Drudge: “I had a Supreme Court Justice say to me it’s over for me."

Sounds like you have a very good and comfortable life there. I can relate a bit....drive an older car and will always do so...I just rent a one for out of town trips.

After living in several major cities I opted for a more settled, calmer small town life, though some might call this a small city....it’s not close really to city life. And I love it!

On web scrubbing.....I believe you with all I've seen. I actually was in the middle of pulling an article and it disappeared....I knew they were pulling stuff....when you're out there scanning and looking there's a tempo to being on line that tends to shift when whoever is out their scrubbing stuff....

When the e-mails on Climate Change were released that night I stayed up the entire time online... while various scientists and weather people moved from one site to the other for verification etc. I followed them, as well to get a handle on what was happening....and if true or not.

Remarkably once they began scrubbing information the “teams” out there looking for verification began also to pull off information before it could be scrubbed. It was a real war of securing the information some did not want the public to know. One of the most interesting nights I've had....but it also made me quite aware of the “Information wars” that do occur...and it's far more often then most would imagine.

Same with Propaganda.....you can tell when it starts hitting the Internet...there really is a rhythm to the net and when that gets disturbed you can tell pretty quickly.

Not bad. The hardships come from weather, and with the price of oil (and rig count) going down many of the idiots and jerks from elsewhere are heading south for the winter, if they haven’t left already. Traffic in the region has calmed considerably, and the lines at the stores aren’t so long. No complaints, things are getting back to normal.

Drudge posts only links and a bare-bones synopsis of the subject matter - how can that be a copyright violation? He is actually directing people TO the various websites, giving them free publicity and increasing their “hits”.

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