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Conservatism 101: Never Let Your Enemies Tell You Who Your Friends Should Be : The Other McCain
Monday, July 19th, 2010Best thing you’ll read today and absolutely true for conservatives. Because the press is comprised of liberals, their bias is always to do what is best for liberals. Always.
The Perils Of Youngsters On The Internet
Monday, July 19th, 2010Rules for parents:
1. Teach them young. Explain that there is no such thing as privacy online.
2. Supervise rigorously. Track and monitor their actions.
3. Choose age-appropriate online things for them to do.
As always: know their friends and friends parents, communicate often, and don’t be naive. Yes, your kid would too do that. Oy.
How the Internet Beat Up an 11-Year-Old Girl
The Internet started picking on Jessi Slaughter relentlessly. But it was more than just mocking: People started circulating Jessi’s real name, phone number, address and links to all her social networking accounts. Someone prank called her. According to Encyclopedia Dramatica, pranksters spammed her Facebook and MySpace accounts, had pizzas delivered to her house and were considering sending call girls off Craigslist to the address. (Encyclopedia Dramatica currently has a three part section on How to troll Jessi: 1) There are pics of her holding her boobs 2) Tell her to kill herself 3) Tell her dad that we are going to beat her up.) Slaughter’s information and videos also shot through tumblr, aided by the blogging platform’s reblogging system.
Eventually, Jessi’s dad filmed himself yelling at the camera. Boing Boing picked up the video and a meme was born. Actually, the video’s so good it spawned at least three different memes: You dun Goofed, Consequences will never be the same and Cyberpolice.
1. What are your kids doing on the Internet? Normally, we find fears about kids on the Internet the product of technophobic hysteria. But this case is a very good argument for why parents should at least be vaguely aware of what their kids are up to on the Internet. Is your 11 year-old girl embroiled in an underage sex scandal with the lead singer of a popular emo band? Is she threatening to shoot people on YouTube videos? Maybe now is the time to invest in good parental control software before she becomes a meme.
2. Tumblr is becoming a home for trolls. Tumblr was originally the good-natured domain of hip New York creatives. It was, on balance, a creative force on the Internet. But the role it played in trolling Jessi Slaughter shows that Tumblr is developing a nasty side as well. Tumblr founder David Karp better get on this before Tumblr becomes 4chan with a slick minimalist interface.
Inception Prologue Comic Book Online | /Film
Sunday, July 18th, 2010Cool! I hope this means there will be a prequel and sequel. This movie is begging for one.
7 Ways to Track Hot Trends on the Internet via @dsilverman
Sunday, July 18th, 2010Excellent wrap-up of tracking information.
Justice, Texas Style
Sunday, July 18th, 2010The tragedy though, is that this child is dead. This family, devastated and grieving will have to live with this. They won’t however, have to worry about this guy doing it again.
Police kill suspect in Mineral Wells boy’s death
By TANYA EISERER and JON NIELSEN / The Dallas Morning News
teiserer@dallasnews.com
jnielsen@dallasnews.com
Police fatally shot on Sunday afternoon a man who had been suspected in the abduction and slaying of a 4-year-old Mineral Wells boy.
Arturo Pacheco-Barrera, 23, was a suspect in the ransom kidnapping of Salvador Briones Jr., who was found dead late Friday in an abandoned building on U.S. Highway 281 in Mineral Wells. Authorities have not said how the boy died.
According to a relative, Pacheco-Barrera was considered a family friend who did work on Briones’ house in the 700 block of S.W. Fourth Avenue.
About 6 a.m. Friday, the boy’s father checked on Salvador and his three sleeping siblings before leaving for work. After he got to work at a construction site, the 39-year-old father received a call from the kidnapper. According to relatives, the caller said that he had Salvador and demanded $15,000.
Briones could not be reached for comment, but a relative said the father received a couple of more calls in quick succession from the kidnapper.
Concerned, Briones called his wife who was still at home to check on their four children. When she went to the bedroom, she saw the back door open and the boy gone. The other three children, a 2-year-old, an 8-year-old and an infant, were OK.
Mineral Wells police said Pacheco-Barrera went to the Police Department for questioning. He led authorities to an abandoned building in the 3600 block of Highway 281 where they found the boy’s body.
SPOILER WARNING: Inception Explained: Unraveling The Dream Within The Dream
Sunday, July 18th, 2010This post helped me work through the questions raised by Inception.
Medicare Scams: It will get worse.
Sunday, July 18th, 2010Ah, Medicare fraud. In New York the Russian mafia has been running a Medicare/Medicaid/Insurance racket for years. Don’t ask me how I know. I just do. In addition, in Houston, a network of Mexican gangs colluding with doctors and lawyers ran a Workers Comp and PI racket for years. And then, Texas passed tort reform, changed WC reimbursement law and cut the knees out from them. It was so awesome. The docs and lawyers who were coked up, hooker loving mobsters got put out of business in one day. The legit docs around here laughed at their expense.
The problem with Obama and his ilk is that they’ll use the full force of the Feds to go after fraud but they won’t also deal with the garbage that the laws allow. They don’t want to piss off the Trial Lawyers. And so the scams will get worse. There’s a lot of money to be made.
36 arrested in Medicare scams totaling $251 million
By Kelli Kennedy ASSOCIATED PRESS
12:19 p.m.,
Friday, July 16, 2010
In a separate Brooklyn case, authorities indicted six patients who shopped their Medicare numbers to various clinics. More than 3,744 claims were submitted on behalf of one woman in the past six years. The patients did not receive the services billed to Medicare, authorities said.
Today’s arrests illustrate how health care fraud schemes can replicate virally and migrate rapidly across communities, said Daniel R. Levinson, inspector general of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees Medicare.
Federal authorities launched a strike force in Miami in 2007 to target the problem. The program has since expanded to seven cities and is responsible for more than 720 indictments that collectively have billed the Medicare program for more than $1.6 billion.
Facts About Craigslist | ThePajamaPundit.com
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Stolen Valor….I hope this ruling is appealed via @KurtSchlichter
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Posted : Friday Jul 16, 2010 19:14:54 EDT/div/td/tr/table/blockquotediv class=Amp_Content_Hr/divblockquote class=Amp_Content_Item cite=http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/2010/07/ap_fake_hero_penalty_071610/?utm_source=twitterfeedutm_medium=twittertable cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0trtdp id=AutoGeneratedID-2DENVER #8212; A law that makes it illegal to lie about being a war hero is unconstitutional because it violates free speech, a federal judge ruled Friday as he dismissed a case against a Colorado man who claimed he received two military medals./p/td/tr/table/blockquotediv class=Amp_Content_Hr/divblockquote class=Amp_Content_Item cite=http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/2010/07/ap_fake_hero_penalty_071610/?utm_source=twitterfeedutm_medium=twittertable cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0trtdp id=AutoGeneratedID-3U.S. District Judge Robert Blackburn dismissed the case and said the law is unconstitutional, ruling the government did not show it has a compelling reason to restrict that type of statement./pspan class=Amp_Source_Buttona rel=clipsource target=_blank title=http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/2010/07/ap_fake_hero_penalty_071610/?utm_source=twitterfeedutm_medium=twitter href=http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/2010/07/ap_fake_hero_penalty_071610/?utm_source=twitterfeedutm_medium=twitterRead more at www.marinecorpstimes.com/a/span/td/tr/table/blockquote/divdiv class=Amp_Bottom_Wrapnbsp;/div/divdiv class=Amp_LinkSee this Amp at a href=http://bit.ly/aaZ56Yhttp://bit.ly/aaZ56Y/a/divbr/
Writing in the digital age…via @armano
Friday, July 16th, 2010div class=Amp_Commentary_Wrapdiv class=Amp_Post_TextpWhen I first started writing, I was under the mistaken notion that every thought needed to be fully explained. My posts were longer than necessary. Like a sermon that goes longer than 25 minutes, a blog post better have good reason to go past 800 words and really should be around 250 to 400 words./p/div/divdiv class=Amp_Content_Outerdiv class=Amp_Top_Wrapdiv class=Amp_Source_FirstspanAmplifyrsquo;d from a rel=clipsource target=_blank title=http://edelmandigital.com/2010/07/16/friday-five-writing-tips-for-the-digital-age/# href=http://edelmandigital.com/2010/07/16/friday-five-writing-tips-for-the-digital-age/#edelmandigital.com/a/span/div/divdiv class=Amp_Middle_Wrapblockquote class=Amp_Content_Item cite=http://edelmandigital.com/2010/07/16/friday-five-writing-tips-for-the-digital-age/#table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0trtdh2 id=AutoGeneratedID-0a rel=nofollow href=#Friday Five: Writing Tips for the Digital Age/a/h2/td/tr/table/blockquotediv class=Amp_Content_Hr/divblockquote class=Amp_Content_Item cite=http://edelmandigital.com/2010/07/16/friday-five-writing-tips-for-the-digital-age/#table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0trtdp id=AutoGeneratedID-1Even in spaces where speech is not limited to 140 characters or less, there are benefits to keeping your thoughts concise. Studies have shown that entries that are 150 words or less are more likely to generate conversation./p/td/tr/table/blockquotediv class=Amp_Content_Hr/divblockquote class=Amp_Content_Item cite=http://edelmandigital.com/2010/07/16/friday-five-writing-tips-for-the-digital-age/#table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0trtdp id=AutoGeneratedID-2If Twitter is the intended medium and the author would like a tweet to be passed on, care should be taken to ensure that enough characters are still available for his or her user name to be included in the event of a retweet, without any additional editing necessary./p/td/tr/table/blockquotediv class=Amp_Content_Hr/divblockquote class=Amp_Content_Item cite=http://edelmandigital.com/2010/07/16/friday-five-writing-tips-for-the-digital-age/#table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0trtdh5 id=AutoGeneratedID-3Keep it Brief/h5span class=Amp_Source_Buttona rel=clipsource target=_blank title=http://edelmandigital.com/2010/07/16/friday-five-writing-tips-for-the-digital-age/# href=http://edelmandigital.com/2010/07/16/friday-five-writing-tips-for-the-digital-age/#Read more at edelmandigital.com/a/span/td/tr/table/blockquote/divdiv class=Amp_Bottom_Wrapnbsp;/div/divdiv class=Amp_LinkSee this Amp at a href=http://bit.ly/bcP5eohttp://bit.ly/bcP5eo/a/divbr/
