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.

The Prez'dent Speech

It will be full of contradiction and stuff that can't proven and things to ridicule. Joe Lieberman will clap the loudest and be on his feet the whole time. maybe shout a few amens.

And after, people will jump on the ridiculous and BushCo. will act as though they are being attacked. While trying to do the best they can with all these people around them making so many mistakes.


Same ol same ol.

Lovie Smith

First black head coach in a super bowl game. And oh bears are back in it since 1985.

YEAH!

Bill Orally On Cobert

Orally: I'm a fife, I'm not a tough guy. I'm sensitive. This is all an act.
Cobert: Your breaking my heart bill
Orally: ...
Cobert: If your an act then what 'am I?

More fun from Bill-O:

The situation here for this kid looks to me to be a lot more fun than what he had under his old parents.[...] Read more creepiness HERE.

Your not a real republican if you can't blame the victim in some really sick ass way.

Edwards / Obama '08

Start printing yer bumper stickers now folks. Read more HERE.


Update: Oops maybe that should be Clark / Obama '08

Superboy

Is this better than smallvile?

Some Steps To Ending The Iraq War

Step six: Spin your same old strategy and then claim that nobody else is coming up with any plans. And sit back watch as nobody reminds you that it's your job not theirs. And that theirs is to point out flaws in your design not do your work for you. And get ready to call everybody nay sayers as your plan as it has so far fails.

Joe Says...

Anyway it didn't take long or much for him to drop the act of being an independent now did it?

I blame the Clinton's for him being in office right now. And the people of CT. who voted for him though he lost the primary.

So Let Me See If I Got This Right

She is getting her breasts enlarge to go along with her new shoes? What did Rice mean by "augmentation" then?

More Concise

Okay, read this.

Awe

prez said:

he accept responsibility for not being to blame. And that there were mistakes made by everybody but him. And oh yeah whats going on in Iraq is a war. And if we loose we there will be terrorist attacks against the United States. Says he has a new plan to do the same stuff we have been doing over there 'cept more of it.

democrats response:

something not about how we deposed a dictator we created. nothing about being sorry for shock and awe or war profiteering. Or leaving the country exposed for every thug to jump up and send the country into sectarian violence.

You can't look good in this. You can't get a win. Admit you are wrong and move on from there. Maybe this time around we will see some good street demonstrations. But I think maybe people should spend a little time written the congress person. Especially the ones running for president in '08.

Some Steps To Ending The Iraq War

Step five: blow up some Al Qaeda someplace else and wait for everyone to talk about that instead Afghanistan and Iraq - the end.

Some Steps To Ending The Iraq War

Step one: Stop calling the invasion a war. The Iraqi army folded remember.

Step two: Stop trying to get a win

Step three: Stop saying the Iraqis who are dying in sectarian violence should get their act together.

Step four: Come up with a plan to um...

Happy New Year

To you two who read this blog ;)

Paper Dude Will be Getting A Nice Tip This Year

And the thing is when he did deliver it, it would be just inside of the hedge. Now it's just flop down on the side walk. I guess it is just too much effort to get into the yard.

And yes I know I am a bad person for not cleaning the side walk in front of the house.

Why We Must Continue

Half-assedly occupy Iraq? So the people who come up with clever stuff like this will be happy. No sacrifice is too great for them.

Damm Them Iraqi's

Can't they pull themselves together and end all this violence. I mean really. Once one or two little bombs fell on them. Their government was removed. Their military and police were gone. People were being picked up and tortured some died. Then a new government installed.

You think the violence would have long been over by now. I am in such shock and or awe over this along with BushCo.

Iraqi's Must Stand For Something

Point is the government is supposed to secure Iraq.The Iraqi people who are being killed are not in charge of their safety. That's like saying I police my streets and not the cops so if crime is up it's my fault.

When the people of Iraq stand up that is what you call sectarian violence.

Boy that Baker commission must be really good. I mean they delayed the report until after the elections and we are still waiting. So it must be full of really good advice that BushCo has to really mull over well.

Stay the same bullshit.

Snow WTF

What is the point to tony snow? I don't get the blatant lieing thing. Answering questions with supposition that just happens to be talking point rhetoric. And then insisting that he is answering the question. Smirking as the childlike reporters try to get him to just answer their questions. Getting exasperated when his lies are not accepted as fact.

But good thing they got him because without him being there. The true nature of BushCo probably would be better hidden. Not that they are trying to hide it. I mean they are right and all.

Leme See If I Get This

Democrats must stay in the center effect no real change and not do much of anything or else they will blow it all and lose all "power" again.

I wonder if doing nothing will come back as sign of done nothing? And then that would be used as reason you should vote republican. Maybe democrats should listen to the people and experts instead pundants!?

But I still think democrats need to explain how pointless tax cuts increases the bruden on people who live paycheck to paycheck. And the how the social security system actually works and how it ain't going bankrupt. Or just spend some time with the people explaining away the rehtoric.

Lieberman Will...

Caucus with the Democrats like he said he would. After trying to he will then become frustrated and side with the people helped him get re-elected. He owes them. They gave him money and supported him. Him on meet the press.

Partisan and moderate. Ones an accusation used by people who said the other side was not just wrong they were wrong for America and maybe siding with the terrorist. The other is claim used to say that even with all the accusing of the other side of being the extreme ones. They got elected by not being everything they was accused of being.

What a big conservative win 11/7/06 was. Which by they way will be the out for Lieberman. There is no way things are going to stay the same with a small group of people claiming to have all the plans. And should just hold on and believe in them to be doing the right thing. And that they not only don't need any oversight. They are more than a little upset by your not trusting their secret decisions. And when they start to squawking he run to, run in place more like, their side of the isle.

BushCo. Will The Investigations Begin Overseas?

Is the reason behind Rumsfeld leaving a lawsuit by Germany? A story by Adam Zagorin at TIME.com makes me think so.

Just days after his resignation, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is about to face more repercussions for his involvement in the troubled wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. New legal documents, to be filed next week with Germany's top prosecutor, will seek a criminal investigation and prosecution of Rumsfeld, along with Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, former CIA director George Tenet and other senior U.S. civilian and military officers, for their alleged roles in abuses committed at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison and at the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

War War War War

Peace is an option for the weak.

Fighting for peace does not mean war. Fighting for peace does not mean wearing tie dye and chanting in the streets.

Fighting for peace means all the people at BushCo. who are at war with Islam have to silenced. And then we need to restart the Middle East Peace process.

It's a horrible example but it's there. If you let them lose they will kill hundreds of thousands of people with no end in sight. They will use the fact that deaths have happened during their war as a reason to continue their war. And if you are against their war then you are weak. Iraq did not attack the United States Iraq could not attack the United States.

But just the same they say their war is going smoothly. It just that you don't understand that it's very complicated and you need to back off. BTW if the media and the politicians back off any farther they'd be on another planet.

Is all military action bad? No! Something really has to be done about Darfur and now.

Will the Democrats start building committees and boards of experts and start discussing peace in the Middle East which include trying to stabilize Iraq? Or will they listen to the "xerox media enabling lapdogs" and behave themselves in a niceties rich bipartisan way?

Just because they called unpatriotic and connected you with a child sex club, nambla. That would be no reason to misbehave now would my little defeatocrats.

Ed Bradley 1941 - 2006

Cancer claims another venerable news caster. LINK.

Two Things About That Election Thingy

Ok first off the DNC DCCC and the DSCC need to get the fuck together or shut the fuck up. Now they're playing the blame game over whose strategy worked best and whose cost the Dem's an un-vetoable majority.

I'd say it was whomever decided not to go with cable channel advertising and who let the Repub's get away with setting the tone i.e. The Death Tax, John Kerry's bad joke telling e.t.c. They are a little to hung up on appearance rather than substance. That's why most of these people didn't stick up for Kerry in 2004. This not about coming to power it is about right and wrong. And there is a hell of a lot of wrong to be dealt with.

And ain't it funny that Jim Webb wins because the Repub's didn't want the electronic voting machines with the paper trail? Notice how they don't want Allen to contest the results.

Dog Bites Man

Lieberschnauzer goes on fox and starts biting at all the foolish Dem's who supported him. Thank goodness they didn't take away his seniority when he chose to stay in the race after loosing the primary. And thank goodness none of the Democrat bigwigs gave their full support to Ned Lamont.

I say blame the Clinton's for this mess...

Oh By The Way

The Demorcrats control congress so everything is now their fault.

Wha' ?!?

Rummy is gone. I guess that means there doesn't need to be any investigations? Hahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

But seriously it does not mean anything. A change in.., having a plan means more. And again victory in Iraq means what?

And the prez is still going on about terrorist want to take over the world crap so, so far no change.

Done The Deed

Shenanigans Maybe???

During 6pm hour central Nov. 6. Fire trucks rolled into the 'hood but there was no fire or anything. What you can't see in this bad cell phone picture is that that is the polling place on the corner.

Belief

The religious right and try and remember this, this time. Believe that being gay is a lifestyle choice that people make when they are weak and not christiany enough.

So same sex, sex scandals don't turn them away. It makes them feel they need to do even more to stem the tide.

Winng?

We invaded a country that did us no harm. A guy we put in charge was still running the place. Mission accomplished was the invasion. Beyond that there was nothing thought of anything beyond that.

It's not that now the place has descended into chaos that we should pull out. What will be won if we stay there halfassedly occupying but not controlling. Iraq with all these terrorist running around still is not a threat to America.

They are not attacking us. There is nothing to be won. There is nothing dignified about calling this invasion a war a claiming we can win it. But Tuesday November 7th is regarded as a referendum on the handling of the occupation they call a war. So no change either way.

addendum: 11/06/06 For a long while there was no insurgency. Then there sort of was. Then they became prof of terrorist existing in Iraq and replaced WMDs as the reason we invaded. Then and right now the only exist as instruments that are being used to influence our politics.

I Wonder Which Way these 135,000 Will Be Voting?

Starbucks "loses" Laptops with worker data.

November 8th 2006

A lot of people will be arrested.

November 7th Chaos

A lot of disenfranchised voters. A lot of people voting even though they didn't. Those stolen laptops with sensitive information on them will play a part. Republicans win.

Greg Saunders On Kerry's Comments

Wah!

Yep. Click above link for a good read.

John Kerry Can't Tell Jokes Well

Abramoff, Foley, War Profiteering, Tax Cuts For The Rich, Invading A Country That Did Nothing To Us, Lies, Corruption and More Lies.

How Dumb Are You?



This is supposed to be a big earth shaking event. When they say it, you hear a thud as this lead balloon hits the ground.

But the other sound you hear is the sound of the Democrat party going to shit as they react positively to the republicans turning a flubbed one liner into a useless talking point. Our is that the sound of the incumbents who need to be removed.

Republican Terror

SANTA ANA, Calif. -- A California congresswoman said she was briefly denied access to a United Airlines flight last week because her name appeared on a "no fly list" set up after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

Rep. Loretta Sanchez, a Democrat who has been a critic of the no-fly list, said her staff had booked her a one-way ticket from Boise, Idaho, to Cincinnati through Denver. But they were prevented from printing her boarding pass online and at an airport kiosk.
[...]
Transportation Security Administration spokeswoman Jennifer Peppin said that for security reasons she couldn't confirm that the name was on the list. But she said that name mix-ups do occur.

"Generally what happens is people have a name that is very similar to someone who is on the no-fly list. It's the airlines' responsibility to do further checking,"

Shenanigans I tell you. just an example of what will happen more often. Epsecially after having been outed for stunts like this. If you think about it. They spend a lot more time bashing Democrats than they do going after terrorist. And not just during this '06 election.

IL-Gov Yes You Can Be Too Negative

When you don't have nobody to choose from you pick the lesser of the two evils. Blago' is not corrupt. His is just very extremely ethically challenged. It took a lot of doings to be the first IL Dem' Gov' in a quarter century. And Topinka, that stunt with Jack Ryan and bringing in Alan Keys will forever be around her neck. Despite the media over looking it and her choosing Jim Edgar to be her transition team head. Ya a lot of people in this state have memories longer than current news articles.

Update: Did not cap this from same noon news but, they have on CLTV too so I got a second chance. There for that one anonymous person I have something including the green party candidate. Don't look like anybody has to worry that a third party will sap many votes, eh.

Do Your Part

This Nov. 7 to help out your old Uncle.

Pumpkins

Man This is very bad.

A Google Bomb

What a nice little google bomb this is. When you serch for waffles, John Kerry's site is number one. Unlike searching on the word failure and getting Bush's bio. There is no why these results explaination.

IL-Gov MSI Scandal, What MSI Scandal...?

Judy Baar Topinka wants ex Gov. Jim Edgar to head up her transitional team if she is elected. Not even trying to hide the fact that if you let a republican back in the Governors mansion it will be back to full blown corruption. What player Blagojevich did, and damn him for being one, will be nothing compared to the mess republicans will make of our state.

Olbermann's Special Comment On Fear Mongers

I bet the terrorist saying "we love your choice of font style" to them right now. Download from veoh to see the whole thing.


The Lyndon Johnson campain ad. Ah no wonder everyone remembers him so fondly.

We Don't Need New Laws For Old "crimes"

I love the idea that the internet is supposed to be a children's playground. The only crap for kids on-line is crap people are trying to sell to kids.

If your a parent you have to be one. You can not defer your job to nameless faceless packets. You have to go on-line your damn self and make a list of sites you found to be safe for your youngin. And be there when they are surfin plus instill some sort of sense of right and wrong in them... oh nevermind that's just too hard. Make some laws that while you're at it. There was this site you didn't like what it said so lets just say it's unsafe for kids.

Government defends 1998 anti-porn law

The plaintiffs, technology experts and even Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy have expressed concerns that the law has already been surpassed by technology and the growth of the Internet. Kennedy noted, for example, that filters can block Web material posted offshore, but the law cannot control what foreigners post online.

"Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak
just because a baby can't chew it."
- Mark Twain

Current Sucks

It's just MTV what 18 or something like that.

A Good Ad For The GOP

New ad for the GOP'ers coming out. It will be list of things like Abramoff, war profiteers, DHS, Foley and stuff. Then the screen goes black and ka-boom ka-boom and ka-boom! Mushroom clouds are sprouting everywhere and as the clouds dissipate you see the words oversight, accountability and investigations spelled out.

GOP losses could spark partisan warfare

WASHINGTON - The White House is bracing for guerrilla warfare on the homefront politically if Republicans lose control of the House, the Senate or both — and with it, the president's ability to shape and dominate the national agenda.
[...]
"If he loses one house here, President Bush will enter the last two years very wounded," said David Gergen, a former White House adviser who served in the administrations of Presidents Nixon, Ford, Reagan and Clinton.

"He will have the capacity to say no to Democratic legislation, but he won't have the capacity to say yes to his own legislation," said Gergen, who teaches at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.

Democratic victories essentially could block Bush's remaining agenda and usher in a period of intense partisan bickering over nearly every measure to come before Congress.

Loss of either chamber also could subject his administration to endless congressional inquiries and investigations.

Must protect the power base screw the country... some more.

Sure I Did It But That Don't Make You Right For Talking About It

Candidate linked to letter lambastes foe

GARDEN GROVE, Calif. - A Republican congressional candidate whose campaign is being investigated for sending intimidating letters to Hispanic voters lashed out at his Democratic rival, saying she was fueling the uproar over the mailings.
[...]
"There has been no crime committed so why is there a criminal investigation three weeks prior to a very important election?" Nguyen asked. "What is going on? Who is fueling this investigation?"

Nguyen, a Vietnamese immigrant who has made illegal immigration a centerpiece of his campaign, said he would stay in the race despite calls from the state GOP and others to quit.

"I'm innocent," Nguyen said. "I'm not going to quit this race; I'm going to win this race."

What the hell is with republicans!?! I did it,yes but I am not guilty because of the timing of this revelation of what it is I did. Hmm why would people bring up an illegal stunt you did to influence the election just before the election. Lets all scratch our collective heads over that.

Feh

Ah,hahahahah! A very Funny Chi'Trib Story

From Chicago Tribune online. The Trib' also endorses Juby Topinka for Governor of IL. That in it's self is funny.

Liberals gone absolutely wild!

Victor Davis Hanson, a senior fellow and historian at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University: Tribune Media Services
Published October 20, 2006


Why do Republicans drive leftists so crazy these days? Liberal Democrats are beginning to sound like rowdy students on spring break, shrieking and exhibiting themselves on camera.

Consider some of the recent rabid outbursts by once sober old-guard politicians. West Virginia Sen. Jay Rockefeller insists that the world would be better off if Saddam Hussein were still running Iraq. Crotchety Congressman John Murtha of Pennsylvania rushed to announce that our Marines were guilty of killing Iraqis in "cold blood" before they were tried. Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin has compared our interrogators at Guantanamo Bay to Nazis, while Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry said our soldiers have "terrorized" Iraqi women and children.

Then there is the constant anger from Democratic ex-presidents. It used to be that out-of-office chief executives kept relatively hush. Presidents Ford and the elder Bush--both voted out of office--did not bray when President Clinton had his trials, personal and otherwise.

Not so now with Presidents Carter and Clinton. They repeatedly harp on the sins of the current administration. By now, everyone has seen clips of Clinton losing his temper (complete with finger-wagging) and lashing out at the "right-wingers" on TV. He lectures on political extremism, even as one of his wife's staff members slandered Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) by saying he broke under torture while a prisoner of war in Hanoi. And even at 82, Jimmy Carter almost daily carps over Bush's foreign policy.

Do not forget the unhinged billionaire leftist philanthropists. Ted Turner said he resented President Bush asking Americans, after Sept. 11, 2001, to take sides in our war against Islamic terrorists. George Soros claimed that Bush improved on Nazi propaganda methods.

The frustration with Bush & Co. has driven a few in the media almost to the point of clinical madness. In 2004, a clueless Dan Rather imploded by airing clearly forged memos that called into question Bush's National Guard service--with the result that he was eased out by an embarrassed CBS News. More recently, Keith Olbermann, the foaming news head on the struggling cable channel MSNBC, keeps his ratings low with uncontrollable rants about Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld pushing a "new fascism."

On college campuses, the old leftist intolerance of unwelcome free speech is back with a fury. A guest spokesman for the Minutemen immigration reform group was shouted down at a recent Columbia University lecture. Earlier, Harvard's liberal president Lawrence Summers was forced out after timidly questioning academic orthodoxy about the role of women in science and engineering.

What sends liberal criticism over the edge into pathological hysteria?

Is it that George W. Bush is a polarizing figure, not just in terms of his Iraq policy, but also because of his Christian Texan demeanor?

Or is the current left-wing savagery also a legacy of the tribal 1960s, when out-of-power protesters felt that expressions of speaking bluntly, even crudely, were at least preferable to "artificial" cultural restraint? Why should graying veterans of the barricades, then, remain "polite" when their country's less sophisticated red-state yokels are taking it in the wrong direction?

The Democrats have not elected congressional majorities in 12 years, and they've occupied the White House in only eight of the last 26 years. The left's current unruliness seems a way of scapegoating others for a more elemental frustration: that they can't gain a national majority based on their core beliefs. More entitlements, higher taxes to pay for them, gay marriage, de facto quotas in affirmative action, open borders, abortion on demand, and radical secularism--these liberal issues don't tend to resonate with most Americans.

To compensate, leftist pundits, billionaire philanthropists and politicians, from current officeholders to ex-presidents, work to ensure that isolated moments of Republican ineptness (President Bush strutting on a carrier deck in his flight suit) and wrongdoing (repulsive e-mails from a perverted congressman, Mark Foley) blare out as the only issues of the day. This distracting drumbeat, not their own agenda, is the only strategy for success in the next election.

True, reactionaries in the 1990s expressed a Neanderthal hatred of Bill Clinton. But now shouting leftists have lowered the bar. The danger, of course, is that by emulating the rhetoric of a Cindy Sheehan or Michael Moore, the feral Democrats--when they come back into power again as tamed leaders who must govern--will have created Frankensteins. And, as we know, such monsters always turn on their creators.

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No Really We Care About Lots Of Stuff

Evangelicos want to do something about Darfur, have a talk with Bush about it. Well I got to say nope I don't buy it.

Huey

Everything that happens is just an attempt to influence the elections. Why is everybody out to get at those poor republican's power and control.

Countdown Special Comment 10/18/2006

Bush or should we now say North American Strong Man George W. Bush, Military Commission Act. Keith Olbermann has a special comment on it




Gonna miss that after he get declared an enemy of the Peoples Republic of America... sigh

Dems Can't Stand Up To Repubofasists Hmm

What if they grew some?



Now that there no chance of winning a war that should never have been. And with proof that nothing has been done to keep us safe. Maybe there will be some, some what kinda signs of ball and or spine growth eh.

NRCC in Illinois

Oh my they came to Illinois several times. They are not supporting gubernatoriall candidate Judy Topinka. Tribune played it off as she was campaining down state and made it look like it was her choice.




Ok what who? Nancy Pelosi is only an evil figure in wingnuts' minds. And she ain't running for office in Illinois.




Roskam and his peeps paid for this one but just the same. What's with bringing up Teddy?

Links: Tammy Duckworth(D) Melissa Bean(D) Nancy Pelosi(D) Rod Blagojevich(D) Peter Roskam(R) Judy Topinka(R) David McSweeney(R)

Hmm Like I Said

Gonna go after the gay folk in their ranks. But then being a gay republican is like being a bla... Anything but a white male republican. You know they don't like you but ya still hang around them. Why?

IL-Governors Race 51% Dissapproval

According to a Tribune/WGN-TV poll, have to register to see story. Nobody really likes either candidate. Lets see now

Rod Blagojevich (D)

• Plays the game
• Guilty by associating with people under investigating

Judy Baar Topinka (R)

• There was nobody else running
• Alan Keys

If he can survive the game and people talk about what he has done for Illinois then maybe... But a lot of this is long rooted stuff that goes deep back in the years when this was a long time republican governors only but, a very blue as they say state. I think it's sad when everybody thinks it has to be business as usual. Even sadder when it seems it has to be brought to light and attached squarely on the shoulders of the Democrat Gov. right now, laugh.

Third Party Candidates

Um, I was thinking of stuff along the lines of trying to introduce bills and stuff. But maybe since they say that they're trying raise attention to issues...

A young swimming champion has injected some fun into Catalonia's election campaign that starts tomorrow by stripping naked as candidate for a new anti-nationalist party.

Albert Rivera, 26, a lawyer with no political experience, follows in the footsteps of the Italian former porn star La Cicciolina, who bared a breast in a provocative campaign to become an MEP. In pursuit of Catalan votes on 1 November, Mr Rivera appears naked on posters for his Citizens of Catalonia party. "We don't care what language you speak, or what clothes you wear. We only care about you," claims the slogan alongside a photo of the candidate, his hands crossed across his genitals.

Or maybe spend a year before elections talking about those issues. And trying to make changes and a name for yourself.

Stuff

Green

Green party and others don't do nothing but show up at election time and try to get elected. You gotta do stuff and let people know you will do even more if elected. Hell I can just sit here tapping at my computer and go write my name in on the ballot. Same difference.




N. Korea

I say again. The Mouse That Roard



Gerry Studds passes away.



Air America Goes Bust Again

Okay so when they came back to Chicago I didn't even know it. Great advertising eh. And what's up with all the scambo advertising spots on the station. Whatever.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Air America Radio, the liberal news and talk radio network whose on-air talent includes comedian Al Franken, on Friday filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after talks with a creditor broke down.

The network said it plans to stay on the air while it reorganizes. In a filing with the U.S. bankruptcy court in Manhattan, Air America said it lost about $40.9 million since the spring of 2004, including $13.1 million so far in 2006.

"This regrettable action became necessarily only recently when good faith efforts to resolve outstanding debt with a creditor from the company's earliest days broke down," Air America said in a statement.

Air America was launched in March 2004 with programming to counter-balance politically conservative shows by nationally syndicated hosts like Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity.

The New York-based company said it has 4 million listeners, and has on-air personalities including Robert Kennedy Jr. and Randi Rhodes. Air America also syndicates a radio show from television host Jerry Springer.

And are we supposed to believe Jerry Springer is... what is he doing there!?!



Shh, Wait Not Now I Think People Are Watching.

It's only a matter of time until it will all be one. Welcome back Ma' Bell.

Weight

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A California-born convert to Islam could become the first American accused of treason since World War Two after he appeared in al Qaeda videos, sources familiar with the man's case said on Wednesday.

George Bush's grandfather, the late US senator Prescott Bush, was a director and shareholder of companies that profited from their involvement with the financial backers of Nazi Germany.

Donald Rumsfeld, the US defence secretary, sat on the board of a company which three years ago sold two light water nuclear reactors to North Korea - a country he now regards as part of the "axis of evil" and which has been targeted for regime change by Washington because of its efforts to build nuclear weapons.

Page Sex Don't Mean Nothing

evangelicos don't care about Foley or what the others did to cover it all up. Or even the fact that this might be just one thing amongst a lot. They believe too much in the lies about what Democrats stand for them to be any influence to anyone but republicans.

As long has they hear what they want to hear it wont matter what comes out about their party of choice. All the repubs have to do is keep this investigating it bit going until after the elections. Everyone will just get tired of it. Evangelicos are going to still get out and vote.

If torturing people until they tell you they are terrorist don't sway them. What makes people think a little sex with underlings will.

Democrats need to stop worrying about who will vote for republicans and start talking the people who would vote for them. They have to start previewing their plans. I say preview because anything they put out there during the elections will just be held up as fodder by the republicans.

Look at tax breaks for the rich. Republicans and the media can get away with saying Democrats want to bring more taxes on the middle class working families. Why not spend some time talking about that lie? A lie meant to preserve tax cuts for rich people who can easily make some of their income untaxable with investments, nevermind the cheating. There are advantages to not living paycheck to paycheck. And when the tax money ain't coming in to government the burden is shifted on to the working class. It would be nice if a series of talks were held on things like that. That would focus on the lies but not on the liars.

A Voeh or series of YouTube videos with Barak Obama (D-IL) explaining how the Estate Tax is not a death tax on working class peoples. Or explaining how social security ain't in trouble.

But no, they'll just keep playing keep up as best we can. Instead of leading.

Google Rumor Was True

And now a word from one of our many sponsors. Google buys YouTube for a huge chunk 'o change.

We are natural partners to offer a compelling media entertainment service to users, content owners and advertisers," said Eric Schmidt, Google's chief executive officer.

YouTube will continue to retain its brand, as well as all 67 employees, including co-founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen. The deal is expected to close in the fourth quarter of this year.

"I'm confident that with this partnership we'll have the flexibility and resources needed to pursue our goal of building the next-generation platform for serving media worldwide," said Hurley, YouTube's 29-year-old CEO.

While most videos posted on YouTube are homemade, the site also features volumes of copyrighted material -- a problem that has caused some critics to predict the startup eventually would be sued into oblivion, much like the once-popular music-sharing site Napster.


Okay, first NBC then the Warner deal and now the Google buy out. Whatever it could have been it wont. I guess nobody learned nothing from the @home mess. Everybody will talk on and so so about copywright and tickelish content. And behind the scenes the these big time TV/movie folk and gonna get along with the "interwebs" people.

Well anyways enjoy some YouTube original work:

Illinois Energy Cost May Spike

These people are running ads that say we are headed for a california style energy crisis. ComEd has already claimed if they don't to raise rates they will go bankrupt. Consumers Organized for Reliable Electricity (CORE) spent 4 mil' to try and convince people here that they are not a big company, Exelon, pretending to be a concerned citizens group. Who thinks we citizens should be paying more for our electricity, or else.

Tapes Show Enron Arranged Plant Shutdown
By Timothy Egan
The New York Times

Friday 04 February 2005

EVERETT, Wash - In the midst of the California energy troubles in early 2001, when power plants were under a federal order to deliver a full output of electricity, the Enron Corporation arranged to take a plant off-line on the same day that California was hit by rolling blackouts, according to audiotapes of company traders released here on Thursday.

The tapes and memorandums were made public by a small public utility north of Seattle that is fighting Enron over a power contract. They also showed that Enron, as early as 1998, was creating artificial energy shortages and running up prices in Canada in advance of California's larger experiment with deregulation.

The tapes provide new details of market manipulation during the California energy crisis that produced blackouts and billions of dollars of surcharges to homes and businesses on the West Coast in 2000 and 2001.

In one January 2001 telephone tape of an Enron trader the public utility identified as Bill Williams and a Las Vegas energy official identified only as Rich, an agreement was made to shut down a power plant providing energy to California. The shutdown was set for an afternoon of peak energy demand.

"This is going to be a word-of-mouth kind of thing," Mr. Williams says on the tape. "We want you guys to get a little creative and come up with a reason to go down." After agreeing to take the plant down, the Nevada official questioned the reason. "O.K., so we're just coming down for some maintenance, like a forced outage type of thing?" Rich asks. "And that's cool?"

"Hopefully," Mr. Williams says, before both men laugh.

The next day, Jan. 17, 2001, as the plant was taken out of service, the State of California called a power emergency, and rolling blackouts hit up to a half-million consumers, according to daily logs of the western power grid.

So they are going shutdown power plants and drive up prices and laugh at the rolling blackouts? The Citizens utility Board, CUB breaks down their claims. I don't think they are hurting either.

PredatorGate Direction

New strategy in the Foley matter, connect Homosexuality with pedophilia. Then kick out all the gay republicans. And of course keep trying make this a Democrat vs. republican matter and keep bringing up Gerry Studds.

Crane, who tearfully apologized for his transgression, lost his bid for reelection in 1984. Studds, however, refused to apologize (even calling a press conference with the former page, in which both stated that they were consenting adults at the time of the relationship and that it was therefore not the business of others to censure them for their private relationship), and he continued to be reelected until his retirement in 1996.

This and that are different. Gerry Studds activity was not covered up. The people his constituents re-elected him. Going on about liberal conspiracies and claiming to take responsibility while accepting no blame is just nuts.

Problem is they don't care and are surprised by all the attention to this. They keep saying that sound as though an authority figure looking to have sex with his or her subordinates is just fine.

A Republican congressman knew of disgraced former representative Mark Foley's inappropriate Internet exchanges as far back as 2000 and personally confronted Foley about his communications.

Spying On The Enemy

Their enemy are anyone who is against them. And they believe they are the only ones who must rule this country. And lately they have been turning up if you're not with them you are with the terrorist rehtoric.



So don't they think they have the right to spy on the Democrats and bloggers? I bet they are doing that. It's like watergate redone but this time anything they do gets deleted from record before anyone finds out.

YuWarnGoo Video

YouTube Warner Google, YWG. Why do we need some different little media holes. lets all become one. I forgot and don't want to look up who Google video is already a part of. So anyway soon you wont be able to escape the mainstream.

(AP) Internet search leader Google Inc. is in talks to acquire the popular online video site YouTube Inc. for about $1.6 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday, citing a person familiar with the matter.

Mountain View-based Google and San Mateo-based YouTube are still at a sensitive stage in the discussion, the newspaper reported on its Web site.

The blog TechCrunch had reported on rumors of the acquisition talks. Representatives from Google and YouTube did not immediately return calls to The Associated Press.

Founded in February 2005 by three former employees of eBay Inc.'s PayPal electronic-payment unit, YouTube is surging thanks to the increased availability of high-speed Internet connections and gadgets such as camera phones and digital cameras capable of taking video. Most of YouTube offerings are short amateur clips, although professional filmmakers, television networks and even political campaigns have posted materials.

Really The FBI Lied

Citizens (blogging) for responsibilty and ethics in washington CREW, Say the FBI lied to the press.

The FBI ain't what is used to be for a long time now. CREW found that out as the FBI are trying to mold their story to what every other person involved in covering for Foley is now saying they knew what only when now, huh. I don't think Inspector Lewis Erskine works there anymore and things haven't been the same since.

Limbaugh Blames The

Should this guy be talking about the Foley matter?

Limbaugh was detained for more than three hours Monday at the airport after returning from a vacation in the Dominican Republic. Customs officials found the Viagra in his luggage but his name was not on the prescription, said Paul Miller, a spokesman for the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office.

I am sure he was not there for underage sex. He most likely was there for the fishing.

Evidence of the sex trade is everywhere as men in shorts and sandals duck into rent-by-the-hour "love motels" with Dominican women in bright dresses.

"There is always a demand for sex," said one Dominican prostitute as she lounged at one of the town's waterfront bars. "Men will always pay for it, especially in here ... where they can get anything they want at a discount."

Indeed, the Dominican Republic is one of the biggest sex tourism destinations in the world, thanks in part to Internet sites that extol the country as a "single man's paradise."

It Blew Hard!

Was a bit under the weather. Straight line winds micro burst whatever. It was very loud, windy and the lights went out a few minutes into the Daily Show.Was a bit under the weather.

To lazy to go around and take pictures.

PredatorGate

Ok if they are still blocking any real probing of things in the Foley matter... Me thinks he got lucky a few times with some of the teenage boys.

they talk why to much about emails and instant messages. He probably hit on them in those but did all the other stuff face to face.

If You Don't Think It Needs Talking About

Ok so on faux news the argument is that a pedo' should be alound to keep his seat... And Dems are making a big demogogic deal out of this thing.



Ok ok so if you frame it in a certain way then um..., No it is still a bad thing they knew about it snd did nothing because the seat was more important.

Having affairs with grown ups ain't the same as cruising for for young boys.