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Middle Schooler Told to Remove His US Marines T-Shirt – It Was Too Offensive
A middle schooler at Genoa-Kingston Middle School in Illinois was told to remove his US Marines T-shirt at school. The boy was told it was against the school code. USOFarn reported: Today a Genoa-King…
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#IfIHadGlass If I get the invite I will give away a brand new Sony NSZ-GS7 Google TV to one of my resharers. Random drawing to decide the winner. USA/Canada shipping only!!!
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Reading a bunch of misinformation from people this morning on my side of the political fence. Rather than listen to horseshit from pundits, here's a good place to start for the correct info,
http://www.snopes.com/politics/socialsecurity/changes.asp
Don't stop there though you can find more information at house.gov as well.
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: Social Security Changes
List details changes made to Social Security over the years.
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As an FYI, CISPA has been re-introduced. We should all do our best to defeat it as it was defeated last year. Please share this with others!
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CISPA, the Privacy-Invading Cybersecurity Spying Bill, is Back in Congress
It’s official: The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act was reintroduced in the House of Representatives yesterday. CISPA is the contentious bill civil liberties advocates fought last year, w…
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All those folks that actually think the TSA makes you safer can get fucked.
http://now.msn.com/lucy-forck-three-year-old-with-spina-bifida-singled-out-for-tsa-screening#scptmfs
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3-year-old with spina bifida endures ridiculous TSA screening
Because there’s nothing more threatening than a disabled tot in a hot-pink wheelchair and Velcro sneakers, TSA agents singled out 3-year-old Lucy, who has spina bifida, for extra screening at Lambert-…
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I posted quite a bit on my old blog about James Biela and the rapes which were going on. Here's the end result of one of them.
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Katie Pavlich – Rape Survivor: A Call Box Above My Head While I Was Being Brutally Raped Wouldn’t Have Helped
Amanda Collins is a young rape survivor. While in college in 2007, she was raped
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Looking forward to the Android version.
http://www.carmageddon.com/news/wheres-android
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Where’s Android? | Carmageddon
Hello Carma Fans! For our first update of the New Year we thought that we’d remind you that Carmageddon is coming to Android soon, and give you a sneaky peek at work in progress… Are these the ‘droi…
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These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives just so others may get to enjoy freedom. For that I am proud to call them Hero. Those Who Say That We’re In A Time When There Are No Heroes, They Just Don’t Know Where To Look This post is part of the Wednesday Hero Blogroll. For more information about Wednesday Hero, or if you would like to post it on your site, you can go here.
So I got the opportunity recently to review the Bassboomz portable bluetooth speaker and as much as I love new gadgets I was eager to proceed.
I received the unit earlier today while I was at work, thus the wife had already gotten hold of it before I managed to get home. She enjoys some of the gadgets almost as much as I do but I normally have to set them up first. As I said, my wife had already unboxed (half of the fun) the portable speaker and had it charging for me.
The Bassboomz speaker itself retails for around $130 US which while it seems a bit high to me is quite within the price realm of some of the other bluetooth speakers I’ve looked at, although a bit on the high side (more on that later).
The Bassboomz is compatible with your laptop, desktop, cell phone or tablet. Since you can hook up via line-in OR Bluetooth chances are you can use it with whatever you’ve got.
Inside the box is the bluetooth speaker itself, a standard microUSB cord for charging, a 3.5mm line and directions to get set up. It’s actually pretty easy to set up with or without them but it’s always nice to have easy to follow directions included.
It’s been a while since I’ve done any type of product review here but I decided that it was time to throw the proverbial hat into the ring and start doing a few here and there. I don’t plan on doing many paid reviews anymore though and if I do you can be sure that it will be disclosed in the post.
Anyway, it’s not as if I post extensively any more. I would guess that about 90% of the content here is fed from my G+ feed as well as Twitter and Disqus.
Thursday Thong
My dog has not been in the best of health the last few months. I've taken him to the animal hospital a couple of times recently. The vet thought he might have a tumor but x-rays didn't show anything. Apparently it was so because he passed away this morning.
We finally broke down and bought a house in late 2000 and adopted Riley a short time later. He was already a couple of years old at that point and had apparently been abused by a previous owner. The lady who gave him to us had tried to take care of him but just wasn't able to manage. He was pretty high strung, particularly early on.
It was really a couple of years before he warmed up to me but once he did he became part of my family. He was very protective of the kids, who grew up with him at their sides.
It's funny because I am not at all a dog person but the last couple of years he has become more and more my dog. Always waiting there for me with a wagging tail when I would get home from work. He was always excited to see me…well, really anyone who came over.
We've know this was coming and I have tried to make sure that I was the one to take him to the doctor each time so that the girls wouldn't have to deal with that part of it. Unfortunately this morning he died while he was outside and the wife and girls were still there. I was already at work and half my staff had called in sick so there was no way I could get home to help. They buried him in our backyard before going on to school today.
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http://www.mommyish.com/2013/02/05/online-predators/
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A Pedophile Hunter Tells Mommyish How He Takes Down Child Pornography Rings
Online predators taken down by pedophile hunter. Internet predators, child sex abuse, child abuse stories, sex offender search, pornography, internet safety
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Android App For Discriminating Females (and Some Guys Too!)
My daughter Ruth is in the front left. The bee took place last month. The child sitting next to her was her alternate, I guess in case she broke her leg or something. She beat the other fourth and fifth graders and went on to the county spelling bee last Friday morning at the county off where she made it through several rounds and was the last (or one of the last, I don't really remember) elementary students competing. The bee included students from the Elementary and Middle schools in the county.
It was pretty interesting Friday though. All I can say is some of the parents need to take a valium before they go out in public.
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So I took the plunge and updated to Windows 8 about a week ago. My biggest concerns with upgrading were (of course) making sure that drivers were available for my hardware. That wasn't a problem as I don't have anything freaky on this one and it was all running under Win 7 before with no problems.
My biggest worry was whether or not there would be any issues with Oracle's VM Virtualbox. I am currently running the BBS in a virtual machine running Windows XP. Most of the door software I use under #Synchronet would not run under a 64-bit environment. Not only that but I will eventually move the virtual machine to a dedicated box and throw it down in my basement next to the HA laptop. There was initially a problem with the networking drivers but an update for VirtualBox was available.
Anyhow, I have been using Chrome as my browser of choice for the last couple of years. I just hate IE because it's so fucking slow and bloated. After installing Win8 I've had nothing but problems with +Google Chrome whether it's in desktop or Windows 8 mode. It crashes all the time when in Win 8 mode and doesn't want to load back up and when I can finally manage to get it back in desktop mode it won't allow web pages to load. Don't know exactly how much troubleshooting I really want to do at this point so I'm stuck with IE 
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Spent the first part of the day playing #ingress . Managed to destroy several portals in Buchanan, GA and deployed of course. Created a couple more control fields and am now halfway to lvl 6.
Being as how I also post sparingly here another reason I've posted is that I purchased +Daniel Treadwell's Google+ Blog plugin and need to test it lol. I learned about it earlier today through +Guy Kawasaki and wanted to give it a whirl.
It's mostly crap nowadays, filled with Tweets and some of my BBS musings but if you want to take a look the site is here. You can, however log into my BBS remotely using one of two flash plugins if you remember the days of ansi BBSing.
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Shadowscope
…Sleep is Just a Cheap Caffeine Substitute
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So I’ve installed a plugin that should allow for the importing of all my G+ posts automatically into the blog. Guess we’ll see about that. I’ll put up a test post on my G+ account to see if it works. It’s hard enough to get me to blog anymore but I am still occasionally posting on my G+ and FB accounts as well as Twitter.
