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Barack moves a little bit closer!!

Barack Obama is about 200 delegates from making history as he as already secured North Carolina, and Yahoo had even stated that Hillary had already won Indiana, with only 70% of the vote in, but now it is being called too close to call. The interesting point about all of these candidates is that none of them can relate to the average person financially as their wealth truly separates them. Each of them have strengths and weaknesses and with our country being in a terrible recession, we can thank the retarded son for that, race, gender, and age are no longer issues for what is considered a "Perfect prototype President." The economy, healthcare, the war/foreign policy, immigration, and Homeland Security are some of the more "hotbutton" topics and one way or another, one of these eventual winners had better come up with some realistic solutions, or this will be one of the quickest terms in history. Read

The Time Warner's To Finally Separate!

Just in case you have been following the long saga between the Warner's, or you're an adopted child that's been wondering how you got into this family, the two have made an announcement.  They are separating.  Not a divorce mind you, just a separation.  The two will live in different house and may even reside in different states.

The Miss's will keep the hyphenated "Cable" name without the hyphen while continuing to date others and adopt more children. 

What does this mean?  Who do you side with?  Basically it means that you will mostly likely get treated better by whichever one you choose because they will be more dedicated to your needs.  So I think the "kids" win in this long time coming Time Warner, Time Warner separation.

Read how one of "their" children feels about it.

Radio Shack: Sprint, You're Bringing Us Down Man!

Oh snap, Radio Shack, that bastion of all things Optimus, threw the heavy guilt trip all over Sprint this week.  According to the Shack, Sprints low voter turnout brought their Q1 sales down 4%.

Sales dropped in first 3 months $43.3 million, at $949 million.  The Shack was at $992million this time last year.  But gas was still hovering around two bits then. 

Whatever the case, it seems that Verizon move wasn't so hot for Radio Shack, and for Sprint, well, just call a Rep, you'll quickly find out what the mood is like over there.

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The Jimi Hendrix Sex Tape

anyone who knows anything about Jimi, knows that he had an intense love of Guitar, Drugs and Sex.  And yes, in that order.  So the fact that there is a new sex tape really isn't all that shocking.  In fact it's not shocking at all. 

What is a bit shocking is the fact that this is in the news.  But then again, here I am writing about it.  Cynthia Plaster Caster, the woman who made the cast of Jimi's ....Uh, how should I say it?..... Guitar neck, has confirmed that the head banded fornicator is indeed Jimi in between two Brunettes.   

Vivid Entertainment has bought the rights to the unearthed porn and will be releasing it on DVD.  Make no "bones" about it, this will be a "huge" hit.  (read up on the life of Hendrix, you'll get my quotes).

Yep, in a world where absolutely nothing is sacred any longer, Jimi will soon go from Legendary Guitar God, to just another celebrity having sex.

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AT&T: U-verse Gets Online Games And Flickr On Your TV Screen

Texas seems to be the new place where companies go to take over the world.  Actually, just AT&T.  San Antonio will get a little upgrade to their brand new U-verse service from AT&T. 

Now subscribers will have the ability to watch a slideshow of their Flickr photos, play online games, search the Yellow pages and track their stocks and weather, all from the living room couch.

"AT&T Online Photos from Flickr, which lets you simply and conveniently browse the photos you've uploaded to flickr.com and watch slide shows on your U-verse TV screen from the comfort of your couch.
AT&T U-bar, which brings customizable weather, stock, sports and traffic information to the U-verse TV screen without interrupting the current program. AT&T High Speed Internet subscribers can personalize the U-bar from the AT&T portal to display weather at specific locations, your personal stock portfolio and scores for your favorite sports teams.
YELLOWPAGES.COM TV, for fast and easy searches to find local businesses and other information via your TV screen.
AT&T Yahoo! Games, so you can now play your favorite online games — including Sudoku, Solitaire, JT's Blocks, Mah-jongg Tiles and Chess — on the TV screen."

Now don't everyone pack up and move to San Antonio at once now ya hear!

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$10,000 Reward For The Return Of A Pig!

Sunday night, in the Coachella Valley, Rodger Waters took the stage and his Pig took to the sky.  Most flying pigs return to their masters after a night drunkin floating, and Roger Water's Pig is very obedient.  But this time, maybe because he was tattooed with slogans and political fare, Rogers Pig, which took off during "Pig", never returned home.

Take a look at him.  A good look.  If you think you know where this pig is, or if you're the one who walked out into your backyard and discovered what you thought was the souvenir of all time, quit thinking, Roger and the Coachella promoters want him back and they are willing to pay $10, 000.00 and four "lifetime" passes to the annual event.

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Alltel HTC Touch Upgrade

For anyone on the Alltel network cradling a HTC Touch, the days of your old firmware are gone.  A new dawn has arrived with a brand new EVDO Rev. A support package. 

Now that fancy Touch will blaze through downloads like butter, when you've got a really great signal.  The update also includes some enhancements to the Bluetooth functions.

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Soldier Sues Defense Secretary Robert Gates

One trend that I have noticed is on the rise since the onset of this war is the outward admission of atheism.  More and more, those who don't "believe" are standing up for their right to not "believe".  And as can be imagined, that right is not being met with "the American way", which is supposed to be in part, the right of "Freedom from religion".

However, that being said, the military is the last place one would expect a legal battle to evolve over the issue.  Actually, I guess a church would be the "last place". 

Dubbed "the atheist guy," Army specialist Jeremy Hall has taken his fight from the Barracks to the US courts, and he is dragging Defense Secretary Robert Gates with him.  Hall feels as though the military left him out in the cold because he is an atheist, superiors would not hear or help him with his battle with his command, and fellow soldiers.

Hall has been shipped around because his fellow solders are harassing him.  Taunting, calling him names and threatening to bring charges if Hall sought to meet with other enlisted atheist.

So basically, that thing we're fighting for..... uh, yeah,  and, believers of their American given religious right are taunting and intimidating someone for not believing as they do.  Christians are harrassing a guy for not believing as they do.... In the military...... while fighting folks who chop of heads of those who don't follw their religion. 

Make sense of that....

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Russia Gets Russian Again, Internet Banning On Tap

It's bit amazing how far backwards we as a planet have gone in the past 8 years.  Just when you thought free thought, open ideas, peace and understanding were on the move, Bam, Russia contemplates heavy restrictions on its Internet.

Now the Russian government is looking into ways to restrict internet users by banning what it deems as extremism, which could be just about anything.  Any website that falls outside of what is deemed exceptable will be blocked from users.  This is yet another step in Russia slow march back to "un-free".

Soon Russian citizen will probably lose the right to Habius Corpus.  Oh wait....we lost that right last year.

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CNN Gets Sued For $1.3 Billion, It's Getting Ugly Out There

I haven't had a lot of time to post this week, but earlier in the week a story hit me and I had to stop and post on it.  CNN's Jack Cafferty angered Chinese Americans in Hollywood because he said the Chinese government was delivering crap, I' m paraphrasing but that was the gist of it.  He did not go after Chinese people, but protest hit the fan anyway.  I thought this was a bit silly then, but now this new chapter is way over the silly season.

"Cafferty said the United States imported Chinese-made "junk with the lead paint on them and the poisoned pet food" and added: "They're basically the same bunch of goons and thugs they've been for the last 50 years."

For that the Chinese government wants an apology and two Chinese women are now suing CNN for $1.3 Billion, what they say amounts to $1 for every Chinese citizen he offended.  $1, I'm going to leave that bit of obviousness alone

The other day comedian Rush Limbaugh called for riots, killings and burning of cars at the upcoming DNC.  He did so to the tune of "I'm dreaming of a White Christmas".   You can take a guess as to why.  But no one is calling for his head, or suing or anything.  he called for mass violence on the radio, nothing.  Jack Cafferty says the obvious, a fact that the entire world would agree with all hell breaks lose and folks are owed a dollar. 

I'm sure he wasn't thinking of something like this when he titled his book, but man, it's like the guy is a sooth sayer.

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