New York’s first-term Democratic Gov. Eliot Spitzer this afternoon publicly apologized for the “involvement” in prostitution he admitted this morning. Police released to the New York Times evidence that Spitzer was the client of a high-end prostitution ring called Emperor’s Club.
Much of the televised media is reporting it as, “Spitzer admits involvement in prostitution to aids.” Well don’t worry ’bout it; nobody sniched. The new Democratic governor of the world’s financia center was reportedly caught talking about some nookie via FBI wiretap. Some details you really only do get in print.
Wonder what was written on the subpoena for that wire tap. Oh right…
“It’s a good thing he wasn’t a president,” said a tall man wearing a black suit, dark sunglasses and a dark earpiece. “Impeachments don’t usually work.”
I shouldn’t have to tell you how ridiculous it is to believe that the FBI’s Terror Watch List contains nearly a million American citizens. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has placed a counter on it’s website to keep track of the number.
Many innocent U.S. citizens have trouble at airports and have to go through much additional screening because of this list, which the ACLU says will break a million names by July. After seeing what just a few terrorists can do I think it’s safe to say if we actually had a million terrorists in this country we’d be in pretty hot water.
The ACLU says:
Terrorist watch lists must be tightly focused on true terrorists who pose a genuine threat. Bloated lists are bad because
they ensnare many innocent travelers as suspected terrorists, and
because they waste screeners’ time and divert their energies from looking for true terrorists.
CBS points out that before 9/11, the terror watch (or “No Fly”) list totaled 16 names. The thing is now more than 500 pages long. Check out the 60 Minutes segment from Oct. 2007.
I honestly couldn’t believe my ears when presidential hopeful Sen. Hilary Clinton, D-NY actually started using the press as part of her campaign tactics - and not even the way most politicians do.
Politicos can dish it, spin it, and repackage it and journalists will do whatever they can to extract the delicate truth from whatever they’re saying. But seriously, to turn to the American Press and say “Hey guys. A little help here?”
So this past week the story started circulating. Clinton said she always gets asked the question first, that the press is handling Obama with kid gloves and that she was being slanted negatively
Now I’m not going to try to justify the actions of the press. The fact of the matter is, every individual journalist is different and you can’t talk about “the press” as if it’s some central bran. Sure there was a trend in coverage that seemed to make Obama out to be more favorable. But he has a better story.
People knew about Hillary’s desire for the presidency in 2004 when she kept assuring everyone she had “no plans to run.” Because of who her husband was, she’d been followed pretty closely.
Obama, on the other hand, came totally from behind when the current race got started. There was more in him for the general public to learn and, thus, more for the press to uncover. Well that and he’s campaigning a bit more effectively.
An article in the Observer of England that was published a few years back has been stirring people up after hitting the top of Digg recently. In 2004 the Observer managed to obtain a “suppressed” Pentagon report claiming that by 2020 we will live on shrunken continents with crumbling social infrastructures. And all because we couldn’t green up in time.
The Guardian reports that the study was commissioned by Andrew Marshal, the Pentagon’s futurist-in-chief and warns that “abrupt climate change could bring the planet to the edge of anarchy as countries develop a nuclear threat to defend and secure dwindling food, water and energy supplies.” Read the rest
So I switched to Vista. In fact, I’m typing on it right now.
Does that offend you? Did you just suffer, like most of my friends, from the “Ew, Vista?” reflex. It smells like acid-reflux breath in all my friends lately.
But despite its many flaws, Vista has a lot of potential. First let me talk about what pisses me off about it. It is an absolute memory hog. I was bleeding into virtual my memory (hard drive acting like RAM), when my RAM had almost a gig to play with already. Truth be told Microsoft seems to be trying to look a lot more like Mac. The main difference is, Vista doesn’t “just work.”
What I really can’t stand is the USB induced blue screens I keep getting. And this is on a new Acer Aspire, only a couple months old. Any time I plug in a new camera or thumb drive, I’ve gotta jump through hoops to make it work without crashing my system.
But these are all things that will be ironed out and I think anyone with the ability to look ahead in the software development time line will see that. Vista was designed to create a pleasurable user experience. Microsoft seems to realize that most PC users don’t get beyond Excel, Word and FireFox as far as computing goes. So why not make it a bit more enjoyable?
Windows has always been about… well “windows.” I remember being amazed at Windows 3.1 because there was a graphical alternative to DOS, and again with (my beloved) Windows 2000 when the customization and speed of their graphical layout was king.
The application windows in Vista do have a rather beautiful - if imperfect - system of organization and transition. They fade in and out, pop up as previews when you mouse over the task bar, and scroll in 3D when you press Window+Tab. I have faith that after Service Pack One (see the video) is released and they solve the USB issues, we’ll have a fun and aesthetically advanced OS in Vista.
I am not going to pretend to be a fanatic of the hit ABC show, “Lost.” The first two seasons were very entertaining and really did play out a load of those “if you were stranded on a desert island” scenarios we’ve all mused on. There was a gorgeous, dark haired girl who was not quite all she seemed. A scruffy, long-shanked vagabond started a crooked barter stand with the pillaged booty of a wrecked airplane. And, oh crap, some Rock Star had to kick his coke habit. Sure, the show’s writers would make it out to be some profound revelation. But let’s face it, he would have run out anyways. Soon the show just got too tough to follow. Read the rest
New York’s first-term Democratic Gov. Eliot Spitzer this afternoon publicly apologized for the “involvement” in prostitution he admitted this morning. Police released to the New York Times evidence that Spitzer was the client of a high-end prostitution ring called Emperor’s Club.
