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Just go this page http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com once you click it shows you a page of ads, and says: Thank You — your click has been counted! You've given the value of .6 bowls of food to rescued animals. The ads below make The Animal Rescue Site possible. Thats it! No strings attached

Are these pilots, or just spam in a can? On Sept 25th 2008, China launched a Shenzhou VII spacecraft starting their third manned space mission. The three man crew of "taikonauts" (that's Chinaspeak for astronauts) includes mission Commander Zhai Zhigang, Liu Boming and Jing Haipeng. All three men are 42 years old and all are pilots from the People's Liberation Army Air Force. Commander Zhigang will perform an EVA during the mission, becoming the first Chinese taikonaut to do a spacewalk. It's too bad they don't have Laika the Russian space dog with them. If they did, they could take...

From: Minister of the Treasury Paulson Subject: REQUEST FOR URGENT CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS RELATIONSHIPDear American:I need to ask you to support an urgent secret business relationship with a transfer of funds of great magnitude.I am Ministry of the Treasury of the Republic of America. My country has had crisis that has caused the need for large transfer of funds of 800 billion dollars US. If you would assist me in this transfer, it would be most profitable to you.I am working with Mr. Phil Gram, lobbyist for UBS, who will be my replacement as Ministry of the Treasury in January. As...

Warning: Nasty Surprises Coming Next Week by Martin D. Weiss, Ph.D.   09-21-08 America's $47-trillion bubble of debt has burst.America's $180-trillion balloon of derivatives has popped.And all the president's men cannot put them back together again.Last year, they tried three different mortgage work-out plans. This year, they tried a massive economic stimulus package. They resorted to a myriad of unprecedented lending facilities. They even bailed out Bear Stearns, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and AIG. Each attempt was more radical than the previous. And each attempt failed miserably.Now, appearing before the American people at the White House Rose Garden, they've declared...

John McCain announced that he was running for president to confront the "transcendent challenge" of the 21st century, "radical Islamic extremism," contrasting it with "stability, tolerance and democracy." But the values of his handpicked running mate, Sarah Palin, more resemble those of Muslim fundamentalists than they do those of the Founding Fathers. On censorship, the teaching of creationism in schools, reproductive rights, attributing government policy to God's will and climate change, Palin agrees with Hamas and Saudi Arabia rather than supporting tolerance and democratic precepts. What is the difference between Palin and a Muslim fundamentalist? Lipstick. [READ MORE BELOW]

I looked in my spam inbox today, and noticed the following. Obviously it was tagged as spam because it is using a different domain as the from address. ATLEARNING.COM. Unfortunately, I use gmail, so most of the headers were stripped off and I can't trace it back to it's original IP address. Has anyone else seen the Obama Nation doing this? ==================================== message below ===== msnbc.com - BREAKING NEWS: Obama set to win presidency MSNBC Breaking News Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 14:30 Reply-To: MSNBC Breaking News To: msnbc.com: BREAKING NEWS: Obama set to win presidency Find out more at...

Sen. John McCain's campaign is urging supporters to spam blogs and forums with official talking points, according to the Washington Post. If you do a good job, you can even win prizes. "That, in essence, is the McCain campaign's pitch to supporters to join its new online effort, one that combines the features of 'AstroTurf' campaigning with the sort of customer-loyalty programs offered by airlines, hotel chains, restaurants and the occasional daily newspaper." "People who sign up for McCain's program receive reward points each time they place a favorable comment on one of the listed Web sites (subject to verification...

A criminal gang is using software tools normally reserved for computer network administrators to infect thousands of PCs in corporate and government networks with programs that steal passwords and other information, a security researcher has found. The new form of attack indicates that little progress has been made in defusing the threat of botnets, networks of infected computers that criminals use to send spam, steal passwords and do other forms of damage, according to computer security investigators. Several security experts say that although attacks against network administrators are not new, the systematic use of administrative software to spread malicious software...

ON the afternoon of Nov. 7, 2006, pilots and airport employees at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago saw a disc-like object hovering over the tarmac for several minutes. Because nothing was tracked on radar, the Federal Aviation Administration did not investigate. Yet radar is not a reliable detector of all aircraft. Stealth planes are designed to be invisible to radar, and many radar systems filter out signals not matching the normal characteristics of aircraft. Did it really make sense to entirely ignore the observations of several witnesses? < > On Dec. 26, 1980, for instance, several witnesses at two American...

Were There More? Did DBKP@Blogger's Shutdown Come from Same IPs? Click on image to enlarge. At least one of the attacks in the latest wave of blog shutdowns this past week came from IPs assigned to barackobama.com. We have reported twice in the last two weeks about the attacks on anti-Obama websites. ["Google, Blogger, Obama: Obamanation Shut Down My Blog!"]] & [BabbaZee's "Anti-Obama Blogs Shut Down by Google, Obamabots"] Speculation on who was behind the attacks has ranged from "Obama supporters" to "it's no one, just a glitch" "to "it's a browser problem". [Site Meter causing Internet Explorer failure ]....

Edward Davidson, the "spam king" who reportedly forced his wife to help him escape from a Colorado prison on Sunday, has killed himself, a woman, and a toddler, according to The Denver Post. Earlier Thursday, Colorado NBC affiliate 9News.com reported that three people had been found dead in an apparent murder-suicide in the area of East Arkansas Place, near the town of Bennett, Colo. The identities of the victims were not disclosed at the time. Responding to an inquiry from InformationWeek, an officer with the Lakewood, Colo., police department said that he had heard that Davidson might have been involved...

Colorado officials say man, woman, 3-year-old dead; 2 survive ordeal BENNETT, Colo. - A convicted spammer and his wife, who were being sought after she helped him escape prison, were found slain along with their young daughter Thursday in an apparent murder-suicide, authorities said. A teenage girl was shot in the neck and a baby was found unhurt in a car seat inside the vehicle where the three bodies were found, Arapahoe County undersheriff Mark Campbell said. The relationship between the girl, baby and the escaped convict wasn't immediately clear.

OLYMPICS PART TWO: SCANDALS AND CONTROVERSIES Published July 20th, 2008 Idealism is an admirable quality. The reality is, despite the idealistic dreams of the founder of the modern Olympiad and the current members of the IOC, the Games have never even approached the “equality of sports which are international and democratic” nor have they ever come close to their goal of contributing “to building a peaceful and better world.” Would that it were so, but it isn’t so. In fact, for many decades now, the Olympics have been a venue for nationalistic propaganda, racism, boycotts, drug use, terrorism, and just...

R.I.P. YANKEE STADIUM Apocryphal or not, one YogiBerra-ism I’ve always liked was his line about where Yankee players went for R&R. Referring to one particular hangout, he was supposed to have said, “Nah, no one ever goes there anymore; it’s too crowded.” One place no one, Yankee players or fans, won’t be going anymore is Yankee Stadium, not because it’s too crowded but because it won’t be there. Of course, technically, there will be a Yankee Stadium next year, just across the street from the old ballpark, but it won’t be THE Yankee Stadium which is scheduled to be torn...

This whole hullabaloo over whether Bush was referring to Obama as an appeaser is much ado about nothing. Of course Bush was referring to Obama in his speech in the Knesset! Most probably he was also referring to what some wag has called an 84 year old walking hemmorrhoid, Jimmy Carter. And the description fits both. Carter aside, since it's unkind to abuse the senile, let's look at the context. A simple syllogism: GWB says negotiating with terrorists is appeasement. Barack Hussein Obama says he would negotiate with a terrorist state, Iran. Therefore, Obama is an appeaser. No? Obama is...

MEMORIAL DAY 2008 May 24th, 2008 As we prepare to celebrate Memorial Day 2008, a “day” that has now become synonymous with nothing more than the launching of summer, let’s try to remember what it’s all about. Originally called Decoration Day, the holiday goes back to 1868 and is intended to remind us all of those who gave their all in service to this great nation. So, before we dig into the potato salad, and gobble down burgers and hot dogs and steaks, why not give a few minutes to reflect on the meaning of it all. That meaning has...

TORTURE OR REASONABLE FORCE? Okay, torture sucks. So, too, does the idea of people being detained without right to counsel, without the freedom to protest their status, etc. Now let’s move on to a hypothetical. Picture yourself in a situation in which you have excellent reason to believe that your family has been targeted by some fanatical, religious nutcase and the nutcase’s buddies. You have irrefutable information that their plan is to execute you, your wife, kids, grandkids, friends, neighbors, everyone you know, and they’ve already shown their expertise at such executions by killing thousands of others. Their Nutcase Army...

D-DAY, FDR, June 6 1944 FDR, PRAYER, GOD, D-DAY, TODAY No matter what we may think of FDR—and what I think is ambivalent at best—the man had a soul and seemed to love his country. Same goes for JFK, along with a comparable ambivalence. However, this speech by FDR, delivered while the invasion of Normandy was in progress, stands in stark contrast with the thinking of too many of our leaders today. That invasion didn’t take a day, of course. Dubbed “Operation Overlord,” it consisted of a great armada of some 7000 ships and landing craft, almost 200,000 allied naval...

I rarely devote this space to anything but political matters but hereby make an exception for a movie review, of sorts. American Beauty is classified as a comedy by Moviefone, which is ironically comedic in and of itself. Even describing it as a black comedy—a term which will definitely be declared non-PC and banned if Obama becomes our president—doesn’t satisfactorily describe this flick. Films such as Fight Club, Natural Born Killers, the Kill Bill series all plumb the depths of Hollywood’s collective and twisted violent psyche. American Beauty exposes the depths of Tinsel Town’s despair. This now-8 year old film...

Anyone who isn’t aware that there are major problems in our public school systems must be a recent graduate of a public school system. There are exceptions to any rule but, in general, what follows is substantially applicable to American schools. In a word, they are failing. New York City School Chancellor, Joel Klein, has said, "It is the greatest domestic issue we as Americans face.” I wouldn’t presume to have all the answers to remedy the chaos in many classrooms, declining test scores amidst inflated grades, violence and lack of motivation, overcrowding due to illegal immigration, all of which...

I previously posted a sad tale of our times, namely the recent craze among female teenies–and tweenies–of taking the virtue of sharing to what would have been termed a sick extreme just a few years ago. It seems some girls are sharing pictures of their naked bodies with their boyfriends and significant others via their cell phones. In turn, the boys, being boys, have been sharing the pictures with their buddies and with the universe via YouTube and other internet venues. (http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=176) A fellow old fart once told me that he regretted having been born 50 years too soon since...

Those who believe Obama is articulate, eloquent, etc. should listen to him speak without a teleprompter. The audio is here: http://genelalor.com/

CNN rarely features much of interest but did run a piece recently on biofuels which included some attention to a nation which, unlike the United States, learned something from the oil crisis of the 1970s. That nation resolved not to continue its dependence on Arab whims and wars and chose to become energy self-sufficient. Instead of virtually shutting down domestic oil exploration and ceasing to build oil refineries and nuclear generating plants, and bemoaning the cost of fuel—as we did, and are doing—that nation began developing its own resources. Those resources included limited domestic oil fields and an unlimited supply...

An open letter to the Rev. Jesse Jackson, re: Don Imus Frankly, Jesse, I don’t give a damn what Imus said now. Frankly, Jesse, I’m fed up with the double standard that’s been imposed in America for the last twenty years. And I’m not talking about the old double standard whereby randy guys such as you were considered cool when you bedded down and impregnated some female not your wife and the poor female was considered a tramp. Frankly, Jesse, I’m also fed up with the fact you, and Reverend Al, and Reverend Wright, and a slew of other Black...

June 24th, 2008 The “expert” analyses of why at least 17 teenies at Gloucester (MA) High got themselves with child begin: http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/25279403/?GT1=43001 Obviously, they didn’t execute the project alone–one enlisted the assistance of a 24 year old homeless guy–but apparently it was of their own volition and speculation as to their reasons for effectively ending their childhood are pretty irrelevant. The school was certainly an enabler, a willing facilitator, by assuring them in advance that they could have their little cherubs taken care of via an onsite daycare program. What’s debatable is not teen hormones or the reasons for their...

OBAMA XLVI: GO RALPHIE! June 25th, 2008 No matter what else one may think of Ralph Nader–that he’s a spoiler, a great voice for consumers or a horse’s ass–most people would have to admit he’s honest. Today, Ralphie took honesty to a whole new level when he said that Senator Obama “wants to appeal to white guilt. You appeal to white guilt not by coming on as black is beautiful, black is powerful. Basically he’s coming on as someone who is not going to threaten the white power structure, whether it’s corporate or whether it’s simply oligarchic. And they love...

GITMO: WAR AND REMEMBRANCE June 26th, 2008 (http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=/Nation/archive/200806/NAT20080626b.html) As far as I can recall, no one ever said that war is fun. As far as I can recall, no one ever said that prisons should be fun places, either. Still, the Muslim prisoners being kept in Guantanamo have it pretty damned good especially considering why they are there–as terrorist suspects who not only despise America but who may have killed Americans and who, given the chance, would kill as many of our troops in Iraq as they could and perpetrate even more heinous atrocities on our soil. We could house...

CRIME RATE, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, GUNS, SCOTUS, SECOND AMENDMENT

Unfortunately, that TownHall.com aricle isn't news, or shouldn’t be. America’s public schools haven’t merely been falling behind. They’re in a freefall compared to other nations, including “developing” nations such as Romania, Belarus, et al. which, almost literally, don’t have a pot to pee in but yet succeed in educating kids far better than we do. Thing is, it’s not news simply because it’s been going on for a generation, at least, and if anyone noticed, they haven’t said much about it, and those who try to say much about it are derided as simpleton reactionaries. The causes of the misedumacation...

POOR BRITS: MALAISE OR CASUALTY? June 28th, 2008 Apparently, the effects of decades of living in a socialist, diverse paradise are catching up with our cousins across the Pond. http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=/Culture/archive/200806/CUL20080626c.html “Why is everyone so bloody miserable?” asks Tom Harris, Labor Member of Parliament, who’s “tired of the ‘crippling levels of cynicism and pessimism’ in British society.” Let’s just examine the possible causes of that malaise and negativism. A long history of despoiling the planet, of conquering much of the known world and a bloody subjugation of its closest neighbor, Ireland? The subsequent collapse of that same British Empire? A descent...

Yet another reason to vote for Senator John McCain. Former Hillary supporter, Barbra Streisand now endorses Barack Hussein Obama: http://blogs.reuters.com/fanfare/2008/07/01/barbra-streisand-backs-obama/. Add that endorsement to backing from pro-abortion groups, the LGBT (Lesbians, Gays, Bi-sexuals, Transgendered) lobby, Reverend "God Damn America" Wright, Tony (Criminal) Rezko, Bill (Terrorist) Ayers, and every left wing kooky group out there and it's become crystal clear to all but the terminally obtuse that this guy makes George McGovern look good! This election is developing into a test of H.L. Mencken's thesis that you can never go broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people. Should Obama ever...

TEEN SEX RING IN VERMONT There may be something about Mary but there is definitely something about judges. Perhaps the job, the power, the judicial robes go their heads? Who knows? The Supreme Court of the United States has made more than its share of screwy decisions, from the Dred Scott miscarriage of justice to the horror of Roe v. Wade and its subsequent result of 50,000,000 legal murders of the pre-born to its recent decision that child rapists can’t be executed. On my local scene, I still recall Judge “Cut ‘Em Loose Bruce” who was notorious for his years...

THE NEW YORK TIMES AND OIL SUPPLY TRUTH July 3rd, 2008 The New York Times, long a bastion of pessimistic liberalism, which is redundant, was peddling its negative petroleum wares and scares soon after 9/11: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9401E2DC123FF937A25753C1A9679C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=4. The Times has never retracted its fearmongering view that the only recourse for America’s oil woes is to curb our insatiable lust for oil, in effect to cut back on our industrial production and lifestyle, to conserve ourselves into Third World status since there just ain’t no more oil to be had because of our limited “proven reserves.” That’s poppycock. Whether the Commissioner of...

Since I began posting on FREEREPUBLIC.COM, TOWNHALL.COM, CONSERVATIVEOASIS.COM, and on other conservative websites, the responses there and hits on my website, http://genelalor.com, lead me to blieve there is indeed hope for America! Thank you all and thank you, God!

WHEN OUR JOHNNYS AND JANES COME MARCHING HOME AGAIN When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again was an inspirational American Civil War Era song. (See http://www.contemplator.com/america/whenjohn.html for info, lyrics and midi download.) Today, most of us anxiously await the day our Johnnys and our Joes, our Janes and our Joannes, will come marching home again from the Mideast–after their long and arduous journey is completed, successful, and victorious. If that’s not how they return, their sacrifices and America’s casualties will have been in vain. Our Democratic/leftist brethren have learned from VietNam, when they literally spat on our returning troops. (Anyone who...

RUSH LIMBAUGH: A BOMBASTIC BLOWHARD, BUT OUR BOMBASTIC BLOWHARD! I’ve been listening to Rush, off and on, for some 22 years or so, ever since my bride told me that some guy had been on Sixty Minutes and he said the things I had been saying for years. So, of course, I sent for the transcript to find out who this alter ego of mine was all about. I discovered the bride was right. I don’t listen for all 3 hours of his syndicated broadcast; some days I don’t listen at all and on others I catch him for just...

SWIFT BOAT KERRY AIN’T SO SWIFT Senator John Forbes Kerry (D-MA), much like Senator Charlie Camera-Lovin’ Schumer (D-NY), loves the limelight. After floating trial baloons that he would be a good pick as Senator John McCain’s VP nominee in 2004, (GASP!), it seems he’s finally discovered that he has as good a shot at that as has as his second wife, Teresa Simões-Ferreira Heinz Kerry. Still in his four year old snit at being rebuffed, on Sunday he went on CBS’ Deface the Nation, as Rush Limbaugh calls that show, and defamed his wannabe 2004 running mate in typical, sniveling...

> TEEN “TECHNO-VIRGINS” (PART ONE) Published in July 13th, 2008 Okay, I’m a tad too prudish when it comes to this topic so I’ll let the reader get the specifics from this Salon.com article. It directly relates to my previously-published posts on those Gloucester High Girls Gone Wild and to the promiscuous inclinations of today’s kids: http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2008/05/21/teens_oral_sex/. It’s tough to label them kids anymore since that designation brings to mind children playing with Barbies and watching Sesame Street. Then again, twelve-year olds haven’t engaged in those innocent activities for quite a while, if ever. And I’m certainly not referring to...

CHARLES SCHUMER: CHUCKIE OR CHARLEY? Senator Charles Ellis (Chuck) Schumer (D-NY) has been aptly called “the Gloria Allred of Politics” because of his penchant for publicity and his insatiable, daily need to shoot his mouth off about something, virtually anything, if it will get his face plastered all over the media. Now he’s being ripped by the federal bank regulators for, in effect, yelling, “Fire!” in a movie theater and causing a run on the Indy-Mac Bank: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/laland/2008/07/feds-cite-schum.html. Of course, he denies the charge, as expected, and he blames the regulators. Schumer should be forgiven even if he is guilty...

TEEN “TECHNO-VIRGINS” (PART TWO) For some reason, Part One of this very mini-series resulted in quite a rise in interest. Some clarification is in order. Salon.com had published a piece by Lynn Harris, entitled, “The Rainbow Party Is Over,” http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2008/05/21/teens_oral_sex/, which I referenced in Part One on July 13th, 2008. I had not given the details or even an explanation of Harris’ title, and, out of delicacy, nor does she except to provide a link which obfuscates the subject even more, except to say, “rainbow parties are group oral sex parties in which each girl wears a different shade of...

Does this mean that Obama’s official campaign spams?In addition to its other faults, Barack Obama’s official campaign sends what is arguably spam E-mail. We had been a member of my.barackobama.com, but our account was disabled for posting referenced quotations from Obama’s “Dreams From My Father” that demonstrated Obama’s forays into Black Nationalism, referenced excerpts from Michelle Obama’s thesis, and similar material. Obama’s campaign certainly had every right in the world to exercise editorial control over my.barackobama.com (even though the disclaimer at the bottom of each page says it is not responsible for the content) by deciding that our material was...

My spam filter grabs a non-spam email now and then and I've been monitoring what it does so I can adjust the settings and make sure it stops doing that. One of the spam I got last night had the title 'Obama found dead in shock accident'. I'm sure if it said 'Bush' or "McCain' instead of Obama conservatives would be up in arms about it, and so I hope also see this in the same light. I'm in Canada so I'm sure if this breaks a law or not up here. Have any of you in the USA received...

For Tracy Mooney, a married mother of three in Naperville, Ill., the decision to abandon cyber-sense and invite e-mail spam into her life for a month by participating in a McAfee experiment was a bit of a lark. The idea of the Spammed Persistently All Month (S.P.A.M.) experiment — which fittingly started on April Fool's Day — was to have 50 volunteers from around the world answer every spam message and pop-up ad on their PC. What would be the experience in 10 countries when everyday people, armed with a PC and e-mail account McAfee provided for the Global S.P.A.M....

There is a chasm between the GOP Party and the American people that has been created by a break-down of communication as to where the Party stands on issues relative to the good of America and the American people.

A bunch of anti-Obama blogs were apparently shut down on Google’s Blogspot as suspected spam. They say that Obama fans reported them as spam to get rid of them. I have no idea what the truth is. The fear online has been that false information could be spread. It’s another fear that speech can be silenced. (I suppose I should make clear that I don’t think any official Obama campaign effort is remotely behind this if it’s true. The point, instead, is that rogues can cause trouble. This would seem to be a variation on Swiftboating but rather than try...

Why NTU Supports the FairTax: The Fair Tax Act would promote freedom, fairness, and economic opportunity by repealing the income tax and other taxes, abolishing the Internal Revenue Service, and enacting a national sales tax to be administered primarily by the States. Legislative Status: The FairTax has been reintroduced for the 110th Congress. It is H.R. 25 in the House and S. 1025 in the Senate. NTU has endorsed the FairTax since 1998 and continues to work for its adoption Benefits of the FairTax: The FairTax plan brings fairness, transparency, and efficiency to our unfair, complex, and confusing Tax Code....

This is the complete heading on an email I received. "Khalifa Khalifa [Free Republic] Correct Your Information About Islam, The Misunderstood Religion."

When actual economic indicators – unemployment, jobs creation and gross domestic product, for example – aren’t meshing with the media theme of an economy in turmoil, leave it to journalists to create unconventional indicators. That’s just what NBC “Nightly News” anchor Brian Williams did May 29 when he introduced the Spam indicator. Spam sales were 10.6 percent higher in the second quarter of 2008 than the same period in 2007, according to an Associated Press article dated May 28. Its manufacturer, Hormel Foods (NYSE: HRL), has seen profits increase 14 percent. That’s a sign of “our times,” according to Williams....

Double checking my spam box before deleting it today I found out I've been dead since precisely December 30th, 2003...and my wife too. And the daughter we never knew we had. Apparently I was never knew I was well off either, since I left "...an estate of 10.2 million Us Dollars". This may explain why I've been feeling so poorly lately.

Right now, I use the individual version of Spamarrest. However, people have been telling me to consider an alternative, in particular Google Apps Standard, because it's free. I went to their site, and see that it does offer spam filtering. However, Google also offers message filtering, and the minimum cost is $3/user. Here's my question: if a company uses Google Apps Standard, can they integrate message filtering with their own domain name, or must everyone switch to a @gmail.com address? If the former is true, why would anyone pay for Google Message filtering if they can get Apps Standard for...