Another DoS attack (the second today) is going on at Hosting Matters, a major host for weblogs, many of whom are covering the American view of the border issue.

Blogbat predicts this one, coinciding so close to the May 1^st siege on America by unlawfully present foreigners will have been found to be caused by our lovely horde of same, proving once again how all have clearly come here to work.

Work however requires definition and apparently one of the jobs Americans won’t do anymore is commit cyber crimes. I could be wrong, but I have a hunch here.

Of course, regardless of the culprit Kevin Mitnick might not be too happy his job, like the jobs of so many others, is being displaced, but Kevin should take heart: It’s really not a cyber crime that’s being committed here; it’s cyber terrorism (just as the planned protests Monday are economic acts of terrorism). And I quote:

Terrorism: The unlawful use or threatened use of force or violence by a person or an organized group against people or property with the intention of intimidating or coercing societies or governments, often for ideological or political reasons.

And for good measure, here’s the more specific definition of International Terrorism:

Terrorism practiced by a in a foreign country by terrorists who are not native to that country.

- Source: Dictionary.com

While Mr. Nero Рома́нов (Romanov) Carter Bush and Benedict Arnold Vidkun Abraham Lauritz Jonssøn Quisling Ted Kennedy are playing their fiddles and looking up the meaning of the word “vigilante”, perhaps they can also crack that dictionary to take a look at the above two definitions at the same time.

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Last Year’s round of Hosting Matters DoS attacks: 1 & 2

PLANET BLOGBAT...Orbiting a New Star

Dear Xanga:

I’m moving out and I’m taking the kids with me. I have found someone else.

P.S. I still own the house.

Requiem aeternam, dona eis Domine; et lux perpetua luceat eis Okay, here it is kids. The Blogbat blog has moved to more robust digs (www.blogbat.us). Though you may find a few of the finer aesthetics yet uncompleted, it is already much better than the Xanga offerings in more than a few important ways. Chief among which are storage, archiving, better stats, Trackback and a non-exclusive comments feature (Xanga requires you also be a Xanga member in order to post comments in a blog hosted by Xanga).

Xanga also claims to own the rights to any content posted in draft form (i.e. “unpublished”), which very few of its users know, but which could be very bad indeed since many bloggers post their latest as drafts first. Xanga additionally claims the right to any content of a blog hosted by them if either the user of Xanga terminate the user's membership. Fortunately Xanga and I never got into a legal tussle over either of those ridiculous, presumptuous and certainly untested claims.

With regard to the sidebars I mentioned to you a little while ago as having some difficulty corralling in Movable Type: after a time of little progress and a few recommendations I had decided to use Sekimori Design to do the dirty work. SD is an excellent web design group that has been under the employ of many a blog of note including Michelle Malkin, Instapundit, Power Line, IMAO, and Vodkapundit, among others. I also looked into SK Designs which is owned by Shirley Kaiser, a woman who truly does a beautiful job with her clients’ websites and blogs, not to mention her own.

Know Thy Blog But after I made the decision to go the paying route I realized it was nothing more than a cop-out for any industrious and inquisitive soul worth his day-job pay. As well I realized that I would never be satisfied posting at a blog made with someone else’s hands. So I changed my mind, rejoined the good fight and today have quite a bit of good news regarding the success of the process to give you. Included in this process I learned how to create not just one sidebar, but much more. The left and right-hand sidebars soon to come are still being tested but will be added to Blogbat once their style and exact content are decided upon.

As for Xanga, I haven’t ruled out using it for something, as it is mine for life – but any such thing has yet to be considered beyond continuing as a sort of emergency depot, whereat I will post if for some reason the host of my new blog, Hosting Matters is down, such as was the case last week when it was repeatedly hit with denial of service attacks.

At present however I am simply taking my favorite posts and reposting them, backdated, to the new spot.

Once the sidebars are up, the new blog will formally be considered complete, although work to finesse its appearance will without any doubt continue. As for content, all new posts will henceforth exclusively be made at blogbat.us.

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P.S. This and all original content on this blog published at Xanga or not is © 2003-2005 Blogbat and is under no circumstances subject to invalidation. For more information about using any material covered therein, go here. ;)

Consumer Reports Gets an “F”

Posted at Blogbat.us

WorldNet Daily has published an interesting pair of articles about Consumer Reports and its apparently highly partisan leadership.

Consumer reports used to advertise that they would not allow ads in their publication (maybe they still claim this) so they could be free from influence by sellers of any of the products Reports was reviewing.

If anyone wondered why Consumer Reports would then begin to point its readers to seek abortions through Planned Parenthood as a single, one size fits all solution with no drawbacks to any unplanned pregnancy, now the picture becomes a little clearer.

Read more…

POLITICAL DARWIN AWARDS

Thank You David Livingstone

Also posted at Blogbat.us

To our first winner:

Thank you David Livingstone for giving us a face, gaping teeth and all, which matches the small mentality of the Liberal Left. But even more so, for showing all of America the Lunatic Fringe is still alive and well and as unworthy as ever of their vote.

David Livingstone of “black-thursday.com” wants everyone who voted for Kerry to protest Bush’s 2^nd inauguration by not going to work and not making any purchases on that day. The fun begins on the front page of his website, where he introduces us to his to his need for human attention clever idea by announcing in a form of self-perceived sarcasm (that actually turns back around and bites him) “The Idea Is Simple. Just Like The President.” This, the same President who also maniacally masterminded a new source of Halliburton profits, manipulated the media and got himself re-elected.

Liberals staying home and not working or spending their money of course will devastate a whole portion of our economy. It is estimated that porn and sex-industry merchants/prostitutes and drug dealers will lose billions of dollars from this, along with robbers*, arsonists*, rapists*, child molesters*, abortion doctors, the NEA and even Michael Moore, who will be unable to sell any of his propaganda films during the boycott, no doubt costing him a substantial sum (mostly from college professors who usually spring at the chance to unleash the film on their captive and unsuspecting audiences of college students).

It might also be noted that "Loonystone", a self-employed “consultant” probably has a little more freedom to take days off from work without any negative consequences than the average waiter, manicurist, school teacher or even executive. By the arguments employed by his “cause”, one might even argue that he's seldom greatly missed during any absence from gainful productivity. On the other hand, it could also be possible that if he indeed has one or two serious clients, they might not miss him for long. So regardless of your infantile behavior, it still is an adult world I would presume, Mr. Livingstone, so sniping at your neighbor because you don’t like the man up on the hill will not win you many favors.

This is perhaps the perfect explanation for the larger picture's results of this and similar Lib behavior over the years and why Miss Ann Coulter is very excited indeed about the prospects this cry-baby pout-in will offer for Conservatives. As she pointed out tonight on FNC it will do nothing less than give great aid to the already advanced process whereby the Left continues to further alienate itself and the whole Democrat party from the American voter. Howard Dean becoming the next DNC Chairman, of course, would be the cherry on top.

Congratulations, David Livingstone for being our proud first wiener winner of the Political Darwin Awards.  

Related:

Ann Coulter: Liberals Love America Like O.J. Loved Nicole

Heather Mac Donald on the Liberal Rank and File: It Takes All Kinds

Footnote:

In an election-season survey, Democrat Presidential Candidate Senator John Kerry admitted his support for restoring the recognition of voting rights to ex-felons: “I believe that restoration of voting rights is the first step…We need to go further. . . with more supervision and support. And we must insure that former felons have access to education, job training and opportunities.”

What does an educated felon do? We might ask Hitler, Himmler, Goebbels or von Ribbentrop? Or we might just ask the Democrat Party, since they’ve been flirting with such since the Civil War. As Heather Mac Donald points out back in a 2003 article for the City Journal, “70 percent of state convicts are re-arrested for a felony or serious misdemeanor within three years of their release.” Then I suppose they become consultants and protest presidential inaugurations.