Whoa! – And does this certain computer technician drive a certain white, black and orange VW Beetle? Only a GS’er would have those recondite details re the architecture of a Dell Dimension desktop, or an HP printer! The Trilateral Commission will be hanging a slaughtered bunny on that car, forthwith!

BEWARE – Note to potential clients of examiners who claim to be CCE certified

The CCE is becoming a valuable credential for forensic computer examiners. We have found a number of individuals who are stating that they are Certified Computer Examiners, even though they have not been credentialed by the ISFCE certifying board. If you are going to use a CCE certified examiner in your case, beware that there are examiners whose credibility could be successfully challenged, because they misstate their CCE credentials.

All CCE certified individuals will have a certification number. If your examiner’s name is not on this list, get their certification number and name and provide it to us. We will verify that they are CCE certified individuals. If you are making an official inquiry about the CCE certification, please use the contact form.

We regularly conduct pro-active investigations to help keep the integrity of the CCE secure. You can help by reporting suspected or unauthorized use of the CCE designation.

I wonder what would happen if someone filled out the contact form. Note that techdude didn’t claim certification, but “ISFCE membership is currently limited to certified individuals. In 2008, the ISFCE is planning on extending membership to interested individuals for an annual membership fee.”

This means that Pammy is covered in some sort of oily film that rubs off on everything she touches, doesn’t it?

I’m pretty sure this is true of all wingnuts.

I’ve noticed the same thing. If you go to Redstate or Freeperpark its all SCOTUS this and POTUS that. It must be that official-sounding acronyms feels good in some nook in the authoritarian brainstem.

Well, obviously. You’ll remember how fond the Nazis and Stalinists were of syllabic acronyms; the only reason we’re not being watched by the Hosepo is that English likes acronyms better.

Nice little case of wingnut Tourette’s developing there, with the inappropriate use of the spade cliche. By election day they’re going to be so unhinged they’ll be regularly screaming “NIGGAR” at odd moments.

Or, better yet, ‘NIGGARAB’ – Obama exists in this quantum racial state, where his father being a long-lapsed Muslim makes him an Arab, his father being from Africa makes him a negro, and his mother being white makes him a racial impostor. I think that’s why we’ve been seeing the right wing hammer on this birth certificate thing so hard – they don’t want it to be observed, for then Obama’s racial waveform would collapse and they’d only have one set of paranoiac slurs to throw at him.

Apologies for the slur on batshit.

That is so exactly right. They are really just noises, that stand for a whole system of What’s Wrong With the World. Part shorthand, part euphemistic to emotions they don’t want to directly admit – but which bind them together.

“Muslim” means “not-like-us brown enemy who wants to kill us”; the radical black Christian thing means “not-like-us EVEN BROWNER enemy who wants to kill us”, and “Socialist” means “not-like-us white race traitor enemy who wants to take our money”.

Fear is what binds these statements together, in their minds. They communicate in this reinforcing channel of fear, reject logic that counters it, freak out and get each other riled up, and look for any random bits of shiny infocrap they can put in one box or the other.

And then:
- someone else comes in and uses the sounds in their logical, descriptive context – but it just slides off, ’cause they ain’t receiving on that channel.

- they keep looking for random bits of shiny info-crap that ties to one word-sound-emotional-memeplex or the other –
And it doesn’t matter which sound they tie it too, it proves the fearfulness of ALL the sounds – because the main point of the sounds is Ways He’s Not Like Us and Therefore Is The Enemy.

Man oh man.

Well duh. I think it’s been firmly established that he was hatched from a giant egg on the Planet Zsdfakre. What’s the confusion?

elitist scum

*head explodes*

Goddammit! I’ve got two copies of my birth certificate from California. One is a crappy 2nd- or 3rd-generation xerox, only it’s legal because some bureaucrat blind-stamped it with the state seal. The other, from about 10 years later, looks more birth-certificatey, like in color and a nice apostille sticker on it. 10 years after *that* I can’t get another copy unless I personally walk into the state Vital Statistics office (or whatever it’s called), produce a couple pieces of ID and, for all I know, spooge out a DNA sample before they’ll even *think* about issuing me a new COLB.

Times change, but full faith and redit and all that. For all I know, Obama’s birth certificate could have been written on a grocery bag with crayon but it would still be legal as long as someone in the state office put his (or her) chop on it.

I’ll decode my post for you:

“Type a bunch of letters on the keyboard that is connected to the box that has a bunch of wires coming out of it that sits on your desk. Look for the box connected to a futuristic-looking screen, straight out of Buck Rogers, that displays a bunch of pictures when keys are depressed on said keyboard.”

Kenya is … how can I say this? Not even close, no matter how often you check the kerning.

Is it because these asshats think Muslim = Arabic or is there some twisted line of logic I can’t quite grasp?

That second comment bears the sweet scent of Spoof.