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A Sunday school in Watertown, NY is now showing up under the microscope. The minister fired a female Sunday school teacher for - get this - being a woman. Maybe I’m overlooking something, but let’s step back for just a moment.
When this woman was hired, it’s fairly safe to say that she was [...]

But will they bite? History says - probably not. The UN Security Council expressed its “shock and distress” at a recent Israeli attack that killed 54 Lebanese. Don’t get me wrong - I don’t condone the killing of innocent people in any way. My question is, where was the “shock and [...]

Not my area of expertise, but here goes anyway. I’m sure all of you are familiar with the current situation in Israel. Recently the terrorist organization based in Lebanon, Hezbollah, abducted 2 Israeli soldiers. Since then, Israel has been launching relentless attacks against the organization. Many are calling the Israeli reaction [...]

From the WSJ regarding some YouTube videos that Bill Gates watched:
“Gates: Stolen’s a strong word. It’s copyrighted content that the owner wasn’t paid for. So yes.”
When does he get his official eye patch, wooden leg, and hook arm? Arrrrrrr…..
Full Story.

I won’t get into the validity of our mission in Iraq here, as it doesn’t really matter. No matter whether we are right or wrong for being in Iraq, we as a civilized nation, and as civilized people, would never do anything like what the Iraqis do. No matter what your cause, beheading [...]

A 5′1″ 50 year old man convicted of doing all kinds of gross stuff to a 12 year old girl is apparently too short to go to jail.  The judge decided that he’d have too hard of a time in PITA jail, so she only gave him probation.  Hmm…. child molester….. convicted by the jury…. [...]

Which would be ok if he wasn’t 33. Here’s hoping they don’t plan to consummate that marriage. Via CNN.

Recently Yahoo banned more publishers from their program. The reason? The majority of traffic comes from Myspace.com. Yahoo believes this traffic is untargeted, and would convert poorly. I imagine they did this under pressure from advertisers, who are paying for the clicks. Horrible decision if you ask me - it [...]

Also heroin and cocaine. Pending Preisdent Fox’s signature, people possessing small amounts of these three drugs will not be breaking Mexican law. Yea, that’s what Mexico needs - legal drugs. Oh, by the way, it will still be illegal to sell drugs in Mexico. Brilliant. Read the full story at [...]

A fine young lady down in good ol’ Georgia received the news recently that she was being sued for copyright infringment, using P2P programs. Ok, so maybe she was sharing some of her music for the world to enjoy. Well maybe, if she can do that WITHOUT A FREAKING COMPUTER. Good game [...]

Geek Squad agents have been caught pirating software. That’s right, the same righteous agents you’ve entrusted with your computer security are pirates! Arrr……. Via Slashdot. Full story at Fox News.
As a former member of this elite group of ninja computer agents, I can only say that if the public only [...]

One of the stupidest ideas I’ve heard in a long, long time. Lately, people have been migrating towards hybrids and smaller vehicles, and are less likely to buy a huge SUV when they don’t need one. Sounds great, right? People are using less gasoline, which can reduce dependence on foreign oil, gives [...]

A bunch of Danish muslims are suing the newspaper that first printed the infamous cartoons. Yes, you read that correctly. They are suing a newspaper for publishing cartoons. CARTOONS. CAR-FREAKING-TOONS. Someone please slap these people and bring them into the year 2006, thx gg. Via the Toronto Star.

Nukes slip through the cracks? Scary stuff. Via Toronto Star.

China promises not to use them for nukes, also promises to make its bed, eat more spinach. BBCNews.

GM finally did it. They finally sold the one, single, profitable piece of their business. GMAC was the only entity at GM that made a profit last year - and even with GMAC being profitable, GM as a whole lost $10 billion. That’s billion with a “B“. So what does GM [...]

The Dalai Lama, not to be confused with a regular llama, is hoping that the Chinese government will allow him to visit China once again. Apparently he ticked off China about a hundred years ago and was banned from the country. I don’t know why, but I imagine it can’t be very interesting, [...]

Good ol George W Bush just signed into law a bill that raises the US debt ceiling to $8.96 trillion. I started off liking W pretty well, but this is the 4th increase in the debt limit since he took office. With his government constantly running deficits, another increase is inevitable. I’ll [...]

A little tiny bug was found in Ubuntu ( apparently yet another flavor of Linux that I’ve never heard of ) that gives anyone root access. For those of you who don’t know, root access means you can do anything you want with the user’s computer. So much for Linux being secure. [...]

The tiny island of Sark, located in the English Channel, between the UK and France, recently voted to become a democracy. Until now, the island of 600 people had operated under an ancient feudal system. Am I alone in thinking, who gives a crap? Read the full story at USAToday.

A judge in San Francisco subpoenaed Google recently for the entire contents of a Gmail account - even deleted emails. Here’s an excerpt from News.com - ‘The subpoena asks for not only current e-mail but also deleted e-mail: “All documents concerning all Gmail accounts of Baker…for the period from Jan. 1, 2003, to present, [...]

I was pretty sure everyone knew that you can’t just whip it out and take a leak at a busy intersection, but apparently not. A California court had to rule on this matter recently, and they decided that, sure enough, you just can’t do that. Full story at CNN.

Rumers have been floating around about Dell’s apparent desire to buy Alienware. I’ve got a few thoughts about this of course. For one, why would anyone want Alienware? Sure, their computers are fast, top of the line gaming machines, but are they really that big? Most people have never even [...]

Windows is causing Windows Vista to load slowly. Perhaps you should remove Windows from startup to ensure your computer loads faster? ( Gracias Technosailer )

So we recently developed the fighter jet to end all fighter jets. The F-22 Raptor renders all other fighter jets completely obsolete. Apparently some genius in the pentagon has decided that it would be a good decision to sell this jet to some of our “trusted allies.” Are we that hard up [...]

AOL is raising the price on its dial-up service. That’s right, raising the price. They’re now charging $26 per month, in an attempt to get users to switch to broadband. Netzero at $9.99, DSL at $19.99, or AOL dial-up at $26.99. Hmmmmmm…… Full story at Slashdot.

It seems Iran is backing up one one of their president’s famed remarks. Apparently, Iran does not want to “wipe Israel off the map” - the president was simply misunderstood. Sorry guys, you can’t use the language barrier as an excuse for this one. You can practically smell the fear from this [...]

Hmm… lets see. Nearly the entire Islamic world hates us…. most for ridiculous reasons, but they hate us nonetheless. They take any opportunity they can to lash out at us, and cause the US harm. So let’s give these people control of 6 major ports….. yea… that’s what we should do. [...]

This only confirms what I’ve been saying for many many years. Macs aren’t inherently more secure than Windows-based PC’s. They had no viruses or spyware simply because the sort of people who write them are realists. If your goal is to cause damage on a wide scale, do you target 97% [...]

Ok not officially. But Saudi Arabia & Qatar are sending about $33 million bucks over to our Palestinian friends. And, with Hamas officially in charge these days, you don’t need to be a genius to figure out what the funds will be used for.
This just solidifies the worthlessness of Palestine to me. [...]

Not only is it NOT free ( unless you have windows installed already to download & burn the cd’s ) , slooooooooow to install, PITA to configure, VERY limited in programs you can run, and clunky to use, it’s insecure! Read about the latest critical security flaw at CNET.

Good ol Jack Chirac made a public statement that said France would be willing to nuke any country that launched a terrorist attack on it. It sounds good in principle, but France would surrender if they even heard a whisper of a possible attack on their country. “USA USA HELP HELP”
Read the full [...]

The new budget proposal wants to cut the size of the Army Reserve, and also cut back on fighter jet programs. Am I the only one who thinks this is stupid?
Read the full story at USA Today.

Here’s hoping that never happens in the US. PMS + Nukes = bad.
Read the whole story at BBC News.

25 years after going blind, an old lady in Britain can see again after her heart attack. Blind people around the world heading to McDonalds.
Read the full story at ABC News.

Somalian pirates??? They don’t have swords, eye patches, or parrots. And no one walked the plank either… what a sorry bunch of pirates. Arrrrr…
Read the full story at Mercury News.

Pretty much self-explanatory. Didn’t these people watch Spiderman 2?
Read the full article at People’s Daily Online.

After a long & hard struggle, commen sense wins. It seems some woman got knocked up and decided that means she can use the carpool lane by herself. Judge says no. Oh yea, and here’s your fine.

So, Hamas members are being allowed to run for parliament in the Palestinian elections. What could possibly go wrong?

I’ll give anyone who can point out East Timor on a map without looking it up first, $20. Is it even a real country? And I sure hope it’s right next to West Timor…. but I have a feeling that isn’t a real country either.
So anyway, good ol East Timor is crying about [...]

Ok. Let me preface this by saying 1. I’m not Jewish. 2. I’m not Muslim. 3. I’m not Arabic.
I like to think I have an objective view of this situation. The only time in recent memory that there has been peace in Israel / Palestine, is when Israel had complete military control [...]

So this guy hears gunshots, right? Then he wanders outside & all of a sudden realizes that it was he who had been shot. Ok , still following me? Same guy decides to try to remove the bullet from his chest. With a meat thermometor. The pointy end. [...]

Well not exactly. But close. It seems the company hired by CNN to translate didn’t quite live up to their expectations. A seemingly simple mistake such as misunderstanding “technology” for “weapons” can turn into a big problem when talking about a known terrorist-supporting, America-hating nuclear-seeking country. According to the BBC News [...]

I’m assuming that an “emir” is like a “king.” I really have no idea, but it sounds good. So the king of a country with 10% of the world’s known oil supply dies. I imagine this will be followed by $4.00 / gallon gasoline shortly. Check out the full story at [...]

Our quirky friends over in the UK sure are… quirky. It seems that a company over there recently started a hearing test that you can take over the phone. I’m having trouble imagining how that makes sense… if you can’t hear anything, how can you hear the responses that the automated system is [...]

Komo News reports that Sea Lions like Hybrids. At least that’s what I got out of the article.

Top 100 Blog for Sale: Blog Tips at ProBlogger
This guy’s selling a mystery blog for 40k plus. That’s some serious money. For a blog. Heck I’d even sell the Green Llama for 40k. But only in American dollars, I dont’ want any of that funny money from Canadia. 40k in [...]

This past Sunday, I decided to quit drinking Coke. Cold turkey. And when I say no coke, I mean no coke, no pepsi, no diet coke, nothing even resembling coke. And now, over 2 1/2 days later, I can safely say it is the stupidest thing I’ve ever decided to do. [...]

Finally got this first blog all moved over to the new server. Not at all fun, and quite frankly it looks like crap right now. It’ll get better…. slowly. All kinds of HTML, PHP, MySQL, FTP, CSS, ODB, OG, DPG, you name it.ugh. Anyway, welcome to the Green Llama!

A co-worker of mine bought 20 Questions for his phone, and he said it could guess anything. So of course I had to test it. I picked a llama, and doggonit it guessed it real good, in 18 questions. So i decided to be tricky, and picked a duck-billed platypus the second [...]

Check this out. Go to google & search for “failure.” Or click this link.
I’m not saying anything…. I can’t say I agree with it. Just saying it’s worth looking at, that’s all.

Wow , it’s been 2 whole weeks since I posted here last. I guess I’ve been hard to work on my other two “blogs” ( Yes I have more! ) so I haven’t had the time to stop by here. Anyway, I thought that you might like to see this incredible couch that I’ve been [...]

Well, I’m not a millionaire yet. But I guess you probably already know that, because I’m still “blogging.” Or is it “blogulating?” Would that make me a Blogulator? It’s hard to tell what is and isn’t a word these days. “Sorry, I’m busy blogulatering.” I’m making new words left [...]

I’m sure everyone has heard about the current problems in Detroit. 2 of the Big 3 aren’t in real good shape. Both Ford & GM have been hemorrhaging money for some time now. Sales are down, losses are up, legacy costs are crushing. Looking back, as hindsight is always 20/20, allowing the UAW to even [...]

I’m really looking forward to Thanksgiving this year. Well not really but I’m gonna make the best of a bad situation. My wife is serving in Iraq, and my son is halfway across the country.
I’ve got quite the day planned though. I’m gonna head over to Pizza Hut the night before and [...]

Hello all. I just wanted to let you know about my progress. I just checked my “blog” earning and YTD I’m at $0.00 , US American dollars. So as you can see I’m well on my way to one million.

I think I have to write some meaningful content so that I can get some good ads up top there. I sure do want to make a million dollars in 17 minutes a day 3 days a week so I’ll write up a good article here.
I’m going to post most of my meaningful [...]