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I use firefox as my browser and I have never had this problem before. After I sign on to Facebook I get this ________________________________________________________ This Connection is Untrusted You have asked Firefox to connect securely to login.facebook.com, but we can't confirm that your connection is secure. Normally, when you try to connect securely, sites will present trusted identification to prove that you are going to the right place. However, this site's identity can't be verified. What Should I Do? If you usually connect to this site without problems, this error could mean that someone is trying to impersonate the site,...

Those "hacked" released CRU files...By now just about everyone following climate will be aware that CRU has suffered what is, at the very least, data theft. The content of some of the personal communications released has been authenticated although this does not mean all the product is genuine and everyone must be mindful of the possibility there has been some editing to alter the intent or context of documents. There are also ethical considerations involved in release of what are essentially stolen goods.That said the genie is well and truly out of the bottle and there is massive public interest...

Inside our firewall, getting errors trying to connect to mapquest. Firefox indicates a redirect loop in play that cannot be resolved, IE gives a page cannot be displayed error. Anyone else getting problems when trying to connect to Mapquest?

...Every time a new law is created, whatever problem they were trying to solve usually gets worse (and more expensive). But, rather than repealing or rewriting the buggy law, they just keep piling on more legalese and spending more money until the original problem finally goes away. But as we all know, in the process of writing all this massive, mindless legislation, they invariably create a brand new mess of problems. And of course, they now feel the need to write yet more laws to solve the new problems (that they caused), and the vicious circle continues. The bank failures,...

Critics have accused President Obama of kowtowing to Chinese leaders, by failing to meet dissidents, toning down his criticisms and delaying a meeting with the Dalai Lama. On balance, I think that criticism is premature: Confrontation doesn’t help with China and can hurt, and so engagement becomes a fine line to navigate. The Obama visit wasn’t a ringing success, but neither was it a craven embarrassment. For the latest craven kowtowing, we can look somewhere else: Microsoft and its new search engine, Bing. Western corporations have often behaved embarrassingly in China, sacrificing any principles to ingratiate themselves with the Communist...

Note: Videos included. "The English-Language Jihobby Clownshow" SNIPPET: "Fishman’s got a useful guest post over at Jihdica this morning. In a nutshell, he describes the fact that Anwar al-Awlaki has not always been uniformly loved by English-language jihadists. He reminds us that at one time, the other major English-language preacher that I’ve been mentioning alongside Al-Awlaki’s name, Shaikh Abdullah al-Faisal, has declared takfir (excommunication) on al-Awlaki. Although this debate is now resolved, and the broader followers of both have recognized that al-Faisal was temporarily off his rocker, it’s nonetheless curious and worth having on the table." SNIPPET: "According to a...

Can you help me? I want an easy, reliable way to record phone calls using my laptop's internal microphone. My computer is a Dell Inspiron 1525. I'll describe the method I've found, and you can tell me if there's a better or cheaper way, or if I'm doing it wrong. Software: Free version of TRx Phone Recorder (from nch.com.au). If it works, I'll buy it. Hardware: They suggest a Direct Recording Adapter from AltoEdge. (Call Recording Adapter (VEC Direct Line) (LRX-37C); plus a standard double adapter. Phone line: Analog, single line Phone: Cordless (Panasonic DECT 6.0-Series Dual-Handset Cordless Phone) The...

Just another massive online RPG or is it encouraging domestic terrorism? Video

Secure Reporting Sarah Carlsruh, November 20, 2009 What do media have to do with Homeland Security? A November 13th forum at the Heritage Foundation addressed this issue, with panelists explaining how the media shapes American and global perceptions of domestic security issues. CBS News Correspondent Kimberly Dozier illustrated the slow death of responsible journalism. Why are Americans inundated with a barrage of fluff stories rather than informed of the daily atrocities of war? The answer, explained Dozier, is that interest in foreign news has declined. Major news stations that realize the import of sustaining coverage of overseas wars have to...

Sure seems that way: Undercover project: Please participate quickly! by Bob Johnson Share this on Twitter - Undercover project: Please participate quickly! Wed Nov 18, 2009 at 12:25:51 PM PST NOTE: This diary will self-destruct within the hour. Copy the dialogue box below the fold and post it across the Internet. BarbinMD's current front pager on Palin's latest idiocy got me thinking about a little payback for Palin's part in promoting the "death panels" nonsense. By linking to the Politico story on Palin's appearance on Limbaugh's radio show, highlighted in Barb's post with this graph: Palin painted the race as...

I must live in a bubble, because I only heard about the Obamao controversy this morning from a coworker (open link to see pics): This second picture is great...did anyone else happen to notice Obamao's face superimposed on a silhouette of the Statue of Liberty (far left--no pun intended--of the second picture)? Cognitive dissonance, anyone? So, to recap, the Chinese see our Dear Leader and his minions for what they are. And this Obamao stuff is even pushed in this nation's capitol, so it's not like we Americans can blame the Chinese media blackout on this one. So why are...

SNIPPET - Quote: Jihadi Cyber Wars: 'Watchdog Brigades,' 'Electronic Mujahideen Forum' Trade Accusations over Fath Al-Islam Ties On November 13, 2009, the jihadist counter-espionage group Kata'ib Al-Rasid ("The Watchdog Brigades") issued a warning that the well-known jihadist forum Shabakat Al-Mujahideen Al-Iliktroniyya ("Electronic Mujahideen Forum") was suspect and should be avoided.

The photographer who shot the picture violated his contract by reselling them to Newsweek. That photographer, Brian Adams, could not immediately be reached, and his agent, Kelly Price, declined to comment, saying, "I keep all of my clients' business private." But a spokeswoman for Runner's World confirms that Adams's contract contained a clause stipulating that his photos of Palin would be under embargo for a period of one year following publication -- meaning until August 2010. "Runner's World did not provide Newsweek with its cover image," the spokeswoman said. "It was provided to Newsweek by the photographer's stock agency, without...

Note: PHOTOS included. Jundullah Studios released a photo shoot of their guys traipsing around the desert looking tough. They seem to be all the rage on AQ forums these days. How could I not poke a bit -

These days, with a socialist in power I'm not the most patriotic man in America. But let me tell you this- after looking at her Newsweek cover photo, run that up the flagpole and I will salute it. I will start wearing red white and blue socks. I will have the preamble tattooed on my left leg. I will give the office of the presidency the respect it deserves.

I would like to thank everybody who has signed up to follow this Facebook page. We are now over one million strong! Our voices have been heard loud and clear on issues ranging from energy to healthcare. Your support has made this unfiltered communication medium a success. Thank you so much! - Sarah Palin

Anyone willing to share a recommendations for an auto-backup program (e.g., like Norton Ghost)? Mrs. Scoutmaster uses a PC, so unlike Scoutmaster's desktop and notebook, Time Machine is not an option. Mrs. Scoutmaster is not prone to remember to back things up on her own (but is a remarkable woman) and Scoutmaster would like to have the manual backup obligation removed from his list of spousal duties. PC has multiple SATA hard drives, one empty and large enough to be used for backup, or I'm open to ideas for a network-based backup that connects to the router and comes with...

Did you folks know that when you search you're FR screen name that you are the first hit on google. Just wonderin.

Note: Videos included. Blog: http://jarretbrachman.net/?p=70 “Salahidin, Ibn Taymiyyah, Abd al-Wahhab…Yousef al-Khattab?” ““When your adversary is busy shooting himself in the foot, don’t get in his way…”” “This entry was posted on Monday, November 16th, 2009 at 10:25 pm and is filed under ENGLISH-LANGUAGE, JIHOBBYISM, Uncategorized.”

Obama's trip to Asia, Fort Hood, Sarah and Oprah and your calls. Tune in!

I want to know how to get on the net with a P3.

SNIPPET: "Well, here’s where it gets good. By posting a link to my website, he ensured that readers of Ansarnet would be able to come see the magic. However, it also gave me the ability to see who used that link off Ansarnet to pay me a visit. Here’s where all my new friends, who visited my website by way of this link through Ansarnet, are logging in from and the networks that they are using to log in with. Some very curious results:

I am looking for a cheap but nice video editing tool> Something I can use to make movies but do photo shop stuff with the movies. Changing faces, adding voices, that kind of thing. Any ideas or suggestions?

After getting hit again with a nasty virus I finally pulled the trigger and did a full install of Ubuntu open source Lenox operating system, It is awesome! It's free, it's fast, it comes preloaded with 90% of what most computer users need and it comes with thousands of free programs that can be downloaded and installed with complete ease. Also if you get nailed with one of those viruses that don't even let you open in safe-mode, install Ubuntu as a parallel and you can access your old files and put them on an external drive. Did I mention...

I always knew that Mad Magazine was filled with ner-do-wells that will rot your brain and turn you into a big meanie. My teachers in school all told me so... and they were teachers so they must've been right. Now the Apple iPhone App store has finally seen the light of reason on this truism, too. Well, if the App Store didn't deny Mad Magazine exactly, it did lower they kabosh on one of its nasty, mean-spirited artists, Tom Richmond, by denying his iPhone App registration. Serves him right, the troublemaker. The good name of Apple computers will not be...

Are you fed up with how the news is being covered ,or lack thereof, by the Main Stream Media? Do you want to hear the news from a reality perspective, and not manufactured? Look no further! Right Talk Radio is looking for Americans that want to report the news from their respective hometowns and states, without a filter. All you need to get this done is a computer, a cell phone and about a half hour a day. If you live in your state capital or a major city, we would love to have you join our team. Citizen reporters...

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Hey everyone, Wanted to give you an update on some things we had mentioned in posts over the last couple of weeks: We had over 35 emails about people wanting to be show hosts. As of now we have emailed people back and have added three new shows as of now to our line up. Keep checking Right Talk Radio for the schedule. If you are interested in hosting a show, or want to report the news in our news segment that we will be interviewing for soon, contact Arthur: arthur@righttalkradio.com or Nick: mail@younggunconservative.com. Our Citizen Field Reporting project has...

Feeling the Obama Love Bethany Stotts, November 6, 2009 Is there an Obamania epidemic in America’s public schools? John Nolte, editor in chief at Big Hollywood, writes that 11 uncovered videos of students praising President Obama were recently “dropped in our email box;” he describes public school demonstrations of affection (psdas) for the President as an educational epidemic. “What seemed like an aberration now appears to be a troubling pattern,” he writes. The 11 videos, one of has since been removed from YouTube, mostly feature students from High School down through kindergarten performing rap, music videos and other performances in...

I live a good life....a hard one, but I go to sleep peacefully @ night knowing that I may have made a difference in someone's life

A disturbing new report by the Centre for Social Cohesion, a British think tank, makes a strong case that Hizb ut-Tahrir (HT) is not the "peaceful" Islamist group it purports to be. In a study published Monday, the center - quoting extensively from the statements and writings of HT leaders and party organs – shows that the group actually advocates hijacking planes and other forms of jihadist violence in order to annex all Muslim-majority nations and colonize non-Muslim-majority ones. Representatives of HT, which seeks to establish a global Islamic state (a Caliphate), have long claimed that they oppose violence.

SNIPPET: "A certain Jihad forum was passing around links to some super kool videos posted on this page O death which is cunningly called Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. Obviously with a name like that one could easily stay under the radar. So that led me on a trip through Mr Emirate's friends. One of his good buddies, Taliban Mujahideen..."

Ben Shapiro at Big Hollywood has an interesting report on the Alma Thomas painting "Watusi (Hard Edge). For those who may not recall, the Thomas painting closely resembled the Matisse painting "L'escargot," causing some to say it was copied. Of course this has absolutely nothing to do with the decision to remove the painting from the White House: According to Semonti Stephens, Michelle Obama’s deputy press secretary, the painting was moved “because it didn’t fit the space right.”

Populace Media Sarah Carlsruh, November 5, 2009 James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles’ undercover videos revealing the scandal of ACORN, with over a million views on YouTube, are a testament to the escalating dominance of new media. At Accuracy in Media’s (AIM) 40th Anniversary Conference on October 23rd, a New Media and the Future of Journalism panel discussed recent technology in the media and the social media movement. Panelist Robert Bluey, after graduating from journalism school, envisioned that he would get a job at the Washington Post; that dream died when he discovered that such organizations did not covet a conservative...

In Utah, the National Security Agency is building a $2 billion storage facility that will house and analyze all forms of electronic communication...a potential yottabyte of everyone's (formerly) personal data. So how big is a yottabyte? CrunchGear puts it well: There are a thousand gigabytes in a terabyte, a thousand terabytes in a petabyte, a thousand petabytes in an exabyte, a thousand exabytes in a zettabyte, and a thousand zettabytes in a yottabyte. In other words, a yottabyte is 1,000,000,000,000,000GB. In terms of data on current human scales, a yottabyte is nearly infinite (though I'm sure the NSA will manage...

TheConservatives.com Status Update Allie Winegar Duzett, November 2, 2009 John Solomon is not just a writer for The Washington Times—he is also a founder of the new Times-sponsored website, TheConservatives.com. Solomon discussed this new website at a recent Heritage Foundation Bloggers’ Briefing. TheConservatives.com is an innovative new site with amazing new technologies. At this website, people can keep up with profiled conservatives, such as Sarah Palin and Newt Gingrich, in a way that they couldn’t before: the site aggregates everything that such profiled conservatives are up to. This means that if you want to check out what Mitt Romney is...

I have a computer that will not turn on.

SNIPPET: "UPDATED - Wednesday, October 28, 2009: A "New Facebook Login System" spam campaign is in circulation, launched by the same botnet. Sampled updatetool.exe once again interacts with the Zeus command and control at 193.104.27.42."

No Accuracy for Rosa Bethany Stotts, October 30, 2009 Earlier this week Accuracy in Academia called out Campus Progress associate editor and blogger Erin Rosa for attempting to characterize the contributors to CampusReform, a social network site designed by the Leadership Institute, as conservative bullies. Several hours later Rosa responded to our critique, writing that “Recent reporting by Campus Progress on a new conservative social networking website has apparently stuck in the craw of another right-leaning group dedicated to exposing ‘political bias’ in education.” “In fact, Accuracy In Academia—a sister organization to Accuracy In Media, a longstanding nonprofit that specializes...

Will Heaven is a writer who specialises in politics and religion. He can be emailed at will.heaven@telegraph.co.uk and is @WillHeaven on Twitter. SNIPPET: "The experts are certainly surprised by this latest development in online communication between terrorists and those who study or attempt to counter them. Charles Cameron reckons this “a historic moment at the intersection of internet and the military”. He’s certainly right."

I know I need Windows 7. But, I have used xp for years. Just got a laptop with Vista a few weeks ago. My pc died and now I'm stuck temporarily with my vista laptop. Here's my problem that is driving me crazy!! Sometimes copy/paste will work with right click, sometimes not(on web sites/email, never when it used to) Spellcheck will show the misspelled word, but the right click does nothing!! Why??? No right click page reload either! Is this just one of the reasons people hated Vista?? This is insane!

My friend Ken Marrero over at Blue Collar Muse has posted an interesting if not entirely infuriating story about GOP officials coming down on other officials and certain county employees for having the gall to talk to those eeeevil Arizona bloggers that have been doggedly reporting the corruption stories of county officials. GOP officials of Maricopa County have been in a bit of trouble recently having been accused of wasteful spending, power grabs and criminal investigations. Marrero even notes that there is a Twitter feed used to needle these officials called CorruptAZSupes. The barbs have been coming fast and furious...

Sorry, folks, but all you techies just cannot convince me that the Internet is as permanent as a book. The information in books can have several thousands of years of life. But what of the Internet? In many cases info on the Internet is not even around for mere decades. A recent story in the L.A. Times about the now defunct web platform GeoCities is a perfect example of what I am talking about. Back in the mid 1990s in the early days of the web, when blogs had yet to get their eventual sobriquet, when there were no programs...

Campus Progress vs. Campus Reform Bethany Stotts, October 27, 2009 In a recent Campus Progress article “Smashing ‘Left-Wing Scum’ on Campus,” author Erin Rosa attempts to characterize the Leadership Institute as conservative bullies on campus. The problem is that she doesn’t have much of a case in the first place. Rosa derives the title of her article from a profile posting by Texas A&M graduate Toni Listi that he is “active on CampusReform to ‘smash left-wing scum.’” “I don’t know about that comment,” Rosa quotes Bryan Bernys, CampusReform National Director. “I don’t know where that is on the site or...

Pastor, lecturer, Townhall.com contributor, author and internet radio show host Doug Giles entered the YGC zone tonight to talk about religion, efeminization of America’s youth, Obama and his book, “If You’re Going Through Hell, Keep Going”. Also we talked about the NFL and how it screwed up again, this time with GLAAD and more. Click on the image to listen to the archive:

Net Discrimination Sarah Carlsruh, October 26, 2009 At the October 13 Conservative Blogger’s Briefing at the Heritage Foundation, FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell addressed the issue of net neutrality, specifically the Federal Communication Commission’s (FCC) upcoming initiative to regulate the internet. On October 22nd, the FCC voted on a notice of proposed rulemaking regarding open internet practices. According to Commissioner McDowell, the premise behind the new rules—as outlined by FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski—is that the “internet is broken and government must fix it.” This draft, said McDowell, focuses on “adding a non-discrimination requirement to the four net neutrality principles that came...

Anyone in Arizona or surrounding areas experiencing intermittent high speed internet outages with Cox Communications? We are on day two of this. Ours goes out for a few minutes at a time, and then the modem says we are up and running. I have checked our connections and they are fine. There is nobody at Cox to discuss this with and their site says there are no problems.

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Windows 7, the new version of Microsoft Windows and the successor to Windows Vista, is officially released in two days time. On his blog, my good friend Patrick Crozier has asked a possibly not very important question, specifically I've heard of Windows 3.1. I am about to a lot about Windows 7. But I've never heard a peep about Windows 4, 5 or 6. Were they, by any chance, really good versions of Windows that we never got to hear about because the praise for them was drowned out by complaints about 95, 98, 2000, Millenium and Vista? I think...

SNIPPET - QUOTE: Possibly the mystery of the three recent incidents of exploding Yemeni fishing boats can be explained as Iranian missile shipments. The following article asserts Iran is shipping from an African country, likely Sudan, to Yemen. A Yemeni fishing boat also exploded in a Sudanese port and Yemen's Midi Island is a new transit point for Sudanese refugees. Once there's a smuggling route established for weapons, the boats often also transport refugees. However this report is taken from a Yemeni government stooge newspaper, Akhbar al Youm, which once announced that Ayatollah Sistani and I (me Jane) wrote the...