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Attorneys for the University of Tennessee student accused of breaking into Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's email account have filed a small forest's worth of court documents in defense of the high-profile suspect. Among them is a motion to prohibit prosecutors from referring to their client as a hacker. The terms "hacker" and "hacking" have no basis under the statute Kernell is accused of violating, a motion filed in US District Court in Knoxville argues. It goes on to seek an order forbidding prosecutors and their witnesses from using those words when referring to the case. "Because of the negative connotations...

ABC News Political Reporter Jack Tapper writes on his blog Political Punch that Sen. Barack Obama taped an interview with Ellen DeGeneres that will air tomorrow on her show. “I regret to inform you that he did, indeed, dance,” pens Tapper, “As he has in the past.”

First we are bitter-gun-clinging-God-clinging-racist-rednecks, now we are crackers. At least according to John Baer at the Philadelphia Daily News. Click here for his opinion column reasoning that the "Cracker Effect" is why McCain continues to campaign in PA despite sagging polls numbers. You really have to wonder how the people of Pennsylvania feel about all of the negative adjectives being thrown their way in this election - especially Democrats that vote for John McCain. It is their "traitorous" vote for McCain that everyone is targeting with less than flattering descriptives for their vote.

Can’t blame him, although I don’t know how you solve this prisoner’s dilemma in an Internet age. One site floats the rumor, word spreads via e-mail, a few other sites blog it, another dozen sites reason that it’s gaining currency as a meme and already Google-able so there’s no reason to ignore it, and it’s off to the races. The media gets wind of it, checks it out, maybe runs a public advisory story debunking it (e.g., “No evidence of Michelle Obama tape”), and finally puts a question to the candidate himself to give him a chance to blow it...

Rat’s head leads to cracker recall March 19, 2008 When it was revealed that a rat head was found in a jumbo-size packet of shrimp crackers, the public reaction was fast and furious. With consumers quickly focusing on the fact that the product might have come from China and might go beyond a single container of the popular noraebang saeukkang snack, the manufacturer, Nongshim, was forced to make a public apology yesterday and to recall up to 30,000 cases of the crackers. Nongshim accepted sole blame for the accident involving what it says is Korea’s No. 1 snack food and...

So Don Imus has been fired from his radio show, and all is well in the world.  We all know about the maelstrom that developed around the aging shock jock, who has found out how loose lips sink ships, in this case his own.  But even though his is a vessel I never would have christened, I find a certain conclusion inescapable here.  I must defend Don Imus. Lest I be misunderstood, I have no use for the man, nor any for the rest of his ilk.  I know him to be a poster boy for our cultural decay, a...

This is incredible. Listen to the audio. After listening to this blatant phony and fool, I thought to myself: "And the Democrats and the Media dare to criticize Bush?" I would be monumentally embarrassed to be a Democrat after listening to this.

While I've always enjoyed the BBC's original "Cracker" series, I found the comeback episode that aired last week contained a painfully truthful statement. In the episode, an American woman, who traveled to England after her son was murdered by a killer who may have been targeting Americans, tries to explain how her son was a different kind of American: "He was a New Yorker. He hated Bush. He hated the war in Iraq. He hated all that born-again Christianity. I don't know anyone who is that kind of American," she said with a puzzled expression on her face. Gee, I...

VIDEO!!!!! Harold Ford Sr., the father of Tennessee Democrat Senate candidate Harold Ford Jr. (D), called pro-life activists who were outside of his son’s campaign headquarters “crackers”. Ford Sr. was on a cell phone telling the recipient “we have a cracker here with the Corker people.” says cracker TWICEthis has to get out the libs won't let it if we don't put their feet to the fire

Among certain radio talk show hosts, bloggers and their followers, being called a cracker was a high compliment yesterday. They seized upon a comment made Thursday by state Senate leader Don Perata, D-Oakland, who talked about “all these crackers down in . . . San Diego, taking on the governor” over immigration issues. Perata, who made the comment during a news conference, was referring to a forum in La Mesa with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger last week where some accused him of being soft on illegal immigration. Schwarzenegger later said he was surprised at the “intensity of the prejudice” of some...

Blue Star Mothers of America, Inc. has had their home page defaced. Nothing fancy just own3d.

HARRISBURG, Pa. - A Pennsylvania House session was suspended for more than an hour Wednesday after a black lawmaker, upset by a white colleague's comments about ethnic groups, referred to him as a "cracker." The comments came during debate on a bill that would allow residents of communities governed by homeowners' associations to fly the American flag on their property, even if association rules prohibited them from doing so. Rep. Thomas Yewcic, who is white, said people shouldn't be ashamed to support the American flag. "If any ethnic group wants to fly ... a flag, and they're embarrassed to fly...

A giant ridge girdles Saturn's satellite Iapetus - making the moon look like a walnut shell - reveal the latest images from the Cassini-Huygens mission. Scientists are at a loss to explain the feature, which is unique in the solar system. The Cassini spacecraft flew past Iapetus on New Year's Day, approaching to within 123,400 kilometres of the moon's surface. Its camera captured the most detailed images of Iapetus yet, revealing wisps of dark material and two-tone craters. But the ridge is the greatest surprise to scientists. It extends for at least 1300 km, following the equator exactly. In...

I’m an angry white man. I live in a red state. I voted for Newt Gingrich in 1994. I voted for President Bush in 2004. I am a sexist, homophobic, conservative animal. I caused blue state succession talk. I am to blame for everything that is wrong in the world—slavery, women’s oppression, worldwide famine, and pestilence. I have become the most spat upon by my own countrymen. I have become reviled and denigrated by the mainstream media as being greedy and creating poverty. I believe in the Founding Fathers and the U.S. Constitution. And I am in favor of morality...

IIS 5 Web Server Compromisesadded June 24 US-CERT is aware of new activity affecting compromised web sites running Microsoft's Internet Information Server (IIS) 5 and possibly end-user systems that visit these sites. Compromised sites are appending JavaScript to the bottom of web pages. When executed, this JavaScript attempts to access a file hosted on another server. This file may contain malicious code that can affect the end-user's system. US-CERT is investigating the origin of the IIS 5 compromises and the impact of the code that is downloaded to end-user systems.Web server administrators running IIS 5 should verify that there is...

<p>PALM BEACH, Florida -- A new computer chip promises to keep police guns from firing if they fall into the wrong hands.</p> <p>The tiny chip would be implanted in a police officer's hand and would match up with a scanning device inside a handgun. If the officer and gun match, a digital signal unlocks the trigger so it can be fired. But if a child or criminal would get hold of the gun, it would be useless.</p>

.....among the statements made to Clemons, in jail at the time on a domestic violence charge, was a reference by Stewart, wife of Associate Athletic Director Ed Stewart, to whites as "crackers." Floyd, the wife of UM President Elson Floyd, suggested that Clemons not date white women..... Few events in recent school history have forced the University of Missouri-Columbia campus to reflect as hard about its leadership and its values as the controversy surrounding the Ricky Clemons tapes. Michael McNamara photo University of Missouri-Columbia students, left to right, Blake Swearingen, Michael Gardner and Brett Iba walk along Stankowski Field after...

LOS ANGELES - A Web designer was sentenced to community service for hijacking the Web site for the Arab satellite news channel Al-Jazeera and redirecting its traffic to a site showing an American flag and the words "Let Freedom Ring." John William Racine II, 24, of Norco, was ordered Wednesday to perform 1,000 hours of community service and pay $2,000. He pleaded guilty in June to felony charges of wire fraud and unlawful interception of an electronic communication. U.S. District Judge A. Howard Metz said during the sentencing hearing that he believed Racine "immediately recognized how much terrible havoc" was...

Florida History     Last Name First Name Book Title Loderhose Gary Far, Far From Home: The Ninth Florida Regiment in the Confederate Army Loderhose Gary Way Down upon the Suwannee River: Sketches of Florida During the Civil War Haase Ronald W. Classic Cracker: Florida's Wood-Frame Vernacular Architecture Burt Jr Al The Tropic of Cracker (The Florida History and Culture Series) Storer & Briggs   Crackers in the Glade: Life and Times in the Old Evergaldes Oppel Frank Tales of Old Florida Huffstodt Jim & James Everglades Lawmen: True Stories of Game Wardens in the Glades Mosley Julia Daniels...

<p>PINSON, Ala. (AP) -- A Pinson man was charged with attempted murder for holding a gun to his son's head and pulling the trigger in the midst of a tantrum after Alabama's double overtime loss to Arkansas Saturday, authorities said.</p>