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Funny (and scary stuff) stuff. Check this out! Link to gizmondo "It's no secret that the Chinese government censors web content, but what's it like to actually be a citizen trapped inside the Great Firewall of China? A new FireFox plugin called China Channel can show you. It reroutes your IP through China, allowing you to look like any other digital Chinese citizen from anywhere in the world. Click on a banned site and BAM! You lose your browsing privileges for 15 minutes. But luckily, in this version, you can just reopen the browser with a newly assigned IP. To see an example clip that walks you through installation and browsing," click the link.

This one looks to be no more than 2 asswipes sitting around TALKIN' about doing it. Like the uber boring movie "My dinner with Andre", except stupider and meaner. News link "By Pete Williams and Jim Popkin, NBC News Senior federal officials tell NBC News that the Feds are skeptical about whether there ever was a well-conceived plan to attack Sen. Barack Obama by two alleged neo-Nazi extremists in Tennessee. The officials say that there is no evidence at this early stage of the investigation that the two men, Daniel Cowart and Paul Schlesselman, had ever taken the plan beyond the talking stage." I envision 2 Deliverance style, corn-fed A-holes sitting around a bottle of Jack Daniels bragging and talkin'.....Glad they're locking them up.

I don't care how you vote, this is funny. Mike Lake, who use to live around here but now inhabits Berkley, put it on over on Supertopo to share after picking it up from someplace. "Dear Red States: We've decided we're leaving. We intend to form our own country, and we're taking all the Blue States with us. In case you aren't aware, that includes California, Hawaii, Oregon, Washington, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois and all the Northeast. We believe this split will be beneficial to the nation, and especially to the people of the new country the United States of Enlightenment. To sum up briefly: You get Texas, Oklahoma and all the slave states. We get stem cell research and the best beaches. We get the Statue of Liberty. You get Dollywood. We get Intel and Microsoft. You get WorldCom. We get Harvard. You get Ole' Miss. We get 85 percent of America's venture capital and entrepreneurs. You get Alabama. We get two-thirds of the tax revenue, you get to make the red states pay their fair share. Since our aggregate divorce rate is 22 percent lower than the Christian Coalition's, we get a bunch of happy families. You get a bunch of single moms. Please be aware that we will be pro-choice and anti-war, and we're going to want all our citizens back from Iraq at once. If you need people to fight, ask your evangelicals. They have kids they're apparently willing to send to their deaths for no purpose, and they don't care if you don't show pictures of their children's caskets coming home. We do wish you success in Iraq , and hope that the WMDs turn up, but we're not willing to spend our resources in Bush's Quagmire. With the Blue States in hand, we will have firm control of 80 percent of the country's fresh water, more than 90 percent of the pineapple and lettuce, 92 percent of the nation's fresh fruit, 95 percent of America's quality wines (you can serve French wines at state dinners) 90 percent of all cheese, 90 percent of the high tech industry, most of the U.S. low-sulfur coal, all living redwoods, sequoias and condors, all the Ivy and Seven Sister schools plus Berkeley, Stanford , Cal Tech and MIT. With the Red States, on the other hand, you will have to cope with 88 percent of all obese Americans (and their projected health care costs), 92 percent of all U.S. mosquitoes, nearly 100 percent of the tornadoes, 90 percent of the hurricanes, 99 percent of all Southern Baptists, virtually 100 percent of all televangelists, Rush Limbaugh, Bob Jones University, Clemson and the University of Georgia. We get Hollywood and Yosemite, thank you. Additionally, 38 percent of those in the Red states believe Jonah was actually swallowed by a whale, 62 percent believe life is sacred unless we're discussing the death penalty or gun laws, 44 percent say that evolution is only a theory, 53 percent that Saddam was involved in 9/11 and 61 percent of you crazy bastards believe you are people with higher morals then we lefties. Finally, we're taking the good pot, too. You can have that dirt weed they grow in Mexico Peace out, Blue States "

Or a Squeeky Frome or crazy Hinkley doing it wither, but there ya are?

hmmm, my wife isn't white, but she's generally an anti-socialist Obama supporter married to a gun owning libertarian believer - pretty much. (My 2 priorities: balance the budget and get gov't off my ass) Kill whitey....oh, shit, wait, that's me. Hey, my sons first day visiting the town where his college is, there's a parade he's at. Walking down the street behind him he hears a local yell "White Power". He said he turned to look but no one wanted to wave or even make eye contact, let alone claim such a statement. Nice to have new experiences.

Well, as long as no one asks me to screw a pig then..... Seriously Bob, in my opinion, it weakens a very strong and honest post to end it that way. It will lead to insults back in return, and your points, as spot on the money as they are, will not be read or addressed. Take care all!

Loved your post, right on the money, all the way till the last line Bob. Then you lost me, and degraded both your point and yourself. Next time, if you want to shave a few words, just wave your hand and say in bold "I'M AN ASSHOLE". But it was right on the money other than that last line. If you have to resort to name calling, it means you feel you have a weak case. Take care all

Could be bug, hard to see under the hood, could be James Carville.

Ya have to wonder - anytime you're knee-deep in rats, can the 4 horsemen of the APOCALYPSE be far behind? Rat link Albrecht Durer

Holy f*ing crap!

Not my route this time although the hair is pretty much gone it seems - but great TR as usual Ivan! I have a hand drill you can borrow anytime and this is a great spot for it to be utilized (*cough* cough* 2 of them *cough*), HOWEVER, you should check the current process on getting bolt approval and this line finished.

Hmmm, I like the illusion of trying to maintain some balance Fairweather:-) I believe that most news organizations try. I like the amount of stories that get linked on Drudge, but find it upsetting that he's only parading the ones he likes, which looks to be pro-McCain Anti-Obama currently. If someone in the news wants to editorialize, I don't mind it if they are honest and upfront about it. That's why trad news has an "Editorial" page. This, to me, seems underhanded and dishonest. Here's a site I like better: http://www.thedailybeast.com/ It brings some great, in depth stories of real issues or interest. Although yesterday, I was sadly unable to get the Larry Flynt video sampler of the Sarah Palin XXX movie to work for me. Like today, I can't get the "Obama and McCain in Breakdance Battle" going either.

During the primary, Sludge took a hard stance against Hillary, and was posting any story that has a slight anti-Hillary bent. Now, you need to realize, I was not then, nor am I now, a Hillary supporter. However, to see a web page full of stories with an anti-Hillary bent that wouldn't make the back page of the local paper hit the front page of Drudge was painful to watch. There was no negative Obama stories on Drudge at that time. I figured he just disliked Hillary. It makes Fox seem truly fair and balanced. Dmuja, that link is 4 years old, anything newer?

OK, I know I said I was going to stop reading Matt Drudge after the hack job he did on Hillary before the election, but I didn't. So I'm perusing it today and every political story - damn near EVERY one, (with 1 exception) is pro McCain and Anti-Obama. Go check it out link Big headline "Biden grilled: Is Obama Marxist"? Other headlines: " YOU'RE PUNISHED: OBAMA CAMPAIGN CUTS OFF TV STATION AFTER TOUGH BIDEN INTERVIEW... ZOGBY SUNDAY: Single day of polling, 49% to 46% in favor of Obama... Developing... McCain warns against Dem takeover... Obama hits McCain on economy... Palin's alarm on nanny state... Judge tosses lawsuit challenging citizenship... OBAMA STAFFERS PULL THEIR BOGUS OHIO BALLOTS... Krauthammer: McCain For President... The Washington insider who made Obama rich..." The Palin story is her complaining how Obama will turn us into a nanny state. What a bunch of BS editorializing.

non issue. Boxers or briefs?

See how what goes around comes around? FOLLOWING IS A WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND TRUTH IS STRANGER THAN FICTION PICTORIAL ie, lets free associate the tawana brawley which predated this stupid event. HEH HEH, hey, it's politics. It's obvious we can blame either Barak or McCain here. Hows it feel?

Hmmm, well, I'd be fine with that as long as we were not subjected to pics of McCain or Dole wearing them. Because in that case I would pay extra to NOT see that kind of thing. Being an ad-man has to be a tough job sometimes.

link This has the makings of a pretty damn funny joke if people would stop trying to stuff it back down folks throats. People, and the press, are just too damn politically correct these days, and it's spot on the money how the press try's to create stories out of insignificant nothings so as to garner headlines. Here's this insignificant issue de jour, which is probably pretty funny if you could hit the timing on the money. "U.S. Sen. John Kerry (D-Boston): addressing a business summit on energy issues, kicked off his remarks with some light-hearted banter. "These are the exciting last two week moments of the presidential campaign," the Boston Democrat said. "So it's a very special time. I can't wait for it to be over. I am so tired of the press' silly questions that they ask along the way. And cable television which reduces everything to stupidity - the lowest common denominator of conflict." Kerry tried to relay to the audience what it is like to face the press corps' inquiries. "I don't know if any of you know what it's like. I do, obviously," he said. "I've been asked all of those brilliant questions that were repeated this year." "Barack got asked the famous boxers or briefs question," Kerry went on. "I was tempted to say commando." The senator said Obama successfully parried that question but that John McCain, the GOP nominee, had some problems. "Then they asked McCain and McCain said, ‘Depends,'" Kerry said to lots of laughter from the crowd." Depends...heh heh...I think it got recycled from Bob Dole, but still a classic.

Since our country was founded - this has worked pretty good. As far as you folks who want to restrict honest citizens from having this control, you might consider that the largest acts of deadly terrorism were caused by: A) box cutters. (and Arabs with commandeered airplanes) b) fertilizer. (and a rental U-haul truck) Not guns. The idea that you can give up some of your guns is typical creeping incrementalism. At some time in the future, some piss-ant lil punk will walk into a school with his dads "legal" hunting rifle and a "legal" 5 round mag or 3 and that will be the next thing restricted. Then another incident followed by more un-needed laws and restrictions - then more laws. The net result is an eventual unbalancing of political things. But you, john Q public, are still at risk from box cutters and fertilizer. All the new future laws against firearms will do is give the politicians more power, since they will still have the guns. They'll figure out a way to protect themselves against the box cutters and fertilizer of course, and get a net power gain. My point is this: the system we have is not perfect but works. I don't for the life of me know why any of you want to give up this control to the politicians. There are too many laws already. Leave it alone.

Well, I was waiting and waiting and waiting for someone else to say this and evidently I'm the rare person on here who reads others postings? Is this thing on? Here goes. You're late.

WHERES KEVBONE? ps that first guy reminded me of a person playing a harp. Is the 2nd guy doing the Donkey Kong theme or the Pac man theme? maybe a combo?

6 SHOOTER = VOTES?

Hmm, good point, how about we say "Capitalist Communist China" or "Communist Capitalist China" and split the difference? I don't think they go by "Red" anymore. I think it's "Republic of China" for Taiwan and ....hmmm...must be something...ahhh, wiki has it "People's Republic of China". Ahah! Suspiciously, I checked the CIA factbook site for the name, and the Taiwan/"Capitalist Communist China" reunification/war is totally absent. Surely I must have missed it. They have a long page on multinational conflicts China has with Inda and many others... https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ch.html

Maybe she didn't inhale?

Nice point (although I beg to differ as guns DO matter): I've sent in emails to representatives about this, and there are court cases moving along which I expect to stop the practice. As far as I know, no one has been hauled off "somewhere for interrogation" yet due to an illegal wiretap, although I bet its happened. In either case, I expect (maybe it's just a hope) this intrusive practice to end. There have been various journalistic abuses as well, and I think we should be as informed, concerned and proactive as we can be to correct these issues when we trip over any of this kind of thing. Too many folks think that that it doesn't matter and they have no voice at all, and that merely grumbling about it on some random internet chat like this matters, when in fact that alone does very little. The link Fear and Greed posted earlier on another thread concerning the economic issues and challenges is another current one...although I do suspect that is truly out of our hands and we really are screwed on that one. They'll have to move fast and when they go to figure out why it's so F*ed up after the fact, fait accompli, too late bubbas.