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Can’t blame him, although I don’t know how you solve this prisoner’s dilemma in an Internet age. One site floats the rumor, word spreads via e-mail, a few other sites blog it, another dozen sites reason that it’s gaining currency as a meme and already Google-able so there’s no reason to ignore it, and it’s off to the races. The media gets wind of it, checks it out, maybe runs a public advisory story debunking it (e.g., “No evidence of Michelle Obama tape”), and finally puts a question to the candidate himself to give him a chance to blow it...

Rat’s head leads to cracker recall March 19, 2008 When it was revealed that a rat head was found in a jumbo-size packet of shrimp crackers, the public reaction was fast and furious. With consumers quickly focusing on the fact that the product might have come from China and might go beyond a single container of the popular noraebang saeukkang snack, the manufacturer, Nongshim, was forced to make a public apology yesterday and to recall up to 30,000 cases of the crackers. Nongshim accepted sole blame for the accident involving what it says is Korea’s No. 1 snack food and...

So Don Imus has been fired from his radio show, and all is well in the world.  We all know about the maelstrom that developed around the aging shock jock, who has found out how loose lips sink ships, in this case his own.  But even though his is a vessel I never would have christened, I find a certain conclusion inescapable here.  I must defend Don Imus. Lest I be misunderstood, I have no use for the man, nor any for the rest of his ilk.  I know him to be a poster boy for our cultural decay, a...

This is incredible. Listen to the audio. After listening to this blatant phony and fool, I thought to myself: "And the Democrats and the Media dare to criticize Bush?" I would be monumentally embarrassed to be a Democrat after listening to this.

While I've always enjoyed the BBC's original "Cracker" series, I found the comeback episode that aired last week contained a painfully truthful statement. In the episode, an American woman, who traveled to England after her son was murdered by a killer who may have been targeting Americans, tries to explain how her son was a different kind of American: "He was a New Yorker. He hated Bush. He hated the war in Iraq. He hated all that born-again Christianity. I don't know anyone who is that kind of American," she said with a puzzled expression on her face. Gee, I...

VIDEO!!!!! Harold Ford Sr., the father of Tennessee Democrat Senate candidate Harold Ford Jr. (D), called pro-life activists who were outside of his son’s campaign headquarters “crackers”. Ford Sr. was on a cell phone telling the recipient “we have a cracker here with the Corker people.” says cracker TWICEthis has to get out the libs won't let it if we don't put their feet to the fire

Among certain radio talk show hosts, bloggers and their followers, being called a cracker was a high compliment yesterday. They seized upon a comment made Thursday by state Senate leader Don Perata, D-Oakland, who talked about “all these crackers down in . . . San Diego, taking on the governor” over immigration issues. Perata, who made the comment during a news conference, was referring to a forum in La Mesa with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger last week where some accused him of being soft on illegal immigration. Schwarzenegger later said he was surprised at the “intensity of the prejudice” of some...

Blue Star Mothers of America, Inc. has had their home page defaced. Nothing fancy just own3d.

HARRISBURG, Pa. - A Pennsylvania House session was suspended for more than an hour Wednesday after a black lawmaker, upset by a white colleague's comments about ethnic groups, referred to him as a "cracker." The comments came during debate on a bill that would allow residents of communities governed by homeowners' associations to fly the American flag on their property, even if association rules prohibited them from doing so. Rep. Thomas Yewcic, who is white, said people shouldn't be ashamed to support the American flag. "If any ethnic group wants to fly ... a flag, and they're embarrassed to fly...

A giant ridge girdles Saturn's satellite Iapetus - making the moon look like a walnut shell - reveal the latest images from the Cassini-Huygens mission. Scientists are at a loss to explain the feature, which is unique in the solar system. The Cassini spacecraft flew past Iapetus on New Year's Day, approaching to within 123,400 kilometres of the moon's surface. Its camera captured the most detailed images of Iapetus yet, revealing wisps of dark material and two-tone craters. But the ridge is the greatest surprise to scientists. It extends for at least 1300 km, following the equator exactly. In...

I’m an angry white man. I live in a red state. I voted for Newt Gingrich in 1994. I voted for President Bush in 2004. I am a sexist, homophobic, conservative animal. I caused blue state succession talk. I am to blame for everything that is wrong in the world—slavery, women’s oppression, worldwide famine, and pestilence. I have become the most spat upon by my own countrymen. I have become reviled and denigrated by the mainstream media as being greedy and creating poverty. I believe in the Founding Fathers and the U.S. Constitution. And I am in favor of morality...

IIS 5 Web Server Compromisesadded June 24 US-CERT is aware of new activity affecting compromised web sites running Microsoft's Internet Information Server (IIS) 5 and possibly end-user systems that visit these sites. Compromised sites are appending JavaScript to the bottom of web pages. When executed, this JavaScript attempts to access a file hosted on another server. This file may contain malicious code that can affect the end-user's system. US-CERT is investigating the origin of the IIS 5 compromises and the impact of the code that is downloaded to end-user systems.Web server administrators running IIS 5 should verify that there is...

<p>PALM BEACH, Florida -- A new computer chip promises to keep police guns from firing if they fall into the wrong hands.</p> <p>The tiny chip would be implanted in a police officer's hand and would match up with a scanning device inside a handgun. If the officer and gun match, a digital signal unlocks the trigger so it can be fired. But if a child or criminal would get hold of the gun, it would be useless.</p>

.....among the statements made to Clemons, in jail at the time on a domestic violence charge, was a reference by Stewart, wife of Associate Athletic Director Ed Stewart, to whites as "crackers." Floyd, the wife of UM President Elson Floyd, suggested that Clemons not date white women..... Few events in recent school history have forced the University of Missouri-Columbia campus to reflect as hard about its leadership and its values as the controversy surrounding the Ricky Clemons tapes. Michael McNamara photo University of Missouri-Columbia students, left to right, Blake Swearingen, Michael Gardner and Brett Iba walk along Stankowski Field after...

LOS ANGELES - A Web designer was sentenced to community service for hijacking the Web site for the Arab satellite news channel Al-Jazeera and redirecting its traffic to a site showing an American flag and the words "Let Freedom Ring." John William Racine II, 24, of Norco, was ordered Wednesday to perform 1,000 hours of community service and pay $2,000. He pleaded guilty in June to felony charges of wire fraud and unlawful interception of an electronic communication. U.S. District Judge A. Howard Metz said during the sentencing hearing that he believed Racine "immediately recognized how much terrible havoc" was...

Florida History     Last Name First Name Book Title Loderhose Gary Far, Far From Home: The Ninth Florida Regiment in the Confederate Army Loderhose Gary Way Down upon the Suwannee River: Sketches of Florida During the Civil War Haase Ronald W. Classic Cracker: Florida's Wood-Frame Vernacular Architecture Burt Jr Al The Tropic of Cracker (The Florida History and Culture Series) Storer & Briggs   Crackers in the Glade: Life and Times in the Old Evergaldes Oppel Frank Tales of Old Florida Huffstodt Jim & James Everglades Lawmen: True Stories of Game Wardens in the Glades Mosley Julia Daniels...

<p>PINSON, Ala. (AP) -- A Pinson man was charged with attempted murder for holding a gun to his son's head and pulling the trigger in the midst of a tantrum after Alabama's double overtime loss to Arkansas Saturday, authorities said.</p>

(CNSNews.com) - Officials with the popular stock car racing organization NASCAR have privately acknowledged that auto racing is seen as "a redneck cracker sport," to much of the public, according to the director of Jesse Jackson's Rainbow Sports division. NASCAR (National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing) representatives have made no such public acknowledgement and have recently refused to comment about their two-year financial relationship with Jackson. But Rainbow Sports director Charles Farrell Thursday said NASCAR officials acknowledged their image problem during private meetings. "Even in discussions with NASCAR, there is agreement that there is a perception that stock car...

BSNN file photo (crAP) HYMIETOWN, NY -- Jesse Jackson, director of the Rainbow/PUSH coalition, called today for boycotts of Caucasian people, stating that "the lack of diversity in the white race is appalling and divisive." Jackson made the comments at the 33nd annual Rainbow/PUSH Coalition Conference in New York, saying, "Every time I look at a crowd of white people, all I see are white faces. No African-Americans! No Hispanics! No Asians!" Leading the crowd in a chant of "The Caucasian race needs a new face," Jackson deflected criticism that white people are, by definition, white. "It is time...

18 kids are charged with racially motivated beating of teenage girl A May Day ritual described as "beat up a white kid" resulted in delinquency charges of felonious assault, ethnic intimidation and aggravated riot filed Thursday in Cuyahoga County Juvenile Court against 18 black and Hispanic youths from Cleveland. Twelve girls and six boys, ages 9 through 15, are accused of beating, kicking and choking a 13-year-old white girl at West 110th Street and Almira Avenue near Wilbur Wright Middle School on May 1. The victim was a student at Wilbur Wright, as were five of her assailants. Each of...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating the Cracker Barrel restaurant chain over civil rights issues, restaurant holding company CBRL Group Inc. said on Friday. A letter seeking basic information about restaurant locations and customer complaints was sent to the restaurant company in August, CBRL disclosed in its annual report filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday. CBRL runs the Cracker Barrel Old Country Store restaurant and retail chain, "The DOJ is empowered to investigate matters under Title II of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and Cracker Barrel is in the process of gathering...

Help ! ! I'm Being Probed Repeatedly by a Hacker / Cracker !Need help from an Freepers out there who have the ability to trace ISP numeric addresses. I've been on line for about 30 minutes and in that time I've had over 100 probes coming in on different ports. I have installed the free version of Zone Alarm and it signals me whenever there is a new probe with the ISP address being used by the attacker. All of the attacks have orinated from the following ISP address: 206.157.247.131 I have attempted to trace the ISP and it appears...