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I just took a look at their front page, loathe as I am to boosting their ad. revenues. It looks quite unusually dismal, I must say. I wish I'd written down some of their headlines, but suffice it to say, they're not crowing.

I'm given some thought to starting a Minnesota PING list. Right now, I envision it would be a fairly moderate PING list - not in politics, but in the number of PINGs you're likely to receive. If you're interested in being on the Minnesota PING List, let me know.

It's been a long time coming, but Windows Vista Release Candidate 1 is finally here. As Microsoft starts to collect feedback from a broad spectrum of users in one of its largest test programs ever, the company will soon be in a position to decide whether the product is solid enough to meet announced ship dates of November for enterprise customers and January 2007 for consumers. Earlier this week, I started using Vista build 5568, a version that Microsoft says should be virtually indistinguishable from the actual RC1 code. Since recent Vista revisions have been focusing on improving performance, compatibility,...

Guys this is going to take the cake. About 10 days ago at work one of my coworkers was typing away listening to Sean on his radio. (we get it on tape delay) The supervisor walked by and noted the station that showed up on the digital display. He berated him for listening to Sean because he is an evil conservative whack job and it offends people around him. Note he had headphones on so nobody could hear his radio. And in an office where the leader has a radio on at all times low that we can hear but...

For those of us in Central New Hampshire, Live Free or Die, for you in the slave states, I seem to have noticed a lot of water coming down. I need a refresher in building an Ark, I slept through that in my Bible class.

I read recently that Citgo (I think) is basically Iranian owned... or perhaps Venezuelan. I know that other gas stations are owned or supplied by other countries. Are there gas stations that I can gas up at with an eased conscience? That are supplied mostly by domestic sources even!!! Anybody knowledgeable on this subject? Of course there is.

MAMARONECK, New York -- Phil Mickelson's bid for a third consecutive major ended with a shocking collapse when he bungled his way to a double bogey on the final hole to give the U.S. Open to Geoff Ogilvy. Mickelson tied for second after losing a two-shot lead on the final three holes. Mickelson was on the verge of joining Tiger Woods as the only players over the last 50 years with three straight majors. Mickelson said losing this one "hurts any more than any tournament because I had it won.'' But the old Phil took over. He was wild off...

BEHIND nearly every good bar fight is a beautiful woman - and the epic nightclub clash between Axl Rose and Tommy Hilfiger is no exception. While some say Hilfiger popped Rose in the eye after the Guns N' Roses frontman moved Hilfiger's girlfriend's drink at The Plumm last Thursday night, Page Six has learned that the combatants have been at odds since Rose started dating Diane O'Connor, the ex-wife of Hilfiger's adopted brother, denim designer Michael H. One source even went so far as to claim that the Hilfiger brothers had made a "pact" to pummel Rose on sight. While...

I'm thinking this guy is going to be the one ala Nixon after JFK. Who will be his running mate?

/sarcasm... (but I got you to look) I saw this thread on DU and felt compelled to respond to it, http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1154762#1155046 but since I dont have an account there, my response is posted here. I am confident they will find it as my challenge earlier in the week was posted there with a few minutes. The following is the DUmmie's original post: Yesterday I heard Sean Hannity ask this question. 'Why don't people see that the economy is doing well?' Well, here's why Sean. Then Under Clinton (before YOUR President) the economy was thriving and most people were making lots...

(PADUCAH, Ky.) -- A teacher in western Kentucky has been suspended and will not have her contract renewed after administrators found out she appeared in an adult movie more than a decade ago. Tericka Dye, a science teacher and volleyball coach at Reidland High School in Paducah for the last two years, was suspended Wednesday and told she would not return to the classroom in the fall. "Your presence in the classroom would cause a disruption to the educational process," McCracken County Schools Superintendent Tim Heller wrote in a letter to Dye. "I fear there would be less than a...

Do you agree with Pope Benedict XVI that a lack of true love is behind the growth in broken marriages and falling birth rates in much of the developed world? Yes No

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I've always read and heard that Republicans get more campaign contributions from individual contributors and small donors than Democrats, and Democrats get more large contributions from corporations and fat cat donors than Republicans, but now I'm looking for sources. I've searched Free Republic and the internet and so far haven't found anything definitive. Can anyone help? Thanks in advance! Jesse

The producers of "Get Rich or Die Tryin" are trying to figure out why fans are not flocking to their movie. Is it price of the ticket? Is it the publicity of a person getting shot at a showing? Is it because 50cent really has now fans? I have the answer. Teens are finally embracing parental values and this movie offers none of it! Thank you.

Just my take We should hate Perot more each day. As we all know Bush would have won in 1992 had it not been for Perot. Aside from the horrible presidency of Clinton, he reshaped politics. Clintons win allowed the Democrats to solidify some blue states allowed the Dems to make some states blue. For example NJ, CA, IL, WA, OR were all Republican states until Clinton. Even areas in NY like Westchester and Long Island were all Republican but have become dem because of Clinton. Clintons presidency took away some states from us and we can all point our...

OK, hopeless vanity. Did a thread like this a while back and it didn't last long. Fantasy News Headlines from the future:

Let's avoid kidding ourselves, shall we? Democrats aren't going to defeat Miers. They know the only liberal under consideration was Alberto Gonzales, the guy they used to argue that maybe Hussein wasn't so bad, as if a few humiliating photographs compared to the physical torture, starvation or execution of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi dissidents. (Man, those Democrats must've been scarred earlier in their lives. Memo to self: Don't join a fraternity that allows hazing but is "tolerant" of deviant sexual practices.) No, Harriet Miers was the best they could hope for. Sure they're afraid she MIGHT be conservative --...

Three Novell OpenSUSE community web site were defaced on Sunday by politically motivated hackers. Defacement archive Zone-H reports that a group called IHS Iran Hackers Sabotage broke into OpenSUSE.org, wiki.novell.com and forge.novell.com to post a message stating that it was Iran's right to develop nuclear power. All three sites were defaced in the same way.

This will be the official thread for all Serenity/Firefly related info,reviews and pictures...

Can’t a guy take a vacation without the nay-sayin ninnies of negativity taking over this place? As the self-appointed optimist of this forum, I must say that I am more than a little P-Od over what I have been reading coming from the scared keyboards of some of you folks. You act as if someone stole your little Republican cookies and ate them in front of you. Look, I know it’s not the best of times for Conservatives if you are concerned about spending or the protection of the borders. However, it escapes me why it seems impossible for some...

"And then depression set in ..."

I’ve just received a credible tip from an LGF reader that an America West flight out of New York was fired upon by a surface to air missile yesterday, and that the pilot and passengers witnessed it and are now being questioned by the FAA and FBI. That’s the extent of the information I currently have, and please note: right now this is completely unverified.

saturday, september 17, 2005 I’ve just received a credible tip from an LGF reader that an America West flight out of New York was fired upon by a surface to air missile yesterday, and that the pilot and passengers witnessed it and are now being questioned by the FAA and FBI. That’s the extent of the information I currently have, and please note: right now this is completely unverified.

Please dock James Taranto's pay every day that Best of the Web Today comes out after the stock market closes.

TORONTO (Reuters) - Comedian Tommy Chong has spent almost three decades wringing laughs from cigar-sized joints and smoke-filled vans but now a nine-month jail term has turned him serious and revitalized his flagging career. Promoting his documentary "a/k/a Tommy Chong" at the Toronto International Film Festival, he hopes the film will expose what he says is the U.S. government's heavy-handed dealing with marijuana offenders in the post-September 11 era. "The United States is under martial law, it's under dictatorship," the 67-year-old father of four said in an interview. The film chronicles the Canadian-born comedian's 2003 arrest and imprisonment for selling...

Mr. West should have stayed in college. At very least he may have learned about dignity, discernment and solemnity. Kanye is an opportunistic 2-bit punk. I laughed out loud when the little boy began to tremble as he struggled to put together one coherent sentence during his Red Cross rant. Leave the politics to the politicians. Entertainers need to know that when they wander off track they risk offending half of their audience. The thinking half anyway.

Too many "rumors" are coming true

I just ordered a tshirt that is anti Che Guevara. Just tired of watching all the twits wearing them totally clueless. I thought I better brush up on my facts before I wear it. Looking for suggestions on a good book on the subject. Note: Hope I did this right. It's my first vanity.

I have a business relationship with a company that sells fuel to farmers. I spoke today with a person from that company who said that they were trying to buy more unleaded fuel from their source and could not. Their source told them they were out of fuel and were not expecting to have more anytime soon, due to hurricane. I have not stated where this is because I would prefer not to be the one to start a panic. However, it is a "MidSouth" state.

I am trying to find an email address to contact Reuters in order to submit a complaint about a reporter.

Greta just talked to Beth Holloway and

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Just a random thought. With all that goes on over there nothing would surprise me.

Until recently, LaChania Govan's complaints about Comcast's service seemed relatively tame. The 25-year-old Elgin mother of two said she was put on hold, disconnected, even transferred to the Spanish language line. But after persistent problems with her digital recording system forced her to make dozens of calls to the cable company in July, her August bill came with a change really worth complaining about: In place of her name were the words "Bitch Dog."

On O'Reilly tonight, they wree talking about the BTK killer. He was described as a sociopath, someone who has no concern for anyone but himself, a person capable of doing harm with no remorse at all. By that standards, aren't most politicians sociopaths?

mods-If this isn't in the right place please move or cut it. Why do most Americans hate soccer? It's not just that they don't like it. They are actively against it. Soccer takes more skill and endurance than the other sports. In middle and high school you take a beating.(Elbowed, tripped, kicked, tackled- All done fairly or behind the ref's back and without body armor) There are many tactics decided by the players(unlike football and baseball). It's a sport many different people can do. Not just people who are huge or work out daily at the gym. Fast people, skilled...

Where the Hell is the outrage in the MSM about the scandal rocking Air America? I know, I know, no liberal bias, but c'mon! The dolts at the Wash. Post and NY Slimes promoted this fiasco for weeks before they started, and now...........I just send 6 e-mails to the publisher and president of the Slimes, I suggest you do too.

BILL Murray was ambushed the other day by a disgruntled former colleague at a VIP screening of "The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou." At a Q&A session with director Wes Anderson, Anjelica Huston, Willem Dafoe and some of the rest of the cast at the Hollywood event, one man announced, "I am a cameraman, and I've worked with all the actors onstage. Anjelica, you're wonderful. Willem — you're great. But, Bill — you are a bastard. You are horrible to work with. My question is for Wes and the cast. What's it like to work with someone as awful and...