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The LA Times published an article on Kathy Sierra’s experience with internet abuse that was brief and included some thoughtful comments and reasonable descriptions of why things like this happen. It also included a title that is misleading. By placing the apostrophe at the end of the word bloggers as bloggers’ they imply the incident quieted the keyboards of more than one blogger without later explaining or confirming that implication. The only blogger we know of that has quieted her keyboard is Kathy Sierra. In addition, calling ‘violent posts’ a ‘hazard of the wild web’ is equally misleading. Of the millions who access the web, I’ll go out a limb and suggest the number of people receiving violent threats is a minuscule percentage.

Not that it is in this article but the repeated references on this topic calling for a code of conduct on the web is stupid. You cause more problems that will ever be solved by that approach. Those who would commit the offenses described in this story would be the last to comply while the burden placed on everyone else would only echo their success. The answer is to toughen up and if you must, rely on currently available options to oppose or respond to such activities rather than trying to invent new ones.

Stanford Matthews
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Abuse, threats quiet bloggers’ keyboards

A tech blogger canceled public appearances after getting violent posts, a hazard of the wild Web.

By Alex Pham
Times Staff Writer
March 31, 2007

To be fair, in light of past commentary at various sites on the net including the blogosphere, if Muslims respond to this outrage by Catholics and others regarding the chocolate Jesus story in a manner similar to those who characterized their outrage over cartoons about Islam as overreaction, including this blog, no valid complaint can be expressed.

In other words, if Muslims overreacted to cartoons about Islam, then Catholics and others are overreacting to this chocolate Jesus story. Any argument proposing the two situations are different brings to mind an old phrase, what’s good for the goose is good for the gander. Even though we occasionally participate in less than admirable expressions of free speech, etc., the point here is such activity is usually pointless and only serves to inflame debate rather than solve issues.

C. Harris
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Outcry Cancels Chocolate Jesus Show

NEW YORK (AP) — A planned Holy Week exhibition of a nude, anatomically correct chocolate sculpture of Jesus Christ was canceled Friday after Cardinal Edward Egan and other outraged Catholics complained….

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I read a post at the Blue Star Chronicles that in my estimation was possibly a little harsh on Britain for their response so far to Iran capturing 15 members of their Navy and Marine forces in a dispute over whether or not they were in Iranian waters when apprehended.

I resisted posting a comment at the time in favor of contemplating the situation longer in hopes of presenting a better response than is usually available with a knee jerk reaction. I am quite favorably impressed with Britain over these many years as relates to their government’s support of our government. Most notably this impression has its roots in the Reagan and Thatcher years of the eighties. And it continued with President Bush 43 and PM Tony Blair.

With the recent report of a sort of survey of other countries and their respective attitudes toward the US, I only remember an unqualified support from Poland and possibly Britain was on the list. In any event, while I still feel it is premature to bash Britain over their handling of the current Iran problem, this report from VOA News only serves to delay reevaluating my opinion as there appears to be no concrete evidence that they are truly buckling to this expected intimidation from Iran.

And considering the results lately in this country as regards our so-called Congressional leadership and Iraq, etc., I do not know that we should feel so comfortable in our own response as a nation in terms of foreign affairs and national defense and security.

Stanford Matthews
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Britain Calls for Peaceful, Quick Resolution to Crisis with Iran

By VOA News
31 March 2007 Britain’s foreign secretary says London wants the crisis over Tehran’s seizure of 15 British naval personnel resolved peacefully and as soon as possible.

Speaking on the sidelines of a European Union summit in Germany Saturday, Margaret Beckett said Britain wants to be told where the sailors and marines are being held and given access to them.

In London, British officials say they have responded to a letter received from Iran Thursday concerning the incident. They did not reveal the contents of the letter, which is believed to be the first written communication between the two nations since the crisis began March 23.

Meanwhile, Iran’s ambassador to Moscow has denied he said the British personnel could be placed on trial for entering Iranian waters. Gholam-Reza Ansari told Iran’s official news agency that Tehran had begun a legal investigation into the incident, but his comments on Russian television Friday had been poorly translated.

Earlier reports quoted Ansari as saying it was possible the British personnel could be punished if convicted for illegally entering Iranian waters.

Britain says the naval personnel were in Iraqi waters when they were overwhelmed by a larger force from Iran’s Revolutionary Guards. Tehran says they illegally entered Iranian waters when they were picked up in the disputed Shatt al-Arab waterway between Iran and Iraq.

The United Nations Security Council has expressed “grave concern” about the detention, and called for an early resolution to the standoff.

Some information for this report was provided by Reuters.

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In our continuing effort to find a way to take a break from public affairs and politics at least one day near or on the weekend, it’s time for Weekend Science and Tech.  Hold the applause, please.  Our feature this Friday is from the Brookhaven Lab.  You know, one of those labs run by that government we sometimes complain about.  It is only fair to give them a break on the weekend too and offer a story which is not the source of a complaint.  Besides, as we mentioned in the last edition, a little science now and then is a good thing, even for the most skeptical or cynical.

So ‘they’ claim, hydrogen is as safe a fuel to use in operating an automobile or other vehicle as is gasoline or natural gas.  While we’re not completely convinced, the real purpose of this research is to find alternative fuels to provide more options for the future.  You know, those alternative fuels we did not take seriously enough 30 years ago.  Necessity is the mother of invention.  So, enough from us, here’s some research and development from BNL.

Gold, Copper Nanoparticles Take Center Stage in the Search for Hydrogen Production Catalysts

March 28, 2007

Written by Kendra Snyder

CHICAGO, IL – X-ray studies at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory are pointing the way to less costly and more efficient catalysts for improving the performance of fuel cells. The studies, which will be presented by Brookhaven chemist Jose Rodriguez at the 233rd National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, show that copper can be substituted for gold in reactions that keep fuel cells functioning longer while eliminating unwanted byproducts.
With the goal of efficient fuel cell operation in mind, researchers first need to turn their attention to hydrogen, which is one of the leading energy sources being investigated by scientists sponsored by the DOE as part of its mission to ensure the nation’s future energy needs. A major problem facing today’s most promising fuel-cell technologies is that the same hydrogen-rich materials feeding the reaction often contain high levels of carbon monoxide (CO), which is formed during hydrogen production. Within a fuel cell, CO “poisons” the expensive platinum catalysts that convert hydrogen into electricity, deteriorating their efficiency over time and requiring their replacement.

Rodriguez will discuss how the use of gold and copper nanoparticles might provide a solution to this problem at 8:30 a.m. Central Time (9:30 a.m. Eastern Time) on Wednesday, March 28, 2007, in room S404D, Level 4, at McCormick Place South, Chicago, Illinois. “We’re trying to find a catalyst that achieves two things: produces hydrogen while removing a large amount of CO,” Rodriguez said.

One way to eliminate the CO byproduct is to combine it with water to produce hydrogen gas and carbon dioxide in a process known as the “water-gas shift” reaction. With the assistance of proper catalysts, the water-shift reaction can convert nearly 100 percent of the CO into carbon dioxide. Using catalyst characterization techniques at Brookhaven’s National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS), Rodriguez and coworkers Jonathan Hanson and Jan Hrbek found that nanoparticles of either gold or copper, supported on a metal, can perform this catalytic role. In particular, they found that the greatest catalytic activity is achieved with extremely small nanoparticles – less than 4 nanometers (4 billionths of a meter) – supported on the metal cerium oxide, or ceria.

“Metal nanoparticles alone are not able to do the catalysis,” Rodriguez said. “But when you put them on the ceria, you see tremendous catalytic activity.”

At the nanoscale, gold has long been known to exhibit chemical reactivity that makes it a potent catalyst. The problem, however, comes with its hefty price tag. “We wanted a material that was less expensive,” Rodriguez said. “We wanted to see if we could replace the gold with copper.” Using x-ray diffraction, absorption, and spectroscopy studies at the NSLS, Rodriguez’s group showed that the substitution is indeed possible. Although gold nanoparticles continue to show the greatest catalytic activity, copper is almost as reactive and its cost is much lower.

This research was funded by the Office of Basic Energy Sciences within the DOE’s Office of Science.

It’s not like we never published a post on party politics, ethics, government blunders or questionable behavior on the part of all things government or politics.  But we’re just little people maintaining a blog on the vast and powerful internet.  And we read many posts on blogs that essentially do the same thing, publish posts about events in the public sphere that are of concern or interest to that portion of the public responsible enough to care.  That said….

At first it was viewed as nothing especially significant and it probably remains as such.  But in light of further developments in Washington it is at least more interesting now than when first observed.  While checking traffic logs for Blog @ MoreWhat.com (which are puny by internet standards) a few visitors stood out.  The first couple of hits by the GSA, the DOJ, the Senate and a few other government entities were entertaining and a bit of a surprise.  Upon a further review based solely on curiosity, the logs revealed the referral sites as search engines, no surprise, for terms such as Waxman, Doan and other specific references related to really current events which was a surprise.

What would be nice is if those who visit this humble blog, could check their logs and tell us how many have experienced a similar increased frequency in government searches of their blogs.  So if you have some time to do this it would be appreciated.  It also might well serve everyone blogging to share their views on this subject in general.  As mentioned above this is no big surprise, but a group of bloggers discussing this could prove useful.

Stanford Matthews
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A Slow Leak in the Senate Judiciary Committee
Round up the usual suspects! A leak has sprung on Capitol Hill! And some folks at the Senate Judiciary Committee are most unhappy about it.

Panel Asks Rove for Information on ‘08 Election Presentation
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee sought more information yesterday about a presentation by a White House aide given to political appointees at the General Services Administration that discussed targeting 20 Democratic congressional candidates in the next election.

GSA Chief Grilled on GOP Political Presentation
The chief of the General Services Administration testified on Capitol Hill yesterday that she could not recall details of a Jan. 26 videoconference in which a White House official briefed top political appointees at the agency about targeting 20 congressional Democrats in 2008.

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JIHAD stands for Jesus I Have A Deathwish.
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Question of the Day: Would you sign a petition to be sent to Congress regarding the need for strict border enforcement, and no amnesty for illegal immigrants?

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While we continue to research the ruling of US District Judge Robert W. Pratt on laws that protect the flag of the United States, we offer this excerpt and link for your consideration. This is another example of what the ACLU is doing for to America. We also offer this suggestion. If you are so opposed to the United States that you feel the need to desecrate or in any way dishonor this country’s flag, you should voluntarily renounce your citizenship and move to a country that more accurately reflects your complete lack of integrity and understanding of democratic principles.

It is every citizen’s right to disagree and/or oppose situations or conditions within this country that they believe are unfair, unjust, illegal or simply run counter to their own personal preference. But when that opposition includes dishonoring the flag, it serves as evidence of your complete lack of integrity and understanding of the sacrifice of others who defended the very rights and freedom you abuse. You have been given rights and responsibilities for which you have not the intelligence to understand, respect or properly execute.

I, for one, pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Even for those without the sense to understand the rights and responsibilities of being American. But justice should also come for those who offered the ultimate sacrifice that some choose to disrespect in their own misguided efforts to make a point.

Stanford Matthews
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Federal Judge Finds Iowa Flag Desecration Statutes Unenforceable

Thursday, March 29, 2007
DES MOINES, Iowa AP— Two state laws that prohibit misuse and desecration of an American flag are unenforceable and unconstitutional, a federal judge has ruled.
U.S. District Judge Robert W. Pratt said Tuesday that the Iowa laws violate a due process clause in the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa brought a lawsuit on behalf of a man charged with a misdemeanor for flying a flag upside down and writing on it and another man also charged with flying a flag upside down. It declared the ruling a victory.

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As mentioned in our first post regarding Kathy Sierra, if the story continues to have a life, we’re confidnet all will be explained. Here is an excerpt and link to a post offering an explanation, including accounts by those involved in one way or another. We do not know if it is accurate or not, but it certainly is interesting and why we wrote our first post suggesting details were vague.

Stanford Matthews
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March 28th, 2007

Identity rape and mob mentality

Posted by Mitch Ratcliffe @ 10:52 am Categories: Business & Technology
Allen Herrell, one of the accused attackers in the Kathy Sierra controversy, has written a long email to Doc Searls explaining that his entire online identity has been compromised. If true, and I believe it, because I have known Allen for many years, it appears there have been many more victims here than Ms. Sierra.

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Another disturbing employment report regarding the plans of Citigroup. It is disturbing in light of people like Bill Gates trying to make the case for large or unlimited increases in visa quotas to a Congress all to eager to listen. All the financial news that speaks to economic growth and job creation must be forgetting headlines like the following. While Citigroup hosts bring your children to work day in Pakistan they may be telling kids in America to bring their parents to the unemployment line. All the while publishing business specific press releases on expansion all over the world.

Citigroup To Layoff Thousands Of Employees

03/26/2007 07:34pm
HAGERSTOWN, MD - Citigroup announced Monday it’s planning to lay off thousands of people around the world; it’s also one of the largest employers in the region.
The financial services company plans to get rid of as many as 15,000 high cost jobs. It’s part of a plan to change the focus outside of the United States.

Citigroup to speed up China expansion

March 28 2007: 9:23 PM EDT
After winning permission to incorporate as a local bank in China, CEO Prince predicts 30 outlets by year-end; declines to confirm layoff rumors, possible ABN AMRO bid.
BEIJING (Reuters) — Citigroup Inc. plans to double its number of outlets in China this year to more than 30, Chairman and Chief Executive Charles Prince said on Thursday.

On March 26th NBC 25 reports a Citigroup announcement to layoff 15,000 around the world. Two days later Citigroup is denying the ‘rumor’ that NBC reported. Either NBC 25 got it wrong or Citigroup’s right hand doesn’t know what the left hand is doing. Yet there are big expansion plans for China and elsewhere outside the US. So, do you suppose those 15,000 ‘high cost’ jobs are here or overseas?

It is any wonder why people get very annoyed over immigration, visas and outsourcing? It is really rather simple. What is the easiest way to lower costs? Overpay top executives if they are willing to slash jobs for American workers and replace them with cheaper offshore or imported workers who are less likely to complain based on the tentative nature of their employment. Politicians, lobbyists and corporate executives are not your best friend. That is of course, unless you belong to the corrupt trio.

C. Harris
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Yes, we need more visas for the really high skilled workers from other countries. Yes, the economy is still expanding. Yes, the economy is creating jobs. Yes, yes, yes goes the spin. This nation spends massive amounts on education. The performance measure for those expenditures are pathetic. This nation spends massive amounts on healthcare. There are nearly 50 million uninsured citizens. In every facet of American life the spin doctors author optimistic evaluations. Hard to put more lipstick on this pig while you collect your 26 weeks of unemployment.
It is not a matter of what jobs Americans won’t do, but what jobs Americans are not allowed to do.

C. Harris
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Circuit City to Cut More Than 3,500 Jobs

NEW YORK (AP) — A new plan for layoffs at Circuit City is openly targeting better-paid workers, risking a public backlash by implying that its wages are as subject to discounts as its flat-screen TVs….

Had no plans to write a post like this when I awakened this morning. It is another one of those stories I was not looking for but found. While checking popular searches at various locations, the name Kathy Sierra appeared. It is disheartening the number of times in the last several weeks that I have found things I was not looking for that contained some significance. But the more disheartening part is that I was unaware of them prior to the accidental discovery.

But the real sad part of this one is the various implications of what I have read beyond the person’s name. First of all, if you are as unaware as I was, Kathy Sierra has a popular blog. The short version is she received death threats and other ‘unfortunate’ comments on her blog and nasty items posted elsewhere on the net. Second, she has withdrawn from blogging and expressed some, also disheartening, statements and opinions on this same blog. And third, why the hell am I writing about this?

I’ll tell you why. It is out there now and though it is probably wise to give little attention to bad people seeking it, it concerns the blogosphere and no matter how ’small’ we are, we are in it too. Kathy Sierra received death threats and the rest as described above. She is, without question, entitled to respond to this in whatever manner she wants. But we find it unfortunate that this story is developing the way it is. I say ‘we’ because at this blog, all posts are discussed prior to publishing And the reason we find it unfortunate that Kathy Sierra responded the way she has is the upper hand it may provide to the ‘perps’.

That and the fact that she no longer wishes to be involved in the blogosphere if this is the way it will be. The internet would not be the first venue affected by those with bad intentions. If anything it is more common to find this sort of thing on the net and that will only improve as goes the rest of the world.

Lord, give me the strength to change those things I can. The patience to accept those things I cannot change. And the wisdom to know the difference. Not that this is an especially religious group of folks on this particular blog, but the sentiment seems appropriate here whether you are religious or not. And it helps shorten this post from becoming excessively large.

In closing, why not ignore the items not on your blog, moderate and anti-spam the rest as well as eliminating access from a few IP addresses. Ignore it and it may go away. Give more attention, like this is doing, and it may get worse. Maybe we’re wrong here but we don’t think so. But again, Kathy Sierra is certainly able to respond any way she wishes. And your comments are cheerfully accepted, death threats and all. Pardon us if we consider unsolicited or unprovoked crap to be the realm of losers.

One last note is the reports of this story that we read seem incredibly vague in terms of what may have led to this event, if anything did. If the story continues to have a life, we’re confident all will be explained.

Stanford Matthews
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Does anyone have an opinion on this? We do. Even though talk of Chuck Hagel taking a run at 2008 had a extremely low probability of success, our office poll at least suggests that low probability has vanished. Based on the personal histories of John Murtha and Chuck Hagel this is rather disappointing, not supporting the troops’ mission. But at least Murtha is a Democrat. Obviously, Chuck Hagel is not, or at least not according to that ‘R’ next to his name.

Just a reminder for you Mr. Hagel, if the military leaves Iraq before the mission is complete, it’s a defeat. If you are involved in causing them to leave before the mission is complete, there is no way to call that a victory.

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GOP Sen. Hagel sides with Dems in war vote

AZ Central.com, Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, Senate Democrats scored a surprise victory Tuesday in their bid to force President Bush to end the Iraq war. …

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Arabs to renew Arab peace plan at Saudi summit

/>RIYADH (Reuters) - Arab leaders will revive a five-year-old land-for-peace offer to Israel when they meet at a summit in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, seeking an end to decades of conflict at the heart of the region’s problems.

Senate backs troop withdrawal from Iraq

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate on Tuesday endorsed a March 31, 2008, target date for withdrawing American combat troops from Iraq, prompting the White House to threaten a veto and moving Congress a step closer to a showdown with President George W. Bush over the war.

Texas signs new self-defense by gun law

DALLAS (Reuters) - Criminals in Texas beware: if you threaten someone in their car or office, the citizens of this state where guns are ubiquitous have the right to shoot you dead.

Troubled LA Times probes favoritism in opinion page

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - In the latest in a string of setbacks, the Los Angeles Times said on Tuesday it would investigate suggestions of undue influence in its opinion pages, less than a week after a senior editor quit over accusations of favoritism toward a Hollywood movie producer.

CIA says North Korea nuclear test a failure: report

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea’s nuclear test last October was a failure and gives no credence to Pyongyang’s claim to being a nuclear weapons state, U.S. CIA Director Michael Hayden was quoted as saying by a South Korean newspaper on Wednesday.

In this weeks edition… Americans punished for doing the “jobs Americans won’t do?” Do criminal aliens have a ‘right’ to commit crimes in America? Is something from a sci-fi novel the solution to illegal immigration? And “uncounted beans?” All this and more in this weeks exciting episode…

You can watch Jake’s entire interview with professor Zhang…here. You can vote for this post at Real Clear Politics…Here. If this video has inspired you to get more involved here are some things you can do. NumbersUSA puts you in the know with daily updates on legislation and contact info you can use to keep your congresscritter honest. Heres another site you may find useful. Immigration stance provides you with an easy to read scorecard on every congresscritters record on immigration related votes. Knowledge is power! And a reminder, if your representative is one of the altogether rare ‘good guys’ make sure to give them a call and offer an ‘attaboy!’ before you return to lambasting the bad guys. This has been the Blogs For Borders Video Blogburst. The Blogs For Borders Blogroll is dedicated to American sovereignty, border security and a sane immigration policy. If you’d like to join go to the Blogs For Borders Website and send us an email with “sign me up” in the subject line. Technorati Tags: illegal immigration, crime, mexico, mechanizing the harvest, uncounted beans, statistics, blogs for borders video blogburst, amnesty, border security

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