Palin Email Trial: Jury Deliberation Heads To Fourth Day

Sounds right to me. The question is how bad a crime and what should be the punishment. That's when the ugly people come in to hijack the issue, and we pile on something, and we end up ruining somebody - because we can, and because we're so angry we can't even sit down correctly.



Politics!! - still your best bet for unsane public behavior !
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Duncan Hunter: Deport Illegal Immigrants' Children Who Are Natural-Born Americans

I can't get enough of this guy. There's something galactically awful about how he sees humanity. I'm a proud Californian and I have my own idea about what that means, and far up the list is that there's no place for these foreign, anti-American ideas - neither from dad nor cub. They are in the wrong place, with the wrong stuff, at the wrong time.



Vote For Dumpin' Hunter !!
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Duncan Hunter: Deport Illegal Immigrants' Children Who Are Natural-Born Americans

What Hunter says is beyond mean spirited; it is an evil idea that he learned. I will be against that kind of thinking until the end of time.
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Donald Trump Defends Arizona's Immigration Law

Donald Trump Defends Arizona's Immigration Law: "TRUMP: Well, I think everybody needs to have papers, you know, and be legally here. We need to have papers if we go anywhere else in the world, so people need to have also the papers here."...

..."King asked if he felt Mexican-Americans are right to feel disdainful of the law, and that's when things got a little weird:

TRUMP: Well, I can see that, but if you think about it, and nobody wants to say it, you have a Mexican-American, and then you have a blonde guy walking down the street, well Mexico doesn't have a lot of blondes, okay? And these are the people who are coming across the border.

And then Trump went on to take the other side of the issue, saying that "you have a lot of great people coming in" to pick crops and mow lawns (and, you know, build dodgy condo-hotels), and that these are jobs that Trump feels "not a lot of Americans" want to do."...

.."Anyway, there you have it. Donald Trump has opinions on immigration, for some reason, and CNN had some cameras just sitting there, with nothing better to do, so this happened!"

Lost iPhone Investigation (UPDATED): Gizmodo Editor Jason Chen's Home Searched And Computers Seized

Hmm... no, childish would be spitting in their scrambled eggs. Denying them your business is probably what most normal folk will do, so this may be the best way to force a statistic to move down, hopefully alarming Apple.
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Ted Nugent On Sarah Palin: If She 'Played A Loud, Grinding Instrument, She Would Be In My Band'

...it's just that he is so appalling - with so much hypocrisy and bile spilling from his outrageous beliefs and proclamations - that it constantly amazes most people that he isn't in a cage.
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Ted Nugent On Sarah Palin: If She 'Played A Loud, Grinding Instrument, She Would Be In My Band'

Time magazine went for the low-hanging fruits with their report. To be honest, I'm more concerned with the half-educated laid-off factory workers being scooped up by he GOP/Right-Wing Teabaggers. But it's still fun to be reminded of the deep-dish loons for which America has become world-famous. There's Ted Nugent, the 'patriot' gun-toter with the most sickening draft-dodger story - ever!, and 'Drill Baby Palin", the 1/2 term quitter, and the pile builder himself, Glenn Beck... - yup, I'm ready to swoon...
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Jon Stewart Slams Steve Jobs And Apple For Handling Of Leaked iPhone (VIDEO)

thanks; saved me time. But there is still some prosecutorial wiggle-room on the issue of what constitutes a credible contacting of the owner. If the contacting person had good reason to believe that the contacted employee didn't know squat, then this wouldn't be a good defense.



But my eyes are on the blog/press issue. That's where the mischief gets serious.
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Facebook Group 'Praying' For President Obama's Death Passes 1 Million Members

I can only imagine these creatures on that special bench where they will all sit for eternity, praying to die. What fools to tempt and embrace such doom.
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Stasi

Huffington Post Finds Its Inner Brown Shirt - Read the FAQ

"Q: What's a "Moderator"? How can I become one?

A: If you've flagged at least 20 comments that we ended up deleting and have a high ratio of good flags to mistaken flags, we'll award you with a Level 1 Moderator Badge and enhance your flags so that they have five times more influence. If you've flagged at least 100 comments that we deleted and have a very high ratio of good flags to mistaken flags, we make you a Level 2 Moderator, upgrade your Badge, and trust you to delete inappropriate comments on the site. We will continue to trust you to delete inappropriate comments from the site as long as you handle the task responsibly. If you're like many users, you'll want to step up your flagging game and become one of our most trusted users."

Join the HuffPo Youth. Imagine furious wankers in small, furtive groups staring at the fronts of the homes of those who need moderating. Turn in your friends - easily, secretly, like the Stasi.

Make sure your younger brothers and sisters - and your like-minded friends - become Huff Kids as soon as they can!

Randy & Evi Quaid ARRESTED

Yeah, but we're selling those posters for $87.99 each and making enough profit to buy a pantload of tickets outta here. At least that's what the flyer promised...
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Randy & Evi Quaid ARRESTED

You're so indicative. Thank gawd life is so full of it that every day I can get choked up just because it's all so pronounced. Only in America!
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Lost iPhone Investigation (UPDATED): Gizmodo Editor Jason Chen's Home Searched And Computers Seized

you're jumping the gun; I'm waiting for some more info... My morals, by the way, include not indicting people without the facts in evidence. You must be seeing facts I don't have because this is not yet a slam dunk.
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Lost iPhone Investigation (UPDATED): Gizmodo Editor Jason Chen's Home Searched And Computers Seized

there are a few facts that aren't clear yet, and though it could go as you describe, one of the moving parts is the blog-as-press issue. The free flow of information must always be a major concern for free people everywhere.
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RNC Accuses Obama Of Shredding Constitution, Nominating Sex-Offender Defenders

Maybe in a frenzy of hand-gun chaos these people will herd in a state that secedes, and I will never have to hear about them ever again.



At some point a bridge is stretched too far and 2 places cease their community. I want to be in the one with people worth knowing.
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Lost iPhone Investigation (UPDATED): Gizmodo Editor Jason Chen's Home Searched And Computers Seized

Copyrights and asteroids. Always your best bet for ruining everything.



You know, someday someone will have to deal with this fact: we are being herded into becoming web serfs, never again to own anything - instead having "user rights" to portions of reality.



(and... why is Steve Jobs so visibly and completey screwing th pooch??)

Fun fact! There are genes in your own body that are owned by somebody else.
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Obama Birth Certificate Requests Limited By New Hawaii Law, Pending Governor's Signature

Most of these birthers couldn't find their own spleen, but think it's an outrage that they aren't allowed access to Obama's birth certificate. There are snarling little packs of these regressive militia types all over the American landscape, stumbling around in the woods or lurching through the night on some moronic bivouac to find more and more evidence that Obama is still black.
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Lost iPhone Investigation: Gizmodo Editor Jason Chen's Home Searched And Computers Seized

No. You are missing a brain...



A journalist is someone doing the job of collecting information and purveying it to a. ss. holes like you and me. That is when a blogger is considered to be a journalist. See how easy that was...?
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Lost iPhone Investigation: Gizmodo Editor Jason Chen's Home Searched And Computers Seized

You mean unless a person has a paycheck from a "publisher", they are not a journalist? How dead is that?
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Arizona Immigration Law: Reactions Vary From Fury To Ambivalence

I've got a serious disconnect. Arizona officials can find out the location of those who hire illegal alien workers; this is a no-brainer. They have addresses and phone numbers. How hard is it to find John Smith, the guy who hired the cleaning lady?



The Arizona problem is that its citizens have chosen to protect their own, and to look like unthinking racists, and they have achieved their goal.
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Lost iPhone Investigation: Gizmodo Editor Jason Chen's Home Searched And Computers Seized

Until they're done with their "investigation", I won't buy diddly from iTunes. And in fact, unless Gizmodo escapes totally without harm, Jobs has screwed his last pooch in my world. What a disgusting scenario this is...
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Hollywood Sign Saved: Group Raises $12.5 Million Goal For Hollywood Sign Land

Hollywood Sign Saved: Group Raises $12.5 Million Goal For Hollywood Sign Land: "'Today, we have the Hollywood ending we hoped for,' said William B. Rogers, president of The Trust for Public Land."

Obama Cigarette Portrait To Be Replaced With Official Portrait At Nebraska's Adams County Courthouse

The America Heartland is a treasure trove of thinking that makes absolutely no sense to me - on any reasonable level. Yet so many mouths spout myriad proclamations and statements praising some of America's worst ideas and sentiments - made important simply because they spring from someplace loosely - but specifically - known as the "Heart of America". I am darn tired of pretending that this bunk is not bunk.
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Send Me "Back to the Kitchen"?

Women, back to 'your' kitchens ?



The republicans, the Reagan teabaggers, and the general conservative mob, think that somebody flipped a switch and that the whole country has bopped back a few decades and now we're all good ole' misogynist racist homophobes once again.



Not true at all. It is the same misogynist racist homophobes as always; just new names and now with microphones in their faces, guns in their pockets, and enough ignorance to hand the keys over to those who are strip-mining the American economy and downsizing the middle-class to the point of snuffing it out forever.



All the bad ideas might be back, but only for those who look back.
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Rep. Betty Sutton: Send Me "Back to the Kitchen"?

Rep. Betty Sutton: Send Me "Back to the Kitchen"?: "'Let's take Betty Sutton out of the House and send her back to the kitchen.'
The young woman, her heart heavy, then said, 'I can't believe that this is how some people value women. And, even if they do, I can't believe that they would feel comfortable promoting it in a flier like this.' And then, this bright, capable woman, who I know to be ready and able to do great things for our community and nation, said this: 'I don't know why I even went to college; if this is how people treat you, what's the point?'"

Lost iPhone Investigation: Gizmodo Editor Jason Chen's Home Searched And Computers Seized

Search an editors computers and records !!!! Is Jobs off his uber-meds?



...this really tees me off. It's time to cool Apple's jets, and I cheer everyone's efforts to get that done. Apple Jobs is now officially a creep, and as soon as Google gets fully up to speed, I can get away from Grandma Steve's anal retentive Apps Store and out into the runaway App world we all want.



It's amazing how fast Jobs screwed the pooch.
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Lost iPhone Investigation: Gizmodo Editor Jason Chen's Home Searched And Computers Seized

Yeah, pretty high-handed. Jobs needs a haircut, a drop in sales, or to be a punchline in a lame joke.
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The Scientific Method: An Educational Train Wreck?

...couldn't agree more. Good post. Sometimes, when the news media interviews passersby or witnesses to events, they show an America where fat is king, intelligence is a monster, and correct communication skills are the forces of the enemy. How did we get here? What episode of "Dixie Fart Jokes" started all this?
About The Inner Life
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Wall Street Journal Revs Up New York Times Rivalry

Well, I'm partial to those ideas alright, but I have also recently come to believe that a city needs the equivalent of a newspaper - a public record and bulletin board - and one way to achieve that might be to let a controlled, horizontal monopoly of print, radio, internet, and TV, be allowed to compete to become the way to achieve that end; I'd hate to cut off that potential.



But on second thought, you're probably right... off with their heads!
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Wall Street Journal Revs Up New York Times Rivalry

I boycott Dow Jones products automatically, yet there he is, Wrinkle Rupert, still spanking American democracy and stealing our lunch money. Got any better plan...?
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Maud Newton's 'Conversations You Have At Twenty': Narrative Magazine's Friday Feature

you guys... I read further past the feathered hair, and I didn't turn gay! Sure, I'm muy macho, but maybe you'll survive too...!
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Op-Ed Columnist - Fight On, Goldman Sachs! - NYTimes.com

Op-Ed Columnist - Fight On, Goldman Sachs! - NYTimes.com: "“At least in an actual casino, the damage is contained to gamblers,” wrote the financial journalist Roger Lowenstein in The Times Magazine last month. This catastrophe cost the economy eight million jobs."

New Email From Steve Jobs: 'Life Is Fragile'

New Email From Steve Jobs: 'Life Is Fragile': "James wrote to Steve:
Thank you, you're awesome.
I lost my girlfriend on April 23, 2008 from melanoma which spread rapidly to her liver, 48 hours after we found out it spread to her liver she sadly passed away....she was only 24 and I think about her every day. I am so grateful you took time out to do this. My girlfriend and I are from Cupertino, since childhood, and it's really nice to see the hometown hero take time out to do this.
Once again, thank you so much.
Sincerely,
James
A few hours later, Steve wrote back*:
Your most welcome, James. I'm sorry about your girlfriend. Life is fragile.
Steve
Sent from my iPad"

That is an incredible e-mail to Steve Jobs.

Khuzami is the shit - Goldman Sachs is the fan !

Things You Should Know About the GS Case: "Robert Khuzami is a bad ass, no-nonsense, thorough, award winning Prosecutor: This guy is the real deal — he buShould sted terrorist rings, broke up the mob, took down security frauds. He is now the director of SEC enforcement. He is fearless, and was awarded the Attorney General’s Exceptional Service Award (1996), for “extraordinary courage and voluntary risk of life in performing an act resulting in direct benefits to the Department of Justice or the nation.”

When you prosecute mass murderers who use guns and bombs and threaten your life, and you kick their asses anyway, you ain’t afraid of a group of billionaire bankers and their spreadsheets. He is the shit. My advice to anyone on Wall Street in his cross hairs: If you are indicted in a case by Khuzami, do yourself a big favor: Settle."

My allergy to prosecutors is perhaps unfortunate, but it's robust, and deep in my system... but this case really could benefit from the guy that sounds like the real deal.

Climate Bill On Hold After Lindsey Graham Threatens To Withdraw Support Over Immigration

You're right; the dems are trying for a 2 bagger at the expense of an important inning. Maybe it'll work, but I don't think so - repubs won't take lightly to being pushed to the edge on immigration.
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Roman Polanski Extradition Likely In Coming Months, Experts Say

This will be a proud moment when this man - whose family was killed by Hitler; whose wife was killed by Charles Manson; whose unborn child was murdered by a vile cult - is thrown in jail during the final years of his life. Maybe all you sorry creatures are right; maybe he deserves a punishment that even his victim is not asking for, but I don't think so. I think you are trying to murder a cultural enemy.
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Teri Garr - Master of the Silver Lining

Actress Terri Garr Battles Multiple Sclerosis Your America Reader's Digest: "A lifelong performer, Garr was used to fans' applause. But these days, there is a different reward that has nothing to do with Hollywood opening nights. It's ordinary people, some in wheelchairs, waiting to shake her hand. People saying that because of her, their symptoms will no longer get in the way of their dreams. Sometimes, Garr tells them about her mom. Sometimes, she mentions 'EGBOK.' Sometimes, she just squeezes a hand and says, 'Everything's going to be OK.'"

Good article about a distant friend...

Alex Rodriguez Walks On Mound, Infuriates Pitcher (VIDEO)

Good luck with dismissing those unwritten rules.



Baseball is a complex activity, replete with - among other things - emotion, superstition, faith, history and fear, and, without doubt, rules. This is mankind pushed to exquisite form; enjoy the whole thing - drama and all.
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Gov. Jan Brewer Signs Controversial Arizona Immigration Bill: Decision Not 'Made Lightly'

How is it that you cannot understand the humanity of this situation. Unless you're a common housefly you should be able to perceive the obvious - that illegals come here for the jobs they know are waiting for them and that in desperation you would do the same thing for your own survival or the welfare of your family. Go ask Jesus to explain to you and your caustic GOP brethren why everyone belongs here on earth, whether you like it or not.
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Raul Grijalva Gets Death Threats: Arizona Rep's Office To Close After Threats Over Immigration Bill

Raul Grijalva seems to me to be a very bright and wise individual. He knows where he stands and has a complete worldview. Compare that to the wailing idiots in Arizona who refuse to do jack squat about the American twits that employ all these illegal alien workers as cooks, cleaning people, leaf-blower operators, rakers, weed-pullers... supposedly denying these jobs to Real Americans.



How many mushrooms do I have to eat to believe this sh. it?
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Gov. Jan Brewer Signs Controversial Arizona Immigration Bill: Decision Not 'Made Lightly'

Arizonans who hire illegal alien workers should be arrested and jailed immediately. But the cowardly, hypocrites of Arizona's right-wing GOP will never do that. It's much easier to trash the unrepresented and the disenfranchised.
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David Corn: Rev. Graham Deserved To Be Booted From Pentagon Prayer Day

Fun fact!



"Loudmouth libs" can't actually hear throwback sons of preachers - it's some lucky gift from Lord Darwin to progressives everywhere!
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David Corn: Rev. Graham Deserved To Be Booted From Pentagon Prayer Day

He does not inspire me, and I can tell you why.



This Graham is an uninspired pseudo-leader of some vague, generalized Christianity based on nothing more substantial than imagined biblical misdemeanors and misunderstood spirituality. Everything he does seems to confirm this. The Pentagon leaders are right to uninvite the man.
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National Day of Prayer: Franklin Graham Deserved to Be Booted

National Day of Prayer: Franklin Graham Deserved to Be Booted: "In 1999, Dobson's NDP Task Force said that every one of its volunteers 'must be a Christian' with a 'personal relationship with Christ."

"...With a tone of surprise -- or was it indignation? -- in her voice, [Fox morning host Gretchen] Carlson noted that the Pentagon was considering excommunicating Graham from the prayer event. She asked Graham if this signaled "an assault against Christianity, against prayer."

Carlson is deep-dish rightie wind-tunnel.

The Wall Street Crime Wave

William Black Warns That Financial Reform Bill Won't Stop The Wall Street Crime Wave: "'Once you understand the implications of massively fraudulent practices,' said James Galbraith, a progressive economist at the University of Texas, 'it changes the professional community that has the principal say about interpreting the crisis.'

Economists, he said, should move into the background -- and 'criminologists to the forefront.'"

Now there is an adequate perception.

"Criminologists ask 'fundamentally different types of questions' than the ones being asked.

'First we ask: Does this business activity, the way they're conducting it, make any sense for an honest firm? And we see many activities that make no sense for an honest firm.'

One example is the 'liar's loans.' With something like 90 percent of them turning out to be fraudulent, they are not profitable loans to make -- unless you're getting paid based on volume, and unless the idea is to sell them off to someone else."

Yeowee!

Cantor Takes The Hammer To Charlie Crist

Cantor is building a huge pile of something; I don't know exactly what it's going to be, but I'd make a cheap bet that it's just more of his cringeworthy, smarmy attempt at relevance.
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Lindsey Graham Gay? Conservative Group ALIPAC Demands Senator 'Admit Homosexuality'

I don't think it is necessary for me to know the man's sexuality. I assume he has one, and that seems to be normal enough for me. I know many people of my sex who are as different from me as they might be if we were of opposite sexes, but they still seem normal to me. A bit of privacy and mystery seems to be standard practice in life... duh!
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American Car Reputation Moves Ahead Of Asian Autos

Oh my, there is no problem having fun in the hills with a 912; when you hit the flatland, zip around, floor-it, do it all ! Try flooring a 911 on main street... overkill for ticket collectors.



At the same time, 2005+ GTs look almost perfect to me... and if' hot yellow, it's a road god.
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The Craziest Things "Celebrities" Have Ever Said About Obama (PHOTOS)

Yes, and he also has a bad side...



I bet that somewhere in the right-wing woods of The South, there's a stone memorial with carved images of Ted Nugent and Dick Cheney, sitting in their rotting underwear, salting individual forkfuls of fried Vietnamese cat.
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The Craziest Things "Celebrities" Have Ever Said About Obama (PHOTOS)

Ted Nugent - the thing that scares people! Read this man's words, and he's coughed up a bunch of them through the years, and you'll have no doubt that he curls up at the lowest rung on the human ladder; hardly far enough off the ground to be sanitary. Everyone should avoid him in droves, unless you need some exotic campfire starter fuel for your rally - he gets hot fast, and will burn and eat any living thing.
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American Car Reputation Moves Ahead Of Asian Autos

Oh say, did you see my 1967 912 lately? I bet it's still out there - I ran it through the Marin County hills from 1970 to 1985; with the original everything running like a sober road bullet non-stop, you betcha... Bought it with rock money, sold it for what I paid for it. It thrilled every time.
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American Car Reputation Moves Ahead Of Asian Autos

This is a survey of what people 'think' are the best cars, not what 'are' the best cars. Huge difference; one is about a perception, the other about a truth. Sales efforts, and salesmen, maneuver to control perceptions, but truth takes a tad more brainwork.



I believe that the Japanese cars are still the best out there, but I also think it's terrific that GM has the great luck to be selling fine looking cars - just when everyone starts to take a new look.
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American Car Reputation Moves Ahead Of Asian Autos

American Car Reputation Moves Ahead Of Asian Autos: "Among the brand loyalists is Vernon Harmon, 44, a police officer from Rock Hill, S.C., proud owner of a Toyota and a Mazda.

'I know people are going to say, 'That guy, is he not watching the news?'' he said. 'I know what's going on. I still think Japan makes the best cars in the world. Period.'"

School Snapped Photos Of Students 'Half-Dressed,' In Bed Via Webcams, Lawyer Says

So, you find out tomorrow that your bedroom has been video-bugged for months on end, with one picture taken every 15 minutes, and you are not injured. That makes absolutely no sense to me on any level. Is it just me ???
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This Isn't About Wallis vs. Beck -- It's About Biblical Social Justice

Weird sort of mumbo-jumbo, mountain-eerie logic, with a god who so loves dirty tricks and practical jokes.

It would take some Wagner wannabees and a symphony orchestra to make that gibberish seem anywhere near plausible.

This Isn't About Wallis vs. Beck -- It's About Biblical Social Justice

Yes, your point is the most important one in this thread. Thanks.
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Megyn Kelly On Howard Stern: I'd Have Sex With Bill O'Reilly, Kill Glenn Beck

That's one of the cattiest, rudest and most shameful comments I've ever agreed with...
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Mister Nobody

Duke Special and the books that rock - Times Online: "“I was reading The Book of Illusions, about a silent-movie star who led a very colourful life but disappeared at the zenith of his powers in the late 1920s. He leaves behind 12 films and the book describes one of the films in detail, about a man who is given this potion that makes him gradually disappear. I found it a really intriguing scenario. I was in a studio recording a different song, waiting for the engineer to fiddle around, and I started playing around with this concept. A song called Mr Nobody came out. ”" - Iggy Pop

Value-added Features in E-books

The iPad, the Kindle, and the future of books : The New Yorker: "David Rosenthal, the publisher of Simon & Schuster, says that his company is racing “to embed audio and video and other value-added features in e-books. It could be an author discussing his book, or a clip from a movie that touches on the book’s topic.” The other major publishers are working on similar projects, experimenting with music, video from news clips, and animation. Publishers hope that consumers will be willing to pay more for the added features. The iPad, Rosenthal says, “has opened up the possibility that we are no longer dealing with a static book. You have tremendous possibilities.”"

Four Forks

The iPad, the Kindle, and the future of books: "“Bookselling is an eight-inch pie that keeps getting more forks coming into it. For us, the first fork was the chains. The second fork was people reading less. The third fork was Amazon. Now it’s digital downloads.”"

The iPad Saves The Book's Ass

To Save Publishing One Must Kill The Kindle: "Publishing exists in a continual state of forecasting its own demise; at one major house, there is a running joke that the second book published on the Gutenberg press was about the death of the publishing business."

The Vanishing Publishing Paradigm

The iPad, the Kindle, and the future of books: The New Yorker: "Traditionally, publishers have sold books to stores, with the wholesale price for hardcovers set at fifty per cent of the cover price. Authors are paid royalties at a rate of about fifteen per cent of the cover price. On a twenty-six-dollar book, the publisher receives thirteen dollars, out of which it pays all the costs of making the book. The author gets $3.90 in royalties. Bookstores return about forty per cent of the hardcovers they buy; this accounts for $5.20 per book. Another $3 goes to overhead costs and the price of producing and shipping the book—leaving, in the best case, about a dollar of profit per book.

Though this situation is less than ideal, it has persisted, more or less unchanged, for decades."

Pulitzer Winner Mark Fiore's iPhone Cartoon App Rejected Because It 'Ridicules Public Figures'

You can argue till time and times are done, but I'm not interested in anyone else's filters imposed on me without my concurrence. I'm not afraid of myself - I can handle freedom; in fact I insist on it. And, in fact, I have a bit of a problem trusting those who don't feel ready to make their own judgments ...I mean, then who am I talking too ?



But forget all that; suffice to say I am alive and will do what I want. So off I go, and off you go... :)
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'Ground Black People': Cookbook Recipe Typo Forces Reprint

Maybe it was a spell check error, but since the real world is full of those who would be despicably amused by this 'error', these tone-deaf, insensitive comments from the publisher are deliberate idiocy:



"Why anyone would be offended, we don't know." ...and... '"If anyone is small-minded enough to complain about this silly mistake, we will happily replace the book for them.'"



Is this guy trying to be Australia's next "Murdoch the Great" or something? What was heck was he thinking?
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'Ground Black People'

'Ground Black People': Cookbook Recipe Typo Forces Reprint: "The 'Pasta Bible' recipe for spelt tagliatelle with sardines and prosciutto was supposed to call for black pepper.

'We're mortified that this has become an issue of any kind and why anyone would be offended, we don't know,' he told The Sydney Morning Herald for a story printed Saturday.

'We've said to bookstores that if anyone is small-minded enough to complain about this ... silly mistake, we will happily replace (the book) for them.'"

Pulitzer Winner Mark Fiore's iPhone Cartoon App Rejected Because It 'Ridicules Public Figures'

Okay, we'll use your place. Then we'll let freedom ring everywhere else.
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Pulitzer Winner Mark Fiore's iPhone Cartoon App Rejected Because It 'Ridicules Public Figures'

Absurd. Can't you make your own choices?



This is a completely unacceptable practice by Apple - legal, but against my values and, after reading some of your comments elsewhere , I would've thought yours too. My error...
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Pulitzer Winner Mark Fiore's iPhone Cartoon App Rejected Because It 'Ridicules Public Figures'

What is Apple now, a Chinese corporation? If I want my content monitored or censored, I'll pick the pros, not some brilliant oligarch ego-jerk in jeans. Steve's job is to make crap that I want to play with, then STFU and leave the building before I throw something at him.
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Larry King Divorce: No Prenup With Wife Shaun Southwick

Of course that would be prostitution, and I hope to heII it isn't a woman suggesting such a thing... it's a sorry cliché that needs to be ditched; sooner the better.
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