there and back again, a news tale: or how I learned about governmental intrusion and got sent to Gitmo

GOOD NEWS! maybe our freedoms and our country aren't in the toilet after all:
http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/9476.html

don't worry, just go about your little consumerist lives and pay no attention to the man inside your cell phone:
http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/12/can_you_hear_me.html
note to self, install switch to disconnect the mic when not in use
it would be amusing if it wasn't so sinister, Enzyte is fighting for your rights in regard to email and stored communications:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061227-8504.html
I keep wondering why Bush doesn't just go ahead and revoke the Fourth Amendment and start issuing these:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writs_of_assistance
but I guess he doesn't need to when he can just use a signing statement instead:
http://www.wikiprotest.com/index.php?title=Bush_signing_statement_claims_he_can_search_our_mail_without_a_warrant

why imagine the American Dream when you can sell the "cure" for the nightmare?
http://torrentfreak.com/documentary-the-power-of-nightmares/

Ford thought Bush did the wrong thing in invading Iraq:
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/12/27/ford.iraq/index.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/27/AR2006122701558.html
Bush skipped out on most of the funeral, wonder why?
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/061228/world/ford_funeral_1
nice to see that The Gipper got the big sendoff, but he was a good Republican and he gave Papa Bush his big break

war is peace, freedom is slavery, Fox is fairly unbalanced:
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/12/29/fox-civil-war-positive/

truth is dead, attempting to find it is treason, go back to your regularly scheduled programming citizen:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/roberts/roberts190.html
liberal media or political Xerox? how do you find out what the truth really is?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ygb5uyPZBkg

Bush has Saddam's gun in his desk:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,644112,00.html
I bet he has the hanging video on his cell phone too, I bet that would make a sinister, but amusing, Amp Mobile ad

follow the money, it never lies, who has profited from the "War on Terror"?
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20061226_robert_scheer_ike_was_right/

speaking of money, a bad trend is when yours stops being used:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061231/ap_on_bi_ge/europe_widespread_euro_1

Jesus told me the Grand Canyon was only 230 years old because that's when God's country was made:
http://www.peer.org/news/news_id.php?row_id=801
what a load of crap, how far are we going to let this go?  I guess I better stock up on leeches and keep my humours in check because that devil science can't be trusted!

hmmm, lawyer gets entangled with The Administration, now he has committed "suicide" to the bewilderment of everyone who knew him:
http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/news/16326502.htm

and just to be fair on both sides and maintain my "journalistic integrity" something stupid about the Democrats, they're really pushing for cleaning up Congress...except campaign finance reform.  remember kids, you can refuse to eat at the trough as often but you can't bite the hand that feeds you:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/01/04/the_skinny/main2329383.shtml

hahahhahahahahaaha, oh man, what's more funny than conservatives snuggling with boys? drug-addicted, tripping Chief Justices, that's what!
http://www.cnn.com/2007/LAW/01/04/rehnquist.files.ap/index.html?rss

way to go Murtha! no more troops for you Mr. Bush:
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/01/04/murtha-troop-escalation/

Alternatives
hmmmm....NORWAY HAS WMDs!! we better invade!
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/10/th_solves_globa_1.php
a development in alternative energy I've reported on before but it's good to see it in the press again, biodiesel from algae:
http://news.com.com/Want+alternative+energy+Try+pond+scum/2100-11386_3-6145197.html?tag=nefd.lede
Vegas bets on some alternative energy of its own:
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/12/las_vegas_does_1.php
making electricity out of all the hot air in California:
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/12/1500_megawatt_w.php
a handy dandy way to liquefy diamonds...oh yea and it might be useful for nuclear fusion too:
http://www.zpenergy.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2103

Teh Funnies and the Assorted BS
torturing virtual characters for science, I did this years ago, its called "The Sims":
http://science.slashdot.org/science/06/12/27/1627247.shtml

guess what guys, they finally found a cure for women's headaches:
http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/content/dec2006/db20061228_315249.htm
but maybe they don't need help:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2006600199,00.html

we're killing the oceans, but don't worry it'll probably be decades before it screws us:
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/oceans/la-oceans-series,0,7842752.special

who needs space when you have iPods and MTV?
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/space/12/28/space.youth.apathy.ap/index.html

could you kill another person? and how would you feel about it?
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/heart/themes/prep.html

do no evil?  but who defines what is "evil"?
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/12/27/google_disappears_se.html

look, God, we've had some good times, but I've found someone new and the internet understands me and isn't so hellfire and brimstone, I hope you understand, can we still be friends?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,,1980978,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=1

learn how to think like me, it might help you decide on what to have for dinner tonight:
http://www.studygs.net/genius.htm
yeah I know its not modest to say that, but so what? you wanna fight about it?

a breakdown of where the money goes for Christmas and other Xmas facts:
http://christmasspirit.wordpress.com/2006/12/19/counting-on-christmas-statistics/
more donations for religion than education...hmmm, mucho interestante

the supersonic plane is back from the dead:
http://www.defencetalk.com/news/publish/airforce/Supersonic_Combustion_for_a_Hypersonic_Space_Plane10009677.php

dude, we need to score some Avon, I hear that shit is the bomb:
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AK_DELIVERY_MISTAKE_AKOL-?SITE=VARIT&SECTION=US&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2006-12-26-18-09-29

ok the doctors are optimistic about a happy life for Barbaro. well I damn well hope so! he's going to be put up in a posh stable and is going to get laid constantly!
http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/story?id=2765815

youtube vid o' the day:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHzdsFiBbFc

and now a quote from a great and funny man...a dead funny man, Bill Hicks:
I have this feeling man, 'cause you know, it's just a handful of people who run everything, you know … that's true, it's provable. It's not … I'm not a fucking conspiracy nut, it's provable. A handful, a very small elite, run and own these corporations, which include the mainstream media. I have this feeling that whoever's elected president, like Clinton was, no matter what you promise on the campaign trail – blah, blah, blah – when you win, you go into this smoke-filled room with the twelve industrialist capitalist scum-fucks who got you in there. And you're in this smokey room, and this little film screen comes down … and a big guy with a cigar goes, "Roll the film." And it's a shot of the Kennedy assasination from an angle you've never seen before … that looks suspiciously like it's from the grassy knoll. And then the screen goes up and the lights come up, and they go to the new president, "Any questions?" "Er, just what my agenda is." "First we bomb Baghdad." "You got it …"

last and not least, the Daily Schadenfreude:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070102/od_afp/safricacaveobese_070102115418
now I know its not kosher to make fun of the fat peoples but she was warned and she brought it on herself

the beginning of the end, the death of the "great experiment in self-government"

Habeas Corpus has been suspended, welcome back to the Inquisition, confess and receive your salvation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aeCc_UYLM8
but the government protects your rights, right? I bet this guy thought they would too:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDXlCWzbthU
however, don't worry, they're not going to kill you, a short stint in Room 101 will cure what ails you:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aer9Gu8H7Cc
I might have to check that out, conspiracy theories are fun but I always like to check the facts before I'll believe it.  I should probably hurry up and check it out before Bush and Co. brand me as a seditionist and I disappe























and its official, The Administration's decisions have resulted in more American deaths than al Qaeda's:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061226/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

UPDATE: the other day I put this link in the email about a Times article being censored by the White House, here's what they censored:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/22/opinion/22precede.html
I truly believe that the internet may become the last refuge of the truth and even it is under attack by both the government and the companies that run it.  history will tell if we can defend our rights and the truth, but then again if the forces of power and control win, we may never know these things ever existed
here's some more proof about our 1984 direction:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/04/19/trial_by_cctv_claims_innocent/
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=avL4PSqZrcj4&refer=home

did you know that "It's a Wonderful Life" is communist propaganda?  that's what the government says and don't they always know best?
http://www.wisebread.com/fbi-considered-its-a-wonderful-life-communist-propaganda

why we may not have to worry about Iran:
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/12/25/iran.oil.ap/index.html?eref=rss_topstories

Biden wants honesty from Bush, perhaps he needs to ask Moses how to get water from a rock:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11442717/
also he'll fight him on sending more troops into Iraq:
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/12/26/america/NA_GEN_US_Senate_Foreign_Relations.php

and now for something hilarious from the insurgents, if we leave Iraq within a month and leave our weapons behind, they will allow us to leave peacefully:
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/12/22/iraq.main/index.html?eref=rss_topstories

25 quotes to ponder for a new year:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/12/24/73147/897
I like 11 and 1 but 4 is what I live by and is the inspiration for what I do
and here are a few more:
*He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach himself.
*It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.
*That government is best which governs least.
Thomas Paine

the lighter side of news for darker times

get ready for the future, it is indeed lighter:
http://www.newscientisttech.com/article.ns?id=dn10851&feedId=online-news_rss20

an electric sport-utility truck that does 95mph, 0-60 in less than 10 sec, AND completely charges in 10 MINUTES:
http://phoenixmotorcars.com/models/fleet.html
currently it has a 130 mile range with a 250 mile version in the works, HALLELUJAH!!
and here is another reason to be excited:
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/12/plugin_hybrids_2.php
can termites save us from the energy crisis?
http://www.physorg.com/news3700.html

for all of you that know me personally all I have to say is neener neener neener, my mess makes me smarter:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/21/garden/21mess.html?_r=1&em&ex=1167109200&en=9f7fc45bca81bd36&ei=5087%0A&oref=slogin
and so do my videogames:
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/061223/technology/technology_brains_video_games_1

ELEVATORS IN SPAAAAAACE:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2UZDHHDhog

a pen that uses no ink and will never be used up in your lifetime:
http://www.grand-illusions.com/acatalog/info_48.html

1up.com doles out the Xmas gifts for the gaming industry:
http://www.1up.com/do/feature?cId=3156060

two heads may be better than one, but I don't know what to make of this:
http://www.theliberalblogger.com/forum/f2/woman-has-ability-double-her-pleasure-1643/#4912

privacy is dead and we killed it:
http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=7499

actions have consequences, here's the reason why you shouldn't commit rape:
http://forum.autocareforum.com/forum.src?Action=Posts&Subject=11234&Topic=34
the faint of heart need not click

proof that Cheech and Chong could time-travel:
http://english.people.com.cn/200612/23/eng20061223_335258.html

welcome to the WiiHome, where Wii takes over your whole life:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beZC2gpFN7I
http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/video-wii-media-center-x

and to complement the quotes in the serious email here's some dumb ones from people in 2006:
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72320-0.html?tw=wn_index_3

The Daily Schadenfreude, served well chilled:
http://wcco.com/topstories/local_story_360132351.html

Wiitastic

just got the internet browser for the Wii and thought I'd post a "quick" hello. they are really going to have to put out a keyboard for this damn thing, right now you have to use the onscreen keyboard with the wiimote, which is madding. but I luvs it :)

whats more fun than a mindbogglingly huge debt? the news you might not be able to pay it back!

out of the gate today we'll examine the fact that we're boned...completely, utterly boned and here's why:
http://financialsense.com/fsu/editorials/martenson/2006/1217.html
"Despite improvement in both the fiscal year 2006 reported net operating cost and the cash-based budget deficit, the U.S. government's total reported liabilities, net social insurance commitments, and other fiscal exposures continue to grow and now total approximately $50 trillion, representing approximately four times the Nation's total output (GDP) in fiscal year 2006, up from about $20 trillion, or two times GDP in fiscal year 2000."
wow, I wonder, what could have possibly happened between 2000 and 2006? <strokes chin and muses> "gee, that's a tough one mister, can I still have $50 so I can buy an apple core for my family?  and if you have a stack of ones on you we could really use that for our fire."  and if that isn't bad enough, oil is now starting the trend to be traded on the euro instead of the dollar. I can't begin to tell you how bad this can become, but here's a primer.
simple solution? kill the old people and nuke the banks carrying our debt.  PROBLEM SOLVED! :D

this I found interesting and important enough to put close to the top:
http://craigsnumber.com/
A FREE, ANONYMOUS internet phone number that forwards to your phone of choice, VIVA LA INFORMATION REVOLUTION!!

HOLY...FREAKING...CRAP  this is a new low for The Administration, if you've been mentally fucked up by governmental torture (which we don't do, but just saying if it did happen) then your testimony about said alleged torture is unacceptable in court because you're mentally incompetent:
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/12/18/tennessee_terrorist/index.html
ladies and gentlemen, this is endgame, I can give you no greater example of 1984 draconian ideology than that

oh First Amendment, what a pesky little bugger you are, you're either too strong or not strong enough:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2006-09-17-amendments_x.htm
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/18/nyregion/18kearny.html?ex=1324098000&en=87af8b74af1e13cc&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss

Pelosi plans to peek at pesky political purses:
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=18510
proof the Dems aren't all they're cracked up to be, in case you forgot they're politicians too

North Korean demands for disarming their nukes:
http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/provider/providerarticle.aspx?feed=FT&Date=20061219&ID=6282798
my favorite? number 57: we demand Teresa Heinz Kerry because she's so saucy

the best way to deal with criticism? don't let those bastards say it in the first place:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfGINEWO_2I

the top 10 stories of 2006 I would have gotten to eventually:
http://web0.foreignpolicy.com/story/3652_0.html
wait, does this count? yes? awesome, I covered everything this year!

remember kids, you don't want to be an "enemy combatant" in custody of the US:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig7/greenwald3.html

foreign policy, founding father style:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul356.html

cigarettes cause global warming...wait, no, I read that wrong.  what do global warming and cigarettes have in common?  according to people that profit from them, neither will kill you:
http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/video_player.html?denial

bye bye science, we hardly knew ye:
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/06/12/16/1532244.shtml
but the scientists will fight the power:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6178213.stm

here we have possibly the best definition of irony I've seen lately:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6626823

how do you settle differences in the 21st century? with Wii of course!
http://www.thelastboss.com/post.phtml?pk=1660

when jumping into a shark tank with steaks strapped to you isn't enough:
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1722000

internet? cable TV? phone service?  AT&T says "yes-no/no-yes" and asks if the FCC can define "is"
http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/u-verse.ars

now you see me, but soon you won't:
http://www.newscientisttech.com/article/dn10816.html

BALLOON!
http://www.eaa.org/communications/eaanews/061214_blimp.html

makes you think twice about that McDonald's ranch burger doesn't it?
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/1218062castro1.html
and speaking of white goo, did you know that mayonnaise demostrates quantum mechanics?
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap061217.html

and the Daily Schadenfreude:
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1717965

'tis the season to be jolly for news

well GAWDDARNIT! its like a bad dream that keeps getting worse:
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Senator_Tim_Johnson_reportedly_suffers_stroke_1213.html

hydrogen economy set to crash and burn, Herb Morrison unavailable for comment:
http://www.physorg.com/news85074285.html
I honestly want to know who's bright idea it was to propose an entire infrastructure centered around an element that doesn't occur naturally on Earth. I've got a better idea, if we start producing pixie dust we could just fly around instead of all this driving nonsense. Actually I guess that suggestion starts to break down around the Happy Thought phase of implementation because we have a shortage of that resource these days...

OH NOES!!1 NEW LAWZ ENDANGER SUVz IN KALI!!1one
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/11/28/GREENHOUSE.TMP
OH TEH HUMAN1TYZ!!1
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15935111/
I'm going to take this one a bit further and break it down.
"If we lost (in court)," said Dave Barthmuss, General Motors' spokesman for environmental and energy affairs, "certain vehicles could not be offered for sale -- vehicles that consume more fuel than others. There would be fewer SUVs and we might not be able to offer them for sale in California. It could spell the end of the big SUV in California."
BOOHOO, somebody call a Prius whaaambulence for these bastards. I've said it before, and I'll say it again, a 90lbs housewife does not need a Sherman tank to drop the kids off at soccer practice. In an era of record-high energy prices were said energy comes from the most volatile and dangerous areas of the world we have automakers crying about the end of their grotesque, wasteful creations. It's like Nero bitching that his violin is out of tune. This next quote illustrates the point nicely:
G.M.'s Barthmuss said the efforts by California and the 11 other states to be able to limit greenhouse gas emissions "is really a state attempt to try to regulate fuel economy, because the way you reduce greenhouse gases is to reduce the amount of fuel you burn." Fuel economy regulation, Barthmuss said, is the responsibility of the federal government and should be handled only by the federal government.
OK, so here we have an admission that a) SUVs are greenhouse gas spewing monstrosities and b) they have sucky fuel economy. Then he cleverly defers to "the government" as the arbiter of standards as if to imply that all California is seeking is more power and a chance to further interfere in the lives of the average American. "Damn west coast liberals!" mutters Barthmuss as he cuts the check to Universal Studios for the nice product placement in Miami Vice 3: Operation Smoke-a-Cuban. But sadly his statement fails to hold water because "the government" is going to do nothing about fuel standards for two reasons; 1) the federal government's impotence when it comes to enacting forward thinking but politically risky strategies and 2) this government is in the pocket of the American automakers and their bedfellows Big Oil. So leave it to California to once again blaze a path into the future, but watch out because they may force you to have cleaner air and lower your energy consumption.

here's what Bush will do about Iraq, or might do, or in some theories of multiverse physics has already done:
http://www.themoderatevoice.com/posts/chain_1164386997.shtml
Bush compares Iraq to Vietnam, which I hardly think he's qualified to do since he only saw Vietnam for the first time a couple of weeks ago:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/11/22/opinion/main2205512.shtml
ah ok, its those crazy al Qaeda boys at it again. whew, I was worried this was a civil war:
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/11/28/europe/web.1128prexy.php

wiretaps, good, bad, whats the difference? it won't stop for another two years anyway:
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/11/24/news/NSA.php
late to the party as usual, the government will investigate the spying program, way to be on the ball guys:
http://www.forbes.com/business/manufacturing/feeds/ap/2006/11/27/ap3207168.html

oil prices hurt Indian economy, we're next:
http://www.business-standard.com/common/storypage.php?leftnm=lmnu2&subLeft=1&autono=266042&tab=r

"let's get out of here!" says NATO
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article2018685.ece

the image of our generation, ladies and gentlemen, I present Generic Fat Kid:
http://www.local6.com/health/10524511/detail.html?rss=orlpn&psp=news#
seriously, this kid's picture gets used for every fat story, if I were him I'd sue for either compensation or emotional distress...or both, it is America after all. then he can use the money for liposuction, stomach stapling, and getting a sponsorship from Subway

so, he's from Alabama, he currently has my last name, and he's auctioning renaming himself, NO RELATION:
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061213/NATION/612130437/1020/NATION
ok ok ok, its me, I needed the money

Harry Potter teaches kids about the Devil and it needs to be pulled from shelves:
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/12/12/america/NA_GEN_US_Harry_Potter_Protest.php
while you're at it, get rid of those pesky reference books like the encyclopedia and useless things like the internet because kids might find pagan stuff there too. just keep the kids locked inside watching Veggie Tales on repeat, that'll save their precious little souls

incoming!
http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/24/more-wiimote-related-damage-just-in-time-for-the-holidays/
Wiiiiiiiii-oooowww!

solar madness:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15931847/

this guy is great, he's freakin hillarious:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aibKW_1HV-c
and everything you need to know about "that time of the month":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCwKbUVyHLY

you can't leave me, I'm pregnant, or why the Mitten State sucks:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,236144,00.html
and now, some good news, yet another male birth control option is around the corner, the tyranny of the uterus is ended! long live the penis!
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15937201/

finally the link du jour, the Daily Schadenfreude:
http://www.11alive.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=89004
and a penis joke for the road:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2006570530,00.html

OMG LOLZ!!1 U ROXXORZ TEH INTERWEB NEWZ!!1one

so much for "with us or the terrorists", Iran gets a great deal on air defense missile systems from Russia:
http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/11/24/russia.iran.reut/index.html

see? the democrats won and now more babies will die, ergo, the terrorists won:
http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_4714291

another reason to consider the land of the north for your next home:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15871644/
now that's what I'm talkin aboot
and coming in at number 9 on the democracy scale, not the US:
http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1543571.ece
unfortunately I think they send dodgers back these days:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,231758,00.html

ok, when I watch this commercial, I envision a guy fleeing the oncoming horde before succumbing to the onslaught:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1v5-MKWxxU
I'll take a quick moment to comment on another interesting internet trend.  apparently now you can post a video response to videos you view on youtube.  it began with this simple, slightly amusing video of a pug spinning around imitating a blender:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9l19D2sIHI
cute, right? but this is just the start of a weird journey into the minds of people on the internet.  now we have the chance to see what the twisted minds of the people who viewed this clip came up with.  first we have the subtle, witty response from muttley, who assures us its really him:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SB6VjbyNjaQ
I don't know why an Iraqi insurgent was watching a pug dance, but I dig his humor
next we have...well I don't know what this is, you just have to watch for yourself:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmJ9mxPHG8c
this is what the internet is going to do to us all, we're all going to go insane.  I'm just glad I got a head start :)

suck it verizon/t-mobile/cingular:
http://www.theregister.com/2006/11/23/congress_dmca_cellphones_censorware/

not getting lucky often enough? blame the pilgrims:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15754563/
"yeah we really only have one rule around here in Plymouth, if its fun, its probably a sin"
and here's some advice to getting the other luck:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3335275.stm

your whole wheat bread just got alot healthier:
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/11/24/BAG4JMJ6EK1.DTL

come, let us look into the future...all the way to the year 2000:
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/opinion/science-forecasts/dn10580
where's my flying car?!?

if you loved the idiot breaking the sword on the shopping network, get ready for his encore with a Dell computer:
http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/video-dont-shop-at-home
ONE HUNDRED TWENTY EIGHT!!

Mmmmmmm, cotton tshirts....
http://houston.bizjournals.com/houston/stories/2006/11/20/daily19.html

the evolution up to the Revolution:
http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/video-the-evolution-of-video-games

your wi-fi laptop is giving you cancer...head cancer:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,591-2461748,00.html

MUST...HAVE...
http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/samsung-sph-p9000-live-shots

free speech in high school? obviously this kid is living in Dreamland:
http://www.ntnews.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,7034,20818124%5E13569,00.html

the Russians were obviously overcompensating for something here:
http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/video-a-look-back-worlds-most-powerful-nuclear-weapon

The Daily Schadenfreude:
http://cbs3.com/topstories/local_story_328141923.html

in Soviet Russia, news reads you!

Good Morning Mr. President, would you like some OJ with your humble pie?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/11/09/MNG1LM8VRV1.DTL
and for clarification, and an illustration of modern American politics, here's Bush's statements pre-election:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/30/AR2006103000530.html
way to cave in, sir.  I haven't seen a cave in like that since those coal mining accidents.
and its Webb with the breakaway for the win:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6463396
the Chinese weigh in with their thoughts:
http://watchingamerica.com/peoplesdaily000044.shtml
and the rest of the world gives its two cents, thus depriving starving children of their daily meal:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6200318,00.html

this in from Iraq, the health minister says that over 150,000 Iraqis have died since the war's start, about three times more than the Administration has claimed:
http://news.bostonherald.com/international/view.bg?articleid=166517
its still shy of that 655,000 that The Lancet claimed but way more than the "official" count, as they often say, the truth is somewhere in the middle

turning to other subjects, can the Dems save the internet?
http://news.com.com/What+the+Democrats+win+means+for+tech/2100-1028_3-6133833.html
rumor has it they will call on their greatest champion to save his greatest invention thus saving the world from global warming due to lack of porn and free music
America's broadband sucks, its too expensive and too slow:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/07/AR2006110701230.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns
http://blogs.zdnet.com/ITFacts/?p=11906
and if you needed any absolute example of how copyright law has gotten out of hand, here it is:
http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/national/news/20061109p2a00m0na018000c.html

we bring it on ourselves, first we build a world-wide network of computers with increasing amounts of A.I., then we build robot ninjas that look exact like us, now we've let them know what we taste like...this can only end well:
http://blog.wired.com/tableofmalcontents/2006/11/robot_identifie.html?rss
and from this comes the YouTube vid o' the day:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAAIs6TUmDg

if you've ever wanted to download anything from a new golf club to a VW Golf, MIT has the device for you:
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/11/13/8393124/index.htm

do you like beer? do you like to travel? then this link's for you!
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15642039/

talk about your crappy alternative energy, poo to power procurator's place:
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/S/SEWER_POWER?SITE=WHIZ&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

alright, this is getting ridiculous, we didn't have hot teachers sexing us up in high school and these bastards don't deserve it either:
http://www.kgw.com/news-local/stories/kgw_110906_news_rainier_teacher_student_sex_.1ea1e06a.html
http://www.9news.com/acm_news.aspx?OSGNAME=KUSA&IKOBJECTID=cb5f8486-0abe-421a-0026-f550d1640811&TEMPLATEID=0c76dce6-ac1f-02d8-0047-c589c01ca7bf

Ooo ugg ahh ooOOooga mmmaaa grrrr rrrrAAAA!!
http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/15965066.htm

a horse is a horse, of course, of course, unless its a burger:
http://www.reason.com/news/show/116591.html
remember kids, we only eat dumb, uncute things in God's Country

road trip!
http://www.wcpo.com/news/2006/local/11/09/thursdays.html

Oh my god! WATCH OUT FOR THE FALLING PRICES!!
http://money.cnn.com/2006/11/09/news/companies/walmart_blackfriday/index.htm?postversion=2006110912
and don't worry Christian shoppers, in addition to low prices you now get a "Merry Christmas" too:
http://money.cnn.com/2006/11/09/news/companies/walmart_christmas/index.htm

yeah so I've seen 11 out of 16...what of it?  best worst movies ever:
http://www.maximonline.com/slideshows/index.aspx?imgCollectId=130&src=mx194
my absolute favorite still has to be J.Lo firing that bolt action rifle several times without reloading
and the best line from the article "In fact, stand up in your cubicle right now and shout "Who is the master?" Anyone who doesn't answer "Sho' nuff!" is someone you never need to speak to again."

what email would be complete without the Daily Schadenfreude?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15643614/

roll that beautiful news footage!

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my country tis of thee, sweet land of liberty...or so it seems (remember remember Nov 5)

Greetings and salutations my fellow Americans, I find my timing for this latest installment to be appropriate for many reasons.  First, today is the election.  Second, I just re-re-re-watched V for Vendetta and have been motivated to go out and attempt to make a difference in the world.  This email won't be my usual well organized fluff but a few of these links may give some insight into our world of today.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=uS75tSPpV7A  good bye democracy

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/11/04/rumsfeld.departure/  I'll have two Rumsfields to go

http://sianews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3023   trapped in America

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/5303590.stm  economy sucks

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6113978.stm  economy good?

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/politics/4310060.html  don't ask, don't tell, don't collect $200
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-11-04T044513Z_01_N03442495_RTRUKOC_0_US-SECURITY-PRISONS.xml&WTmodLoc=NewsHome-C1-topNews-5

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/11/02/kerry.photo/  joke's on kerry

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/468715p-394420c.html

http://www.dailycolonial.com/go.dc?p=3&s=3378

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/custom/newsroom/chi-061106bush,1,207137.story?coll=chi-news-hed

Whoever you choose to vote for today will be your own decision.  I'm not going to advocate any particular candidate or ideology.  I only ask that you consider both where we've been and where we're going.  Honestly look at the issues and the positions offered.  Follow your heart and do the best thing possible for our nation.  Don't be lead by the rhetoric of either side, choose your own path.  Only by shedding our apathy can we hope to salvage our freedom and our future.  Godspeed and good luck.

~Joseph