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Archive for September, 2004
Now, if you haven’t done anything yet this political year. I encourage you to watch the debates. I have a feeling they are going to be very heated.
(CNN) — As the much-anticipated first debate between the presidential candidates nears, the spin machines for both campaigns are working overtime, claiming that their man has an advantage going into the face-off.
“We feel like we’re in a good position in this debate … because the president knows what he thinks, why he thinks the way that he does, what he wants to do in the future, where he wants to lead the nation, and that stands in stark contrast to his opponent,” said Mary Matalin, an adviser to President Bush’s campaign.
Staffers in Sen. John Kerry’s campaign said the Democrat’s position — currently behind in the polls — is actually a good way to enter such a forum.
“I think it is always good to go into one of these high-profile debates as an underdog,” said Kerry spokesman Mike McCurry.
“At the end, the important thing is you strip away all the negativity from the debate … and you really get to look into the heart and soul of the candidates and say who really is going to get us to where we need to be as a nation and where are we going to be in the world at the end of the next four years after this president serves.”
In recent days, both sides have also been careful to praise their opponents as skilled in the art of debating. (Special Report: America Votes 2004)
Joe Lockhart, a senior adviser to Kerry, said Bush has won every debate in which he has participated.
“Debates, in the modern political system, are not won by the person who knows the most information; they’re won by the person who is most persuasive for their position,” Lockhart said. “And George Bush has proven time and time again that he is a very persuasive debater. It does, of course, seem at times like he doesn’t have all the facts straight, but he seems to do it in a way that gives you a sense of commitment and a sense of what direction he wants to go.” (Stakes high heading into debates)
Dan Bartlett, White House communications director, emphasized Monday that Kerry is a skilled debater, pointing to the seven “epic debates” he had in 1996 with then-Gov. Bill Weld in the U.S. Senate race in Massachusetts.
The Democrat was an all-star debater in college and has honed his skills during 20 years in the Senate, Bartlett said.
The debates are considered a crucial point in what has been a lengthy campaign. A CNN/USA Today/Gallup Poll released Monday showed that 18 percent of registered voters said the three debates would make a difference when they decided for whom they would cast their ballot in November. (Poll suggests Bush lead)
Kerry traveled Wednesday to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, from Spring Green, Wisconsin, where he had been preparing for the debate. (Authorities warn of possible debate threats)
“He is focused; he is totally focused on this preparation and on this debate,” said senior adviser Susan Rice on CNN. “It is an opportunity for the American people to see that he is a strong, smart, tough leader.”
President Bush, who had been getting ready for the debate at his ranch in Crawford, Texas, flew to Florida on Wednesday and toured a hurricane-damaged citrus grove there. He plans to tour more storm damage Thursday.
The two men will come face-to-face under highly orchestrated rules at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida, on Thursday for the first debate, which begins at 9 p.m. ET.
A 32-page agreement reached last week between the two campaigns sets out the rules for the debates with great specificity, down to details such as the temperature of the hall, what kind of paper can be used to take notes and who can be standing in the wings backstage. (Networks balk at debate agreement)
No matter the rules, Matalin said, and no matter how great a debater Kerry is, the senator “will be disadvantaged in the debate.”
“The problem for Senator Kerry is that he, his record and his campaign has been inconsistent … and the challenge for Senator Kerry at this debate is to bring some clarity to his massive vacillation throughout this campaign, particularly on the issues most important to Americans, that is national security,” she said. “He has been all over the board, I think he has 10 distinct positions on Iraq.”
McCurry said the debate is an opportunity for the president to finally respond to some tough questions about the situation in Iraq.
“President Bush knows what he needs to do tomorrow night, but you know he probably won’t do it, and what he really needs to do is answer questions that the American people have about where he would lead us in Iraq (and) how we deal with the consequences of his very wrong choices,” he said on CNN’s “American Morning.”
A second debate will be October 8 at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, and a third is scheduled for October 13 at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona.
A vice presidential debate will be October 5 at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.
SOUTH KOREA
Broadband Wonderland
Nearly everyone in South Korea has Internet access that puts Americans’ to shame. Result: This little nation could have a giant influence on the digital future.
The sky is the color of cement, hallmark of the rainy season in South Korea. For weeks, low clouds shroud the tops of Seoul’s skyscrapers and make the seemingly endless clusters of nearly identical apartment buildings that radiate from the city’s core appear even more monotonous than usual. It’s as if one architect
Top Search strings that bring you to my site. Looks like all of you like faces of death. Oh, an midgets. Oh and whats with searching for my name? 21 people have gone out on google and searched for “pylorns” What that curious on where I post? I got two words for you: Don’t Bother. I know who you are, I have your IP adress and I can trace it all the way to your doorstep with GPS/IP tracking.
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Alright, I have another interesting challenge (read: cry for help) for the faithful and brilliant readers of wetwired. I just got my first new computer in six years, and I need a good P2P program for it. Now, keep in mind that all I want to share are the LEGAL programs such as
Did a minor update to the forums. Check them out. If you’re not a member you’ll need to register and remeber to provide a valid email and a password will be emailed to you.
The logo will be redone and updated soon, until then you’ll have to deal with the current ghey logo.
So in my search to learn php and to do something about my growing collection I came across Kplaylist. After installing iis, mysql and php 4 on my server I now have a functional streaming server. Not only can you search through my entire 60 gigs of music, you can create your own playlist and it will stream to your winamp. You can check out “whats hot” - what other people have been listening to. You can download songs through it and its fully search able for files.
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — Gunmen have seized two Egyptians in a raid on their Baghdad office, Iraqi officials say, the third in a series of kidnappings of foreigners in the Iraqi capital this month.
Last week, two Americans and a Briton were kidnapped at their home in Baghdad by armed men. A group led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi later beheaded the Americans, Eugene Armstrong and Jack Hensley, and posted video footage of the killings on the Internet.
The group says it will also kill Briton Kenneth Bigley, 62, unless all Iraqi women are freed from U.S.-run jails.
U.S. officials say the only women currently held in Iraq are two “high-value detainees” at Camp Cropper near Baghdad airport. The interim Iraqi government says it has no imminent plans to release any detainees — as have Washington officials.
Bigley’s mother Lil, who made a televised appeal for his kidnappers to “show mercy,” was taken to hospital shortly afterwards in the northern English city of Liverpool feeling “unwell,” police said.
The 86-year-old later returned home and was on Friday awaiting news from Iraq with relatives. “The strain of the emotional plea took its toll,” said CNN Correspondent Robyn Curnow from Liverpool. (Full story)
In the latest kidnapping, armed men tied up the guards outside the Egyptians’ office in western Baghdad on Thursday night, put the two engineers in a black BMW and took them to an unknown location, according to Iraqi Interior Ministry official. Col. Adnan Abdul Rahman.
Rahman said the Egyptians worked for Iraqna, a subsidiary of the Egyptian-owned mobile telecommunications company Orascom.
A spokesman for Orascom said the kidnappings were “not politically motivated,” Reuters reported.
The violence and hostage-taking comes during a dramatic visit to the United States by interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, who is putting an upbeat face on the future of his young government, besieged by the insurgency.
Allawi is trying to drum up support for Iraq at the United Nations, where the General Assembly is meeting, and in Washington, where he addressed Congress and met with President Bush.
The interim prime minister has repeatedly vowed that the violence endured by Iraq will not deter the upcoming balloting.
However, U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld suggested on Thursday that parts of Iraq might be excluded from elections set for January due to rising violence. (Full story)
Earlier this month, gunmen kidnapped two women Italian aid workers in broad daylight in Baghdad. (Full story)
The Italian government has urged caution on reports that the women have been killed, saying the claims are “unreliable” and part of a terror campaign being carried out through the media.
“We, therefore, urge the maximum caution, care and responsibility,” the office of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said in a written statement.
Simona Torretta and Simona Pari, both 29, were working for a humanitarian group called Bridge to Baghdad when their office was raided by insurgents more than two weeks ago and they were taken hostage, police said.
Two separate groups claimed to have killed the women.
Since April, militant groups in Iraq have seized more than 100 hostages. Most have been released but about 30 have been killed.
The Italian government has warned that reports of two Italian women being held captive in Iraq have been killed are “unreliable.”
Ten Turkish employees of a construction company, Vinsan, are also being held hostage in Iraq. Video of the hostages aired on al-Jazeera last weekend.
On Thursday Turkey’s government said it was considering an alternative route for its truck drivers bringing goods into neighboring Iraq in an effort to stem kidnappings. (Full story)
The latest kidnappings came as Britain awaited news Friday of Bigley.
On Wednesday Bigley appeared on an Islamic Web site tearfully pleading for his life and asked for British Prime Minister Tony Blair to intervene.
The crisis has put the UK government in a tough position, said CNN Correspondent Robyn Curnow.
Blair, who has faced personal criticism by Bigley’s family for failing to free him, refuses to negotiate with terrorists but says he is deeply concerned for the family.
“He has a difficult job trying to balance this,” Curnow said, adding that Blair had twice telephoned the family to offer his sympathy.
Some analysts say the prime minister could face a backlash if Bigley is killed and Blair is perceived to have not done enough.
Blair also faces his Labour Party’s annual conference in Brighton next week where he is expected to hear anger from left-leaning opponents of the U.S.-led war in Iraq.
ROME — A woman was killed Wednesday when a nearly 7-foot-tall metal crucifix fell on her head in a small town in southern Italy, police said.
Maddalena Camillo, 72, was walking in the main square in the village of Sant’Onofrio when the crucifix toppled from a monument being restored for a religious celebration, police said.
Sant’Onofrio is in the region of Calabria, the toe of the boot-shaped Italian peninsula, about 370 miles south of Rome.
E brought up a new idea. Ok well its not new, but he’s the first one to try to spread the idea through blogs like wild fire. Where were you in 1981? Me I was sitting in front of a TV and only 3 years old. But still, I vaguely remember the beginnings of MTV and I watched it after my Saturday morning cartoons. Anyway, E has of course noted how much blogs have effected things in the past couple months what with how we’ve influenced journalism research like wizbang, so he’s hoping to have the same effect. Remember, TV looks at ratings, so if enough people are screaming then who knows, maybe they’d actually do what they were supposed to in the first place. Play music 24/7 and not stupid TV shows.
Back in 1985 an album was released that became the staple of MTV. Dire Straights “Brothers and Arms” Album. It encapsulated the MTV phenomenon and embraced the need to have music 24/7 by releasing the song “Money for Nothing“. The song was remasted and re-released in 1988 and then again in 2000. And the very beginning of the song repeats these words
I want my MTV
So if you look at the side bar I’m sporting an image that E posted. Go to his site here and get it and put it on yours.
Bring back the music folks. Help spread the word.
UPDATE:
I have created another image that is a gif file and a bit smaller.
1. Right click on the image
2. Save file as
3. Upload to your site.
E released another version:
I am in need of assitance so any PHP/MYSQL programmers email me.
Interested in finding out what Lucas did?
Each one of those are links to the Holy Trilogy for sale on DVD… the series that fanboys everywhere have been waiting for. And you know the funny thing? People are bitching about the fact that the movies aren’t the “Original Editions” that haven’t been released since around 1995 or so.
Tell you what, dorks (and if I’M calling you a dork, that’s saying something…). Keep bitching. Whine about the purity of the original vision with its now-crappy effects. Meanwhile, I’m going to get the set and enjoy…
Especially now that Greedo doesn’t shoot first anymore. 
Out.
What the hell is wrong with these people? They made sure the quality was good on this one its worse than the previous beheading videos like that of Nicholas Berg in that the sound is in sync and the video is clearer. Its horribly retched. Watch it at your own risk . You can find it by going here.
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — An Islamist Web site showed video of an American hostage in Iraq being beheaded by members of insurgent leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi’s group.
The video showed American Eugene Armstrong sitting in front of five masked insurgents — four of them armed with assault rifles and one in the middle reading from a paper statement.
“We will apply God’s law on them,” a masked man said just before the killing.
Armstrong wore an orange jumpsuit and was blindfolded, with his arms behind him. He occasionally fidgeted while the statement was being read.
A U.S. official said a body believed to be that of an American has been recovered.
The group Jihad and Unification gave a new 24-hour deadline to meet its demand that Muslim women be released from Iraqi prisons or the other hostages will be killed. The group previously released a video of three hostages — two Americans and a Briton.
The United States said no women are in the two jails, Umm Qasr and Abu Ghraib, named by the militants. But it does hold two female “high-value detainees” — former members of Saddam Hussein’s regime — at undisclosed locations. (Full story)
The man who read the statement on the video said women are being held in Iraq prisoners, despite American denials.
“Since you didn’t release our sisters, here’s the first infidel,” the man said.
He then pulled out a knife. Armstrong was shoved to the ground and his head severed.
The video was posted on a Web site that has been used by insurgents in the past.
On Saturday, the Arabic-language network Al-Jazeera broadcast video of the hostages with their abductors giving the initial 48-hour deadline for their demands to be met.
The wife of Jack Hensley, the other American, begged for all three men’s safety after the video was broadcast Saturday.
“Please let them go,” Patty Hensley said from her home near Atlanta, Georgia. “They need to come home.” (Full story)
Kenneth John Bigley of Great Britain was also being held.
Jihad and Unification, which claims loyalty to al-Zarqawi, has taken responsibility for beheading U.S. businessman Nicholas Berg, South Korean translator Kim Sun-il and a Bulgarian hostage in Iraq.
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