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I can't yet watch it through the browser, but here is how you can watch it in mplayer: mplayer -playlist http://www.cnn.com/video/live/cnnlive_1.asx

The teaser of Harris's article is this: "To his fans he's a lovable patriot with a maverick streak. But to his critics he's an anti-abortion Creationist who surrounds himself with religious extremists. Paul Harris uncovers the dark side of John McCain" I'm an Obama supporter, but merely from the teaser I already want to run to McCain's defense. An "anti-abortion Creationist"? Really?? Bullshit. This is like the Obama "Terrorist fist jab" teaser on Fox - its utterly stupid. And provably so from a not-to-long ago debate: The rest of the article is blindingly obvious in its propagandistic machinery. Briefly mention a few reasons someone might think he's not such a bad guy (make sure to put it in the subjunctive). Claim this is all a facade to "propel him to the Oval Office". Expose the "dark side" that "lies behind his public mask". Pull out any dirt you can and start slinging. Precisely this formula is ...

McCain has had a number of really interesting ideas lately. At least they are not the standard tired Republican BS that you hear spouted from the likes of Hannity and his dippy followers. Here are the ones I'm referring to: Town Hall meetings with Obama - This is a great idea! It gets us away from the silly and uninformative debates where each candidate is supposed to boil down a solution to a complex problem into a 30 second sound-bite. Not only they get to deal with the public directly (which will probably lead to its own silliness though), but the newish format would suggest that both campaigns are really interested promoting a different type of politics. Unfortunately it looks like Obama won't take him up on it :( Here is a snipit from a recent Time article : After expressing interest in the idea initially, Obama has since backed away, saying he will meet McCain for only one joint town hall, on July 4, when few Americans will be huddled around a television set to watch pol...

The only two Republican Candidates for president that I could have ever seen myself voting for were John McCain and Ron Paul (I liked, and still like Huckabee, but definitely not as a leader of this country). But one thing I'm very surprised about is McCain's blatant undermining of habeas corpus. Here is a pretty good analysis of the issue (and those issues surrounding them) by Ron Paul. McCain, in contrast, called the court's ruling "one of the worst decisions in history. It opens up a whole new chapter and interpretation of our Constitution.'' Obama, on the other hand, is committed to restoring habeas corpus to detainees, further commenting that it is an important step toward "reestablishing our credibility as a nation committed to the rule of law, and rejecting a false choice between fighting terrorism and respecting habeas corpus" Technorati Tags: Ron Paul

It took me a while to find this , and it should not be done on a production machine (I'm installing it in Virtualbox), but here is how to install very early version of the next version of Ubuntu: 1. Install Hardy 2. change /etc/apt/sources.list so it contains only this: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid main restricted universe multiverse 3. sudo aptitude update 4. sudo aptitude dist-upgrade EDIT: You can now download an iso of Intrepid from here (note: These ISO's don't seem to work with Virtualbox - see bug report here ). EDIT EDIT: If you want to try a liveCD, look here . EDIT EDIT EDIT: Now that the alphas are out, the easiest way to upgrade to Intrepid is with the following command (still not recommended for production machines): sudo update-manager -d Technorati Tags: ubuntu , Intrepid Ibex

And there was no fraud. His mom helped him to fill out the application that was sent to him, and they put in all of the correct info. You can find the story here . Technorati Tags: stupid , humor

... that Britney Spears made famous 70 years or so later. I'm talking about: Oops! I Did It Again Check it out - you can listen to it online! I especially love the doo-wop section! Technorati Tags: Louis Armstrong , Britney Spears , music