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I don’t think there’s any doubt at all that this was a setup by liberal hacks and that they specifically waited until right before the election to make it public.

But that doesn’t change the fact of what Foley did.  He’s obviously not disputing it.  Calling this a dirty trick is sort of like an arrested John getting angry at the undercover female cop who canned him.

The war against illegal plunder has been fought since the beginning of the world. But how is… legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime. Then abolish this law without delay … If such a law is not abolished immediately it will spread, multiply and develop into a system.

Frédéric Bastiat, The Law

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If it’s MSN Messenger then the chats are logged by default. Check “My Received Files” in the “My Documents” folder if you’re running XP...very handy to know when one is snooping on one’s kids.

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear
*Edmund Burke*

Mike, I’ve done a lot of work monitoring IM conversations for my day job and in my experience the logging feature isn’t turned on in Messenger by default.  It is something that has to be activated by the user.

I’m not aware of an IM program that has logging on by default, for that matter.

The war against illegal plunder has been fought since the beginning of the world. But how is… legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime. Then abolish this law without delay … If such a law is not abolished immediately it will spread, multiply and develop into a system.

Frédéric Bastiat, The Law

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On the other hand, it’s not at all uncommon for kids to keep copies of their IMs.

My daughter does this for example.

The smell on this story is, of course, it’s timing.  The media/DNC can’t win on the record or based on policy arguments (because they have none) so they resort to smear by association.

Rob...I’ll defer to your experience of course but I know that the last machine I bought had MSN installed and the logging turned on...a fluke perhaps.

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear
*Edmund Burke*

Rob...I’ll defer to your experience of course but I know that the last machine I bought had MSN installed and the logging turned on...a fluke perhaps.

Mike! The first thing you should do when you get a new machine is to wipe it completely and do a clean install. You never know what else is turned on by default from the manufacturer or what else it is logging.