Suki's Afternoon Links: At least they got the Tuskegee Study right, not that anybody else will

The American Apology Tour Continues: U.S. apologizes for syphilis experiment in Guatemala | Reuters:

"(Reuters) - The United States apologized on Friday for an experiment conducted in the 1940s in which U.S. government medical researchers deliberately infected Guatemalan prison inmates with syphilis.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and other top officials issued a statement about the experiment, which echoed the infamous 1960s Tuskegee study in which black American men were deliberately left untreated for syphilis."

At least they are not claiming that the Tuskegee victims were intentionally infected. Amazingly, the many references I used to see for that lie have gone into the Google memory hole.

Reason is covering this story too and it is pretty shaky.

Blackberry Encryption Hacked - Slashdot
"InfoWorld blogger Martin Heller reveals that a Russian passcode-breaker developer has broken the encryption used in BlackBerry backups. That can help recover data when passwords are lost, but also gives data thieves access to a treasure trove of corporate secrets. And the developer boasts that it was easier to crack the BlackBerry encryption than it was to crack Apple's iOS."




Maybe this is the solution that Saudi Arabia is looking for?

New York City Spending over $27 Million to Make Street Signs Proper

250,000 street signs in New York City feature street names in capital letters only, which is not the national standard. Having no other issues on the table, The New York City Department of Transportation has decided to fix the problem andput up proper signs featuring both capital and lower-case letters at a cost of $27.5 million. The Transportation Department hopes to have the job completed by 2018 with 11,000 of the most important improperly capitaled signs fixed by the end of the year. Catastrophe averted.

Americans tread water in gulf between rich, poor

MOUNT VERNON, N.Y. – A Wall Street adviser leaves early for work to avoid panhandlers at his suburban train station. In coal country, a suddenly homeless man watches from a bench as wealthy women shop for dresses. A down-and-out waitress sits glumly on her stoop across the street from a gleaming suburb. A freshly elected politician loses his day job.

They're the faces of a census report released this week showing that the gap between the richest and poorest Americans is wider than ever.

After Jimmy Carter got rid of all the poor people, then Ronald Reagan brought them back, then Bill Clinton got rid of them again, Obama is having trouble ending the poverty caused by Bush. Or something like that.ORDER SUKI SERIES eBOOKS AND PAPERBACKS

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Next Step Beyond Television Preachers - Obama Receives Religious Devotionals by Blackberry

Melissa Scott should be on TV

FOXNews.com - Obama Receives Religious Devotionals by Blackberry

President Obama doesn't need to step foot in a church to find spiritual inspiration -- it comes directly to his BlackBerry.

Blago preaches a lot.

Every day, the president receives "devotionals," or passages meant to bring one closer to God, from Joshua DuBois, the head of his Office of Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships.

"Whether it's a passage of scripture or a piece out of a book that I think he might be interested in or a prayer, it's something to start his day off on the right note," DuBois told Fox News.

When he took office, Obama fought vehemently with his security staff to keep that BlackBerry, a highly-secure version of the standard store-bought phone and messaging device that has now become something of a spiritual lifeline.

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In the past year, the president and his advisers have faced occasional but persistent questions about one of the most visible expressions of one's faith: picking a church. The Obamas have yet to pick one after separating from their longtime church in Chicago in 2008. At the time, Obama publicly split from the church's now retired pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, following a controversy over videos capturing Wright's incendiary sermons that nearly derailed Obama's presidential campaign.

I won't go as far as Limbaugh and say that " . . . Obama tweets God and God answers back," no, I won't go that far at all. I will say that B. Hussein Obama has officially dropped one rung below television preacher. What happened to his White House Marxist Spiritualist Jim Wallace? Now we have this new guy, his e-mail preacher Joshua DuBois.

These named advisors, from Reverand Wright to Joshua DuBois are all self-identified Christians. Where is Obama's Islamic advisor Mazen Asbahi? Wait, he was the old one, thrown under the same bus as Jeramiah Wright. Who is the new one? Is Obama in touch with imam Feisal Abdul Rauf via BlackBerry?

Obama is much safer with his base letting people think that he is a Muslim than, say, a Christian who cannot stay in the same luxury hotel as his wife and daughter on his birtyday.  Just think about it, if he is a non-prostelitizing Muslim who lets his wife dress nice while trying to destroy every beneficial alliance the US has (especially that pesky one with Israel), how could that possibly hurt him with San Francisco and Manhattan voters?

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Slashdot | Saudi Says RIM Deal Reached; BlackBerry OK, If We Can Read the Messages

Slashdot | Saudi Says RIM Deal Reached; BlackBerry OK, If We Can Read the Messages:

'There's a deal on the table to avert a ban on Blackberry's messenger service in Saudi Arabia. A Saudi regulatory official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, told the Associated Press the deal involves placing a server in Saudi Arabia ... and letting the government monitor users' messages, easing Saudi concerns over security and criminal usage. The deal could have wide-ranging implications, given how many other countries have expressed similar concerns, or in the case of the United Arab Emirates, have threatened to block Blackberry email and messaging services.'

Perhaps the governments of UAE and India would be satisfied, too, if only they had access to the messages transmitted."

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