 - Last login: 13 days agoTheFantasyYears
- CBaker is a 36 year old married guy from Perth, WA, Australia.
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- Member since Aug 16, 2006
How did it happen? Who are the voices that led America astray? The Fantasy Years tells the story of Rush Limbaugh's assault on reality and the effect he's had on his many fans. www.thefantasyyears.com
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Dec 8, 2007 4:51am
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cnn.com/2007/TECH/ptech/12/07/c64/index.html [cnn.com/2007/TECH/ptech/12/07/c64/index.html]
Ah, the Commodore 64...Now that was a computer.
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StumbleUpon - gmrlebs web site reviews and blog
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Nov 24, 2007 7:54am
60 reviews
stumblers, photography
http://gmrleb.stumbleupon.com/
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Nice blog. Good mix of photos. Pretty and funny. Although with a preponderance of dogs' jaws clutching cats' heads. I'd check it out again.
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Klassys profile - StumbleUpon
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Nov 24, 2007 7:49am
422 reviews
stumblers, photography, bizarre
http://klassy.stumbleupon.com/
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Without a doubt one of the of the most disturbing collections of photos I've stumbled past. And why is the girl breathing smoke like that in the avatar photo?
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StumbleUpon - evennaars web site reviews and blog
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Nov 24, 2007 7:42am
2 reviews
stumblers, photography
http://evennaar.stumbleupon.com/
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Good photo links. Everything from nudes to Nazis and he doesn't even have that many links yet.
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StumbleUpon - saskia290878s web site reviews and blog
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Nov 24, 2007 7:28am
258 reviews
stumblers, photography, style-and-sense
http://saskia290878.stumbleupon.com/
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Great photos. Very emotive and suggestive. Saskia must have good taste in life.
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StumbleUpon - Carbon14s web site reviews and blog
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Nov 24, 2007 7:22am
42 reviews
stumblers
http://carbon14.stumbleupon.com/
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Good stuff. Lots of informative posts. His avatar photo looks like a guy I used to see around Austin, too.
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Nov 11, 2007 2:42am
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Privacy? Get over it says intelligence chief
Government seeks to redefine privacy
By PAMELA HESS
Last updated: November 11th, 2007 02:17 AM (PST)
A top intelligence official says it is time people in the United States changed their definition of privacy.
Privacy no longer can mean anonymity, says Donald Kerr, a deputy director of national intelligence. Instead, it should mean that government and businesses properly safeguards people's private communications and financial information.
Kerr's comments come as Congress is taking a second look at the Foreign Surveillance Intelligence Act.
Lawmakers hastily changed the 1978 law last summer to allow the government to eavesdrop inside the United States without court permission, so long as one end of the conversation was reasonably believed to be located outside the U.S.
The original law required a court order for any surveillance conducted on U.S. soil, to protect Americans' privacy. The White House argued that the law was obstructing intelligence gathering.
The most contentious issue in the new legislation is whether to shield telecommunications companies from civil lawsuits for allegedly giving the government access to people's private e-mails and phone calls without a court order between 2001 and 2007.
Some lawmakers, including members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, appear reluctant to grant immunity. Suits might be the only way to determine how far the government has burrowed into people's privacy without court permission.
The committee is expected to decide this week whether its version of the bill will protect telecommunications companies.
The central witness in a California lawsuit against AT&T says the government is vacuuming up billions of e-mails and phone calls as they pass through an AT&T switching station in San Francisco.
Mark Klein, a retired AT&T technician, helped connect a device in 2003 that he says diverted and copied onto a government supercomputer every call, e-mail, and Internet site access on AT&T lines.
thenewstribune.com/tacoma/24hour/politics/story/201082.html [thenewstribune.com/tacoma/24hour/politics/story/201082.html]
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Oct 27, 2007 11:31am
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When you hear Americans says the US is in decline, it's really the little things like this that they have in mind.
FEMA Official Apologizes for Staged Briefing With Fake Reporters
By Spencer S. Hsu
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, October 27, 2007; A03
The Federal Emergency Management Agency's No. 2 official apologized yesterday for leading a staged news conference Tuesday in which FEMA employees posed as reporters while real reporters listened on a telephone conference line and were barred from asking questions.
"We are reviewing our press procedures and will make the changes necessary to ensure that all of our communications are straight forward and transparent," Vice Adm. Harvey E. Johnson Jr., FEMA's deputy administrator, said in a four-paragraph statement.
"We can and must do better, and apologize for this error in judgment," Johnson said, a view repeated yesterday by press officers at the White House and the Department of Homeland Security, who criticized the event.
FEMA announced the news conference at its Southwest Washington headquarters about 15 minutes before it was to begin Tuesday afternoon, making it unlikely that reporters could attend. Instead, FEMA set up a telephone conference line so reporters could listen.
In the briefing, parts of which were televised live by cable news channels, Johnson stood behind a lectern, called on questioners who did not disclose that they were FEMA employees, and gave replies emphasizing that his agency's response to this week's California wildfires was far better than its response to Hurricane Katrina in August 2005.
"It was absolutely a bad decision. I regret it happened. Certainly . . . I should have stopped it," said John P. "Pat" Philbin, FEMA's director of external affairs. "I hope readers understand we're working very hard to establish credibility and integrity, and I would hope this does not undermine it."
White House press secretary Dana Perino said yesterday that "it is not a practice that we would employ here at the White House. We certainly don't condone it. We didn't know about it beforehand. . . . They, I'm sure, will not do it again."
Department of Homeland Security spokesman Russ Knocke called the staged briefing "totally unacceptable," adding, "While it is an isolated incident, that does not make it any more tolerable." He said reprimands are "very probable." FEMA is part of DHS.
"Trying to manipulate the press and the public will only tarnish their [FEMA's] current success," House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) said.
Philbin's last scheduled day at FEMA was Thursday. He has been named as the new head of public affairs at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, ODNI spokeswoman Vanee Vines said.
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Oct 24, 2007 6:42am
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What my tax dollars are going to?...Really? Must be the work of more Bush appointees
https://www.cia.gov/news-information/cia-the-war-on-terrorism/dci-counterterrorist-center-
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Oct 24, 2007 6:38am
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The Fantasy Years is a novel about the magical effect a particular strain of popular politics has had on Americans throughout the 1990s. The blook is just as much about the forces that helped seed and shape extremist political views among the public as the end result of such views. Rush Limbaugh and right wing think tanks form the chorus, a handful of Americans muddling through the 1990s make up the cast.
thefantasyyears.com [thefantasyyears.com]
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