Shut off the viewing to everyone except blog members......by mistake....hahahahahahahahaha
Yeah....I did it! Asswipe was moaning about not being able to view the blog...sure as shit, I screwed up the settings.
Of course....I wonder how many times she kept coming back.....LMAO
Sunday, October 16, 2011
Friday, October 14, 2011
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Sunday, October 9, 2011
Friday, October 7, 2011
Modern day Lysistrata
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Leymah Gbowee earned a Nobel Peace Prize by taking a leaf from Aristophanes' Lysistrata.
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Three women, two Liberians and a Yemeni, win Nobel Peace Prize
The woman who ended Liberia's civil war
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Leymah Gbowee earned a Nobel Peace Prize by taking a leaf from Aristophanes' Lysistrata.
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Three women, two Liberians and a Yemeni, win Nobel Peace Prize
Sharing the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize are Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf; her countrywoman Leymah Gbowee, a peace activist; and Tawakul Karman, a Yemeni human rights leader.
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On the CBS evening news, Nobel prize winner Leymah Gbowee was interviewed:The woman who ended Liberia's civil war
When men failed to end 14 years of civil war in Liberia, Leymah Gbowee rallied the women of her nation to stop it. Michelle Miller gets the amazing story from the woman herself - who was recently awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Who's in a cult? Seems to me that Jeffress is a cult member!
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Evangelical leader and Baptist megachurch pastor Robert Jeffress: "Mitt Romney is a Mormon, and don't let anybody tell you otherwise. Even though he talks about Jesus as his lord and savior, he is not a Christian." ... “That is a mainstream view, that Mormonism is a cult ... Every true, born again follower of Christ ought to embrace a Christian over a non-Christian.”
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Perry Ally Calls Mormonism ‘a Cult’
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Rick Perry backer Robert Jeffress: Mitt Romney not a Christian
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Perry backer: Romney in a 'cult,' not a Christian
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Evangelical leader and Baptist megachurch pastor Robert Jeffress: "Mitt Romney is a Mormon, and don't let anybody tell you otherwise. Even though he talks about Jesus as his lord and savior, he is not a Christian." ... “That is a mainstream view, that Mormonism is a cult ... Every true, born again follower of Christ ought to embrace a Christian over a non-Christian.”
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Perry Ally Calls Mormonism ‘a Cult’
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Rick Perry backer Robert Jeffress: Mitt Romney not a Christian
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Perry backer: Romney in a 'cult,' not a Christian
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Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Did Sarah think she needed to practice being a quitter?
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Hmmmmmm, poor Sarah...... her big announcement was upstaged by the death of Steve Jobs......
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Sarah Palin quits again
[snipped]
Hmmmmmm, poor Sarah...... her big announcement was upstaged by the death of Steve Jobs......
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Sarah Palin quits again
[snipped]
Sarah Palin’s flirtation with the presidency had captured the imagination of many in the country. Her new team, citizens from across the nation, had been working hard for her, too. They spent their time and their money trying to convince her to run. The fought to counter an often harsh media assessment. They printed flyers and T-shirts. They set up websites and booths at small town political events. They tweeted like mad birds, wrote thousands of emails, joined on the comment section of thousands of new stories. They flew across the country to hear her speak......................................................
Many of them likely reacted to her announcement she would not run in much the way Rutherford reacted to the resignation as governor.
Palin told talk show host Mark Levin that she would continue to work for the country. Some may believe her. Others, particularly Alaskans who have heard much of this before, were sure to be suspicious.
Indeed, in many ways, it’s Alaskans who have the most cause to be most upset. After Palin walked back into the family home soon to become a fortress in July of 2009, she turned her back on not only her team, but the state. After the promise to take "my fight for what's right -- for Alaska -- in a new direction,” she largely disappeared from public view. When she did emerge, it was to film a segment for her television reality show or make a carefully orchestrated appearance at some event -- one for Glenn Beck, another for U.S. Senate candidate Joe Miller. Apart from endorsing the Tea Party-backed Miller in his race against Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski, Palin hasn’t weighed in on Alaska issues. She has stood by even as her successor as governor tried to unravel her large and signature tax on the Alaska oil industry.
Until today, her last, diehard supporters were convinced that she was doing it for a greater purpose. The multi-million dollar book she wrote, her reality TV show, her national speeches, the bus tour of America, it all had to be for something big. And the only thing big enough to justify everything Palin had done, they believe, was to get ready for the most difficult race -- the run for president.
A politician can get away with a lot in the 49th state and survive. They can fall off bar stools, suffer drug problems, abandon any idea of good grooming, live in hovels, and still maintain power. Politicians don’t need a degree to be respected in the 49th state, nor money, nor connections. All they need is a stated goal to make the state a better place. And unless you’re doing something like running for president, you cannot quit the state and still be a respectable Alaskan.
On Wednesday, more than a few Alaskans were wondering if Jon Stewart, the host of "The Daily Show'' on the Comedy Channel, hadn't hit close to home when he looked at what Palin has been up to in recent months and posited that someone who drives around the country in a bus all painted up campaign style with a gaggle of reporters in pursuit is either running for president or is a crazy person.
And running for president is no longer an option.
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Why do you live out those songs that you wrote?
ESPN pulled Hank Williams Jr.'s classic intro song from its broadcast of Monday night's NFL game after the country singer famous for the line ''Are you ready for some football?'' used an analogy to Adolf Hitler in discussing President Barack Obama.
Anchor Gretchen Carlson later said to him, ''You used the name of one of the most hated people in all of the world to describe, I think, the president.'' Williams replied, ''Well, that is true. But I'm telling you like it is.''
- Fox Sport News
Remember, this is the man that wrote the song that asks ........
"Hank, why do you drink? Why do you roll smoke?"
Asked to clarify, Williams said, ''They're the enemy,'' adding that by ''they'' he meant Obama and Vice President Joe Biden.
Anchor Gretchen Carlson later said to him, ''You used the name of one of the most hated people in all of the world to describe, I think, the president.'' Williams replied, ''Well, that is true. But I'm telling you like it is.''
- Fox Sport News
Remember, this is the man that wrote the song that asks ........
"Hank, why do you drink? Why do you roll smoke?"
Monday, October 3, 2011
There are no white people in Africa....
runfortheroses
That's funny. A white lady named White teaching African studies.
Read more: http://www.theolympian.com/2011/10/03/1823509/colors-cultures-come-alive-in.html#ixzz1ZkR07I9Q
Sunday, October 2, 2011
She-Who has a new "admirer"!
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Read more: http://www.theolympian.com/2011/10/02/1822703/the-upper-crust-must-pay-more.html#disqus_thread#ixzz1Zgf7cTYC
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kenny_bloggins
Well, come along! I've got two spears,And I'll poke your eyeballs out at your ears;I've got besides two curling-stones,And I'll crush you to bits, body and bones.
hint: I'm saying you're a Trollympian.
hint: I'm saying you're a Trollympian.
Read more: http://www.theolympian.com/2011/10/02/1822703/the-upper-crust-must-pay-more.html#disqus_thread#ixzz1Zgf7cTYC
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"... with this story, Rick Perry loses the Establishment Republicans."
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Wait. Rick Perry's Hunting Camp Was Called What?
By Ted Mann | The Atlantic Wire – 10 hrs ago
Rick Perry's day began with these words, on the front of The Washington Post:
The story comes as Perry, who was supposed to be the dangerous gunslinger in the Republican field, is finding himself on the ropes. Mitt Romney, of all people, has been mercilessly "grinding" away at Perry, writes Jill Lawrence at The Daily Beast. The problem could be, primarily, money, or the temporary lack of it.
Wait. Rick Perry's Hunting Camp Was Called What?
By Ted Mann | The Atlantic Wire – 10 hrs ago
Rick Perry's day began with these words, on the front of The Washington Post:
In the early years of his political career, Rick Perry began hosting fellow lawmakers, friends and supporters at his family’s secluded West Texas hunting camp, a place known by the name painted in block letters across a large, flat rock standing upright at its gated entrance.What follows is a long investigative piece by Stephanie McCrummen on the history of the Perrys' hunting property and its offensive name, which Perry says he and his father quickly changed after they began using the property in the early 1980s.
“Niggerhead,” it read.
There is no definitive account of when the rock first appeared on the property. In an earlier time, the name on the rock was often given to mountains and creeks and rock outcroppings across the country. Over the years, civil rights groups and government agencies have had some success changing those and other racially offensive names that dotted the nation’s maps.And others who recall hunting and vacationing with Perry at this point don't recall him having the offensive word painted over as promptly as he claims.
But the name of this particular parcel did not change for years after it became associated with Rick Perry, first as a private citizen, then as a state official and finally as Texas governor. Some locals still call it that. As recently as this summer, the slablike rock — lying flat, the name still faintly visible beneath a coat of white paint — remained by the gated entrance to the camp.
Some who had watched Perry’s political ascent recalled their reaction to the name on the rock and their worry that it could become a political liability for Perry.The article could scare off some centrist Republicans already concerned that Perry is too extreme a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination. Taegan Goddard, publisher of Political Wire, tweeted the Post story this morning with the simple message, "And with this story, Rick Perry loses the Establishment Republicans."
“I remember the first time I went through that pasture and saw that,” said Ronnie Brooks, a retired game warden who began working in the region in 1981 and who said he guided three or four turkey shoots for Rick Perry when Perry was a state legislator between 1985 and 1990. “. . . It kind of offended me, truthfully.”
Brooks, who said he holds Perry “in the highest esteem,” said that at some point after Perry began bringing lawmakers to the camp, the rock was turned over. Brooks could not recall exactly when. He said he did not know who turned the rock over.
Another local who visited the property with Perry and the legislators in those years recalled seeing the rock with the name clearly visible.
“I thought, ‘This is going to embarrass Rick some day,’ ” said this person, who did not want to be named, fearing negative consequences from speaking on the subject.
The story comes as Perry, who was supposed to be the dangerous gunslinger in the Republican field, is finding himself on the ropes. Mitt Romney, of all people, has been mercilessly "grinding" away at Perry, writes Jill Lawrence at The Daily Beast. The problem could be, primarily, money, or the temporary lack of it.
It’s an understatement to say it wasn’t supposed to be this way. Perry is the candidate with the 10-election winning streak, self-confidence that some past opponents say borders on arrogance, and aggressive campaign tactics that trounced Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison in last year’s gubernatorial primary. Romney is the one with the blue-state background, substantial wealth, and two Harvard degrees, not to mention a résumé burdened with Romneycare, policy flip-flops, and some major political losses.................................................
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Paul Burka, a Texas Monthly writer who has long covered Perry, says that so far “he’s certainly not the guy that we’ve seen in Texas. He doesn’t have the same fire or the same confidence that he had in Texas.” Burka wonders if a slow recovery from July 1 back surgery has thrown Perry off his game, and, like Mackowiak, he predicts the governor will bounce back to form. “When he gets in a race, he’s a killer. He just destroyed Kay Bailey Hutchison. They will sooner, if not later, just launch all these attacks on Romney.”
Saturday, October 1, 2011
The truth about Cal Thomas' latest pile of excrement
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Posted in response to Cal Thomas' drivel entitled "Just because a person dies does not disqualify them from government check" (and to capture it in case someone just can't stand to read the truth and reports it to a moderator who just can't hold fast against such a complaint):
Read more: http://www.theolympian.com/2011/10/01/1821562/just-because-a-person-dies-does.html#disqus_thread#ixzz1ZZfDSpoX
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Posted in response to Cal Thomas' drivel entitled "Just because a person dies does not disqualify them from government check" (and to capture it in case someone just can't stand to read the truth and reports it to a moderator who just can't hold fast against such a complaint):
- Otis_Campbell
- Otis_CampbellOh My! How closed-minded of you.
So you are implying that I shouldn't point out how Cal is lying about this type of
wasteful spending? Or are you so close minded towards one individual,
that nothing they say can be right in your eyes? That is what is wrong
with this country now, too many people unable to see anything other than
whomever they perceive is on their side.
Read more: http://www.theolympian.com/2011/10/01/1821562/just-because-a-person-dies-does.html#disqus_thread#ixzz1ZZfDSpoX
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Friday, September 30, 2011
"Kudos to Sam Reed for having the courage to stand up to KIRO"
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How Sam Reed bent his sword against KIRO-TV
The retiring secretary of state, a model of public candor, found that media don't always like accountability when it is turned toward them.
By John Hamer
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How Sam Reed bent his sword against KIRO-TV
The retiring secretary of state, a model of public candor, found that media don't always like accountability when it is turned toward them.
By John Hamer
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As part of a national CBS-affiliate series of stories on voter fraud, KIRO7 ran two stories in the fall of 2008, shortly before Election Day. The first story, which ran on Oct. 15, 2008, alleged that thousands of felons had been issued ballots and many had already voted, although felons are not supposed to have voting rights. KIRO “investigative” reporter Chris Halsne interviewed a woman who supposedly was a convicted felon but said she had voted anyway. The second story, which ran on Nov. 3, 2008, alleged that more than 100 dead voters were still on Washington’s active voter rolls, with 15 of them actually casting “ghost” ballots. On her front porch, Halsne interviewed the widow of a man who supposedly had “voted” although he’d been dead since 1996.[snipped]
However, both stories contained egregious factual errors, including these:[snipped]
* The “felon” was not a felon. She had been convicted only of a misdemeanor, so she never lost her right to vote. KIRO failed to doublecheck that simple fact.
* The “dead” voter was not dead. The deceased man’s son, who has the same name, had voted. KIRO had confused the two men and ignored the widow’s statement to that effect.
In his complaint, Reed declared that two KIRO stories were “factually incorrect, incomplete, misleading, sensationalized, inflammatory, and unfair.” He said the stories “wrongly damaged” his office and “failed to include balancing facts or information.”[snipped]
According to Dave Ammons, Reed’s communications director and former Associated Press political writer and columnist in Olympia, the KIRO delegation listened, but then declared that they would not run corrections or clarifications, nor would they remove the stories from the KIRO website.[snipped]
The News Council reluctantly accepted Reed’s decision not to proceed with a hearing. However, the WNC then invited the public to participate in an unprecedented “Citizens Online News Council” to help judge KIRO’s journalistic ethics and performance. No news council in the world (and there are dozens of them, most members of the Alliance of Independent Press Councils of Europe) had ever done that before. We called it a “virtual hearing.”[snipped]
KIRO got hammered. The votes were nearly all highly critical of KIRO and upheld Reed’s complaint (see vote results and comments). Of all those who voted online, only a few defended KIRO. Most voters added critical comments...............................................
As president and executive director of the Washington News Council, I still find this case one of the most shocking examples of unprofessional, irresponsible journalism that I have ever seen. KIRO even got criticized by The Stranger and earned a “Dart” in the Columbia Journalism Review. KIRO played fast and loose with the facts, disregarding the truth. They refused to set the record straight even after being confronted with incontrovertible evidence that they were wrong. Then they tried to “bury” the stories by sneaking them off their website without telling anyone or admitting any errors. Yikes.
A recent national survey by the Pew Center for the People and the Press found public trust in the news media at about its lowest level ever. Stories like KIRO’s are part of the reason for that.
Kudos to Sam Reed for having the courage to stand up to KIRO. More public officials and individual citizens who are damaged by shoddy news reporting should do the same. Otherwise, bad journalists will keep committing media malpractice — which hurts journalism, the public and democracy.
Editor's Note: We endeavored to get KIRO to comment on this story but so far have not heard back from the station.
Thursday, September 29, 2011
THE 'NYM WARS"
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Who Are You, Really? Activists Fight For Pseudonyms
by Martin Kaste
September 28, 2011
Social media companies don't like people creating accounts under fake names. That's long been the case at Facebook, but over the summer, Google's new social network, Google Plus, surprised users by making a point of shutting down accounts with names that didn't look real.
Some online activists refer to Google's action as the "nym wars" — short for "pseudonym wars." They see it as part of a worrying trend to force people to use their real names online.
Trying To Weed Out 'Trolls'
It's a concern that goes beyond the social media sites themselves. More and more, social network accounts are becoming a gateway to other parts of the Internet.
"If you want to leave a comment, you have to be a Facebook user," says Jimmy Orr, managing editor of the online Los Angeles Times, one of several news sites now requiring commenters to use Facebook. He says it makes it harder for people to hide behind fake names.
"I'm impressed at Facebook's efforts at authentication. It's for real. You know, if I were just to join up on Facebook, for example, to leave a comment, and I made up a name, chances are it would not show up," Orr says.
Some of the Los Angeles Times comments sections still operate under what Orr calls the old "Wild West" system, where all you need is an email address. Those sections have more trolls — commenters who bait each other with racism or personal attacks. The sections with Facebook logins, on the other hand, are comparatively civil.
"The reason for that is trolls don't like their friends to know they are trolls," Orr says. "If you are who you are, you're less likely to leave a comment that makes you look bad."
Neither Facebook nor Google would comment for this story, but over the years, their executives have expressed impatience with Internet anonymity.
"One of the errors that the Internet made a long time ago is that there was not an accurate and non-revocable identity-management service," Google chief Eric Schmidt said at the Techonomy conference last year. "And the best example of an identity-management service today that's reasonably reliable is Facebook."
There's a lot of money at stake for both companies. Social networks are in the business of collecting information about their users, and that information is worth more when it's connected to real names. Schmidt went on to suggest that the anonymity of the Internet is a historical aberration.
"You know, 200 years ago, in a small town, you couldn't sneak around if people didn't know who you were," he said.
Seeking Freedom To Express Themselves
To be clear, Schmidt was talking about the kind of technical anonymity that facilitates cybercrime. But people who use pseudonyms for more benign reasons worry that "real name" culture is spreading across the Internet, with Facebook logins required everywhere they turn.
"There's a concern about being shut out of the conversation," says a woman who blogs and tweets under the Internet pen name Garidin Winslow. To her, it's an extension of the time-honored literary tradition of pen names — someday, she hopes to write a novel under the name. She wants the freedom to express herself without offending the sensibilities of, say, her boss — or potential future bosses.
"I think it's better to err on the side of caution," Winslow says. "Your employer is going to be searching for you on the Internet — they're going to be looking for you by name."
"Real name" policies keep her off Facebook and Google Plus — but she is on Diaspora, a new social network still in the process of rolling out. At Diaspora headquarters in San Francisco, co-founder Max Salzberg says this network does not insist on real names.
"Certainly with Diaspora, it's not a requirement, and in fact it's not even something we could enforce, because Diaspora is open source," he says.
Open source means the software is open for anybody to see and rewrite as they please. Diaspora is also a distributed system, which means users can host and control their own social networking data. Some of those who worry about the "Nym wars" see Diaspora as the great hope for saving online pseudonyms. But Salzberg actually agrees with Google's Schmidt on one point.
"There is a place for people to be able to use their real name, and have some sort of verified, like — 'This is actually Max Salzberg responding to your question.' "
What big social media companies need to understand, he says, is that there's also a place for pseudonyms.
"Anonymity and pseudonyms are slightly different," Salzberg says. "A pseudonym that's well-constructed is something that that person values and wants to maintain at a certain level. It's still an authentic personality they have."
Innovations like Diaspora mean pseudonyms aren't likely to go away. But as Google Plus and Facebook increase their reach, the question is: On how much of the Internet will those pseudonyms be allowed?
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Who Are You, Really? Activists Fight For Pseudonyms
by Martin Kaste
September 28, 2011
Social media companies don't like people creating accounts under fake names. That's long been the case at Facebook, but over the summer, Google's new social network, Google Plus, surprised users by making a point of shutting down accounts with names that didn't look real.
Some online activists refer to Google's action as the "nym wars" — short for "pseudonym wars." They see it as part of a worrying trend to force people to use their real names online.
Trying To Weed Out 'Trolls'
It's a concern that goes beyond the social media sites themselves. More and more, social network accounts are becoming a gateway to other parts of the Internet.
"If you want to leave a comment, you have to be a Facebook user," says Jimmy Orr, managing editor of the online Los Angeles Times, one of several news sites now requiring commenters to use Facebook. He says it makes it harder for people to hide behind fake names.
"I'm impressed at Facebook's efforts at authentication. It's for real. You know, if I were just to join up on Facebook, for example, to leave a comment, and I made up a name, chances are it would not show up," Orr says.
Some of the Los Angeles Times comments sections still operate under what Orr calls the old "Wild West" system, where all you need is an email address. Those sections have more trolls — commenters who bait each other with racism or personal attacks. The sections with Facebook logins, on the other hand, are comparatively civil.
"The reason for that is trolls don't like their friends to know they are trolls," Orr says. "If you are who you are, you're less likely to leave a comment that makes you look bad."
Neither Facebook nor Google would comment for this story, but over the years, their executives have expressed impatience with Internet anonymity.
"One of the errors that the Internet made a long time ago is that there was not an accurate and non-revocable identity-management service," Google chief Eric Schmidt said at the Techonomy conference last year. "And the best example of an identity-management service today that's reasonably reliable is Facebook."
There's a lot of money at stake for both companies. Social networks are in the business of collecting information about their users, and that information is worth more when it's connected to real names. Schmidt went on to suggest that the anonymity of the Internet is a historical aberration.
"You know, 200 years ago, in a small town, you couldn't sneak around if people didn't know who you were," he said.
Seeking Freedom To Express Themselves
To be clear, Schmidt was talking about the kind of technical anonymity that facilitates cybercrime. But people who use pseudonyms for more benign reasons worry that "real name" culture is spreading across the Internet, with Facebook logins required everywhere they turn.
"There's a concern about being shut out of the conversation," says a woman who blogs and tweets under the Internet pen name Garidin Winslow. To her, it's an extension of the time-honored literary tradition of pen names — someday, she hopes to write a novel under the name. She wants the freedom to express herself without offending the sensibilities of, say, her boss — or potential future bosses.
"I think it's better to err on the side of caution," Winslow says. "Your employer is going to be searching for you on the Internet — they're going to be looking for you by name."
"Real name" policies keep her off Facebook and Google Plus — but she is on Diaspora, a new social network still in the process of rolling out. At Diaspora headquarters in San Francisco, co-founder Max Salzberg says this network does not insist on real names.
"Certainly with Diaspora, it's not a requirement, and in fact it's not even something we could enforce, because Diaspora is open source," he says.
Open source means the software is open for anybody to see and rewrite as they please. Diaspora is also a distributed system, which means users can host and control their own social networking data. Some of those who worry about the "Nym wars" see Diaspora as the great hope for saving online pseudonyms. But Salzberg actually agrees with Google's Schmidt on one point.
"There is a place for people to be able to use their real name, and have some sort of verified, like — 'This is actually Max Salzberg responding to your question.' "
What big social media companies need to understand, he says, is that there's also a place for pseudonyms.
"Anonymity and pseudonyms are slightly different," Salzberg says. "A pseudonym that's well-constructed is something that that person values and wants to maintain at a certain level. It's still an authentic personality they have."
Innovations like Diaspora mean pseudonyms aren't likely to go away. But as Google Plus and Facebook increase their reach, the question is: On how much of the Internet will those pseudonyms be allowed?
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Political and moral tone-deafness
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Tea Partiers Should Seriously Consider Holding Their Applause
By Karl Frisch | September 27th, 2011
[snipped]
Tea Partiers Should Seriously Consider Holding Their Applause
By Karl Frisch | September 27th, 2011
[snipped]
You know things are bad when you look back on the rancor and race-baiting of 2008 with nostalgia.[snipped]
When NBC’s Brian Williams asked Rick Perry if he had ever “struggled to sleep at night with the idea that any one of [his 234 executions] might have been innocent” the Texan’s response that he had “never struggled with that [at] all” was met by boisterous applause.[snipped]
Call me crazy, but a self-proclaimed God-fearing Christian should lose sleep over the killing of anyone. The political and moral tone-deafness is compounded when one considers the fact that four people on the Lone Star State’s death row have been exonerated and freed in the past four years alone — a figure that doesn’t include several cases where those executed could very well have been innocent.
With the storm of unflattering public attention that followed the audience’s applause, you’d think the elite base Republicans invited to sit in on these debates would have made a mental note to be on their best behavior.
You’d be wrong to jump to such conclusions. Logical thinking rarely applies with the Republican base. It seems logic, like the media and science, has a liberal bias.
CNN’s first mistake was letting the Tea Party Express co-sponsor the debate. It was the political equivalent of letting patients run the asylum. And sadly enough, the patients themselves were decidedly pro-patients dying.................................................
If you’ve been brainwashed into thinking NBC and CNN represent the liberal media and that these two outbursts are simply the product of liberal antagonism, you must have missed the debate Fox News and Google co-sponsored.
Since Google was the official co-sponsor it seemed only fitting that the Republican White House hopefuls would be expected to take questions from YouTube.com, a Google property.
The repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” had been certified just two days before the Fox News debate and as luck would have it, a gay marine submitted a video question. You can imagine what that meant. He asked the Republican candidates if they would work to “circumvent” repeal of the decidedly homophobic policy.
The marine’s question was met by a swift chorus of boos from the audience, louder than any debate audience display of idiocy yet. Not a single Republican candidate acknowledged the obvious insult or the marine’s service.
If a Democrat had stood by and said nothing during such a moment, Republicans in power would have called for the guillotine.
The next Republican primary debate is on October 11 in New Hampshire. I’m guessing the audience will enthusiastically cheer the “or die” portion of the Granite State’s official motto.
Thankfully it’s the American audience and not the irrational tea party Republican base that will ultimately have its say on the future of this country.
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
A matter of time....
From Cinemablend.com:
It looks like the filmmakers spend a lot of time sliding around a frozen Wasilla, Alaska looking for sound bytes, good or bad, about the infamous Palin. Speaking with her family, ex-family, and even trudging through City Hall before being unceremoniously booted from the property. Broomfield manages to get some perspective on Palin’s career in politics as well as how she handles herself on and off camera. I’d say this sounds interesting if I wasn’t already utterly disgusted by her existence.
You Betcha! starts in select theaters at the end of the month, September 30th, so get ready to hear a lot of people say a lot of stupid things like, “She doesn’t use big gigantic words,” which is obviously a topic of interest for a lot of “smart” Americans. The film will likely split viewers just like Palin does herself. There’ll be people who love it because it makes her look like the fool that she is, and there will be people who hate it for the same reason. Sarah Palin is a menace and hopefully this documentary will knock some sense into those people who can’t seem to get past her friendly facade and actually listen to some of the idiotic things she says.
It looks like the filmmakers spend a lot of time sliding around a frozen Wasilla, Alaska looking for sound bytes, good or bad, about the infamous Palin. Speaking with her family, ex-family, and even trudging through City Hall before being unceremoniously booted from the property. Broomfield manages to get some perspective on Palin’s career in politics as well as how she handles herself on and off camera. I’d say this sounds interesting if I wasn’t already utterly disgusted by her existence.
You Betcha! starts in select theaters at the end of the month, September 30th, so get ready to hear a lot of people say a lot of stupid things like, “She doesn’t use big gigantic words,” which is obviously a topic of interest for a lot of “smart” Americans. The film will likely split viewers just like Palin does herself. There’ll be people who love it because it makes her look like the fool that she is, and there will be people who hate it for the same reason. Sarah Palin is a menace and hopefully this documentary will knock some sense into those people who can’t seem to get past her friendly facade and actually listen to some of the idiotic things she says.
Monday, September 26, 2011
Perry: more show than substance?
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Rick Perry's 'electile dysfunction'
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Ana Navarro, of Miami-Dade and an advisor to Jon Huntsman, said Perry is more show than substance.
“Rick Perry is a Texas stud, a real macho-man who looks great in cowboy hat and boots and was supposed to come galloping on his stallion to rescue Republicans and lead us to the promise land,” said Navarro, an advisor to Huntsman’s campaign. “But it’s become increasingly clear he can’t perform. He has electile dysfunction.”
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Rick Perry's 'electile dysfunction'
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Ana Navarro, of Miami-Dade and an advisor to Jon Huntsman, said Perry is more show than substance.
“Rick Perry is a Texas stud, a real macho-man who looks great in cowboy hat and boots and was supposed to come galloping on his stallion to rescue Republicans and lead us to the promise land,” said Navarro, an advisor to Huntsman’s campaign. “But it’s become increasingly clear he can’t perform. He has electile dysfunction.”
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Saturday, September 24, 2011
glenn just can't resist making a fool of himself!
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glenn
Ordering ham in a Jewish deli is like trolling for a gay encounter in a mosque.
in reply to olywords
Anonymll
Hmmmmm..... is this comment based on your personal experience, glenn?
in reply to glenn
1uncleduff
Glenn, you are so wrong. Real Jewish Delis/diners serve BLT's, and other customer pleasing menu items. Don't you remember getting cold cuts including bologna and pigs feet in the delis.
in reply to glenn
glenn
Dude! I lived in Jersey and worked in Philly. I know what they serve in just about every deli there. I'm having fun and you're a spoil sport. Now leave me alone.
in reply to 1uncleduff
Claribelle
You'd be surprised. Haven't you heard of "reformed jew"? Oh and btw they hold annual gay parades in jerusalem compliments of the Sharon regime.
in reply to glenn
glenn
I said mosque!
in reply to Claribelle
Intertubes
Yes you did. Because you just can't help yourself. You're like my wifes pet poodle. The thing needs to pee on anything bigger than an acorn.
in reply to glenn
glenn
Well, I guess you measure up to an acorn. Now sit still - my aim ain't too good.
in reply to Intertubes
Read more: http://www.theolympian.com/2011/09/23/1811116/new-deli-to-fill-void-downtown.html#disqus_thread#ixzz1Yr7VDVPI
UPDATE:
Read more: http://www.theolympian.com/2011/09/23/1811116/new-deli-to-fill-void-downtown.html#disqus_thread#ixzz1YuZjTT6L
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glenn
Ordering ham in a Jewish deli is like trolling for a gay encounter in a mosque.
in reply to olywords
Anonymll
Hmmmmm..... is this comment based on your personal experience, glenn?
in reply to glenn
1uncleduff
Glenn, you are so wrong. Real Jewish Delis/diners serve BLT's, and other customer pleasing menu items. Don't you remember getting cold cuts including bologna and pigs feet in the delis.
in reply to glenn
glenn
Dude! I lived in Jersey and worked in Philly. I know what they serve in just about every deli there. I'm having fun and you're a spoil sport. Now leave me alone.
in reply to 1uncleduff
Claribelle
You'd be surprised. Haven't you heard of "reformed jew"? Oh and btw they hold annual gay parades in jerusalem compliments of the Sharon regime.
in reply to glenn
glenn
I said mosque!
in reply to Claribelle
Intertubes
Yes you did. Because you just can't help yourself. You're like my wifes pet poodle. The thing needs to pee on anything bigger than an acorn.
in reply to glenn
glenn
Well, I guess you measure up to an acorn. Now sit still - my aim ain't too good.
in reply to Intertubes
Read more: http://www.theolympian.com/2011/09/23/1811116/new-deli-to-fill-void-downtown.html#disqus_thread#ixzz1Yr7VDVPI
UPDATE:
glenn
Dude! I lived in Jersey and worked in Philly. I know what they serve in just about every deli there. I'm having fun and you're a spoil sport. Now leave me alone.
Yesterday 03:45 PM
in reply to 1uncleduff
MuddyWaters
You're not having fun, you're indulging flatulence in public. Now be a nice boy and eat your Beano.
Today 10:12 AM
in reply to glenn
Read more: http://www.theolympian.com/2011/09/23/1811116/new-deli-to-fill-void-downtown.html#disqus_thread#ixzz1YuZjTT6L
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