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Anonymous Busy Once Again…

by Deplorable Macker ( 76 Comments › )
Filed under Censorship, Transportation at August 16th, 2011 - 11:30 am

…this time, hacking into myBART.org and forcing the San Francisco transit authority to temporarily close the site:

The cyber attack came in response to the BART’s decision to block wireless service in several of its San Francisco stations Thursday night as the agency aimed to thwart a planned protest over a transit police shooting. Officials said the protest had been designed to disrupt the evening commute.
“We are Anonymous, we are your citizens, we are the people, we do not tolerate oppression from any government agency,” the hackers wrote on their own website. “BART has proved multiple times that they have no problem exploiting and abusing the people.”
BART spokesman Jim Allison described myBART.org as a “satellite site” used for marketing purposes. It’s operated by an outside company and sends BART alerts and other information to customers, Allison said.
The names and contact info published by Sunday came from a database of 55,000 subscribers, he said. He did not know if the group had obtained information from all the subscribers, he said, adding that no bank account or credit card information was listed.


Here is more information about the BART police shooting which took place on July 3:

BART officers and San Francisco police are working on separate but parallel investigations into what happened Sunday night at 9:46 p.m. when one of the two BART officers shot the man on the platform at the Civic Center station, Rainey said.
BART officials had received reports around 9:30 p.m. of a white man wearing a tie-dye shirt and green military fatigue pants with an open container of alcohol — which is illegal in a BART station. A call into BART dispatch said the man was drunk and “wobbly on the platform,” Rainey said.
Two officers — one white, the other Asian — arrived at the Civic Center station on a train from the Millbrae direction at 9:45 p.m., and a confrontation occurred between the suspect and officers.
Rainey said the suspect, estimated to be between 30 and 50 years old, was armed with a knife and a broken alcohol bottle he was wielding as a weapon. A minute after the confrontation began, one officer used his service weapon to shoot the man.
One of the officers was carrying a Taser at the time, Rainey said. He did not say whether the officer who fired his gun was the same one carrying the Taser.
Medical personnel performed CPR on the man, who was shot in his front torso area. He was then transported to San Francisco General Hospital where he was pronounced dead around 10:45 p.m., Rainey said.

BART officials then decided to cut off cell phone service at several underground stations to prevent protests which could have disrupted regular train service. One board member, Lynette Sweet, had serious misgivings about this move, which was touted as a safety precaution:

“I’m just shocked that they didn’t think about the implications of this. We really don’t have the right to be this type of censor. In my opinion, we’ve let the actions of a few people affect everybody. And that’s not fair.
“It was almost like an afterthought. This is a land of free speech and for us to think we can do that shows we’ve grown well beyond the business of what we’re supposed to be doing and that’s providing transportation. Not censorship.”

Given that all three of these events…the shooting, the cell service blockage, and Anonymous’ hacking…all took place in San Francisco, none of this surprises me because in a way, it mirrors what’s been happening in the UK. To put it mildly, it’s another bloody mess.

Caturday: TrollCats

by 1389AD ( 48 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Caturday, Open thread, Special Report, unemployment at June 25th, 2011 - 1:19 pm

The TrollCats photoblog is a dark and edgy satire of more innocent cat photo comedy sites, including the world-famous I Can Has Cheezburger? Lolcats site. Much of TrollCats is definitely NSFW (not safe for work) on account of raw language and at least one instance of hardcore human nudity; hence their tagline “Definitely Offensive. Possibly Funny.”

As everybody knows by now, I LIKE material that is offensive in the sense of politically incorrect. So here we go:

Time to make the Democrats squirm trollcat

Black cat: Affimative Action: I can haz Nobel Prize?

Every cloud has a…

Two cats in cardboard carton: UNEMPLOYMENT can bring families closer together

Nonetheless, I omitted what were perhaps the funniest items on TrollCats from this post. Why? Simply because this post will appear on 1389 Blog and I feel obligated to uphold our own policy against swear words and explicit sex. Not that I’m a prude, but I don’t want to risk having 1389 Blog automatically blacklisted by content-filtering or “censorware” services on account of raw language and photos. So if you want to see the rude (but funny) stuff, you’ll have to visit TrollCats and find it on your own.

Hang on just let me wash my paws and check the locks one more time

I have CDO - it's like OCD - but all the letters are in alphabetical order - AS THEY SHOULD BE

Doesn’t really qualify as a worthwhile contribution to our dialog

Cat with a newspaper hat on his head, labeled 'CAT' - captioned 'Thank you...Captain Obvious.'

Full-body tiger paint

Courtesy of Zombie, we have the World Naked Bike Ride, San Francisco. The version at the link is “censored” in a hilarious manner, but contains a link to the raw, uncensored version. Featured are Weiners, wieners, and a nekkid guy in full-body tiger paint, who apparently is one of the event’s organizers.


Dog Haters in Iran and San Francisco

by 1389AD ( 71 Comments › )
Filed under Iran, Islam, Leftist-Islamic Alliance at August 29th, 2010 - 10:00 am

What do Iran and San Francisco have in common?

  • Dog-haters
  • Jihadi-sympathizers
  • Moonbats who thought they could control radical Muslims

Iran bans pet ads, brands dogs “unclean”

Of course, so did the prophet of Islam: “Ibn Mughaffal reported: The Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) ordered killing of the dogs, and then said: What about them, i. e. about other dogs? and then granted concession (to keep) the dog for hunting and the dog for (the security) of the herd, and said: When the dog licks the utensil, wash it seven times, and rub it with earth the eighth time.” — Sahih Muslim 551

Note also that just as unclean as dogs are unbelievers.

Sharia Alert from the Islamic Republic of Iran: “Iran bans pet ads, brands dogs ‘unclean,'” from NewsCore, August 27 (thanks to Weasel Zippers):

IRAN today banned all advertisements in the country for pets, pet shops, pet food and other pet products, claiming that people’s love for their dogs and cats may lead to “evil outcomes”.

The edict, announced by Iran’s powerful Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance, is based on a fatwa issued by Grand Ayatollah Nasser Makarem Shirazi, 86, a hardliner who lives in Iran’s holy city of Qom.

Read the rest. The comments are truly fascinating.


Okay, I’ll admit it. Although I’m mostly a cat person, I like dogs too. But that isn’t the point here. The real issues here have to do with tyranny, and with the unreasoning hatred and disgust that some people feel toward innocent living creatures.

Whenever any government, at any level, arrogates the power to micromanage the lives of its citizenry to this extent, we have a problem. Evidently, in the case of San Francisco, they might have become a little embarrassed by the ridicule resulting from media exposure. Iran, on the other hand, has no such compunctions.

San Francisco Pet Ban Delayed

San Francisco has told its contentious plan to ban the sale of all pets but fish to sit and stay — until January at the earliest.

The city garnered national headlines last month, when the city’s Animal Control and Welfare Commission proposed banning all pet sales in a move aimed at keeping small animals from being dumped on the Animal Control.

That commission last night, however, opted to put off discussion of its potential ban until 2011. The commission did come up with a new idea, however: Requiring would-be pet owners to obtain a license and take classes. This would ostensibly cut down on impulse purchases of guinea pigs and other small animals inundating the Animal Control office.

Let it be known that, as far back as last month, SF Weekly suggested alternatives: a “guinea pig fee” to offset the city’s costs in caring for hordes of abandoned rodents or a waiting period for potential pet buyers — “the Guinea Pig Brady Bill.”

These half-serious suggestions don’t look so outlandish anymore.


Unclear Protest Sign Is Unclear

by Bunk Five Hawks X ( 189 Comments › )
Filed under Free Speech, Humor, Open thread, Politics, Progressives at March 26th, 2010 - 8:00 pm

Proud member of the Arbitrary Phrase Brigade.

Some fuck up is sleeping in somewhere, and it’s up to us to wake him.

Aint no spel chack for protset sines.

Someone put a lot of thought into these equations. Pure efficient brilliance.

Zombie’s got some more great pics of the San Francisco Left of the Left antiwar rally of 20 March, and there’s a link to the one in L.A.