Mysterious Computer Virus Discovered...... Confined Largely To Iran .... Origins Unknown

This one's a real stumper folks.

Powerful "Flame" cyber weapon found in Middle East

By Jim Finkle

BOSTON (Reuters) - Security experts have discovered a new data-stealing virus dubbed Flame they say has lurked inside thousands of computers across the Middle East for as long as five years as part of a sophisticated cyber warfare campaign.

It is the most complex piece of malicious software discovered to date, said Kaspersky Lab security senior researcher Roel Schouwenberg, whose company discovered the virus. The results of the Lab's work were made available on Monday.

Schouwenberg said he did not know who built Flame.

http://news.yahoo.com/powerful-flame-cyber-weapon-found-middle-east-131106053--sector.html

Video: MSNBC observes Memorial Day

Lifted from Hot Air with no comments by me ....it speaks for itself.

If there’s one thing on which we all can agree, it’s that any man or woman who gives their last full measure of devotion in service to their nation has a legitimate claim to the title “hero.” Regardless of whether one supports the policies that put the service member in that position, the man or woman volunteered to follow the orders of his Commander in Chief to defend all of us and our freedom, knowing full well what they may have to sacrifice on our behalf. Unfortunately, that’s not quite a universal point of agreement, as it turns out. Yesterday, MSNBC and its host Chris Hayes called that recognition warmongering in an incoherent, rambling statement that will haunt the channel and its host for a very long time:

Newsbusters has the transcript:

CHRIS HAYES: Thinking today and observing Memorial Day, that’ll be happening tomorrow. Just talked with Lt. Col. Steve Burke [sic, actually Beck], who was a casualty officer with the Marines and had to tell people [inaudible]. Um, I, I, ah, back sorry, um, I think it’s interesting because I think it is very difficult to talk about the war dead and the fallen without invoking valor, without invoking the words “heroes.” Um, and, ah, ah, why do I feel so comfortable [sic] about the word “hero”? I feel comfortable, ah, uncomfortable, about the word because it seems to me that it is so rhetorically proximate to justifications for more war. Um, and, I don’t want to obviously desecrate or disrespect memory of anyone that’s fallen, and obviously there are individual circumstances in which there is genuine, tremendous heroism: hail of gunfire, rescuing fellow soldiers and things like that. But it seems to me that we marshal this word in a way that is problematic. But maybe I’m wrong about that.

H/T Hot Air

Trayvon Martin And Drug Cocktail ?

 I don't know what to make of this but it does make you wonder.... follow the links and see what you think.

Update #26 Part 2 – Trayvon Martin Shooting – A year of drug use culminates in predictable violence…

Go ahead and review the whole thing, because while it most certainly is “controversial” it is also a good substantive fact-based background in Trayvon’s own words.   But, again it is only background,  and more information is needed for the rest of this discussion.  We will highlight some sections of it, from Trayvon Martin’s own words, throughout this explanation because it speaks to a “directional sense” in the lifestyle of an evolving teenager.

As I use these Facebook discussions from Trayvon I’m going to correct the ebonics unless it seems necessary to reference directly to the source.  Otherwise  I’ll do my best to interpret it into something people unfamiliar with nuance within a “cultural language” can understand.

Let’s begin about mid-way down the page on the left-hand side, where Martin says:

“unow a connect for codine” or
“do you know of a connection for codeine”?

Trayvon is seeking a source for the prescription drug Codeine. Eventually we learn that he’s not seeking the pill form, but rather a “liquid” form, which he says he’s “had…before.”

His friend responds that he doesn’t NEED codeine – that he can just mix Robitussin and soda to make…

“…some fire @$$ lean.”

http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2012/05/24/update-26-part-2-trayvon-martin-shooting-a-year-of-drug-use-culminates-in-predictable-violence/

Obama's New World Is A Welfare State .... Welcome To Obama's New World

 Well the pace of change is rolling along nicely and if your a liberal / democrat / progressive, Paradise is within grasping distance. According to an article in the Wall Street Journal 1/2 of ALL  households in the U.S. today have at least 1 person who are receiving government benefits. Instead of standing on assembly lines, we now stand in welfare and unemployment lines. The liberals tell us that we can indeed afford this ....if we just raise taxes on the rich. Personally I don't think there are enough rich in the world to pay our bills today let alone what is coming down the pike. In any case with 1/2 of all U.S. households with at least 1 member receiving government benefits and with close to 50 % of those who work or have an income not paying federal income taxes I wonder how people think this is going to end.  JUST A LITTLE FUN FACT ...1 of those who are receiving government benefits is obama's ILLEGAL ALIEN  auntie who lives in Boston public housing and receives 700.00 a month cash benefits, housing and medical. She has never paid a dime into the coffers of the U.S. treasury and her nephew is a multi millionaire but we tax payers are supporting her.

May 26, 2012, 5:00 AM

Number of the Week: Half of U.S. Lives in Household Getting Benefits

By Phil Izzo

49.1%: Percent of the population that lives in a household where at least one member received some type of government benefit in the first quarter of 2011.

Cutting government spending is no easy task, and it’s made more complicated by recent Census Bureau data showing that nearly half of the people in the U.S. live in a household that receives at least one government benefit, and many likely received more than one.

The 49.1% of the population in a household that gets benefits is up from 30% in the early 1980s and 44.4% as recently as the third quarter of 2008.

http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2012/05/26/number-of-the-week-half-of-u-s-lives-in-household-getting-benefits/

Democrats To Ignore 68,000 Of Their Voters ...Labeling Them Racists !!!!

 Obama is running unopposed but make no mistake voters within the democrat party have found ways to make their displeasure known. In the West Virginia primary obama came within 8 % points of losing the state to a Texas convict. In Kentucky uncommitted took home 42 % of the vote in the democrat primary there. In Arkansas John Wolfe, a unknown dark horse took just over 42 % of the democrat vote away from obama. Now the Arkansas state and national democrat party has announced that they will not seat any of Wolfe's delegates at the national convention. The 69,108 Arkansas democrats who voted for Mr. Wolfe have been labeled racists  by democrat party spokesmen and will have their voices silenced at the democrat national convention. I guess no bitter clingers need apply.

"Race, resentment [and] fear,” explained Donna Brazile, a Louisiana native and Democratic strategist when asked about Obama’s under performance. “Democrats have not had any messaging in those states for more than a decade. It’s hard to get voters to like you or even know you when all they hear is negative stuff.”

  The democrat party has a long history of labeling its opponents as racists and this reaction to dissent within party ranks should come as no surprise but the party has a problem and its not limited to just Southern states as they would like you to believe.

FROM BREITBART

As I mentioned earlier today, the real story the corrupt media doesn’t want to tell is that Obama's having serious issues with his base. Thus far, it's not just the rural white working class breaking away in coal country. Overall…

In the 16 states in which voters were given an alternative to Obama on the Democratic primary ballot — whether it be an actual candidate, a write-in or simply “uncommitted” — Obama averaged 84.6 percent of the vote.

In the five states where there was a named opponent, though, Obama’s share of the vote was 72.7 percent.

Furthermore, in 2008 Obama won both North Carolina and New Hampshire and has been embarrassed with his showings in both this year. Maybe a smarter place to look for Obama's base problems would be his flat-footed and failed attack on Bain Capital, where the three most prominent Democrats who publicly defied the President -- Cory Booker, Harold Ford Jr., and Artur Davis -- are all black.  

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2012/05/23/Dems-Call-their-Own-Racist-After-Ky-Ar

 Its is going to be interesting to see how the democrat party continues to explain away obama's less than stellar showing in his party primaries. In any case I find it highly amusing that the party who berates us Conservatives and Republicans as wanting to suppress and take away voting rights are the very ones if their own party members don't toe the party line are more than willing to disenfranchise their own voters ....PRICELESS

What Happened To Pompey Dodge ?

 That was a trick question. I know what happened to Pompey Dodge. Obama closed Pompey Dodge. In fact obama closed 789 Chrysler dealerships it is claimed to save the company. When you add in the GM dealerships obama closed you're over or close to 3000 separate businesses obama closed, affecting tens of thousands of employee's, their families and local business that depended on or supplied these dealerships. Now can someone explain the difference between what Mitt Romney did and what obama did because the difference eludes me. The only difference I can discern is Romney operated with his or investors money, obama did it with tax payers monies. 3000 businesses folks .....obama makes Romney look like a piker and like he wasn't even trying.

Legislation for Auto Dealer Rights is a Hollow Victory for Many

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  • by Jim Henry

Congress came up with new language for proposed legislation to establish binding arbitration for ex-dealers for Chrysler and General Motors who want their franchises back.

The new proposal won the endorsement of the National Automobile Dealers Association and the so-called "dealer rights" legislation looks like it will become law.

However, it's obvious that it's too late for reinstatement, for many dealers who lost their franchises in the automakers' bankruptcy restructuring. Chrysler terminated 789 dealers last summer. GM put about 2,600 dealerships on notice they will be closed in the fall of 2010, and stopped shipping them new cars and trucks.

Many of the terminated dealers were financially crippled after only a couple of months out of the new-car business, plus the costs associated with winding down their original franchises.

Even if their franchises were handed back to them, many ex-dealers couldn't afford to go back into business, said Charles W. Pompey, whose family owned Pompey Dodge in Kingston, Pa. for 43 years, until Chrysler terminated the dealership in June.

"At this point, I don't even want my franchise back. I can't afford to risk my financial future with Chrysler again, like my family did before," he said in a phone interview today. He said Pompey Dodge was profitable when Chrysler closed it, which in his view makes the closing hard to justify.

"What would help me would be some financial restitution," he said, but according to Pompey, so far the proposed legislation looks as if reinstatement is the only potential recourse.

"The comparison is, it's as if somebody broke into your house and then they call you and say, 'We have all your stuff, you want to buy it back?' It just doesn't work that way. They took everything I would use to buy it back," Pompey said.

He said he can fall back on a separate body shop and collision-repair business, but he knows other dealers who have had to sell their houses, or declare bankruptcy. That means it's unlikely they could meet Chrysler's financial requirements for new-car dealers.

"There may be a small, select few who could get their franchises back, and I hope they do, I don't wish ill-will on anybody," Pompey said.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505123_162-42940915/legislation-for-auto-dealer-rights-is-a-hollow-victory-for-many/

Obama And His Bain Capital Hypocrisy

 Obama is increasingly reminding me of a cash strapped whore in that he will take money from anyone, even those he claims to be evil incarnate. The only difference seems to be he's not working street corners.....yet. It has been reported in both great and small media outlets that according to obama and at at least some of the democrats, Bain Capital under Romney's leadership and the activities of said group was akin to the sacking of Rome. It does strike me as more than passing strange that obama has no trouble accepting and spending their money. Some are going to argue that the amounts mentioned in the story are small and nearly meaningless. Perhaps or perhaps it means he's a cheap whore. In any case we have seen it before and I think it highlights a lack of a certain something. I'll leave it to the reader to decide what is lacking.

President Obama Won’t Be Returning His Donations From Bain Capital

Though the Obama campaign has repeatedly attacked Mitt Romney for his career at Bain Capital, President Obama still accepted $7,500 in campaign contributions from three Bain executives. His campaign press secretary, Ben LaBolt told The Politicker the president has no intention of giving the money back.

http://politicker.com/2012/05/president-obama-wont-be-returning-his-donations-from-bain-capital/