Wahabism and Korean bibles

I was forwarded this piece of memespam (see below) a week ago I think. Who is the original author, who could know?

I googled up the defining phrase of this spam, reportedly from Revelation, “A man will come from the East that will be charismatic in nature and have proposed solutions for all our problems and his rhetoric will attract many supporters” and found that this is of course all over the place.

DailyKos has a rebuttal of sorts for this. BreakTheChain monitors these kind of things. The author has said that Obama is an adherent of Wahabism, which should get him in good with the Saudis if not Prince Abdullah. Author says snopes.com confirms the story but the site actually doesn’t.

Now, if he is said anti-Christ, wouldn’t that mean that he is guaranteed election? How else could he fulfill prophecy? If you really would like to check out the endtimes, view this man’s paintings.

FYI!!! Important!
The Bible warns us of Barack Obama!
Body: The Bible warns us of Barack Obama! Please Read All!

Body: The Bible has warned us that ‘A man will come from the East that will be charismatic in nature and have proposed solutions for all our problems and his rhetoric will attract many supporters!’

When will our pathetic Nation quit turning their back on God and understand that this man is ‘A Muslim’….First, Last and always….and we are AT WAR with the Muslim Nation, whether our bleeding-heart, secular, Liberal friends believe it or not. This man fits every description from the Bible of the ‘Anti-Christ’!

I’m just glad to know that there are others that are frightened by this man!

Who is Barack Obama?

Very interesting and something that should be considered in your choice.

If you do not ever forward anything else, please forwar d this to all your contacts…this is very scary to think of what lies ahead of us here in our own United States…better heed this and pray about it and share it.

snopes.com ..’ confirms this is factual. Check for yourself.

Who is Barack Obama?

Probable U. S. presidential candidate, Barack Hussein Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, to Barack Hussein Obama, Sr., a black MUSLIM from Nyangoma-Kogel, Kenya and Ann Dunham, a white ATHEIST from Wichita , Kansas.

Obama’s parents met at the University of Hawaii.

When Obama was two years old, his parents divorced. His father returned to Kenya. His mother then married Lolo Soetoro, a RADICAL Muslim from Indonesia.

When Obama was 6 years old, the family relocated to Indonesia. Obama attended a MUSLIM school in Jakarta. He also spent two years in a Catholic school.

Obama takes great care to conceal the fact that he is a Muslim. He is quick to point out that, ‘He was once a Muslim, but that he also attended Catholic school.’

Obama’s political handlers are attempting to make it appear that that he is not a radical.

Obama’s introduction to Islam came via his father, and that this influence was temporary at best. In reality, the senior Obama returned to Kenya soon after the divorce, and never again had any direct influence over his son’s
education.

Lolo Soetoro, the second husband of Obama’s mother, Ann Dunham, introduced his stepson to Islam. Obama was enrolled in a Wahabi school in Jakarta.

Wahabism is the RADICAL teaching that is followed by the Muslim terrorists who are now waging Jihad against the western world. Since it is politically expedient to be a CHRISTIAN when seeking major public office in the United States, Barack Hussein Obama has joined the United Church of Christ in an attempt to downplay his Muslim background. ALSO, keep in mind that when he was sworn into office he DID NOT use the Holy Bible, but instead the Koran.

B arack Hussein Obama will NOT recite the Pledge of Allegiance nor will he show any reverence for our flag. While others place their hands over their hearts, Obama turns his back to the flag and slouches. Do you want someone like this as your PRESIDENT?

Let us all remain alert concerning Obama’s expected presidential candidacy.

The Muslims have said they plan on destroying the US from the inside out, what better way to start than at the highest level - through the President of the United States, one of their own!

Please forward to everyone you know. Would you want this man leading our country?…… NOT ME!

There are more comments out in the wild like this:

As ridiculous as it sounds people are worshiping him like he’s God!

He was raised a Muslim and when he decides to run for office he says he’s a Christian, oh please!
When he was sworn into office he wouldn’t even put his hand on a bible, he made them use a Korean one. If someone is raised from the time there a baby to believe a certain way there not going to convert to something different.
That just doesn’t happen!!!

Wasn’t there a prophecy regarding 01? Something about a missile from the East striking the towers of the mighty new world which would spark the beginning of WWIII and the coming of the antichrist? The antichrist would come from Muslim decent, have the ability to win over crowds with his speech, and become a powerful man practically overnight. I honestly think it is obama…

Obama used a Korean bible to swear into office?

Shhh! Don’t say I’m spamming

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UML sux

I had a phone screen yesterday with a company that wanted someone to produce design documents with lots of UML to hand off to a development team. Go from BA -> architect -> UML guy -> lead developer -> offshore developers. So the discussion went from what UML tools do you like (are you a RAD guy, Together guy, etc), and which diagrams do you use (class, collaboration, component, use case, etc). Then I this was just posted to DZone recently: UML descends into darkness . Need to look at Violet UML, hopefully it is better to use than Visio.

 

That’s right, blame America for high food costs

OK, the US has offshored how many jobs to India, millions of them??, and so naturally we believe that Indians are now getting (relatively) rich so they are driving up food prices by demanding you know, Western style diets with meat and dairy and stuff. Something President Bush said to that effect.

One Indian official said in response to this sentiment that

if Americans slimmed down to the weight of middle-class Indians, “many hungry people in sub-Saharan Africa would find food on their plates.” 

and

  that the money spent in the United States on liposuction to get rid of fat from excess consumption could be funneled to feed famine victims.

So we should expect Tata Motors to start sponsoring the TV shows “Celebrity Fit Club” and the “Biggest Loser”? And wouldn’t lipo procedures be cheaper in India?

Well!, they’re mad at something Bush said about the Indian economy, nothing new there. People in the US are mad about Bush says about the US economy.

 

D.C. Gang Map

I saw this gang map of Washington, D.C. on a GIS vendor’s website in a gallery of mapping products being showcased.
I go to D.C. a few times a year, so this is interesting. Shaded areas showing gang territories is overlaid on an aerial image of the city.

 

Quantum cryptography breakable?

Quantum cryptography is breakable? I had read about the theory before, hmm.

Well, there is always the man-in-the-middle attack vector.

Unstaffed 24 hour gyms are really not safe

I have a membership at a newfangled 24 hour gym because it is very close to my house and is half the price of the YMCA, the only other real alternative to me. I’ve been there a while, and I’ve noticed that the ’security’ during non-staffed hours is not too good.

A lot of the articles I’ve googled on this subject are from the Midwest and two of the largest chains, Anytime and Snap are Minnesota companies. Who says ideas don’t come from the Minnesota?

St. Paul, Minnesota, oddly enough, has an ordinance that apparently disallows unsupervised gyms. St. Paul is more worried about patrons keeling over from sudden cardiac arrest than hold-ups or assaults.

Here’s a description of how security is supposed to work at a  24 hour gym:

At his business, patrons sign a policy not to let anyone in, even if they think the person is a member, Collien said. The measure prevents people from entering with stolen cards.

Customers who lose their cards receive new ones, he added. The old code is cancelled so others can’t use it.

Even when they aren’t working, operators can still watch their establishments. All local 24-hour centers have surveillance, and many owners can control the cameras from off-site. Collien said his cameras are connected to his home computer so he can monitor the business anytime, even when he’s home with the flu.
The reality comes down to social engineering factors. If you want to get into my gym after hours, you have two options. Both involve ringing the doorbell to the facility. You have a reasonable chance of somebody just walking over and letting you in! Failing that, you could just stand at the door and wait for someone to leave the place then walk in with the door open. That’s it. There are security cameras, but they don’t deter unmasked robbers in lots of other contexts.

OK, you’re not supposed to let anyone in if they don’t have the keycard (or in my case, a keything) but this doesn’t work. Even at my highly sensitive workplace, people piggyback through the doors behind someone with card access. People (speaking of Americans right) generally don’t confront other people tailing them through a door like that. Even if you feel like minded to do so, would feel like say, confront a gang of teenagers in a fairly dark, isolated area?

It’s not so likely that anything would happen in an exurban area as opposed to an inner city or downtown area, but anything can happen.

Racial attitudes, the election and miscegenation

I had a disagreement with a friend yesterday over whether Obama is electable. I am skeptical, and the results from West Virginia yesterday were certainly not promising. I thought about Jim Crow, miscegenation laws, and so on and remembered that Alabama had just recently taken out a clause in their state constitution banning miscegenation. Of course Federal law trumps state law on this issue, so the clause was inactive or whatever the legal term is. But the Alabama took out the clause based on the result of a voter referendum in 2000.

In 1970, twelve states, mostly Bible Belt states, still kept these unenforceable miscegenation (sic) laws on their books. The last one to be removed wasn’t removed until November of 2000 in Alabama. Strange indeed was it was done by ballot referendum because it was a Constitutional measure. Unbelievably, forty percent of Alabamans still voted against taking the laws off the books even though it was unenforceable. Amazing!

Salon.com commented after that election result:

“In November 2000, after a statewide vote in a special election, Alabama became the last state to overturn a law that was an ugly reminder of America’s past, a ban on interracial marriage. The one-time home of George Wallace and Martin Luther King Jr. had held onto the provision for 33 years after the Supreme Court declared anti-miscegenation laws unconstitutional. Yet as the election revealed — 40 percent of Alabamans voted to keep the ban — many people still see the necessity for a law that prohibits blacks and whites from mixing blood.”

Don’t know what the racial breakdown of the “no” voters were, I could imagine that some blacks aren’t too fond of mixing with whites. But you know, this isn’t promising, although I realize that Obama or Hillary haven’t a snowflake chance in Hell in winning Alabama.

IT Girls’ Role Models

According to a study by Research in Motion, girls aren’t interested in getting into IT. OK, we kind of knew this already. According to the article,

of the relative(ly) few “smart female role models,” the survey says. More than half the girls also think there should be fewer celebrity role models like Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan, and more inspirational business role models.

Good. If McCain picks one of his chief economic advisors as his running mate and then happens to win the election, then you’d have an inspirational business role model. Imagine being fired from her job as a high profile CEO, then being pilloried in the media, then rising from the ashes to become Vice President.

As for celebrity role models, there could be one, a celebrity and technological significant person all rolled up into one. Hedy Lamarr was even more controversial in her day than Spears or Lohan - she created a scandal in 1933 when she appeared in perhaps film’s first nude scene in the movie Ecstasy. She was also married six times.

But she and George Antheil got a patent in 1942 for the concept of “frequency hopping”. According to the IEEE article:

Frequency hopping means broadcasting a signal over a seemingly random series of radio frequencies, switching from frequency to frequency at split-second intervals. Anyone trying to eavesdrop would hear only random noise, like a radio dial being spun. But if both the sender and the receiver were hopping in sync, the message would go through loud and clear.

In 1962, three years after the patent expired, the pair’s idea was used in military communication systems installed on U.S. ships sent to blockade Cuba. Subsequent patents in frequency changing have referred to the Lamarr-Antheil patent as the basis of the field, and the concept lies behind the principal anti-jamming devices used today, for example, in the U.S. government’s Milstar defense communications satellite system.

 

Holy BOLI

Links for info on Bank Owned Life Insurance. Banks could be in a little more trouble over this.

http://library.findlaw.com/2005/Jan/19/133690.html

http://www.thestreet.com/s/wachovia-loss-nearly-doubles/newsanalysis/banking/10415385.html

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa5381/is_200708/ai_n21297830

http://www.newyorklife.com/cda/0,3254,14223,00.html

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=acq2TPVdthJk&refer=home

http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:r4__WhQdcccJ:www.lw.com/upload/pubContent/_pdf/pub1695_1.pdf+%22bank+owned+life+insurance%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=30&gl=us&client=firefox-a

http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:M4LOhorBYGUJ:www.schiffbenefitsgroup.com/uploads/SBG_BOLI_Article.pdf+%22bank+owned+life+insurance%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=47&gl=us&client=firefox-a