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For clarification GP means this type of AA Battery:

http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/02057T736e8oT/610x.jpg

Not this type:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Energizer_reghargeble_batteryIMG_0006.JPG/220px-Energizer_reghargeble_batteryIMG_0006.JPG

Still not funny though.

Notice a pattern about her Android articles?

http://labs.daylife.com/journalist/nancy_gohring

One guess, which type of phone does Nancy own? i...

Googling "somali pirates fought back" yields quite a few articles about N Korean, S Korean, Egyptian, and Spanish ships that fought back successfully. These are untrained men with improvised weapons - not trained men with rifles.

These pirates aren't "multiple decade battle hardened militants". Most have NO organized military training whatsoever. The process of recruiting for Armies in Somali wars consists of driving around in pickup trucks yanking young men off the street. Somali "veterans" are veterans of little more than the usual random violence that plagues the country.

No, I'm quite certain that the other posters are right. It's the entry rules to various ports that keep ships from arming themselves. In many cases where crew has had some means to fight back and has tried, the pirates have cut and run. They are after easy money - not a prolonged fight. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ships_attacked_by_Somali_pirates)

That's not the same as dehumanizing Michelle Obama for being black.

Right. The same thing would be likening George H. W. Bush or his close confederates to members of the KKK. And no one would do that.

After all, these people are white, southern and conservative, so they must be racists, right?

In fairness, I do think the Obama/monkey pictures are more offensive, since they are based on nothing but race, but I feel like I'm probably guilty of some kind of double standard, because pictures of Bush as a chimp or a KKK member don't bother me at all... and they probably should.

I'm sorely disappointed in Obama, too. He is in no way leftist or progressive. He is a right-center Reagan worshiper. He has admitted that Reagan is his favorite president.

However, it is in fact a complete fabrication that Obama won't put his hand over his heart:

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/fact-checker/2007/11/obama_nabbed_by_the_patriotic.html

http://robinhoecker.wordpress.com/2009/05/26/obama-observes-memorial-day-at-arlington/

http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/go9LID8MV0W/Obama+Gives+Commencement+Address+Arizona+State/xOfJ7prujMA/Michael+Crow

http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/0eMG9fn0agffK/340x.jpg

http://herstory07.wordpress.com/2008/01/28/this-is-why-i-hate-fwdfwdfwds/

So, you have provided me with another example of the lack of logic and facts regarding Obama-hate.

www.daylife.com

hehe, shameless plug. But seriously, the future of news is curation and aggregation. :)

That explains why he is actually looking at the BOOK in this picture. I'd ace college too, if I could ignore those two.

http://www.daylife.com/photo/076m3k4g056Fe

> he'll probably discover in his teenage years that he lacks peers

He seems to be doing better with relating to girls than many slashdotters:

http://www.daylife.com/photo/076m3k4g056Fe

So maybe his social skills are OK.

Taxpayers have repeatedly asked the candidate to establish his eligibility -- just the normal birth certificate, passport history, citizenship history. The campaign has repeatedly gone to court to have these requests dismissed on lack of standing. Seeing such normal citizenship documents hidden is unprecedented, particularly for a politician, but going to court to keep them hidden is the point which first caught my attention.

The citizenship questions are numerous and reasonable:

-- Obama's half-sister Maya also has a Hawaii Certificate of Live Birth, like the Kos/Factcheck document. She was admittedly born in Indonesia. (Hawaii COLBs are registrations, rather than actual hospital documents, and foreign births qualify.)

-- No record has been found of the hospital in Hawaii where he was born... no doctor, no nurses have stepped forward and said they were there. The birth announcement in a local newspaper listed an address, and neighbors say they don't remember such a family at that address. His sister Maya has claimed two different birth hospitals in Hawaii. The lack of witnesses is not conclusive, just strange. Releasing the normal documents would help clear it up.

-- The campaign's fightthesmears.com website still says that at one time he held British citizenship, which seems to conflict with the office's requirement for "natural-born citizenship":
http://fightthesmears.com/articles/5/birthcertificate

-- June 2008 an Associated Press reporter photographed Obama's school record in Indonesia. It listed him as a citizen of Indonesia. People say Indonesian schools did not accept non-citizens at the time. This is the only formal record still public of his citizenship.
http://www.daylife.com/photo/01u33pL9Ns06D

-- He mentioned a visit to Pakistan during college. Some say this was off-limits to Americans at that time, but accessible to citizens of Indonesia. The first US passport we know of him holding was as a US senator much later. Opening up his passport record and travel history could help this issue go away.

-- School records are all withheld. Other politicians regularly release their grades. Some question whether he received foreign-student aid. Opening up school records, as other candidates do, could clear up this issue.

-- Media coverage of the questions has severely distorted the issues. This sometimes happens spontaneously, but....

Just opening up the normal citizenship records, to the normal degree, would have cleared away all these questions long ago. Yet there is unprecedented opacity. An open forum on "open government" would naturally draw these as prime questions.

"Why is it taboo?" Because questioners are personally attacked. Ad hominem, not ad rem. Scary.

(And yes, it is staggering that opposition candidates, media, and even "right wing bloggers" would attack or distort such questions. But the questions themselves are simple, reasonable, and answerable. The implications are significant.)

I'm sure these were the signs to where he was talking about !
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01211/2712signs5_1211111i.jpg or was it this one http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/0gCDgR3gVP9B6/610x.jpg. Both are totally safe for work


What a dumbass

Not that it matters much, but this canard about only Indonesian citizens enrolling in schools in Indonesia is complete crap and is further evidence of just how morally bankrupt the entire "controversy" is.

I not only happen to live right across the straits from Indonesia [1], I also keep going there for short-trips, one as recently as two weeks back. Many of my colleagues, including my immediate boss, are Indonesian, as are many friends; many more grew up as ex-pats in Jakarta, in ways similar to Obama did in the 60's. Take it from me; you dont need to be Indonesian to attend a school there. It is a piece of absolute and complete rubbish that should insult anybody's intelligence.

On further googling: Perhaps you meant to talk about this piece of excrement, the true extent of whose stench is only apparent when you realize that Obama attended a public school that's colloquially called as SDN Besuki, and not a Catholic school named after St Francis of Assisi in Bahasa Indonesia (that's Indonesia's national language, in case you were wondering).

[1] - I mean that in a reality-based, non-Palin-isque sense; yes, Indonesia is just across the Straits of Malacca, some 45 min away by boat. I can, indeed, see Indonesia on a clear day and sometimes receive Indonesian mobile network while I'm in my own room.

Easy to find out, just ask google for "clubbing a staked-out bunny" - it provides around 90 results, all of them apparently copies or links to the article we are discussing here. So "who EVER says that?" - just Bruce Byfield, it appears.

It's interesting... I believe we are watching a new term being born! When I posted my original comment (grandparent to this comment), Google had only FOUR hits for the term. Now, the next morning, as I post this... Google has 235 hits for the term including a hit on "dailylife.com" under the "Natalie Portman" topic http://www.daylife.com/topic/Natalie_Portman/articles/custom/date/1?end=20081112&start=20081111

I'm going to start using that phrase in day-to-day conversations and see if I can get it as popular as "Bob's your Uncle"

Give the guy a break! The first result in a Google Image Search reveals this guy.

You know, yours started out as a seemingly somewhat insightful comment. Then you come in with lines like, "The Associated (with terrorists) Press" and you unmask yourself as totally off your rocker. It also doesn't help that almost all of your links point to what is clearly essentially a political propaganda site.

OK. I realize I probably won't change your mind, but I do want you to know I didn't throw that term out without reason. Here's why I said what I said:

AP Admits relationship with terrorists
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/009026.php

another angle to that same story: AP photographer Rahmatullah Naikzad was a witness to a Taliban murder.
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/07/associated-with.html

AP and Reuters photographer Bilal Hussein colludes with insurgents
http://sirhumphreys.blogspot.com/2005/10/ap-and-reuters-photographer-bilal.html

Gunmen take up position behind a garbage bin **as they engage British troops** in central Basra, Iraq: http://www.snappedshot.com/archives/1005-Embedded-with-the-Enemy.html

http://caosblog.com/5367

"A group of smugglers recently gave an Associated Press photographer rare permission to accompany them as they dug one tunnel..."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/14/AR2007081400721.html
More on Kevin Frayer's hang time with the tunnel-digging, weapons-smuggling thugs of Gaza:
http://www.snappedshot.com/archives/1068-Embedded-with-the-Enemy.html
which resulted in some beautiful propaganda shots. Who needs a media relations department when you can get it for free courtesy of AP?
http://www.daylife.com/photo/0h2FcWH0gtbCn
http://www.daylife.com/photo/0eRMfTXdBvcpc/Palestinian_tunnel_diggers

I love the way it's written. It's so non-judgemental.

Gazans are finding an antidote to their growing isolation: digging tunnels under their border with Egypt to smuggle everything from weapons to cigarettes to people.
Gee, when I feel isolated, I go hang with friends. I don't dig tunnels and smuggle weapons like guns, bombs and rockets to be fired indiscriminately into civilian areas. But remember, there's no bias at AP.

one final case:
http://rising.blackstar.com/embedded-with-the-enemy.html

You know, yours started out as a seemingly somewhat insightful comment. Then you come in with lines like, "The Associated (with terrorists) Press" and you unmask yourself as totally off your rocker. It also doesn't help that almost all of your links point to what is clearly essentially a political propaganda site.

OK. I realize I probably won't change your mind, but I do want you to know I didn't throw that term out without reason. Here's why I said what I said:

AP Admits relationship with terrorists
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/009026.php

another angle to that same story: AP photographer Rahmatullah Naikzad was a witness to a Taliban murder.
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/07/associated-with.html

AP and Reuters photographer Bilal Hussein colludes with insurgents
http://sirhumphreys.blogspot.com/2005/10/ap-and-reuters-photographer-bilal.html

Gunmen take up position behind a garbage bin **as they engage British troops** in central Basra, Iraq: http://www.snappedshot.com/archives/1005-Embedded-with-the-Enemy.html

http://caosblog.com/5367

"A group of smugglers recently gave an Associated Press photographer rare permission to accompany them as they dug one tunnel..."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/14/AR2007081400721.html
More on Kevin Frayer's hang time with the tunnel-digging, weapons-smuggling thugs of Gaza:
http://www.snappedshot.com/archives/1068-Embedded-with-the-Enemy.html
which resulted in some beautiful propaganda shots. Who needs a media relations department when you can get it for free courtesy of AP?
http://www.daylife.com/photo/0h2FcWH0gtbCn
http://www.daylife.com/photo/0eRMfTXdBvcpc/Palestinian_tunnel_diggers

I love the way it's written. It's so non-judgemental.

Gazans are finding an antidote to their growing isolation: digging tunnels under their border with Egypt to smuggle everything from weapons to cigarettes to people.
Gee, when I feel isolated, I go hang with friends. I don't dig tunnels and smuggle weapons like guns, bombs and rockets to be fired indiscriminately into civilian areas. But remember, there's no bias at AP.

one final case:
http://rising.blackstar.com/embedded-with-the-enemy.html

Than fully automated sites like Daylife.com

tm

But I'm sure http://daylife.com/ will get there first ;)

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