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    Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purposeand you allow him to make war at pleasure.

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    Here Is A Bailout Plan That Makes Sense

    Newspapers are dead.  I mean the kind that get ink on your hands.  How do I know newspapers are dead?  Because I started reading newspapers when I was 9 years old.  I loved the NY Herald Tribune.   Unfortunately The Herald shut down a couple of years later and I was forced to become a New York Times reader which was much more dry and boring.  [...]



    YouTube stops account of anti-torture activist

    The video-sharing website YouTube has suspended the account of a prominent Egyptian anti-torture activist who posted videos of what he said was brutal behaviour by some Egyptian policemen, the activist said.

    Wael Abbas said close to 100 images he had sent to YouTube were no longer accessible, including clips depicting purported police brutality, voting irregularities and anti-government demonstrations.

    YouTube, owned by search engine giant Google, did not [...]



    Some tips on viewing video on the web

    Some people don’t know this, so it might be worth sharing…

    If you want to watch a rather longish video on Google Video, YouTube (some people manage to squeak in a half-hour or longer video, despite YouTube’s limit of 10 minutes, believe it or not.) etc.,  the trick is to let it load up for a few minutes before playing it. Almost all popular web-based players [...]



    Candidates@Google

    For anyone that has time to kill, here are over 6 hours of Presidential candidate interviews of 6 of the candidates. Also Gravel has a very “to the point message over at Huffpo” this morning to Obama and Edwards on how to take down Hillary on Iran.

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    Why candidate selection is broken

    For those who were unclear as to how to get to the link provided earlier regarding VaNessa L. Duplessie’s 2005 Life-Pac responses, here’s the full images taken from the Internet’s Wayback Machine:

    Disclaimer: The original image length and width were modified in order to fit the blog formatting width limitations of this site, nothing else has been tampered with.

    I’m sorry, but if this kind of information [...]



    An Open Letter to KATU

    What happened to you KATU?You used to be cool, sort of….I used to look at your website and occasionally your newscast, because I felt that it had – for a mainstream, major network affilliate – fairly balanced spin and a relatively small ratio of fear-mongering to actual news. You would send correspondents to anti-war protests and attempt to talk to all participants – not [...]



    Lifepac endorsed candidate running as a Democrat

    There’s generally a vetting process for when candidates decide to run for office, with the local party doing the heavy lifting with a prospective candidates positions. After some simple Googling of announced 18th Legislative District State Representative candidate Vanessa Duplessie on the Democratic side, we learn the the following:

    8. When is taking the life of a pre-born child through abortion permissible?

    a) To save the [...]



    Sicko: Google to the Rescue

    I just saw Michael Moore's Sicko. It was great seeing it in a crowded theater on a Friday afternoon. Like watching Fahrenheit 911, hearing a whole room full of people gasp in exasperation at some of the movie's more startling revelations made it all the more real. This is an issue that really hits home with all of us, yet gets little real mainstream discussion [...]