Fruits Of Their Labors

WOW, Look at all these victories! And the Democrats are saying, "yeah we see 'em, why do you think we is capitulating so much"?

Unbelievable

Children sense evil
Originally uploaded by miscellaniaphile

This story just aired on Chicago local news.

FBI: Al Qaeda may strike Chicago mall

Chicago police and the FBI talked about the warning late this afternoon. They said there is no credible evidence there will be an attack. But they did say people should remain vigilant. There are thousands of shopping centers and strip malls in metro Chicago and the Los Angeles southland. Authorities here and there were trying to settle the jitters that residents may have after hearing that al Qaeda reportedly plans a Christmastime attack.

Al Qaeda seeks to destabilize our economy during the holidays.

To late that was already done with sub prime loans. FBI Alert.

Mortgage crisis: risky home loans are coming home to roost

Take Delores King, a 70-year-old Chicago retiree living off a monthly pension of $950. In February 2005, she secured a home loan that cost her $832 a month; by August it had shot up to $1,488. "I've taken out loans before, but this was the worst I've ever encountered," says King, who says her lender didn't fully explain the terms of the loan and how quickly her payments would skyrocket. In danger of losing her home, she's now relying on family and friends to help out. "I don't want this to happen to others."

Of course, adjustable-rate mortgages are common, and many are totally aboveboard. But others, like King's, have short introductory rates and whopping fees that have experts crying foul.

Meanwhile in the West, L.A. terrorist threat discounted.

Torture, Poduct Safety, Mukasey, Pakistan, or Iraq. Which will this distract us from. Remember don't shopping no more. Lets just cancel Christmas to be safe.

No You Are Making Him Look Good

The problem with The REAL Rudy documentary is.

This makes Rudy Giuliani look good to the wingnuts. There will now be more support given to him. If you want to take a republican down. Make him look like he is for open government and accountability.

They are looking for another blow hard know nothing who will support the corrupt institution. No matter how badly things they do turn out. No matter how many lives lost. No matter how much money it takes.

hilary clinton vs. barack obama

Which one will come off as capitulating less?

Maybe It's My Age But

Why are lefty bloggers surprised by shock jocks? I mean Rush for example comes from a time when that was what is was all about. Just being ireverant for the hell of it.

There was no mention of politics then. So now when it being done for the sake of one political party it's supposed have some merit. Enough so that you would talk about it as the person saying it has real meaning. When all they are is old wind bags trying start trouble.

People are losing focus here. We are in real trouble. We can't keep falling for petty distractions.

Distractions

Distraction
Originally uploaded by konaboy

Wow this war with Iran stuff is so much more important than anything going on.

We need to cancel the elections and any investigations. And Oh Your Gawd! Don't the new Countdown graphics suck.

Military Junta

And the Dem's bowed downed, some more.

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Spy Harder

Spy Hard
Originally uploaded by Ashwin Sundarrajan

Bush calls for expansion of spy law.

President daily brief saying Bin Laden determined to strike in the US, BAH. Loads of information gathered on American citizens calling back home. Yeah that'll keep us safe.

With over 400 hundred people listed as potential terrorist. with no proof what so ever... oh wait. They have people that they called terrorist without any proof coerced into giving up names.

Will they get to expand on what they already have of our freedoms?

Yes.

OH YOUR GOD!

Allan Keys in '08 baby!

Number 8 On Iraq

There is progress. Al Qaeda in Iraq is Al Qaeda.So it is okay that we don't try and catch Bin Laden. Iraqies were not sick of a group calling themselves Al Qaeda in Iraq blowing them up on top of the sectarian violence. The surge worked. It worked so well that the government there got to go on vacation. 35 countries are over there fighting with us.

Families are happy to have somebody die in Iraq. Sacrifices are good. The troops just went to Iraq on their own and the president backs them and hopes you do. If they don't to finish what they started then the terrorist will win.

So we have to just keep on keeping on. Indefinitely.

...Merely Merely Life Is But A Dream...

BTW, whats up with the red live above the MSNBC logo disappearing? Was that a special comment on how all this was said before? I like they way this guy regurgitates the same bull crap he has already flung. And this will give wingnuts and the media reason to still follow along with this un-named plan of whatever he said.

No More Loyalty Amongst The Bushies, HA

Boobs against Bush
Originally uploaded by schani

It's the oil stupid. There is no way in hell they are gonna give up on the power of oil.

Troops are going to stay in Iraq until and after they figure out how to get that oil into their hands. They put a puppet government in place that ain't worth a damn.

They are just positioning themselves so that no blame falls on them for what they are responsible for. And once again the blogosphere is biting done hard on another hook.

This disloyalty seems like a dream come true for them. but why would you trust anything that these people do now. After all the death they ignored now they are supposed to have come to their senses.

Soul'd Out

"No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country.
He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country."

And still the Dems will go squeak.

One November Changes Nothing

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Tiny Revolution

4. If you don't believe the Democratic party is redeemable, don't get your hopes up that another party would end up being much better. Any other party would also be subject to the Iron Law of Institutions. It thus would be quickly just as dreadful as the Democrats...unless people put in the same amount of work as would be required to clean out the Democrats' Augean stables.

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The Safe Spot

In the face of others deaths, these people shamelessly cling to their power within the institution.

Countdown Special comment 9/04/07

Could have sworn that guy made it clear that mess they made in Iraq would have to worked out by people other than them already.

Yes they vote to give more money to this mess. And yes people will continue to not connect the unnecessary tax cuts and the billions of dollars to Iraq. With the need for states to raise taxes. Bush has sent three companies down the toilette now he is doing the same to the whole damn country. The politicos will go along with it as long as they get to not look bad in the media.

The Heart Breaking Loss Of A.G. A.G

And now what?

Something Happened To Guy Nicknamed Fredo

The official who disclosed the resignation in advance today said that the turmoil over Mr. Gonzales had made it difficult for him to continue as attorney general. “The unfair treatment that he’s been on the receiving end of has been a distraction for the department,” the official said.

A senior administration official said today that Mr. Gonzales, who was in Washington, had called the president in Crawford, Tex., on Friday to offer his resignation. The president rebuffed the offer, but said the two should talk face to face on Sunday.

Mr. Gonzales and his wife flew to Texas, and over lunch on Sunday the president accepted the resignation with regret, the official said.

On Saturday night Mr. Gonzales was contacted by his press spokesman to ask how the department should respond to inquiries from reporters about rumors of his resignation, and he told the spokesman to deny the reports.

I am sure whomever replaces him will be a really goods distraction. I say he left to join Karl Rove in using the free pass on wiretapping the Demo-idiots gave BushCo. To spy on their political enemies.

Karl Rove To Distract

propagandist Karl Rove
Originally uploaded by Buddy Stone

Until the end of August when he supposed to resign.

That should keep the little bastards busy for a while. This invasion of Iraq and all the problems caused by these unnecessary tax cuts for the rich will go unnoticed hehehehe.

Very small point that will become very big when it should be all these incompetents out of there no later than 2000.

Dems Common Sense Gone?

Yes they were abducted and after alien experimentation. They don't remember what they were elected for.

Don't believe? Well wait 'til AG gets the medal of honor.

Say Anything

To get the job. "No amount of troops in no amount of time will make much of a difference," in Iraq - Admiral Mike Mullen.

Any chance somebody will talk about what we need to do about Al Qaeda?

New Democartics Strategy

Since the since the republican base doesn't care one way or the other about Gonzales. They gonna get, him. It would be nice if they would spend some time thinking up ways to hihghlight the fact that they don't really care about imagration, social security, environment, gas prices, education, homeland security, al qaeda, .............................

Imagine All The Al Qaeda

They are but they ain't but they may attack us at anytime. Even though they ain't back to being as strong as they was. Is he sure those are his guts.

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Having It Both Ways

Pardon My Treason

Dirtiest White House Ever! And yes the Democrats will fumble all over themselves and help make this disgusting pardon a dead issue.

They invaded a country on a lie. This is nothing compared to that. And the Democrats will runaway from this because they don't want tp be called administration critic with the up coming elections and all.

Adultery Equal Impeachment

War for profit, domestic spying, and many back room deals equal. A lot of foot dragging.

Nexus Of Terror II

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You Might Be Terrorist

Terror Alert
Originally uploaded by Justin Harter

If unqualified ideologs are put in charge of home land security.

Ala. terror Web site angers activists

MONTGOMERY, Ala. - The Alabama Department of
Homeland Security has taken down a Web site it operated that included gay rights and anti-war organizations in a list of groups that could include terrorists.

The Web site identified different types of terrorists, and included a list of groups it believed could spawn terrorists. The list also included environmentalists, animal rights advocates and abortion opponents.

The director of the department, Jim Walker, said his agency received a number of calls and e-mails from people who said they felt the site unfairly targeted certain people just because of their beliefs. He said he plans to put the Web site back on the Internet, but will no longer identify specific types of groups.
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The site included the groups under a description of what it called "single-issue" terrorists. That group includes people who feel they are trying to create a better world, the Web site said. It said that in some communities, law enforcement officers consider certain single issue groups to be a threat.

"Single-issue extremists often focus on issues that are important to all of us. However, they have no problem crossing the line between legal protest and ... illegal acts, to include even murder, to succeed in their goals," it read.

Walker said the site had been up since spring 2004, and had gotten a relatively small number of hits until it recently became the subject of blogs, he said.

Yeah blogs!

If You Are Against The Invasion Of Iraq

Anti-Iraq-War Protest8
Originally uploaded by The Wonderer

You are labeled anti-war. And an administration critic. Despite all that has come to light, you still can;t say anything about this invasion being bad.

Washington

We have no representation in D.C. I think this is all a shrude plain to get another republican as president.

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I guess only a republican president can best handle all that oil.

Intercorse!

I forgot the one thing the stupid democrats and the much dirty republicans are worried about is, OIL!

Ain't noway we can just leave Iraq without it. So don't be getting your hopes up about an end coming soon. This ain't over until then


How about this alchemy symbol for oil for headstones now. Just tell 'em its wiccan.

Jerry Fawell 1933 - 2007

Muahahahaha Jerry Fawell
Originally uploaded by jej1871032.

Death is a great equalizer not a judgment on how you lived your life. Unless you was partying hard or something.

Abortionists, gays, lesbians, the ACLU and People for American Way are to blame for his death.

Okay so we sit and wait for the moral majority to tear itself apart over who gets what and who leads them now.

Effect Change

A majority of votes but no change to the invasion strategy. Did anything happen in November?

Oh yeah it was referendum on changing how the republicans talked about their pro-invasion stance. Change how they talk about it but, do the same old crap.

But remember if you think that troops dying is a reason to leave. You are just weak on defense.

Is It Me Or Does

Joe Scarborough have a real hard on for Rosie O'Donnell? And I don't think its the same as with long time republican talking point spewing specifically for the benefit of the republicans. You can't speak your mind if you are against the repubs and any evils. But if you are one a of the baddies then its okay to speak your mind. And cry if somebody doesn't treat your words like gold.

Slick

Ok I will vote for Hillary based on how the video embedding is done.

How To Win The Invasion Of Iraq

Winged Victory of Samothrace
Originally uploaded by Schumata.

Ok I have not worked this all out but it seems there is a really easy way to get the republicans to get out of Iraq. And I have to admit I am just rambling on here. Ya see I lost my rage about this a long time ago.

Let them claim the Iraqis wanting us out as a sign of victory. Let them paint a rosy picture. Show a decrease in violence by ignoring it.

Car bombs and other explosive devices have killed thousands of Iraqis in the past three years, but the administration doesn't include them in the casualty counts it has been citing as evidence that the surge of additional U.S. forces is beginning to defuse tensions between Shiite and Sunni Muslims.

Declare bush a hero. Say he did what was best to protect America. Raise a statue to him build a neo con memorial. Give a wealthy corporation millions of tax dollars to build it. Who needs an exact tally of things anyway?

BAGHDAD — The Iraqi government has refused to provide the United Nations with civilian casualty figures for its latest report on the hardships facing Iraqis, the U.N. said Wednesday, but numbers from various ministries indicate that more than 5,500 people died in the Baghdad area alone in the first three months of this year

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And who needs to see it?

Iraq's interior ministry has decided to bar news photographers and camera operators from the scenes of bomb attacks, operations director Brigadier General Abdel Karim Khalaf said on Sunday (local time).

His announcement was the latest in a series of attempts to curtail press coverage of the ongoing conflict, which has already attracted criticism from international human rights bodies.

And no one over in Iraq needs to hear what we back home think about how things are going. But I bet ya the farm that fox noise ain't gonna get blocked.

DENVER - Soldiers serving overseas will lose some of their online links to friends and loved ones back home under a Department of Defense policy that a high-ranking Army official said would take effect Monday.

The Defense Department will begin blocking access "worldwide" to YouTube, MySpace and 11 other popular Web sites on its computers and networks, according to a memo sent Friday by Gen. B.B. Bell, the U.S. Forces Korea commander.

The policy is being implemented to protect information and reduce drag on the department's networks, according to Bell.

But remember your political double speak so when time passes and the real results of the invasion and the war profiteering sink in.

Wait a full year before bringing charges against the republicans. If you haven't noticed these people are really stupid. Eventually they will admit to wrong doings. This time don't let the media play it down. Question their questioning of your investigations.

And when the people cry along with them, despite the fact that the people who were killed are still dead, that it is too harsh to put them in jail for war crimes. Simply wash your hands and walk away.

But this time work on never being fooled again.

Serif We Don't Need No Stinking Serif

50 Candels
Originally uploaded by megoid85.

The Helvetica font is celebrating its 50th birthday. You've probably seen it a thousand times today. Why?
[...]
It is sans serif. There are no wiggly bits at the end of the letters. It has smooth, clean lines, and an unobtrusive geometry that almost suggests it was designed not to stand out.

Lars Mueller is a Helvetica devotee. He has published a book, Helvetica: Homage to a Typeface, and recently donated an original set of lead lettering to a Helvetica exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

"It has a modern attitude which lines up with the aesthetic premises of the 1950s and 60s. Helvetica is a corporate typeface, but on the other hand it's the favourite of hairdressers and kebab shops. It is the butter on the bread."
[...]
"It's durable. It comes from natural design forms. It doesn't have an expression of fashion. It has very clear lines and characters, it looks like a very serious typeface," says Frank Wildenberg, managing director of Linotype, the German firm that owns the font.

And not mention easy on the cheaper displays.

Pizza Pizza

Order five fake terrorist and get the sixth for free.

Bush's' Butler Uses The Internets

native

Huh?!?

How do you surrender from an invasion when you are the invaders?

The Debates

So what I heard was some people saying they adhere to the talking points more than the others. When the Repub's debated and Bill Clinton's name came up and they giggled. Where they giggling at 8 years as a better President the both Bushes and Regan. Or were they thinking about his penis.

Goodbye Old Man

Pam Grier vs. Don Imus
Originally uploaded by The Cocoa Lounge.

When did it become lost the idea that when you know somebody you can insults at them in jest. You can even talk about they mommies.

But when you attack somebody who has done nothing to you. Thats just wrong. Even more wrong is trying to say fictional characters portrayed in rap are genuine representatives of of an entire skin color.

Imus was fired because he is an old man. There are plenty of others who openly race baiting everyday. They don't get called out it. Sure go after the people who pay these modern day minstrels. And the minstrels themselves because after they get the money. They don't have a good reason to still be doing that shit.

But all we need to do really is wait for them to get old. Sexist, Racist comments are cool but not coming from an old person.

Nope You Are Not The New Black

Its not the first time that Mexican Americans have been beaten while protesting. And note the lack of outrage cause it is already gone my news outlets.

Kieth Tomorrow

WOW, Tom Tomorrow's drawings are are getting so much more life like.

A Good Idea

Write your congress person HERE. Also yell at them about health care. And about giving guaranteed money to businesses in order for them sell us digital TV converter boxes.

Tony Snow

Am I gonna keep on lying? Yes. But don't say nothing bad about me 'cause I use my cancer against you.

And don't point out my beliefs against science of health care for all Americans either, you mean bastards.

Special Comment On rudy giuliani

Is it just me or are the republican presidential candidates are all a little on the not good side. I can't wait for john mccain to start in about the strawberrys.

Funny Thing About The Racists

Yes lets talk crap but avoid what is meant by "Obama, the 'Magic Negro.'"

And remember free speech means you get to say whatever stupid thing you want. And then you are free to cry about how people don't accept it as "The Word" and get on with there lives, nah nah hey hey.

Update:

The Media Is Saying

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4 years of lies about the invasion of Iraq. 4 years of war profiteering. And now that the Democrats are kinda sort of standing up. Oh look the lap dog media says that both sides are just name calling.

Whats that word for when pussies talk shit like they're up on some hill looking down at all the little people running around acting like children oh never mind.

You know that since they're saying this the Dems will of course, change their ways, in order to look good to the media.

How does 4 years of ill equip troops suddenly become all the Democrats fault because they have withdrawing troops from an invasion that should never have happened talk a funding bill.

Oh and does the constitution really have something in it about check and balances?

Get A Mop

Somebody needs to sit the Democrats down and point out to them that can't continue to be so stupid and keep listing to what people who. Back in November came to the White house to receive the latest talking points for during the elections.

And don't forget the lap dog mainstream media.

THE American legal system has rediscovered the virtue of one of the most ancient forms of punishment—public humiliation. Prostitutes' “Johns” can now have their names aired on television. Mail thieves can find themselves wearing a sandwichboard giving full details of their crime. And people who deface Nativity scenes can end up parading through town accompanied by a donkey.

And neoconservatives? These too, it seems, are now being subjected to a grand exercise in public humiliation. Paul Wolfowitz is hanging on to his job at the World Bank by his fingernails (see article). Lewis “Scooter” Libby, a Wolfowitz protégé, is facing prison; Douglas Feith, who worked with Mr Wolfowitz at the Pentagon, is an “untouchable” who is floating around the margins of academia.

As for their patrons, Donald Rumsfeld, Mr Wolfowitz's patron, was sacked from the Pentagon amid accusations that he had lost the Republicans their majority. Dick Cheney is so unpopular that he has provoked protests even at Brigham Young University, a Mormon redoubt which is as conservative as they come. Conrad Black, one of the movement's most generous sugar daddies, is on trial for fraud. It seems that those whom the gods wish to punish they first make neocons.
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And neoconservativism is not entirely finished as a political force. George Bush rejected the Baker-Hamilton report on Iraq, which favoured early withdrawal and diplomacy, in favour of the neocon-designed “surge”. Elliott Abrams is a deputy at the National Security Council. Mr Cheney is proving no more destructible than Lord Voldemort. John McCain is blowing loudly on the neocon trumpet; Rudy Giuliani, having flirted with “realists”, has decided to stick with neocon foreign-policy advisers.

But the movement's implosion is nevertheless astonishing. One neocon sums up the prevailing mood in the movement. The neocons are a “laughing stock”. Their “embrace of power” has been “a disaster”. Once upon a time they commanded an audience among Arab democrats and European conservatives. But now they cannot make themselves heard above the din of criticisms of Iraq. The “surge” is a desperate response to failure. Many people see Messrs Kristol and Krauthammer as exhibits in a Ripley's Believe It or Not exhibition: they marvel that they can ever have been so influential, rather than want to follow their advice again.

I kind of get the feeling that when things get really bad, by that I mean when nobody not even the lap dogs will keep spewing talking points anymore. Thats when the Dems will step up and play clean up. Because it is after all so much easier. They wont ever drop down and knuckles up fight to get things right.

Notice how Bush will from time to time point this out.

Enough About The Governor, Lets Talk Obama

Have we learned a good lesson here? and that lesson is, always investigate your not so close friends. Unless you want how they live their lives when you ain't around to come back on you.

U.S. Sen. Barack Obama expressed regret late Friday for his 2005 land purchase from now-indicted political fundraiser Antoin "Tony" Rezko in a deal that enlarged the senator's yard.

"I consider this a mistake on my part and I regret it," Obama told the Chicago Sun-Times in an exclusive and revealing question-and-answer exchange about the transaction.

Okay the party is so over now. The Sun-Times has nailed the coffin shut on Obama's presidential campaign.

Ha!

WASHINGTON - Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has hurt the Bush administration and the Justice Department with his poor handling of the firing of eight federal prosecutors, a leading Republican said Sunday.
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Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said Gonzales was certainly undermining himself and his agency's law enforcement efforts.

Puppets don't cause no harm. Maybe he means that the BushCo. ideology being shown in all its stark nakedness is hurting them. Now all they have is this dumb guy who does what he is told out there trying to explain away what happened. But oh look, they're all dumb guys too. So every time they open their mouths something that they can't prove comes out or, they contradict themselves.

It's funny how its only because he does it sentence to sentence, that his doing it is said to be hurting BushCo.

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I didn't notice anybody talking about the graphics on Countdown. They are very much big fans of Tom Tomorrow there. Maybe I'll hook the TV back up to the capture card and snag it.

HA!

so maybe the writing was already on the wall and the recent BlackBerry email outages aren't solely to blame, but still, being the proverbial straw to break the camel's back deserves a portion of the censure. While we already knew that most fellas would undoubtedly choose a hot new gizmo over a foxy new lady, this mentality probably changes once you're already committed, and in the case of Rafael Paz, the recent email glitches cost him the latter.

Something Funny

Trapped in the Drive-Thru - "Weird Al" Yankovic (Doogtoons)

Uno

Back in high school the cats in my home room would play a power game fast uno. Would be much more fun to watch than those poker games.

Didn't Take Long

Of all the arrogant ignorance displayed in the past couple of days regarding the Blacksburg Massacre, nothing trumps what John Derbyshire and Nathaniel Blake had to say Tuesday about the alleged passivity and cowardice of students at Virginia Tech. As numerous commenters pointed out, it's easy to pin medals on yourself from the comfort of your parents' basement. Today, we've got more of the same from Mark Steyn at NRO.

And He Wins?!? I Wonder Why...

In trouble with the law for having a gun that a relative used in a crime disappear. Money went out and nobody has a record of what it was spent on. But yet manages to get a win. I wonder why?

And Then There This Collection of Ads

In case you don know this. When you click on the pictures here they get bigger.

The Gunman Maybe Dead

But wait for it. You will get to take your rage out on some asshole who will use it as an excuse for spewing some lame racist classist crap.

100 megabits Everywhere Else

True this, think of working from home.

Every day we twiddle our thumbs, we lose some of the edge when it comes to developing clever ways to use the bandwidth. My simple argument is that what x86 was to the PC era, bandwidth is to the broadband era. The more bandwidth we have, the more innovative ways we will find to use it, thus creating another cycle of innovation.

The Scene Where They Go Through The Mall

Blues Brothers
Originally uploaded by .benjamin.

That was about it for Dixie Square. I had no idea somebody made a documentary about it. And these two dudes speaking of he blues who our mayor made a deal with for the spot. Ended up in jail for threating a contractor who put a lien on them.

John Deneen, 40, and Johnnie Blackman, 50, were allegedly searching for the demolition contractor who got the mechanic's lien in August after he contended that he hadn't been paid for work performed at the site of the shuttered Dixie Square Shopping Mall.

American Airlines Is All About The Ladies

American Airlines
Originally uploaded by JillNic83.

Wow! Like wow. I mean could that be any more sexist

Why Do Internet Broadcasters Have To Pay At All

Judges reject appeals from webcasters

Internet radio broadcasters were dealt a setback Monday when a panel of copyright judges threw out requests to reconsider a ruling that hiked the royalties they must pay to record companies and artists.

A broad group of public and private broadcasters, including radio stations, small startup companies, National Public Radio and major online sites like Yahoo Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO - news) and Time Warner Inc.'s AOL, had objected to the new royalties set March 2, saying they would force a drastic cutback in services that are now enjoyed by some 50 million people.

Oh right money I forgot how potential money is the same as really having it to them. So they are going squeeze 'em 'til they choke them lifeless. That will show 'em who's the man. And then 50 mill people run over to the favorite DRM music seller and all will live happily ever after

Bush Wins!

Before the standoff became one the Democrats have folded up. I predict that being embolden by make the punks ass dems back down. BushCo. will continue their not equipping the troops adiquitly while war profiteering their asses off.

So far nothing has changed. Some things have been discussed out in the open but, thats about it. and even then it gets treated like no big deal. For example the firing and hiring of attorneys to have people who bring charges against your political enemies. Was just "handled wrong".

I said it before, it is over.

What All The Money Means

Democratic candidates collecting a but load of money means, anybody but another republican. I bet a slug or Ralph Nader could get a but load of campaign dough at this point.

But it is funny to hear the pundants trying to explain it away.

The Terrorist Have Started Following The Brits Home

Somebody made a call and told them to grab some brit military people so it would look like since they are pulling out of Iraq the terrorist are going to come after them.

And I say the whole declare victory and leave thing is a stunt, this whole invasion thing is a stunt. They want to shift power. Haliburton is already headed over there. They want to live in the "holy land".

Watch we'll find out some big brit companies are over there too. As well more U.S. joints. But it's okay they'll have lots of troops there to support them...

How To Pay For TaxCuts

A coalition of governors and hospital groups says it has the support of nearly two-thirds of the members of Congress to block a Bush administration plan to cut $5 billion in Medicaid funding.

Oneday people will start make the connections between tax cuts and lack of dollars to pay for programs and services. And then instead of welcoming them they will ask, what is this going to cost me.

Read My Blog No New Tax Cuts!

Tony Snow ( Makes His Own Garvy)

Now the question you are asking is, and then goes on to answer something that was not asked.

To: Richard Engel

I am sitting here contemplating killing my neighbors and their guests for throwing garbage in my yard.

I couldn't image what I would do if they had dropped bombs and left me in the dark without fresh water. And then went around picking up my family and friends for who knows what reason. Torturing them some times to death.

I don't think the disconnect is with the Iraqi people. I think its the neo cons and the lapdog media.

Shock and Awe 4 years of pain.

Word

George Bush isn’t some conservative poseur, he’s the proverbial student that’s become the master. - Greg Saunders via This Modern World

Khalid Shaikh Mohammed

Turns out he did it all. Problem solved bush is great. The End?

Poor Little Alberto Chicagotrib Say Go Easy On Hime

The poor mans had a hard life.

Hi, I am doing my best to make sure we can read your mail, and listening in on your phone calls. Also I will be trying my best to get rid of anyone who might try to stop the bush administration from being able to do this. But just remember we are trying to get rid of political opposition, its just politics. No need for you to think it criminal that we want such control over your government, OK.

The things we, I do are only wrong and really really bad. And show a lack of any kind of morals... Wait let me tell you my sad life story.

WASHINGTON -- At his lowest moment in the highest law-enforcement office, with criticism pouring in from all sides, including the president who appointed him, Atty. Gen. Alberto Gonzales made a rare reference last week to his difficult past, speaking defiantly of his determination to weather the controversy over the firing of eight federal prosecutors.

"Let me just say one thing," Gonzales said. "I've overcome a lot of obstacles in my life to become attorney general. I am here not because I give up. I am here because I've learned from my mistakes, because I accept responsibility, and because I'm committed to doing my job."

Remember its all just criticism. Somebody bring me a tissue and can we please stop it with this oversight and accountability nonsense. People might get into trouble if you bring the law into it.

We Were So Poor

House? You were lucky to have a HOUSE! We used to live in one room, all hundred and twenty-six of us, no furniture. Half the floor was missing; we were all huddled together in one corner for fear of FALLING!

A Lot Of People Are Going To Die From AIDS

because of a special brew that cures AIDS.

AIDS cure or sick joke by African president?

One critic was Fadzai Gwaradzimba, the U.N. envoy to Gambia. She was abruptly kicked out of the country after saying on February 9 that patients should continue their normal treatment and that Jammeh's concoction be "assessed by an international team of experts."
[...]
Jammeh, 41, is a former army colonel who has no formal medical training. He wears white robes and carries a copy of the Quran with him in this mostly Muslim nation.

His degree is a high school diploma. But he claims his family has a history of healing people through traditional African medicine.

At the hospital in the capital, patients claim the president's concoction is making a difference to them.

Ousman Sow, 54, said he's been HIV-positive since 1996 and had been taking anti-retrovirals for the past fours years until he volunteered for this program.

Four weeks later, he said he's gained 30 pounds and feels like a new person.

"I am cured at this moment," he said.

Asked if he had any HIV symptoms, he responded, "No, I don't. As I stand before you I can honestly tell you I have ceased to have any HIV symptoms."

Patient after patient gave similar statements to CNN. But it was difficult to verify the authenticity of their testimony. The government claims to have scientific evidence, but it did not provide any to CNN.

Why do people offer fake cures? Maybe people who pull scams have some kind of mental condition that needs to be recognized and treated. Even in the U.S. there are people who would fall such things imagine a country where most of the people have been kept several steps back on the progress stairs. Quackwatch has some tips that should be shared with the world.

Media Lapdogs

Some people are saying the republicans have done some stuff wrong. Mostly administration critics. Republicans say some wrong headed stuff about what they did wrong. Anybody who points this out is an administration critic.

Did the last election mean anything? So will you please stop trying criminalize politics.

this is a nice read: Fox News can't take a punch

Oh Just Quit It

Viacom goes after Youtube. They are claiming YouTube makes money..., from hosting copywrited video clips. Now they want a billion dollars because it not takes money out their pockets but also cost a lot of money to search for them on YouTube.

Viacom in $1 bln copyright suit vs Google, YouTube

Bored? Got nothing better to do? How about trying to kill YouTube. Yeah that is a good idea and makes sense. A lot of people are there when they could be here watching are crap. So if we do something like not improve our crapping offering and post a few clips on our own YouTube channel but instead try sue YouTube out of existence. Well I don't see any downside. Hey anybody who calls people idiots are the real idiots ;)

Enablers

Crackpots say Hitler was a nice guy who just got some bad advice. Now Bush is a nice guy who is surrounded by enablers who make him think he can do whatever he wants. So don't blame him for whats going wrong.

despite the fact that this stuff he is pulling is a long standing neo-conservative ideology, power centered within the executive branch.

I am Sure This Is Not What It Seems

That they are running to escape U.S. law. I am sure there is a logical business reason like they don't to pay taxes.

Haliburton takes the money and runs

The company is relocating its corporate headquarters from Houston to Dubai, which the Associated Press points out has some of the world's most liberal tax and residency laws. Haliburton said its moving because of the growth opportunities in the region and analysts say its smart strategically. The company also is eager to jumpstart is stock price which has barely budged over the past year.

Though the stated reasons are financial, there's obviously a political dimension.

The Democrats who control Congress are going to make Haliburton's life miserable. Last month, federal investigators claimed that Halliburton was responsible for $2.7 billion of the $10 billion in contractor waste and overcharging in Iraq, the AP said.

Haliburton Watch.

300 Bucks

"Praise The Loud!"
Originally uploaded by zyphichore.

WASHINGTON - Attention owners of primitive TVs: If you still use an antenna to watch "American Idol," your picture will disappear at midnight on Feb. 17, 2009, unless you buy something called a digital converter box.

No one knows how much these boxes, which have yet to be produced, will cost. But the government will help you pay for them, at least until the money runs out.

The reason millions of TVs will be rendered obsolete is a government mandate for broadcasters to convert their signals from old-style analog to new-style digital.

The agency responsible for overseeing distribution of the converter boxes, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, explained Monday how the program is supposed to work.

Every household, regardless of whether it needs a box, will be eligible to receive two coupons worth $40 each that can be used to buy two converter boxes. The coupons must be requested between Jan. 1, 2008 and March 31, 2009.

Congress, in the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005, set aside $1.5 billion to pay for the coupon program. Initially, $990 million will be used to pay for coupons and cover administrative costs, which are capped at $110 million.

So a set brand called Sansui I saw its 32" for $249.99 at a grocery store. It's digital and until widescreen HD sets drop to that price, thats gonna be my new TV. A 40 dollar coupon means they are planning on charging a ton of money for a converter box. We have digital cable in which you still need a digital set to view some channels...

But that's our government at work at its best. Helping those corporations out like that. I don't know why they don't just skip the coupon and give them the money directly.

Dick Says Some Dumb Stuff About The Iraq Invasion

And the media try to make him look good.

Cheney puts 'anti-war' Dems on defensive

With those showdowns nearing, Cheney tried to put Democrats on the defensive.

"When members speak not of victory but of time limits, deadlines and other arbitrary measures, they are telling the enemy simply to watch the clock and wait us out," Cheney said in a speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.

Invade a country under false pretense and anybody who hears what you have to say makes it seem sane that you are trying get a win out of a horrific situation. Oh my look at cheney standing so tall against the Democratic Party. What a man. Not like its hard to that anyway.

Maybe it is time for another non binding toothless resolution. Yeah Dem's, as the other side collapses under the weight of their own absurd hubris. Just hang back and wait for media to give the proper narrative. And try and come off for change but against the narrative. Despite the voters wishes that brought them to polls. You don't to against how things are being spun now do they...

Wow Your Mac Book Is Hot

Apple Computers are dangerous. They are lucky to be alive. If you use an Apple make sure you have working smoke detectors outside your bedroom and other recommended places in your home.

SBC Wanted Yahoo Ma'Bell Didn't

When I signed up for DSL it was Ameritech up2speed. When the box with the thingy in it that acts like a bridge so my computer thinks its hooked up to a LAN when it is really hooked up to a wide area network which is not a modem because well the fact that there is no modulating and demodulating going on is part of what makes it faster. Well it said SBC Yahoo DSL on it, the box.

Then later all this coming together started and now I find myself with AT&T Yahoo DSL.

SAN FRANCISCO - Yahoo Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO - news)'s recently resurgent stock retreated by more than 5 percent Friday amid fears that a setback in a lucrative partnership with AT&T Inc. will undercut the anticipated gains from an overhaul of the Web portal's advertising platform.

The sell-off was triggered by an unconfirmed report in The Wall Street Journal that AT&T wants to stop giving Yahoo a slice of the subscriber fees from a 6-year-old co-branding agreement to sell Internet access in most of the country.

If AT&T gets its way, Yahoo would have to be satisfied with whatever money it could make by selling its own online products, such as digital music or matchmaking services, to subscribers of the joint service.

And my RSS feeds don't work no more. And most that I added with the my yahoo button wouldn't updated when I first added them. So I have stopped using the my.yahoo.com page as a portal.

And the yahoo 360 blog well I think they decided to let you post videos but too little too late. And that whole get rid of the adult chat rooms from groups. And not being able to even search for adult groups. Ya know sometimes adult just means adult peer group. But really they need come undone.

Ooo Neat I Will Wait A Bit More Before Getting A 64

SAN JOSE, Calif. - The high-flying Advanced Micro Devices Inc. of 2006 has given way to a company in financial peril, saddled with debt and bleeding from a brutal price battle with its larger and suddenly resurgent Silicon Valley archrival, Intel Corp.
[...]
Though the price competition has cut into both chip makers' profits, Wall Street has punished AMD's stock particularly hard. Its shares have plunged more than 60 percent over the past year on fears about the company's ability to continue gaining share without hurting profit margins. Meanwhile, Intel's stock is down just 4 percent.

It took me forever to have a reason to move up from my 400mhz. So I will wait until I get one real cheap...

PS2 Will Become A Hot Item On Ebay Soon

TOKYO (Reuters) - Sony Corp (NYSE:SNE - news). is removing a chip from the European version of its new PlayStation 3 (PS3) game console, a move that cuts costs but means users cannot play some of their old games.

I don't get that. Its not like there was reason for a new game system in the first place. And you cost cutting measure is to take away backwards compatibility for games that are not that old.

Critics

If you have anything to say about how we got into Iraq or what happens to soldiers after they come back. You are simply an administration critic.

The news media sucks out loud!

The Nothing At Ground Will Not Be Televised

Ok, so now they are going get rid of the webcam pointed at ground zero. But it has nothing to do with them not doing anything to get the towers rebuilt.

NEW YORK - The view of ground zero just got a little smaller. The agency that oversaw the redesign of the World Trade Center site on Thursday stopped posting on its Web site hourly images from a camera pointed at ground zero.
[...]
Reduced traffic on the Lower Manhattan Development Corp. Web site, at http://www.renewnyc.com, didn't justify the cost of hourly photo updates, said A.J. Carter, a spokesman for the Empire State Development Corp., the LMDC's parent corporation. The agency still plans to post pictures of progress at ground zero from time to time.

I don't want to know what they was paying for that webcam. Not when a web hosting and webcam32 cost like nothing.

So And Slow It Goes and... Goes

Harvey vendor records missing

Despite numerous search efforts conducted by a team of Harvey staffers, private attorneys and even the mayor, many vendor payment records totaling thousands of dollars still are missing, a city official testified, prompting a government watchdog to wonder why the city's record-keeping is such a mess.

A handful of outside "forensic people" removed two computers last week from Harvey City Hall, human resources director Roberta Lyles testified in a civil deposition Tuesday as part of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by The Star's sister newspaper the Daily Southtown against the city.

[...]

Attorneys defending the city against the lawsuit hired "an outside forensic analyst to assist this firm in our analysis and investigation of these issues," Clifford Kosoff said.

Kosoff declined to name the independent analysis firm, citing an attorney-client privilege, but called it a "credible, well-respected forensic firm."

Misappropriation of funds and hiring people to defend their actions. The city will soon be in so much debt that they will give up and run out.

Harvey officer fired for false report

A Harvey police officer found guilty of falsifying a police report was fired last week by the city's civil service commission.

But officer Alex Gbur, who had worked with the department's canine, continued to insist the real reason he lost his job was because he's backing a political opponent of Mayor Eric Kellogg in the April 17 mayoral race.

Gbur -- a supporter of mayoral candidate Marion Beck -- was suspended without pay in October when he was accused of trying to cover up $2,000 in damage to his police car. At a commission hearing last month, he was found guilty of lying about backing into a fire hydrant outside his Thornton residence.

Okay.

Mayoral hopefuls promise change

Each Harvey mayoral candidate had his or her own way of handling the pulpit, zoning in on one of dozens of people last weekend at a Harvey church.

Each touted their visions for new streets, more jobs and safer neighborhoods.

But the five hopefuls donning their Sunday best at First Wesley Academy United Methodist Church on Saturday had a common mission: To take the reigns of Harvey and dissolve what they see as a corrupt administration.

[...]

Better marketing to recruit businesses to the city is what Harvey needs, said Dantzler, chairman of the city's finance committee. That starts with making sure people are safe and letting residents know what's going on in their community.

Yes, we need to give businesses a reason to want to come here. 154th street from the Metra platform to all the way west to Dixie Hwy. That used to be the downtown. There is the Metra stop and the paacebus terminal to take advantage of. maybe someday someone will.

Sources tell the Southtown: Mayor Kellogg made gun vanish

Harvey Mayor Eric J. Kellogg ordered one of his detectives to make a gun seized from a convicted felon vanish from evidence, authorities said Friday in the latest scandal to plague Harvey police and the first to finger the mayor in potentially criminal behavior.

By 2015 we will finally be a clean city.

What Did He Say

Did Chris Matthews say that republicans claiming bill Clinton killed a man because he knew too much about a land deal that Clinton did not what any info to come out about that killing being made to look like a suicide led to long long investigation when suddenly a spy inside the white house learned that Clinton was having sex with a staffer and recoded telephone conversations which in the middle of claims of a the land deal being shady he said didn't have sex with that young woman and then got impeached for lieing that republican investigation left a stain on his presidential record???

whitewaterstainondressgate allover again. Is it just as bad as war profiteering during a invasion that you lied to get the country to back you into doing leaving thousands of people dead? Yes.

The Boob Was Right It Is An Augmentation

So the surge is not a surge but was a means to make up for the loss of forces that they knew were going to be leaving Iraq a while ago. Everybody knows it is a civil war as a result of the invasion. They made plans to leave maybe two years ago.

It looks really bad when the butler leaves first.

Why Do I Have These Thoughts

Didn't I say I believe it's over? So anyway the next funny republican joke will be about Obama supporting terrorist when he suggests diplomacy when dealing with middle east. Lokk for it to happen soon.

And All I Use It For Is To Look At My House

As the communal bloodshed has worsened, some Iraqis have set up advice websites to help others avoid the death squads.

One tip - on the Iraq League site, one of the best known - is for people to draw up maps of their local area using Google Earth's detailed imagery of Baghdad so they can work out escape routes and routes to block.
[...]
For some time now, vigilante-style guard forces have been operating in many neighbourhoods, especially in Sunni areas targeted by Shia militias.

Many Sunnis see the Shia-dominated police forces as just as much of a threat, because of evidence of their involvement in kidnappings.

So part of the job of the local guards is keeping them out.

Quietly google will soon take over the world. I mean way to totally indispensable eh?

I Stepped On My Tongue Just Reading This

Iraq Resolution Debate their terms or ours? Warning! Reading that .pdf file will make hate republicans or maybe just think they are nuts.

U of I Gets Rid Of Racist Mascot

Chief Illiniwek is finally gone.

Surprise Surprise

Taliban are back BushCo. is responsible. The rhetoric spewed by BushCo. makes no sense and does not address any of the failures on their part that gave them their comeback.

No one in the media will say it. And no Democrat will say anything about it either. Then they would have to talk about sending troops to defend Afghanistan. And Republicans and the media will question this going after the real enemy as though it's the same as BushCo. going after made up enemies. Instead of talking about how if you don't rebuild the country then you end up marginalizing the terror groups. Otherwise you give them a reason for being.

BuchCo. proves itself good for the Al qaeda. And nobody will make this point because it sounds to much like... Oh look faux news has a comedy news show. Oh the yucks, YUCK!

More On It's Over

Or bringing us the U.S. down from the inside.

Hey look at me over here I am going to evade Iran! Yeah, that's right I am going to Iran so you don't have time investigate me. Or talk about how all of us lied about the reason we invaded Iraq. Hey hey, I am distracting you from doing the job you were elected to do. Hey, polls what polls?

I have decided we should stay the course in Iraq. If you oppose that then you want to cut funding for the troops that we sent in without proper equipment. And we pretty much refuse to fully equip. Still want to try and talk about it? You are hurting the troops! Huh huh, does that get ya?

Everyone will continue to let the crooks and liars and the lapdog media set the tone and frame work for discussion and that's that.

Ok, It's Over

If at this point the media wont cover the fact that Bush is pretty much bat shit insane. Then why would anybody stop them from attacking Iran.

Congress wont step up no matter what the polls say. It is just over.

John Boehner

image swiped from TMW.

"I laughed I cried it made me think"
Rep. (R-Ohio) John Boehner

But not about the thousands of dead Iraqis or the U.S. military personnel without adiquite body and vehicle armor. It was being able to frame the debate the why we dirty corrupt GOPrs would like it to go.

John Boehner

"I laughed I cried it made me think"
Rep. (R-Ohio) John Boehner

But not about the thousands of dead Iraqis or the U.S. military personnel without adiquite body and vehicle armor. It was being able to frame the debate the why we dirty corrupt GOPrs would like it to go.

Here In Illinois And The Country

The GOP suck. They are all crooks and liars. Here IL the GOP ran Judy Barr Topinka against Rod Blagojevich. Topinka has done nothing that would make qualified for the task of running a state. So why did she run? Because there was nobody else and why not give it a shot.

Nobody even paid attention to the why the right leaning liberal local media talked everyday about a friend of the Governors being in trouble with the law. With nothing new to report they just reported on that everyday. And after the election and Topinka's loss, nothing.

Now you have a presidential race coming in a few very very very long moths ahead. And just like in IL the GOP's credibility is so recked by their own actions. And they don't really care response to all calamity they are causing. Has left them with a field of people who are trying to make it seem like if they just keep a positive mind. It will all work out some time or another.

Howard Slams Obama on Iraq Policy

Australian Prime Minister John Howard, who will face his own re-election bid later this year, said Obama's proposed deadline would spell disaster for the Middle East.

"I think that will just encourage those who want to completely destabilize and destroy Iraq, and create chaos and a victory for the terrorists to hang on and hope for an Obama victory," Howard said on Nine Network television.

Having Obama and Hillary in the race is good for one thing. Attacking the GOP and the lapdog media on their stupid ass backwards thinking. If nobody talks about their pandering to lowest common demonator thinking. And Expose and reject every effort by the GOP to set the framework and tone of discussion. Then it will be a waste. Republicans are out of things right now. There is no need to tip toe around. The U.S. voted out the ones were up for reelection last time. And the others will get the boot the next time around. If people would stop listening to people trying spread doubt.

Olberman's Tongue Twists

kieth Olbermann keeps making little flubs while talking... Hope it's not a sign of something. Like all the idol and celebrity news.

Boo

How the Democrats can win everything in 2008. Tell the rubes anything as long as it is stupid and plays un-founded un-formed fears. Give then praise for acting without much thought. And encourage people who have never done a lick of something to act as though they are the authority on that something.

Second

The Second black coach to make it to the superbowl team wins it.

McCain Waffles

I don't think him and Joe Biden Really matter anyway.



Bravenewfilms

Little Terrorists Have Big Ears

Aqua Teen Hunger Force Has Embolden The Enemy

Mayor calls situation 'outrageous'

But Coakley, Boston Mayor Thomas Menino and others said the statement offering an apology was not enough, and did not rule out criminal charges or a civil suit to recover the estimated hundreds of thousands of dollars it cost the city to respond to the bomb scares.

Menino told reporters he received a call from a Turner spokesperson about 9 p.m. but had not yet returned it. "I think the city deserves a call, not from a press person, but from somebody in the corporate structure of Turner," he said.

"I just think this is outrageous, what they've done ... It's all about corporate greed."

Outrageous is right. Now the terrorists know how stupid we are that we can't even tell the difference from something that had been around for two weeks and a "terror threat". And we have to always think of these impressionable little terrorists everyday as we contemplate our daily actions. If we don't stand strong against unreal enemies together the real enemies will see an advantage. And then what? A promotion for Ghost Rider turns into a real bomb... at the box office.

Update: HOAX!!!

Patty O'Furniture - Judge Out Of District #2

Well there goes my dream now that they are on to us.

Hoping to stop lawyers from adopting Irish names to run for judge, Gov. Blagojevich has signed a bill requiring candidates who have changed their names within three years before running to have a "formerly known as" under their name.

The law excuses candidates who changed their names due to marriage, divorce or adoption.

State Rep. John Fritchey IV (D-Chicago) proposed the change after the Sun-Times revealed that attorney Frederick S. Rhine changed his name to "Patrick M. O'Brien" to run for judge.

He followed in a long line of attorneys who adopted their mothers' maiden names or just adopted an Irish name such as "Fitzgerald" to run even though they had not a drop of Irish blood.

Rhine changed his name in October 2005 but in the end did not run as O'Brien in 2006 judicial elections.

I had no idea people pulled such a stunt. This will make the next ballots look a lot more messy.

Slow And Steady As She Goes Down

HARVEY, Ill. -- State and Cook County officials have raided the police department of south suburban Harvey, armed with a subpoena to confiscate certain records.

The Illinois State Police Public Integrity Unit, Cook County sheriff's police and Cook County state's attorney's office participated in Wednesday's raid, authorities said. Officials did not specify what they confiscated.

By 2014 this will be a clean city.

Sorry Newman

Charles Lane Jan. 26, 1905 turns 102 today. Didn't know the man was still around.

Happy Real Star Birthday To

Paul Newman Jan. 26, 1925. Actually I have a hankerin for some rice and eggs for some reason.

Decisive

Because I told them it had to.
-Bush

Is It Asking To Much That They Be Dragged ...

Through The Streets?

A substitute teacher from Connecticut is facing up to 40 years in prison because her malware-riddled computer displayed porno popups in class.

On October 19, 2004, Julie Amero arrived at Kelly Middle School to teach a 7th grade language arts class. Mr. Matthew Nett, the class's regular teacher, logged Amero into the classroom computer and left, warning her not to turn the machine off.

Amero let the students surf the web for a few minutes. The kids visited several innocuous sites including an innocent-looking page on hair styles. Suddenly, pornographic popups started to fill the screen. Soon, the machine was frozen in an endless porn loop.

Nobody in that classroom clicked on any porn that day. The popups were generated automatically by a piece of malicious code from the hair site.

Anybody who has a computer and actually uses it. And surfs the web at all with it knows about this. There is no way in FUCK you can be on the internet let alone have a job as a prosecutor. And most likely have a computer that at some point somebody who maintains it for your dumb ass would have upgraded it. And more than likely explained to him why.

It is impossible to think it some innocent on the people of Norwich law inforsement and the jury to come to such a conclusion. All of the last year it made the news every time you needed to upgrade your windows OS because of some exploit or another.

The lie that stands out is she would have to physically click the porn links. Um no, the web is like only 1% porn. Money is made off of terrestrial rather than cyberspace related porn. What pop ups are is impression advertising. Money is made on the number of IP addresses that come to a page. malware is used to redirect your browser to ad sites all the time. It is just that with porn promoters there is no sense of restrain. Period.

The vulnerability lies in the way IE 6 handles certain graphics. Malicious software can be loaded, unbeknownst to the user, onto a vulnerable Windows PC when the user clicks on a malicious link on a Web site or an e-mail message, several security companies said.

"Fully patched Internet Explorer browsers are vulnerable," Ken Dunham, director of the rapid response team at VeriSign's iDefense, said in an e-mailed statement. "This new zero-day attack is trivial to reproduce and has great potential for widespread Web-based attacks in the near future."

Security-monitoring companies Secunia and the French Security Incident Response Team have given the issue their most serious ratings.

Shady adult Web sites are among the first to exploit the IE vulnerability, Eric Sites, vice president of research and development at spyware specialist Sunbelt Software, wrote on a corporate blog. In one case, a malicious Web site used the exploit to install "epic loads of adware," according to Sunbelt.

Microsoft plans to fix the flaw as part of its monthly patching cycle on Oct. 10, the software giant said in a security advisory. The update might be released sooner, "depending on customer needs," Microsoft said. Typically, Microsoft only breaks its patch cycle when attacks are widespread.

There is noway this prosecutor could not just simply Google malware and find out everything he said was wrong.

Spyware used to worm its way into PCs when users tried to download a free utility, such as a screen saver, and wound up with an unexpected bonus after agreeing to the distributor's license agreement.

Today most spyware infiltrations follow a different course: Users browsing the Web unknowingly launch "drive-by" downloads as they peruse sites affiliated with spyware makers. What those spyware-dumping sites often have in common is pornographic content.

That school needs to have it's computers upgraded... to new ones with spyware and pop up blocker. And I think David Smith, the prosecutor, should be made to not only foot the bill but be there to help the tech' who installs them so he can learn something. Or just drag him and the jury through the streets of Norwich... Ignorance of computer tech is no excuse. Especially when in your job you my be called on to help go after some computer hijacker instead your dumb ass is prosecuting an hijackee.