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2007-04-02T10:05:00.000-05:00

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WTF

2007-02-19T19:28:00.000-06:00

How naive am I?

2006-11-20T21:35:00.000-06:00

WTF? I just got done talking to my dad. Somehow our conversation devolved from my SO's aunt dying to my hatred for the "man's burka" aka suit. I said my company doesn't appreciate/pay me enough...he said buy 5 suits. I said I wouldn't "lick asshole" (really) to get more pay

Any moron can buy a suit and any thief can buy a better suit...it is one of my little sayings.

Am I right or wrong?

Either way, I'll take less pay for genuineness before I give in to "the man"

That is all.

PS - apparently we both have enough alcohol in us to have had this conversation
PPS - he ripped on my friend for no reason. Compared myself and said friend as if I did something great. The fact is I lucked out (still don't get the pay/appreciation I should)

Senseless War by Kevin Tillman (Pat Tillman's brother)

2006-10-21T15:24:00.000-05:00

After Pat’s Birthday

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Posted on Oct 19, 2006

Courtesy the Tillman Family

Pat Tillman (left) and his brother Kevin stand in front of a Chinook helicopter in Saudi Arabia before their tour of duty as Army Rangers in Iraq in 2003.

By Kevin Tillman

Editor’s note: Kevin Tillman joined the Army with his brother Pat in 2002, and they served together in Iraq and Afghanistan. Pat was killed in Afghanistan on April 22, 2004. Kevin, who was discharged in 2005, has written a powerful, must-read document.

It is Pat’s birthday on November 6, and elections are the day after. It gets me thinking about a conversation I had with Pat before we joined the military. He spoke about the risks with signing the papers. How once we committed, we were at the mercy of the American leadership and the American people. How we could be thrown in a direction not of our volition. How fighting as a soldier would leave us without a voice… until we got out.

Much has happened since we handed over our voice:

Somehow we were sent to invade a nation because it was a direct threat to the American people, or to the world, or harbored terrorists, or was involved in the September 11 attacks, or received weapons-grade uranium from Niger, or had mobile weapons labs, or WMD, or had a need to be liberated, or we needed to establish a democracy, or stop an insurgency, or stop a civil war we created that can’t be called a civil war even though it is. Something like that.

Somehow America has become a country that projects everything that it is not and condemns everything that it is.

Somehow our elected leaders were subverting international law and humanity by setting up secret prisons around the world, secretly kidnapping people, secretly holding them indefinitely, secretly not charging them with anything, secretly torturing them. Somehow that overt policy of torture became the fault of a few “bad apples” in the military.

Somehow back at home, support for the soldiers meant having a five-year-old kindergartener scribble a picture with crayons and send it overseas, or slapping stickers on cars, or lobbying Congress for an extra pad in a helmet. It’s interesting that a soldier on his third or fourth tour should care about a drawing from a five-year-old; or a faded sticker on a car as his friends die around him; or an extra pad in a helmet, as if it will protect him when an IED throws his vehicle 50 feet into the air as his body comes apart and his skin melts to the seat.

Somehow the more soldiers that die, the more legitimate the illegal invasion becomes.

Somehow American leadership, whose only credit is lying to its people and illegally invading a nation, has been allowed to steal the courage, virtue and honor of its soldiers on the ground.

Somehow those afraid to fight an illegal invasion decades ago are allowed to send soldiers to die for an illegal invasion they started.

Somehow faking character, virtue and strength is tolerated.

Somehow profiting from tragedy and horror is tolerated.

Somehow the death of tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of people is tolerated.

Somehow subversion of the Bill of Rights and The Constitution is tolerated.

Somehow suspension of Habeas Corpus is supposed to keep this country safe.

Somehow torture is tolerated.

Somehow lying is tolerated.

Somehow reason is being discarded for faith, dogma, and nonsense.

Somehow American leadership managed to create a more dangerous world.

Somehow a narrative is more important than reality.

Somehow America has become a country that projects everything that it is not and condemns everything that it is.

Somehow the most reasonable, trusted and respected country in the world has become one of the most irrational, belligerent, feared, and distrusted countries in the world.

Somehow being politically informed, diligent, and skeptical has been replaced by apathy through active ignorance.

Somehow the same incompetent, narcissistic, virtueless, vacuous, malicious criminals are still in charge of this country.

Somehow this is tolerated.

Somehow nobody is accountable for this.

In a democracy, the policy of the leaders is the policy of the people. So don’t be shocked when our grandkids bury much of this generation as traitors to the nation, to the world and to humanity. Most likely, they will come to know that “somehow” was nurtured by fear, insecurity and indifference, leaving the country vulnerable to unchecked, unchallenged parasites.

Luckily this country is still a democracy. People still have a voice. People still can take action. It can start after Pat’s birthday.

Brother and Friend of Pat Tillman,

Kevin Tillman

I say anyone who has blindly followed this guy should go. Democrat or Republican

2006-10-18T08:50:00.000-05:00

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Firefox Shorcuts

2006-10-09T12:57:00.000-05:00

Mouse Shortcuts

This is a list of the most common mouse shortcuts in Firefox, and the equivalents in Internet Explorer and Opera. The shortcuts are for Windows, but most of the Firefox shortcuts should work in Linux too.

Command	Firefox	Internet Explorer	Opera
Back	`Shift`+`Scroll down`	`Shift`+`Scroll down`	`Shift`+`Scroll down`
Close Tab	`Middle-click` on Tab ¹	Feature Not Available	`Shift`+`Left-click`
Decrease Text Size	`Ctrl`+`Scroll up`	`Ctrl`+`Scroll up`	`Ctrl`+`Scroll up`
Forward	`Shift`+`Scroll up`	`Shift`+`Scroll up`	`Shift`+`Scroll up`
Increase Text Size	`Ctrl`+`Scroll down`	`Ctrl`+`Scroll down`	`Ctrl`+`Scroll down`
New Tab	`Double-Click` on Tab Bar	Feature Not Available	`Double-Click` on Tab Bar
Open in Background Tab	`Ctrl`+`Left-click` ² `Middle-click`	Feature Not Available	`Ctrl`+`Shift`+`Left-click` `Middle-click`
Open in Foreground Tab	`Ctrl`+`Shift`+`Left-click` ² `Shift`+`Middle-click` ²		`Shift`+`Left-click`
Open in New Window	`Shift`+`Left-click`	`Shift`+`Left-click`
Paste URL and Go	`Middle-click` on Tab ¹	Feature Not Available	Feature Not Available
Reload (override cache)	`Shift`+Reload button	`Shift`+Reload button
Save Page As	`Alt`+`Left-click`
Scroll line by line	`Alt`+`Scroll`

¹: A Middle-click on a tab closes it on Windows by default. However, in Linux it pastes whatever is currently in the Clipboard and visits that site (or performs a search). This can be changed by setting the middlemouse.contentLoadURL pref to either true (for the Content Load URL feature) or false (for closing the tab).

²: By default, Ctrl+Left-click opens the link in a background tab (which will keep you navigating on the page you clicked the link on) and Shift+Ctrl+Left-click opens the link in a foreground tab. In order to reverse this behavior, select Tools > Options..., click on Advanced and check the Select new tabs from open links option.

Command	Firefox	Internet Explorer	Opera
Add Bookmark	`Ctrl/Cmd`+`D`	`Ctrl/Cmd`+`D`	`Ctrl/Cmd`+`T`
Back	`Backspace` ^Win/Linux `Alt`+`<-` ^Win/Linux `Cmd`+`<-` ^Mac	`Backspace` `Alt/Option`+`<-`	`Backspace` `Alt/Option`+`<-` `Ctrl/Cmd`+`<-` `Z`
Bookmarks	`Ctrl/Cmd`+`B` `Ctrl`+`I` ^Win	`Ctrl/Cmd`+`I`	`F4` `Ctrl/Cmd`+`Alt/Option`+`B` `Ctrl/Cmd`+`1`
Caret Browsing	`F7`	Feature Not Available	Feature Not Available
Close Tab	`Ctrl/Cmd`+`W` `Ctrl/Cmd`+`F4`	Feature Not Available	`Ctrl/Cmd`+`W` `Ctrl/Cmd`+`F4`
Close Window	`Ctrl/Cmd`+`Shift`+`W` `Alt/Option`+`F4`	`Ctrl/Cmd`+`W` `Alt/Option`+`F4`	`Ctrl/Cmd`+`W` `Alt/Option`+`F4`
Complete .com Address ¹	`Ctrl`+`Enter` ^Win/Linux	`Ctrl/Cmd`+`Enter/Return`	`Enter/Return`
Complete .net Address ¹	`Shift`+`Enter/Return`	Feature Not Available	Feature Not Available
Complete .org Address ¹	`Ctrl`+`Shift`+`Enter` ^Win/Linux	Feature Not Available	Feature Not Available
Copy	`Ctrl/Cmd`+`C`	`Ctrl/Cmd`+`C`	`Ctrl/Cmd`+`C`
Cut	`Ctrl/Cmd`+`X`	`Ctrl/Cmd`+`X`	`Ctrl/Cmd`+`X`
Decrease Text Size	`Ctrl/Cmd`+`-`		`9`
Delete	`Del`	`Del`	`Del`
Delete Individual Form Auto-Complete Entry	`Shift`+`Del`	`Del`
DOM Inspector	`Ctrl`+`Shift`+`I` ^Win/Linux	Feature Not Available	Feature Not Available
Downloads	`Ctrl`+`J` ^Win `Ctrl`+`Y` ^Linux `Cmd`+`J` ^Mac	Feature Not Available	`Ctrl/Cmd`+`Alt/Option`+`T` `Ctrl/Cmd`+`5`
Find Again	`Ctrl/Cmd`+`G` `F3`		`F3`
Find As You Type Link	`'`	Feature Not Available	`,` `Shift`+`/`
Find As You Type Text	`/`	Feature Not Available	`/` `.`
Find Previous	`Ctrl/Cmd`+`Shift`+`G` `Shift`+`F3`		`Shift`+`F3`
Find in This Page	`Ctrl/Cmd`+`F`	`Ctrl/Cmd`+`F`	`Ctrl/Cmd`+`F`
Forward	`Shift`+`Backspace` `Alt/Option`+`->` ^Win/Linux `Cmd`+`->` ^Mac	`Shift`+`Backspace` `Alt/Option`+`->`	`Shift`+`Backspace` `Alt/Option`+`->` `Ctrl/Cmd`+`->` `X`
Go Down One Line	`Down`	`Down`	`Down`
Go Up One Line	`Up`	`Up`	`Up`
Go Down One Page	`PageDown`	`PageDown`	`PageDown`
Go Up One Page	`PageUp`	`PageUp`	`PageUp`
Go to Bottom of Page	`End`	`End`	`End`
Go to Top of Page	`Home`	`Home`	`Home`
Full Screen	`F11` ^Win/Linux	`F11`	`F11`
Help	`F1` ^Win/Linux	`F1`	`F1`
History	`Ctrl/Cmd`+`H`	`Ctrl/Cmd`+`H`	`Ctrl/Cmd`+`Alt/Option`+`H` `Ctrl/Cmd`+`4`
Home Page	`Alt/Option`+`Home`	`Alt/Option`+`Home`	`Alt/Option`+`Home`
Increase Text Size	`Ctrl/Cmd`+`+`		`0`
Move to Next Frame	`F6`
Move to Previous Frame	`Shift`+`F6`
New Mail Message	`Ctrl/Cmd`+`M`
New Tab	`Ctrl/Cmd`+`T`	Feature Not Available	`Ctrl/Cmd`+`N`
Next Tab	`Ctrl`+`Tab` ^Win/Linux `Cmd`+`Opt`+`Tab` ^Mac `Ctrl/Cmd`+`PageDown`	Feature Not Available	`Ctrl/Cmd`+`Tab` `Alt/Option`+`PageDown` `Ctrl/Cmd`+`F6` `2`
New Window	`Ctrl/Cmd`+`N`	`Ctrl/Cmd`+`N`	`Ctrl/Cmd`+`Alt/Option`+`N`
Open File	`Ctrl/Cmd`+`O`	`Ctrl/Cmd`+`O`	`Ctrl/Cmd`+`O`
Open Link	`Enter/Return`	`Enter/Return`	`Enter/Return`
Open Link in New Tab	`Ctrl/Cmd`+`Enter/Return`	Feature Not Available
Open Link in New Window	`Shift`+`Enter/Return`	`Shift`+`Enter/Return`	`Shift`+`Enter/Return`
Open Address in New Tab ¹	`Alt/Option`+`Enter/Return`	Feature Not Available	`Shift`+`Enter/Return`
Page Info	`Ctrl`+`I` ^Linux `Cmd`+`I` ^Mac		`Ctrl/Cmd`+`8`
Page Source	`Ctrl/Cmd`+`U`	`Ctrl/Cmd`+`F3`	`Ctrl/Cmd`+`F3`
Paste	`Ctrl/Cmd`+`V`	`Ctrl/Cmd`+`V`	`Ctrl/Cmd`+`V`
Previous Tab	`Ctrl/Cmd`+`Shift`+`Tab` `Ctrl/Cmd`+`PageUp`	Feature Not Available	`Ctrl/Cmd`+`Shift`+`Tab` `Alt/Option`+`PageUp` `Ctrl/Cmd`+`Shift`+`F6` `1`
Print	`Ctrl/Cmd`+`P`	`Ctrl/Cmd`+`P`	`Ctrl/Cmd`+`P`
Redo	`Ctrl/Cmd`+`Shift`+`Z` `Ctrl`+`Y` ^Win/Linux	`Ctrl/Cmd`+`Y`	`Ctrl/Cmd`+`Shift`+`Z` `Ctrl/Cmd`+`Y`
Reload	`F5` `Ctrl/Cmd`+`R`	`F5` `Ctrl/Cmd`+`R`	`F5` `Ctrl/Cmd`+`R`
Reload (override cache)	`Ctrl/Cmd`+`F5` `Ctrl/Cmd`+`Shift`+`R`	`Ctrl/Cmd`+`F5`
Restore Text Size	`Ctrl/Cmd`+`0`		`6`
Save Page As	`Ctrl/Cmd`+`S`		`Ctrl/Cmd`+`S`
Save Link Target As	`Alt/Option`+`Enter/Return`
Select All	`Ctrl/Cmd`+`A`	`Ctrl/Cmd`+`A`	`Ctrl/Cmd`+`A`
Select Location Bar	`Ctrl/Cmd`+`L` `Alt`+`D` ^Win/Linux	`Alt/Option`+`D` `F4` `Ctrl/Cmd`+`Tab`	`F8`
Select Next Auto-Complete entry in text field	`Down`
Select Previous Auto-Complete entry in text field	`Up`
Select Next Search Engine in Search Bar	`Ctrl/Cmd`+`Down`
Select Previous Search Engine in Search Bar	`Ctrl/Cmd`+`Up`
Select Tab [1 to 9]	`Ctrl`+[`1` to `9`] ^Win `Alt`+[`1` to `9`] ^Linux `Cmd`+[`1` to `9`] ^Mac	Feature Not Available
Stop	`Esc`	`Esc`	`Esc`
Undo	`Ctrl/Cmd`+`Z`	`Ctrl/Cmd`+`Z`	`Ctrl/Cmd`+`Z`
Web Search ²	`Ctrl/Cmd`+`K` `Ctrl`+`J` ^Linux		`Shift`+`F8`

^Win: This shortcut only works in Microsoft Windows.

^Linux: This shortcut only works in Unix/Linux.

^Mac: This shortcut only works in Mac OS X.

¹: This shortcut only works in the Location Bar.

²: Web Search moves the cursor to the Search Bar and only works if the Search Bar is visible. If the Search Bar is hidden, this keyboard shortcut has no effect.

Something about buttons - No time

2006-09-26T20:53:00.000-05:00

Digg.
http://digg.com/submit?phase= 2&url=<$BlogItemPermalinkURL$>&title=
<$BlogItemTitle$>
Reddit.
http://reddit.com/submit?url= <$BlogItemPermalinkUrl$>&title=<$BlogItemTitle$>
Del.icio.us.
http://del.icio.us/post?v=4&noui&jump=close&url= <$BlogItemPermalinkURL$>&title=<$BlogItemTitle$>
Yahoo MyWeb.
http://myweb.yahoo.com/myresults/bookmarklet?t= <$BlogItemTitle$>&u=<$BlogItemPermalinkURL$> &ei=UTF
Fark.
http://cgi.fark.com/cgi/fark/edit.pl? new_url=<$BlogItemPermalinkURL$>&new_comment= <$BlogItemTitle$>
Furl.
http://www.furl.net/store?s=f&to=0&ti= <$BlogItemTitle$>&u= <$BlogItemPermalinkURL$>
Magnolia.
http://ma.gnolia.com/beta/bookmarklet/add?url= <$BlogItemTitle$>&title= <$BlogItemTitle$>&description= <$BlogItemPermalinkURL$>

You can put some images inside link tag and in the end you’ll get something like this:

Carl Sagan's Cosmos Series

2006-09-26T13:45:00.000-05:00

Carl Sagan's Cosmos Series

Who's out of touch...?

2006-09-25T21:02:00.000-05:00

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This was a president

2006-09-23T13:03:00.000-05:00

FULL TRANSCRIPT: Clinton Takes On Fox News

Today, President Bill Clinton taped an interview with Fox News’ Chris Wallace, which is scheduled to be aired Sunday. He was told the interview would focus on his nonpartisan efforts to raise over $7 billion to combat the world’s biggest problems.

Early in the interview, Wallace attempted to smear Clinton with the same kind of misinformation contained in ABC’s Path to 9/11. Clinton was having none of it.

ThinkProgress has obtained a transcript of the interview. Here are some highlights –

Wallace repeats Path to 9/11 misinformation, Clinton fights back:

WALLACE: When we announced that you were going to be on Fox News Sunday, I got a lot of email from viewers, and I got to say I was surprised most of them wanted me to ask you this question. Why didn’t you do more to put Bin Laden and al Qaeda out of business when you were President? There’s a new book out which I suspect you’ve read called the Looming Tower. And it talks about how the fact that when you pulled troops out of Somalia in 1993, Bin Laden said “I have seen the frailty and the weakness and the cowardice of US troops.” Then there was the bombing of the embassies in Africa and the attack on the USS Cole.

CLINTON: OK..

WALLACE: …may I just finish the question sir. And after the attack, the book says, Bin Laden separated his leaders because he expected an attack and there was no response. I understand that hindsight is 20/20.

CLINTON: No let’s talk about…

WALLACE: …but the question is why didn’t you do more, connect the dots and put them out of business?

CLINTON: OK, let’s talk about it. I will answer all of those things on the merits but I want to talk about the context of which this arises. I’m being asked this on the FOX network…ABC just had a right wing conservative on the Path to 9/11 falsely claim that it was based on the 9/11 Commission report with three things asserted against me that are directly contradicted by the 9/11 Commission report. I think it’s very interesting that all the conservative Republicans who now say that I didn’t do enough, claimed that I was obsessed with Bin Laden. All of President Bush’s neocons claimed that I was too obsessed with finding Bin Laden when they didn’t have a single meeting about Bin Laden for the nine months after I left office. All the right wingers who now say that I didn’t do enough said that I did too much. Same people.

Clinton takes on Fox News bias:

WALLACE: Do you think you did enough sir?

CLINTON: No, because I didn’t get him.

WALLACE: Right…

CLINTON: But at least I tried. That’s the difference in me and some, including all the right wingers who are attacking me now. They ridiculed me for trying. They had eight months to try and they didn’t…I tried. So I tried and failed. When I failed I left a comprehensive anti-terror strategy and the best guy in the country, Dick Clarke… So you did FOX’s bidding on this show. You did you nice little conservative hit job on me. But what I want to know..

WALLACE: Now wait a minute sir…

CLINTON:…

WALLACE: I asked a question. You don’t think that’s a legitimate question?

CLINTON: It was a perfectly legitimate question but I want to know how many people in the Bush administration you asked this question of. I want to know how many people in the Bush administration you asked: Why didn’t you do anything about the Cole? I want to know how many you asked: Why did you fire Dick Clarke? I want to know…

WALLACE: We asked…

CLINTON:…

WALLACE: Do you ever watch Fox News Sunday sir?

CLINTON: I don’t believe you ask them that.

WALLACE: We ask plenty of questions of…

CLINTON: You didn’t ask that did you? Tell the truth.

WALLACE: About the USS Cole?

CLINTON: Tell the truth.

WALLACE: I…with Iraq and Afghanistan there’s plenty of stuff to ask.

CLINTON: Did you ever ask that? You set this meeting up because you were going to get a lot of criticism from your viewers because Rupert Murdoch is going to get a lot of criticism from your viewers for supporting my work on climate change. And you came here under false pretenses and said that you’d spend half the time talking about…

WALLACE: [laughs]

CLINTON: You said you’d spend half the time talking about what we did out there to raise $7 billion dollars plus over three days from 215 different commitments. And you don’t care.

Clinton on his priorities and the Bush administration priorities:

CLINTON: What did I do? I worked hard to try and kill him. I authorized a finding for the CIA to kill him. We contracted with people to kill him. I got closer to killing him than anybody has gotten since. And if I were still president we’d have more than 20,000 troops there trying to kill him. Now I never criticized President Bush and I don’t think this is useful. But you know we do have a government that thinks Afghanistan is 1/7 as important as Iraq. And you ask me about terror and Al Qaeda with that sort of dismissive theme when all you have to do is read Richard Clarke’s book to look at what we did in a comprehensive systematic way to try to protect the country against terror. And you’ve got that little smirk on your face. It looks like you’re so clever…

WALLACE: [Laughs]

CLINTON: I had responsibility for trying to protect this country. I tried and I failed to get Bin Laden. I regret it but I did try. And I did everything I thought I responsibly could. The entire military was against sending special forces into Afghanistan and refueling by helicopter and no one thought we could do it otherwise…We could not get the CIA and the FBI to certify that Al Qaeda was responsible while I was President. Until I left office. And yet I get asked about this all the time and they had three times as much time to get him as I did and no one ever asks them about this. I think that’s strange.

Read the full transcript (rough) HERE.

Let's talk

2006-09-17T22:22:00.000-05:00

FIRST - Our Government

Let me tell you...Republican, Democrat, it doesn't matter. Our political system is in shambles. It is true; our 2 party system amounts to 1 party. We're getting nowhere. I have to say perhaps we're better with the likes of Jesse "the mind" Ventura, Pat Buchanan, Ralph Nader, etc. (personally, I vote for Ventura).

Please folks, weigh in.

To continue....

Public schools - who believes they are worthwhile? I assume no one does. What I found most disturbing in school was not the fact that college was easy, nor the fact that people were semi-illiterate, no, it was the fact that the people I saw had no critical thinking skills. It took a philosophy class to open my eyes. Specifically, it was the "philosophy of Ethics" class. Yes, it was a sad situation; people had no idea how to think...Disgusting.

Weigh in.

Thanks

Spin as you'd like, but coincidence is highly unlikely

2006-09-12T21:22:00.004-05:00

2006-09-12T21:22:00.000-05:00

As I am always quick to mention...driving around will kill you before anything

2006-09-11T16:46:00.000-05:00

By Ryan Singel| Also by this reporter
02:00 AM Sep, 11, 2006

Sept. 11, 2001 was undoubtedly one of the darkest and deadliest days in United States history. Al-Qaida's attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center killed 2,976 people, and the country recoiled in horror as we witnessed the death of thousands of Americans when the towers fell.

In the five years since that shattering day, the government has spent billions on anti-terrorism projects, instituted a color-coded alert system that has never been green, banned fingernail clippers and water bottles from airplanes, launched a pre-emptive war on false pretenses, and advised citizens to stock up on duct tape and plastic sheeting.

But despite the never-ending litany of warnings and endless stories of half-baked plots foiled, how likely are you, statistically speaking, to die from a terrorist attack?

Comparing official mortality data with the number of Americans who have been killed inside the United States by terrorism since the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma reveals that scores of threats are far more likely to kill an American than any terrorist -- at least, statistically speaking.

In fact, your appendix is more likely to kill you than al-Qaida is.

With that in mind, here's a handy ranking of the various dangers confronting America, based on the number of mortalities in each category throughout the 11-year period spanning 1995 through 2005 (extrapolated from best available data).

S E V E R E
Driving off the road: 254,419
Falling: 146,542
Accidental poisoning: 140,327

H I G H
Dying from work: 59,730
Walking down the street: 52,000.
Accidentally drowning: 38,302

E L E V A T E D
Killed by the flu: 19,415
Dying from a hernia: 16,742

G U A R D E D
Accidental firing of a gun: 8,536
Electrocution: 5,171

L O W
Being shot by law enforcement: 3,949
Terrorism: 3147
Carbon monoxide in products: 1,554

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Sources: National Highway and Safety Agency (.pdf), National Vital Statistics Reports, Vol. 50, No. 15 (09/16/2002) (.pdf), US Consumer Product Safety Commission, the Insurance Information Institute.

1927, 2006: History repeats itself?

2006-09-08T14:01:00.000-05:00

Drowning of New Orleans »

THE YEAR THE LEVEES BROKE

Published by Greg Palast August 24th, 2006 in Articles

By Greg Palast in New Orleans

What is the unreported cause of the majority of the 2,000 deaths that occurred after the levees broke last year on August 29? Catch Greg Palast’s investigative expose this Monday on Amy Goodman’s Democracy Now! And on Tuesday, watch his one-hour Special on LinkTV. Listings at LinkTV.org.

The Year the Levees Broke

America went through a terrible year. The levees broke in New Orleans. When bodies floated in the streets, the Republican Congress saw an opportunity for more tax cuts and consolidation of the corporatopia they had created for their moneyed donors. The Democratic Party was clueless, written off, politically at death’s door.

The year was 1927.

Back then, when the levees broke, America awoke. Public anger rose in a floodtide, and in that year, the USA entered its most revolutionary period since 1776. The thirty-four-year-old utility commissioner of Louisiana, Huey P. Long, conceived of a plan to rebuild his state based on a radical program of redistributing wealth and power. The ambitious Governor of New York, Franklin D. Roosevelt, adopted it, and later named it The New Deal. America got rich and licked Hitler. It was our century.

It’s 1927 again.

But this time, the Haves and Have-Mores have something better for you than a New Deal. They are offering “opportunity” — a lottery ticket instead of a guarantee. Like double-or-nothing in the stock market instead of Social Security — will the suckers go for it? There’s one born every minute. I can’t believe they’re the majority, but at last count, they numbered over 59 million. And they vote.

Years from now, in Guantanamo or in a refugee relocation “Enterprise Zone,” your kids will ask you, “What did you do in the Class War, Daddy?” We may have to admit that conquest and occupation happened before we could fire off a shot.

The trick of class war is not to let the victims know they’re under attack. That’s how, little by little, the owners of the planet take away what little we have.

On Tuesday, your President, George W. Bush, will return to New Orleans, on the anniversary of the levee breach.

There is nothing new under the sun. A Republican president going for the photo op as the Mississippi rolls over New Orleans. It was 1927, and President Calvin Coolidge sent Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover, “a little fat man with a notebook in his hand,” who mugged for the cameras and promised to build the city a wall of protection. They had their photos taken. Then they left to play golf with Ken Lay or, rather, the Ken Lay railroad baron equivalent of his day.

In 1927, the Democratic Party had died and was awaiting burial.
As The Depression approached, the coma-Dems, like Franklin Roosevelt, called for, of all things, balancing the budget.

Then, as the Mississippi waters rose, one politician, the state’s electricity regulator, stood up on the back of a flatbed truck rigged with loudspeakers, and said, roughly,

“Listen up! They’re lying! The President’s lying! The rich fat jackals that are drowning you will do it again and again and again. They lead you into imperialist wars for profit, they take away your schools and your hope, and when you complain, they blame Blacks and Jews and immigrants. Then they drown your kids. I say, Kick’m in the ass and take your share of the wealth you created.”

Huey Long was our Hugo Chavez, and he laid out a plan: a progressive income tax, real money for education, public works to rebuild Louisiana and America, Social Security old age pensions, veterans benefits, regulation of the big utility holding companies, an end to what he called, “rich men’s wars,” and an end to the financial royalism of the elite One Percent.

Huey Long even had the audacity to suggest that the poor’s votes should count, calling for the end to the poll tax four decades before Martin Luther King succeeded in ending it. Long recorded his motto as a musical anthem: “Everyman a King.” The waters receded, the anger did not, and, in 1928, Huey “Kingfish” Long was elected Governor of Louisiana.

At the time, Louisiana schools were free, but not the textbooks. The elite liked it that way, but Long didn’t. To pay for the books, the Kingfish levied a special tax on Big Oil. But the oil companies refused to pay for the textbooks. Governor Long then ordered the National Guard to seize the oil fields in the Delta.

It was Huey Long who established the principle that a government of the people must protect the people, school them, build the infrastructure, regulate industry and share the nation’s wealth — and that meant facing down “the concentrations of monopoly power” of the corporate aristocracy — “the thieves of Wall Street,” as he called them.

In other words, Huey Long founded the modern Democratic Party.

FDR and the party establishment, scared witless of Long’s ineluctable march to the White House, adopted his program, albeit diluted, called it the New Deal and later the New Frontier and the Great Society. America and the party prospered.

What happened to the Kingfish? The oil industry and local oligarchs had few options for responding to Governor Long’s populist appeal and the success of his egalitarian economic program. On September 8, 1935, Huey Long, by then a U.S. Senator,
was shot dead. He was 42.

It’s 1927 again.

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Excerpted from Greg Palast’s just-released New York Times bestseller, “ARMED MADHOUSE: Who’s Afraid of Osama Wolf?, China Floats Bush Sinks, the Scheme to Steal ‘08, No Child’s Behind Left and other Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Class War.” Go to www.GregPalast.com.

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From FARK - The headline says it all

2006-08-18T11:49:00.000-05:00

Arab-American woman opens a can whoopass on Al-Jazeera - hosts don't rallize what whoopass is until it is too late

2006-08-15T14:58:00.000-05:00

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The Colbert Report: James Webb

Stephen interviews former Secretary of the Navy turned novelist turned U.S. Senate candidate James Webb.

Very interesting read about George Bush and war in the Mid-East....George H.W. Bush 1990 that is

2006-08-15T13:52:00.000-05:00

New York Times Articles

...And the Horrors of a Desert War

September 23, 1990
Page E21

ARLINGTON, Va. — President Bush has not only embarked on his own voyage into the Persian Gulf, that Bermuda Triangle of Presidencies. Unlike his two immediate predecessors, he has dragged more than a hundred thousand of our troops with him. And as the President struggles at home, our troops have been learning to cope with a sun that can melt electrical wiring, sand so fine that few filters can keep it out of gear boxes and a growing ennui that seeps through even the most careful monitoring of the press corps.

The debate over our role in the Persian Gulf crisis has focused on national, rather than specific military goals. The fundamental questions, upon which all others inevitably rest, have not been addressed. Why did we send such a huge contingent of ground troops in the first place? And under what conditions are we going to use them or bring them home?

Answers are not forthcoming. Military officials intimate that the question would expose tactical options. Administration officials talk in vague terms: Defense Secretary Cheney is telling us to prepare for a commitment that may take years. Others have been quoted as saying we may be there for a decade. At the same time we are being reassured, amidst many loud calls to initiate a war with Iraq, that the U.S. military commitment is wholly defensive.

As one who opposed the Reagan Administration's overt tilt toward Iraq which caused the Persian Gulf problems in 1987 and 1988, I have no desire to give consolation to Saddam Hussein now that he is getting the attention he deserves. But if our experience since World War II tells us anything, it is that justifiable national goals are too frequently lost through unfocused and ineffective military policy. And the strongest likelihood is that our ground buildup in Saudi Arabia is the product not of conscious strategy, but of an initial overreaction that compounds itself with the arrival of every C-5 transport.

The Kuwaiti dilemma is not new. This is the third time since 1961 that Iraq has asserted, militarily, its claim to Kuwaiti territory. As such, positioning U.S. aviation units into Saudi Arabia with ground forces to defend them as appropriate as a short-term guarantee of Saudi sovereignty. But the huge buildup of forces began after it became clear that Iraq had no military design on Saudi Arabia. And couple with escalating rhetoric, it has created an intractable siege, with the survival of the President Bush, as well as Saddam Hussein, handing in the balance.

The U.S., whose interests in the region are far less than Kuwait's, Saudi Arabia's, Israel's, Europe's and Japan's, is carrying the overwhelming burden. True, others are involved in small scale -- the Egyptians, who stand to benefit to the tune of at least $7 billion in forgiven debts, the Syrians, traditional enemies of Iraq, who are sending a few thousand soldiers, other Arab nations whose royal families are also threatened, European and other allies who are throwing in a ship or two here, and a military unit there. We appear to have traded the promise of greater economic help to the Soviets for Mikhail Gorbachev's rather noncommittal statement of support.

And now we are out on the international hustings, asking for financial contributions for our effort. Mr. Bush hastens to assure us that this does not make our soldiers mercenaries, but anyone with a relative or loved one in Saudi Arabia will quickly argue that this is not a fair trade.

And what is the impact, strategically, of the introduction of all these ground forces? In grand sum, it can only be judged as negative.

Those who have called for massive, pre-emptive air strikes against Iraq must now contemplate the detriment of tens of thousands of American soldiers within range of Iraqi chemical weapons, as well as possible terrorist attacks from Iraq and now Iran.

Those who worry about the possibility of crisis in other parts of the world must recognize that a large percentage of American maneuver forces -- including as much as half of the Marine Corps -- are tied down in the waiting game in the desert.

Those who believe we should use these forces offensively should realize that this would galvanize the Arab world, invite chemical retaliation and an expansion of the hostilities, produce great numbers of casualties and encourage worldwide terrorism -- in short, open up a Pandora's box.

This is not to say that our soldiers and marines would not fight well. The Iraqi army is not a very good army; it is also war-weary. But it demonstrated against Iran the time-honored maxim that the armies of totalitarian nations are capable of absorbing huge losses -- recall the 3.7 million German soldiers who died in World War II, and the million Communist soldiers who died in the Vietnam war.

The President should be aware that, while most Americans are laboring very hard to support him, a mood of cynicism is just beneath their veneer of respect. Many are claiming that the buildup is little more than a "Pentagon budget drill," designed to preclude cutbacks of an Army searching for a mission as bases in NATO begin to disappear.

Others wonder about the predominance of Texans in the Administration, and the dual benefit that higher oil prices will bring to the Southwest: a more robust economy and the concomitant salvation of many S.&L.'s. Others, myself included, worry greatly about a military commitment that has taken on a momentum of its own -- or perhaps a hidden strategy.

General Colin Powell is said to have advised the President that the U.S. should take this sort of military action or it would no longer be a superpower. This calls to mind the Suez Crisis of 1956, after Egyptian leader Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal. The British were reeling from a budget affected by the military costs of maintaining the Empire. The Suez Canal was vital for transporting oil. And Anthony Eden, the British Prime Minister who had great antipathy toward Nasser for his anti-British rhetoric, wanted him "destroyed."

Britain went forward, largely to preserve its place at the table of the great powers, drawing in the French and the Israelis. Their attack sputtered in the desert. The U.S., their banker, threatened to withhold support for the British pound if they did not cease their invasion. The Soviets moved into Hungary. And sure enough, when the dust settled, Britain was no longer a great power.

Too much is at risk, and too many questions remain for this buildup to continue without the Administration clarifying its direction. And if offensive action is in the cards, it should be taken only after the President receives a declaration of war from the Congress.

James Webb, Secretary of the Navy in the Reagan administration, was a Marine platoon and company commander in Vietnam.

Is this one of the Phoenix "Serial Shooter" suspects

2006-08-04T15:45:00.000-05:00

I was doing some looking on google after the news came out. Looks like the shooter was also shooting photos of boxers (and more). Below is from his website. I didn't find any other Dale Hausners in Phoenix. (If anyone knows otherwise, and I got it all wrong let me know)

DALE HAUSNER'S BOXING AND MORE!

Dale Hausner with Middleweight Champion Bernard Hopkins

Welcome to my website!

I am a photographer in the Phoenix Arizona area, and have been for many years. I am experienced in weddings, birthday parties, dances, family photo shoots as well as one on one photography. Prices start at $60 for shoots for family portraits and $200 for weddings and parties. Please call for a free quote. Call a competitor first...then call me.

YouTube - Video Israel Doesn't Want You to See

2006-08-03T15:38:00.000-05:00

YouTube - Video Israel Doesn't Want You to See: "Video Israel Doesn't Want You to See

BBC NEWS | Middle East | US troops 'smiled before killing'

2006-08-03T10:00:00.000-05:00

BBC NEWS | Middle East | US troops 'smiled before killing': "US troops 'smiled before killing'
US troops in Samarra (October 2004 file picture)
The US soldiers were all serving in the Samarra area
Four US soldiers charged with murdering three detainees in Iraq smiled before shooting them, a military court has heard from a fellow soldier.

Private First Class Bradley Mason told the hearing at a US base near the Iraqi city of Tikrit that one of the accused threatened to kill him if he talked."

Amazing - the Gov't lied

2006-08-02T15:35:00.000-05:00

VANITY FAIR : FEATURES : GENERAL: "9/11 Live: The NORAD Tapes
How did the U.S. Air Force respond on 9/11? Could it have shot down United 93, as conspiracy theorists claim? Obtaining 30 hours of never-before-released tapes from the control room of NORAD's Northeast headquarters, the author reconstructs the chaotic military history of that day—and the Pentagon's apparent attempt to cover it up. VF.com exclusive: Hear excerpts from the September 11 NORAD tapes. Click PLAY after each transcript to listen
By MICHAEL BRONNER"

Democrats, Republicans, Independents: Take this Republican's advice this fall.

2006-07-28T15:50:00.000-05:00

Seeing the Forest: Republican Says We Need A Dem Congress: "Republican Says We Need A Dem Congress

The following is a letter from former Republican Congressman and Presidential candidate Pete McCloskey.

THE NEED FOR A DEMOCRAT MAJORITY IN THE U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN 2007"

It may be that almost all politicians are crooked in some way, but this man is right.

From Techdirt: How to foil the RIAA. Is it?

2006-07-28T11:17:00.000-05:00

Techdirt: RIAA Will Drop Cases If You Point Out That An IP Address Isn't A Person: "RIAA Will Drop Cases If You Point Out That An IP Address Isn't A Person"

Iraqi Blogger - Worst days ever in Iraq

2006-07-28T11:12:00.000-05:00

iraqi screen: "These Days
These days are the most fearful days I have ever seen in Iraq, stories of kidnapping and killing have made me walk in the street and look around in fear some one might be chasing me or another might jump and drag me in a car or shoot me to death."

USA: A New Dictatorship?

2006-07-28T09:27:00.000-05:00

Asia Times Online :: Asian News, Business and Economy.: "Wars of aggression, torture, domestic spying and arbitrary arrest are the hallmarks of dictatorship, yet Congress, run by the president's party, has refused to conduct full investigations into either the false WMD claims, or the abuses and torture, or the warrantless wiretaps, or the imprisonment without habeas corpus.
"

Interesting read - Click link for entire article

The US: Too late for empire
By Jonathan Schell

(This article, which will appear in the August 14/21 issue of The Nation)

An investigation unfolds

2006-07-27T13:55:00.000-05:00

More about the last post. I feel for the Heitholt family, and hate something as senseless as this, but I have a feeling these two didn't do it. That one was a little crazy and very suggestable and the other just got screwed.

Free Ryan Ferguson -- information you probably have not heard

2006-07-27T13:38:00.000-05:00

This guy got totally railroaded. I swear. Check it out - also look for the link to CBS 48 Hours. Unfarking believable

Where is the "Straight Talk Express" Now? - McCain on Stewart's show

2006-07-25T19:59:00.000-05:00

William F. Buckley, Father of Conserativism, Slams President Bush - His legacy is indecipherable

2006-07-25T09:14:00.000-05:00

The Raw Story | William F. Buckley, Father of Conserativism, Slams President Bush

Says Bush should resign or retire...he's a failure [obvious]

My Way News - Specter Prepping Bill to Sue Bush

2006-07-25T09:07:00.000-05:00

My Way News - Specter Prepping Bill to Sue Bush

He has been a champion of the Constitution since Bush started wiping his arse with it. I say good work Mr. Specter; what took so long?

Know your rights

2006-07-22T18:57:00.000-05:00

Tell THE MAN to keep his thumb off you!

This mother is almost an hour long, but far too many people don't know their rights. Watch it, learin it, live it.

Another example

The Bush logic is not only skewed, it is asinine.

2006-07-21T13:36:00.000-05:00

You said it.

Here is an excerpt from an op-ed piece I stumbled across by Anthony Wade

I think he summed it up pretty well considering the death and destruction GWB has brought to the world

The Bush logic is not only skewed, it is asinine. His argument centers on outlawing the destruction of embryos, which will be destroyed anyway. So, in the mind of George Bush, throwing the embryos away in the trash is acceptable but using them to better mankind is somehow immoral? The cynic inside of me wonders if the Pharmaceutical Lobby that owns Bush would prefer a sick world where medication can alleviate symptoms but not impart a cure.

Moving past the why, Bush then attacked the proposed law by offering up this hypocritical nugget, "This bill would support the taking of innocent human life in the hope of finding medical benefits for others. It crosses a moral boundary that our decent society needs to respect, so I vetoed it."

Hilarity ensues on FARK

2006-07-21T11:49:00.000-05:00

I don't think he was fooling anyone.

From FARK.com

Mixed reaction for Bush at NAACP: Some think he's a stupid racist cracker, while others believe...alright, there wasn't any other opinion

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Addition to Eyes on the Prize

2006-07-16T23:07:00.000-05:00

William Lynch Speech

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The William (or Willie) Lynch Speech (or Letter) is a text of unknown origin which drew widespread attention when it circulated throughout the Internet during the 1990s. It purports to be an address given to an audience on the bank of the James River in Virginia in 1712 regarding control of slaves within the colony. The speaker, William Lynch is said to have been a slaveowner in the West Indies, summoned to Virginia in 1712; in part due to several slave revolts in the area prior to his visit, and his alleged reputation of being an authoritarian and strict slaveowner. No provenance for the speech has ever been supplied, and the text as given below contains numerous anachronisms ("self-refueling", for example, since the word 'refueling' dates only to the early twentieth century, or "fool proof", a word not attested until the early twentieth century). Its grammar is also thoroughly modern. In addition, the themes covered in the text do not appear to coincide with any of the known concerns of plantation owners in the early eighteenth century. Thus it appears the actual document is fraudulent and was forged in the late twentieth century. The purported deliverer of the speech is probably named for the later Virginia landowner William Lynch who authored the Lynch act and practiced lynching.

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The text of William Lynch Speech reads:

Gentlemen, I greet you here on the bank of the James River in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and twelve. First, I shall thank you, the gentlemen of the Colony of Virginia, for bringing me here. I am here to help you solve some of your problems with the niggers. Your invitation reached me on my modest plantation in the West Indies where I have experimented with some of the newest and still the oldest methods of control of the niggers.

Ancient Rome would envy us if my program were implemented. As our boat sailed south on the James River, named for our illustrious King, whose version of the Bible we cherish. I saw enough to know that your problem is not unique. While Rome used cords of woods as crosses for standing human bodies along its highways in great numbers you are here using the tree and the rope on occasion.

I caught the whiff of a dead slave hanging from a tree a couple of miles back. You are not only losing a valuable stock by hangings, you are having uprisings, slaves are running away, your crops are sometimes left in the fields too long for maximum profit, you suffer occasional fires, your animals are killed.

Gentlemen, you know what your problems are: I do not need to elaborate. I am not here to enumerate your problems, I am here to introduce you to a method of solving them. In my bag here, I have a fool proof method for controlling your Black slaves. I guarantee everyone of you that if installed correctly it will control the slaves for at least 300 hundred years. My method is simple. Any member of your family or your overseer can use it.

I have outlined a number of differences among the slaves: and I take these differences and make them bigger. I use fear, distrust, and envy for control purposes. These methods have worked on my modest plantation in the West Indies and it will work throughout the South. Take this simple little list of differences, and think about them.

On top of my list is "Age", but it is there only because it starts with an "A": the second is "Color" or shade, there is intelligence, size, sex, size of plantations, status on plantation, attitude of owners, whether the slave live in the valley, on hill, East, West, North, South, have fine hair, coarse hair, or is tall or short. Now that you have a list of differences. I shall give you an outline of action-but before that I shall assure you that distrust is stronger than trust and envy is stronger than adulation, respect, or admiration.

The Black slave after receiving this indoctrination shall carry on and will become self re-fueling and self generating for hundreds of years, maybe thousands. Don't forget you must pitch the old Black male vs. the young Black male, and the young Black male against the old Black male. You must use the dark skin slaves vs. the light skin slaves and the light skin slaves vs. the dark skin slaves. You must use the female vs. the male, and the male vs. the female. You must also have your white servants and overseers distrust all Blacks, but it is necessary that your slaves trust and depend on us. They must love, respect and trust only us.

Gentlemen, these kits are your keys to control. Use them. Have your wives and children use them, never miss an opportunity. If used intensely for one year, the slaves themselves will remain perpetually distrustful. Thank you, gentlemen.^[1]

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William Lynch

According to an essay appearing in "Brother Man: The Odyssey of Black Men in America- An Anthology", Lynch was a British slave owner in the West Indies who came to the United States to tell American slave owners how to keep their slaves under control. Some attribute the terms "lynching" and "Lynch law" to Lynch's name.^[2] Reference sources, however, indicate that the etymological Captain William Lynch was born in 1742, thirty years after he supposedly delivered his speech.^[3] Still others attribute the origin of these words to Charles Lynch.

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Legacy

Believers in the authenticity of the William Lynch Speech see in it a critique of what they call "mental slavery" – defined as a psychological state of submissiveness rather than a physical bondage.

Lynch's alleged method used to cause hatred between the slaves was a deep division in regard to the skin tones of the slaves. "Light-skinned" blacks are believed to have fared better under the conditions of slavery given this doctrine; being allowed tasks requiring authority over other slaves, and were generally assigned to tasks within the house of the slave master himself. Conversely, the "dark-skinned" slaves were confined to the fields, performed back-breaking labor, and generally did not enjoy the privileges of the lighter-skinned slaves. This, it is contended, would have caused discontent among the slaves, thus executing Lynch's "divide and conquer" method of control. Thus, many present day divisions within the African American community could be traced from this idea. ^[4]

Many, however, view two imperative problems with this argument, one is that the concept of "light-skinned blacks" originates long after the alleged date of this speech (at the time, terms indicating racial mixture such as "mulatto" would have been used); the other is that it bears no resemblance to the known concerns of planters of the time. The division between "house" and "field" slaves is historically inaccurate, as slaves employed in the plantation household were a subset of non-predial slaves (others included craftsmen such as carpenters and masons) and were under closer white supervision than were the field slaves. It is worth noting that one of the most successful slave revolts in history, the Haitian Revolution, was led by a non-predial slave, Toussaint L'Ouverture.

Some people contend that since blacks were said to be under bondage for 300 years, the year 2012 will be of great significance for black people.

Louis Farrakhan, in his open letter regarding the Millions More Movement, cites Willie Lynch's alleged scheme as an obstacle to unity among African Americans.^[5]

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↑ The Freeman Institute, Wille Lynch Speech, June 25, 2005. Accessed October 19, 2005
↑ The Colby Institute, William Lynch, January 3, 2003. Accessed on October 23, 2005
↑ Stein, Jess, ed. "Lynch law." The Random House College Dictionary. 1988 ed. ISBN 0-394-43500-1
↑ The Colby Institute, William Lynch, January 3, 2003. Accessed on October 23, 2005
↑ Farrakhan, Louis. An appeal .... The Official Site for the Millions More Movement. Accessed on October 12, 2005.

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More on William Lynch
The first traceable publisher
Examination of text's inaccuracies by William Jelani Cobb
Full speech of Willie Lynch (the making of a slave)

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From FARK - Looks like WWIII is starting

2006-07-13T09:28:00.000-05:00

In case no one noticed, World War III probably just broke out in the Middle East. Technically, it wasn't our fault, at least not directly

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Rumsfeld, Cheney linked to '70s "Tiger Force" coverup.

2006-07-12T11:00:00.000-05:00

This is from digg.com. The story is so disturbing that, if you are emotional, you may break down crying. Doesn't it make you wonder not only what exactly is going on in Iraq and Afghanistan but what is encouraged, covered up, or at least ignored? It should

Rumsfeld, Cheney linked to '70s "Tiger Force" coverup.

The only reason the case ever became public was that the CID officer who directed the investigation, kept a copy of the file, and prior to his death in 2002 made provision for the file to be delivered to a reporter with the Toledo Blade. Thirty years later, Rumsfeld and Cheney refuse to comment on it, even as more and more evidence piles up.

More Links: gold oil currency

http://www.toledoblade.com/

www.veteransforpeace.org/

WikiPedia

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Proud to be an American?

2006-07-10T13:04:00.000-05:00

This is a disgusting account. Sadly, it is easy to believe.

An excerpt of the article from the Salt Lake Tribune's David R. Irvine

U.S. soldiers raped and killed an Iraqi woman, killed her family, and burned the bodies to cover the crime.

Read the linked article to find out more, and learn why Cheney and Rumsfeld are mentioned in the headline

Here is the account of the Vietnam "Tiger Force"t atrocities addressed in the linked article -> Toledo Blade

Here is one hell of a way to catch a buzz

2006-07-10T12:33:00.000-05:00

Who wouldn't do the same. A quote from Mr. Neddermeyer:

"Curious about the taste and its effects, I dipped into this lake of liquor and drank what I considered to be 2 to 3 ounces. The next thing I remember is waking up in Crawford County Memorial Hospital."

Man fired for getting gassed on spilled ethanol at work

Cory Neddermeyer had a blood alcohol level that was double what is considered to be lethal.

From the Des Moines Register

The International Phonetic Alphabet

2006-07-07T13:56:00.000-05:00

This is really for my own reference but have at it.

From Wikipedia

Phonology

Main article: English phonology

Vowels

IPA	Description	word
monophthongs
i/iː	Close front unrounded vowel	bead
ɪ	Near-close near-front unrounded vowel	bid
ɛ	Open-mid front unrounded vowel	bed
æ	Near-open front unrounded vowel	bad
ɒ	Open back rounded vowel	bod ¹
ɔ	Open-mid back rounded vowel	pawed ²
ɑ/ɑː	Open back unrounded vowel	bra
ʊ	Near-close near-back rounded vowel	good
u/uː	Close back rounded vowel	booed
ʌ/ɐ	Open-mid back unrounded vowel, Near-open central vowel	bud
ɝ/ɜː	Open-mid central unrounded vowel	bird ³
ə	Schwa	Rosa's ⁴
ɨ	Close central unrounded vowel	roses ⁵
diphthongs
e(ɪ)/eɪ	Close-mid front unrounded vowel Close front unrounded vowel	bayed ⁶
o(ʊ)/əʊ	Close-mid back rounded vowel Near-close near-back rounded vowel	bode ⁶
aɪ	Open front unrounded vowel Near-close near-front unrounded vowel	buy
aʊ	Open front unrounded vowel Near-close near-back rounded vowel	bough
ɔɪ	Open-mid back rounded vowel Close front unrounded vowel	boy

See International Phonetic Alphabet for English for a more complete version and Pronunciation respelling for English for phonetic transcriptions used in different dictionaries.

IPA: English Consonants
IPA	Examples
p	pen, spin, tip
b	but, web
t	two, sting, bet
d	do, odd
tʃ	chair, nature, teach
dʒ	gin, joy, edge
k	cat, kill, skin, queen, thick
ɡ	go, get, beg
f	fool, enough, leaf
v	voice, have
θ	thing, teeth
ð	this, breathe, father
s	see, city, pass
z	zoo, rose
ʃ	she, sure, emotion, leash
ʒ	pleasure, beige
h	ham
m	man, ham
n	no, tin
ŋ	singer, ring
l	left, bell
ɹ	run, very ^[1]
w	we
j	yes
ʍ	what (some accents, such as Scottish)
x	loch (Scottish), Chanukah (Yinglish/Yeshivish)

IPA: English Vowels
IPA			Examples
RP	GenAm	AuE
ɑː	ɑ	ɐː	father
iː	i	iː	see
ɪ	ɪ	ɪ	city
ɛ	ɛ	e	bed ^[2]
ɜː	ɝ	ɜː	bird
æ	æ	æ	lad, cat, ran ^[3]^[4]
ɑː	ɑɹ	ɐː	arm
ʌ	ʌ	ɐ	run, enough
ɒ	ɑ	ɔ	not, wasp
ɔː	ɔ	oː	law, caught ^[5]
ʊ	ʊ	ʊ	put
uː	u	ʉː	soon, through
ə	ə	ə	about
ə	ɚ	ə	winner

IPA: English Diphthongs
IPA			Examples
RP	GenAm	AuE
eɪ	eɪ or e	æɪ	day
aɪ	aɪ	ɑe	my
ɔɪ	ɔɪ	oɪ	boy
əʊ	oʊ or o	əʉ	no
aʊ	aʊ	æɔ	now
ɪə	ɪɹ	ɪə	near, here
ɛə	ɛɹ	eː or eə	hair, there ^[6]
ʊə	ʊɹ	ʊə	tour
juː	ju	jʉː	pupil

IPA: Other symbols used in transcription of English pronunciation
IPA	Explanation
ˈ	Primary stress (placed before the stressed syllable), for example happy /ˈhæpi/
ˌ	Secondary stress, for example battleship /ˈbætl̩ˌʃɪp/
.	Syllable separator, for example sawing /ˈsɔ.ɪŋ/
̩	Syllabic consonant, for example /ˈɹɪdn̩/ for ridden

^ Although the symbol r technically represents an alveolar trill, which is absent from most dialects of English, it is nevertheless widely used instead of ɹ in phonemic transcriptions.
^ Often transcribed /e/ for RP, for example in Collins English Dictionary.
^ Often transcribed /a/ for RP, for example in dictionaries of the Oxford University Press.
^ See bad-lad split for more discussion of this vowel in Australian English.
^ See low back merger for more discussion of this vowel in American English.
^ Alternative symbols used in British dictionaries are /ɛː/ (Oxford University Press) and /eə/.

Paul J. Morrison - Sounds like a good choice to me

2006-07-06T16:04:00.000-05:00

Paul J. Morrison

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District Attorney for Johnson County Kansas.

Currently running against Phil Kline for Kansas Attorney General

From his official site: Paul is a 25 year career Kansas prosecutor with a 98% jury trial conviction rate.

He is known as a tough, no nonsense prosecutor and was named Kansas prosecutor of the year in 2001.

Paul and Joyce Morrison, Mary Amanda, Drew and Cole. The Morrisons live in Lenexa

Paul has served as the Johnson County District Attorney for the past 17 years.

Morrison, age 51, was born in Dodge City, Kansas. He grew up in Hays, Plainville, Bonner Springs and Kansas City, Kansas.

Paul attended Kansas State and Washburn Universities and earned a law degree from Washburn School of Law.

Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline

Morrison for Kansas Attorney General Website

Johnson County District Attorney Website

What is with the morons?

2006-07-06T14:47:00.000-05:00

I know our educational system sucks, and there is far too much "religion" without true understanding but really...for the last couple weeks we've had some door to door sales people come around selling some green cleaner. Sure, annoying, but they are not bad kids; I've talked to every one of them. They are however...black...scary, or so you'd think. They told me a story of going to one door and ringing a doorbell, knocking, then walking away. As they left the door opens and a man with a shotgun appears. Some said "That sounds like a sales technique". I say it was true. Anyway, we have our share of these guys no matter what.....

Check out Willie Lych http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lynch_Speech

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Brent Matthews

Man Accused Of Throwing Pig's Head Into Mosque Charged

POSTED: 12:31 pm EDT July 6, 2006

LEWISTON, Maine -- Police in Lewiston, Maine, have charged a local man for allegedly throwing a pig's head into a mosque.

Article: About Islam
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July 5, 2006: Pig's Head Thrown Into Maine Mosque During Prayers

Where or where has my America gone?

2006-07-06T13:50:00.000-05:00

What good is the constitution anymore?

From www.enhlaw.com

You Are Going Directly to Jail
DUID Legislation: What It Means, Who's Behind It, and Strategies to Prevent It

by Paul Armentano
Senior Policy Analyst
NORML | NORML Foundation
paul@norml.org

There's a new front in law enforcement's self-proclaimed "War on Drugs" and its name is DUID.

DUID, short for "driving under the influence of drugs," is the new buzzword among politicians and police -- however, in this case, words can be deceiving. Though billed by its sponsors as a necessary tool to crack down on "drugged driving" offenses,1 in reality, DUID laws -- in particular "zero tolerance" per se laws -- have virtually nothing to do with promoting public safety or identifying motorists who drive while impaired. Rather, the enactment and enforcement of zero tolerance DUID legislation is a direct and calculated assault on the lives and liberties of marijuana smokers, many of whom are just now beginning to feel the laws' effects.

Try Office 2007 Online - No Install!

2006-07-05T10:58:00.000-05:00

I have to say this is pretty awesome. Nice work Microsoft.

From Microsoft's Website

Take the 2007 Microsoft Office release out for a test drive!

You are just a few clicks away from a free online test drive of the latest version of Microsoft Office programs. Take them out for a spin in this quick, easy-to-use, browser-based trial experience.

The real-time test drive does not require product installation or download—it's the fastest way to try out 2007 Microsoft Office system programs. In just minutes you can start exploring Microsoft Office through your Web browser on your own, or follow the step-by-step tutorials to experience all of its useful features.

I'm a heathen, but maybe you're not

2006-06-30T14:36:00.000-05:00

I'm not religious, but I am most definitly against the war. Anyone who calls themselves "Christian" (or any religion for that matter) should realize that this war goes against the teachings of all major religions. I decided to post this just in case

Click here to endorse this call to the churches to continue to resist war with Iraq. >>speak out now!

An urgent appeal to the churches: 'We must resist this war'

Anyone know JavaScript?

2006-06-29T12:54:00.000-05:00

Looks like it's time to figure out what this is all about.

Enter the Google Desktop Gadget Contest and you could win $5,000. Learn more...

Anxiety/Depression sufferers look here

2006-06-28T15:44:00.000-05:00

Where dread registers in the brain

By LEE BOWMAN
Scripps Howard News Service
04-MAY-06

"The worst part of it is the waiting."

It's a sentiment shared in such varied circumstances as soldiers preparing for an assault to civilians bracing for a turn in the dentist's chair.

Now, for the first time, scientists using brain-imaging technology have locked on the corner of the brain that fills us full of dread as we anticipate pain or another bad outcome _ and often makes us act irrationally just to get it all behind us.

The research has applications for economic theory as well as for health and pain management. It found, perhaps not surprisingly, that the area of brain activity related to dread overlaps areas of the organ known to be associated with pain.

"Most people don't like waiting for an unpleasant outcome and want to get it over with as soon as possible," said Dr. Gregory Berns, an associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta and lead author of the study, published Friday in the journal Science.

"The only explanation for this is that the dread of having something hanging over your head is worse than the thing that you're dreading. It is a commonplace experience, but standard economic models of decision-making don't deal with this issue," Berns explained.

"So, we decided to take a biological approach and see what happens in the brain that might cause people to make such rash decisions."

The study participants included 18 men and 14 women, ages 19 to 49. The volunteers had their brain activity monitored by a functional magnetic resonance imaging scanner. Each person received a series of low-voltage shocks to one foot, with different levels of intensity and time delays for each jolt.

Each participant was screened to determine his or her maximum pain threshold. While in the scanner, each person got a total of 96 shocks. But before each zap, the subject was told how painful the shock would be (as a percentage of the person's top threshold) and how long he or she would have to wait for it.

After the scanning, each volunteer was then given another round of shocks. He or she was given a choice between different intensity-delay combinations, with the choice always between more pain sooner or less pain later.

For instance, the choice might be 90 percent of the top jolt in three seconds, or 60 percent in 27 seconds. The degree to which an individual picked a higher voltage sooner served as an indicator of the dread he experienced from waiting.

Most volunteers _ 27 _ chose shorter delays more than half the time, indicating that they dreaded the wait. But nine participants dreaded the wait so much that they consistently were willing to take a lot more pain just to avoid waiting. Berns labeled these the "extreme dreaders." Those who disliked the delay but were more cautious about trading off to a worse jolt were dubbed the "mild dreaders."

In the brain scans, dread was found in areas of the brain's pain network linked to attention. That's significant, Berns said, because it suggests that dread is not as simple as fear or anxiety _ emotions controlled by different brain regions.

The mild and extreme dreaders had different patterns of brain activity associated with the pain. The extremes showed more intense and earlier activity in the attentional parts compared to the mild dreaders.

"The key factor seems to be that extreme dreaders devoted more attention toward the part of their body that was about to be shocked," Berns said. "Taken together, the anatomical locations of dread responses suggest that the subjective experience of dread that ultimately drives an individual's behavior comes from the attention devoted to the expected physical response, and not simply a fear or anxiety response."

As George Loewenstein, a researcher in human decision-making at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, put it in an accompanying commentary: "The information that one is going to receive a shock, like the shock itself, seems to be a source of misery."

Although the time frames of seconds in the experiment may not be the same kind of interval that people normally take for making economic decisions, Loewenstein said it does challenge the economic tenets that people prefer to expedite things that are expected to have a pleasant outcome while deferring events they expect will be unpleasant.

Berns said the findings also show that dread can be lessened by diverting attention.

"The dread associated with things like medical procedures or public speaking, while real, can probably be alleviated by diverting one's attention during the waiting period," he said, citing tools that might range from meditation to exercise or even taking in a movie.

On the Net: http://www.sciencemag.org

(Contact Lee Bowman at BowmanL(at)SHNS.com. Distributed by Scripps Howard News Service, http://www.shns.com)

FARK - Hilarity

2006-06-27T14:31:00.000-05:00

Your air conditioner may be making you fat. Still no cure for sitting on the couch eating junk food instead of going outside and exercising

FARK always amusing

Speaking of...Here is an article from Toronto Star

Web Celebs

Jun. 27, 2006. 11:57 AM

SHAUNA REMPEL

TORONTO STAR

"The Internet can make you famous. Ric Romero has more at 11." If you just drew a blank at the mention of KABC-TV consumer reporter Ric Romero, you've never been to Fark.com. Then you would know that Romero, he of the sleek moustache and eerie resemblance to anchor Tim Tucker on The Family Guy, is regularly lampooned on the site for hopelessly out-of-date stories on Web trends, such as a recent one on "the exploding blog community." On Fark, the man is a star. By now, we all know anyone with dial-up can become famous online. As platforms, there's MySpace, YouTube, and as Ric taught us, a whole exploding world of blogs.But, sometimes involuntarily, people already in the public eye morph into a strange hybrid of real-life and online fame. And in doing so, they become bigger stars online than they ever were in their original medium. This creature is called ... The Web Celeb.Along with Ric Romero on Fark, Web celebs include quirky actor Christopher Walken and Wil Wheaton from Stand By Me and Star Trek: The Next Generation. Another prominent Web Celeb is '80s action man Chuck Norris, who has been credited with an impressive list of feats in addition to his black belt — such as speaking Braille and counting to infinity, twice. Norris doesn't even work much as an actor these days — but his celebrity is thriving online. While Tom Cruise and others shut down unauthorized fan sites, explains Jennifer Brayton, an assistant professor of sociology at Ryerson University, celebs in the know can use the Net to secure a fan base. For example, she says Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson has helped ensure that fans of the LOTR franchise are forever loyal by endorsing and appearing on fan sites. But as Romero knows, the Web Celeb meme is not always positive. For the last eight months or so, whenever Romero does a story involving the Web at his Los Angeles ABC affiliate — a piece highlighting "Google search engine shortcuts," for example — Farkers post a link to his story. Then they tear it apart. Romero has become so well-known online that "Ric Romero" has become a euphemism for, "This is completely and totally obvious to anyone who is conscious more than 20 per cent of their lives.""The celebrity he's gotten is kind of infamy," agrees Drew Curtis, Fark.com founder. "Ric Romero (is) the guy nobody would probably know outside of Los Angeles until recently." Romero really didn't want to talk about his not-so-stellar online reputation (see sidebar). Neither did his bosses, or anyone at the station for that matter. And Curtis says he hasn't heard any feedback — good or bad — from Romero, either. But Ric should know he isn't alone: Plenty of others, whether they like it or not, have gotten a nasty 15 minutes of fame on Fark or in the blogosphere. Not even Norris, who can slam revolving doors, by the way, is immune. His official website's chat room was closed down due to "abuse." As one Farker said, "Everyone is put on Earth for a purpose. Unfortunately, for some of us, it's ending up as fodder for Fark." Curtis knows his baby is sometimes evil. "We've had to be really careful. I've had to warn the guys who help me pick the links about being too mean to anybody with any notoriety because it's always getting back to them now," says the First Farker. But Fark, like the Internet itself, also uses its power for good. A favourite is former Star Trekker—turned-blogger/online poker player Wheaton, a man who escaped the shadow of his old Wesley Crusher role by kick-starting his career online."These days when people come up to me they tell me they are fans of my writing," he says. "People still talk to me about the movies and the TV shows I've done, but primarily people talk to me about my blog," says Wheaton of his site at wilwheaton.net.Web Celebs are frequently the not-so-popular celebrity, the ones who appeal to a more selective — and let's admit it, geekier — audience. Just look at Kevin Smith, a.k.a. Silent Bob, who has kept his career growing in part because of his online efforts over at viewaskew.com. "I think the Internet definitely has star-making potential," says Steve Rubel, senior vice-president of public relations firm Edelman. But "Class-A" celebs don't benefit as much, he explains. Fans of more mainstream stars are also frequently mocked mercilessly online — anyone seriously trying to defend Tom Cruise or Paris Hilton on Fark, for instance, would wind up flamed repeatedly. If there's a common denominator among Web Celebs, it's that there's a lot of online cheering for either unlikely heroes or delightfully oddball ones. Case in point: Walken, an eccentric but consistently employed actor, recently got caught in an online hoax that illustrates just how big he is online. Without any involvement, Walken was campaigning for president of the United States with a website full of platform info and his own campaign manager (the website is still up at http://www.walkenforpres.com). Walken didn't even know about it until news of the hoax reached his publicist, who promptly issued a release to put a stop to all of it. It could've been a make-or-break event in a lesser celeb's career, but not for the Online Patron Saint of the Cowbell. His publicist Toni Howard summed up the bid: "It was a non-event for him." Rubel says Web Celebs tend to appeal to a smaller, more specialized audience because the Internet is still a medium that not everyone can access. Think Friday the 13th crew and electro-pop pioneer Thomas Dolby, both happy to be subjects of Fark Photoshop contests. Wheaton is a self-proclaimed geek and a Total Farker himself (Total Fark being an elite status on the site, meaning, yes, it costs money). He says his level of fandom suits him just fine. "I really want the opportunity to do the right kind of acting. What I don't want to have to do is all the celebrity bullshit that seems so important to people."Paid-up Total Farker Tim Shaw says it's all about rolling with the online attention. "Something will get a life on the site and it will become a cliché. And what I found if it's something that's very laudable — like someone like Wil, who appears to be genuinely a very cool guy who doesn't appear to take himself too seriously and was on a very popular show and will participate in stuff like that — then it will go the positive direction."But if it's someone like Ric Romero, then it will go the negative direction."As for Canadian Web Celebs, they're out there: Pam Anderson's numerous online fans aside, Canuck comedian Colin Mochrie has found himself literally the poster boy for a style of animation called animutation. Essentially, a picture of his face is stuck on a cartoon body which then moves around to a soundtrack of pop songs, usually Japanese, usually with incorrect subtitles.A classic is Andrew Kepple's three-part Flash series Colin Mochrie vs. Jesus H. Christ, found through http://tmst.twu.net/sluggy/ which Mochrie says is his favourite. "I thought he would make an unlikely and, therefore, lovable hero," Kepple explains in an email, of why he chose Mochrie. "There was absolutely nothing whatsoever about Colin Mochrie that made it seem like he would want to battle against an evil plastic replica of the son of God, Jesus H. Christ. Which is why I decided that those two would make good enemies." Mochrie still seems a bit baffled by the whole thing. But he says a public figure has to expect some image manipulation. "For me, as long as nobody is making fun of my family ... I'm fine with that." says Mochrie, who has his own site at colinmochrie.com. "It's free publicity," says the former regular on Whose Line is it Anyway? "I started to get a new audience, young people who had never heard of Whose Line wondering who this fellow is in these animutations," Mochrie explains. The Web Celeb does have detractors. "Offline media still kicks butt," writes full-time P.R. guy and part-time blogger Rubel, because TV and radio are more accessible and respected by people of all ages. "As (the) generation that grew up with the Web their whole lives hits the 18-34 demo I bet this will change," he writes on micropersuasion.com. It's true many Web Celebs are usually only popular in a relatively tiny corner of the universe. Much of their appeal comes from in-jokes. "It's often restricted to people using the Internet," says Fritz Holznagel, editor of Who2.com, an online encyclopedia of celebrities. "It's possible to be very famous among millions of people ... but Joe Microbrew on the street just won't get it," he says. Wheaton says he likes it that way. The Internet in general, and Fark in particular, have been good to him. "It kind of lets me make my own rules, I guess," he says. "Before the acceptance of my blog I would have never been able to go to a literary agent and say, `I've had this really great career as an actor but I'm really interested in writing now,'" says Wheaton, who has penned his memoir, Just a Geek, and other titles. As for Romero, though, Farkers can only guess what he has to say about their handiwork. Chances are it involves another F-word.

ID@thestar.ca

Elect Chief Wana Dubie

2006-06-27T10:53:00.000-05:00

Chief Wana Dubie - Yes sir, I do.

Put a hippie to work in '06'!

I am running for State Representative of the 150th District of the State of Missouri, as a Libertarian candidate.
"Liberty and justice for all" means "tolerance of all."
If it's not JUST, it's not JUSTICE.
The people need a voice so they can have a choice.
"United we stand, divided we fall."
So help Put a Hippie to Work in '06'!
For interviews, public speaking engagements, or to contact me you can e-mail me here.
For my stance on some of the current issues, visit my Views page!

To donate by credit card online, click the link above.
You may also send checks or money orders payable to:
Circle of Friends For Chief Wana Dubie
121 E. 4th St.
Salem, MO 65560
Please include your name, address, and employer with each contribution.
Contributions are limited to $325 per individual or legal entity.
Thanks for your support.
I'm ready to work for you Missouri!
Sincerely,
Chief Wana Dubie

How to keep THE MAN from putting his thumb on you

2006-06-27T08:28:00.000-05:00

I saw this on Boing Boing.

As Americans we (especially these days) need to protect our rights as much as possible. I'll admit, I haven't had the chance to watch the video yet, but I'm sure the general idea is there at least.

HOWTO protect yourself from cops when pulled over
~~The ACLU~~ A former ACLU staffer has produced a great, 40-minute video on understanding your rights when you get pulled over by a cop. Josh sez,

I came across this "flex your rights" video which uses dramatizations with actors to illustrate how you can protect yourself using 4th, 5th, and 6th ammendment rights during commonplace encounters with police.
The film seems pretty cheezy, but the info in it is great. The info conveyed in the film is extremely useful to avoid nasty searches, seizures, and mishaps which could land a well-meaning person in jail or just ruin their day.

Link (Thanks, Josh!)

Update: Kris sez, "I believe that the video is not from the ACLU, just that the narrator used to work for them."

Update 2: Thomas sez, "The ACLU has several pamphlets available for download that explain your rights when stopped by the police. One is pocket-sized to keep in your glove compartment. They are available in several different languages, including Spanish and Arabic."

2006-06-27T01:04:00.000-05:00

Putting Damn Small Linux (DSL) on USB Flash Pen Drive

This walkthrough will illustrate how to install Damn Small Linux (DSL) to a USB memory stick through windows.

You'll need the following:

64 MB or larger USB memory stick
Damn Small Linux
HP USB tool (for formatting the stick)
Syslinux V2.11

The Process:

The first step is to Download the HP USB tool and format your stick with the tool using the FAT option (quick format is fine)
Download the dsl-embedded.zip (you can get it Here)
Extract the files from dsl-embedded.zip to your USB memory stick.
Download and extract syslinux.zip to a directory on your computer.
Run the command prompt in windows (start/run/cmd) and CD to the syslinux directory. Once there simply type syslinux.exe F: (F: being the example drive letter of the USB stick in this system)
Reboot your PC, go into your system BIOS and set your boot order to boot from any selectable USB device. (example USBZIP)
Save your BIOS settings. On the next reboot, you should have a sucessful launch of Damn Small Linux from your USB memory stick.

Enjoy!

_________________

Author: ~The Pendrive Doctor~

Article Source: http://www.pendrivelinux.com

Google Toolbar Help

2006-06-26T18:26:00.000-05:00

Google Toolbar Help

Cardboard box smoker - From "Good Eats", Alton Brown

2006-06-26T14:08:00.000-05:00

Cardboard Box Smoker - FoodTV

September 9, 2003

The Good Eats Custom Corrugated Vapor Colloid Applicator
(Cardboard Box Smoker)

Key:

a) heavy-duty corrugated box (no interior painting)

b) flap door

c) electric hot plate

d) small cast-iron skillet

e) hardwood sawdust (no pressure-treated wood or plywood allowed)

f) small battery-operated fan (optional)

g) 2 quarter-inch wooden dowels inserted through box in parallel fashion

h) oven rack

i) target food (fish skin-side down)

j) thermometers (although probe styles are shown, standard stem models may be used in a pinch)

k) thermometer probes (one in the box, the other in the fish)

DYI Flower Pot Smoker

2006-06-26T13:13:00.000-05:00

This is an great idea for those in apartments that are not allowed any sort of grill that isn't electric

Check it out

Never Trust a Skinny Chef...: Little Brown Egg I: Condo-Q

I really hope Warren Buffet has heard of "Eyes on the Prize"

2006-06-26T10:38:00.000-05:00

I'm sure I've posted about "Eyes on the Prize" before, but it is truly one of the most important films I've ever seen. It saddens me that I hadn't even heard of "Eyes" until my last year of college. The reason this amazing work is rarely seen is due to copyright holder issues. Downhill battle tells about it. And here is a Wiki. And a Wired article. There is even a high school curriculum I found from Yale.edu

Warren Buffett gives away his fortune

FORTUNE EXCLUSIVE: The world's second richest man - who's now worth $44 billion - tells editor-at-large Carol Loomis he will start giving away 85% of his wealth in July - most of it to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

By Carol J. Loomis, FORTUNE editor-at-large

June 25, 2006: 1:42 PM EDT

NEW YORK (FORTUNE Magazine) - We were sitting in a Manhattan living room on a spring afternoon, and Warren Buffett had a Cherry Coke in his hand as usual. But this unremarkable scene was about to take a surprising turn.

"Brace yourself," Buffett warned with a grin. He then described a momentous change in his thinking. Within months, he said, he would begin to give away his Berkshire Hathaway fortune, then and now worth well over $40 billion.

GoogleTutor's Newsfeed Article

2006-06-26T10:06:00.000-05:00

I generally add feeds to my personalized Google page but...

GoogleTutor's Favorite way to Subscribe to Newsfeeds

Many online information sources, including web sites, weblogs and news services, now broadcast their content to the web in so-called “syndicated feeds” or “news feeds” with new technologies like Really Simple Syndication (RSS) and ATOM. News aggregator software and services collect those syndicated feeds and present them to end users in a variety of ways.

So, you need a news aggregator. I’m not going to list them all and describe how to use them. I’m only going to point you to one aggregator I love, and think is SO EASY to use. If you are new to news feeds, this is your best bet. There is nothing to download–it’s an easy-to-use web interface It’s call Bloglines. And no, I’m not affiliated with them.

Here’s what to do:

1. Go to Bloglines.com.

2. Sign up for a free account.

3. Go to the My Feeds page.

4. Key “googletutor.com” into the URL field

There you go! Now whenever you bring up Bloglines you’ll see in the My Feeds section if there are any new articles to read.

Why go to Bloglines to check for our articles when you could just come directly to Googletutor.com instead? Because you can subscribe to many other feeds at Bloglines so when you go there you can instantly see if any of your favorite blogs have new articles. I find that I go check Bloglines several times a day.

Write a Rant, Get Clicks - Perhaps

2006-06-26T09:52:00.000-05:00

Write a Rant, Get Clicks

I am not a fan of these In-Text ads, as you know. I think they’re intrusive, misleading and undermine the whole concept of linking, which is what has brought the Internet this far. One of my concerns is that since these ads rely on hooking up with particular words in the text, questions have to be raised about whether the provider of that text (I’m trying not to say “content” here) is skewing what they write to raise the number of words that ad sponsors have signed up for.

So I couldn’t help wondering whether it was the case here, on the blog of one Joel Comm, Internet marketing guru and expert on making the most out of, er, Internet advertising. The post is actually a (quite justifiable) rant against the smug robotics of your average cashier and attendant in stores who are programmed to ask “Are you finding everything okay?” whenever they see a customer who isn’t actually dead. But I couldn’t help wondering whether Joel’s rant had a secondary purpose when I noticed a lot of the words he was using — MP3 players, video games, dryers, stock — were contextual ad triggers for Kontera, his in-text ad provider of choice:

Legitimate rant? Or clever revenue-raising ploy? You decide.

I use gmail as a universal email. Do you?

2006-06-26T09:41:00.000-05:00

Use Gmail as your universal email account

Old cordless phone -----> New walkie-talkie

2006-06-26T09:34:00.000-05:00

Weekend Project: Make walkie-talkies out of old cordless phones

Coulter, Liberalism as a religion

2006-06-25T18:50:00.000-05:00

This post seems to have gotten a lot of attention so I thougt I'd go ahead and repost. Here it is again...this time with the comments made as well. Feel free to discuss. And for the record, nothing is ever "proven" in science. That is what makes it science.

You must be joking

Ann Coulter on UK BBC Newsnight interview with Jeremy Paxman

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The following came from one of the comments most recently posted so I thought I'd add it here

An open challenge to Coulter fans

Monday, 19. June 2006, 23:56:55

blogging, books, science, skepticism

PZ Myers, the liberal atheist blogger and professor of genetics at UMM, posted an open challenge to Ann Coulter's legion of mindless nuthuggers, specifically those who are impressed with her anti-Darwinist rhetoric. Here's the mechanics:

Read Coulter's book, Godless. (uh-oh, I may have just filtered out 90% of her fans with that first word.)
Pick ONE paragraph from chapters 8-11 that you think is just wonderfully insightful, and that you agree with entirely.
Open up your email software, and compose a message to me*. You can use a pseudonym, but please do use a valid email address. I won't publish your address, but I'm not going to reply to people I can't contact.
Type in the paragraph that you think is solid and believable. Yeah, it's a tiny bit of work, but it'll save me* the trouble of typing it in myself. You're a believer, it's worth it, right?
Explain briefly why you think this paragraph is good stuff. If you want to explain a little bit of the context in justification, that's good too.
Send it to me*.

*The me is, of course, PZ Myers.

6 Comments:

Jon said...: No. No joke. Paxman was a mess.; 5:58 PM
NelC said...: Eh, Jazza gave the subject more seriousness than it deserved. Now, Coulter was a mess. Illogical, arrogant, avoided answering the questions with more than sound bites. Honestly, if this is the level of political discourse over there, no wonder America's such a mess.; 8:11 PM
Krimp said...: Now I know that we Americans are backward and we have our quaint old-fashioned beliefs. However, I do have questions about the undeniable, scientifically proven account of the origin of life that you Europeans have discovered and revealed to the world. There are a few things that I just can’t resolve in my unsophisticated, colonial mind about Darwinism. But, I know that you “sons of the Enlightenment” across the pond will be able to illuminate me on these matters. Let’s just start with what’s probably my most basic question. How does Darwinism explain the development of irreducibly complex organs such as the eye, or ear? That is, those organs that if reduced by any one of its components would cease to function as a whole. For instance, the eye. Which of its components evolved first? The retina, rods and cones, or the optic nerve? In the case of the ear, was it the tympanic membrane, cochlea, or the cochlear nerve? I have learned that the twin engines of Darwinism are random mutation and natural selection. That a beneficial mutation gives an organism survival benefits over those of its kind that it will replace through natural selection. Darwinism also tells us that genetic mutations happen on a very small scale and that many would be required over time to build complex evolutionary advances. It’s just the chronology that is puzzling to me. That is if, as regards the eye, one of our ancestors was born with a mutation of light sensitive cells somewhere on its body, how would that have given it survival advantages over those of its kind that didn’t have the mutation? You see, if there wasn’t an optic nerve to carry the sensor information to the brain from these light sensitive cells, what advantage exactly was it that this ancestor had over others in its family? What use could this ancestor have made of the light information being received if it never made it to its brain for processing? How would this mutation have benefited the propagation of this mutant’s offspring, while others of its kind without the mutation died off? This question could be asked of any macrosystem within an animal such as the immune, or blood clotting systems. Just as well, it could be asked at the cellular level. There are so many interdependent components of a cell, that it seems in order to form just a one-celled organism would be impossible. This is just one question I have regarding Darwinism. Since I know that this is science and not just based on mere conjecture, but hard fact; you’ll easily be able to help me put down the challenges of religious idiots like Ann Coulter. I also know that questioning authority is a guiding principle of enlightened people; I see the bumper sticker all the time. For some reason here in America, the obvious answers to the proven facts behind Darwinism are not being communicated to us. It’s probably George W. Bush and his ilk that are keeping the truth from us. To keep us ignorant and pliant so that he and his cronies can hoard the world supply of oil for themselves. Please help by arming us with the necessary ammunition to combat this hatred of science. Sophisticated people such as you Europeans love intellectual debate, so this should be fun. Especially since you have the facts of science on your side. Oh, and when you answer this question, I have many others to follow.

Thanks,

Your friend in the American Theocracy; 10:13 PM
agentzero said...: krimp, if it makes no sense that a creature would have evolved an array of sensing cells without a system to transport information, then assume the system to transport came first. this is what science does. it asks a question, then looks at examples and uses logic to postulate an answer. i am no biologist, and i do not speak for all scientists, but i do have an understanding of what the scientific process is. the reason why science is better than religion is that science has a system which demands constant questioning and revision of held beliefs. you would say that people who hold a darwin-derived belief of the existance of complex life have stopped questioning its validity, and this is simply not true. but it is true that logically some version of evolution makes more sense than any intelligent design theory.

my question to you would be: if we were/are intelligently designed and mutation serves no good purpose, why does spontaneous mutation happen at all?

thanks,
your friend in science; 9:59 AM
Krimp said...: agentzero, thank you for your very civil and thoughtful response.

First off, let me say that with the arguments you’ve listed, you would have made the very point that Ann Coulter has put forth. That is, that Darwinism is far from proven science, and is taken by its adherents on faith. This you did when you asked me to “assume”, for that “is what science does”. It is true that part of the scientific method involves assumption(formulating a hypothesis). But, that is only the first stage. It is followed by gathering observable, empirical, and measurable evidence, subject to the laws of reasoning. Unfortunately for Darwinism, there has been precious little empirical evidence gathered in the more than 150 years since it was popularized. What little evidence that has been gathered in the process can easily be used against it. A priori assumption without the facts is simply faith. Belief in something unproven.

Furthermore, when you requested I “assume” the transport system(optic nerve) came first in the development of the eye, you’re simply playing a shell game. Reversing their chronology does not make the problem for Darwinism go away. You see, what benefit would an optic nerve be to an organism without the useful sensor information of the photosensitive cells? It’s is like having a computer and Ethernet cable without the Internet connection. Useless for observing the outside world. Darwinism contends that random mutations are responsible for evolutionary progress only when they give an advantage to one species member over another. Natural selection will enable this mutant’s offspring to out-populate its non-mutated cousin. In addition, you’ve black-boxed the evolutionary development of the complex optic nerve and its interface to the brain. This is very common among Darwin’s adherents…details are not important.

You stated “science is better than religion”. I concur that “true” science is more trustworthy than religion. Unfortunately for Darwinism, it appears to be more of a religion than “true” science. All assumption(faith), and no empirical evidence. There are growing numbers of scientists who believe its going the way of its predecessor, Spontaneous Generation. Yet, pop culture and the education community are lagging behind. The free thinkers today with the best arguments are questioning the very foundations of Darwinism. Like Gallileo, it takes courage to confront the Church of Darwin. It is very powerful, with its ability to stifle dissent through the awarding of tenure and grants in the scientific community.

You postulated that “logically some version of evolution makes more sense than any intelligent design theory”. Really? Can you give me solid proof you have(empirical evidence) behind this statement? Just give me an example of a very simple system, machine, plant, or animal, that just came into being without the intervention of a designer with intelligence. All technology and inventions require a designer with intelligence to come up with the initial idea and then fabricate and implement that idea. The watch, airplane, automobile, computer…whatever. These are also, by the way, very crude and simple when compared to the human being. Yet, you ask me to believe that these things could be created out of randomly connected events without any guiding intelligence? Where is the logic in that? It has never been observed as far as I know.

Finally, as to your last question, “if we were/are intelligently designed and mutation serves no good purpose, why does spontaneous mutation happen at all?” This is a non sequitur. I’ve never said mutation cannot serve a “good”, or beneficial purpose. Clearly, there are some genetic mutations that are beneficial in the proper environment. For instance, the sickle cell trait helps those in malaria infested regions of the world propagate better than those without it. However, it is devastating to populations outside of malaria prone areas. Natural Selection does take place, no doubt. However, its only ever been observed within a species, never trans-species. Those with or without the sickle cell trait are still humans. Genetic manipulation has been practiced since the beginning of time to breed beneficial characteristics in organisms. Of course, it almost always takes intelligence to breed a beneficial gene pool. Random genetic mutations happen all of the time; most are detrimental. Transmission of genetic material is not perfect. But it’s a great “leap of faith” to think that genetic mutation has brought life to its ultimate form in human beings. My question to you would be…when have you observered a new species created through random mutation without intelligent intervention?

thanks,

your friend in determining the difference between science and faith; 1:00 PM
Educate Yourself said...: To Krimp,

There are valid scientific responses to the 'irreducable complexity' argument. You are unlikely to find them by posting on blogs, as most of us alas, have not spent years of our lives learning about biology. Luckily for us, some people have and as part of the scientific method they publish their results for peer review, and so we can find out about them.

If you genuinely want to know why 'irreducable complexity' is not regarded as a problem for evolution for Scientists then I suggest you do some reading. Here are a few websites to get you started in the right direction, but here has been alot of work on evolution so you could literally spend a lifetime reading all the all the evidence and studies that support it. If you seriously want to study this you would have to start looking at books and scientific journals, not just websites.

http://www.talkdesign.org/faqs/icdmyst/ICDmyst.html

http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/behe.html

http://www.pandasthumb.org/archives/2006/04/evolution_of_ic_1.html

Rest assured, scientists have looked into these issues. I suggest rather than putting the rest of your questions here, you take the time to research them and discover the answers are already out there.; 7:57 AM

I haven't read this. I didn't want to wait 3hrs for the pdf

2006-06-23T11:12:00.000-05:00

Just for future reference for myself. If anyone checks it out, feel free to leave a comment

The PDF of 55 Ways to Have Fun With Google

The full PDF of my book, 55 Ways to Have Fun With Google, is now available on 55fun.com. As the book is Creative Commons licensed, you are encouraged to copy, read, share, remix, convert, quote, browse, and print the PDF to your liking. If you do create conversions, e.g. an HTML version, please send me the URL so I can link to it from 55fun.com.

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With me being an obvious geek I had to post this

2006-06-23T11:05:00.000-05:00

I saw another one of these sorts of lists somewhere (better one), maybe one day I'll find and post it as well

How Not to Lead Geeks

The Positive Sharing blog has a good read on how not to lead geeks from earlier this year. The ten points are:

Downplay training
Give no recognition
Plan too much overtime
Use management-speak
Try to be smarter than the geeks
Act inconsistent
Ignore the geeks
Make decisions without consulting them
Don’t give them tools
Forget that geeks are creative workers

You’d think most of those are obvious, but from my past jobs I can say they’re definitely not.

I want to add my own ten points of how not to lead geeks to the list:

Think all geeks want to climb up the career ladder or can be rewarded with job titles
Shield geeks from early design stages
Put job formalities and processes over teams and communication
Demand strict working hours
Stop geeks from browsing the web to read up on new technologies
Interrupt geeks with questions, phone calls, unclosed doors, and daily meetings
Use technical buzzwords because you think geeks enjoy them
Believe that every geek loves hardware, system administration, and solving Outlook problems of colleagues
Have a strong, expressed believe that all geeks are the same
Demand that geeks behave completely normal, non-neurotic

[Thanks Markus Renschler.]

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Technorati - tips for all

2006-06-23T10:41:00.000-05:00

Performancing plugin for Firefox

Posted by Niall Kennedy on January 24, 2006. Tags: Application Extensions

Performancing just released version 1.1 of their Firefox extension. The extension allows any blogger to author posts, retrieve page data, and save bookmarks to social bookmarking sites directly from the Firefox web browser.

Once the extension is installed you can press the F8 key or the status bar icon to view other blogs talking about the current page.

The extension also supports pinging Technorati directly from the blog editing interface so we may index your new post even faster.

American History X meets Disney

2006-06-23T10:04:00.000-05:00

American History X is one of the best.movies.evar! But this is just kind of humorous

American History X meets Disney

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WTF? What about the Google toolbar that is out already

2006-06-23T09:05:00.000-05:00

Adobe and Google team up for Toolbar

6/21/2006 02:08:00 PM

Posted by Sundar Pichai, Director of Product Management

Starting today, Adobe is offering the Google Toolbar to its customers as a free download -- a great way to take Google search with you anywhere on the web. You can access Google search capabilities from any website, block pop-ups, see search suggestions as you type, personalize your toolbar by adding buttons from your favorite sites, and more. We're excited to partner with Adobe to make these features available to their users, and look forward to finding other ways to work together.

Are you a media mogul...then you're not gonna' be. But here

2006-06-23T08:29:00.000-05:00

Windows Media Bonus Pack for Windows XP

The (apparently) intelligent way to do good.

2006-06-22T16:19:00.000-05:00

Charity Navigator - Link to Us

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SelfSeo's Articles on Bringing Traffic to Your Site

2006-06-22T10:26:00.000-05:00

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What is the Single Most Important Item You Need to Have a Very Successful Website?

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Tips to Create Banners that Make People Wush to your Website

The internet world has made banner advertising a popular and widespread form of advertising where practically all the websites have one or the other form of banner advertising on it. Though it is thought that the effectiveness of banner advertising on the web has declined, there are many tips, which if followed, prove to make people rush to your website!

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Good Traffic And Bad Traffic

Getting traffic to your website is a very important part of online marketing and sharing information with people but are you getting traffic to your site that is actually interested in your site or are they just using up your bandwidth?

How to Pull in Free Traffic and Delight Your Visitors

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By far the best way to get traffic to your website is to set up a successful affiliate program. However, the learning curve for doing that is a bit steep.

Why You Must Know Your Traffic! The Power Of Using Web Analytics

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The Insanity of Page Rank and Linking Schemes

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Site Traffic - Unique Visitors vs. Page Views

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All webmasters realise that the lifeblood of their website is traffic, without traffic a website is simply a series of codes on a server. However, traffic brings a website to life and the importance of this cannot be under estimated. Getting traffic is big business and a complex process but what I want to do is provide you with a foundation to use when developing your site so that all your work becomes focused on developing your websites traffic.

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How To Monetize Your Traffic To Make More Profits

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Traffic And The Elusive Relevant Links

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What To Make Of It? A Guide To The Analysis Of Your Web Log

Every time someone visits your website the web server starts tracking the activities of that visitor in what is called the 'web log'. If understood, the web log can provide valuable information about the popularity and reach of your website, and much more, as we will explore below.

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Getting Your First Visitors

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Give Away Free Items To Attract Traffic

Giving items away for free is a great way to increase traffic everybody likes freebie. If you give something different away each week, you are sure to have a steady stream of repeat traffic. When you have freebies or giveaways on your site, your pages can also be listed and linked from the many sites on the Internet that list places where where people can receive free stuff.

Selective Keywords Get Higher Search Engine Ranking

Keywords are an important factor of producing a website and getting traffic. These are the terms which the search engines use to categorize and rank your webpages. For example, if your website is about "traffic building" then your keywords could include traffic,building traffic,website traffic, and so forth.

Is Paying For Traffic Practical?

The internet is a like a playground with many business players clawing at each other to get a bigger share of the market pie. There are many who have gained success in their online endeavour. The irony, however, is that to one successful story, there are hundreds of others who have just spent time and effort beating about the bush and at the end of the day getting nothing out of it.

The Top 10 Ways To Increase Your Traffic Today

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Traffic Building & Analysis Articles, Traffic Tips and Tricks - Self SEO

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You must be joking

2006-06-21T17:03:00.000-05:00

Ann Coulter on UK BBC Newsnight interview with Jeremy Paxman

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Run Linux on any computer from USB

2006-06-21T16:52:00.000-05:00

This walkthrough illustrates how to do a simple install of Puppy linux on a USB Flash Pen Drive.

What you'll need:

64 MB or larger USB memory stick

Puppy Linux

The process:Puppy Linux contains it's own USB installer so installation is fairly straightforward.

1. Download Puppy linux.

2. Burn the ISO to CD.

3. Start your computer via Puppy CD.

4. Once Puppy is loaded, within the Puppy desktop, go to the taskbar. Click: Start/setup/install Puppy USB drive

5. When finished with the Puppy USB install, reboot your PC and go into system BIOS to change your boot order to boot from a USB device. (example USBZIP).

6. Save your settings and reboot your PC.

Pen Drive Linux - Puppy Linux on a USB Flash Pen Drive

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Farkers Fark Off? Fark me? No, Fark you Mr. Cruise

2006-06-21T16:09:00.000-05:00

Tuesday, February 14, 2006

Tom, have you been Cruising Fark?
Bang! Fark.com's Drew Curtis was in the line of fire and he got peppered pretty good. The insults rained like small lead pellets, and they may have come from none other than Tom Cruise.

While the grammatically-impaired emailer responsible for the missive below didn't signal or indicate or announce himself, "I'm pretty positive this is him," Drew tells Boing Boing, The I.P. belongs to Paramount Studios, and he's writing about a story we linked about him and Katie splitting up."

Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 19:29:52 -0500 (EST)
From: fark off farkers
To: drew@fark.com, mike@fark.com, meg@fark.com
Subject: FARK : Error report from fark off farkers (204.110.112.2)
The following was submitted:
Login : (not logged in) (0)
Name : fark off farkers
Type : (error) Report some error message
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I can't believe that people actually read and or believe this bull shit that is posted on fark.com. This is the first time I have been to fark.com and definatly the last. Considering I am witness to a lot of shit that goes on in hollywood, its hard to post some complete bull shit rumor say about tom cruise and katie holmes breaking up when they are sitting in front of you acting completely normal and sane. You guys must have small penis's since you have to make up shit for people to notice you. Hate to be with you in bed. Dumb shits! You may think I am, at least Im getting rich off being honest and not lieing to everyone in the fucking world.
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Remote IP: 204.110.112.2
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)

Experts familiar with the actor's prosaic style definatly agree -- it could be him. And in a gesture of solidarity with Fark.com, I am -- no lieing! -- at this very moment wearing a CafePress wifebeater that reads, "Silly tom cruise, all bloggers have small penis's."

Link to the Fark.com thread that started it all, "Amusing: Tom and Katie to split. Next time make sure she's OT III before implanting a thetan."

Update: Defamer analyzifies:

We’d love to believe that Cruise spends his downtime lost in vanity Google session and firing off unhinged missives about the health of his relationship [Ed.note: Tom: call us!], but we have a hard time picturing the Scientology Information Officers letting him anywhere near a computer, for fear the rest of his life would be consumed by a crusade to wipe out the unchecked negativity of the internets. And with so many people on the Paramount lot (where his production company is housed) whose jobs are dependent on Cruise’s career, the message really could’ve come from anyone. So as long as we’re taking guesses as to the angry writer with the disabled spell-checker, we might as well finger a far more likely suspect: Paramount Emperor Brad Grey. It all makes sense now, doesn’t it?

Reader comment: craniac says:

Someone from the same IP address as the Tom Cruise email to Fark.com has been busy on Wikipedia trying to make the college of William and Mary look good. Link

superfly66103

WTF

How naive am I?

Senseless War by Kevin Tillman (Pat Tillman's brother)

After Pat’s Birthday

Posted on Oct 19, 2006

I say anyone who has blindly followed this guy should go. Democrat or Republican

Firefox Shorcuts

Mouse Shortcuts

Something about buttons - No time

Carl Sagan's Cosmos Series

Who's out of touch...?

This was a president

FULL TRANSCRIPT: Clinton Takes On Fox News

Let's talk

Spin as you'd like, but coincidence is highly unlikely

As I am always quick to mention...driving around will kill you before anything

1927, 2006: History repeats itself?

THE YEAR THE LEVEES BROKE

From FARK - The headline says it all

Very interesting read about George Bush and war in the Mid-East....George H.W. Bush 1990 that is

Is this one of the Phoenix "Serial Shooter" suspects

DALE HAUSNER'S BOXING AND MORE!

Welcome to my website!

YouTube - Video Israel Doesn't Want You to See

BBC NEWS | Middle East | US troops 'smiled before killing'

Amazing - the Gov't lied

Democrats, Republicans, Independents: Take this Republican's advice this fall.

From Techdirt: How to foil the RIAA. Is it?

Iraqi Blogger - Worst days ever in Iraq

USA: A New Dictatorship?

An investigation unfolds

Free Ryan Ferguson -- information you probably have not heard

Where is the "Straight Talk Express" Now? - McCain on Stewart's show

William F. Buckley, Father of Conserativism, Slams President Bush - His legacy is indecipherable

My Way News - Specter Prepping Bill to Sue Bush

Know your rights

The Bush logic is not only skewed, it is asinine.

Hilarity ensues on FARK

Addition to Eyes on the Prize

William Lynch Speech

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Contents

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William Lynch

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See also

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From FARK - Looks like WWIII is starting

Rumsfeld, Cheney linked to '70s "Tiger Force" coverup.

Proud to be an American?

Here is one hell of a way to catch a buzz

Who wouldn't do the same. A quote from Mr. Neddermeyer:

Man fired for getting gassed on spilled ethanol at work

Cory Neddermeyer had a blood alcohol level that was double what is considered to be lethal.

The International Phonetic Alphabet

Phonology

Vowels

Paul J. Morrison - Sounds like a good choice to me

Paul J. Morrison

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District Attorney for Johnson County Kansas.

What is with the morons?

local6.com

Man Accused Of Throwing Pig's Head Into Mosque Charged

Where or where has my America gone?

Try Office 2007 Online - No Install!

I'm a heathen, but maybe you're not

An urgent appeal to the churches: 'We must resist this war'

Anyone know JavaScript?

Looks like it's time to figure out what this is all about.

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Anxiety/Depression sufferers look here

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