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Google is taking a collection of donations to alleviate starvation in East Africa. Sounds great, I hope the food actually gets to the starving people. But as one of those darn conservatives, I wonder how likely Google's method is to circumvent political impediments such as local authorities who'd rather their people be starving than relinquish wrongheaded modes of exercising power. Is TROP going to be a problem here?

A certain person told me there had been going on in Nashville, since last Thursday April 28, a one week "Tea Party" meeting for truckers to air their grievances about government overreaching and plan political action. This person intended to be there, but for personal reasons it seems he could not. So I thought I'd try to Google up whatever information I could to see what had been going on -- supposedly Jay Sekulow was intending to be a guest speaker. I'm having a lot of trouble identifying any such event, if it existed at all. My apology in advance...

THE SECRET'S OUT: U.S. rednecks come in many colors, they built America, and they keep America movin' strong! Are you one of America's hard working rednecks? Yellow, red, tan, white, black, or any other color? This album is for you, through work, fun, trials, tribulations, and heart warming moments. (1) Rednecks Built America -- let's hear it for U.S. rednecks of all colors! (2) Truck Drivin' Man -- doin' the best he can 24/7. (3) Illinois Cowboy -- crazy biker, leader of a 1000 bike convoy. (4) Oh, The Smoke -- smoky biker bar, where we love our baby! (5)...

Since the recent to-do with the change of FR's IP address, I've been having problems seeing the state (or region) flag images on FReeper pages. They all come up as broken links, although if clicked they still go to the blog for the appropriate state. What gives?

I do not like it Uncle Sam, I do not like it Sam I Am. I do not like these dirty crooks, I do not like how they cook books. I do not like when Congress steals, I do not like their secret deals. I do not like this Speaker Nan, I do not like this ‘YES WE CAN’. I do not like this kind of hope, I do not like it Nope! Nope! Nope!

A certain township in a Chicago collar county is playing mind games on me. I believe I am being harassed. Sporadically over the last three years I've gotten "love letters" from their code enforcement jackboot claiming that a neighbor complained about grass and weeds in my yard but "has even offered to help [me]." In the past when this happened I just freshly mowed the yard and heard no more, for a while. (I am not in the best of health and sometimes cannot take care of my yard as well as I would like.) Well, I got another "love...

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No, Google is not defacing billboards belonging to others. Instead, Google, through its new toolbar, is hijacking the websites visited by its users and replacing their ads with Google ads.

Got a "nicegram" from my township with a picture of a planting of the wild grape bushes that have been on the corner of my yard for 9 years with nobody complaining, threatening to have my yard cleared of "weeds" while the swat team is there and then billing me beaucoup dollars for it. The letter tells me to see the ordinances on some web site, but after clicking on all 40 some links I found nothing there about weeds (though in scanning the ordinances it looks to me like one neighbor has an illegal sump pump water discharge to...

A prominent Chinese house movement leader, Pastor Zhang Rongliang, has been sentenced to seven-and-a- half years in prison. According to China Aid Association, the July 4 verdict was issued by Zhongmu County People's Court,

US authorities cleared the Whirlpool deal to acquire rival appliance maker Maytag, a tie-up agreed after a bidding war with a Chinese firm. The US Justice Department's antitrust division said its investigation "determined that the proposed transaction is not likely to reduce competition substantially."

... Wednesday night's nationwide vigils on behalf of anti-Bush activist Cindy Sheehan was something to bark about, at least for those of the canine variety. Wednesday night's nationwide vigils on behalf of anti-Bush activist Cindy Sheehan was something to bark about, at least for those of the canine variety. ...

Hyper-Threading, Linus Torvalds vs. Colin Percival Posted by timothy on Wednesday May 18, @08:17AM from the local-exploit-means-other-bad-things dept. OutsideIn writes "The recent Hyper-Threading vulnerability announcement has generated a fair amount of discussion since it was released. KernelTrap has an interesting article quoting Linux creator Linus Torvalds who recently compared the vulnerability to similar issues with early SMP and direct-mapped caches suggesting, "it doesn't seem all that worrying in real life." Colin Percival, who published a recent paper on the vulnerability, strongly disagreed with Linus' assessment saying, "it is at times like this that Linux really suffers from having a single...

MRF E-MAIL NEWS Motorcycle Riders Foundation P.O. Box 1808 Washington, DC 20013-1808 202-546-0983 (voice) 202-546-0986 (fax) http://www.mrf.org (website) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Jeff Hennie, MRF Vice-President of Government Relations jeff@mrf.org (e-mail) May 8, 2005 #05NR09 - NATIONAL CALL TO ACTION: Lautenberg to Propose Amendment The Motorcycle Riders Foundation (MRF) has learned that Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J) is planning to offer an amendment to the MRF's Motorcycle Safety Language contained in the highway bill HR 3. The MRF has received an advanced copy of Sen. Lautenberg’s proposed amendment. It would penalize, or prohibit, any state without a mandatory helmet law from...

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A prominent Beijing house-church leader, found in possession of a massive cache of Bibles and Christian literature, faces a harsh sentence if convicted in his upcoming trial, according to Chinese contacts of the U.S. activist group Voice of the Martyrs. Cai Zhuohua, 32, the leading minister to six house churches in Beijing, will be tried formally in court in the Chinese capital any day now, the Oklahoma-based group said.

HANAU, Germany (AP) - A U.S. Army tank company commander accused of murdering a man in Iraq fatally shot him out of pity at his injuries, a witness testified Wednesday at hearings to determine whether he should face a court-martial. ... At the last round of hearings in July, Maynulet's former commander, Col. Michael Ryan, testified that he was an ``excellent officer'' who was ``special, trustworthy and honest.'' Maynulet said he was confident the charges would be dropped.

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'But emerging evidence suggests "living wills" may not be living up to their promise as useful guides for families faced with tough decisions about end-of-life care.'

Hamas threatened a "volcano of revenge" against Israel as some 200,000 Palestinians packed the streets of Gaza for the funeral of the Islamic movement's assassinated leader Abdelaziz Rantissi.