Jack's posts with tag: spit-take 'o the day
A devil food is turning our kids into homosexuals
Posted: December 12, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern
By Jim Rutz
© 2006
There's a slow poison out there that's severely damaging our children and threatening to tear apart our culture. The ironic part is, it's a "health food," one of our most popular.
Now, I'm a health-food guy, a fanatic who seldom allows anything into his kitchen unless it's organic. I state my bias here just so you'll know I'm not anti-health food.
The dangerous food I'm speaking of is soy. Soybean products are feminizing, and they're all over the place. You can hardly escape them anymore.
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I have nothing against an occasional soy snack. Soy is nutritious and contains lots of good things. Unfortunately, when you eat or drink a lot of soy stuff, you're also getting substantial quantities of estrogens.
Estrogens are female hormones. If you're a woman, you're flooding your system with a substance it can't handle in surplus. If you're a man, you're suppressing your masculinity and stimulating your "female side," physically and mentally.
In fetal development, the default is being female. All humans (even in old age) tend toward femininity. The main thing that keeps men from diverging into the female pattern is testosterone, and testosterone is suppressed by an excess of estrogen.
If you're a grownup, you're already developed, and you're able to fight off some of the damaging effects of soy. Babies aren't so fortunate. Research is now showing that when you feed your baby soy formula, you're giving him or her the equivalent of five birth control pills a day. A baby's endocrine system just can't cope with that kind of massive assault, so some damage is inevitable. At the extreme, the damage can be fatal.
Soy is feminizing, and commonly leads to a decrease in the size of the penis, sexual confusion and homosexuality. That's why most of the medical (not socio-spiritual) blame for today's rise in homosexuality must fall upon the rise in soy formula and other soy products. (Most babies are bottle-fed during some part of their infancy, and one-fourth of them are getting soy milk!) Homosexuals often argue that their homosexuality is inborn because "I can't remember a time when I wasn't homosexual." No, homosexuality is always deviant. But now many of them can truthfully say that they can't remember a time when excess estrogen wasn't influencing them.
Doctors used to hope soy would reduce hot flashes, prevent cancer and heart disease, and save millions in the Third World from starvation. That was before they knew much about long-term soy use. Now we know it's a classic example of a cure that's worse than the disease. For example, if your baby gets colic from cow's milk, do you switch him to soy milk? Don't even think about it. His phytoestrogen level will jump to 20 times normal. If he is a she, brace yourself for watching her reach menarche as young as seven, robbing her of years of childhood. If he is a boy, it's far worse: He may not reach puberty till much later than normal.
Research in 2000 showed that a soy-based diet at any age can lead to a weak thyroid, which commonly produces heart problems and excess fat. Could this explain the dramatic increase in obesity today?
Recent research on rats shows testicular atrophy, infertility and uterus hypertrophy (enlargement). This helps explain the infertility epidemic and the sudden growth in fertility clinics. But alas, by the time a soy-damaged infant has grown to adulthood and wants to marry, it's too late to get fixed by a fertility clinic.
Worse, there's now scientific evidence that estrogen ingredients in soy products may be boosting the rapidly rising incidence of leukemia in children. In the latest year we have numbers for, new cases in the U.S. jumped 27 percent. In one year!
There's also a serious connection between soy and cancer in adults – especially breast cancer. That's why the governments of Israel, the UK, France and New Zealand are already cracking down hard on soy.
In sad contrast, 60 percent of the refined foods in U.S. supermarkets now contain soy. Worse, soy use may double in the next few years because (last I heard) the out-of-touch medicrats in the FDA hierarchy are considering allowing manufacturers of cereal, energy bars, fake milk, fake yogurt, etc., to claim that "soy prevents cancer." It doesn't.
P.S.: Soy sauce is fine. Unlike soy milk, it's perfectly safe because it's fermented, which changes its molecular structure. Miso, natto and tempeh are also OK, but avoid tofu.
 11.28.2006
"There's one thing I'm not going to do, I'm not
going to pull our troops off the battlefield before the mission is
complete," he[President Bush] said in a speech setting the stage for high-stakes
meetings with the Iraqi prime minister later this week.
FYI:
accomplish
Pronunciation: &-'käm-plish, -'k&m-
Function: transitive verb
Etymology: Middle English accomplisshen, from Anglo-French accompliss-, stem of accomplir, from Vulgar Latin *accomplEre, from Latin ad- + complEre to fill up -- more at COMPLETE
1 : to bring about (a result) by effort
2 : to bring to completion : FULFILL
The Self-Locking
F-22
By ROBERT BRYCE
Last week, Lockheed Martin announced
that its profits were up a hefty 60 percent in the first quarter.
The company earned $591 million in profit on revenues of $9.2
billion. Now, if the company could just figure out how to put
a door handle on its new $361 million F-22 fighter, its prospects
would really soar.
On April 10, at Langley Air
Force Base, an F-22 pilot, Capt. Brad Spears, was locked inside
the cockpit of his aircraft for five hours. No one in the U.S.
Air Force or from Lockheed Martin could figure out how to open
the aircraft's canopy. At about 1:15 pm, chainsaw-wielding firefighters
from the 1st Fighter Wing finally extracted Spears after they
cut through the F-22's three-quarter inch-thick polycarbonate
canopy.
Total damage to the airplane,
according to sources inside the Pentagon: $1.28 million. Not
only did the firefighters ruin the canopy, which cost $286,000,
they also scuffed the coating on the airplane's skin which will
cost about $1 million to replace.
Here
are more photos of the incident.
The Pentagon currently plans
to buy 181 copies of the F-22 from Lockheed Martin, the world's
biggest weapons vendor. The total price tag: $65.4 billion.
The incident at Langley has
many Pentagon watchers shaking their heads. Tom Christie, the
former director of testing and evaluation for the DOD, calls
the F-22 incident at Langley "incredible." "God
knows what'll happen next," said Christie, who points out
that the F-22 has about two million lines of code in its software
system. "This thing is so software intensive. You can't
check out every line of code."
Now, just for the sake of comparison,
Windows XP, one of the most common computer operating systems,
contains about 45 million lines of code. But if any of that
code fails, then the computer that's running it simply stops
working. It won't cause that computer to fall out of the sky.
If any of the F-22's two million lines of computer code go bad,
then the pilot can die, or, perhaps, just get trapped in the
cockpit.
One analyst inside the Pentagon
who has followed the F-22 for years said that "Everyone's
incredulous. They're asking can this really have happened?"
As for Lockheed Martin, the source said, "Whatever the problem
was, the people who built it should know how to open the canopy."
Given that the U.S. military
is Lockheed Martin's biggest client, perhaps the company could
provide the Air Force with a supply of slim jims or coat hangars,
just in case another F-22 pilot gets stuck at the controls.
As if the latest canopy shenanigans
weren't bad enough, on May 1, Defense News reported that there
are serious structural problems with the F-22. Seems the titanium
hull of the aircraft isn't meshing as well as it should. Naturally,
taxpayers have to foot the bill for the mistake (improper heat-treating
of the titanium) which is found on 90 aircraft. The cost of repairing
those wrinkles? Another $1 billion or so.
Lockheed Martin's F-22 spokesman,
Joe Quimby, did not return telephone calls.
Pffftttttttttttth!
Appearing
on Fox News this weekend, Steve Forbes said the way to lower gas prices
is to “have the confrontation with Iran.” Forbes warned Fox viewers
that “the longer we let it fester, the higher the price of oil will
stay.” Watch it:
seventeen million customers
of the online payment service iBill have had their personal information
released onto the internet, where it's been bought and sold in a black
market made up of fraud artists and spammers, security experts say.
The stolen data, examined by Wired News, includes names, phone
numbers, addresses, e-mail addresses and internet IP addresses. Other
fields in the compromised databases appear to be logins and passwords,
credit card types and purchase amounts, but credit card numbers are not
included.
The breach has broad privacy implications for the victims. Until it was brought low by legal and financial difficulties, iBill
was a top credit card processor for adult entertainment websites --
providing billing services for such outlets as DominaBDSM and
Top-Nude.com.
The transactions documented in the database are dated between 1998 and 2003, spanning a period at the height of iBill's success.
The company didn't respond to repeated e-mail and telephone inquires by Wired News.
Two caches of stolen iBill customer data were discovered separately
by two security companies while conducting routine research into
malicious software online.
Southern California-based Secure Science Corporation
found the first data file containing records on 17 million individuals
on a private website set up by scammers. The site was part of a
so-called "phishing" scheme, in which a spamming fraudster poses as a
bank or online retailer in an attempt to con consumers out of
identification and financial information.
Secure Science found that data in February 2005, and reported it to
the FBI's Miami field office, the company says. The FBI declined
comment.
Last month, Sunbelt Software
found an additional list of slightly over 1 million individual entries
labeled Ibill_1m.txt on a spamming website. That list also appeared to
date from 2003.
IBill has a troubled history. Founded in 1997 by executives of a
Florida-based BBS software developer, by 2002 iBill was a big player in
internet billing, processing approximately $400 million in credit card
transactions per year, according to SEC filings. The company took 15
percent off the top in fees. Todd Dugas, a former inside sales
representative for iBill, estimates that pornography made up 85 percent
of the business.
But when Atlanta-based InterCept acquired iBill for $120 million in
2002, it immediately encountered problems. New rules from Visa made it
more complicated and costly to process adult website transactions, and
"accounts dropped like flies," says Dugas. Meanwhile MasterCard levied
$5.85 million in fines against iBill for an unusually high volume of
"charge backs" -- consumer-disputed charges -- though InterCept managed
to recoup most of the fine from iBill's previous owners.
In September 2004, iBill lost the contract
with its upstream credit card processor, First Data, which had grown
wary of being associated with adult content. Website operators relying
on iBill for payments had to wait months for their checks while First
Data held the money in escrow. Roger Jacobs, who followed the story of
iBill for adult industry publications AVN and XBiz, described low morale and a hemorrhaging of employees during this period..
Lance James of Secure Science and Adam Thomas of Sunbelt Software
speculate that the company's troubles may have left them vulnerable to
information embezzlement: The breach, they say, has all the markings of
an inside job. The files appear to have been generated by exporting an
SQL database into a CSV format -- a procedure that would be unusually
extravagant for a quick, furtive hack-attack. Moreover, at 4.5
gigabytes in size, the larger file would have been tough to download
unnoticed over iBill's internet connection.
Thomas speculates that an employee or other insider may have simply
walked out of iBill with the transaction records to sell on the data
black market.
What happened with the records from there is anyone's guess. The 1
million addresses found by Sunbelt Software were being used for
spamming. Sunbelt found the database by tracing malware-infected
computers as they connected to the internet to refresh their list of
spam targets. The target list turned out to be the iBill database,
hosted on a rogue website.
Secure Science's James says the 17 million database entries he found
is prime data for spamming, phishing attacks, pretext phone calls, and
even possible hacking of vulnerable computers at the IP addresses
listed.
Independently, Wired News found that entries from the smaller cache
are listed as mortgage leads on a spammer community site,
specialham.com. (The website's homepage offered no contact information
and Wired News was unable to reach the registered owner of the domain,
one "Juice Wobble.") This suggests that the database was marketed as a
lead list for outside businesses. "I can attest to the fact that this
goes on with phishing groups," says James. "They break in and steal
leads and then sell those leads to (black market) leads companies, who
resell them to legitimate companies, and sometimes the same companies
they stole them from."
"The fact that a total of 17,781,462 iBill records have been found
in the hands of criminal hackers is quite disturbing, be it an inside
job or the successful work of criminal hackers," says Thomas.
Contacted by Wired News, one of the victims of the breach expressed
dismay that his information was in the hands of criminals. The
41-year-old San Diego man says he allowed a "business partner" to use
his credit card on an adult website dedicated to finding resources in
Tijuana's red light district, with discussion groups and locations of
prostitutes.
"Life is difficult enough," says the victim. "It makes the net that
much less secure in my eyes... I plan to not use any credit card
information on any site."
The man says that neither iBill nor the FBI notified him of the breach.
Because the information didn't include Social Security, credit card
or driver's license numbers, no U.S. laws require iBill or the
companies for which they provided billing to warn victims. A year after
the FBI first learned of the larger leak, they have also failed to
issue any public warnings.
In January of last year, iBill was purchased by Interactive Brand
Development for $23.5 million. On Monday, IBC's stock closed at 8 cents
a share in over-the-counter trading.
President Bush Says Women's Participation Needed to Realize Full Potential of Democracy
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON - President Bush said Tuesday that
democracies only reach their potential when women are allowed to fully
participate in society, singling out Iran, North Korea and Myanmar as
nations that are suppressing women's basic rights.
"America will help women stand up for their freedom, no matter
where they live," Bush said at a White House celebration of Women's
History Month and International Women's Day.
Bush, joined at the event by women leaders from Iraq and
Afghanistan, pointed to several spots around the globe where women are
assuming higher profiles.
Liberia recently elected its first woman president the first woman
to lead an African nation and women head the governments of Germany,
Chile and the Philippines, for instance. Bush noted that nearly half of
the members of Rwanda's parliament are women and that women hold
increasing numbers of parliamentary seats in places such as Morocco,
Jordan and Tunisia.
"As women become a part of the democratic process, they help spread
freedom and justice and, most importantly of all, hope for a future,"
Bush said.
O'Reilly: U.S. should leave Iraq "as fast as humanly possible" because "there are so many nuts in the country"
Summary: Bill O'Reilly suggested that the United States "hand over
everything to the Iraqis as fast as humanly possible" because "[t]here
are so many nuts in the country -- so many crazies -- that we can't
control them." O'Reilly has previously called those advocating
immediate withdrawal from Iraq "pinheads" and compared them to Hitler
appeasers.
During the February 20 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, Bill O'Reilly
suggested that the United States "hand over everything to the Iraqis as
fast as humanly possible" because "[t]here are so many nuts in the
country -- so many crazies -- that we can't control them." O'Reilly
then claimed that the "big mistake" was actually "the crazy-people
underestimation."
As Media Matters for America has documented, during a November 30, 2005, appearance on NBC's Today, O'Reilly called those advocating immediate withdrawal from Iraq "pinheads" and compared them to Hitler appeasers.
O'Reilly's comments followed his mention of a report regarding
Karbala, a province in the Shiite-controlled Iraqi south. O'Reilly
falsely claimed that "the mayor of Karbala ... has banned any further
government dealings with the American military in his province." In
fact, according to a February 20 Associated Press report,
the Karbala governing council suspended contact with U.S. forces "until
U.S. forces apologize" for their behavior during a recent visit to the
governor's office. The Karbala provincial spokesman complained that
"U.S. soldiers brought dogs inside the [governor's office] building,"
which was "considered an insult by the council," and "blocked roads
leading to the governor's office, preventing council members and the
governor from parking cars outside the building." While the AP reported
the Karbala spokesman's specific complaints, O'Reilly characterized the
complaints as "the mayor of Karbala" alleging that U.S. soldiers were
"not behaving well."
From the February 20 broadcast of Westwood One's The Radio Factor with Bill O'Reilly:
O'REILLY: Somewhat of a disturbing report out of Iraq, and it's more
important than it first appears. The governor of -- or the mayor of
Karbala, which is a town in the south part of Iraq, Shiite-controlled,
has banned any further government dealings with the American military
in his province, saying that they're not behaving well.
Now, it's a small little thing, but I picked up on it, because here is the essential problem in Iraq. There are so many nuts in the country -- so many crazies -- that we can't control them. And I don't -- we're never gonna be able to control them. So the only solution to this is to hand over everything to the Iraqis as fast as humanly possible. Because we just can't control these crazy people. This is all over the place. And that was the big mistake about America: They didn't -- it was the crazy-people underestimation. We did not know how to deal with them -- still don't. But they're just all over the place.
— S.G.
Posted to the web on Wednesday February 22, 2006 at 3:02 PM EST
 error mastermind mistakenly released, official says
Iraqi official: Authorities didn't realize the prisoner was al-Zarqawi
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN)
-- Iraqi security forces caught the most wanted man in the country last
year, but released him because they didn't know who he was, the Iraqi
deputy minister of interior said Thursday.
Hussain Kamal confirmed that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi -- the al
Qaeda in Iraq leader who has a $25 million bounty on his head -- was in
custody at some point last year, but he wouldn't provide further
details.
A U.S. official couldn't confirm the report, but said he wouldn't dismiss it.
"It is plausible," he said.
Thursday's news tops a list of reports of missed opportunities
to capture the terrorist mastermind. An official said the military
receives frequent reports of al-Zarqawi sightings, all of which are
investigated.
In April, U.S. troops stormed a hospital in Ramadi based on
credible intelligence that terrorists were hiding there, but no
suspects were found, military officials said in early May.
A high-ranking Iraqi Army officer said there were rumors that
al-Zarqawi was at the Ramadi medical center, and several groups
affiliated with the al Qaeda operative issued statements saying the
same.
Iraqi Lt. Gen. Nasser Abadi said Thursday that al-Zarqawi was taken to the hospital.
"When we got the news, we rushed there, but he was out of there," the general said.
When the BBC noted the criticism of the government's slow response, Lt.
Commander Kelly explained that NorthCom was ready to go well in advance
of Katrina making landfall, but suggested the president didn't make the
right call at the right time.
"Northcom started planning before the storm even hit.
We were ready when it hit Florida, because, as you remember, it hit the
bottom part of Florida, and then we were planning once it was pointed
towards the Gulf Coast.
"So, what we did, we activated what we call 'defense coordinating
officers' to work with the states to say, 'OK, what do you think you
will need?' And we set up staging bases that could be started. We had
the USS Bataan sailing almost behind the hurricane so once the
hurricane made landfall, its search and rescue helicopters could be
available almost immediately So, we had things ready. The
only caveat is: we have to wait until the president authorizes us to do
so. The laws of the United States say that the military can't just act
in this fashion; we have to wait for the president to give us permission."
Apparently, that permission could have been given right away, but it
wasn't. Bush was on vacation, sharing some cake with John McCain, and
pretending to play some guitar.
From HERE and HERE.
JF: I think this needs to be classified as a Spit Take O The Day...
Fri Sep 2nd, 2005 at 09:17:31 PDT
Think Progress has this screen capture from CNN:
Notice the nicely positioned Coast Guard helicopters in the background,
not rescuing people and delivering supplies. Notice the uniformed
personnel standing at attention in the back, providing a nice backdrop
to Bush, not rescuing people and delivering supplies.
Again, politics trumps everything in this administration.
Ahh, the good ol' days
by kos
Wed Aug 17th, 2005 at 11:47:32 PDT
Quotes from when Clinton committed troops to Bosnia: >
"You can support the troops but not the president."
--Rep Tom Delay (R-TX)
"Well, I just think it's a bad idea. What's going to happen is they're going to be over there for 10, 15, maybe 20 years."
--Joe Scarborough (R-FL)
"Explain to the mothers and fathers of American servicemen that may
come home in body bags why their son or daughter have to give up their
life?"
--Sean Hannity, Fox News, 4/6/99
"[The] President . . . is once again releasing American military might
on a foreign country with an ill-defined objective and no exit
strategy. He has yet to tell the Congress how much this operation will
cost. And he has not informed our nation's armed forces about how long
they will be away from home. These strikes do not make for a sound
foreign policy."
--Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA)
"American foreign policy is now one huge big mystery. Simply put, the
administration is trying to lead the world with a feel-good foreign
policy."
--Rep Tom Delay (R-TX)
"If we are going to commit American troops, we must be certain they
have a clear mission, an achievable goal and an exit strategy."
--Karen Hughes, speaking on behalf of George W Bush
"I had doubts about the bombing campaign from the beginning . . I didn't think we had done enough in the diplomatic area."
--Senator Trent Lott (R-MS)
"I cannot support a failed foreign policy. History teaches us that it
is often easier to make war than peace. This administration is just
learning that lesson right now. The President began this mission with
very vague objectives and lots of unanswered questions. A month later,
these questions are still unanswered. There are no clarified rules of
engagement. There is no timetable. There is no legitimate definition of
victory. There is no contingency plan for mission creep. There is no
clear funding program. There is no agenda to bolster our over-extended
military. There is no explanation defining what vital national
interests are at stake. There was no strategic plan for war when the
President started this thing, and there still is no plan today"
--Rep Tom Delay (R-TX)
"Victory means exit strategy, and it's important for the President to explain to us what the exit strategy is."
--Governor George W. Bush (R-TX) Funny thing is, we won that war without a single killed in action.
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