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Hilarious GOP Debate Questions Submitted By The Net
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 With the clown cars all packed up and ready to go, Fox has solicited the Internet proper to submit questions to Meygan Kelly for tonite's GOP debate.
As usual, when you leave it up to the fine folks on the Internet, things get real.
Here are some of our favorite questions... and yes, we here at BSAlert couldn't resist adding our own.. |
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In the bible, Jesus fed the poor & healed the sick for free. How will his communist agenda affect your campaign
Mr. trump, if you should lose the election, who will you sue next?
In the bible, Jesus fed the poor & healed the sick for free. How will his communist agenda affect your campaign?
If an abortion could have prevented #Benghazi would you have one?
Motherfucking magnets - how do they work?
We all know that gay marriage causes global warming. What will you do to protect Israel from this?
Finish this sentence - if he were alive today I would let Reagan trickle down on my ________
As an unemployed white American which minority should I be most concerned with being on welfare?
About those Mexicans working in your garden, how many are rapists and how many just plain drug dealers?
Will you use conventional or nuclear weapons to end the War on Christians?
Which of you all (moderator included) was able to get Roger Ailes to climax the quickest?
Sen. Cruz, you filibustered using a Dr. Seuss book. Have you graduated to non-picture books yet?
What policies will you support to make sure black lives never matter?
Should cops be allowed to waterboard people who don't cooperate when pulled over on traffic stops?
If a fetus looks at you threateningly is it legal to "stand your ground" and shoot them?
Sen. Cruz, you compared net neutrality to Obamacare. Are familiar with the internet?
If smoking pot made people hate Muslims would you consider changing your position and legalizing it?
Who has more personhood businesses or fetuses?
Gov. Christie, if you were trapped in a room with a stoner and a teacher, who would you punch first?
Would you support gay marriage and legalize polygamy if the Koch brothers proposed to you?
What role will Caitlyn Jenner fulfill in your administration?
Gov. Christie, would you like a snack?
What would you do as president to make sure that patriotic Americans will be uninsured in the future?
Jeb! Women, how do they work?
If the Koch brothers went bankrupt tomorrow, how would you fund your campaign?
Is there anything you can think of that you won't be blaming on Obama?
What makes you more aroused? Justin Bieber or Drilling in the Arctic Wildlife Refuge?
If guns don't kill people, then which minority primarily does?
Which member of the Legion of Doom do you most closely identify with
What's your least favorite color besides black?
The AntiChrist takes many forms. How did our Dark Lord appear to you when He asked you to run for President?
We all know that gay marriage causes Global Warming so what will you do to protect Israel from that?
What are your fondest memories of the Jim Crow era?
On education, what type of semi-automatic gun do you recommend teaching children to use for cooking bacon?
Since Iran & ISIS both kill gays, shouldn't they be our allies, not our enemies?
Biggest threat to our Liberty -Science or Logic?
What made you want to be the first person to lose to a woman President? |
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Hackers Compromise Adultry/Human Trafficking Web Sites
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 There's no other way to put it. The shit has hit the fan on this one...
Large caches of data stolen from online cheating site AshleyMadison.com and sister sites have been posted online by an individual or group that claims to have completely compromised the company’s user databases, financial records and other proprietary information. The still-unfolding leak could be quite damaging to some 37 million users of the hookup service, whose slogan is “Life is short. Have an affair.” |
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The data released by the hacker or hackers — which self-identify as The Impact Team — includes sensitive internal data stolen from Avid Life Media (ALM), the Toronto-based firm that owns AshleyMadison as well as related hookup sites Cougar Life and Established Men.
Reached by KrebsOnSecurity late Sunday evening, ALM Chief Executive Noel Biderman confirmed the hack, and said the company was “working diligently and feverishly” to take down ALM’s intellectual property. Indeed, in the short span of 30 minutes between that brief interview and the publication of this story, several of the Impact Team’s Web links were no longer responding.
“We’re not denying this happened,” Biderman said. “Like us or not, this is still a criminal act.”
Besides snippets of account data apparently sampled at random from among some 40 million users across ALM’s trio of properties, the hackers leaked maps of internal company servers, employee network account information, company bank account data and salary information.
The compromise comes less than two months after intruders stole and leaked online user data on millions of accounts from hookup site AdultFriendFinder.
In a long manifesto posted alongside the stolen ALM data, The Impact Team said it decided to publish the information in response to alleged lies ALM told its customers about a service that allows members to completely erase their profile information for a $19 fee.
According to the hackers, although the “full delete” feature that Ashley Madison advertises promises “removal of site usage history and personally identifiable information from the site,” users’ purchase details — including real name and address — aren’t actually scrubbed.
“Full Delete netted ALM $1.7mm in revenue in 2014. It’s also a complete lie,” the hacking group wrote. “Users almost always pay with credit card; their purchase details are not removed as promised, and include real name and address, which is of course the most important information the users want removed.”
Their demands continue:
“Avid Life Media has been instructed to take Ashley Madison and Established Men offline permanently in all forms, or we will release all customer records, including profiles with all the customers’ secret sexual fantasies and matching credit card transactions, real names and addresses, and employee documents and emails. The other websites may stay online.”
It’s unclear how much of the AshleyMadison user account data has been posted online. For now, it appears the hackers have published a relatively small percentage of AshleyMadison user account data and are planning to publish more for each day the company stays online.
“Too bad for those men, they’re cheating dirtbags and deserve no such discretion,” the hackers continued. “Too bad for ALM, you promised secrecy but didn’t deliver. We’ve got the complete set of profiles in our DB dumps, and we’ll release them soon if Ashley Madison stays online. And with over 37 million members, mostly from the US and Canada, a significant percentage of the population is about to have a very bad day, including many rich and powerful people.”
ALM CEO Biderman declined to discuss specifics of the company’s investigation, which he characterized as ongoing and fast-moving. But he did suggest that the incident may have been the work of someone who at least at one time had legitimate, inside access to the company’s networks — perhaps a former employee or contractor.
“We’re on the doorstep of [confirming] who we believe is the culprit, and unfortunately that may have triggered this mass publication,” Biderman said. “I’ve got their profile right in front of me, all their work credentials. It was definitely a person here that was not an employee but certainly had touched our technical services.”
As if to support this theory, the message left behind by the attackers gives something of a shout out to ALM’s director of security.
“Our one apology is to Mark Steele (Director of Security),” the manifesto reads. “You did everything you could, but nothing you could have done could have stopped this.”
Several of the leaked internal documents indicate ALM was hyper aware of the risks of a data breach. In a Microsoft Excel document that apparently served as a questionnaire for employees about challenges and risks facing the company, employees were asked “In what area would you hate to see something go wrong?”
Trevor Stokes, ALM’s chief technology officer, put his worst fears on the table: “Security,” he wrote. “I would hate to see our systems hacked and/or the leak of personal information.”
In the wake of the AdultFriendFinder breach, many wondered whether AshleyMadison would be next. As the Wall Street Journal noted in a May 2015 brief titled “Risky Business for AshleyMadison.com,” the company had voiced plans for an initial public offering in London later this year with the hope of raising as much as $200 million.
“Given the breach at AdultFriendFinder, investors will have to think of hack attacks as a risk factor,” the WSJ wrote. “And given its business’s reliance on confidentiality, prospective AshleyMadison investors should hope it has sufficiently, er, girded its loins.”
Update, 8:58 a.m. ET: ALM has released the following statement about this attack:
“We were recently made aware of an attempt by an unauthorized party to gain access to our systems. We immediately launched a thorough investigation utilizing leading forensics experts and other security professionals to determine the origin, nature, and scope of this incident.”
“We apologize for this unprovoked and criminal intrusion into our customers’ information. The current business world has proven to be one in which no company’s online assets are safe from cyber-vandalism, with Avid Life Media being only the latest among many companies to have been attacked, despite investing in the latest privacy and security technologies.”
“We have always had the confidentiality of our customers’ information foremost in our minds, and have had stringent security measures in place, including working with leading IT vendors from around the world. As other companies have experienced, these security measures have unfortunately not prevented this attack to our system.”
“At this time, we have been able to secure our sites, and close the unauthorized access points. We are working with law enforcement agencies, which are investigating this criminal act. Any and all parties responsible for this act of cyber–terrorism will be held responsible.”
“Avid Life Media has the utmost confidence in its business, and with the support of leading experts in IT security, including Joel Eriksson, CTO, Cycura, we will continue to be a leader in the services we provide. “I have worked with leading companies around the world to secure their businesses. I have no doubt, based on the work I and my company are doing, Avid Life Media will continue to be a strong, secure business,” Eriksson said.” |
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Top 8 Most Bizarre/Interesting/Outrageous Subreddits
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 It's no secret I like Reddit. I myself run a few popular subreddits. But like many, it's impossible to have a love-love relationship with this site. For every cool section, there's another one that makes your skin crawl. For every person you can relate to, there's eighteen dozen who appear to be Tourettes-infected-6-year-olds.
We could talk for days about the pros/cons of their shallow and binary up/down-vote system, and how it seems to ultimately pander to a mean demographic that nobody wants to own, but at the same time, the largely "hands off"-style of allowing anyone with the slightest inclination to create their own sub-community, has allows the place to prosper wildly.
And every time I come across something odd, I think it can't be topped. I continue to prove myself wrong. Here is a list of some of my "most bizarre" subreddits recently discovered... |
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/r/oldladiesbaking pies - It actually is what it is: a forum of pictures of old ladies baking pies.... with one distinction. The titles of each submission are highly-sexual in nature even though the site contains no pornographic imagery.
/r/unexpectedthuglife - This subreddit shows edited videos of people appearing to be normal and jovial but turning snarky or sinister, accompanied by gangsta rap music
/r/buttsharpies - In case you ever doubt that somewhere online, there is a community that's into the most esoteric fetish you can imagine, the answer is, "Yes. Yes that's a thing, and yes, other people are into it. And No, I don't know why and I really am not curious enough to find out more."
/r/outside - Billed as, " free-to-play MMORPG developed by Deity Games and the most popular game, with 7 billion+ active players.
/r/DeepIntoYouTube - This is a repository for random and weird videos that have been largely-orphaned in the vastness of YouTube and only recently discovered. The epitome of weirdness.
/r/CrazyIdeas - This is a very interesting subreddit that often is a showcase for the goofy things extremely stoned people come up with, such as, "Go to Africa, find the smallest giraffes and breed them until you get them very small and open a racetrack with trained monkeys to ride them.." but there are also some more realistic ideas, either way, often hilarious, almost always bizarre.
/r/DiWHY - Not quite a parody of /r/DIY, the place where people show off expertly-crafted things they've made, DiWHY is more of a "Here's what McGuyver's mentally-challenged cousin did." Some stuff makes sense but is over-engineered. Some stuff is hilariously funny.
I know, I know.. this is the tip of the iceburg in how weird and bizarre Reddit is.. so feel free to leave comments with more suggestions on subs. Here are a few more:
/r/publicfreakout - If you ever wonder where all the video that people shoot on their phones of that crazy person in McDonalds ends up, it could be here..
/r/BlackPeopleTwitter - I can't tell if I'm supposed to laugh at this or not. There's a part of me that feels it's racist, but it's also pretty hilarious. I don't know if the particular brand of snarky honesty displayed in this sub is really a "black people thing" but I can respect it nonetheless.
/r/im14andthisisdeep - Want to feel old? Like really old?
/r/SwordOrSheath - The gender identity game show?
/r/InvisibleBicycles -- As expected, this subreddit, which boasts more than 20,000 subscribers is dedicated to pictures of people riding bicycles minus the bicycles.... The epitome of esoteric? Actually, it's a pretty high degree of skill involved to remove a bike from a picture and this sub celebrates those with impressive photoshop skills, or those who find those who have.
/r/SwitzerlandIsFake -- A community of people who are convinced that the country is so beautiful, diverse and interesting, it must be fake.
r/caninecuisine/ -- calls itself: "Community of vegans who satirize the lack of empathy many have for other animals by speaking of dogs unempathetically. We do not condone any violence against animals of any kind" |
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"Understanding" The Rebel Confederate Flag
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 Here's my take on the rebel flag controversy... I think people on both sides of the issue have some valid points, BUT the points are not equal in terms of pros/cons.
My first impression when I heard news that there was talk to outlaw the flag was, "Great, this will come in handy the next time someone kills nine people with a rebel flag. :/
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It seemed like a shallow, pedantic reaction to what is ultimately a very complex social problem. Public and politicians going after the lowest of hanging fruit, a construct that ultimately nobody really gives a crap about. Not even your most fervent rebel-flag-wavers are going to be inconvenienced by the removal of a piece of cloth from a flag pole at their state capitals or a nearby Wal-Mart. So why bother? Will removal of a controversial symbol of racism, in effect eradicate racism? Obviously not.
But one thing it does do, in this age where people feel increasingly helpless and disenfranchised politically, is dramatically change a construct in the face of the state and our society and culture. It's a small victory, but it is an accomplishment nonetheless, in an age where people feel nothing ever changes. The first step towards bigger changes is the realization that they're a product of lots of smaller changes. And since there doesn't appear to be any more realistic alternatives right now, this is a good start.
More importantly, the eradication of the rebel flag as a symbol condoned and approved by our governments, means that those who hold it as a rallying cry for prejudice, cannot hide behind social acceptance; cannot suggest that intolerance is part of what our society is about, and thus cover their own immoral behavior.
I will continue to fight for each and every person's right to hold up whatever flag or symbol they desire. That freedom of expression should always prevail. If you want to tattoo a rebel flag on your arm, or hang one over your trailer, or proudly adorn your mudflaps with its majestic image, knock yourself out. But just like there's separation of church and state in our government and society, there should be separation of other symbols of intolerance and bigotry in public squares. The institutions that are paid for by the people should not display anything that promotes inequality or intolerance. Individuals should have the freedom to say what they want, but government must take a stand that does not discriminate.
To those who suggest the flag means something other than intolerance, I would say, that's your opinion, and you're entitled to your opinion, but the fact is, the majority of the people around the world and the facts regarding the nature of the civil war, and the realization that it's a symbol of a morally-inferior side of a lost conflict, dictate your opinion isn't as valid. Sorry. Yes, the Swastika also had some hopeful and positive traditional meaning, but in today's context, we know what it represents and the same goes with the rebel flag. Whatever "noble heritage" you claim it epitomizes shouldn't be so fragile that it can't exist without that controversial array of colors. So if you really aren't a racist, there is no logical, rational reason to wave something that 95% of the world feels represents racism. To argue otherwise exposes your true agenda. None of you people were around for the civil war anyway. Don't tell us it means that much to you. We're not buying it.
Do I think removing the flag changes anything? Not really. It won't make racism disappear, but it will make it less socially-acceptable. It's a step in a positive direction, causing those who have ever-increasing intolerant attitudes to find more-dimly-lit corridors to peddle their hate, and the less popular that is, the better off we all are. |
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Mainstream Media Misleads Public On Chipotle Non-GMO Campaign
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 Everybody from NPR to USA Today is reporting on fast food chain Chipotle finally making their entire menu GMO-free.
What they're not telling you is the REAL REASON Chipotle is not supporting GMO foods... |
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Even the so-called "liberal media" of NPR, along with everybody else is framing Chipotle's rejection of GMO food as a "safety issue", unfortunately nobody wants to quote the relevant public statements made by the company that contradict the media outlets' implications.
The objection to GMO food is not mainly about food safety. This is the strawman.
A few years ago the people of California tried to pass Proposition 37 - an initiative to require labeling of GMO food products. Chipotle was among the groups in support of this grass-roots, common-sense law. But big industry spent more than $44 Million dollars to cause the initiative to fail.
Among other things, the failure of this initiative suggests that the public doesn't have a right to know what's in the food they consume. Chipotle and others disagreed, and thus began their quest to source all their products as non-GMO.
It's not just about health issues, which contrary to what the mainstream media implies, those results are NOT definitively in - the majority of reputable scientists on this front agree there needs to be more study. Nobody in this arena is running around saying GMO foods are deadly - they're just want to ask more questions and get more answers. It's industry suggesting anyone who questions their, "it's totally safe" claim, are anti-science conspiracy nuts. Which is an unfair characterization.
But we here at BSAlert want to add more to the issue. This isn't really just about whether GMO food is safe, and "safety" doesn't simply mean "to eat" -- it means...
- Is it safe for the environment? - Is using specially-designed crops that can be slathered in insecticides that are extremely toxic to almost all other life forms a better way of doing things?
- Do people have a right to know what's in their food? - The GMO industries say "NO!"
- Is it good for agriculture? - With companies like Monsanto patenting forms of life, seeds and plants, and forcing farmers to purchase seed from them instead of cultivating and sowing their own crops good for farmers? Is it acceptable for big agri-companies to bully small farmers in the court system to use their products or go out of business?
- Is it good for the environment and other life forms? - There's been lots of evidence that certain GMO-paired pesticides are linked to the collapse of bee colonies around the world, as well as many other frightening issues.
- Traditional agriculture involves farmers cultivating crops and also getting seeds for subsequent generations & plantings. Companies like Monsanto are genetically-engineering crops that produce STERILE SEEDS so farmers have to re-purchase seeds from Monsanto like a subscription instead of planting the seeds they cultivate from their crops. That's quite a racket that farmers are being forced into. Some people don't think that's the way agriculture should work.
But none of this comes up in mainstream discussion of why people might not want to use GMO products.
It's not just about safety. It's about whether or not people want to subsidize a major change in the industry that has a tremendous number of very-negative side-effects.
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When it comes to our food, genetically modified ingredients don’t make the cut.
Chipotle is on a never-ending journey to source the highest quality ingredients we can find. Over the years, as we have learned more about GMOs, we’ve decided that using them in our food doesn’t align with that vision. Chipotle was the first national restaurant company to disclose the GMO ingredients in our food, and now we are the first to cook only with non-GMO ingredients.
WHAT IS A GMO?
A GMO is created by inserting genes from one species (typically bacteria or a virus) into the DNA of another. This can result in a plant with characteristics that wouldn’t occur naturally, such as producing pesticides or the ability to withstand high doses of chemical herbicides.
Not all GMOs are designed in the same way. Crops can be engineered to do a number of different things. The traits that cause the most concern to agricultural, environmental, and medical experts are:
1. Herbicide Resistance: Plants engineered to survive applications of glyphosate, a chemical that would otherwise kill them.
2. Pesticide Production: Plants engineered to produce insecticidal toxins.
Why did we remove GMOs from our food?
One reason customers love Chipotle is that we use great ingredients. For us this means great taste, but it also means that the food we serve should be made with ingredients raised with care for animals, farmers, and the environment. We’re doubtful that the GMO ingredients that used to be in our food meet these criteria. Here are the three key reasons.
1. Scientists are still studying the long term implications of GMOs
The manufacturers of GMO seeds claim that GMOs are widely considered to be safe, but we don’t believe the scientific community has reached a consensus on the long-term implications of widespread GMO cultivation and consumption. For example, in October 2013 a group of about 300 scientists from around the world signed a statement rejecting the claim that there is a scientific consensus on the safety of GMOs for human consumption. These scientists would like to see more research conducted, and they’d like more of the research to be conducted by independent third parties, not the companies marketing GMO crops themselves. Until such studies are conducted, we believe it is prudent to take a cautious approach toward GMOs.
2. The cultivation of GMOs can damage the environment
The companies that sell GMO seeds claim that certain genetically modified crops are better for the environment because they reduce the amount of pesticides and herbicides used in farming. But this has not been shown to be the case. One recent study by researchers at Washington State University estimated that between 1996 and 2011, pesticide and herbicide use increased by more than 400 million pounds as a result of GMO cultivation. This and other evidence suggests that GMO crops are fueling an escalating arms race with weeds and insects.
3. Chipotle should be a place where people can eat food made with non-GMO ingredients
For the last 21 years, Chipotle has been making high-quality whole ingredients prepared using classic cooking techniques accessible to all. To that end, we want our customers to have access to ingredients that have not been genetically modified.
We believe everyone should be given enough information about where their food comes from and how it was raised to choose for themselves what they feed their families. We hope these principles of transparency and honesty extend beyond consumers to everyone who has a stake in the food system, and Chipotle respects the right of every farmer, rancher and grower to follow practices that make sense for their business, even if they do not make sense for ours.
Which ingredients in Chipotle's food was previously genetically-modified?
93% of corn grown in the U.S. in 2014 was genetically modified. This includes 76% of corn that is both herbicide resistant and pesticide producing, with the remainder engineered for only one of those traits. 94% of the soy grown in the U.S. in 2014 was engineered for glyphosate resistance.
The World Health Organization recently designated Glyphosate as “probably carcinogenic to humans”. The use of glyphosate is extremely widespread. More than 9% of the landmass of the continental United States is planted with crops genetically modified for glyphosate resistance. Given the concerns surrounding these types of GMOs and the chemicals associated with them, we felt it was particularly important to seek out non-GMO ingredients when possible.
All corn-based ingredients in Chipotle’s food that formerly may have been genetically modified have been removed or replaced with non-GMO versions, while all soy-derived ingredients that may have been genetically modified were replaced with alternatives, such as rice bran oil and sunflower oil. The white sweet corn in Chipotle’s roasted chili-corn salsa has always been a non-GMO variety. The organic soybeans used to make the tofu for our Sofritas are not genetically modified, like all certified organic ingredients. |
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There's a huge mutiny in progress over at Reddit.com. This is an Internet-first as far as I know and it'll probably be big news soon. The company fired an employee that was responsible for helping a bunch of moderators of different subs, and left them in chaos. They decided to make their part of Reddit private, and then in solidarity hundreds of other moderators joined and have been turning off parts of Reddit one-by-one since yesterday.
These days everybody is using Facebook. But did you know if you pay to promote something, you might actually hurt your business and waste your money? A diligent Internet truth-seeker shows you in this video that all is not what it seems when it comes to advertising on Facebook, and even Facebook itself is at least indirectly involved in phony and fraudulent activity.
With all this "controversy" we feel it's important to give at least eight solid reasons why your "heritage not hate" campaign is complete bullshit, so hold onto your pitchforks and check out this exclusive BSAlert.com list...
Have you been hearing about ALEC, the force behind laws to privatize public education and break unions, but are not sure what it's all about? Here's a simplistic, but oh so fun explanation.
