Feline Warrior

My fabulous ex-pat friend Bruce sent this via email and I am adopting it as my own:

“It’s not that I think stupidity should be punishable by death. I just think we should take the warning labels off of everything and let the problem take care of itself.”

Isn’t that brilliant?

So… can we? Huh? Please???

Hands Off Jill Carroll

By Rory O’Connor, AlterNet. Posted April 3, 2006.

This article about some folks in the media who have been bashing now-freed journalist/hostage Jill Carroll just steams me! STEAMS!

Would these guys have been happier if Carroll had refused her captors’ orders, resulting in yet another a taped murder? Is that a brave American legacy? Does that make a better American hostage?

Favorite quote: …former hostage, U.S. Sen. John McCain of Arizona, a prisoner of war during the Vietnam War. McCain said on Meet the Press that Carroll’s comments in the video should not be taken seriously. “This was a young woman who found herself in a terrible, terrible position. And we’re glad she’s home,” McCain told NBC’s Tim Russert. “We understand when you’re held a captive in that kind of situation, that you do things under duress.”

Steamed, I say, steamed!

NASA Manager’s Office Searched for Porn - Yahoo News

So this bigwig at NASA got nabbed not only for having porn on his work computer, but it was kiddie porn. And he was sending kiddie porn flicks to an undercover postal office spy or something.

All of that stuff is bad - shame on James R. Robinson, in-space propulsion technology program executive, if it’s all true.

Puzzling, though, is the disclosure that Robinson was caught by a filter on NASA’s computer system that searches for flesh-colored tones. It was this filter that alerted technicians who found 189 images of underage child sexual activity on Robinson’s work computer.

Flesh-colored tones? Really? Think for a moment: NASA. Space, the final frontier, all that stuff. Those galaxies are made up of all sorts of colors, some of which I think could fall into the flesh-colored category. But this filter caught flesh colors that turned out, apparently, to be the naked bodies of very young people.

Isn’t that kind of wild? Since they’ve released Robinson’s name, one presumes that this story is true, that he did indeed have kiddie porn on his computer, and used it to share kiddie porn flicks. What if he’d been looking at more NASA-like images that just happened to be made up of flesh colors?
This filter… it freaks me out.