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Unless of course a precedent has already been set. (Not trolling here... it surprised me as much at you)

Interestingly, Drudge is headlining that Clinton and Carter both issued similar orders under different circumstances. The linked articles lack any real detail at all... (and note that there must be a bias here since both listed are Dems) so it is hard to draw parallels but I wouldn't be surprised if there is more prescident here than we may think... I for one will be sure to follow up on this in the coming days.

I couldn't have written it better.

All the debate that's happened here, and this story was a media ploy all along. It appears that "The once grey lady" of the New York Times shows how transparent it's become at propoganda.

http://drudgereport.com/flash9nyt.htm

Yes, this whole thing was a farce; that article was to promote a book.

This is what I'm talking about. Very nearly 50% of Americans have been convinced, despite clear history to the contrary, that America is *the* preiminent source of evil in this world. If you think it is, you've been programmed, period.

Who's maintaining the Geneva Convention? America, Australia, Britain, maybe Canada? Everyone else, it seems uses wholesale torture and could care less. Well today McCain just bound our hands EVEN FURTHER by legislation intended to make him president. Worse yet, the fact there IS legislation suggests we use torture as a daily constitutional or something.

We lost 40,000 men pushing Hitler's troops out of France, for example; little boys, who's life was just starting...given a gun and told to climb the hedgerows. Now, France acts as if doing so for their freedom was an imposition. They didn't feel that way when the survivors liberated them.

These are end-times. You should already know that by now. Things are about to spiral out of control, helped partially by the press who'd sell out their own country for the sake of a political ideology. So now we're evil, now we need to be stopped, and Bush is a terrorist for giving freedom to oppressed people.

Well, believe it, if you must.

And you have failed to tell us that you got your ideas from the Drudge Report!

Yessir, facts be-damned, and to hell with objectivity. We leftwing geniuses have to stick together. Anything and everything printed in the Times is 100% factual, especially if it beats up on our favorite punching bag, "Dubya". Always take it at face value, and continue to seriously believe that we are each intellectually superior to GeeDub...

http://www.drudgereport.com/flash9nyt.htm

Thanks, Drudge Report.

many web sites don't display properly...
That caught my eye, and I thought of DRUDGE REPORT 2005
Occasionally, I cannot get the page to fully load. Can't figure out why.
I use Opera 8.51 for linux, Mozilla Firefox 1.5, it seems to happen in both of them.

www.onebillionviews.com

I think he could get a good start by hijacking the address of The Drudge Report...

Yes, much like you have to reboot your computer from time to time, we're going to reboot our computer from time to time to make sure it doesn't happen again. - this is the last sentence found in this story. As you can see it is now a popular attitude - computers need to be rebooted time to time. Did this perception came out of GNU/Linux world? No. Not even Macs. It came from the MS/Windows world and I am not going to disagree with it. MS builds these so called OSs that create this perception in the peoples' minds. People don't even understand that computers/software built right do not need to be rebooted at all. Ever.

Blogs are a huge thing in the capital, with sites like the drudge report having huge impact.

Anonymous political blogs often serves as whistleblower outlets. For Mr. Hastert to make an official blog, and actually post relevant political opinions must take some guts.

http://drudgereport.com/flash4.htm FLASHBACK: HILLARY CLINTON SAYS INTERNET NEWS NEEDS 'RETHINK' Sun Sep 25 2005 16:52:50 ET China on Sunday imposed new media restrictions designed to limit the news and other information available to Internet users, sharply restricting the scope of content that can be posted on Web sites. In 1998 during a meeting with reporters, Hillary Rodham Clinton said that "we are all going to have to rethink how we deal with" the Internet because of the handling of White House sex scandal stories on Web sites. Clinton was asked whether she favored curbs on the Internet, after the DRUDGE REPORT made headlines with coverage of her husband's affair with a White House intern. "We are all going to have to rethink how we deal with this, because there are all these competing values ... Without any kind of editing function or gatekeeping function, what does it mean to have the right to defend your reputation?" she said. Hillary Clinton Continued: "I don't have any clue about what we're going to do legally, regulatorily, technologically -- I don't have a clue. But I do think we always have to keep competing interests in balance. I'm a big pro-balance person. That's why I love the founders -- checks and balances; accountable power. Anytime an individual or an institution or an invention leaps so far out ahead of that balance and throws a system, whatever it might be -- political, economic, technological --out of balance, you've got a problem, because then it can lead to the oppression people's rights, it can lead to the manipulation of information, it can lead to all kinds of bad outcomes which we have seen historically. So we're going to have to deal with that. And I hope a lot of smart people are going to --" REPORTER: Sounds like you favor regulation. MRS. CLINTON: Bill, I don't know what -- that's why I said I don't know what I'm in favor of. And I don't know enough to know what to be in favor of, because I think it's one of those new issues we've got to address. We've got to see whether our existing laws protect people's right of privacy, protect them against defamation. And if they can, how do you do that when you can press a button and you can't take it back. So I think we have to tread carefully. END

Change your home page to a pipe-delimited list.

http://slashdot.org/|http://fark.com/|http://cnn.c om/|http://www.drudgereport.com/|http://finance.ya hoo.com/|http://blogorrhea.blog.blog/|etc.

Can you give me an example of how the US government is moving to limit the freedom of expression of citizens in the USA? Even Cindy Sheehan is freely calling George W. Bush the biggest terrorist in the world.

the method can be summed up as follows: start with a simple one-sentence summary of a story

Firefox Changes Mandate Version Upgrade

Because we're geeks (and slashdot needs to report "new" news everyday), add version numbers

Firefox 1.1 Changes Mandate Version Upgrade To 1.5

But that's too long and informative... we could try shortening and leave the details for the article:

Firefox 1.1 Changes

or

Firefox 1.1 Update

But that's not inflammatory... We need a one-word summation that will scare/startle people immediately upon reading it, but is not too far from the truth

Firefox 1.1 Scrapped

In a shock announcement today, Roland Piquepaquille announced that he has purchased the majority (51%) of the well known news syndication site, Drudge Report.

since everyone bitches about how they have no content, let's see how many present their content, or rather: how many are black text on white background...

EVIL

* underlined+bold
* drop shadow
* cream background, not much of an improvement. some of the header text is glossy (shiney / embossed / see above one / other various "auto-artistic" trash ).
* the tiny images illustrating each entry, are dithered (i guess with a "web palette" [making it look even more horrible], which people stopped doing 5+ years ago) then jpg'd.
* cyan background (the name of 100% green + 100% blue)
* purple text, orange links. no, that's not better.
* yes i really want to be tortured with your family album pics
* half of the people leave directly (or die) with the header
* light yellow (piss-water yellow?) background.
* "I.Mter-
views" ?
i don't get it. dashes in headlines are satan.
* scary vector portrait
* horrible. evil. tasteless.
* scarier than the sixapart girl.
* yellow background.

GOOD

* pear/white background. title with first letter biggie, first line in different font from rest.
* greenish tasty tone over everything ...which i didn't follow. great. thanks. as for the equally bad link-colours being that horrible default-blue/purple, it was only around 10%. this was checking 70% of the a-list. methinks those popular people should hire someone to design their site

good design = pyros, don't remember any other. and yeah, it's not a blog.
says intersting things = ms g33k. who i'm not sure is a good thing to link, i won't link myself.

Uniform Driver's License Standards vs. The Mark of the Beast

The Social Security card was never meant to be used for identification purposes. When the system was created in 1935, to assuage the concerns of American citizens, Congress insisted that the card would never and should never be used for purposes of identification. Its sole purpose was to ensure that workers were paying the required payroll tax. Individual workers were assigned numbers so that the proper governing authority could easily account for the contributions made to the Social Security fund. Nonetheless, the use of the number grew steadily over the years. Starting in 1961, the Civil Service Commission began using the number to identify all federal employees. In 1962, the IRS started requiring the number to appear on all completed tax returns.

This document explores the ways the SSN does not qualify as a violation of the warning of Revelation Chapter 13 concerning the mark of the beast. And why there is a new system coming soon that will come far too close. And given the drifting useage of the SSN, this new system is guaranteed, by design, to be in full violation of the warning, once the technology takes its logical course.

This new system of nationally uniform drivers license standards are standards written by the federal government that change licensing entirely. In fact it's a nice bit of newspeak to call it anything BUT a National ID card. It makes this turkey an easier sell. I, however, will call it what it is.

Since 9-11, many countries are working on National ID cards, including the United States. The plan is actually harder sell in liberal Europe than the US because Europe still has memories of how Nazi Germany used travel documentation in WWII as a means of control.

Tony Blair has opted for a voluntary cards. "However, it will be virtually impossible for anyone to live a normal life without the new ID card in England - possession of a valid card will be necessary for boarding an aircraft, buying gas, opening a bank account, starting a job or claiming government benefits." So much for "voluntary", unless you don't need to go anywhere. Like out of Germany in the late 1930's.

In the US, the voices against the National ID plan are almost exclusively pro-immigration groups. Seeing the majority of the population, including the church, relatively unsympathetic towards immigrants, and often downright hostile, is unfortunate. Especially considering the balance of the church's time is spent preaching, in a sense, what comes around, goes around. It reminds me of the poetic account of the rise of Nazi Germany.

When the Nazis came for the communists,
I did not speak out
because I was not a communist.

When they came for the social democrats,
I did not speak out
because I was not a social democrat.

When they came for the trade unionists
I did not speak out
because I was not a trade unionist.

When they came for the Jews
I did not speak out
because I was not a Jew;

When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out.
-Martin Niemöller (1892-1984)

To think that these IDs are someone else's problem is a falsehood in the first place. Such an ID card, if put into place, will be a gift to identity thieves, who will now be able to get all the information they need from multiple sources as seemingly innocuous as your video rental store. State DMVs have alrea

Free websites for the most part

Here are the sites in my News pull down
http://www.drudgereport.com/
http://www.slashdot.org/
http://www.jpost.com/
http://www.maarivintl.com/index.cfm
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/
http://www.arabnews.com/
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/
http://news.google.com/
http://www.kcna.co.jp/index-e.htm
feed://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_world_ed it ion/front_page/rss.xml
http://www.globalsecurity.org/

I also hit CNN.com, some of the other British papers on the web, occasionally the local news TV station's websites.

My focus is on the Middle East, so I hit alot of Israeli papers. I go to about 1 blog everyother day, other than Fark.

Drudge Report is another site that still defies Firefox and Safari with pop-unders. Still very irritating, but not even close to being as irritating as those javascript ones that float around on the window that you have to chase down with the mouse, trying to click a tiny, moving close-box.

This one was, a few weeks ago. Not sure if it still does.

Does this have anything to do with a 3 Gig HD in a cell phone?
Aren't there better places for this kind of material?

404 File Not Found
The requested URL (apple/05/02/28/%3CA%20HREF=) was not found.

If you feel like it, mail the url, and where ya came from to pater@slashdot.org.


Here's a link to at least a similar story. Got the link from DrudgeReport.com

http://www.drudgereport.com/

go here and click on a link, you will get a popup...

but, if you set your mousewheel button to open links in a new tab you wont get a popup...

Also, it appears to contain a tweak to the Safari popup blocker, as it now seems to be blocking the new popunders that everyone has been clamoring about.

I'm running 10.3.8 with this latest security update, and I'm still getting popunders in Safari at several websites, like http://www.snopes.com/ and http://www.drudgereport.com/, so I guess it's not fixed afterall.

Sure. www.drudgereport.com. You're missing the point of this article. Most of the rest of us haven't seen a popup in forever either. But a month or two ago one or two broke through some of us, and in the past few weeks I've noticed it more and more. Just because *you* didn't get any doesnt' mean it's not happening.

If you dont' get a popup at drudge, you must have adblock installed or something, because I've been getting popups there for about three days. Since I switched to Firefox 7 I have NEVER seen one at that site, or any other.

http://www.drudgereport.com/

with javascript enabled i get a popup in mozilla-1.7.5 even with "Block unrequested popup windows" checked in preferences, but if i disable javascript i don't get popups...

Try Drudge Report.

Lately I've been hearing complaints by people using Firefox of some sites having pop-ups come up again. The biggest complaint coming from people that visit The Drudge Report. I too have seen them.

However, ever since I started using the Adblock extension, as well as keeping an updated list of definitons, I haven't had these problems lately.

Drudgereport seems to pop for me on Firefox all of a sudden. It just started happening w/in the last week.

has anyone read the drudgereport yet this morning?

check out the top headline...

http://drudgereport.com/

On a slightly related note, I've noticed that for a while now, the Drudge Report has figured out how to slip a pop-under in on Firefox. I haven't really looked at the code to figure out how he's doing it, but it's a little dismaying that the Firefox folks haven't addressed this yet.

The Internet has been my primary new source since then. I watched 9/11. I watched the landings on Mars. Suggested news sites:

• Drudge
• CNN
• FOX News
• SlashDot
• BBC

All you need is Drudge...

like O'Reilly's last interview!

all the ones that insist on registration suck dirt clods, i have enough to remember besides another user name and password...

they would benefit more by making their on line newspaper more Spartan like http://www.drudgereport.com/ and forget all the fancy graphics and flash animation just keep it simple & light for low bandwith consumption, the more complicated html, javascript, css, and the rest is the more work you will be putting in to keeping your website updated...

Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist will be replaced during President Bush's second term in office. It is certain that Associate Justice Clarence Thomas will be nominated for Chief Justice. This is the one they'll hope to get in once the Dems are done fighting against the nomination of Ashcroft. He's the one who'll lead the charge to repeal much of what was accomplished during the previous four decades.

Here's the Drudge Report on this, and here's the Google search for more articles about this topic.

proper link, pulled from a story I did on my jackwhispers website

As of this moment, http://www.drudgereport.com/ has this on the top of the left-most column: Attorney General John Ashcroft 'plans to submit his resignation to Bush in the next several days'...

Whether or not we can trust Drudge is another issue altogether, but there's a link for now ;) Also, I heard the same rumor on Fox News earlier in the evening suggesting that Mr. Ashcroft would be handing in his resignation this week.

Ashcroft is retiring!!! Then again, I might want to marginalize my previous statement, since I am placing my negative karma in the hands of a dude that looks a hairy Comic Book Dude from the Simpsons. . .

http://www.drudgereport.com/

If the margin of victory is > than the uncounted votes then victory is assured, because any other result is mathematically eliminated. At that point, it is safe to concede.

Ohio: 100% of Precincts Reporting
Bush: 51% @ 2,794,346 votes
Kerry: 48% @ 2,658,125 votes
Margin: 136,221 votes
Provisional Votes: approx. 175,000
Provisional % for Kerry to win: approx. 78%
Req. Increase over Statewide % for Kerry to win: 30%
Odds of that happening: slim to none

All factual evidence at this time is pointing that Kerry has lost Ohio.

Incidentally,
National Margin for John F Kennedy's 1960 election: 303,768 votes
National Margin for George Bush's 2004 election: 3,535,203 votes

Seems like this link at Drudge is what you're looking for. It is, unfortunately, not really informational.

According to an exclusive report at Drudge, there has been massive fraud in Philly. In many machines around the city they found, nearly 2000, votes already in the machine before voting even started. Nobody is reporting to who the votes belong too, but I guess the concerns (here and here) were valid ones.

According to an exclusive report at Drudge, there has been massive fraud in Philly. In many machines around the city they found, nearly 2000, votes already in the machine before voting even started. Nobody is reporting to who the votes belong too, but I guess the concerns (here and here) were valid ones.

Let's keep a tally of sites with relevant information. Not sure if there's a bias in their reporting of news, but I've come to like Real Clear Politics as a way to keep track of the polls, etc.

Of course there's always non-US news sites like The Guardian and The Economist's articles regarding the election.

Breaking "news" also appears on Drudge Report. As far as blogs go, I don't really have any good ones. Any other ones you guys like?

Submitted this, but in case it gets rejected, Matt Drudge is reporting that about 2,000 votes were "planted" in Philadelphia-area voting machines before the polling places opened this morning. I guess it would be un-Drudgelike to mention which candidate the votes favored, but regardless, here's the abstract as of thirty seconds ago:

Before voting even began in Philadelphia -- poll watchers found nearly 2000 votes already planted on machines scattered throughout the city... One incident occurred at the SALVATION ARMY, 2601 N. 11th St., Philadelphia, Pa: Ward 37, division 8... pollwatchers uncovered 4 machines with planted votes; one with over 200 and one with nearly 500... A second location, 1901 W. Girard Ave., Berean Institute, Philadelphia, Pa, had 300+ votes already on 2 machines at start of day... INCIDENT: 292 votes on machine at start of day; WARD/DIVISION: 7/7: ADDRESS: 122 W. Erie Ave., Roberto Clemente School, Philadelphia, Pa.; INCIDENT: 456 votes on machine at start of day; WARD/DIVISION: 12/3; ADDRESS: 5657 Chew Ave., storefront, Philadelphia, Pa... A gun was purposely made visible to scare poll watchers at Ward 30, division 11, at 905 S. 20th St., Grand Court. Police were called and surrounded the location... Developing...

Drudge is saying voting machines were found with hundreds of votes on them, _before_ polling started in philidepllhia. Anyone know if they use diabold machines there?

Matt Drudge said he will run exit-polilng data through the day. He did during the 2002 election. The major networks agreed to stop doing this after the 2000 problems.

US election data doesn't compress into simple numbers very easily. I'd recommend those traveling use either a car-mounted or handheld radio... using the radio in AM mode would be highly recommended in most areas because news format stations are typically found there, although there are a few FM news/talk stations in existance.

First off. Expect to know nothing useful until polls close. It's US media tradition not to release exit poll data or make winner projections until the polls in any given state are closed under the theory that early victory news might discurage turnout and affect the outcome. Therefore, don't bother looking for results during the daytime. Nobody's going to be projecting a winner until well into primetime. The only major site that might break this tradition is The Drudge Report, but its unknown what kind of info Drudge will get.

Then there's the complexity of the Electoral College system. Really, there isn't one election happening tomorrow, there's fifty state elections plus one more for D.C. over which slate of electors to send forward. Having a running total of the national popular vote is not useful data because that's data that doesn't lead to anything.

Further complexing things is that there's also hundreds of Congressional races tomorrow because every seat in the House of Representatives and one-third of the Senate come up for re-election as they do every two years. The control of the majority of both of those bodies will be in play tomorrow as well. And let's not forget that many states have ballot question issues and local offices in play as well.

So... when you add it all up there's over 500 seperate races of national importance to consider tomorrow. No small text screen can do it justice... use radio and TV and let them explain it one by one. Sit back, and relax... the pundits will be on all night because there's going to be a lot for them to talk about.

Kerry still isn't actually sure what he would do. Even with a massive amount of hindsight available to him. He might have done something, or he might not. Thats his stance. Still. Its amazing that you can continue to deceive yourself about John Kerry on national defense.

See the link So the casualty count would probably have been the same. Remember to vote!