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Hooray for that slimy fuck John Edwards!

GayWired.com | Op/Ed | Did John Edwards Cost Hillary Clinton the White House? Probably. | By Duane Wells

Forget blaming husband Bill Clinton. Hillary Clinton ought to give John Edwards a good dressing down the next time she sees him, because the wayward former political hero could very well have played a huge part in changing the fate of her historic race for the White House.... ...John Edwards’ affair, coupled with the lack of reporting on it, will without question forever be examined by political historians as a potentially game changing factor in the 2008 race for the Democratic presidential nomination and the fate of those vying for it. This week on Fox News, Sen. Hillary Clinton’s former communications director, Howard Wolfson, intimated that Edwards dishonesty about his adulterous relationship with Rielle Hunter allowed him to stay in the running to become the Democratic Party’s nominee and, in the process, siphon off votes that ultimately weakened Hillary Clinton’s campaign in Iowa and subsequent states. “We would have won Iowa, and Clinton today would therefore have been the nominee,” Wolfson says, examining what might have happened if the news of Edwards affair had forced the North Carolina politician out of the race for the White House prior to the Iowa caucus.... And as for the argument that Obama had an eleven-state winning streak after New Hampshire, let’s just say that but for that fortuitous bounce from Iowa, Barack Obama might have faded into the background, another hopeful left in the shadows of the ‘unbeatable’ candidate as she marched onto victory as everyone had predicted.

Posted in Politic(k)s. Posted by Alan at 12:17 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)

Crews carry trash, memories out of foreclosed homes

ajc.com | Crews carry trash, memories out of foreclosed homes

They left family photos scattered across a bed, next to a Bible and a toddler's floppy-eared hat. Their marriage license rests on a dresser. And a diploma from Duluth High is tucked unceremoniously into a closet still stocked with clothes.... Johnson, owner of Atlanta-based VTG Development Corporation, managed about 125 foreclosed homes two years ago. Now, at any one time, he has nearly 300. So each moment spent pondering what might have gone awry for one family, he says, is a moment wasted on getting it ready for the next.... Johnson watches as his workers scoop the photos and mail into garbage bags, then toss them off the front porch and into a growing pile in the front yard. There, pots and pans join furniture and fake plants, rotten lumber and worn-out clothes. There's a baby's bouncy seat, an old computer monitor and a couple soccer jerseys.... Some of the stuff looks in pretty good shape, but Johnson says liability concerns force him to err on the side of the dump. There's enough here to fill his 16-foot trash trailer seven times. Some may wonder how a family could walk away from so much, says David Ali, an upstart trash-out man from Stone Mountain. Many, he says, are in denial or grappling with bigger issues than where to move their belongings. "If you don't have the money to pay the mortgage," he says, "you probably can't pay for the moving truck."

Posted in (K)apital, Labor, (K)ommerce and Economic(k)s. Posted by Alan at 12:09 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Phelps becomes greatest Olympian

I hear he went to some school near Detroit. (Hyuck!) BBC | Phelps becomes greatest Olympian

US swimmer Michael Phelps became the greatest Olympic athlete in history, winning his 10th and 11th gold medals with double victory on Wednesday.

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Flying dog poo art causes museum chaos in Switzerland

Raw Story | Flying dog poo art causes museum chaos in Switzerland

GENEVA (AFP) - A giant inflatable dog turd by American artist Paul McCarthy blew away from an exhibition in the garden of a Swiss museum, bringing down a power line and breaking a greenhouse window before it landed again, the museum said Monday. The art work, titled "Complex S(expletive)", is the size of a house.

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August 12, 2008

Put down the bong, Pater

It's summer and we've run out of news, so instead we'll read this story about how rich twats are still getting away with murder. telegraph.co.uk | Party-loving parents

Don't be fooled by the air of respectability - more and more middle-class parents now get up to all sorts of illegal activity after putting the children to bed. Charlotte Edwardes on the new face of Britain's drug problem... As the trend for having children later in life continues, some parents are finding it more difficult to abandon the carefree debauchery of their youth. They refuse to jettison their previous life of cocktails, parties and powdered drugs just because they have entered their late thirties and early forties and taken on the responsibilities of school fees and sleepovers. These parents see no reason for their newly responsible status to cramp the irresponsible behaviour they have long enjoyed. That, their reasoning goes, is why you hire a nanny.... On the morning that she speaks to me, Jones has slept in while the au pair walked the children to their private school, via a local café where they ate breakfast. She lives in an area popular with media people (it's close to the BBC), politicians (David Cameron lives a few streets away), writers, actors and musicians. Front doors are painted in Farrow & Ball colours and the gardens are tastefully tended. It screams middle class. But the modern kitchen of Jones's Edwardian house is still scattered with the debris of last night's dinner party. On the sideboard, ready for the dishwasher, are lipstick-stained red-wine glasses. The cleaner is scraping the contents of eight untouched pudding bowls into the bin. On the table, next to overflowing ashtrays, is subtle evidence of the post-main course debauchery: two CDs covered in specks of white powder. Jones says this is not a regular event. 'Maybe twice a month. I have a rule - I'm always in bed with a Valium and a camomile tea by three o'clock.

Sure ya do.

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The 2008 summer song manages to make girl-on-girl boring for straight males

I thought summer songs were supposed to be fun as well as vapid. I Kissed A Girl - Katy Perry

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NASA: Next gen shuttle delayed to 2015

BBC | Nasa Moonship flight target slips

Nasa has pushed back by a year its internal target date for flying the successor to the shuttle. Agency officials say they are now aiming for September 2014 for the first crewed mission of the Orion ship. This is a year later than Nasa had hoped for, but still inside its March 2015 absolute deadline. The officials say the funds currently available to develop Orion and its Ares launch rocket mean the faster timeline is no longer tenable.

Posted in Tec(k)nical Arts. Posted by Alan at 01:28 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Russian hackers continue attacks on Georgian sites

NEW YORK (AP) — Attacks by Russian hackers against Georgian Web sites, including one hosted in the United States, continued Tuesday even as Russian President Dmitri Medvedev ordered a halt to hostilities against Georgia. Tom Burling, acting chief executive of Atlanta-based Web-hosting firm Tulip Systems Inc., said the Web site of the president of Georgia was the target of a flood of traffic from Russia aiming to overwhelm the site. Burling said bogus traffic outnumbered legitimate traffic 5000 to 1 at president.gov.ge. "Literally, our people aren't getting any sleep," Burling said. Tulip's firewall was blocking most of the malicious traffic. The site has been periodically inaccessible, though it was working midday Tuesday. Burling said the attacks have been reported to the FBI.

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You pay income taxes for corporations

Because somebody's paying income taxes, and it ain't most corporations. CQ Politics | Most Corporations Don’t Pay Income Taxes: GAO

Most corporations, including the vast majority of foreign companies doing business in the United States, pay no income taxes, according to a Government Accountability Office report released Tuesday. During the eight-year period covered by the report, 72 percent of foreign-owned corporations went at least one year without owing taxes, and the same was true for 55 percent of domestic corporations. Small companies were much more likely to pay no taxes than larger companies. Still, more than 3,500 large domestic corporations — with more than $250 million in assets or $50 million in gross receipts — did not pay taxes in 2005. The report said about 80 percent of the companies studied paid no taxes because they didn’t generate any profit after expenses. Money-losing companies can legitimately owe no tax, and others can use provisions of the tax code to lower or eliminate their liability.

My dad was in profit-sharing plan once. Eight years, no profits. Funny thing, that.

Posted in (K)apital, Labor, (K)ommerce and Economic(k)s - (K)onspiracies, both local and national. Posted by Alan at 12:36 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Witness: Stripper told me Mrs. Kilpatrick tried to stove her head in

This is really the nut of the matter: Did Kwame's wife allegedly beat down a stripper? And -- later -- who helped the stripper get dead? freep.com | EMS official: Greene told me she was beaten by mayor's wife | New affidavit in lawsuit claims Greene blamed Carlita Kilpatrick

Six years after the long-rumored but never proven Manoogian Mansion party, a Detroit Fire Department EMS supervisor has come forward to say he spoke on an autumn night in 2002 with a swollen-faced Tamara Greene, who told him the mayor's wife had just assaulted her. Lt. Michael Kearns is the first official to publicly claim he had direct contact with Greene at the time of the supposed assault around October 2002.... Greene was killed in a drive-by shooting on April 30, 2003.

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Ceiling cat and your ISP are watching you masturbate

Rut roh. WaPo | Some Web Firms Say They Track Behavior Without Explicit Consent

Several Internet and broadband companies have acknowledged using targeted-advertising technology without explicitly informing customers, according to letters released yesterday by the House Energy and Commerce Committee. And Google, the leading online advertiser, stated that it has begun using Internet tracking technology that enables it to more precisely follow Web-surfing behavior across affiliated sites. The revelations came in response to a bipartisan inquiry of how more than 30 Internet companies might have gathered data to target customers. Some privacy advocates and lawmakers said the disclosures help build a case for an overarching online-privacy law.

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Gmail fail

internetnews.com | Gmail Back in Service after Outage | Google says a fix is being rolled out.

Google confirmed "many Gmail users" were unable to access the email service since about 2 p.m. Pacific Time after receiving a "502 Error" message which would seem to indicate a system overload of some kind for the popular service. Whatever the issue, it appears to have been identified and fixed. A Google spokesman said the issue has been fixed and Gmail is functioning normally. Several mail users contacted by InternetNews.com report their service is back and working after being unable to access it.

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