Sarah Palin Rumors: The List

Charles Martin at Explorations is keeping a running list of Palin Rumors being floated on the net and in the media.  If, like me, you’re having a hard time keeping track of them all, what’s true and what isn’t, check it out.  Some funny stuff.

12:59 am EST

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Hall monitors in the House

Nancy Pelosi has hall monitors out in force.  On August 2, under a new, April 17 hallway policy issued by Pelosi, they recently censored a poster tribute to fallen Marines from Camp LeJeune that Rep. Walter Jones (R) from North Carolina had displayed outside his office in the Capitol Building (via Deebow @ B5).    More here, via Hot Air Headlines.

The Republican congressman now opposes the War in Iraq after initially supporting it. He has even called for President Bush to apologize for the war. It seems that it is not political opposition to his views of the war that spurned Speaker Nancy Pelosi D-CA to order the removal of the poster. They were on the same ideological team in that regard. So what was it about the poster that bugged the Speaker?
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Mr. Fein, when reached for further comment explained that in the weeks before this incident, the Speaker had complained about the poster which rested on an easel. In response the congressman had removed it from the easel and hung it on the wall so it would not obstruct hallway traffic. Still the Speaker persisted and had it removed from the wall. Some observers consider that a direct affront to service members and veterans stemming from at best a callousness towards the intent of the placard, to recognize those who died for our country.

It’s not just about the poster though.  Democrats in the House have also been accused of attempting to limit the free of speech of our elected Representatives.  Do Americans really want another term for Speaker Pelosi?

1:43 pm EST

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Possible commenting problems

It came to my attention a few day ago that Frosty Froggy suddenly started getting errors when she tried to submit a comment.  Yesterday, Charles Johnson confirmed there was a code problem with Site Meter that was affecting IE7 browsers.  I checked with Frosty Froggy and she does use IE7.  I’m still not certain if Site Meter is what’s causing her particular problem as she is able to read the blog, but just can’t leave a comment.  Anyway, if anyone else is having a problem commenting, try using an earlier version of IE or a different browser altogether, such as Firefox.  If that doesn’t solve the problem, let me know and I’ll remove Site Meter.

12:40 pm EST

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Links to today’s Move America Forward web telethon

Below is the link where you can watch Move America Forward’s internet telethon, From the Frontlines, that I mentioned here. It begins at 4 PM today and ends at Midnight (Eastern).

From the Frontlines channel at UStream TV

Move American Forward has a widget on the front page where you can follow the amount raised for care packages, as well as a link to the guest schedule. BTW, have you sponsored a Care Package yet?

2:11 pm EST

UPDATE (6/27/08 @ 10:29 am EST):

I stayed up last night and watched the web telethon all the way to the end. I loved it! They had some great guests. Move America Forward met it’s goal to raise $500,000, and then some, to send care packages to troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. In fact, they raised a total amount of $1,055,719! Wow! Americans do love and appreciate the troops.

Below is a screen cap I took at 11:58 pm last night. That’s Melanie Morgan of MAF on the left, then Gold Star Mother Debbie Lee, whose son, Navy SEAL Mark Lee, was the first SEAL killed in Iraq, and, on the right, Michelle Malkin.

If you didn’t get a chance to donate, the fundraiser will continue until July 2, so you still have time to be a part of this historic event supporting the troops.

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Help support the troops and be a part of history!

Contribute to Move America Forward’s campaign to ship the largest number of care packages in history to U.S. troops. The drive is going on now and ends June 26th with an eight hour internet telethon, From the Frontlines, between 4 P.M. and Midnight (Eastern). They hope to have the packages in the troops’ hands by the 4th of July holiday.

Check out some of the talk radio hosts and others who will be participating in the internet telethon. There’s more information at Hot Air, including other groups helping with the effort.

For your convenience, here’s the link to Move America Forward’s page at The Campaign Store where you can choose from several different care packages to sponsor. What are you waiting for? It’s easy. Just do it! Then mark your calendars and check out the internet telethon on June 26th.

8:09 pm EST

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Amazon can’t be beat

In my experience, when ordering online, Amazon can’t be touched. I placed an eight item order this morning at 10:25 am, and received my email notice that my order shipped at 4:51 pm. Does it get any easier or better (no tax, and with Amazon Prime, no shipping charges) than that? I think not!

4:57:26 pm EST

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Thank you, Google.

Last night while preparing the Veterans Day post, I noticed Google did not have a Veterans Day graphic yet again. I mentioned it in the post with a link to Google, but deleted it prior to posting, deciding instead to check again today. Good thing I did.

For the first time ever since 1999, Google has a Veterans Day logo graphic. While I think the logo could have been better, at least Google has finally acknowledged our veterans.

When you click on the graphic at Google, you get search results for “veterans day”.

12:48:11 pm EST

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What has made the difference?

What makes public support for today’s Iraq War different from the Vietnam War? Why has the anti-war “movement” been such a pathetic failure this time around? Because ordinary Americans are no longer stuck with nothing but nightly newscasters shoving their anti-American, anti-war, anti-military drivel down our throats, that’s why. The media and Hollywood no longer have the sole power to convince us the war is “unpopular” with a majority of Americans, and that the rest of us are in a minority. The internet has made the difference this time. It’s that simple. Now we are able to read what other ordinary Americans just like us really think, as opposed to what the media and Hollywood wants us to think.

One of the best examples I’ve run across that seems to prove it is this mind-numbingly blind AFP article about the current crop of Hollywood anti-war films and why they aren’t making money. Hollywood’s answer is, of course, the same old tripe: it’s “hard to engage audiences in a ‘hugely unpopular war.”

However, the article itself is not the point of this post. The hundreds of comments are. I have not personally read all of them yet (277 as of right now), but Josh read every single one that was there earlier (about 200). He told me he didn’t see one comment that agreed with the writer of the article. Most of the comments expressed anger with Hollywood for being anti-military and anti-American. It’s one of the most heartening things I’ve read in quite awhile. Go read a few comments and have your faith restored in your fellow Americans. While the comments represent only a small sampling of Americans, I believe the overwhelmingly lopsided nature of the comments shows we are not in the minority. I believe we are the vast majority who are also expressing it with our wallets.
(h/t Josh)

7:36:54 pm EST

UPDATE (11/13/07 @ 7:00:45 PM): The above link to Breitbart’s hosting of the AFP article no longer shows the actual article. I found another link to the exact same article here for anyone who hasn’t read it yet. In addition, I saved the page as a PDF in case the new link also changes or disappears as sometimes happens. The comments page for the article at Breitbart is still there (although it seems to have a code problem) and, as of this morning, people were still adding opinions. )

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The 2007 Weblog Awards

I forgot to mention The 2007 Weblog Awards are open. Voting began yesterday, November 2nd. There are 49 categories. You can vote once every 24 hours. Some of the categories are really tough, especially Best Military Blog. Blackfive has a quick list of others in the military community and supporters who are finalists in other categories.

I just noticed they don’t have a category for Best Video Games Blog. Next year we’ll have to make sure we nominate our favorite video games blogger. 🙂

10:36:59 am EST

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Awesome!

Turkish Islamist hackers pwnd by Swedish hackers.

9:01:52 pm EST

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Bias at Google and YouTube

Those who know me know I’ve been ranting about Google’s far left liberal bias for quite awhile now. These rants occur each year when Google fails to observe Memorial Day and Veterans’ Day. Seriously, take a look back through the Google Holiday Logos. Don’t even get me started about who Google will and will not use as a news source, or their bogus search returns.

Now, Google has banned anti-Moveon.org ads. Putting your liberal bias ahead of profit doesn’t seem wise.

YouTube also suffered from bias, but it seems it may be getting worse since Google purchased it. YouTube recently removed a MNF-Iraq video claiming a “terms of use” violation. The video shows terrorists getting blown up from the air. I watched it and it isn’t at all graphic. As The Jawa Report notes, they’ve been trying unsuccesfully for some time to get YouTube to remove a very graphic and nasty video. (Note: I did not watch the second video. When Jawa Report gives a warning, they aren’t kidding, and I heed it. I advise you to do the same.)

12:35:03 am EST

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Atlas Mugged

Breaking the stranglehold of the Mainstream Media.

h/t Instapundit

9:35:36 am EST

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Milbloggers meet The President

This happened more than ten days ago. I intended to post about it, but time got away from me and I forgot. The other night, while trying to catch up on some reading at Blackfive, I ran across Matt’s most recent September 21 post about the meeting. His initial post is here.

Mrs. Greyhawk at Mudville Gazette and Milblogs, John Donovan at Castle Argghhh!, NZ Bear at Victory Caucus, Bill Ardolino at INDC Journal, Bill Roggio at The Long War Journal, Mohammed at Iraq The Model, Steve Shippert at The Tank, Ward Carroll of Military.com and Defence Tech, and CJ at A Soldier’s Perspective and They Have Names were also present. CJ’s recollection of the event is here.

12:35:37 am EST

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WikiScanner

Charles at LGF has this post up today about a new tool that “searches the list of edits at Wikipedia and correlates them with known IP addresses of groups and organizations—revealing edits made by The New York Times and Al Jazeera, among others.” It’s interesting to see what organizations are adding and/or deleting from pages.

A second post displays a truly pathetic case of BDS at The New York Times which is funny.

5:25:32 pm EST

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Google flunks on privacy

What can I say? I’ve been warning you. Google’s the only one on the list that flunked.

You can download the Interim Rankings in PDF format here.

For the record, and in defense of your youngest brother and all the grief he receives for using MySpace, I would like to point out that Facebook ranked lower than MySpace. Just say’n. And before you point it out, yes, I see Apple didn’t rank particularly well either. 😦

H/T: Instapundit

10:24:16 am EST 

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