Monday, 30 June, 2008. 04:38:15 PM
Since WWII, Democrats and Republicans have held the White House for roughly equal
amounts of time. Yet, the Republicans have racked up 7 times the amount of debt
that Democrats have.
/n
Monday, 30 June, 2008. 04:08:36 PM
Thomas Edison in 1910:
"When we learn how to store electricity, we will cease being apes ourselves; until then we are tailless orangutans. You see, we should utilize natural forces and thus get all of our power. Sunshine is a form of energy, and the winds and the tides are manifestations of energy."
"Do we use them? Oh, no! We burn up wood and coal, as renters burn up the front fence for fuel. We live like squatters, not as if we owned the property.
/n
Friday, 27 June, 2008. 01:59:45 AM
Welcome all visitors from anti-rice.com. I guess you guys needed a reminder
not to hotlink images. Hopefully you're all enjoying the new image
I put up for you.
/n
Thursday, 26 June, 2008. 03:35:48 PM
We've hit a milestone in renewable energy. For the first time, the
energy output of biofuels has hit 1 exajoule per year. A joule of energy
is approximately enough to lift a small apple 1 meter off the ground,
and an exajoule is 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 joules. The effects of
producing this vast quantity of biofuel energy have disrupted food
markets, and threaten to disrupt water supplies, and contribute to soil
erosion and deforestation.
The scope of the problem that faces us is mostly unknown to the average
person. Biofuels just broke the 1 exajoule mark this year, and it's
already forcing us to make hard choices between fuel and food. The
United States uses more than *100* exajoules of energy in a year, and
the world as a whole uses *500* exajoules.
US Energy consumption table 1 Quad (quadrillion BTU's) is approximately equal to 1 exajoule of energy
What else can help out? Coal? Natural gas? We can't safely burn
the oil we have because of global warming. Coal is going to harm us
in even worse ways because of inefficiencies in converting coal to a
liquid fuel. Natural gas is even more problematic than oil, because the
forecast of the peak is that it will be sharper, and the decline will be
sharper than the peak of oil.
Nuclear? There's peak uranium, an analogue of peak oil to worry about.
The entire world's supply of uranium at current usage is less than 50
years. Hydro? Almost completely exploited at great environmental cost,
producing a measley 2.5 exajoules a year.
What about solar and wind? Currently they account for less than half an
exajoule a year, but we could rely more heavily on them in the future.
The problem is the rate of adoption. Factories are working overtime to
create solar and wind generation capacity, and since 2003 solar power
has creeped up .02 exajoules, and wind power has creeped up only .2
exajoules. That's 5 years of production for such a tiny increase!
We're out of time. The Saudi oil production has peaked, and so has everybody
else's. The current Saudi pledge to increase production made papers this
week. But our memory is short, and we forget the past Saudi increases,
all of which were offset by production declines from their older fields.
Despite 3 production increases that I know of in the past 5 years, Saudi
production has remained fairly constant at just under 10 million barrels
a day. The remaining oil is difficult to extract, and production will
decline yearly into the future. Demand is still growing though, and
since petroleum demand is what economists call "inelastic" the price
will increase by approximately 20% for each percentage point of demand
increase.
The conversation about the high gas prices revolves around conservation
mainly. Everybody wants to trade in their SUV's for small fuel efficient cars.
The idea of a solution is that we just have to turn down the thermostat,
replace incandescent bulbs with CFL's, and other such things.
Our assumption is that the world will continue just as it has. We'll
be driving smaller cars, but we're going to still park our cars in
front of our suburban houses. That assumption is completely wrong. A
lack of energy is something that we can't adapt to, we can't make some
adjustments and accommodations to deal with the problem. The economics
of how we've constructed our entire civilization is turning out to be
unsustainable, and everything is going to have to be re-thought and
rebuilt from scratch.
My grandfather was born in 1905. In that town there might have been at
most one or two automobiles, if there were any at all. People sat on
the backs of animals for transportation. The Wright brothers were still
being secretive about their flying machine, making by that time only a
handful of private demonstrations. Almost every aspect of the modern
world was completely unknown or still relatively rare. I'd be surprised
if there was a telephone located closer to his house than the corner
store. Everybody who lived more than several miles from a city worked
on a farm or in an agricultural support capacity.
By the time my grandfather died in 1993, he had seen unprecedented
change in technology and society. Vast cities were expanding outwards
into the suburbs, and driving 50 or 100 miles to work became common.
Everything was built for easy automobile transportation. The main
streets of cities became multi-lane automobile conduits, and in front of
every store was built a parking lot which dwarfed the businesses they
serviced. The businesses became 300,000 square foot retail warehouses,
with ceilings 30 feet high, completely filled with goods shipped 10,000
miles from China. The act of walking from one giant store to another
giant store directly across the street became unthinkable; traversing
a quarter mile of hot asphalt and multiple lanes of traffic moving 50
miles an hour just wasn't practical. There's not even sidewalks on these
roads because the space was used to add lanes for use by cars.
In the 15 years since my grandfather's death, the situation moved further in
that direction. Bigger stores, bigger parking lots, bigger cars. All production of manufactured goods moved to China and
other cheap-labor nations, and the economy of the US became dependent
on the pattern of consuming our plentiful and vast landscape, building
houses, building roads, building strip malls and parking lots. All of
this was made possible by energy that wasn't free, but so cheap that
common sense became completely distorted.
The point of bringing up the changes in the world that happened in the span of
my Grandfather's lifetime is to provide some context to just how large the
changes that we're starting to see are going to be. Almost nothing
exists of the world my Grandfather was born in. The house he was born
in is most certainly torn down, the foundations now sitting somewhere under
3 inches of asphalt, or perhaps under the slab of a strip mall. The house
he lived in as a grown man and raised his family in, surrounded by maple
trees, is an industrially zoned area now, a busy crossroads in what was a
tiny country town. Nobody even remembers where the bones of the horses
that transported an entire nation on their backs are buried.
Go out and look at the world of 2008 and imagine what good much of it,
or any of it, will be when oil is no longer cheap enough to provide all
the energy we need. Forget manufacturing, forget airlines, forget the
use of petroleum as the basis of nearly all the synthetic materials
which skin the steel armature of every thing around. Just consider the
effects of a scarcity of transportation. Our cities are completely
impractical. We can't walk anywhere in a reasonable time. We're used to
going out in our cars and crossing town three times before lunch, to
do the errands, to buy food, to get to work, to be entertained, to see
other people. We can't even see people that we know without getting our
cars. But all of these places that we go aren't even half of it. We go
to the store to buy stuff, but the stuff we buy has to travel a long
way to be bought. All of this moving around becomes completely impractical
if we can't use cars. Even our public transportation would choke. Imagine
750,000 residents of Austin TX trying to get on the bus all at once.
Whether we like it or not, all of what we've built, and what we are
still incomprehensibly building, is going to be torn down. It's going to
be abandoned, worthless, and impractical. Every last scrap of it is going to
be turned over and renewed, and it's going to happen as fast as any of the
changes of the 20th century happened. It might not even take 50 years. What
if these changes happen in 25 years? Or 15? We aren't choosing to make these
changes now. It's just a consequence of building a society that depended on one
critical ingredient that is declining at the same time that demand is rising.
It can't be stopped now, and it'll happen on its own schedule. We're just along
for the ride.
Right now on the CNN homepage there are articles which illustrate how little
people really understand this problem. Articles about saving pennies on gas.
Articles about getting extra mileage out of a car by driving smoothly. There's
an article about how to get a cheap personal assistant, and right under it
another article about how your backyard could feed the hungry! It's absolutely
insane that we're starting on what could be the biggest economic, social, and
political upheaval any of us have ever seen, and CNN is not pointing out that the
hungry people our backyards might have to feed are you and me.
/n
Monday, 23 June, 2008. 12:55:26 AM
George Carlin is dead.
/n
Thursday, 19 June, 2008. 07:43:56 PM
I don't usually republish press releases, but this one is from a company that is going to be important in the near future. I am hoping that their solar cells are inexpensive enough to install on my own house. In Texas I run the air conditioner 24 hours a day for months at a time, and the sun is usually shining during the hours of peak load. That's a perfect situation for installing a solar generation system fed directly into my house wiring, with no expensive and environmentally unfriendly batteries in the middle.
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Dear Nanosolar friend:
We wanted to let you know of a major milestone in solar energy
technology we have now achieved: The solar industry's first 1GW
production tool.
Yes, that's 1GW of capacity from a single production tool!
You can see it yourself in action in a [1]video we have decided to
release and share with you.
Most production tools in the solar industry tend to have 10-30MW in
annual production capacity. So how is it possible to have a single
tool with Gigawatt throughput?
This feat is fundamentally enabled through the [2]proprietary
nanoparticle ink we have invested so many years developing. It
allows us to deliver efficient solar cells (presently [3]up to more
than 14%) that are simply printed.
Printing is a simple, fast, and robust coating process that in
particular eliminates the need for expensive high-vacuum chambers as
traditionally used to deposit thin films.
Our 1GW CIGS coater cost $1.65 million. At the 100 feet-per-minute
speed shown in the video, that's an astonishing two orders of
magnitude more capital efficient than a high-vacuum process: a
twenty times slower high-vacuum tool would have cost about ten times
as much per tool.
There's still a lot of hard work to be done for us to bring solar
power everywhere. But at this time we wanted to share with you our
excitement about transformational progress happening.
Thank you for your continued support of Nanosolar. While deployment
of our product will focus over the next 12 months on installations
with our wholesale customers (which [4]includes the world's largest
utility), we are looking forward to making our products more broadly
available to everyone in 2009.
Martin Roscheisen
CEO, Nanosolar Inc.
/n
Friday, 13 June, 2008. 08:52:58 PM
/n
Tuesday, 10 June, 2008. 12:53:57 AM
Hillary Clinton's supporters will all come to support Barack Obama because of
his strong record of legislation which address Women's social issues.
ANTI-VIOLENCE
Obama Passed Law to Help Combat Violence Against Women.
Obama co-sponsored a bill that would authorize increased appropriations for FY2006-FY2010 for grants to combat violent crimes against women, revise provisions specifying purposes for grants to include use for under served populations and for forensic medical exams of sex offense victims, increase set aside amounts for grants to Indian tribal governments and U.S. territories and possessions, prohibit law enforcement officers, prosecutors, or other government officials from requiring sex offense victims to submit to a polygraph examination as a condition for proceeding with an investigation or prosecution of a sex offense. The bill would establish a sexual assault services program, directing the Attorney General to make grants to states, territories, and tribal entities for rape crisis centers or other programs and projects to assist those victimized by sexual assault, culturally specific community-based organizations for various services on behalf of sexual assault victims, and state, territorial, and tribal sexual assault coalitions. The bill would also award grants to accredited schools of medicine to develop interdisciplinary training and education programs that provide health professions students with an understanding of, and clinical skills pertinent to, domestic violence, sexual assault, and dating violence. [109th, HR 3402 (S. 1197), Passed by Unanimous Consent, 12/16/05; PL 109-162, 1/5/06]
Obama Passed A Law To Create The Victims Economic Security And Safety Act(VESSA), Which Helps Victims Of Abuse Seek Treatment Without Losing Their Job.
Obama was the chief sponsor and voted to created the Victims' Economic Security and Safety Act. The bill provided that an employee who is a victim of domestic or sexual violence, or who has a family or household member who is a victim of domestic or sexual violence, may take leave from work to address domestic or sexual violence by seeking medical attention or obtaining health or legal services. The Chicago Tribune reported, "But VESSA, as it is known, allows time off for personal issues not covered by the FMLA and is designed to help victims keep their jobs." Obama said he sponsored the bill after being approached by several advocacy group for battered women. "They came to me and indicated how difficult it is for victims of physical and sexual abuse to deal with the repercussions of an assault and then try to balance it with work and everything else." [93rd GA; HB 3486; 3R P 58-0-0, 5/20/03; Signed into law 8/25/03, PA 93-0591; Chicago Tribune, 8/20/03; University Wire, 8/22/03]
Obama Passed Law To Increase Penalties For Repeat Domestic Offenders.
Obama was the chief co-sponsor and voted for House bill providing that domestic battery or a violation of an order of protection is a Class 4 felony if the defendant had a prior conviction for certain enumerated offenses, including first degree murder, aggravated domestic battery, and criminal sexual assault. A person commits stalking if he or she has been previously convicted of stalking another person and knowingly (on one occasion) follows that same person or commits certain threatening acts against that person or that person's family. [92nd GA; HB 4081; 2002; Signed into law 8/22/02, PA 92-0827]
Obama Passed Law To Increase Penalties For Committing Battery In Or Near A Domestic Violence Shelter. Obama was the chief co-sponsor of and voted for bill providing that a person commits aggravated battery if he or she (or the person battered) is in a domestic violence shelter, or if the person battered is within 500 feet going to or from the shelter. [92nd GA, SB 0175, 3/29/01, 3R P; 55-0-0; P.A. 92-0516, 1/1/02; 91st GA, SB 1406, Session Sine Die, 1/9/01]
Obama Passed Law Improving "No Contact" Court Procedures in Domestic Abuse Petitions. Obama helped amend the Civil No Contact Order Act, including simplifying the forms for filing a petition. The law allows for the court to appoint counsel to represent the petitioner if the respondent is represented by counsel and changes what a civil no contact order may contain. [93rd, HB4395, 3R: 57-0-0, 5/5/04; PA 93-0811, 7/26/04]
Obama Passed Law Requiring Clear Language be Included in Emergency Orders of Protection. Obama co-sponsored and helped pass a law that requires the government be specific about the restrictions placed on the recipient of an emergency order of protection. This legislation prevents perpetrators of domestic violence from claiming ignorance of the law. [93rd GA, SB2495, 3R: 57-0-0, 3/25/04; Concurrence: 53-0-0, 5/26/04 PA 93-0944, 8/17/04]
Obama Passed Law Raising Standards Related to Domestic Violence. Obama sponsored a bill and voted to amend the Nursing Home Care Act and the Hospital Licensing Act to require licensees under those Acts to comply with standards relating to domestic violence established by the Joint Committee on Accreditation or other accrediting organizations approved by the Department of Public Health. [91st GA, SB0850, 1999, PA 91-0163, 99-07-16]
PROTECTION AGAINST SEXUAL ASSAULT
Obama Passed The Dru Sjodin National Sex Offender Public Database Act of 2005.
Obama co-sponsored a bill that would require the Attorney General to make publicly available in a registry via the Internet, from information contained in the National Sex Offender Registry or in state sex offender websites, specified information about sexually violent predators and persons convicted of a sexually violent offense or a criminal offense against a minor, who are required to register with a minimally sufficient state sexual offender registration program; and allow registry users to identify offenders who are currently residing within a specified radius of a given location. Requires registry information to include the offender's name, address, date of birth, physical description, and photograph, the nature and date of commission of the offense, and the date on which the offender is released from prison or placed on parole, supervised release, or probation. Linda Walker, Dru Sjodin's mother, said that Dru's Law "is a step in the right direction, but more work needs to be done to protect women and children. 'I think it has to stay in the forefront of our nation's agenda.' she said." [109th, S. 792, Passed by Unanimous Consent, 7/28/05; Referred to House Subcommittee, 9/19/05; Aberdeen American News, 10/6/06]
Obama Passed A Bill To Protect Children From Known Sex Offenders.
Obama co-sponsored a bill to improve the national program to register and monitor individuals who commit crimes against children or sex offenses. The bill would require the Attorney General to maintain a National Sex Offender Registry at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, as well as a National Sex Offender Public Registry. The bill would also require adults or juveniles who are convicted as adults of sexually violent offenses, certain offenses against minors, or other specified crimes (covered individuals) to provide specified information to designated persons in their domicile, work, or school states for the rest of their lives (with specified exceptions). The bill would require such an individual, initially and thereafter as specified, to register with and appear before such designated persons to provide identification, home, work, school, and vehicle information and to have a photograph and fingerprints taken. [109th, S. 1086, Passed by Unanimous Consent, 5/4/06; Held at desk, 5/8/06]
Obama Passed Law Expanding Rights Of Alleged Victims of Sexual Assault.
Obama sponsored a bill and voted to amend the Criminal Code of 1961 to eliminate the 48 hour time requirement after the collection of the sample in which an alleged sexual assault survivor must return to the hospital performing the sample analysis of all controlled substances and alcohol ingested by the alleged victim a signed written authorization in order to have the sample analysis performed. [93rd, HB4771, 2004, Third Reading: 5/19/2004, PA 93-0958 8/20/2004]
Obama Passed A Law To Make Administering A Date Rape Drug Aggravated Battery As Well As An Aggravating Offense To Criminal Sexual Assault.
Obama sponsored a bill and voted to amend the Criminal Code of 1961 to provide that administering a controlled substance to a person without his or her consent for nonmedical purposes constitutes aggravated battery. The bill provided that delivering a controlled substance to a victim without his or her consent as part of the same course of conduct as the commission of criminal sexual assault or criminal sexual abuse is an aggravating circumstance that enhances these offenses to aggravated criminal sexual assault or aggravated criminal sexual abuse. Further amends the Criminal Code of 1961. [90th GA, SB 1224, 3R P 54-0-0, 3/24/98; HA 1 Concur P 55-0-1, 5/20/98; PA 90-0735, 8/11/98]
Obama Passed A Law to Expand the Definitions of "Sex Offender" and "Sex Offense" and Mandate Offender Disclosure.
Obama sponsored a bill and voted to amend the Sex Offender Registration Act to include in the definition of "sex offender" a person who is convicted or adjudicated for a sex offense under the Uniform Code of Military Justice. The bill included in the definition of a "sex offense", a 3rd or subsequent conviction for public indecency or a conviction for custodial sexual misconduct or permitting sexual abuse of a child if these offenses are committed on or after the effective date of this amendatory Act. The bill provided that the sheriff shall disclose sex offender information to the boards of institutions of higher education or other appropriate administrative offices of each non-public institution of higher education located in the county where the sex offender is required to register, resides, or is attending an institution of higher education. [92nd GA, HB 5874, 3R P 55-0-0, 5/7/02; Adopt CC Report P 54-0-1, 5/31/03; PA 92- 0828, 8/22/02]
Obama Passed Law to Require EMS For Sexual Assault Survivors To Include Coverage For Emergency Contraception.
Obama was the chief co-sponsor and voted for adding, as an additional criterion for IDPH approval for a hospital's plan for emergency services for sexual assault survivors, that the plan must provide sufficient protections from the risk of pregnancy by the sexual assault survivor. Bill requires that hospitals providing such services develop and implement protocol that ensures that each sexual assault survivor receives medically and factually accurate information about emergency contraception. [92nd GA; SB 0114; 2001; Signed into law 7/25/01, PA 92-0156]
Obama Passed a Bill Eliminating Good Behavior Time For Sex Offenders.
Obama sponsored and passed a bill to amend the County Jail Good Behavior Allowance Act by stipulating that any convict may not receive time off for good behavior if he has been incarcerated for sexual assault or aggravated sexual abuse. [91st GA, SB 0485, 3/11/99, 3R P; 54-1-2; P.A. 91-0117, 7/15/99; Senate Floor Transcript, 3/11/99, p. 74]
Obama Passed Law to Extend Statute Of Limitations On Certain Sexual Offenses.
Obama was the chief co-sponsor and voted for bill extending the statute of limitations for several criminal sexual offenses, including aggravated criminal sexual assault. [91st GA; HB 0329; 1999; Signed into law 8/11/99, PA 91-0475]
Obama Sponsored Illinois Senate Version Of The Bill That Would Seal Sexual Assault Victim's Records.
Obama sponsored a bill that would amend the Criminal Identification Act to provide that the victim of criminal sexual assault, aggravated criminal sexual assault, predatory criminal sexual assault of a child, criminal sexual abuse, or aggravated criminal sexual abuse, may request that the State's Attorney file a petition with the trial judge to have the court records of the case sealed. The bill provided that, upon order of the court for good cause shown, the records may be made available for public inspection. [91st GA, SB 943, 1999, 3R P 58-0-0, 3/23/99, Total Veto Stands, 11/18/99]
SB 943 Was Amended To Include The Exact Bill Language Of HB 854 Before Obama Signed On As A Sponsor.
Obama was the chief co-sponsor of and voted for SB 943, which would amend the Criminal Identification Act to provide that the victim of criminal sexual assault, aggravated criminal sexual assault, predatory criminal sexual assault of a child, criminal sexual abuse, or aggravated criminal sexual abuse, may request that the State's Attorney file a petition with the trial judge to have the court records of the case sealed. The bill provided that, upon order of the court for good cause shown, the records may be made available for public inspection. Obama signed onto the bill after the original language was amended to include the same language of HB 854. [91st GA, SB 943, 1999, 3R P 58-0-0, 3/23/99, Total Veto Stands, 11/18/99]
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY
Obama Passed Equal Pay Act In Illinois To Give 330,000 More Women Protection From Pay Discrimination.
Obama co-sponsored and voted for the Equal Pay Act which provided that no employer may discriminate between employees on the basis of sex by paying ages solely on the basis of the employee's gender. According to the AP, the "Illinois Equal Pay Act expands the federal Equal Pay Act of 1963 to give about 330,000 more women in the state protection from gender-based discrimination in pay" by applying the law to companies that employee 4 or more people, rather than the federal standard of fifteen. Obama attended the bill signing on Mother's Day of 2003. [93rd GA; SB 0002; 2003; Signed into law, 5/11/03, PA 93-0006; AP, 5/11/03; Chicago Tribune, 5/8/03; Chicago Tribune, 5/12/03]
Obama Passed A Law To Create The Victims Economic Security And Safety Act(VESSA), Which Would Help Victims Of Abuse Seek Treatment Without Losing Their Job.
Obama was the chief sponsor and voted to created the Victims' Economic Security and Safety Act. The bill provided that an employee who is a victim of domestic or sexual violence, or who has a family or household member who is a victim of domestic or sexual violence whose interests are not adverse to the employee, may take leave from work to address domestic or sexual violence by: seeking medical attention for, or recovering from, physical or psychological injuries caused by domestic or sexual violence to the employee or the employee's family or household member; obtaining services from a victim services organization for the employee or the employee's family or household member; obtaining psychological or other counseling for the employee or the employee's family or household member; participating in safety planning, temporarily or permanently relocating, or taking other actions to increase the safety of the employee or the employee's family or household member from future domestic or sexual violence or ensure economic security; or seeking legal assistance or remedies to ensure the health and safety of the employee or the employee's family or household member, including preparing for or participating in any civil or criminal legal proceeding related to or derived from domestic or sexual violence. The Chicago Tribune reported, "But VESSA, as it is known, allows time off for personal issues not covered by the FMLA and is designed to help victims keep their jobs." Obama said he sponsored the bill after being approached by several advocacy group for battered women. "They came to me and indicated how difficult it is for victims of physical and sexual abuse to deal with the repercussions of an assault and then try to balance it with work and everything else." [93rd GA; HB 3486; 3R P 58-0-0, 5/20/03; Signed into law 8/25/03, PA 93-0591; Chicago Tribune, 8/20/03; University Wire, 8/22/03]
Obama Passed Into Law a Requirement that Women And Minority Scientists/Engineers Be Represented And Consulted on Specific Technology and Science Efforts.
In 2007, Obama sponsored an amendment, which became law, to the America Competes Act requiring that minorities and females be represented and consulted during the development of innovation/competitiveness strategies at the National Science and Technology Summit (NSTS), on the President's Council on Innovation and Competitiveness, and elsewhere. [S.Amdts. 923, Agreed to by unanimous consent, 4/25/07; S. 761, Incorporated into H.R. 2272, which became P.L. 110-289, 8/9/07]
Obama Passed Into Law An Amendment Creating A Mentoring Program For Women And Underrepresented Groups At DOE.
In 2007, Obama sponsored an amendment, which became law, to the America Competes Act that established a mentoring program to support women and underrepresented groups as they progress through education programs proposed by the Department of Energy. The amendment was included in the final version of the bill that passed Congress and was signed into law. [S.Amdts. 905, Agreed to by unanimous consent, 4/25/07, S. 761, Incorporated into H.R. 2272, which became P.L. 110-289, 8/9/07]
Source:
http://www.barackoblogger.com/2008/06/barack-obamas-record-on-womens-issues.html
/n
Monday, 09 June, 2008. 02:09:10 AM
This is how to fix the VMware clock. Sometimes the guest operating system
will have a fast clock in VMware. This can be fixed with the following
in the /etc/vmware/config file. The important one is the TSC line. It says
that the CPU frequency is variable, and cannot be relied on as a clock
base.
# try to fix the clock
host.cpukHz = 2200000
hostinfo.noTSC = TRUE
tools.syncTime = TRUE
http://communities.vmware.com/message/7730#7730
/n
Sunday, 08 June, 2008. 08:55:25 PM
I'm sitting in Kneaded Pleasures, a cafe not too far from my house. They have
wireless access provided free by MyTurf Wireless.
The first thing I noticed is that My Turf injects ads into web pages, and they
replace other people's ads as well. My own page has Google ads on the right side,
and it's been replaced with a My Turf hosted ad. Other pages without Google ads have
a bar across the top of the screen that holds ads for every page loaded.
/n
Sunday, 08 June, 2008. 06:09:00 PM
When John McCain went off to war and was taken prisoner, his wife
was at home, waiting for him. She raised their children and also was in a terrible
car accident that took her beauty and nearly took her life.
So, when McCain came back from Vietnam and saw the disfigured woman who was waiting
for him, he dumped her for a new hottie. What a nice guy!
/n
Friday, 06 June, 2008. 02:14:57 PM
What's all this crap I keep hearing about how Hillary Clinton won the popular vote? You'd think that nobody in the news knows how to figure out which number is the bigger number.
/n
Monday, 02 June, 2008. 03:17:57 AM
Fox News is crowing about Michelle Obama supposedly calling white people
"Whitey." Are they lying, or are they merely saying things that they
know are untrue?
Part of a speech she made included the following questions:
Why'd he cut folks off medicaid?
Why'd he let New Orleans drown?
Why'd he do nothing about Jena?
Why'd he put us in Iraq for no reason?
The speech was specifically critical of George Bush and his administration,
so the "he" in the sentences above is referring to George Bush.
Fox News wants you to believe that she's saying "whitey" instead of
"why'd he." Fox News thinks that nobody's going to look up the speech.
Fox News thinks we're stupid. I think they're a bunch of liars.
/n
