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Pro-Abortion, but abortion rates in her state have gone down 8% in her state.

Anti traditional-marriage, but did little to affect passage of law making same-sex marriage unconstitutional.

Pro-gun, repealed machine gun act of 33’, but is a staunch opponent of concealed carry.

...what the hell?!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_Sebelius

...Because nothing embodies GNU GPL better than forcing your constituents to use your governmentally mandated OS. This is exactly what Linus Torvald had in mind, I’d wager.

11 million cubans unable to access NTFS partitions at the LINK

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The husband of 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate Gov. Sarah Palin has been found guilty of contempt by the Alaskan Senate.

Last summer, Todd Palin and others had refused to comply with subpoenas issued by Alaska lawmakers seeking testimony in the “Troopergate” investigation launched in July, triggered by the allegedly forced resignation of a state official.

The official, Walt Monegan, had been reluctant to fire an Alaska state trooper who was Gov. Palin’s brother-in-law, embroiled in a bitter custody battle with Palin’s sister.

According to the Anchorage Daily News issue of 8 October 2008, Todd Palin “talked with over a dozen state officials, many of them repeatedly, in his crusade to get a state trooper fired whom he considered to be a bad cop, a dishonest person and a threat to the Palin family,” per a sworn statement given to a legislative investigator.

At the time the investigation began, Gov. Palin “welcomed the chance to clear the air and had directed her staff to cooperate with the investigations,” writes blogger Shannyn Moore. But “everything chnaged” when just weeks later, GOP presidential nominee Sen. John McCain chose Palin as his running mate.

Despite Todd Palin’s later refusal to comply with the subpoena, he was not subject to contempt charges until the full Alaska Senate reconvened in January 2009—weeks after Election Day.

The executive was caught. The homeless man turned himself in, stating that his mother didn’t raise him that way.

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I don’t have the link to the stories themselves. I’m sure you can find them (the page looks to me like Reddit), but it seems to be the sad state of justice in America. It seems that despite the recession, certain people still manage to stretch a dollar a long way.

CNN Reports

WASHINGTON (CNN) – A new national poll suggests Americans are split over whether the U.S. should close the detention facility in Guantanamo Bay. But the CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Wednesday indicated that support for closing the detention facility has increased dramatically since 2005.

Fifty-one percent of those questioned in the survey support the closing of prison at Guantanamo Bay, with 47 percent against the closing. That’s basically a split, when taking into account the survey’s sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.

But the 51 percent who support the closing of the facility is a 15 point increase from 2005, when 36 percent polled backed the shutting down of prison at Guantanamo Bay. The 47 percent who are against the closing is down 11 points from 2005, when 58 percent opposed closing the facility.

The poll’s release comes as CNN has learned that President Obama is planning to issue three executive orders on Thursday that would show a clean break from the Bush administration on the war on terror, including one demanding that the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay be closed within one year, according to a senior administration official and a congressional aide.

Since 2001, the U.S. has held foreign terrorist suspects at the detention facility. The prison became a lightning rod for critics who charged that the Bush administration had used torture on terror detainees. Former President Bush and other senior officials repeatedly denied that the U.S. government had used torture to coax intelligence out of terror suspects.

With unconfirmed reports that Senator Kennedy has died.

Thoughts and prayers for both men. More opinion as the story develops.

http://www.reuters.com/article/bondsNews/idUSWBT01044320090120

http://blogs.abcnews.com/george/2009/01/kennedy-collaps.html

Edit: Kennedy's death was a hoax as of last reading, however he has been hospitalized. Byrd had trouble eating.

To the originally intended point of my post though, if these two men can't in good health attend a special government function, how are we supposed to entrust them with our respective state or district?

They both need to let go, and let somebody a little more capable take the reins, especially seeing as they're doing little in their current positions.

Ann Arbor, Michgian

Ron Asheton, the guitarist for the influential punk rock band The Stooges, was found dead this morning, police tell the Detroit Free Press.
Ron Asheton helped form The Stooges in 1967 with his brother Scott and Iggy Pop.

Ron Asheton helped form The Stooges in 1967 with his brother Scott and Iggy Pop.

The 60-year-old’s deceased body was found in his Ann Arbor, Michigan, home after a caller phoned police saying they hadn’t heard from him in a few days. Authorities are investigating the cause of death, but foul play is not suspected.

The Stooges were founded in 1967 in Ann Arbor by Iggy Pop, Asheton, and his brother, Scott Asheton. Though never a major commerical success, the band has been cited by artists like Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth and Jack White of the White Stripes as a major influence.

The group’s albums included a self-titled debut, which was released in 1969, and 1970’s “Fun House.” Among the group’s songs are “I Wanna Be Your Dog,” “1969” and “Raw Power.”

The Stooges are nominated for induction in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, with inductees set to be announced later this month. They reunited for a series of shows in 2003, and released a new record, “The Weirdness,” in 2007.

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I dislike her, as well as NBC, but it’s a free country, and if Americans want to listen to her, that’s their prerogative.

Bubububut… That Republican librarian lady spent $150,000 on clothes, for campaigning in the United States of America… to be auctioned off for charity after the campaign. That is clearly a more worthy headline.

Washington Times Reports

Scariest Halloween I’ve ever lived through.

That’s right. He just doesn’t have that “citizen of the world” air that Senator Obama carries. Because, lord knows, it's the president's job to be America's PR spokesman, not to make sure that American legislation is faithfully executed.

The supreme court justice issue, second on their list carries some validity, however, one question a little ways below that is what I find more striking.

“restoring confidence in the American dream”

Thirteen hundred odd votes for that column, mind you.

That’s right folks. It’s the job of your government to make you feel that you should suceeed.

Straight from dailykos.com

All politics aside, it’s some very funny satire.

Wassup - 8 Years Later

Or so says this guy.

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Apparently ACORN is required to turn in every voter registration card it receives, even if those voter registration cards happen to be for Bugs Bunny, or Harry Setatestes.

The article states that while the flood of voter registration cards brought in pre-election means that some illicit voter registration cards would be accepted, ACORN is not necessarily at fault for turning them in.

A penny for your respective thoughts?

This is the second time in one week I’ve turned one of my comment posts into a User Blog Post, so I want to first apologize for the redundancy, however, I felt that this needed to reach a larger audience than one comment on the bottom of someone else’s post.

The video “Burning Down the House”, a ten-minute expose on how overregulation caused the current crisis, has been posted on twice already that I know of, here on SAB:RB. One was a posting of the video, the second was a post detailing how Warner Brothers pulled the video for audio copyright infringement. Once with a legitimate claim, the second video was pulled some time last evening.

Funny thing is?

That video had no audio, therefore no grounds for removal. I should know. I downloaded it to be safe, and tried to post it here.

I log into my Megaupload account this morning, surf to the video, and read the line of text on my download page:

“The file you are trying to access is temporarily unavailable.”

That video was also removed from Megaupload, for an unspecified reason. I’ve reupped the video to Mediafire, with the sole purpose of having some of you download it. As far as I’m concerned, this is a first amendment violation, and needs to be dealt with accordingly. The video instructed viewers to share it, and when it can’t be shared via Youtube, I say take matters into your own hands.

http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=621d85cc0084374ed2db6fb9a8902bda

I’ll be posting this to any site that ran an article on the removal of the video, but I wanted to have a few failsafes, assuming something catastrophic happens on my end, or the filesharing end, preventing me access to the video.

It’s your country. Don’t let a few corporate big-wigs decide what media is “fit for print”.

I’ve never been one for Katie Couric, and Jack Cafferty makes my blood boil. However, assuming this interview [Found after the jump] is unedited, and untouched, it significantly cools off the fervor I’ve had for Sarah Palin in the last couple of weeks.

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