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The Reformed Presbyterian Church in the U.S., at it meeting on April 19, 2013, adopted a statement concerning Homosexuality and Same Sex marriage. They intentionally included positions from the Presbyterian Church in America and the Orthodox Presbyterian Church with the hope that they would once again join in making a prophetic statement to those in civil authority that the fear and judgment of God may at least move enough legislators and judges not to approve of or support legalizing “same sex marriage.” Their desire is that the whole Christian, and especially the Reformed church, should protest this matter. Resolution Adopted...

... Thad McCotter is chairman of the House Republican Policy Committee, a leadership position from which he will play a role in shaping the GOP congressional agenda. [...] [...] Shortly after Barack Obama took office, Gutfeld asked McCotter the familiar question about whether the GOP was in "disarray." His reply was typical McCotter, with carefully wielded pop culture references sending his co-panelists into guffaws as he dutifully pressed his party's case. "Well, when we were growing up we used to look at the Flock of Seagulls' hair and we'd say that looks in disarray, but there was a whole lot...

YOU PROBABLY were expecting this. Our attention has been drawn to another exploit which maybe is just waiting to explode into your attention. A Russian site, which you can find here, suggests that Pink Floyd – a "universal exploit" for MS03-039 is out there and running. According to the report, Windows XP SP1 with everything fixed is still likely to be exploited. More later, if there's more later. µ

<p>Administrators and security specialists hoping for a breather now that Blaster has faded and SoBig.F has expired may be in for a long weekend.</p> <p>The nature of the new vulnerabilities revealed yesterday in the RPC DCOM implementation in Windows is so similar to the one that Blaster exploits that security experts believe it's only a matter of days, if not hours, before someone releases a worm to attack the new weaknesses. Even though it infected close to a million machines, experts say the Blaster worm was poorly coded and as a result did not do nearly the damage that a more efficient worm could have done. Blaster easily could be modified to work much better, and because the source code for the worm is readily available online, it's likely that someone is already at work on that task.</p>

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-039.asp is where you can get the latest patch if your windows update just goes to lala land like mine did this morning.

Security researchers have warned of a flaw in communications software that could allow attackers to take over computers running Windows, Unix-based operating systems and Mac OS X, as well as Kerberos authentication systems. The problem is widespread because it affects some implementations of XDR (external data representation) libraries, used by many applications as a way of sending data from one system process to another, regardless of the system's architecture. The affected libraries are derived from Sun Microsystems' SunRPC remote procedure call technology, which has been taken up by many vendors. The Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT), a security network...