ThinkFast: May 1, 2006
ThinkFast: May 1, 2006
“There’re some dumb ideas in this,” Sen. Conrad Burns (R-MT) said of the conservative plan to ease the pain of high gas prices, such as handing out $100 rebate checks. Aides to conservative senators “reported a surge of calls and e-mail messages from constituents ridiculing the rebate as a paltry and transparent effort to pander to voters.”
On Saturday — two days prior to the three-year anniversary of “Mission Accomplished” — the “top U.S. general on the ground in Iraq warned…that a surge in violence was likely in coming months.”
In 2003, President Bush supported an executive order requiring all agencies and “any other entity within the executive branch” to provide an annual accounting of their document classification. But Vice President Cheney continues to insist that he’s exempt from the rule.
Bruce Springsteen plays New Orleans at “the biggest musical happening since Katrina struck last summer.” “I saw sights I never thought I’d see in an American city,” he said. “The criminal ineptitude makes you furious.” He then “launched into a song titled ‘How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live?’ and dedicated the song to ‘President Bystander.’”
Tens of thousands rally to stop the genocide in Darfur. (See photos.) “With tears in his eyes,” one Sudanese refugee who came to the U.S. six years ago said: “I’m personally moved by the way the American people are supporting us.”
To meet recruiting shortages, U.S. Army recruiters are “overlooking applicants’ gang tattoos and getting waivers for criminal backgrounds.” Gang members are increasingly enlisting, raising concerns that they are learning “urban warfare techniques they can teach when they go back to their neighborhoods.”
3,501: The number of U.S. citizens and legal residents whom the FBI secretly sought information about last year “from their banks and credit card, telephone and Internet companies without a court’s approval.”
Oil addiction limiting our diplomatic options with Iran: “Record-high energy prices are weakening Bush’s prospects of assembling an international coalition to counter Iran’s nuclear ambitions. They are diminishing his chances of influencing energy-rich nations such as Russia and isolating troublesome ones including Venezuela and Sudan. And they are straining U.S. economic and diplomatic ties with China, whose oil needs are skyrocketing.â€
Gas prices are high “because suppliers are unable to keep up with demand, a situation that could persist up to three more years,” Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman said yesterday. Meanwhile, “senior Wall Street analysts” warned of crude prices topping $100 a barrel.
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak “pushed through Parliament a two-year extension of an emergency law, a measure that for almost 25 years has effectively allowed the Egyptian government to detain prisoners indefinitely and without charge.â€
And finally: “Germany applauds tougher fines for streakers”: “A court decision clearing the way for harsher penalties against streakers who disrupt soccer matches by running on to the pitch was welcomed by Germany’s World Cup organizing committee on Saturday.”
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“Gasoline prices have soared an average of 60 cents a gallon in less than a month because suppliers are unable to keep up with demand”
No reference at all to the ethanol change over causing some of the supply issues?
May 1st, 2006 at 9:04 am3,501: The number of U.S. citizens and legal residents whom the FBI secretly sought information about last year “from their banks and credit card, telephone and Internet companies without a court’s approval.â€
We’ve been all through this. We don’t need no stinking liberal court’s approval to spy on spies and terrorists.
May 1st, 2006 at 9:17 amRepublicans are caught in a Catch 22 situation. Their leaker-in-chief rattled sabers with Iran so much that already the already bad gas price situation became worse. If he backs off from the threats to Iran, he loses face with what is left of his neocon supporters and loses the opportunity to use Iran as a wedge issue in the midterm elections.
May 1st, 2006 at 9:20 amNo mention of the Oil companies not using their record profits to establish infrastructure for the supply of ethanol.
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak “pushed through Parliament a two-year extension of an emergency law, a measure that for almost 25 years has effectively allowed the Egyptian government to detain prisoners indefinitely and without charge.â€
Those fascist Egyptian rulers. They should follow the example of the US in cases like this. That type of thing would never exist in a free and open country like the US. /blatant sarcasm off
May 1st, 2006 at 9:20 amYes, I’m afraid you do, until you amend the constitution with regard to the 4th amendment. What happened to the party of law and order?
May 1st, 2006 at 9:24 amWe’ve been all through this. We don’t need no stinking liberal court’s approval to spy on spies and terrorists.
Comment by I-RIGHT-I — May 1, 2006 @ 9:17 am
We’ve been all through this, too, silly. The OP says “U.S. citizens and legal residents,” not “spies and terrorists.” Remember, “U.S. citizens and legal residents” = you. The judicial branch is a check on the executive which keeps them from throwing you in jail for no reason.
And if you think you’re safe because your guy is in charge, how much do you trust all future presidents?
May 1st, 2006 at 9:26 amAs for the gas rebate, paltry is right. At yesterday’s pump prices $100 fills up my tank three times. Do you get a reach-around with that?
May 1st, 2006 at 9:30 amIn 2005 the production of ethanol was 3.9 billion gallons. At twenty million barrels consumption per day in the US, 0.45 x 20 000 000 = 9 000 000 barrels per day used for gasoline. 42 gallons in a barrel, so that equals 378 million gallons of gasoline used per day. 365 times 378 equals 137,970,000,000 gallons of gasoline consumed in the United States each year. 3.9 billion gallons of ethanol would have a neglible effect on the market.
Three times 137,970,000,000 is some 430 billions of dollars.
If I were to venture an idiot’s guess, I’d say the oil companies are making some money. All the while, they’re stealing the national treasure too. The hallmark of avarice and greed.
Dick Cheney is exempt from all rules, even hunting rules. I guess it is true when they say that all is fair in love and war. Kind of a catch 22 there too for old Dick, ain’t it?
May 1st, 2006 at 9:39 am#2: actually, we do, according to the U.S. Constitution.
May 1st, 2006 at 9:42 am#2: “We’ve been all through this. We don’t need no stinking liberal court’s approval to spy on spies and terrorists.
Comment by I-RIGHT-I — May 1, 2006 @ 9:17 am”
Wow. The conservatives have really turned into totalitarian fascists, haven’t they?
I wouldn’t believe it if I didn’t read it here. People actually getting pissed because someone is raising the alarm that their Constitutional rights are being dismantled.
May 1st, 2006 at 9:50 amThe Boss goes by Springsteen, not Springstein.
May 1st, 2006 at 9:53 amPS: A lot of brave men and women died in numerous wars to protect those rights that the neocons are throwing away in the heat of the moment.
The activities of the Bush administration disohonor all those noble sacrifices made in the field.
Shame on all of you neocons. Shame on all of your ridiculous terrorism hysteria. You’re a bunch of whining babies.
May 1st, 2006 at 9:54 amI-Right-I
What part of US citizens and legal residents did you not get?
May 1st, 2006 at 10:02 amIRI is one of them Qabbalist Animal Skin kiss the rattle snake types wackos. Hey IRI you got them Shirley Curls you put on the side of your head? Kill any cats or dogs lately IRI?
May 1st, 2006 at 10:07 amReading off Animal Skins?
Lemme see to get a 100 rebate how much Fuel must you buy?
I don’t even use enough fuel to worry about.
I did talk to a Kia Dealer the other Day however, and my my, how the IRI ‘Republicans’, those ‘Rich Folk’ indebted to their Eyeballs, trading in upside down SUV’s because they can’t afford the Gas.
May 1st, 2006 at 10:16 amSo now they drive 40,000 Kias!!
Bwwwhahahahaha.
Capitalism rules! Right?
Only three years? That’s a relief.
May 1st, 2006 at 10:16 amHey IRI are you gonna trade in your upside down SUV gas hog and get you a 45,000$$ Geo Metro?
HAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAA!!!!
I will laugh As I pass you, but don’t get mad, just watch me go.
May 1st, 2006 at 10:19 amCome on I would think you guys would have included this : TODAY IS NATIONAL LAW DAY
May 1st, 2006 at 10:21 amhttp://www.loc.gov/law/public/lawday.html.
#18
Ha, it’s national law day, and it’s also the day the illegals have choosen to protest. Irony at it’s best.
May 1st, 2006 at 10:25 amI-Right-I
What part of US citizens and legal residents did you not get?
Comment by Bruce Gorton —
What part of traitors, spies and terrorists don’t you get? You’re beating a dead horse since this has all gone through the mill once already and the President has been found to be within his properly defined powers. If it were not so the Filthy Left would have a case and be prosecuting him. Too bad. You lose again.
May 1st, 2006 at 10:26 amDid you watch 60 Minutes last night?
In Washington State nuclear waste is leaking into ground water. Our Energy Dept. is incompetent and millions of lives could be at stake.
The debate about Iran possessing nukes should stop and turn to the U.S.
The U.S. is too imcompetent to possess such dangerous material.
Look it up, it’s devastating.
May 1st, 2006 at 10:27 amCome on I would think you guys would have included this : TODAY IS NATIONAL LAW DAY
http://www.loc.gov/law/public/lawday.html.
Comment by the fly-man
Good deal. Maybe we’ll see a train load or two of Mexican criminals being deported today.
May 1st, 2006 at 10:28 amI-Right-I wants the illegal wiretapping crime to go away. Must mean that Bush is really worried.
Hmmmmm….thanks for the tip I-RightI, we’ll be sure to keep the pressure on.
Impeach!
May 1st, 2006 at 10:30 amAahhhhh, IRI, is someone extra “panties -in – a- bunch” this morning?
The Pres. has not been cleared on his illegal spying program. Arlen Spector is still looking for answers. And once the Dem’s get back the House, it will be raining subpoenas in Washington.
And I suppose you think Bush has every right to break 750 laws?
My, my, but you will be a dutiful little goose – stepper.
May 1st, 2006 at 10:38 am#20: where was the President shown to be within his rights? He’s never revealed the extent of the program and no court has found it Constitutional.
May 1st, 2006 at 10:39 amI-R-I shows again his lack of knowledge. He continually cites arguments without any supporting evidence. If the President has been found within his Constitutional power to do these warrantly wiretaps, then where is that decision? We know it’s not from the President because Separation of Powers wouldn’t allow that (again: see the U.S. Constitution.) So, where is it?
May 1st, 2006 at 10:47 amI-R-I,
The part of “traitors, spies and terrorists” that I “don’t get” is when the convictions happened. Seemingly you and the administration think such serious charges should be decided without a trial – maybe we should just take Ann Coulter’s word for it? Is the idea of “innocent until proven guilty in a court of law”, for you, just a “quaint pre-9-11 idea”? It seems to me to be the bedrock of our freedoms as Americans.
I also don’t remember any court ruling on the legality of Bush’s warrentless wiretapping program. So far, all we have are dubious admininstration claims about limitless executive power during “wartime”. The issue seems far from settled to me.
Furthermore, the mechanism for “prosecuting him” is called impeachment, and the movement is growing. Perhaps next year the investigations can begin in earnest.
May 1st, 2006 at 11:02 amI-R-I shows again his lack of knowledge. He continually cites arguments without any supporting evidence.
Comment by And You Thought REAGAN Was Stupid
Here’s the evidence; Bush is still in office and there is no action taken against him. Dumbass.
May 1st, 2006 at 11:07 amWow I guess you showed us, IRI!
Here’s a retort on par with your response:
“I know you are but what am I?”
Grow up.
May 1st, 2006 at 11:09 amMAY DAY PROTESTS IN U.S.
Monday 1st of May 2006
By Jay Randal
Today is May Day the international day of workers protesting against the vile corporate elite worldwide!
In America today: workers who crossed our border with Mexico to get jobs are protesting for rights as American citizens demand jobs for themselves too!
It is obvious that the elite want the illegal workers to fight with American workers so that they do not join together to fight against the tyranny of corporations!
The elite of Mexico desire their poor population to seek low-paid jobs in the United States instead of providing decent employment for them in Mexico!
The border remains wide open so the desperate can cross into the U.S. to be exploited by corporations who thrive on cheap labor using them like slaves!
American citizens must demand rights for all workers and march on Washington to end the corruption of the Bush Regime and a Congress that does nothing!
( Jay Randal, political activist and writer in Stone Mountain, Georgia, USA.)
May 1st, 2006 at 11:10 am#28. Lame argument. Want to try again?
May 1st, 2006 at 11:12 amWe’ve been all through this. We don’t need no stinking liberal court’s approval to spy on spies and terrorists.
Comment by I-RIGHT-I — May 1, 2006 @ 9:17 am
Wow, look at all the responses you’ve gotten! And here I thought everyone wanted you banned. Silly me. You’re the guy they love to hate.
Glad to see you survived the bad weather in Tex-ass. Hate to think you got whisked off to Oz there Toto and left me alone in here with whack-a-troll Mighty Medusa… :)
May 1st, 2006 at 11:15 am#32 – unbelievable, are you still having problems with reading the small font on TP? I have a possible cure — seriously, and it doesn’t involve bifocals.
May 1st, 2006 at 11:26 am#33 ctrl + in firefox, and that problem is solved.
May 1st, 2006 at 11:27 am#34 – Well Squeegy, I hope she has firefox.
May 1st, 2006 at 11:29 amI assume as much, IE should only be used when required. Its the devil.
May 1st, 2006 at 11:36 amunbelievable, are you still having problems with reading the small font on TP? I have a possible cure — seriously, and it doesn’t involve bifocals.
Comment by Zookeeper — May 1, 2006 @ 11:26 am
Yeah, on my home computer, which is smaller than the one at school. Wind up with all sorts of horrific typos as a result. Would appreciate the advice. Whatcha got?
May 1st, 2006 at 11:37 amThe right wing is going vegetarian in their coninutuing battle against immigrants.
May 1st, 2006 at 11:37 amctrl + in firefox, and that problem is solved.
Comment by squegeeboo — May 1, 2006 @ 11:27 am
In English por favor? I can’t speak compouter-geek-ese… :)
May 1st, 2006 at 11:38 am#39 assuming your not mocking me,
hold down ctrl press the + key, your font will increase in size, to shrink font, its ctrl -
If your in IE for some horrible horrible reason, go to view, then down to Text Size, or just install FireFox, and use taht instead of IE
Alternativley you could change your resolution to a smaller size, and that should increase the size of everything.
May 1st, 2006 at 11:41 amunbelieveable – I feel for you. My husband will start to tell me something about computers and my eyes glaze over. Why is this the only field that you cannot translate the information into english, or some other recognizable language?
May 1st, 2006 at 11:49 amhold down ctrl press the + key, your font will increase in size, to shrink font, its ctrl -
If your in IE for some horrible horrible reason, go to view, then down to Text Size, or just install FireFox, and use taht instead of IE
Comment by squegeeboo — May 1, 2006 @ 11:41 am
Me mock you? Come on… :)
That didn’t work. I pressed ctrl and + at the same time and it’s still the exact same sized font. I didn’t understand anything else you said. I really am, after years of computer IT guys to fix stuff for me, as fluent with computers as you are in scoring with women :).
May 1st, 2006 at 11:50 amWhy is this the only field that you cannot translate the information into english, or some other recognizable language?
Comment by Jules — May 1, 2006 @ 11:49 am
So that women will be forced to talk to guys like Squeegie : )
May 1st, 2006 at 11:53 amso, squeegee, or anyone – what to do if using a mac and safari?
i thought TP was going to take care of this size problem in the comment box! …judd?
May 1st, 2006 at 11:53 am#42 Wow, thats not fluent at all.
Assuming you have a Windows computer, and use Firefox(Mozilla) or internet explorer(IE) to browse the internet, you should be able to go to view at the top left part of your web browser, and inside that list is an option that will be called “Text Size” or some similar name. Inside of it, there is increase/decrease as options.
May 1st, 2006 at 11:56 aminside that list is an option that will be called “Text Size†or some similar name. Inside of it, there is increase/decrease as options.
Comment by squegeeboo — May 1, 2006 @ 11:56 am
The next size up HUMONGOUS… Unless Zookeeper has a different suggestion, I’ll live with it. Thanks for trying. You’re a brave man :)
May 1st, 2006 at 12:01 pm#44 Katy, assuming its a new version of safari, choose View, in the drop down there is “Make text bigger”, or you can hold down the apple key and press +, if it’s an older version, I’m not sure, but it’s prob still in the view drop down somewhere.
And you guys claim conservatives don’t have compassion :)
May 1st, 2006 at 12:01 pm#37 – Try holding down the Control key and then roll your mouse wheel toward yourself. It works on my computer at home and at work. My son, Zoo Jr, is a genius.
May 1st, 2006 at 12:06 pmIRI is living in a pre-1215 mentality.
May 1st, 2006 at 12:07 pmthanks squeegee – that did work, but it made the print on the WHOLE page bigger, which means lots of scrolling to get from top to bottom (that make sense?)
May 1st, 2006 at 12:07 pmhey, i’m not 80 – it’s just the comment box i have trouble seeing well -
seems that changed suddenly (date?) after the pow wow, before the initiation of ThinkFast…
o well…
Squeegy – you don’t, I almost fell asleep reading your explanation! I just call my husband and say fix it!
May 1st, 2006 at 12:08 pm#28. Given your pathetic, third-grade argument, I guess Clinton was right too? He was in office his entire term and he was acquitted of all charges against him in the Senate impeachment trial. Glad to hear you support Clinton with all your heart. He was, truly, the greatest president of our generation.
May 1st, 2006 at 12:12 pmMy son, Zoo Jr, is a genius.
Comment by Zookeeper — May 1, 2006 @ 12:06 pm
Yes he is. Unfortunately, it makes the text too big. It used to match the comments text, which is perfect size. Don’t know what happened. One day it was just a lot smaller. Judd said they were working on it.
May 1st, 2006 at 12:13 pmYou guys can always copy/paste it into a word processor, check grammer/spelling, copy paste it back in and then post. Thats what I do the few times my spelling/grammer are really horrible, not just their normal horrible. Or just increase the text size while typing your comment. All stop gap measures, but something at least until TP get’s their act together(just kidding TP, I heart you, please don’t ban me for mocking you) and fixes the comment section.
May 1st, 2006 at 12:15 pmAnd you guys claim conservatives don’t have compassion :)
Comment by squegeeboo — May 1, 2006 @ 12:01 pm
You don’t. You just like that a bunch of women needed you to do something that they couldn’t do. Makes you necessary and appreciated. Still all about you :)
May 1st, 2006 at 12:15 pm#55 And you need a heart to have compassion, you forgot to toss that one in there also.
Still all about you :)
May 1st, 2006 at 12:20 pmWhen isn’t it?
#53 – Unfortunately, it makes the text too big.
The size didn’t go up or down in small increments? Mine does. But, of course, I’m an extremely special person.
May 1st, 2006 at 12:20 pm#54 – Thats what I do the few times my spelling/grammer are really horrible, not just their normal horrible.
Squeegy, maybe you should do that all the time, because DAMN. My fingers just itch for my red pen…
May 1st, 2006 at 12:22 pm;)
Re: the Boss and N.O. concert – I think it’s time for a Wake Up America 2006 Concert. More and more singer/songrwriters are putting out anti-war protest songs, and speaking up about the degradation of our Democracy in America, and the corrupt leadership in our nation. Encourage your favorites bands to push for a global concert of protest in the likes of Live Aid concert.
May 1st, 2006 at 12:31 pmBut, of course, I’m an extremely special person.
Comment by Zookeeper — May 1, 2006 @ 12:20 pm
Because, of course, computers can tell that sort of thing… :)
Ihave five choices. Two of them are illegible (thanks Windows programmers), one is just right, and the other two are for blind people. Unfortunately, TP’s comment text is inbetween ‘just right’ and ‘illegible 2′. Oh well. I have bigger things to complain about. Like the President…
May 1st, 2006 at 12:32 pmUnbelievable
If you install firefox, http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/ you have more then 5 options, and it’s safer to use the IE, I think you’ll prob. still be stuck in the middle of choices though.
Zookeeper
Squeegy, maybe you should do that all the time, because DAMN. My fingers just itch for my red pen…
Thats half the fun, when I actually feel like making a point, instead of goofing off, and seeing how many people can only attack me on my spelling/grammer as opposed to my actual point. It’s part of how I sort out the people worth debating with and those who are not worth it.
Or at least thats my excuse for bad wordsmithing.
May 1st, 2006 at 12:45 pm#60 – My computer can, it told me just the other day. :}
It was worth a try!
Moving on…
May 1st, 2006 at 12:45 pm..”So tell me what I see
May 1st, 2006 at 12:48 pmWhen I look in your eyes
Is that you, baby
Or just a brilliant disguise.”
….
#61 – Or at least thats my excuse for bad wordsmithing.
Comment by squegeeboo
Ah…I’ll give you a B- in Creative Excuses.
May 1st, 2006 at 12:50 pmHow many of you people are taking the day off for that take today off thingy?
May 1st, 2006 at 12:51 pmWhile the differences between Washington and Tehran are threatening and growing, there are eerie similarities between presidents Bush and Ahmadinejad and their respective fundamentalist followers. For each, the strikingly analogous views regarding religious prophecy, second comings and the end of times may be pushing the United States and Iran inexorably towards war.
For the disturbing comparison, see:
May 1st, 2006 at 1:00 pm“Iran, Bush and the Second Coming.”
Thought it was interesting to know what is required to get a unanimous Supreme Court ruling in your favor. Apparently, it has something to do with rabbits (that was humor for you FAUX news viewers :)
Anna Nicole Smith wins over justices
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Actress and model Anna Nicole Smith can add another line to her colorful resume: a winner in the U.S. Supreme Court.
The justices Monday unanimously ruled Smith, who went by her real name — Vickie Lynn Marshall — in legal papers, can continue her fight to claim a large part of her late husband’s vast business holdings.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/05/01/scotus.smith/index.html
May 1st, 2006 at 2:04 pmHow many of you people are taking the day off for that take today off thingy?
Comment by squegeeboo — May 1, 2006 @ 12:51 pm
I’m against illegal immigration.
May 1st, 2006 at 2:05 pmMinutemen build fence along southern border
I spent this past weekend along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Friday night, I went out with U.S. Border Patrol agents searching for illegal immigrants. Then, Saturday morning, I met up with a large group of Minutemen volunteers who planned to build a fence along a remote patch of border.
If you have been following the border debate, you no doubt know about the Minutemen. They are volunteers who patrol the border, hoping to deter and detect illegal immigrants. They don’t try to apprehend border crossers themselves; they watch them cross and call the Border Patrol. Their critics call them vigilantes. They respond by saying they are vigilant.
I didn’t really know what to expect when I went to meet the Minutemen. At 8 a.m. Saturday, about a hundred volunteers gathered in a trailer park near the border. They set out in a convoy of trucks and SUVs to a remote section of the border where they began to build a barbed-wire fence.
There is a fence along parts of the border, but it stops from time to time. So the Minutemen began drilling holes for posts and stringing barbed wire. They didn’t know if they would be stopped by the Border Patrol, but the atmosphere was festive.
Those unable to actually work on the fence cooked hot dogs and served sodas in the desert heat. For many, it was the first time they’d volunteered for the Minutemen, and they seemed happy to be doing something.
I asked one woman why she was there, and she said this is one issue where she actually feels she can make a difference. She said she couldn’t do anything about the deficit or gas prices, but she could stand on the border and “be the eyes and ears” helping the border patrol.
http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/anderson.cooper.360/blog/
May 1st, 2006 at 2:07 pm#69 YES!!!! their actually doing it, I was hoping they would.
May 1st, 2006 at 2:11 pmYES!!!! their actually doing it, I was hoping they would.
Comment by squegeeboo — May 1, 2006 @ 2:11 pm
So why weren’t you down there helping? Hmmm?
May 1st, 2006 at 2:21 pm#71 Bit of a drive for a poor college student with in reach of graduating. If they decide to put one up on the eastern canadian border, I’ll be there.
May 1st, 2006 at 2:43 pm#72 – If they decide to put one up on the eastern canadian border, I’ll be there.
Comment by squegeeboo
As if they’d ever build a fence there. I don’t think the Minutemen mind if the pasty white ricecake people run the border.
May 1st, 2006 at 2:50 pmBuilding a fence on the Mexican border does nothing to stop illegal immigration, unless the border is patroled by the military as well! Big business corporations want the border open so that cheap labor is plentifull! Bush will never seal the border because he does what CEOs tell him to do!
May 1st, 2006 at 2:52 pmI work as a web developer and I strongly suggest that everyone download and use FireFox. The problem is that IE can resize pages that were created using pixels to determine font size. For non geeks, pixels are the way you set size in Word or Word Perfect. When it comes to font size on the web, IE doesn’t support being able to resize the text even though it will render whatever pixel size you you state in the code. FireFox plays nicely and will resize pages using pixels to determine the size.
Most developers are using pixel to determine the font size. Basic HTML uses a font tag and it is very limited. You have tiny, regular, huge, even more huge, and ridiculously huge. With pixels you can the full range that you have in your typical word processor.
Interesting to note that FireFox is open source which is done with volunteer progamming for the benefit of all. Basically it is anti-Replubican. The Repugnants feel fine about using it though as it is simly a better product and even though they hate the idea of open-source software (It reeks of Communism!!) they don’t mind reaping the benefits of it – your typical Repugnant hypocricy.
May 1st, 2006 at 2:56 pmInteresting to note that FireFox is open source which is done with volunteer progamming for the benefit of all.
Comment by Pagan American
On the contrary. Republicans volunteer while Donks wait for the government to fix it. In addition, Republicans use Firefox because it pisses off Bill Gates, communist sympathizer and friend of George Soros.
May 1st, 2006 at 3:58 pmTP,
60 Minutes had a GREAT (scary) show last night on the nuclear power plant waste…
…at the Hanford site in Washington state…
…that is seeping out of some 60 out of 177 tanks…
…this nuclear sludge is threatening to seep into the Columbia River…
…Washington’s governor is sounding the alarm…
…but the MSM (for the most part) like Congress is ignoring it…
…if this sludge gets to the Columbia through the underground water system…
…the Pacific NW is history…
This is REAL FOLKS!!!!
May 1st, 2006 at 4:00 pm“What did we miss? Let us know in the comments section. ”
You missed mentioning the May Day parades of the criminal Mexicans who are being led by the ANSWER communists to try and destroy our economy. It’s been a total flop thus far so maybe that’s the reason you’ve ignored the story.
May 1st, 2006 at 4:02 pmIn addition, Republicans use Firefox because it pisses off Bill Gates, communist sympathizer and friend of George Soros.
Comment by I-RIGHT-I #76
Au contraire I’nfectious-R’odent-I’nbred,
…there aren’t enough of you poor white trailer trash inbred pedophiles…
…to piss off the world’s richest man…
May 1st, 2006 at 4:04 pmTP,
60 Minutes had a GREAT (scary) show last night on the nuclear power plant waste…
…at the Hanford site in Washington state…
Comment by big papa
The story was about a nuclear munitions plant site. I guess you were so scared you got confused. Dumbass.
May 1st, 2006 at 4:05 pmThe story was about a nuclear munitions plant site. I guess you were so scared you got confused. Dumbass.
Comment by I-RIGHT-I — May 1, 2006 @ 4:05 pm
You watch 60 Minutes? Did your eyes bleed?
May 1st, 2006 at 4:09 pmLol I-Right-I since you live in Texas and about half that state is Mexican nationals > why don’t you go to San Antonio and stand in front of the Alamo to shout your hatred for all Latinos? I doubt you would live very long afterwards > lol.
May 1st, 2006 at 4:12 pmPay no attention to Jay Randal:You sir, are an Ass Clown.All your words are one big fluffy,smelly,nasty pile of……………….Jay.
May 1st, 2006 at 4:33 pm#80 – The story was about a nuclear munitions plant site. I guess you were so scared you got confused. Dumbass.
Comment by I-RIGHT-I
Everybody just ignore the toxic plume headed toward the Columbia River gorge because IRI spotted a boo boo.
May 1st, 2006 at 4:35 pmHanford has a graphite core nuclear reactor where the Department of Energy enriches nuclear material to make weapons grade material for the bombs they build for the government…..
May 1st, 2006 at 4:41 pmSocial Security has been on the back burning in this White House for awhile, or has it? How is Bush planning to *crew us now. Bankrupt the government by wars and cronyism?
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May 1st, 2006 at 5:37 pmPost 83 E-coli > you are a very weird and rude person! Your posts are always stupid and idiotic as well! Nothing you post on here is worth reading by anyone > lol.
May 2nd, 2006 at 1:01 am# 88 AssClown:
I’m in your head because it’s full of steaming,frothing,bubbling,fluffy,stinking and loose…….you guessed it.
May 2nd, 2006 at 2:14 amAnd by the way,>lol. THIS, AssClown.
May 2nd, 2006 at 2:21 amPost 90 you are definately mentally ill, so seek help ASAP! You are nothing but a Bush loving troll and everybody on TP knows it > unlike MA and I-R-I you are too dumb to be paid by Rove!
May 2nd, 2006 at 2:41 amWho is everybody? You? AssClown.
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