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I will second that and add http://www.markfiore.com/ if we're allowing animated content. Fiore is hilarious political commentary. For some people. :-)

They won't be happy until we get to this and remember, the white lines lead to red lines which lead to the detention centers..

It's all about being "Perfectly Safe"

(and nevermind that they are not just refusing to allow malware, but also any political cartoons,

Presumably you mean "have refused in the past to allow political cartoons" (the app in question was the one the controversy about political cartoon apps was about).

That doesn't mean other apps that might be considered politically controversial aren't banned from the App Store, but they clearly are allowing the political cartoon app in question, along with other political cartoon apps, such as the msnbc.com Conservative Cartoons and msnbc.com Liberal Cartoons apps.

and that developers are at Apple's mercy).

Yes, if you're developing for iOS, you either have to have Apple find your app acceptable according to their standards or limit yourself to jailbroken machines.

Snuggly the Security Bear for the little pony and the teletubbies generation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-34Iyz7EYk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybyHW3PK0nQ
More at http://www.markfiore.com/snuggly_0

Looks like someone thinks alike:
Supreme Slaughter From icepick eye games.

It's worth noting that Mark Fiore won a Pulitzer for his excellent satirical cartoons last year, and they are only available on-line as Flash animations. He was the first cartoonist to win an editorial cartooning Pulitzer for an entry of entirely online animations.

I dunno if you've noticed, but liberals have been coming down on Obama for continuing many of Bush's worst policies. Contrast with what you rightists have done regarding many of these same policies. When it became apparent Bush was assassinating people, rightists did not criticize him for it, instead they accused anyone who had a problem with it of being anti-American traitors who were "with the terrorists". Now that Obama is continuing this bad policy, this same exact policy has gone from something the government must do, to something bad.

While a certain amount of this "it's only bad when the other side does it" does indeed happen on both sides, you rightists have proven yourselves to be much, much worse, so don't even think about trying to project onto others your most glaring flaws.

Um, they are paying all the taxes they owe. 100% of them. Oh, I see. You want them to pay more than they owe. Gotcha.

Impressive, that's a troll of a magnitude rarely encountered. You're in range of Eta Carinae.

First of all, there's no shortage of American corporations engaged in outright duplicity, or have you forgotten Enron already? Apparently for a while there, it was "within the rules" to plunge California back into the stone age by ransoming electricity. And that was, by Enron's standards, one of their more legal endeavors. Best line from Smartest Men in the Room: "Burn, baby, burn". Kneecapping the country you live in is generally regarded as unpatriotic, whether legal or not.

If a corporation takes Enronesque liberties with the American tax code, they're still only paying "what they own". Gotcha. Nice to have that cleared up.

Of course, it's useless arguing with someone like you, so I'll end off with an instructional video.

http://www.markfiore.com/clapper_0

My Linux system is not configured to play this, but last time I sat in front of a Mac, I was LMAO.

http://www.markfiore.com/animation/search.html

Sometimes (almost never, but sometimes) Flash is worth seeing.

Yes, sometimes it is. But for the rest of it, AdBlock rocks.

This animation is really funny..

Mark Fiore has a good one on this topic: Oil Vay!

Mark Fiore has an interesting animation about e-voting -- funny yet accurate enough to be scary.

Since when do Americans pay attention to what's happening on outside their country?

I submitted a similar story (2003-09-19 23:30:55 New Privacy act in Canada (yro,news) (rejected)) a few months ago when my company was informed of the changes, and we started to prepare for it.

Ok, I asked around, and rather than swipe credit for other people's digging, how just reading their own replies.

Cross forum link

*Goes back to reading*

The Pledge of Allegiance isn't a formal part of being an American?

The Pledge of Allegiance has an interesting history. It first published in 1892, and said "I pledge allegiance to my Flag and the Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all"

It only became popular with the official government in 1954, when the McCarthyist Red Scare was in full swing. US citizens were randomly forced to take "loyalty oaths" to test if they were communist spies (a silly idea, because good spies are usually good liars). The Pledge was used as one loyalty oath. They added "Under God" into the middle of it, so that it'd be further disagreeable to USSR-style communists, who were officially atheist. (And also more agreeable to some branches of Christianity, who are not allowed to swear to anything other than The Lord)

Of course, with the added religious reference, the Pledge really started to violate the US 1st Amendment, especially when it was required before anyone could be sworn into public office. In recognition of this, in modern times the Pledge is not required of anyone, but the habit established in the 50s lives on, and it was ritualistically used in both public schools and inauguration ceremonies.

Until last year... when it was finally noticed that kids in a classroom have little real ability to disobey their teacher when she orders them to recite an oath. Therefore, the Pledge of Allegiance was banned from school ceremony. (The legal case will probably continue through a few more appeals & countersuits). The end result might be either that "Under God" is dropped, or that the Pledge of Allegiance itself dimishes in popularity. (Here's a Flash cartoon on the topic)

...or is it?

In all seriousness, they might be working on just the opposite. The Pentagon's lovely idea of "mini nukes". Just think we can use them on terrorist bunkers and small nations that don't have nukes without feeling guility!

He's cute, he's small, "He won't blow up the world!". "Hehe, you can call me Buster :)"

I think this guy put it pretty nicely.

Heheh, there's a good flash comic on the subject of the Terminator in politics.

namely many interuptions

Kim Jong Il pointed to buggy software produced at redmond as sure signs of american belligerence against DPRK.

"american hegemoney moust stop ! the secureless systems we have can be used to launch attack on our country", he was heard saying.

> Yeah but that means we have to find an equivalent to the
> "having SUVs supports terrorism" ads to fight back with.

Here you go!

http://www.comeddy.com/flash/trigger_happy.swf
http://charges.globo.com/charges/20030321som.swf
http://www.markfiore.com/animation/corrections.swf
http://www.smart-blonde.net/ready/ready.htm
http://www.atmo.se/zino.aspx?pageID=12&documentID= 97

Does This answer your question?

Honestly, Flash kicks ass.

More likely the cop did. Now cops and feds can not only find out what you buy by rifling through your garbage, they can find out when, where, if, and how you paid for it. Smells like TIA.

You put it here.

Are you bored with your life of reasonable, rational thought? Do you long for the simplicity and excitement of paranoia?

If you've got flash, watch this. Good political flash cartoons at this site. Go up a level to see more.

If you've got flash, watch this. Good political flash cartoons at this site. Go up a level to see more.

Keep your data out of the databases. Use cash, ask marketers to remove your name from their lists. Use cash. Use cash. Use cash.

If you've got a "shoppers club" card with your name attached to it. Give it up. Cut it up. Get another one - without your real name and address.

Encrypt your IM traffic with others that are capable. Put SSL on your web server.

Adopt IPv6. Setup IPsec on IPv4/v6 connections. Use SSH (duh!). Get an anonymizer.com account. $30 bones for a year. You can get a 6-month free trial if you sign up as a member of the EFF. $25 bones. You get a sticker. Spend a little more and you get a hat or a T-shirt. Do it.

If you've got flash, watch this.

No need to contribute "useful" data to the databases, right?

War is always the best excuse. One of my favorite cartoons on this is Mark Fiore's, at http://markfiore.com/animation/excuse.html. :)