like the holiday, but it seems that many people do not. They complain that Thanksgiving “gets in the way” of the more important holiday (Christmas). I happen to dislike Christmas (its too commercialized and WAY over-hyped), so I get peeved that Thanksgiving– a much more meaningful and important national holiday– is dissed. Jesus was actually born sometime in the spring, not on December 25th. So missing the pope-sanctioned Saturnalia revelries is not a disappointment. Thanksgiving is a very important national holiday, but people have forgotten this. I guess if I were only taught that Thanksgiving is about turkeys and pilgrims and Indians, I’d find it dull, too. But giving of thanks for our freedoms should NEVER be dull or “in the way” of a holiday about greed and revelry.

I’ve become quite upset about the debacle with the airlines and TSA. I don’t understand why people still travel by airline if they are going to be assaulted like they are? The government is totally unrepentant with what they are doing, too. If only our nation would come together– if only we could be united and defend our freedom again. How can it be that we are always saying “support the troops” but don’t do anything here at home to support our country? If America ever needed to be united in something, THIS IS IT.

So that’s my news update for this week. And that’s the way it was…

OH. MY. GOSH.

*gasp gasp gasp gasp* Noooooooo!

Are we in Saudi Arabia!??!??!???!

That’s the attitude of news reporters at NYDailyNews about this story. Give me a break. What an immature reporter! So liberal that his brain is about to fall out of his skull. I hope his wife reads his articles…

A woman arrested for public lewdness for allegedly having sex in a park is facing a surprising additional charge: cheating on her husband.

No, this wasn’t in a Muslim country far away, it is happening in New York.

Suzanne Corona, a 41-year-old woman from Batavia, N.Y., just east of Buffalo, was busted along with 29-year-old Justin Amend last week, police said.

So it has to be a Muslim country for adultery to be a crime?! What crap!

Adultery is evil. It’s lying, it’s destroying, and it’s illegal. And it should be! I am not Muslim but I cheer those Arabs on when they take a stand against adultery! I think New York (and the other states) are far too lenient with adultery.

The pair allegedly were having sex on a picnic table near a playground in Farrall Park just after 5 p.m. on Friday, according to WHAM 13. Police report several parents and children were nearby.

“[The police officer] asked them what they were doing, and they said, ‘Just talking,’ and obviously they weren’t just talking,” said Officer Eric Hill, of the Batavia Police Department.

Both have been charged with public lewdness. When it was discovered that Corona was married, the adultery charge was added. She faces up to 90 days in jail or a $500 fine.

In court on Tuesday, Corona did not enter a plea, but vowed to fight the constitutionality of the charge.

“One of the reasons you don’t see this charge more often is that the law in New York State requires that there must be corroboration,” Genesee County District Attorney Larry Friedman told the Daily News.

Moreover, the woman should be busted for irresponsibility and stupidity. She blames everything under the sun for her criminal behavior.

According to court papers obtained by WHAM 13, Corona told police at the time of her arrest, “I know what I did was inappropriate and I apologize, but you’d understand if you knew what my life was like.”

She told officers her husband is “transgender,” and that the two “never had sex.”

“The police are not out conducting investigations looking for people committing adultery,” Friedman said.

“At this point, the charge is still pending,” he added, noting that it was the police who chose to charge Corona with adultery.

Although he was not sure how old the law was, the district attorney said one other person had faced similar charges in Batavia 13 years ago. Records indicate nearly a dozen others have been similarly charged statewide, according to ABC News.

I can’t get over how shocked the reporters are. It’s like they are flabbergasted that adultery is actually WRONG and should be PENALIZED. Yeah, buds, you’d better watch out…

For those who are concerned about the Adultery Law, all I have to do is throw this quote back into your face:

If you’re not doing anything wrong, you don’t have anything to worry about, right?! Right?!?!

This is kinda cute.

Background: Germany (and Europe) are in a slump– financially and spiritually, and therefore, emotionally. It’s gotta be tough, those baby boomers living high on the hog on the backs of their children and grandchildren… and then those young whippersnappers collapse from the dead, fat weight. Yeah.

Well, Germany is happy that they have a new, chipper, chirpy, cheerful star in their midst. She IS very cute. Gosh. But her neck is, what, 18 inches?? I know lots of people who pop best weight loss pills to get such an Ethiopian neck. But she has lovely, “chirpy” eyes.

BERLIN — With the eurozone in crisis, government coffers bare, the national football team in trouble and even the weather awful, victory in the Eurovision Song Contest gave Germany a rare reason for cheer Monday.

Lena Meyer-Landrut was on the front page of every German newspaper, even the normally staid business daily Handelsblatt and the somewhat stuffy Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, dubbing her “Fraeulein Wunder” (“Miss Wonder”).

The mass-circulation Bild devoted almost all of its front page and three “special pages” to the 19-year-old, declaring: “LENA, wir lieben dich!” (“LENA, we love you!”).

“Europe loves us — and finally we’re in a good mood,” the paper said. In 2008 when No Angels spectacularly failed to impress the judges, the paper wondered why no one in Europe liked Germany.

The chirpy brunette’s victory in the European song fest in the Norwegian capital Oslo on Saturday with the catchy “Satellite” was only the second time Germany has won in the contest’s 55-year-history.

The last time Germans were able to celebrate Eurovision success was in 1982, when the Berlin Wall was still up. In the case of Meyer-Landrut — born in 1991 — that was more than a lifetime ago.

More than 120 million viewers across 39 European countries, but also as far afield as Myanmar, Australia and New Zealand, watched Meyer-Landrut, who has only just finished her final school exams, take the honours.

Bild estimated that 40,000 cheering fans welcomed her back in her home town of Hanover on Sunday.

Politicians fell over themselves to congratulate the singer, with Chancellor Angela Merkel saying her “rousing performance” had “dazzled Germany and sang you into the heart of Europe.”

“Whether you wanted to be or not, you are an ambassador for our country who, in one night, charmingly disproved a few old stereotypes,” Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said.

I’ll say. Her last name is Meyer? Isn’t that Jewish? Germany has certainly come a long way. I give them a lot of credit… unlike the U.S., who has now become the very deformed, deranged, sadistic Nazi monster that we once conquered.

The irony.

“Whoopsie!” says Google. “OOpsie!” “We didn’t know!” “A mistake!”

Thus says the Mighty G. Google Says It Mistakenly Collected Data on Web Usage

Google Inc. said an internal investigation has discovered that the roving vans the company uses to create its online mapping services were mistakenly collecting data about websites people were visiting over wireless networks.

…Google had previously said it was collecting the location of Wi-Fi hot spots from its StreetView vehicles, but not the information being transmitted over those networks by users.

“It’s now clear that we have been mistakenly collecting samples of payload data from open (i.e. non-password-protected) Wi-Fi networks, even though we never used that data in any Google products,” wrote Mr. Eustace. “We are profoundly sorry for this error and are determined to learn all the lessons we can from our mistake.”

Well, I got my laugh for the day! They are “profoundly sorry.” Uh huh.

So while Google was roaming your area, snapping photos of your property and neighborhood, they were also harvesting data about every wireless network (home AND corporate) and the MAC addresses (that’s the identification number of your computer) of them. … so if you were sending email, Google harvested the data. If you were watching videos or getting auto insurance reviews and sending out your personal data, Google knows.

Google says they didn’t pick up secured networks or encrypted websites (rrrright).

I can’t believe the crap in the news story, though. It’s “now clear” that Google has been “mistakenly collecting” data?! Uh HUH. They didn’t know! They were ignorant! They have an excuse!

But they’ve been doing this since 2007!!!!! And they weren’t harvesting USER data “previously”; but all of a sudden, they now “mistakenly” are.

Google said it has been collecting and keeping the data since around 2007. At that time, the team building the software to gather the location of Wi-Fi hot spots mistakenly included some experimental software that sampled all categories of publicly broadcast Wi-Fi data.

“It is another example of the how the company hasn’t effectively grappled with the massive amount of information it collects,” said Jeffrey Chester, executive director of the Center for Digital Democracy.

“How the company hasn’t effectively grappled with the massive amount of information”?! I’d say the people haven’t effectively grappled with the massive amount of CONTROL these people are getting over our lives!

Oh, and the kicker? Google PROMISES that they haven’t used ANY of this information for ANY Google products. So… what DID they and what ARE they using the data for?

Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrright……

Saw this today. Wow. A liberal talk radio show host suggested that Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and Bill O’Reilly give up the ghosts.

MALLOY (31:30): It took these filthy Republicans about 48 hours- 72 hours to come up with the ‘oh, yeah, well, you know, we’re getting bad phone calls too, yes we are.

And then this John Boner, this John Boner [sic] these guys created this. they created this atmosphere, they did it because Limbaugh and Beck told them to!

MALLOY (36:25): Well, keep it up boys, just keep it up, um except for one thing: you rat bastards are going to cause another Murrah federal building explosion, you are. And then – what is Beck – maybe at that point Beck will do the honorable thing and blow his brains out…

Maybe at that point, Limbaugh will do the honorable thing and just gobble up enough – enough Viagra that he becomes absolutely rigid and keels over dead.

Maybe then O’Reilly will just drink a vat of the poison he spews out on America every night and choke to death!

That’s just sad.

And they say Ann Coulter incites hate?! You mean– she makes the liberals want to kill somebody, that’s how she incites hate?! Because I don’t see anyone killing anyone in the name of Ann Coulter, nor do I see any riots… but it’s OK for liberals to breathe threats against other people– that’s a-ok?!

Oh Oh, let me get this correctly– conservative “hate.” Liberals just “criticize.”

STUPID.

ANN COULTER.

Need I say more? People either love her or hate her.

I love her!

I do realize you must be shocked at this confession, heheheh.

Who else could say such crabby, truthful things as she does, and still be hilariously funny and poignant at the same time?

After American abortion doctor George Tiller was gunned down in church last year, Coulter was asked to condemn the killing by conservative Fox host Bill O’Reilly. She replied: “I don’t really like to think of it as a murder. It was terminating Tiller in the 203rd trimester. … I am personally opposed to shooting abortionists, but I don’t want to impose my moral values on others.”

How can liberals get mad about that?! It’s what THEY do!!! Hellooo… Ann’s making a POINT here!! Liberals have no qualms about saying such things about innocent babies!

OK OK she’s “venomous.” Yep. But so is Nancy Pelosi!! OK OK she can be “mean-spirited.” But so is Hillary Clinton!! I don’t always like Ann’s nasty edge, but by golly, the lady is HILARIOUS and I have to admit, she makes good points and she makes them WELL. And the lady– at 40-something– still looks great in the Little Black Dress and she has the best acne treatment on planet earth. All without plastic surgery, like Nan has!

Well, I once read an interview with her, and in it, the interviewer asked her:

What do you say to your critics who claim that you attack liberals just as viciously as you say Conservatives are attacked by liberals?

Ann Coulter: Our insults are true.

Latest news (yes, she’s back in the news, folks!) is that she’s made waves in Canada– before she’s even given the speech! Canadian University Provost Wants to Send Me to Jail… For a Speech I Haven’t Given Yet That link leads to a smarmy comment by Coulter (surprise, surprise) and a publicized email she received from University at Ottawa, Canada, where she was invited to speak. The university is up in arms because Ann Coulter’s free speech is too “American” than Canada’s version of free speech. They say Coulter incites “violence and hatred.” Ummm I have yet to see any uprisings from Ann Coulter’s speeches… but the comments at the aricle are hilarious. I loved this one:

Dear Ms Coulter,

We in Canada have a great love and respect for freedom of speech, provided you put up with a few niggling restrictions, like watching exactly what you say, when you say it, whom you say it to, and whether or not if it can be interpreted by someone, somewhere, sometime as “hateful.” And please feel free to bring your Bible. But understand that you won’t be able to read from it as we in Canada have limits not only on what you say, but what you believe…especially if you say it and believe it out loud.

Sincerely,
The Supreme Canadian Ministry of Not Talking Too Much

Well, this is all delightful. I’m cracking up and slowly starting to crawl out my my depression after the health “care” “reform” fiasco over the weekend. Maybe Ann will come riding to the rescue, you think? I’d just love to see her run against Obama, or anyone!