Going Fishin'

Having had a quintuple cardiac bypass three weeks ago, and given a second chance and new lease on life...I'll take that excellent advice from Kate!

It's a beautiful day here in eastern Pennsylvania. Carpe diem, friends! :-)

All the best, Dave in PA.
Great morning in southern Ontariariario as well.

Speaking of fishing, our #2 son brought us freshly caught Lake Erie yellow perch on Canada Day.

Beautiful eating fish,no strong fishy taste! Really!!

I had never correctly filleted a fish before until Canada Day 2007.

New skill acquired at age seventy-five.

Now if could only master my errant fairway woods!

Some trends in the malware * industry*
Rival malware gangs wage turf war
Enter the propagators of a piece of malware Symantec dubs Trojan.Srizbi, one of a handful programs spread by the MPack attack kit. A trojan that makes ...

theregister.co.uk/2007/07/01/malware_gang_war/

Trojan variant in a cartoon ..
"Yes & NO" video may hide a Trojan
Zone-H - Tallinn,Estonia
An advisory from Sophos Labs informed on Tuesday that a malware writer has been infecting thousands of computers by hiding a new Trojan variant in a cartoon ...

zone-h.org/content/view/14787/31/

Hackers use kit to unleash Trojan variants
Computerworld New Zealand - Auckland,New Zealand
By Jaikumar Vijayan Framingham | Monday, 2 July, 2007 Multiple hacker groups are using a *construction kit* supplied by the author of a Trojan horse program ...

computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/scrt/794D606644E141D3CC2573090013EBAC

tinyurl.com/33s36v

= TG

Cyber-bullies who plague internet chat rooms with obscene and insulting comments will be banned under the first national scheme to strip them of their anonymity.

People going online will be forced to provide their real names and social security numbers under a new law that makes internet portals responsible for policing message boards and weblogs.

The law has been introduced in South Korea, and is certain to be closely monitored by other countries where there is concern over online abuse.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article2005592.ece?fark

ZIMBABWE’S leading cleric has called on Britain to invade the country and topple President Robert Mugabe. Pius Ncube, the Archbishop of Bulawayo, warned that millions were facing death from famine, unable to survive amid inflation believed to have soared to 15,000%.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article2010591.ece

A NEW disease is abroad in eastern Germany: Frauenmangel, lack of women. In some towns there are only 75 young women for every 100 young men. In one or two there are as few as 40. The effects are worrying, not only because populations may shrink but also because of the existence of a growing underclass of young men who are partnerless, underqualified and jobless.

http://www.economist.com/printedition/PrinterFriendly.cfm?story_id=9407842

OTTAWA — Canada Revenue Agency has reluctantly signed up for a controversial online security system, warning it may pull out if the federal government doesn't cut costs significantly.

"If there is not sufficient movement towards a sustainable cost model within 18 months, we will proceed to consider other alternatives," says a toughly worded agency letter, obtained by the Canadian Press.

The missive is more evidence that Ottawa's vaunted Secure Channel system, estimated to cost up to a billion dollars, is a troubled, high-cost project that some have compared to the federal gun registry.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070702.wboondoggle02/BNStory/National/home

Always the spreader of good news eh TG.

Only thing better than a day of fishin' is a day of catchin'. Since I have to head into work soon, I'll do my fishin' vicariously thru our blogging hostess.

I usually don't like the idea of spreading "hacker" warnings, but I spent about 12 hours yesterday cleaning up my domains.

The "MPacks" got me. It appends a little redirect on certain pages. For users out there - if you see something that comes up (when surfing) that says "this page contains secure and non-secure" do not accept, close the page immediately ... it just ain't worth it.

I'll be spending a couple of hours today changing all the passwords.

Taliban Jack Layton-NDP says, fishing/hunting for taliban is not fair. Jacky plagiarised/poached that line from MayDion.
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US to hunt the Taliban inside Pakistan ...... (Musharraf to address to the nation)

KARACHI - Since last September, North Atlantic Treaty Organization forces in Afghanistan have been pressing Islamabad for the right to conduct extensive hot-pursuit operations into Pakistan to target Taliban and al-Qaeda bases.

According to Asia Times Online contacts, NATO and its US backers have gotten their wish: coalition forces will start hitting targets wherever they might be.

Pakistani President General Pervez Musharraf is expected to make an important announcement on extremism during an address to the nation in the next day or two.

The ATol contacts in Islamabad say that coalition intelligence has pinpointed at least four centers in the tribal areas of North Waziristan and South Waziristan on the border with Afghanistan from which Taliban operations inside Afghanistan are run. These bases include arms caches and the transfer and raising of money and manpower, the latter in the form of foot-soldiers to fight with the Taliban-led insurgency. ...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1859648/posts

wherever you go drive careful eh http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/News/National/2007/07/02/4306302-sun.html not to make light of anybodies death but with 65 people dead in afghanistan over 5 years and 190 dead on ontarios highways so far this year why the hell ain't dawn black and taliban jack out theretrying to shut down the 401 ? looks like the odds are better in afghanistan

Maybe I'll wait for the iPhone instead of risking Blackberry sales money ending up in a Maurice Strong/United Nations 'oil for food', 'Kyoto Kult', 'One World Government' type "initiative".

The Globe & Mail's Lawrence Martin thinks it is OK.

[ Jim Balsillie: bringing Canada to the world and the world to Canada.]

http://www.rbcinvest.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/PEstory/LAC/20070702/COMARTIN02/Headlines/headdex/headdexEducation/1/1/1/

[ The school is to be a breeding ground for ideas for our governments and other governments. It will fill a big gap at the student level, where the demand for foreign studies has been ramping up. "It's an unprecedented initiative," said Louise Fréchette, the Canadian who served as deputy secretary-general at the United Nations from 1998 to 2006. "I don't think we've had this kind of endowment in Canada for international relations and diplomacy ever." ]

[ The Balsillie School of International Affairs will operate out of Waterloo, Ont., and will work in tandem with a think tank Mr. Balsillie created in 2002, the Centre for International Governance Innovation, where Ms. Fréchette does research and to which Mr. Balsillie gave another $17-million last week.]

Louise Frechette, Maurice Strong, United Nations, One World Governance, ----- where have I seen this story before ?? Something about a world-wide tax on CO2 ??

Taj Mahal Fishin Blues

British//Scottish leaders/police capitulate to Islamist terror/blackmail.
Yes, Allah-Mo, we are dhimmis. Here are our heads. Use a sharp sword, please. We are on our knees now. Hurry, Imam: chop, chop.
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Police vow to clamp down on anti-Muslim backlash

Police chiefs and senior politicians moved to reassure Scotland's Muslim communities yesterday amid fears of a backlash after the terrorist incident at Glasgow airport.

Police said two minor incidents of racist abuse had been reported since the attacks but promised to clamp down on any backlash.

But he said there was no evidence that any of Scotland's imams or mosques had been fomenting hatred....-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1859678/posts

Castro:

"I am convinced that Carter, bound by ethical convictions of a religious nature, would never have ordered any such action against me. He was the only U.S. president who had a gesture of friendship towards Cuba in several important areas, including the establishment of the U.S. Interests Section in Cuba.

I don’t know that Clinton ever ordered my death, so I cannot accuse him of such an action. Unquestionably, he showed respect for the law and acted with political savvy when he accepted the judicial decision that called for the kidnapped child's return to his father and closest relatives, a decision by then backed by the overwhelming majority of the U.S. people. "

http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2007/junio/lun25/another-argument-for-the-manifesto.html

Ex_ CHIEF JUSTICE OF TAX COURT FOUND MURDERED

http://tinyurl.com/2n7ack

"OTTAWA — Ottawa Police were searching yesterday for suspects, and a motive, in the slayings of a retired judge, his wife and a female neighbour on the 10th floor of an exclusive condominium tower.

The victims were identified as former chief justice of the Tax Court Alban Garon, 77,"

Hmmmm tax court judge eh....no motives?

Maz2: "Police vow to clamp down on anti-Muslim backlash"

Typical of the anthill police state...in full blown dystopia they punsh the defenders or the victims of terrorists and criminals...they have disarmed these sheep now wolves prey on them and they will now shoot the sheep who scream for protection.

Typical reaction of dystopian police...they break your legs then taser you for not getting up when ordered to.

Stick a fork in 'er Mas 'Ol lady Britain is done like dinner.

It's Islam, stupid. This has never before been said here?
Islam: a monotheism; one god; one death for the unbeliever.

Its goal: a world-wide theocracy of Islam; rule by imams/ayatollahs, etc., aka Islamic priests.

Islam: a pyramid scheme: Allah at the apex; then, Mohammed; then, the priests; below them, the believers; then, at the bottom, prostrate on the ground, or, in the ground/graves, the dhimmis.
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I was a fanatic...I know their thinking, says former radical Islamist

When I was still a member of what is probably best termed the British Jihadi Network - a series of British Muslim terrorist groups linked by a single ideology - I remember how we used to laugh in celebration whenever people on TV proclaimed that the sole cause for Islamic acts of terror like 9/11, the Madrid bombings and 7/7 was Western foreign policy.

By blaming the Government for our actions, those who pushed this "Blair's bombs" line did our propaganda work for us.

More important, they also helped to draw away any critical examination from the real engine of our violence: Islamic theology. ...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1859657/posts

Meet the Ahmadis
There are the Sunnis, the Shiites and now, meet the Ahmadis.

In fact, meet thousands of them as they converge at Mississauga's International Centre for the 31st annual convention of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community over the Canada Day weekend...

...However, mainstream Muslims would call the event and the community anything but Muslim...

...the decision to expel the Ahmadiyya community was made by an international group of Muslim scholars in 1974. In countries like Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, Ahmadis are constitutionally declared as non-Muslims. Pakistan has gone far enough to make changes in its penal code in 1984 to arrest anyone linked to preaching the Ahmadi faith on the grounds of blasphemy despite the Ahmadi claim that they follow all the teachings of contemporary Islam.

Despite the persecutions, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community has continued on and in a little over a century, has established centres in 185 countries with a following of more than 10 million....

mississauga.com/article/4460

I just heard on CTV NewsNet that Salman Rushdie is divorcing his wife.

"Gain the honour, then lose the wife." Sounds quasi-American.

Regarding the previous item: I leapt too soon. According to a more recent NewsNet update, it was Sir Salman's wife who had asked for the divorce.

Who can blame her? I heard Salman was a cold fish.

The doctors are Muslims.
Islam: Death to the infidels; by all means, including doctors.
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Another Jihad Doctor (Update - Video Added)

Wow. We now have three doctors under suspicion for the terror attacks in the UK and Scotland.

LONDON, England (CNN) — Investigators are focusing on at least three doctors believed to have played a role in the attempted terror attacks in London and Glasgow last week, sources said Monday....-
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=26101_Another_Jihad_Doctor_(Update_-_Video_Added)&only&headline

WLMR-
I appeared before Justice Alban on many occasions during my tenure with the CRA. I can't comment on the reason for his demise but can say with some authority that he was one of the best on the bench. Great insight with a great degree of empathy for the opressed taxpayer. Very fair and balanced.

Bob Thompson talks about Independence Day:

"This week marks Independence Day, which in 2004 became significant for me in a second way. On 4 July three years ago, I converted to Linux almost exclusively, relegating Microsoft software to a very minor role in my operations...":

http://www.ttgnet.com/daynotes/2007/2007-27.html#Mon

There is a new Islamic medical group

"Doctors Without Triggering Devices."

Five Jihad Doctors!

The total number of doctors involved in the UK/Scotland terror attacks is now FIVE.

Five doctors are now being held in connection with the recent attempted terror attacks - one is an Iraqi doctor who trained in Baghdad. ...-
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=26106_Five_Jihad_Doctors!&only&headline

Islam: a death cult in which Muslim doctors are instructed by Mohammed-Allah to kill females. Islam is perversion.
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Don't Mince Words

The London car-bomb plot was designed to kill women.
By Christopher Hitchens

[...]

Only at the tail end of the coverage was it admitted that a car bomb might have been parked outside a club in Piccadilly because it was "ladies night" and that this explosion might have been designed to lure people into to the street, the better to be burned and shredded by the succeeding explosion from the second car-borne cargo of gasoline and nails. Since we have known since 2004 that a near-identical attack on a club called the Ministry of Sound was proposed in just these terms, on the grounds that dead "slags" or "sluts" would be regretted by nobody, a certain amount of trouble might have been saved by assuming the obvious. The murderers did not just want body parts in general but female body parts in particular. [...]

The most noticeable thing about all theocracies is their sexual repression and their directly related determination to exert absolute control over women. In Britain, in the 21st century, there are now honor killings, forced marriages, clerically mandated wife-beatings, incest in all but name, and the adoption of apparel for females that one cannot be sure is chosen by them but which is claimed as an issue of (of all things) free expression. This would be bad enough on its own and if it were confined to the Muslim "community" alone. But, of course, such a toxin cannot be confined, and the votaries of theocracy now claim the God-given right to slaughter females at random for nothing more than their perceived immodesty. The least we can do, confronted by such radical evil, is to look it in the eye (something it strives to avoid) and call it by its right name. For a start, it is the female victims of this tyranny who are "disenfranchised," while something rather worse than "disenfranchisement" awaits those who dare to disagree. ...-
http://www.slate.com/id/2169592/

Good to know "WHAT" we are fighting not just WHO?

http://answering-islam.org/index.html

Took the above link from below, read above first!

http://freethoughts.wordpress.com/

Stephen. ww 2 vet:

PS A belated happy DOMINION DAY!.....TEE HEE!

President Bush has commuted "Scooter" Libby's sentence to a $250,000 fine and two years' probation.

Kate, you owe us who fish a fish story or 2. Where'd you go? Hopefully no salt water...you know you can catch crabs there. :)~

Pole Results: 1,2,3, and #4: "dog mess".

In # 5:
Soozy, Goreacle, Mao Strong, CC-GW.
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'Scepticism over climate claims

The public believes the effects of global warming on the climate are not as bad as politicians and scientists claim, a poll has suggested. [...]
The survey suggested that terrorism, graffiti, crime and dog mess were all of more concern than climate change. ...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1859927/posts

Canada is facing a "War"? Canada is at war. Islam is the enemy.
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"Britain is at War with the Jihadists, that's the bottom line" says Dr. Walid Phares.

British officials "need to cope with the reality that they are the target of a Jihad war," Dr. Phares told Jack Riccardi on San Antonio's KTSA Saturday.[...]
Instead, said Phares, the growth of Jihadism is not the result of socio-economic disparities, but of the expansion of Wahabism, Salafism and other forms of radical ideologies. British understanding of the whole picture cannot complete itself unless a clear cut absorption of the fact that what the U.K. (and many other democracies) are facing now and in the future is a "War," not dispersed acts of violence. ...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1859920/posts

Thought this was kind of funny:

You're walking down a deserted street with your wife and two small children.
Suddenly, an Islamic Terrorist with a huge knife comes around the corner, locks eyes
with you, screams obscenities, praises Allah, raises the knife, and charges
at you. You are carrying a Glock 40 caliber, and you are an expert shot. You
have mere seconds before he reaches you and your family. What do you do?

----- DEMOCRAT'S ANSWER: -----

Well, that's not enough information to answer the question! Does the man
look poor or oppressed? Have I ever done anything to him that would
inspire him to attack? Could we run away? What does my wife think? What
about the kids? Could I possibly swing the gun like a club and knock the
knife out of his hand? What does the law say about this
situation? Does the Glock have appropriate safety built into it? Why am I
carrying a loaded gun anyway, and what kind of message does this send to society and
to my children? Is it possible he'd be happy with just killing me? Does he
definitely want to kill me, or would he be content just to wound me? If I
were to grab his knees and hold on, could my family get away while he was
stabbing me? Should I call 9-1-1? Why is this street so deserted? We need
to raise taxes, have a paint and weed day, and make this happier, healthier
street that would discourage such behavior. This is all so confusing! I need
to debate this with some friends for few days and try to come to a consensus.

----- REPUBLICAN'S ANSWER: -----

*BANG!*

----- SOUTHERNER'S ANSWER: -----

BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!
BANG! Click..... (Sounds of reloading) BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!
BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! Click!

Daughter: "Nice grouping, Daddy! Were those the
Winchester Silver Tips or Hollow Points?"
Son: "Can I shoot the next
one!??!"
Wife: "You ain't taking that to the Taxidermist."

Another catch: Another "doctor".

Lots of doctorfish in the Islam Sea of Murder.
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Breaking: British Terror Suspect Arrested in Australia

Got one in Brisbane:

BRISBANE, Australia (AP) - An Australian television network reports that a suspect wanted in the British terrorism plot has been arrested in the eastern city of Brisbane.

(Hat tip: Thanos.)

UPDATE at 7/2/07 5:35:27 pm:

He’s a doctor, of course....-
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/

PMSH gave a very powerful Canada Day speech. I'm surprised it hasn't been discussed more on the blogs.

Too busy playing golf today to listen to PMSH.

Islam's Worldwide Blood Sea of Death.

The Islamist war is not just in Britain.

Warning: Canada is not immune.

The enemy is Islam. Islam is both outside Canada and within Canada.
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Spanish tourists killed as suicide bomber strikes in Yemen

Seven Spanish tourists were killed in Yemen yesterday when an apparent suicide bomber linked to Al-Qaeda rammed a car packed with explosives into their convoy.(google news)
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The Car Bomb Jihad: Is Britain Seeing Clearly?

With each revelation made in Britain and in the West about a foiled plot or after an actual attack, a shower of questions is raised within the mainstream media, some of which contradict the other. The June 29 British success in averting two (maybe more) car bombs in London has also been accompanied by an endless series of issues, revealing among other things how the counterterrorism culture within Western democracies is still lacking in terms of cohesiveness. By comparison with previous conflicts, the analytical behavior of the global war on terror deserves a serious review.

Following are a few questions I suggest we consider...-
http://www.newmediajournal.us/staff/w_phares/07032007.htm

Blogs are bogs: full of nothing but swamp water, vanity, blatherings of idiots.

If so, why are the tyrants attacking blogs, aka "independent media"?

It's an old story. The Church chained the Bible to the walls to prevent the Word from being spread. Didn't work.

Freedom knows no boundaries.
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Achtung Panzer!

Something to watch. La Russophobe quotes the Washington Post on the subject of the Kremlin's possible deployment of denial-of-service attacks on its domestic critics. This follows the use of such attacks on Estonia, with whom Russia had a political dispute.

A political battle is raging in Russian cyberspace. Opposition parties and independent media say murky forces have committed vast resources to hacking and crippling their Web sites in attacks similar to those that hit tech-savvy Estonia as the Baltic nation sparred with Russia over a Soviet war memorial. While they offer no proof, the groups all point the finger at the Kremlin, calling the electronic siege an attempt to stifle Russia's last source of free, unfiltered information. The victims, who range from liberal democrats to ultranationalists, allege their hacker adversaries hope to harass the opposition with the approach of parliamentary elections in December and presidential elections in next March. ...

The attacks are similar to assaults _ sometimes a million computers-strong _ unleashed in April and early May against Web sites in Estonia. Officials there say waves of attacks crashed dozens of government, corporate and media Web sites in one of Europe's most wired societies. The cyber warfare included computer-generated spam and so-called Distributed Denial-of-Service, or DDoS, attacks. ...-
http://fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com/

Fishing report for Canada Day
4lb walleye and 2 keeper size perch from Lk. Scugog Monday AM.
I trolled a floating fire tiger rapalla.
Smallest size Orange Erie Dearie tipped with a worm also accounted for 2 more walleye and 3 muskie in our boat.
All the musky were successfully released to do battle again.

Sounds like a fish story to me richfisher, but a good one. Makes me want to put away the wrenches and spend a day on a lake instead of shine and shows!