Fools

John Kerry -- Moonbat

The whole of the Democrat party is becoming a loon toon camp.

Unanimous Court Ruling For Talk Radio

Even in the liberal bastion of Washington State, the court ruled Thursday that Radio Talk Shows are not subject to the camapign finance laws.

A unanimous state Supreme Court ruled Thursday that two radio talk show hosts who used airtime to support a gas-tax rollback initiative they launched were not required to report their commentary as an in-kind political contribution.

The court also reinstated a countersuit filed by the No New Gas Tax campaign against the local governments that initially sued: San Juan County and the cities of Auburn, Kent and Seattle.

"This is a victory for free speech and a free press in Washington state," said William Maurer, executive director of the Institute for Justice Washington chapter, who argued the case before the high court. "Washingtonians can rest assured that the news and voice and commentary they hear has not been censored or restricted by the government in any way."

The ruling overturns a 2005 ruling by Thurston County Superior Court Judge Chris Wickham that talk show hosts John Carlson and Kirby Wilbur at Seattle radio station KVI were key organizers and promoters of Initiative 912. The ballot measure was aimed at heading off a four-step, 9.5-cent-a-gallon increase in the state gasoline tax.

Sanity prevails. There would be some liberals on the air as well, if they didn't talk to the audience from an alternate reality.

Liberals hate the First Amendment almost as much as the hate the Second. Any thing that exposes their disingenuous agenda for world socialism they oppose. I wonder why that is?

Story here.

Current Solar Cycle, Deep Minimum ??

One lonely sunspot shows on the sun after
weeks of near zero sunspot activity
This week in Boulder, Colorado, a group of leading solar physicists met to compare and discuss their predictions for the next solar maximum. On April 25th they held a press conference and announced a split decision. One camp holds that Solar Cycle 24 will be intense and peak in 2011, a second group predicts a much weaker maximum in 2012. This is a year later than some other recent predictions. Expected to start last fall, the delayed onset of Solar Cycle 24 stymied the panel and left them evenly split on whether a weak or strong period of solar storms lies ahead, but neither group predicts a record-breaker.



Researchers were able to agree on one thing -- Solar activity is entering a period of deep minimum. Based on declining sunspot numbers and other factors, the cycle should hit rock bottom in March 2008 plus or minus six months.

Best avaialable data says 2007 and 2008 will be really low sunspot years. The rest will have to wait for Ms Sun, when it weighs in with the actual results. A couple of years of sunspot minimums could put a damper on the globull warming hoax.

Here is the press release.

Gen Petraeus On Iraq

General Petreaus, the top US general in Iraq, gave a stark message to Washington officials at the Pentagon today when asked what would happen if the US forces pulled out as the Defeatocrats plan calls for. Petraeus said, as quoted from the video below:

"My sense is that there would be an increase or resumption in sectarian violence were the presence of our forces and Iraqi forces were to be reduced. It can get much, much worse than it was."

General Petreaus pointed to two worrying developments- the increased profile of Al Qaeda in Iraq and more and more evidence obtained by US forces that Iran is trying to destabilize the situation by funding insurgent groups.

It is absolutely appalling that this did not even make it into the mainstream news articles! Why do you think that is???





General David Petraeus gave a press briefing in Washington this morning, 4/26/07. You may have seen news accounts of it, the headline generally was along the lines of "Petraeus Says Things May Get Worse." This is the propaganda reduction of a full hour's briefing spoon fed to the eager brain dead public to summarize the day's template journalism. Short and sweet, but it's a lie. If you want to see the whole thing in context, it's a little over an hour, here it is. Needless to say, there is a great deal more information than can be conveyed in any short Democrat propaganda slanted negative news story.

This video comes from the Pentagon Channel, an excellent web site that includes a daily news show with footage from Iraq and around the world.

Full transcript here.

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Hero

Dr. Liviu Librescu
August 18, 1930 – April 16, 2007

The Sun

The source of all things on Earth, golbal warming and the entire solar system. To think that man can ... well it's just stupid on it's face.

Silence, I Kill You

Jeff Dunham at his best!!!

Ubuntu Getting Feisty

Vista vs Ubuntu Feisty

Ubuntu released their version 7.04, Feisty Fawn, on April 19 to a jammed worldwide download nightmare. It took me about 6 hours to download. But it was worth the wait. The new release is great. I had been beta testing it all along and found the new features, the spit and polish to really make it shine. No more Windows for me.

I left the Microsoft world for good back a few months when Feisty alpha came out. I found some potholes but mostly smooth sailing. I also have a copy of Vista, and it simply does not make a compelling case for the money it costs. It also does not run as fast on my chosen Internet box as does Ubuntu. The DRM wasn't a plus either. I use a old P4 Dell SC400 3.0 1.5 GB as my main Internet box and it performs admirably with Feisty. Of course Firefox is the browser of choice. There are still a few websites that stick to using MS tools and browser and these backwards sites sometimes gives Firefox fits with their non-standard code. But such is life.

Yesterday MS announced the $3 WindowsXP bundle to compete with Ubuntu. Now at first blush, I wonder how the anti-trust folks are going to treat this dumping? I think MS believes that by reducing the entry cost to effectively zero, they will be able to make it up with the add-ons. My guess is most people, even in developing countries understand the game and realize the cost of ownership for MS products really adds up, sometimes many times the cost of the machine itself. Here is what you get in the developing country $3 bill

Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates launched an initiative in China Thursday(4/19/07) aimed at bridging the digital divide ... involves offering governments a $3 software package called the Student Innovation Suite. It includes Windows XP Starter Edition, Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007 and some other stuff ... The suite will be available by the end of this year to qualifying governments that are working to supply PCs to students in order to promote technology skills. In 2008, Microsoft will extend its availability to all countries with economies defined as low- or middle-income.

Compare this to what the user gets with Ubuntu and it is no contest.

A quick first look review at the new Ubuntu is here. And some handy tips what to do when you get Ubuntu 7.04 installed is here. Download here. Community support forum here. What are you waiting for?