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Even though the press tries...

nobody@vox.com(Rosemead Herald) — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:49:29 -0800

Even though the press tries to disparage Sarah Palin, her popularity is at an all time high.

Publisher HarperCollins said Friday that Sarah Palin's memoir sold 300,000 copies its first day, among the best openings ever for a nonfiction book. In 2004, Bill Clinton's "My Life" debuted with sales of 400,000 copies. The year before, Hillary Rodham Clinton's "Living History" started at 200,000.

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9/11 trials.

nobody@vox.com(Rosemead Herald) — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:54:50 -0800

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happy thanksgiving

nobody@vox.com(ken) — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:01:14 -0800

happy thanksgiving to one and all[even you marxists] the first thanksgiving wasn't really celebrated until the second year,after many people had died of disease and exposure,they had planted crops,hunted and found enough food to make it through the harsh new england winter they had a christian banquet of thanksgiving.

First-thanksgiving

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Google’s ad cookies are lame

nobody@vox.com(Jack Yan) — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:07:44 -0800

Now that Vox has fixed whatever bug it has and I can write again, I can tell you about the following find on Google, which Janette mentioned on her blog.
   On the one hand, I am glad Google has been transparent about this and told us that it has noted down our advertising preferences. There are countless other companies that track us through their cookies and have not been honest enough to tell us about them.
   On the other hand, it is disturbing what is being tracked about us online by Google and other companies.
   Mine are not accurate. You would expect that my interest in cars would be noted, but no. Here are the categories Google has associated with me, which are so off you wonder just how bad its technology is:

Arts & Humanities
Computers & Electronics - Programming
Computers & Electronics - Software
Computers & Electronics - Software - Audio & Multimedia
Computers & Electronics - Software - ... - Internet Clients & Browsers
Entertainment - Celebrities
Entertainment - Multimedia Content - Flash Content
Entertainment - Multimedia Content - Video Clips & Movie Downloads
Internet - Online Goodies - MySpace Codes & Graphics
Photo & Video - Photo & Video Sharing
Social Networks & Online Communities - Blogging Resources & Services

I admit I have checked for some celebrity news. One in eleven strikes me as an extremely poor understanding of my preferences. I am not a programmer, have little interest in software, certainly do not want multimedia content about entertainment, use MySpace four times a year, and only share my videos and photos with you here on Vox (though I do look at the Lucire videos from time to time). While I blog, I doubt I need to be advertised to since I am already set in my ways; and I do not recall seeing any ad for blogging resources lately.
   When I started removing the above, Google added some extra categories, including something to do with punk music and another to do with news from Korea! Very lame.
   I already think Google’s Adsense programme to be one of the worst I have ever encountered in what is a very mature industry in the US. I have no idea why it is so well regarded or why people speak so highly of it; it is the antithesis of Amazon.com, for instance, which has become a bit of standard when it comes to online shopping.
   I imagine Google Adsense is the online advertising equivalent of Microsoft Word: no one knows any better, so they assume that things are not that bad.
   I have since opted out of these Google cookies, as it seems Google will not serve relevant advertising in any case.

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US NEWS & WORLD REPORT Poll: Should Conservative Christians Renounce Carrie Prejean's Lewd Pursuits

nobody@vox.com(Carrie) — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:40:01 -0800

US News & World Report

God & Country

U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT

Poll: Should Conservative Christians Renounce Carrie Prejean's Lewd Pursuits?

November 17, 2009 02:08 PM ET
By Dan Gilgoff, God & Country

The conservative Christian groups that embraced Carrie Prejean over her public stand against gay marriage at this year's Miss USA pageant would presumably be appalled by revelations that she participated in racy photo shoots and made obscene videotapes for her boyfriend.

Should those groups be expected to renounce Prejean's erotic endeavors?

Should Christian groups that embraced Carrie Prejean for her stance on marriage renounce her appearances in racy photos and obscene videotapes?

Yes No

Vote and view results here.

Carrie Prejean

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Carrie Prejean falls short as being the new Queen of the Conservative Victim Whine

nobody@vox.com(Carrie) — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:38:56 -0800

Carrie Prejean

Some conservative ideologues play the Victim Card like a master Tex Hold Em player reads their opponents' cards in Vegas and tosses out a Joker. Sarah Palin has mastered the art of "the liberal is attacking poor little ME!"

Conservatives use this technique more as a rallying cry to their base. A way to squeeze money out of the fringes and make themselves a hero to their cause. Carrie Prejean has been trying to do just that, but her efforts are really weak.

The playbook is pretty standard. Say something racist, misogynist or homophobic which the public doesn't like and claim that you're just voicing your views and the dirty hippie liberals want to silence you from speaking your mind. It doesn't hurt to have the looks Carrie does, but it appears like she'll need some extra media training in the Conservative Whiner schtick.

She's trying to be the new star on the far right conservative circuit, but she's had a very controversial start to her run at it.

As you know, she was running for the Miss USA title, got asked about gay marriage, said she was against it and then got into a very public fight with Perez Hilton over it. She was immediately embraced by the religious right, and as she was acting as Miss California started to film commercials against gay marriage. This is a violation of her contract as Miss California, because you cannot take positions on religion and politics, but she does what most conservatives do, she played by her own rules.

In the middle of it all, topless pictures were released about her, which is no biggie, except when you want to be a leading figure in the morally superior evangelical set. Donald Trump came to her rescue and didn't fire her for breach of contract when she failed to show up for scheduled events. A firestorm erupted between the pageant people in California and Prejean, and it so infuriated Shanna Moakler she resigned.

She was finally fired by "The Donald" while she was doing a radio interview because she failed to live up to the terms of her contract.

You can see why Sarah Palin is her hero. They both love to quit. Then she brought a lawsuit against the pageant.

Now the fun really begins because she made a sex tape for her boyfriend and TMZ reported that it was this tape that got her to back down and the suit was settled.

In the above video, Hannity tries to whitewash it for her, first saying that the ex betrayed her, at which Prejean naturally smiles and says, "Yes, he did. I loved him." Her book is called "Still Standing," which is of course an attack on the media, and her thesis is that everybody wanted her to not express her views. And that, as you can see by this, video is a joke. She has never been silenced at all. She's on every TV show possible.

Her ex told TMZ that Carrie tried to get him to lie about her age so she could say it was a youthful mistake to appease the right wing Christians.

Listen, Carrie, nobody cares about your sex tape (except in a voyeuristic way) or the money you spent on fixing up your body to win beauty contests, or how many nekked pictures you took, because it's your life. Bravo, I say! Will there be Late Night on Cinemax?

She has to concentrate on her religious base because that's where her money is going to come from. If she cons them into thinking she's another "conservative victim," she'll succeed mightly in that arena.

Watching her on Larry King was also pretty funny. Larry King is the King of the softball interviews, and she picks his show to try and pull the old, "Storm off the set routine," but can't even find her microphone to rip off herself. King was trying to find out why she settled her court case -- because as we know, it looks like the sex tape made her capitulate.

In the above video, we have her then trying to pull what appears to be a preplanned stunt on Larry King for more attention.

If it wasn't planned, then, well... she's just nuts.

Source: Crooks and Liars

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BOW WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

nobody@vox.com(ken) — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:47:54 -0800

HE DID IT AGAIN,IS HE GOING TO GET ON HIS KNEES NEXT TIME.

NOW IF WE CAN ONLY TEACH HIM TO FETCH,OR WOULD THAT BE TO CAPITALISTIC

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America and China

nobody@vox.com(Rosemead Herald) — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 06:27:23 -0800

Will America be able to turn the corner and stabilize or will Communist China rule the world? Will America start using its creative energy to produce products that the world wants to buy? Will America stop outsourcing production capacity and jobs to China? Will America's government and corporate leaders stop being greedy and invest time and energy into making America an economic powerhouse once again? Good questions all.

The rapid growth is in the East today. Albert Keidel, author of China's Economic Rise: Fact and Fiction, predicts that China's economy will surpass that in the U.S. by 2035 and be twice its size by 2050. Keidel calls attention to China's "money-making machine" because it has ready at hand the funds to build the infrastructure to sustain rapid growth.
The U.S.--loaded as it is with too much debt, a damaged banking system and high unemployment--does not have China's resources. Warns Keidel: "China's likely success will eventually bring an end to America's global economic pre-eminence."

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Political correctness has run amok...

nobody@vox.com(Rosemead Herald) — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 02:27:58 -0800

Political correctness has run amok again. It seems that anyone can be fired and treated like a criminal without due process. Sexual harassment has become a joke. Because, the offense is in the eye of the beholder. And, a standard of guilt for sexual harassment is quite subjective. Without the rules of presenting legal evidence and providing due process to accused, the entire issue of sexual harassment is questionable.

Under pressure from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), East Georgia College (EGC) has withdrawn an unfounded charge of "sexual harassment" against a professor who criticized the school's sexual harassment policy.
EGC President John B. Black dismissed Professor Thomas Thibeault from campus and had him escorted from campus by police in August. Thibeault was treated as a dangerous criminal without a hearing or even knowing his accuser or the charges or evidence against him.

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Iran

nobody@vox.com(Rosemead Herald) — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 02:31:46 -0800

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