Wal*Mart shutting down DRM server, nuking your music collection -- only people who pay for music risk losing it to DRM shenanigans
Posted by Cory Doctorow, September 26, 2008 8:34 PM permalink
Hey suckers! Did you buy DRM music from Wal*Mart instead of downloading MP3s for free from the P2P networks? Well, they're repaying your honesty by taking away your music. Unless you go through a bunch of hoops (that you may never find out about, if you've changed email addresses or if you're not a very technical person), your music will no longer be playable after October 9th.
But don't worry, this will never ever happen to all those other DRM companies -- unlike little fly-by-night mom-and-pop operations like Wal*Mart, the DRM companies are rock-ribbed veterans of commerce and industry, sure to be here for a thousand years. So go on buying your Audible books, your iTunes DRM songs, your Zune media, your EA games... None of these companies will ever disappear, nor will the third-party DRM suppliers they use. They are as solid and permanent as Commodore, Atari, the Soviet Union, the American credit system and the Roman Empire.
Boy, the entertainment industry sure makes a good case for ripping them off, huh? Buy your media and risk having it confiscated by a DRM-server shutdown. Take it for free and keep it forever.
From: Walmart Music Team Date: Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 7:42 PMSubject: Important Information About Your Walmart.com Digital Music PurchasesTo: xxxxxx@gmail.com
Important Information About Your Digital Music Purchases
We hope you are enjoying the increased music quality/bitrate and the improved usability of Walmart's MP3 music downloads. We began offering MP3s in August 2007 and have offered only DRM (digital rights management) -free MP3s since February 2008. As the final stage of our transition to a full DRM-free MP3 download store, Walmart will be shutting down our digital rights management system that supports protected songs and albums purchased from our site.
If you have purchased protected WMA music files from our site prior to Feb 2008, we strongly recommend that you back up your songs by burning them to a recordable audio CD. By backing up your songs, you will be able to access them from any personal computer. This change does not impact songs or albums purchased after Feb 2008, as those are DRM-free.
Beginning October 9, we will no longer be able to assist with digital rights management issues for protected WMA files purchased from Walmart.com. If you do not back up your files before this date, you will no longer be able to transfer your songs to other computers or access your songs after changing or reinstalling your operating system or in the event of a system crash. Your music and video collections will still play on the originally authorized computer.
Thank you for using Walmart.com for music downloads. We are working hard to make our store better than ever and easier to use.
Walmart Music Team
Monday, September 29, 2008
Night time, fast cars, black guys... sounds like the new F1 series to me
that's hamilton btw... and a McClaren.
I'm getting chills.
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Apparently I could have really hugged a t-rex 6,000 years agao (according to Palin)
The LA Times reports:
Soon after Sarah Palin was elected mayor of the foothill town of Wasilla, Alaska, she startled a local music teacher by insisting in casual conversation that men and dinosaurs coexisted on an Earth created 6,000 years ago -- about 65 million years after scientists say most dinosaurs became extinct -- the teacher said.
After conducting a college band and watching Palin deliver a commencement address to a small group of home-schooled students in June 1997, Wasilla resident Philip Munger said, he asked the young mayor about her religious beliefs.Palin told him that "dinosaurs and humans walked the Earth at the same time," Munger said. When he asked her about prehistoric fossils and tracks dating back millions of years, Palin said "she had seen pictures of human footprints inside the tracks," recalled Munger, who teaches music at the University of Alaska in Anchorage and has regularly criticized Palin in recent years on his liberal political blog, called Progressive Alaska.
The idea of a "young Earth" -- that God created the Earth about 6,000 years ago, and dinosaurs and humans coexisted early on -- is a popular strain of creationism.
Though in her race for governor she called for faith-based "intelligent design" to be taught along with evolution in Alaska's schools, Gov. Palin has not sought to require it, state educators say.
Saturday, September 27, 2008
i HATE HATE HATE HATE ticketmaster
If I call the box office to a place to get tickets to a band I want to see, usually it's because I want to a) avoid the RIDICULOUS surcharges and b) because I like the venue enough that I'm willing to give them all the money in hand instead of working through a middle man and take the time of the trip to the place.
But If I hear ONE MORE voice mail about how I need to call ticket master so I can pay $8 more of the cover price I'm gonna go crazy. Actually no I'm not, it's going to give me a good excuse when someone says why do you download everything and not buy it.
WHY? I'm glad you asked, it's because when I (the person who actually supports my downloaded artist when they are on tour) have ALREADY PAID for the music in all my fucking convenience fees with ticketmaster/web. If the artist doesn't like it, take it up with your middle man. How did a pair of $35 tickets turn into a $120 investment? Is The Warfield going to give me dividends? I don't think so. Is the Fillmore going to give me open bar or at least a free shot of Remy for that extra $10 charge? Nope. But it does even out to the cost of the new cd that I didn't pay for. So revel in that.
But If I hear ONE MORE voice mail about how I need to call ticket master so I can pay $8 more of the cover price I'm gonna go crazy. Actually no I'm not, it's going to give me a good excuse when someone says why do you download everything and not buy it.
WHY? I'm glad you asked, it's because when I (the person who actually supports my downloaded artist when they are on tour) have ALREADY PAID for the music in all my fucking convenience fees with ticketmaster/web. If the artist doesn't like it, take it up with your middle man. How did a pair of $35 tickets turn into a $120 investment? Is The Warfield going to give me dividends? I don't think so. Is the Fillmore going to give me open bar or at least a free shot of Remy for that extra $10 charge? Nope. But it does even out to the cost of the new cd that I didn't pay for. So revel in that.
Friday, September 26, 2008
Palin didn't have a passport until LAST YEAR
and she wants to be a world leader?
I'm starting to realize that i personally have WAY MORE EXPERIENCE than her. Can I apply?
And I at least gave her the benefit of the doubt on the Russia is close to Alaska so I have foreign policy experience, comment. But she REALLY BELIEVES IT.
I can't wait until the debate tonight. I hope she trips like a runway model.
loser.
I'm starting to realize that i personally have WAY MORE EXPERIENCE than her. Can I apply?
And I at least gave her the benefit of the doubt on the Russia is close to Alaska so I have foreign policy experience, comment. But she REALLY BELIEVES IT.
I can't wait until the debate tonight. I hope she trips like a runway model.
loser.
Monday, September 22, 2008
vanilla white and chocolate brown
Can anyone tell me when vanilla became associated with the color white? I was thinking about it and really, vanilla beans are brown. So is vanilla extract. I tend to like all the dirt colored flavors (chocolate, cinnamon, coffee, star anise, pepper, ginger, etc...) and I kept thinking vanilla but kept associating it with white and not putting it in that category. I think it's stupid. Vanilla is brown.
random thought.
random thought.
To all the haters, I respect her
and I'd pretty much take any reason to hit rumsfeild with a lead pipe.
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Donald Rumsfeld made Condoleezza Rice cry in the White House
As George W. Bush's national security adviser and then secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice has long been seen as the toughest woman in American politics.
By Tim Shipman in Washington
Last Updated: 6:33PM BST 20 Sep 2008
Known as the Steel Magnolia in her youth, Miss Rice has guided the US through the war on terror, looked tyrants in the eye and faced down terrorist threats during her nation's darkest hours.
But a new book reveals that she was not so steadfast in facing down her own more personal enemies within the Bush administration.
Instead, Miss Rice was so fazed by former Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld that she burst into tears at a meeting in the White House situation room.
The floodgates opened for the then national security adviser in February 2004, as the Bush administration was wrestling with growing instability in Iraq and the legal status of detainees at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp.
A new biography of Vice President Dick Cheney, called Angler after his Secret Service codename, recounts how he and Mr Rumsfeld conspired to delay the military tribunals which the president had ordered to be set up to try the terrorist suspects.
Miss Rice tried repeatedly to organise a meeting with the most senior figures in the government to discuss the tribunals, but Mr Rumsfeld twice refused to attend, sending his deputy Paul Wolfowitz instead.
Pulitzer prize winning author Barton Gellman writes: "He did not regard her as an equal and barely hid it. The opinions of her staff did not interest him."
On finding Mr Rumsfeld absent from a second meeting, CIA director George Tenet was so angry that he defied a direct order from Miss Rice to sit down and marched out of the meeting, declaring: "This is bullshit."
The book goes on: "Something happened to Rice's face, control melting away. Her eyes welled up and her next words caught in her throat. The men in the room did not know where to look.
'She started to cry,' said one of them. 'And she said - I can't remember the exact words because I was so shaken - something like: "We will talk about this again," and she turned and walked quickly out of the door.'"
Miss Rice had the last laugh. Mr Rumsfeld was fired in 2006 as Iraq descended into civil war and Guantanamo Bay became a byword for abuse of power.
Now Secretary of State, Miss Rice, assisted by Mr Rumsfeld's replacement Robert Gates, fought and won a bureaucratic battle for President Bush's ear and the direction of US foreign policy that gradually marginalised the influence of hawks like Mr Cheney.
_______________________________________________________________________
Donald Rumsfeld made Condoleezza Rice cry in the White House
As George W. Bush's national security adviser and then secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice has long been seen as the toughest woman in American politics.
By Tim Shipman in Washington
Last Updated: 6:33PM BST 20 Sep 2008
Known as the Steel Magnolia in her youth, Miss Rice has guided the US through the war on terror, looked tyrants in the eye and faced down terrorist threats during her nation's darkest hours.
But a new book reveals that she was not so steadfast in facing down her own more personal enemies within the Bush administration.
Instead, Miss Rice was so fazed by former Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld that she burst into tears at a meeting in the White House situation room.
The floodgates opened for the then national security adviser in February 2004, as the Bush administration was wrestling with growing instability in Iraq and the legal status of detainees at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp.
A new biography of Vice President Dick Cheney, called Angler after his Secret Service codename, recounts how he and Mr Rumsfeld conspired to delay the military tribunals which the president had ordered to be set up to try the terrorist suspects.
Miss Rice tried repeatedly to organise a meeting with the most senior figures in the government to discuss the tribunals, but Mr Rumsfeld twice refused to attend, sending his deputy Paul Wolfowitz instead.
Pulitzer prize winning author Barton Gellman writes: "He did not regard her as an equal and barely hid it. The opinions of her staff did not interest him."
On finding Mr Rumsfeld absent from a second meeting, CIA director George Tenet was so angry that he defied a direct order from Miss Rice to sit down and marched out of the meeting, declaring: "This is bullshit."
The book goes on: "Something happened to Rice's face, control melting away. Her eyes welled up and her next words caught in her throat. The men in the room did not know where to look.
'She started to cry,' said one of them. 'And she said - I can't remember the exact words because I was so shaken - something like: "We will talk about this again," and she turned and walked quickly out of the door.'"
Miss Rice had the last laugh. Mr Rumsfeld was fired in 2006 as Iraq descended into civil war and Guantanamo Bay became a byword for abuse of power.
Now Secretary of State, Miss Rice, assisted by Mr Rumsfeld's replacement Robert Gates, fought and won a bureaucratic battle for President Bush's ear and the direction of US foreign policy that gradually marginalised the influence of hawks like Mr Cheney.
Saturday, September 20, 2008
Why I love Wired Magazine: How to Pirate like a Pirate
Pirate Like a Pirate
From Wired How-To Wiki
Jump to: navigation, search
September 19th may be Talk Like a Pirate Day, but why just talk the talk when you can walk the walk? And why restrict yourself to one day a year? Here's how to plunder the high seas of the internet for some priceless booty. Just be careful, lest the scurvy dogs (aka The Man) catch ye and have ye walkin' the plank.
Contents[hide]
1 Download Torrents
2 Hit the Blogs
3 Convert the Audio
4 Covert the Video
5 Mod Your Console
6 Hoard Your Booty
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Download Torrents
The hub of all things pirate on the internet is The Pirate Bay. The Swedish torrent site hosts links to files from all over the world, so whether you're looking for anime or games, death metal or Stax soul, Bollywood or Hollywood, it should be your first stop. Just remember -- the more mainstream it is, the better chance you'll get it quickly. Esoteric titles will take some digging. Mininova.com is a good second stop.
You'll need a fast connection and a proper client. Mac users should try Transmission. Everyone else should try µTorrent or the official BitTorrent client.
New to BitTorrent? Here's a How-To.
Hit the Blogs
If it's music ye seek, there are heaps of MP3 blogs out there. They range from barely legal sites that host a couple of tracks for a short period of time to full-blown dens of sin that point to full album downloads -- often before the albums are officially released.
To find individual tracks, start with the MP3 search service Hype Machine.
To find a full album, try searching for the artist and the album title plus the term "blogspot." Google's free blog hosting service famously takes a hands-off approach to policing content, so the vast majority of MP3 blogs are hosted there. Again, the newer content is easier to find, but you'll often uncover ancient gems ripped from rare vinyl, too.
Once you find a good MP3 blog, check out their blogroll or the list of their favorite sites. It's usually a list running down the right side of the page. These guys link to each other often, so click around.
Convert the Audio
Sometimes on BitTorrent, you'll encounter audio ripped as FLAC or SHN. These are lossless audio formats and they preserve the full audio fidelity of the orginal CDs. But they won't play on your iPod, so you'll have to convert them.
If you're on a Mac, there's an app called Max that can rip FLAC/SHN straight to MP3. If you're running Windows, you can use the free tools like Magic Jelly Bean SHN Shortener or the official Flac tools (which will also work on Mac and Linux) to convert your files. Some tools will only convert your FLAC/SHN files to WAV audio, which is still CD quality. You can easily dump those into iTunes and convert them to MP3s.
Covert the Video
Download a few torrents of movies and you'll quickly find your self navigating a strange swamp of AVI, MOV and WMV files. If you want to watch the movies on your computer, grab VLC. It's a free software player than can handle just about any file format.
Many modern DVD players can also play just about any format you throw at them, so try burning a disc loaded with AVIs or MOVs -- you may not need to convert anything.
Movies that show up wrapped in VIDEO_TS folders won't need any conversion. Those are straight DVD rips -- just burn and watch!
Otherwise, AVIs and WMVs can be converted using the freeware program Avi2DVD for Windows. Mac users can try ffmpegX which can turn your AVI files into MPEG files -- the standard video format for DVDs.
If you want to put everything on your iPod, iPhone, PSP or other device, your best bet is Handbrake. It's a free program that works on all platforms, and it will convert, resize and compress your video to play on whatever device you carry in your pocket.
Mod Your Console
Thoes games you find in the torrent sites won't play in your standard issue console. You'll need to mod your Xbox or PlayStation to unlock that capability. This usually involves the installation of a "mod chip," and requires somebody with access to the illicit chip, a soldering gun and a whole lot of know-how. Enterprising kids in your area are willing to offer their services for a small fee (check craigslist).
Some consoles, most notably the Xbox, can be "soft-modded," which lets you customize the box to run all sorts of software without having to crack open the case. A great resource for both methods is i-Hacked. Just remember to kiss your warranty goodbye.
Hoard Your Booty
A few weeks in, you'll have heaps of booty. You'll need a large and seaworthy vessel to store all of that digital content, so pick up an external hard drive or a big, nasty NAS -- a network attached storage device.
Wired's Gadget Lab recommends the Sentry Safe QA0005, a fireproof and waterproof hard disk enclosure that is seemingly impervious to damage.
Wired also recommends the Drobo, a Linux-powered virtualized storage device (read: fail safe) that, based on current drive size, is expandable to up to 8 terabytes. It also wins with its easy set-up, hot-swappable drives and a sleek design.
From Wired How-To Wiki
Jump to: navigation, search
September 19th may be Talk Like a Pirate Day, but why just talk the talk when you can walk the walk? And why restrict yourself to one day a year? Here's how to plunder the high seas of the internet for some priceless booty. Just be careful, lest the scurvy dogs (aka The Man) catch ye and have ye walkin' the plank.
Contents[hide]
1 Download Torrents
2 Hit the Blogs
3 Convert the Audio
4 Covert the Video
5 Mod Your Console
6 Hoard Your Booty
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Download Torrents
The hub of all things pirate on the internet is The Pirate Bay. The Swedish torrent site hosts links to files from all over the world, so whether you're looking for anime or games, death metal or Stax soul, Bollywood or Hollywood, it should be your first stop. Just remember -- the more mainstream it is, the better chance you'll get it quickly. Esoteric titles will take some digging. Mininova.com is a good second stop.
You'll need a fast connection and a proper client. Mac users should try Transmission. Everyone else should try µTorrent or the official BitTorrent client.
New to BitTorrent? Here's a How-To.
Hit the Blogs
If it's music ye seek, there are heaps of MP3 blogs out there. They range from barely legal sites that host a couple of tracks for a short period of time to full-blown dens of sin that point to full album downloads -- often before the albums are officially released.
To find individual tracks, start with the MP3 search service Hype Machine.
To find a full album, try searching for the artist and the album title plus the term "blogspot." Google's free blog hosting service famously takes a hands-off approach to policing content, so the vast majority of MP3 blogs are hosted there. Again, the newer content is easier to find, but you'll often uncover ancient gems ripped from rare vinyl, too.
Once you find a good MP3 blog, check out their blogroll or the list of their favorite sites. It's usually a list running down the right side of the page. These guys link to each other often, so click around.
Convert the Audio
Sometimes on BitTorrent, you'll encounter audio ripped as FLAC or SHN. These are lossless audio formats and they preserve the full audio fidelity of the orginal CDs. But they won't play on your iPod, so you'll have to convert them.
If you're on a Mac, there's an app called Max that can rip FLAC/SHN straight to MP3. If you're running Windows, you can use the free tools like Magic Jelly Bean SHN Shortener or the official Flac tools (which will also work on Mac and Linux) to convert your files. Some tools will only convert your FLAC/SHN files to WAV audio, which is still CD quality. You can easily dump those into iTunes and convert them to MP3s.
Covert the Video
Download a few torrents of movies and you'll quickly find your self navigating a strange swamp of AVI, MOV and WMV files. If you want to watch the movies on your computer, grab VLC. It's a free software player than can handle just about any file format.
Many modern DVD players can also play just about any format you throw at them, so try burning a disc loaded with AVIs or MOVs -- you may not need to convert anything.
Movies that show up wrapped in VIDEO_TS folders won't need any conversion. Those are straight DVD rips -- just burn and watch!
Otherwise, AVIs and WMVs can be converted using the freeware program Avi2DVD for Windows. Mac users can try ffmpegX which can turn your AVI files into MPEG files -- the standard video format for DVDs.
If you want to put everything on your iPod, iPhone, PSP or other device, your best bet is Handbrake. It's a free program that works on all platforms, and it will convert, resize and compress your video to play on whatever device you carry in your pocket.
Mod Your Console
Thoes games you find in the torrent sites won't play in your standard issue console. You'll need to mod your Xbox or PlayStation to unlock that capability. This usually involves the installation of a "mod chip," and requires somebody with access to the illicit chip, a soldering gun and a whole lot of know-how. Enterprising kids in your area are willing to offer their services for a small fee (check craigslist).
Some consoles, most notably the Xbox, can be "soft-modded," which lets you customize the box to run all sorts of software without having to crack open the case. A great resource for both methods is i-Hacked. Just remember to kiss your warranty goodbye.
Hoard Your Booty
A few weeks in, you'll have heaps of booty. You'll need a large and seaworthy vessel to store all of that digital content, so pick up an external hard drive or a big, nasty NAS -- a network attached storage device.
Wired's Gadget Lab recommends the Sentry Safe QA0005, a fireproof and waterproof hard disk enclosure that is seemingly impervious to damage.
Wired also recommends the Drobo, a Linux-powered virtualized storage device (read: fail safe) that, based on current drive size, is expandable to up to 8 terabytes. It also wins with its easy set-up, hot-swappable drives and a sleek design.
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
-500 points and 11 banks tank, in the past 9 months
The candidates better mean what they say
11 US banks have closed since January
500 point stock plunge biggest since 9/11
11 US banks have closed since January
500 point stock plunge biggest since 9/11
Campaign McCain
I just felt like reiterating that anyone who votes for McCain is, how can I say, an genetically inferior inbred hick.
You cant say you're voting on family/Christian values when he left his cripled wife for a lady 17 years younger and WAY richer that he met at a bar. BTW he didn't even mention his ex wife with whom he had 3 kids with during the RNC. He left her before he was even divorced. So ummm don't demonize Edwards if he actually stayed with his wife and admitted his discretion.
You can't talk about a war on drugs when his wife has been investigated by the DEA for a HUGE pill popping problem. I'm just sayin, Mac Dre has NOTHING on her. Dre never actually got a call from the DEA, police for posession maybe, but DAMN the DEA. I wonder how long she'll last knwoing she's chasing her Xanex with a Coors. I hope she's not DD.
That's right, Cindy McCain knows, thizz is what it is.
You can't say that abortion is wrong because you're killing a life, but then strap up the shotgun and go hunting.
How can a person from a small town run a campaign with ANY credibility against a person from a world renowned metropolitan city? We are talking about creating a WORLD LEADER. Not the next little league soccor coach, oh I'm sorry, hockey coach.
You can't be about financial reform, conservative spending, and keeping governnment out of private life and still be a republican (even if these are the stated values of the party, they have not been in place for 8 years)
I'm just ranting... Clearly I'm preaching to the choir.
You cant say you're voting on family/Christian values when he left his cripled wife for a lady 17 years younger and WAY richer that he met at a bar. BTW he didn't even mention his ex wife with whom he had 3 kids with during the RNC. He left her before he was even divorced. So ummm don't demonize Edwards if he actually stayed with his wife and admitted his discretion.
You can't talk about a war on drugs when his wife has been investigated by the DEA for a HUGE pill popping problem. I'm just sayin, Mac Dre has NOTHING on her. Dre never actually got a call from the DEA, police for posession maybe, but DAMN the DEA. I wonder how long she'll last knwoing she's chasing her Xanex with a Coors. I hope she's not DD.
That's right, Cindy McCain knows, thizz is what it is.
You can't say that abortion is wrong because you're killing a life, but then strap up the shotgun and go hunting.
How can a person from a small town run a campaign with ANY credibility against a person from a world renowned metropolitan city? We are talking about creating a WORLD LEADER. Not the next little league soccor coach, oh I'm sorry, hockey coach.
You can't be about financial reform, conservative spending, and keeping governnment out of private life and still be a republican (even if these are the stated values of the party, they have not been in place for 8 years)
I'm just ranting... Clearly I'm preaching to the choir.
Palin HACKED!!!
Brought to you by our good friends at Anonymous, (you know the ones who hacked the scientologists). They hacked Sarah Palin's pseudo private email since she was trying to avoid any law restrictions, even though she was using it for business. Not really anything to see, but the point is she's not exempt. I think it's good to remind candidates that these things happen and when the citizens don't liek it they fight back. The other important thing for the republicans to remember is this: Obama's BASE is the internet generation. You can't hide from us. lol.
It was leaked to WikiLeaks
Palin Hacked
she's like a moose caught in headlights
It was leaked to WikiLeaks
Palin Hacked
she's like a moose caught in headlights
Sunday, September 14, 2008
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Political Facts of Life
from democraticundergroud
* If you're a minority and you're selected for a job over more qualified candidates you're a "token hire."
* If you're a conservative and you're selected for a job over more qualified candidates you're a "game changer."
* Black teen pregnancies? A "crisis" in black America .
* White teen pregnancies? A "blessed event."
* If you grow up in Hawaii you're "exotic."
* Grow up in Alaska eating mooseburgers, you're the quintessential "American story."
* Similarly, if you name you kid Barack you're "unpatriotic."
* Name your kid Track, you're "colorful."
* If you're a Democrat and you make a VP pick without fully vetting the individual you're "reckless."
* A Republican who doesn't fully vet is a "maverick."
* If you spend 3 years as a community organizer growing your organization from a staff of 1 to 13 and your budget from $70,000 to $400,000, then become the first black President of the Harvard Law Review, create a voter registration drive that registers 150,000 new African Amerian voters, spend 12 years as a Constitutional Lawprofessor, then spend nearly 8 more years as a State Senator representing a district with over 750,000 people, becoming chairman of the state Senate's Health and Human Services committee, then spend nearly 4 years in the United States Senate representing a state of nearly 13 million people, sponsoring 131 bills and serving on the Foreign Affairs, Environment and Public Works and Veteran's Affairs committees, you are woefully inexperienced.
* If you spend 4 years on the city council and 6 years as the mayor of a town with less than 7,000 people, then spend 20 months as the governor of a state with 650,000 people, then you've got the most executive experience of anyone on either ticket, are the Commander in Chief of the Alaska military and are well qualified to lead the nation should you be called upon to do so because your state is the closest state to Russia.
* If you are a Democratic male candidate who is popular with millions of people you are an "arrogant celebrity."
* If you are a popular Republican female candidate you are "energizing the base."
* If you are a younger male candidate who thinks for himself and makes his own decisions you are "presumptuous."
* If you are an older male candidate who makes last minute decisions you refuse to explain, you are a "shoot from the hip" maverick.
* If you are a candidate with a Harvard law degree you are "an elitist-out of touch" with the real America .
* if you are a legacy (dad and granddad were admirals) graduate of Annapolis , with multiple disciplinary infractions you are a hero.
* If you manage a multi-million dollar nationwide campaign, you are an "empty suit."
* If you are a part time mayor of a town of 7000 people, you are an "experienced executive."
* If you go to a south side Chicago church, your beliefs are "extremist."
* If you believe in creationism and don't believe global warming is man made, you are "strongly principled."
* If you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, and left your disfigured wife and married the heiress the next month, you're a Christian.
* If you have been married to the same woman with whom you've been wed to for 19 years and raising 2 beautiful daughters with, you're "risky."
* If you're a black single mother of 4 who waits for 22 hours after her water breaks to seek medical attention, you're an irresponsible parent, endangering the life of your unborn child.
* But if you're a white married mother who waits 22 hours, you're spunky.
* If you're a 13-year-old Chelsea Clinton, the right-wing press calls you "First dog."
* If you're a 17-year old pregnant unwed daughter of a Republican, the right-wing press calls you "beautiful" and "courageous."
* If you kill an endangered species, you're an excellent hunter.
* If you have an abortion, you're a murderer (forget about if it happened while being raped.)
* If you teach abstinence only in sex education, you get teen parents.
* If you teach responsible age appropriate sex education, including the proper use of birth control, you are eroding the fiber of society.
* If you're a Republican senator who solicits gay sex in an airport bathroom, you get to return to your job in the Senate and are encouraged to run for re-election.
* If you're a Democratic Senator who is out of public office and have an affair, your political career is over and your wife who has terminal cancer is to blame.
* If you're a minority and you're selected for a job over more qualified candidates you're a "token hire."
* If you're a conservative and you're selected for a job over more qualified candidates you're a "game changer."
* Black teen pregnancies? A "crisis" in black America .
* White teen pregnancies? A "blessed event."
* If you grow up in Hawaii you're "exotic."
* Grow up in Alaska eating mooseburgers, you're the quintessential "American story."
* Similarly, if you name you kid Barack you're "unpatriotic."
* Name your kid Track, you're "colorful."
* If you're a Democrat and you make a VP pick without fully vetting the individual you're "reckless."
* A Republican who doesn't fully vet is a "maverick."
* If you spend 3 years as a community organizer growing your organization from a staff of 1 to 13 and your budget from $70,000 to $400,000, then become the first black President of the Harvard Law Review, create a voter registration drive that registers 150,000 new African Amerian voters, spend 12 years as a Constitutional Lawprofessor, then spend nearly 8 more years as a State Senator representing a district with over 750,000 people, becoming chairman of the state Senate's Health and Human Services committee, then spend nearly 4 years in the United States Senate representing a state of nearly 13 million people, sponsoring 131 bills and serving on the Foreign Affairs, Environment and Public Works and Veteran's Affairs committees, you are woefully inexperienced.
* If you spend 4 years on the city council and 6 years as the mayor of a town with less than 7,000 people, then spend 20 months as the governor of a state with 650,000 people, then you've got the most executive experience of anyone on either ticket, are the Commander in Chief of the Alaska military and are well qualified to lead the nation should you be called upon to do so because your state is the closest state to Russia.
* If you are a Democratic male candidate who is popular with millions of people you are an "arrogant celebrity."
* If you are a popular Republican female candidate you are "energizing the base."
* If you are a younger male candidate who thinks for himself and makes his own decisions you are "presumptuous."
* If you are an older male candidate who makes last minute decisions you refuse to explain, you are a "shoot from the hip" maverick.
* If you are a candidate with a Harvard law degree you are "an elitist-out of touch" with the real America .
* if you are a legacy (dad and granddad were admirals) graduate of Annapolis , with multiple disciplinary infractions you are a hero.
* If you manage a multi-million dollar nationwide campaign, you are an "empty suit."
* If you are a part time mayor of a town of 7000 people, you are an "experienced executive."
* If you go to a south side Chicago church, your beliefs are "extremist."
* If you believe in creationism and don't believe global warming is man made, you are "strongly principled."
* If you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, and left your disfigured wife and married the heiress the next month, you're a Christian.
* If you have been married to the same woman with whom you've been wed to for 19 years and raising 2 beautiful daughters with, you're "risky."
* If you're a black single mother of 4 who waits for 22 hours after her water breaks to seek medical attention, you're an irresponsible parent, endangering the life of your unborn child.
* But if you're a white married mother who waits 22 hours, you're spunky.
* If you're a 13-year-old Chelsea Clinton, the right-wing press calls you "First dog."
* If you're a 17-year old pregnant unwed daughter of a Republican, the right-wing press calls you "beautiful" and "courageous."
* If you kill an endangered species, you're an excellent hunter.
* If you have an abortion, you're a murderer (forget about if it happened while being raped.)
* If you teach abstinence only in sex education, you get teen parents.
* If you teach responsible age appropriate sex education, including the proper use of birth control, you are eroding the fiber of society.
* If you're a Republican senator who solicits gay sex in an airport bathroom, you get to return to your job in the Senate and are encouraged to run for re-election.
* If you're a Democratic Senator who is out of public office and have an affair, your political career is over and your wife who has terminal cancer is to blame.
Monday, September 8, 2008
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heh... told you i LOVE cars...
and i drive stick ;)
Wired Magazine says Scientists Prove that Exotic Cars Turn Women on (more than men!)
http://blog.wired.com/cars/2008/09/weve-got-some-b.html
Wired Magazine says Scientists Prove that Exotic Cars Turn Women on (more than men!)
http://blog.wired.com/cars/2008/09/weve-got-some-b.html
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