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Twitter has reacted to this raid by removing the term from its trending topics, but evidence can still be found on Twitter Search. Twitter saw a huge influx of fake accounts on Sunday, pushing the NSFW trending topic, #gorillapenis, all the way to the top of the list. Popular image board 4chan /b/, along with other various sites, appears to be behind this latest raid on Twitter. 4chan, a hub of Internet culture and memes, has long been the spawning point of various raids on sites, most recently YouTube Porn Day. Before that, they were responsible for hacking Time Magazine's...

July 1, 2009 — “Absolutely amazing” and “absolutely gobsmacking” are exclamations made by scientists analyzing the fossilized skin of a hadrosaur known as Dakota. The researchers found cell structures and organic matter in the skin and layers that resemble the skin of birds and crocodiles. The specimen was uncovered in 1999 on a North Dakota ranch and is still being analyzed. Photos on the BBC News show clear scales and cross sections of microscopic tendon structures. The article said, “Tests have shown that the fossil still holds cell-like structures,” adding, “although the proteins that made up the hadrosaur’s skin had...

Note: The following text is a quote: Spam, Phishing, and Malicious Code Related to Recent Celebrity Deaths added June 26, 2009 at 10:44 am US-CERT is aware of public reports of an increased number of spam campaigns, phishing attacks, and malicious code targeting the recent deaths of Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett. These email messages may attempt to gain user information through phishing attacks or by recording email addresses if the user replies to the message. Additionally, email messages may contain malicious code or may contain a link to a seemingly legitimate website containing malicious code. US-CERT would like to...

We have studied your CV. We are a small consultancy company situated in Poland, Warsaw. In current moment we have an open position of Financial Manager. Position of Financial Manager requires part-time work from the candidate. The job consists in remittance of pay-offs from our customers. Activity description: because of our local legislation we are hindered in acquirement of pay-offs from our United States based customers. However customers from United States compose the main part of our consultant business. In current moment we do not possess a representation of our Firm in USA, that why we need a Financial Manager,...

Korean, Hawaiian and Mexican with a dash of Twitter. It's Seattle's newest food fusion. The Marination Mobile is a taco truck, serving Hawaiian-Korean food, and was the brainchild of Kamala Saxton and Roz Edison. "This really started from my love and Roz Edison's love of street food," explains Saxton. Neither felt they had found a Hawaiian-Korean restaurant in town serving the type of food they were making at home. But they ultimately decided, home wasn't where they wanted to serve that food. That's where the love of curb cuisine came in and the idea of a taco-truck took shape. The...

WASHINGTON—Five individuals pleaded guilty today in federal court in Detroit for their roles in a wide-ranging international stock fraud scheme involving the illegal use of bulk commercial e-mails, or “spamming,” announced Assistant Attorney General of the Criminal Division Lanny A. Breuer and U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan Terrence Berg. Alan M. Ralsky, 64, of West Bloomfield, Mich., and Scott K. Bradley, 38, also of West Bloomfield, both pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, mail fraud and to violate the CAN-SPAM Act. Ralsky and Bradley also pleaded guilty to wire fraud, money laundering, and violating the...

June 17, 2009 - 9:29 PM Click here to contact Will Carr A little girl continues to fight for life while her family, friends and even strangers continue to pray. On Wednesday doctors performed more surgery on eight-year-old Faith Guelde after a pit-bull attacked her several days ago. Faith's grandmother says she's conscious but very, very critical. She says right now they're just hoping to save her right arm and then plan for a long road to recovery. A picture taken at the hospital shows eight-year-old Faith Guelde wearing a pink and purple crown and offering a bright smile during...

LEVERETT'S CHAPEL, TX (KLTV) - Police say 10-year-old Justin Clinton was attacked and killed by two pit bulls. It happened at around 12:30 in the community of Leverett's Chapel, just south of Kilgore. "He was all boy," said Becky Long, Justin's Aunt. "He was full of life and he just made allstars in his softball," said Justin's great-aunt, Carolyn Spence. He was a bright, athletic little boy who's life was cut short. "I know we're not supposed to question God, but we don't understand," said Long. Rusk County sheriff's investigators say Justin was riding his skateboard about a mile down...

June 16, 2009 By JENNIFER JOHNSON jjohnson@pioneerlocal.com A 49-year-old man suffered injuries after he was reportedly bitten several times by a pit bull Saturday night. Park Ridge Acting Police Chief Tom Swoboda said the man was walking his dog about 8:30 p.m. near Maine Park Leisure Center, 2701 W. Sibley Ave., when a black-and-white pit bull ran in his direction. The pit bull, which was not on a leash, began biting the man's dog and also bit the man in the wrist, arm and leg, Swoboda said. Park Ridge paramedics treated the victim at the scene, but he reportedly declined...

Wichita, Kansas - Max the pit bull is big, protective, and loud. About a month ago he broke free of his chain and was pepper sprayed by the mail carrier. Today, the U-S Postal Service says it will no longer deliver mail to the house where Max lives. The post office has also cut mail delivery to the entire block. Terri, the homeowner, says Max did break his chain and run to the end of their property. But, Terri says the dog did not leave the property and was still pepper sprayed by the mail carrier. Jim is Max's owner,...

KILGORE, Texas - Authorities say two pit bulls fatally mauled a 10-year-old boy in East Texas. The Rusk County Sheriff's Office says witnesses reported seeing the dogs drag Justin Clinton down the side of the road Monday in the small community of Leverett's Chapel.

According to Benjamin Wiker’s provocative new biography, The Darwin Myth: the Life and Lies of Charles Darwin, Charles Darwin was an honorable and likable man, a family man. He loved his siblings; he was devoted to his wife; he loved his children and grieved deeply over his daughter’s death. But Darwin was also someone who presented to the public an elaborate and even deceptive story about himself and his work to advance a philosophical agenda. While there are many biographies of Charles Darwin, Wiker’s deserves attention because...

--snip-- There is still much to learn about this phenomenal built-in adaptation capability, but it now is clear, and has been for several years now, that epigenetic inheritance is a dramatic departure from evolutionary expectations...

Pit bull’s owner: Family comes 1st Aunt of attack victims wanted dog taken away after incident By Tim Archuleta (Contact) Saturday, June 6, 2009 San Angelo, Texas — JoAnn Cruz of San Angelo has some advice for pet owners after a “terrible” dog attack on two family members during a Sunday evening barbecue. “I recommend not having a pit bull, whether the dog is friendly or not,” a grieving Cruz said. “They will turn on you.” Cruz’s pit bull terrier named Cain attacked her 3-year-old niece, Estrella Soria, and her 18-year-old niece, Ashley Rios, after breaking free from a handler...

I've been posting here for almost 8 years so I figure I can get away with a shameless plug for my brother's just-released Christian kids album, Meet the Grace Place Kids now available for a whopping $8.99 on Amazon and soon to be on iTunes as well. The album will be followed shortly by a whole series of web videos starring some cute puppets and a good message. This is a true home grown project about 17 years in the making and some nice people are very excited about it. They are hoping to do grassroots marketing with churches, etc....

Evolution As Catch-All Explanation June 3, 2009 — If you were taught a precise definition of neo-Darwinism in school, it doesn’t seem to matter to many evolutionists in the media. In practice, the word “Evolution” seems to act as a catch-all category for explaining anything and everything – whether or not random mutation and natural selection were involved. Some purpose and design can even be tossed into the mix as long as Evolution is the hero of the story. Here are some recent examples of how Evolution is employed to explain whatever:...

When and Why Anti-Darwinism First Arose I'm a big fan of Rod Dreher. His Crunchy Con blog rarely fails to enlighten me, so I've been looking forward to his reflections on faith and science, generated by his current visit to Cambridge University as a Cambridge-Templeton fellow. Rod blogged today in response to a lecture and discussion in which evolution came up. He writes that "Darwinism wasn't initially opposed by Christians" and credits William Jennings Bryan with rallying the faithful against evolution. This is worth some further elaboration. How soon did opposition to Darwinism develop? Among whom, and why?...

ST. PETERSBURG, FL -- A St. Petersburg senior survived an encounter with two pit bulls early Saturday morning. Unfortunately her Yorkshire Terrier wasn't as lucky. According to St. Petersburg Police 79-year-old Elizabeth Nebbia was walking her dog in the 4800 block of Bahama Shores Drive, around 9:45 a.m., when two pit bulls approached them and began attacking her dog. Nebbia was bitten on her hands and arms as she tried to fend off the dogs. She was taken to a local hospital and treated for her injuries. Her Yorkshire Terrier was killed in the attack.

Police Shoot Pit Bull, Save Collie In Dog Fight Posted: 5:14 pm EDT May 31, 2009 WASHINGTON, Pa. -- Police had to taser a pit bull twice before shooting it to end a vicious dog attack in Washington County. The pit bull attacked another dog on Broad Street in the City of Washington. "I had to get that dog off him. He's all tied up and I didn't want my dog dead." Donald Jacobs and his wife Vicky said their one-year-old collie named Buddy was attacked by a neighbor's pit bull as they sat outside their house around 11 p.m....

Not one investor in a hundred realizes this, but now is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for income investors. Most people will never recognize this opportunity because they don't know what a truly great income investment is. Most income seekers like to buy things like commercial real estate stocks (REITs) to collect rents. REITs have a big problem: They're required by law to pay out 90% of their distributable earnings. So if they want to grow, they have no choice but to take on debt or dilute your interest by selling more shares. That's why so many REIT dividends have been cut...

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - Hormel Foods Corp. reported Thursday net income rose 4% for the quarter but sales growth was flat despite increased demand for Spam, Dinty Moore stews, and Chi-Chi's Mexican food items. Hormel reported second-quarter net income of $80.4 million, or 59 cents a share, up from $77.6 million, or 56 cents a share, in the year-earlier period. Sales were $1.6 billion, about even with last year.

Spam now accounts for 90.4 percent of all e-mail, according to a report released Monday from security vendor Symantec. This means that 1 out of every 1.1 e-mails is junk. The report also notes that spam shot up 5.1 percent just from April to May. Symantec's May 2009 MessageLabs Intelligence report reveals other disturbing trends, as well. Rather than just hijack disreputable Web sites, cybercriminals now favor older and well-established domains to host their malware. The report says 84.6 percent of all domains blocked for malicious content are more than a year old. One type of domain now especially vulnerable...

Pop Culture Parades Darwinism as Science by Christine Dao* Charles Darwin attempted to explain the origin of living organisms in On the Origin of Species, published in 1859. Two hundred years later, his theory of descent with modification by natural selection, better known simply as evolution, has miraculously become equated with the scientific method and experimental research, despite having never been observed in action and having no irrefutable supporting evidence. And besides dominating American public science curricula, Darwinist philosophy has cemented itself into the entertainment and pop culture arenas as well...

Published Thursday May 21, 2009 Girl's arm severely injured in pit bull attack, police say A six-year-old girl suffered a severe injury to her left arm Wednesday evening in La Vista after being attacked by a pit bull, according to Robert Lausten, the city's chief of police. The girl will need the services of a plastic surgeon, Lausten said via e-mail. A 36-year-old man was cited in connection with the incident. The Nebraska Humane Society siezed the dog. -Andrew J. Nelson

--snip-- Darwin’s erroneous and racist conclusionsIn chapter 21 of his Descent of Man, “General Summary and Conclusion”, Darwin wrote, “We thus learn that man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped probably arboreal in its habits and an inhabitant of the Old World.” He continued, “The main conclusion arrived at in this work, namely that man is descended from some lowly organized form, will, I regret to say, be highly distasteful to many. But there can hardly be a doubt that we are descended from barbarians.” In support of this Darwin then reiterated his assessment of the Fuegians. He wrote,...

WASHINGTON – It's not all doom and gloom in the U.S. economy. Some products are bucking the recession and flying off store shelves. Sales of chocolate and running shoes are up. Wine drinkers haven't stopped sipping; they just seem to be choosing cheaper vintages. Gold coins are selling like hot cakes. So are gardening seeds. Tanning products are piling up in shopping carts; maybe more people are finding color in a bottle than from sun-worshipping on a faraway beach. Strong sales of Spam, Dinty Moore stew and chili helped Hormel Foods Corp. post a 6 percent increase in first quarter...

A Primer on the Tree of Life (Part 5) Note: This is Part 5 in a 5-part series titled "A Primer on the Tree of Life." Read Part 1 here, Part 2 here, Part 3 here, and Part 4 here. Molecules Contradict Morphology A final way that evolutionists overstate the evidence for common descent is by claiming that molecular phylogenies have confirmed or buttressed phylogenies based upon morphology. For example, in his book Galileo’s Finger, Oxford University scientist Peter Atkins discusses evolution and boldly states, “The effective prediction is that the details of molecular evolution must be consistent with those...

--snip-- It was at about this point that I put up my hand and called out ‘Excuse me … ’ Students did not usually ask questions in such a large and intimidating gathering. ‘Yes’, the lecturer looked my way. ‘Excuse me, but I was just wondering what evidence there is for this particular animal that you are describing? Have any examples of these been found in the oceans, or have they found any fossils of them?’ She hesitated and removed the slide from the screen. ‘Well, no’, she said. ‘We don’t have any fossils. This is a hypothetical example. It...

Friends... Please help me. Millions of people in the world suffer from a dread disease, but most don't even realize they are infected. The disease is Sao Paulo Afybrillitis-Macrodegenerative-Molaral-Ephedryl-Diticularism (or S.P.A.M.M.E.D). Each day children and some well meaning adults in third-world countries and remote places such as Hot Coffee, Mississippi come into contact with the Sao Paulo Kidney Rat and don't even know it. This results in exposure to the S.P.A.M.M.E.D virus which almost always ends in hundreds of people suffering with severe pain of the lower posterior region. Please do what you can to stop the spread of...

Twelve million computers have been brought into botnets since January, according to a new report — and 18% of all zombie machines are in the US. A new report from security company McAfee says that since January an estimated 12 million computers have been infected with malware and turned into zombies, making them part of botnets, and that these zombie numbers have increased by 50% since last year. At 18%, the US hosts the largest number of infected machines, followed by China with 13%. Jeff Green, senior vice-president of McAfee, said: “The massive expansion of these botnets provides cyber-criminals with...

Why am I getting these emails?

Note: The following text is a quote: Two Missouri Brothers Among Those Indicted in $4 Million Nationwide Spamming Conspiracy Millions of E-Mail Addresses Illegally Harvested from Computers at 2,000 Schools KANSAS CITY, MO—Two Missouri men and their company are among those indicted by a federal grand jury in a nationwide e-mail spamming case that victimized more than 2,000 colleges and universities in a scheme that sold more than $4 million worth of products to students, announced Matt J. Whitworth, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri. Amir Ahmad Shah, 28, of St. Louis., his brother, Osmaan Ahmad...

A Brainerd man shot and killed two pit bull dogs attacking a neighbor's pit bull in an incident on Sunday. The case was turned over by Chattanooga Police to the McKamey Animal Trust. McKamey officials have charged the owner of the two dogs, Walter Pitmon, for letting his dogs run at large. Police Officer Brian Blumenberg said he responded to 108 S. Howell Ave. and spoke with Stephen Hooper, who said two pit bulls attacked his pit bull who was chained in the back yard. He said while the attack was going on, his neighbor, James Klassen, came out of...

Spammers come in all shapes and sizes. One in particular wears very large sneakers. Bill Bradley -- Basketball Hall-of-Famer, Rhodes scholar, former U.S. senator from New Jersey and onetime presidential candidate -- may very well be helping to clog up your inbox with unwanted mail.

About the pit bull threads... Okay, I am going to ease off on the pit bull threads. The Admin Moderator has not asked me to, nor have I been threatened with banishment. Nor am I persuaded by the threads devoted to bashing me for posting these stories. I am just frankly getting tired of it myself. These attacks are basically unending, and it will only get much worse as school is out for Summer, and kids are around more, the temperatures rising, and what have you. I will certainly still post these from time to time, or maybe I'll do...

Last modified on 4/21/2009 at 12:19 am Judge grants retrial to Cody pit bull owner By RUFFIN PREVOST Gazette Wyoming Bureau CODY - A judge has ordered a new trial for a Cody man convicted last month of keeping a vicious animal after his dog chased two horses in their corral, one of which ran into a fence post and died. "That's one of those good-news, bad-news things," Judge Bruce Waters told defendant Raymond Goodman on Monday. The good news for Goodman, 20, is that he has a right to a jury trial, which he was not allowed during his...

Pit bull dragged victim 'like a rag doll' By Alan Burke Staff writer DANVERS — While it was happening, Cassandra Osgood, 23, thought she was going to die. The pit bull that attacked her on Thursday, April 9, at a Peabody mobile home inflicted more than 50 wounds, even biting to the bone, tearing away skin, muscle and fat. At one point, the savage attack left her to shelter alone behind a glass door, lying in a pool of her own blood while the dog scratched at the glass trying to get at her. Even so, Osgood said, "I feel...

Lawyer defends 'dangerous' pit bull that attacked four By Alan Burke Staff writer PEABODY — Salem lawyer Jeremy Cohen is resolving to save Bronson the pit bull. Cohen has been hired to represent Brian Stevens, owner of the dog that last Thursday savagely attacked three women and a police officer, inflicting more than 50 wounds on Cassandra Osgood of Danvers. "I know why the dog snapped," Cohen said. He declined to share any specifics. "It was because he was being a dog and not a killer." The lawyer hinted that a brief episode of playful wrestling between two of the...

Published on Sunday, April 19, 2009. Last modified on 4/19/2009 at 1:42 am Pit bull victim: 'I'm a quick healer' By ZACH BENOIT Of The Gazette Staff The first time Wesley Fuchs was attacked by a pair of pit bulls owned by a man who lives in the house where he rents an apartment, a dog bite cracked a bone in his right arm. It required surgery, plus 18 stitches and several weeks of physical therapy. On Friday, about six weeks after the first attack, the dogs came at him again, this time tearing up his left forearm and leaving...

A study into spam has blamed it for the production of more than 33bn kilowatt-hours of energy every year, enough to power more than 2.4m homes. The Carbon Footprint of e-mail Spam report estimated that 62 trillion spam emails are sent globally every year. This amounted to emissions of more than 17 million tons of CO2, the research by climate consultants ICF International and anti-virus firm McAfee found. Searching for legitimate e-mails and deleting spam used some 80% of energy. The study found that the average business user generates 131kg of CO2 every year, of which 22% is related to...

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Evolutionists often attempt to use observational science—arguments from biology, paleontology, geology, or even astronomy—to support their belief. But the really interesting thing is that they base all their arguments on principles that ultimately come from biblical creation! As strange as it may sound, evolutionists must unwittingly assume that creation is true in order to argue against it. That means that Darwin was (in a sense) a “creationist.” All evolutionists must borrow the principles of biblical creation in order to do science (even though they would deny this). Here is why...

Spam 'produces 17m tons of CO2' BBC NewsPage last updated at 14:01 GMT, Thursday, 16 April 2009 15:01 UK A study into spam has blamed it for the production of more than 33bn kilowatt-hours of energy every year, enough to power more than 2.4m homes. The Carbon Footprint of e-mail Spam report estimated that 62 trillion spam emails are sent globally every year. This amounted to emissions of more than 17 million tons of CO2, the research by climate consultants ICF International and anti-virus firm McAfee found. Searching for legitimate e-mails and deleting spam used some 80% of energy. The...

Enid pair survive pit bull attack BY VALLERY BROWN Published: April 18, 2009 ENID — Rhonda Morgan said when the dogs attacked, her instincts took over. All she could think to do was keep her daughter away from the teeth. "It was the most terrifying thing I’ve been through,” Morgan said. "Those dogs were intent on my daughter.” Around noon April 11, Morgan said she and her 2-year old daughter, Madison, were playing in the front yard of their Enid home. She said two pit bull terriers appeared and headed for her daughter. Another terrier mix from the neighborhood joined...

Today I have received probably 15 spam messages using multiple variations of "failed mail delivery" as the sender and/or subject. No idea what they want because I didn't open them.

Progressive creationist anthropology: many reasons NOT to believe A review of Who was Adam? by Fazale Rana with Hugh Ross Although mostly written by Fazale Rana, the book is said to equally represent the work of Hugh Ross. Their salvos against biblical creationists are mostly confined to the earlier chapters of the book, with the first shot being to blame us for the biblical perspective on human origins not being ‘at the high table of scientific debate’ (p. 12). Here they characterize the approach taken by creationists as largely attacking human evolutionary models, but seldom offering ‘a viable theory of...

NEW YORK, April 16 (UPI) -- Disc jockey Katsuhiro Honda's three pit bulls are bullying smaller dogs on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, his neighbors said. Several dog owners told the New York Post the Japanese hip-hop star's pit bulls Boss, One and Boy are terrorizing and attacking canines in the neighborhood. Celebrity facialist Christine Chin told the newspaper Boss was off his leash when he ripped into Bebe, her 12-pound Yorkshire terrier, this month, sending the smaller animal to the vet to have a $4,000 operation to sew her face back together. "My pet was almost shredded to...

by Staten Island Advance Thursday April 16, 2009, 1:02 PM A Port Richmond woman walked away without any jail time while her boy friend remained behind bars in the savage pit bull mauling that killed a 90-year-old World War II veteran. Kim DiPrima, 38, was sentenced today to five years probation under a plea deal made in February when she copped to second-degree manslaughter stemming from the dogs' brutal attack on Henry Piotrowski in the victim's yard on John Street July 1 last year. Ms. DiPrima co-owned the two pit bulls -- Popeye and Brutus -- with her boyfriend and...

RALEIGH, N.C. — The Marine Corps' Camp Lejeune banned dogs including pit bulls and Rottweilers from military housing Thursday nearly a year after a young boy was bitten to death, joining 12 states and several cities and towns that have adopted bans on specific breeds deemed dangerous. A 24-page order issued by base commander Col. Richard Flateau Jr. prohibits full or mixed breeds of pit bulls, Rottweilers or wolf dogs and any breed with "dominant traits of aggression." New base residents can't keep the dogs and visitors can't bring them in. The ban comes after a 3-year-old boy was fatally...

On Tuesday night, police responded to a Pit Bull attack on the 800 block of Jefferson Street in Oshkosh. Police say an 8 year old girl was playing with the dog, when all of a sudden it bit her in the face. She was taken to the hospital for treatment, for severe facial injuries. A man and the dog's owner was also injured in the attack. The Oshkosh Area Humane Society responded to the scene, and brought the dog back to the center. The family decided to have the dog euthanized.