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It is scrubbing for Google merger.Disclaimer: I vote my way, that tends to be conservative, but I have voted for Democrats in the past, such as Clinton in 1992.
They have banned several Conservative video makers, including Michelle Malkin and HotAir. They have done so recently, despite carrying the videos for over a year without any issues.
Now, Google, the company that bought them, has refused to carry Michelle, LFG, and others as NEWS sites based on the fact that they blog, not present new news. Here are the letters from Google:
Hi Michelle,
Thank you for your note. We have reviewed www.michellemalkin.com but cannot include it in Google News at this time. We do not include news-related blogs or other news-related sites that are written and maintained by a single individual. Similarly, we do not include sites that do not have a formal editorial review process. We appreciate your taking the time to contact us and will log your site for consideration should our requirements change.
Regards,
The Google Team
And LGF:
Hi Charles,
Thank you for your note. We reviewed http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog and cannot include it in Google News at this time. We do not include sites that are purely news aggregators, and we were not able to find any stories on your site that were not from outside sources.
We will log your site for consideration should we alter our policy. Thanks again for taking the time to contact us.
Regards,
The Google Team
BUT they allow several other blogs to be indexed as news, as Charles from LGF points out:
Note that the Google News index now searches quite a few blogs (including Power Line, Polipundit, and Wonkette) and includes other sites with, to say the least, serious credibility problems (including hard-core anarchist site Infoshop, and Justin Raimondo's paleocon antisemitic site antiwar.com). In this context, Google's reply to me seems rather odd.
Other sites of questionable news worthyness but indexed as news: Democratic Underground, Uruknet.info, and Dailykos.
Now if you want to hold yourself out as a "News" indexing service that only indexes news and claim no bias, you have serious issues. Lets point out that Google donates almost exclusively to Democrat candidates and causes and you have a clear bias.
A clear bias when you claim to have none is a problem
I am resonably convinced, barring YouTube or Google coming out and saying it, that they scrubbed the videos as part of the merger deal. As in, no scrub, no deal.
Source for above info: http://michellemalkin.com/archives/001431.htm . Yes yes, she is involved and has an axe to grind, but she also puts together the facts nicely. -
Re:Nice Democrat campaign ad there!
Or for the Israeli inclined, the IDF mouthpiece and conservative echo chamber
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Re:What about mob-rule journalism?
What sort of safeguards are in place to do fact-checking and prevent false/obviously slanted mob-rule style reports from being propagated as fact?
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Re:I think it may be several thingsJust like ANY war, one of the ways to end it is diplomatically. The war they are conducting has goals that they'd like to achieve, and only the most ignorant would think that they want to simply exterminate us.
I don't think that the average American would feel that our country has lost any respect at all if we tried to figure out what is pissing those people off so much, and figured out how to address that problem to remove their reason to fight. It's the only way any lasting peace will be achieved.
We already know what they want, it has never really been a secret. As Islamist extremists, their ultimate goal is to unite all the Muslim lands under a new Caliphate (an Islamic government uniting church and state), and expand its control to the entire earth. This means that they will have to overthrow many of the existing Arab governments to install clerical rule and Sharia (Islamic law). Their plan also includes retaking control of "lost" possessions, like Spain and the formerly Muslim controlled areas from Greece to Austria. Beyond that, they want to expand Muslim control to all of Europe, Africa, Asia,
What is "our" role in this? Their preferred outcome is that we all convert to become Muslims. That was Bin Laden's first demand in his letter to America.(Q2) As for the second question that we want to answer: What are we calling you to, and what do we want from you?
(1) The first thing that we are calling you to is Islam.There should be nothing novel in this. Recently, Palestinian extremists forced two Fox News reporters to "convert" to Islam after taking them hostage. There is a long history of this.
He also wants us to jettison the Constitution and adopt Sharia law, stop drug & alcohol use, homosexuality, sexual immorality, sleeping around, adultery, charging interest on loans, etc., etc. At least it would be easy to remember the penalty for many of these infractions: death, death, death, etc.(2) The second thing we call you to, is to stop your oppression, lies, immorality and debauchery that has spread among you.
(a) We call you to be a people of manners, principles, honour, and purity; to reject the immoral acts of fornication, homosexuality, intoxicants, gambling's, and trading with interest.
(i) You are the nation who, rather than ruling by the Shariah of Allah in its Constitution and Laws, choose to invent your own laws as you will and desire. You separate religion from your policies, contradicting the pure nature which affirms Absolute Authority to the Lord and your Creator.
(iii) You are a nation that permits the production, trading and usage of intoxicants. You also permit drugs, and only forbid the trade of them, even though your nation is the largest consumer of them.
(iv) You are a nation that permits acts of immorality, and you consider them to be pillars of personal freedom. You have continued to sink down this abyss from level to level until incest has spread amongst you, in the face of which neither your sense of honour nor your laws object.
Who can forget your President Clinton's immoral acts committed in the official Oval office? After that you did not even bring him to account, other than that he 'made a mistake', after which every -
Re:Ackthpt's Theorem
Very true. And that is why it will be only a matter of time before the "blogosphere" becomes just as ruthless and corrupt as the power structures it presently confronts. Soon the internets will be so infested with bought-and-paid-for astroturfers that it will be impossible to discriminate between honest opinion and slimy propaganda. The line between the two will blur into a fine pink mist.
This reminds me of a well known right wing Echo Chamber. That, and the entire Pajamas Media network make The Rolling Swinebucket's slashvertisment articles seem tame. -
Re:Which side are you on?
Well, to clarify, I think its rather reactionary to want to spend ridiculous amounts of money so you can avoid having to buy toothpaste and shampoo at your destination.
Besides, there's this thing you might've heard of called checked baggage that'll have no problem taking those kinds of things. If it's longer than a weekend trip, you're probably using it already. Hell, I've even shipped a case of beer that way (carefully packed, with each bottle bubble-wrapped) without problems, and I don't see that option going away anytime in the near future.
Then again, we can't let mere logic get in the way of the moonbats' BDS-afflicted rants, can we?
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Re:consider this...
You may want to apply a "Bagdad Bob" correction to the Lebanese casualty numbers:
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=2197 8_Another_Massacre_That_Wasnt#comments
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Re:It may be too late...
Big brother is not controlling your life. You can basically do and say what you want these days without any worry that anyone gives a shit. That goes double and triple if you live in New York. The best you can say is that Big Brother is watching you. Big Brother is paranoid because we live in a time when a handful of nuts can kill tens of thousands.
Iraq is a perfect example. The number of fighters compared to the number of civilians is a very small ratio. Despite this, a handful of fighters have been able to kill tens of thousands. Further, these fighters are not even a formal army, just a bunch of poor Joe Nobodies with access to explosives. The fighters in Iraq are hardly the worst that can happen. In Iraqi fighters have not yet armed themselves with truly horrific weapons like the infamous "WMDs".
My guess is that the US government (and many other governments) are terrified that someone is going to get a hold of a real weapon and employ it. The consequences of a nuclear bomb going off in New York are too horrific to even contemplate. Forget the lives lost (which would be in the tens or hundreds of millions), but the economic and political impact would be world shattering.
Even if the US didn't respond to a nuclear attack militarily, the economic damage would be almost immeasurable. The economic damage would not just send the US into a deep depression, but it would drag the entire world with it. We are talking about Great Depression style depression that hits every corner of the Earth. The damage to the economies could take decades to repair, massively cut life expectancy all around the world, and in general do very bad things.
That isn't even the worst of it.
The US wouldn't take the nuking of New York kindly. Nukes would reign down somewhere else in the world - sure as shit. US troops would invade, the draft would be called up, and the world remember what it was like when nations fought total war where civilian casualties meant absolutely nothing. No laser targeted bombs and silk gloves trying to put nations back together. We are talking about B-52's carpet bombing cities flat so that when troops move in there is nothing over 3 feet tall to hide behind. It doesn't matter who is the president at the time. The US will scream out for blood and no US president, democrat or republican, will deny them.
The Western world is in a tough spot and I am sympathetic with their concerns, even if I am leery about their methods. They understand the consequences of failure. Ratcheting up surveillance is the only thing they can think of to defend themselves without true Big Brother / USSR style changes in society. I imagine they think of it as, better to watch the people and let them remain free in action, rather then to clamp down securely in ways that would require the tossing of the constitution. I think they have picked between the lesser of two evils.
Doom and gloom aside, the world is not such a bad place yet. There was a protest outside of the Israeli embassy a week or two ago. These protestors might be in a government database somewhere, but I doubt they have vanished. I particularly like the "Islam Will Dominate" sign that has a picture of the White House with a black flag on top of it.
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=2164 7_Terror_Supporters_Turn_Out_in_US&only -
Re:Proper Role of Blogs in a Democracy
For example, conservative blogs gave a convincing analysis questioning the veracity of documents presented by Dan Rather in his report aired on "60 Minutes".
No, they provided concrete proof the documents were created with Microsoft Word and not a typewriter, therefore they are fake, since Microsoft Word did not exist in the 1970s.
Soon afterwards, actual journalists examined the suspect documents in detail and concluded that their are likely fake.
No, they are absolutely fake.
Rather eventually apologized for using unverified documents to slander a political candidate
Before the story ran, CBS sent the documents to their own experts. Even CBS' experts said there is no evidence that the documents are real. CBS ran the story anyway, when their own experts said the documents were likely fake, far more than "unverified".
Not quite. CBS apologized, Rather did not, and neither did his producer, Mary Mapes, who still gives speeches claiming that the documents are real.
The real story, is how often does CBS manufacture news when it isn't so easy to check? If CBS had not put these documents on their website, for anyone to look at, just about everyone would conclude they are real. After all, CBS doesn't lie, do they? They're a responsible news organization! How many other CBS stories are based on bogus evidence?
Look, I can understand how some people dislike Bush, but if you can't make a case against him based on fact, then you don't have a very strong case. CBS fell into the trap of many radicals: ignore the facts when they don't fit your predetermined opinion.
saying that 4 years of undergraduate study leading to a journalism degree from Harvard University is a waste of time.
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Special Dan Rather Edition?CBS News? Would this be the special Dan Rather edition, with Microsoft Word 1972, indluding the the Extra Special Font Kerning package? Man, that would be well worth $29!
(The confused can click here.)
Maybe people should pass until a real news organization starts putting out DVDs...
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Re:Yes but what do you do about...
You know, there was a time when doing that sort of thing was called treason...
Y'know, a certain Yalie named The Beast who's got many of his own demonspawn in offices all over seems to grant Rove a nice exemption from treason.
Go back to the LGF, and stay back in your nice little Yale-styled gated community. -
Re:Yes but what do you do about...
You know, there was a time when doing that sort of thing was called treason...
Y'know, a certain Yalie named The Beast who's got many of his own demonspawn in offices all over seems to grant Rove a nice exemption from treason.
Go back to the LGF, and stay back in your nice little Yale-styled gated community. -
Bush Derangement Syndrome strikes again
Let the BDS posts begin:
http://drsanity.blogspot.com/2005/11/lets-discuss- bush-derangement-syndrome.html
http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry= 9173
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_Derangement_Synd rome
http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/charleskra uthammer/2003/12/05/160406.html
You guys really need to grow up and start thinking.
waiting for the flamebait mod from a lib...
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Re:Important for the Old Debate
It has nothing to do with the people reading the page as much as it has to do with the fact that there are -in the real, non-satirical world- actual right-wing nutjobs ^W pundits who make shelly look like a democrat. For instance, read the comments at either little green footballs or free republic and you'll see why it's hard to distinguish a parody of right-wing rhetoric from the real deal.
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Re:Doesn't help fight terrorismUh-huh.
Well, if we lose the war against Islamic Global Domination, (you know, the one that Iran has been building the Bomb for) and people like this guy
are in charge, you are going to wish that having your email read was your biggest problem.
After the adoption of Sharia Law, you can bleat about your precious liberty and privacy as you are taken away to be slowly hanged from a crane.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&as_qdr=all
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Re:Parodies, "fair use" and Melbourne IT
In other countries doing things like that would get you fired from your job,
Sounds like an problem with the employer. I'm afraid we don't force employment here in the US like France does (unless you're a 'minority').put on the nofly list,
Have you heard of Michael Moore, Barbra Streisand, or Alec Baldwin being put on a no-fly list? Do you know anyone personally? No? See, it turns out that it's just the usual sloppy work by bureaucrats who confused similar-sounding Arabic names. Joe Caucasian Liberal has nothing to fear, and once we get our representatives to implement proper review procedures maybe we can weed out the incompetents who have screwed up the no-fly list.or even worse they dig up dirt on you and your family in an attempt to embarass or discredit you if you try to tell the truth.
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Re:Yeah yeah yeah
Speaking of "humouring this dangerous religion", enjoy this little music video on the islamist view of life, "It's in the Koran": http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry
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Re:Markos "Screw Them" Zuninga
Anybody remember his infamous "screw them" moment?
This is false. You may want to look into actually reading the links you post -- your page links directly to Kos's comment.
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Markos "Screw Them" ZuningaAnybody remember his infamous "screw them" moment?
Of course you don't, because kos disappeared it because the backlash was so great.
That comment is just one representative example of the "debate" that the kos kids want to have.
If this is the kind of debate kos wants, no wonder his candidates keep losing elections.
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I'd like to point out...
1) I found the historical elements of the book the very compelling - again, while I didn't check facts, I didn't feel I needed to.
And that's exactly the problem. You look at things like the Rather reporting on George Bush and the blatent falsehoods and the Republicans do it so much better then the Democrats. How many people pledged to defeat the Patriot Act only to sell you out and vote for it? But that might not be important to you, that might count as fact-checking. You look at the careful review done about the CBS memo and it becomes startlingly clear that fact checking is not only encouraged in politics, it's required. If dKos is urging you not to trust the people making up the government, then the least you can do is fact check the book. If you don't trust one, why would you even consider trusting the other?
The problem with politics is that people turn their brains off and don't do fact checking. Everyone has their own dollars at stake, they're going to say whatever it takes to get more of those dollars. How many Democrats said they would defeat Bush and the Patriot Act simply to turn around and vote to renew it? -
Re:They Also Surf Who Stand and Wait
lol
Sorry, didn't mean to get your panties in a bunch. I was just saying that it was kind of ironic that you were using kos as a verifiable source. Little Green Footballs cites and sources every story as well you know. -
Actually it would make sense...Apple video ipod needs content.
Disney has lots of it.
Additional benefits are who would be pissed off at this: someone who thinks Tom and Jerry cartoons are a Zionist plot.
Linky:
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=194
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Little Green Footballs
Little Green Footballs.
Now only if I can look at them in peace. Those Islamo-Fascists are going to ruin my Superbowl Sunday. -
Search comparison
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Democrats Received Payments From Abramoff...
...and his clients, a fact amply documented here. To wit:
"National Democrat Party Affiliated Committees Received Over $1.2 Million from Lobbying Associates Of Jack Abramoff. (Campaign Finance Analysis Project Website, Accessed December 7, 2005;
Political Money Line Website, , Accessed December 7, 2005; Internal Revenue Service Website, www.irs.gov, Accessed April 21, 2005)
The Democrat Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) Received Over -$430,000
The Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) Received Over -$629,000
The Democrat National Committee (DNC) Received Over - $177,000
Incumbent Senate Democrat-Affiliated Campaign And Leadership Committees Received Over $729,000 From Indian Tribe Clients And Lobbying Associates Of Jack Abramoff*. (Campaign Finance Analysis Project Website, , Accessed December 7, 2005; Political Money Line Website, ,
Accessed December 7, 2005; Internal Revenue Service Website, , Accessed April 21, 2005)
40 Of The 45 Members Of The Senate Democrat Caucus:
Senator Max Baucus (D-MT) Received At Least - $22,500
Senator Evan Bayh (D-IN) Received At Least - $6,500
Senator Joseph Biden (D-DE) Received At Least - $1,250
Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) Received At Least - $2,000
Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) Received At Least - $20,250
Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA) Received At Least - $21,765
Senator Tom Carper (D-DE) Received At Least - $7,500
Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) Received At Least - $12,950
Senator Kent Conrad (D-ND) Received At Least - $8,000
Senator Jon Corzine (D-NJ) Received At Least - $7,500
Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT) Received At Least - $14,792
Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND) Received At Least - $79,300
Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) Received At Least - $14,000
Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) Received At Least - $2,000
Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) Received At Least - $1,250
Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) Received At Least - $45,750
Senator Daniel Inouye (D-HI) Received At Least - $9,000
Senator Jim Jeffords (I-VT) Received At Least - $2,000
Senator Tim Johnson (D-SD) Received At Least - $14,250
Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA) Received At Least - $3,300
Senator John Kerry (D-MA) Received At Least - $98,550
Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA) Received At Least - $28,000
Senator Pat Leahy (D-VT) Received At Least - $4,000
Senator Carl Levin (D-MI) Received At Least - $6,000
Senator Joe Lieberman (D-CT) Received At Least - $29,830
Senator Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) Received At Least - $14,891
Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) Received At Least - $10,550
Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) Received At Least - $78,991
Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL) Received At Least - $20,168
Senator Ben Nelson (D-NE) Received At Least - $5,200
Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) Received At Least - $7,500
Senator Mark Pryor (D-AR) Received At Least - $2,300
Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) Received At Least - $3,500
Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) Received At Least - $68,941
Senator John Rockefeller (D-WV) Received At Least - $4,000
Senator Ken Salazar (D-CO) Received At Least - $4,500
Senator Paul Sarbanes (D-MD) Received At Least - $4,300
Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) Received At Least - $29,550
Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) Received At Least - $6,250
Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) Received At Least - $6,250"
Since liberals have pinned all their hopes of regaining Congress in this year's election, the bipartisan nature of the Abramoff scandal is a truth which must be surpressed at all costs.
The system that allows the federal government to pick winners and losers with your tax dollars is the real problem. You won't get the money out of politics until you get the politics out of money. -
Re:I wonder what these are for?
I'm pretty much there with you.
There is no way that President Bush would ask, say, the NSA to do anything illegal is there?
And, although there may be a few renegades, there isn't much of official Washington that would use secrets for political gain.
But then there is the press which has recently developed some badly misplaced priorities, actively supporting and publicizing leaks of sensitive ongoing intelligence and military operations against the enemy over and over again. You would think it would be easy to understand that this harms our national security, yet much of the mainstream media passes over the issue in silence. On the other hand, they have endless energy and interest in a kerfuffle involving no crime.
Maybe the media will start taking the war more seriously if Al Qaeda makes significant progress in their announced goal of killing four million Americans. Or maybe not. If there are more successful large scale terrorist attacks in the United States, aided by the media's disclosure of on-going military and intelligence operations, I expect that the majority of the media won't engage in self-examination, but will rather most likely start banging the drums from the fever swamp. The fever swamp runs deep, and support for the President among the media is thin.
Well, if the other party gains power, maybe things will change... or maybe not.
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Don't forget Gunga Dan
How 'bout this one?
"If the documents are not what we were led to believe, I'd like to break that story,"
Dan Rather, referring to the forged Texas Air National Guard documents.
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Unfuck yourself!
Hey you stupid shit, the pentagon and the Administration are always looking to screw the little guy in the forces. Also, you're clearly too shortsighted to remember what his daddy, and the earlier republicans have done. Friends of the Military, they are not. Why so many servicemen support them defies me. They're always closing hospitals and bases (screwing over the towns that need them). They're always going after pensions and health care. They're always going after bonuses and hazard pay.
If one kept a journal of every time they tried to fuck over the backbone of the military, you'd have a thousand page book in short time. But since you're so sold on the party line, and how "liberals" (aka anyone against "them") are the spawn of Satan, Saddam, Lenin, Carl Marx, Mao, Stalin, Adolf Hitler and The Smurfs, then no amount of enlightenment is likely to eject your head from your ass, but it's worth a try, I guess.
Witness:
http://www.armytimes.com/story.php?f=1-292259-1989 240.php/
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/20 03/08/14/MN94780.DTL/
http://www.iupa.org/newsroom/PayDiff.html
http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,74425, 00.html
http://actforvictory.org/act.php/truth/articles/20 06_wont_be_first_year_bush_cuts_support_for_vetera ns
But, hey, they vote, and people support them also tend to vote, so they aren't so quick to clusterfuck their pawns in front of public scrutiny:
http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry= 7830
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Any Images of the School Bus Fiasco??
Are there any Google images of the Ray Nagin Memorial Motor Pool.
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Re:You don't have to shoot anybody.
If you are willing to be run over by bulldozers to get your point across.
Doesn't work. Just ask Rachel Corrie She gets called a terrorist collaborator and much worse by the wingnuts here in the US. -
In other related Google news...
Little Green Footballs thinks Google's automated news is liberally biased. Some inane comments in here including:
GOOGLE as in Vast Left Wing Corporation, need I say more?
and...
somebody at Google News put down the "Death to Amerikkka" sign long enough to edit the news feed
and...
Someone please explain to me how their shares can trade for $281. What utter nonsense.
Heh. Conservatives and their (lack of) technological knowledge.
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In other related Google news...
Little Green Footballs thinks Google's automated news is liberally biased. Some inane comments in here including:
GOOGLE as in Vast Left Wing Corporation, need I say more?
and...
somebody at Google News put down the "Death to Amerikkka" sign long enough to edit the news feed
and...
Someone please explain to me how their shares can trade for $281. What utter nonsense.
Heh. Conservatives and their (lack of) technological knowledge.
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Re:"Bullet-riddled" car photosAnd I see that wikinews has a summary of this Giuliana Sgrena interview:
Kidnapped Italian journalist refutes American government claims.Some other wikinews coverage:
- Freed hostage Sgrena says "shooting no accident"
- Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena Freed
- US may not have known of Sgrena rescue operation
- Italian PM rejects US version of shooting
Anyway, here's some other discussion about it: Maybe All 400 Bullets Missed
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Re:There is no contract.
Or worse, regurgitated corporate PR releases.
Funny, that's what I thought journalists already did.
But at least there's an army of bloggers out there, willing to brave life and limb in the world's trouble spots, telling you how it really is from their armchairs.
Absolutely. If it weren't for all the brave journalists in Iraq, and covering the last election, we would have no clue what was going on.
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Kojo
I wouldn't worry about it guys, apparently Kojo Anan has been put in charge of the shutdown and the EFF has made a deal to cut him a monthly check for the next few years "not to compete" with the internet. So...keep up those donations!
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TOP NEWS!!!: Anuses CAN talk!
Anonymous Cowards are more than likely Anus Cowards:
While posting drivel on Slashdot, two trolls today made a life changing discovery. Although they've lived the first 15-20 years of life convinced that they are "normal" human beings, it was revealed to them that they've been mistaking their buttocks for their faces and their anuses for mouths. Professor J.Q. Ass, of Columbia University Medical College reported his findings, "When these two young men came to me earlier this week complaining of incredibly bad breath that offends everyone they know, I was a bit struck by the fact that they weren't facing me but had their backs to me. Not only that, but their anuses were doing the talking! I've never seen anything like it! It's astounding. I asked the one gentleman, 'You do realize you're talking out of your ass'? and he wanted to start a fist fight. I told him, 'no seriously, you are literally speking through your anus. I've never seen anything like this".
The Slashdot Connection:
After showing the two young adults some basic anatomy videos and their own images in the mirror, they were both driven to tears. How many years had they been using their anuses for speech? Too many. According to special biologist Ruth Ann Pudendum, "Cases like this are extremely rare, but it does appear that the incidence rate is quite high among the AC posters of the online community/blog Slashdot. Unfortunately, we've only had a few ACs come forward and acknowledge their disability".
Is there hope?:
Of course, the question that everyone wants answered, "Is there a possibility of a normal life after the discovery of anal speech"? While most disabilities can be treated through the use of various therapies, counselling and medication, it does appear that anal speech is an irreversible condition. The best that sufferers of this illness can hope for is to find a place where they can fit in. Extensive research shows that there are many positions within management, politics and some areas of the IT sector where anal speech does not preclude one from excelling to the top of their field. Some examples of famous anal speakers are, CEO of Microsoft; Steve Ballmer, CEO of Oracle; Larry Ellison, Governor of Ohio; Bob Taft and President of the United States; George W. Bush.
Taking time to smell the roses:
A few ACs who made this same discovery last year, when asked what they did after the discovery, were quoted as saying, "It's all about perspective. I used to have overly high self-esteem because I was convinced that my opinions mattered and that I knew what I was alking about. But when I discovered that I've spent my life, literally, speaking out of my ass... well that was a life changing event. At first I was in shock and then denial. But when I finally accepted it, I was able to put it in perspective. So many things became clear. The difficulty keeping food down. The high frequency of being called an 'ass' or 'asshole'. The incredibly strong case of halitosis. Today, I choose to see the event in a positive light. Once I realized exactly what had been going on, I toned down my loud opinions and stopped using Listerine. Instead, I've discovered that life is better if I take the time to smell the roses. Not to mention it covers the stench. A lot of people may look at me and think that this is a curse, and it can be. But knowing my condition is definitely a blessing from God".
Support Groups:
The most prevalent online support group for those stricken with this disability are:
http://www.slashdot.org/
http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com/
http://www.freerepublic.com/
http://www.whitehouse.gov/
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Conspiracy time!
Don't forget the vast influx of conspiracy-minded Lizards moving away from Google. I mean, were I Sergey Brin, I'd be tremblin' in my booties.
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Google's CredibilitySince the topic is Google and what they do, what do you make of the fact that Google News includes as a legitimate "news source" National Vanguard, a Neo-Nazi 'revisionist' website that, among other things, attacks Anne Frank's Diary while refusing to include sites as accurate and reputable as Little Green Footballs, a blog which helped to expose CBS memos that are now almost universally recognized as bogus and helped bring about the resignation of Dan Rather.
This confirms my suspicion that politics is a circle, with the Far Right not that removed from an increasingly wide swath of the Left. Even anti-semitism, concealed as a strident anti-Zionism, is now common among liberals. And the gatekeepers at Google News seem to reflect that twisted POV.
--Mike Perry, Seattle
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You've GOTTA check out this game!
There's a fantastic game from the London Games Festival you absolutely must play, it's unbelievable. It's pretty difficult to describe without having played it, but I'll take a shot.
Ok, it's a text based multiplayer online game played by people around world, but mainly US based players. You register your details, choose a nick and start playing. The gamesmaster, Charles, posts the most outrageously biased and nonsensical daily talking points he possibly can multiple times every day. The aim of the game is to respond with the absolutely most extreme, fascistic and downright frightening rightwing opinion you can, judged against the contributions of other players. The winner is patted on the back by the other players, socially féted, and if you persevere, given an endorsement by Charles himself.
It's difficult to pick up to begin with, they have their own set of strange jargon that the most successful posters use, but you soon get the hang of it and it's loads of fun to be mean spirited, distasteful and horrid about the deaths of just about any victim of US soldiers or the Israel Army, the death of foreign kids, old people, Iraqis, and so on.
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What I find amusing and disturbing
What I find amusing and disturbing is how Google accepts any crazy left-wing website for its Google News page (see Democratic Underground), but often refuses conservative sites like LGF and Powerline for various bizarre reasons (for instance, Google claims the sites they list in Google News must have a staff of more than one person...yet they list several left-wing websites that are one-person blogs). See here and here.
They also refused gun ads in their results, but allowed all those phoney Internet pharmacies to advertise, where any kid wanting to get doped up could get some shipped in the mail.
Just saying. If you want more information, see here. To be perfectly fair, there are plenty of sites claiming Google News is conservative-biased. You can make up your own mind. -
Re:Oh, please.The words "militants" and "insurgents" are pc code words for terrorists. The word "wahabi" is a way to disguise the fact that the perps are moslems. Reuters and AP are great at playing this game. "Religion of Peace" and all that . . . as though they fool anyone but those who willing submit to being fooled.
One place that won't pull punches and which will call a terrorist a terrorist is Little Green Footballs. They are constantly on top of tracking and reporting on the activities of the islamofascists and other terrorist threats.
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Re:Oh, please.The word "militants" is a pc code word for terrorists. The word "wahabi" is a way to disguise the fact that the perps are moslems. Reuters and AP are great at playing this game. "Religion of Peace" and all that . . . as though they fool anyone but those who willing submit to being fooled.
One place that won't pull punches and which will call a terrorist a terrorist is Little Green Footballs. They are constanly on top of tracking and reporting on the activities of the islamofascists and other terrorist threats.
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Re:Dark matter is sciences god
it is entirely different to state that anyone who is religious is automatically lacking in mental activity
I didn't say they were lacking in mental activity. I reserve that particular insult for certain types of Bush supporters. I don't think that lacking critical thinking skills - which I think, based on my observation of people who are religious, is something of a common trait among more traditionally religious individuals - is an indication that a person is stupid anymore than I think complex critical thinkers are automatically smart.
Also, note that I didn't say there is no god. It would be folly to begin dismissing things as impossible because they haven't discovered. By that argument, one could say the universe doesn't exist because there's never been a discovery or conclusion made that explained its origins.
To the contrary, my point is that to believe in a god requires you to dispatch all logical thought and arbitrarily assume that this abstract concept you've never sensed, measured, or tested in any manner is the answer to any given problem you're facing. You could argue that "god" is merely a concept used to identify forces that drive the universe which haven't yet been discovered but the effects of which can be observed (which goes back to the original post I made), but since most people view "god" as a specific entity, not an abstract concept, that doesn't hold water when talking about the overall majority of religious individuals.
And, yes, your point the big bang is completely valid, but I'd like to turn around on you. A large number of religious people seem to feel unncessarily threatened by the big bang theory. Even though it's by far the best available explanation and is probably correct in at least the general sense if not in the specifics, these people refuse to accept it. Why? Because they THINK it challenges their belief in god. Of course, if you understand Big Bang, that's utterly ridiculous and practically completely the opposite. To the contrary, the big bang explains the state of the universe at point in time 0. So what happened or existed BEFORE that point in time? Well, shit man, your guess is good as mine, and, actually, all explanations as to what actually CREATED the singularity (e.g. "the creation of the universe") is pure wild speculation. There are a few semi-stable ideas, but no theories at all because everything we know about our universe as far as laws go breaks down from a fraction of a second after the big bang backwards in time.
And that, my friend, is why I have come to so closely associate ignorance and religion. I've known countless people who will argue endlessly that evolution or the Big Bang theory are some sort of insult to their religion when, in fact, neither theory is easily contestable and, more importantly, neither theory, when properly understood, is anything remotely close to a challenge to arbitrary religious beliefs about creationism and god.
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Re:Oh great.
Too late, they've already dipped their feet in the evil pool. Their news feeds are selected to favor their own political leanings. No doubt they will apply the same bias to wikipedia if they get their hands on it.
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Google's political leanings
Given Google's political donations, perhaps the worry is not without cause.
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Re:Marcos "Screw them" Zuniga
The reaction to that comment was so great, Kerry's official website pulled their link to the site with a statement that they didn't agree with such opinions.
Like with poor software, open source journalism also means having the freedom to say really stupid things (and delete the post later and backtrack about it).
Although I am a little surprised such a politically-minded website as DailyKos gets free press on Slashdot like that. I've never seen a link to LittleGreenFootballs or Powerline, even as they broke the biggest "closed source" journalism scam of the year--CBSNews' phony documents. If there was ever a case of open source journalism cracking open the flaws of closed source journalism, that would be it. But Slashdot rejected submissions about it. D'oh. -
Re:Sample, please?That's comment spam. Referrer spam targets (I think) sites that have a viewable list of top referrers.
Here's a series of posts dealing with the issue on LGF. (Note: I'm posting this link in the context of referrer spamming -- no political statement is intended, and no political arguing over it is desired.)
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Everyone!
Over to Little Green Footballs to watch them contort around this one!
"Oh, this is just the liberal bias media, being biased, really they found some stuff, but the bias you know, the bias, biases out the truth. Israel and a conservative American government actually has never done anything wrong ever, it's just the bias makes it like it is. There's a liberal bias, did you know that?"
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Thank Dan Rather, Swift Boat Veterans for TruthThe heightened popularity of blogs can in large measure be attributed to two big stories this year: Dan Rather's use of the clumsily forged documents on President Bush's National Guard Service, and Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.
In RatherGate, it was blogs like Little Green Footballs and Powerline which actually broke the story, quickly determining that the RatherGate documents where not only frauds, but poor, obvious frauds at that. And it wasn't TV news "experts" who made the determination, but real experts out on the Internet chipping in their particular bits of knowledge about computer typographer, Air Force National Guard procedures, etc. Tens years ago, CBS probably would have gotten away with it. Now they can't.
In the case of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, here was a story the MSM didn't want to touch with a ten-foot poll because it went against the narrative the had already decided on ("John Kerry, War Hero Turned Protestor"). (Just imagine if there had been an organization with some 80-odd National Guard vets swearing that they witnessed Bush shirking his duty; there would have been an hour-long prime time special...) Since no media outlet was covering their ads, it was the blogsphere that carried information about the group. It's ironic that the Swift Boat Vets spent about 1/100th what Moveon.org did, and was still 100 times more effective.
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Re:Your Post Translated:
You fill out PHP Nuke templates for a living like this ass-sniffing cock muncher and that means you're qualified to write about the age-old concept of thin clients as if your ridiculous "thoughts" haven't been chewed up and spit out thousands of times across the Internet over the last 25 years already?
You, sir, are an idiot. Like 99.995% of all the other bloggers out there, you have nothing better to do with your newfound "skill" (it must be tough writing HTML with FrontPage all day, huh?) than act as if you've found some profound new insights, when the clued-in people you're choking out of information paths such as Google found those insights a decade before you and your stupid "Trackbacks" started fucking the web up with the ignorant yapping of the equivalent of a Middle School cafeteria at lunchtime.
I sincerely hope that a group of vandals like the GNAA take notice of your sorry little "blog" and excise it from the web like the cancerous blotch that it is.