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Yesterday, we informed in this space of what was going on behind the scenes with the CEO of Carbonite. CEO David Friend's real actions as recorded in the books of the Federal Election Commission completely rebuked his alleged reasons for dropping Carbonite's sponsorship. His thoroughly documented connection to Ed "The Slut" Schultz, MoveOn.org and other fanatically left-wing smear groups belied his indignant words. This is not the case with Lifelock CEO Todd Davis. What does a peep at Mr. Davis's FEC records show? Why – horrors -- the man has given money to Arizona conservative Republican Congressman Jeff Flake's U.S....

It's time to fight back. To take on Sleep Mattress, Sleep Number, Legal Zoom, Citrix, Quicken Loans, Carbonite and, now that they've caved, Pro-Flowers. And anybody else who wants to play this disgraceful blacklisting game with their customers. To expose the hypocrisy and double standards. To make it crystal clear that that those who sell out our First Amendment rights to far left radicals are in fact going to be actively perceived as collaborating in a deliberate attack on their customers, real and potential. It's time to stand up for free speech. To draw a line in the sand. And...

(Example, from December 2011) "Trying to restore 100Gb+ and the restore keeps dying, and support people hung up me and disconnected from Chat and are totally useless, and software disconnects from service during a restore (based on the log file) and installation gets corrupted and have to un-install and re-install all over again. I have have been trying to restore my data for 1 week straight with a partial success. I finally had to go and restore one sub-directory at a time and do two - three sub-directories until it gets corrupted and have to restart the whole process over!...

................• Carbonite: OK. Now we'll talk Carbonite. And about Mr. McLaughlin of Sleep Number. And two of the co-founders of Legal Zoom. Carbonite's statement was especially and curiously unctuous, its withdrawal of sponsorship coming as it did after Rush's apology. Here is Carbonite's CEO David Friend: ...Now. Carbonite really deserves some special attention...................... MoveOn.org, America Coming Together and Democracy for America, all three listed here as George Soros funded groups, the latter set up by Howard Dean. Texans for Truth also drew Mr. Friend's support. This group, according to Wikipedia, was set up by MoveOn.org spin-off Drive Democracy.org in 2004....

Two can play this game; just canceled my subscription to Carbonite. Mozy (owned by EMC) will get my money.

A double standard exists in the Liberal realm of pseudo-impartiality, and it is on full display with the recent controversy over Conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh’s comments aimed at Sandra Fluke. As a result of Limbaugh’s comments, in which he referred to Ms Fluke as a “slut,” several of his advertisers, including Quicken Loans, and most recently ProFlowers, dropped their advertising on the Rush Limbaugh radio show. Carbonite is an online computer backup service company that Rush Limbaugh has highly touted, reading their ads live on the air. Outcry over Limbaugh’s comments led him to apologize to Sandra...

he Monty Python legend racked up a $5,000+ taxi fare. Currently there are no flights in the area servicing Britain, and Cleese's assistant figured the stranded star could take a taxi to Brussels, then catch the Eurostar train from there back to London. Cleese told Norway's TV2 that necessity drove him to it. "We checked every option but there were no boats and no train tickets available. That's when my fabulous assistant determined the easiest thing would be to take a taxi." The official total was reported to be £3,300 to take a cab from Oslo to Brussels. Cleese, 70,...

Just a few months ago my old computer reached the point where duct tape wouldn't help. My plan of having multiple drives didn't work, 2 out of 3 blew out with the rest of the package.My new computer came with Vista which started showing signs of instability almost right away. I heard Rush talking about Carbonite backup and signed up for the plan. Last Thursday my OS really started going bonkers, nothing I tried would help. System restore would not work at all. Late Saturday I ran a reformat and recovery and got back on line. I only reinstalled the...

Last week, a clever citizen sleuth caught Belkin in the act of hiring people to post bogus five-star reviews for Belkin products on Amazon. And now, no sooner has the world stopped shaking its fist at Belkin than another smoking gun has emerged. > In short, “the review by Swami Kumaresan, rating Carbonite 5 stars, read too much like a testimonial,” he writes. “It turned out that Swami Kumaresan is the Vice President of Marketing for Carbonite. His review gives no indication that he is employed by the company.” >

Has anyone tried the online computer backup system Carbonite? If so, what do you think of it? Doesn't Rush advertise it on his show?

With global energy demand soaring, Saudi Arabia, whose abundant reserves of light oil have supplied the world for decades, is looking to unlock its huge, hard-to-tap and largely unexploited reservoirs of heavy crude. If it succeeds in overcoming the technical hurdles, the effort could significantly increase Saudi Arabia's oil reserves over the next several years, potentially adding some slack to tight energy markets. It would also be a blow to so-called peak-oil theorists who have forecast that world oil production is on the brink of peaking. Crude-oil prices have more than tripled since 2002 as increases in global demand have...