FactCheck.org Kerry Exaggerates Role in Some Key Legislative Battles

Kerry Leads in Lobby Money (washingtonpost.com): "In the presidential race, Kerry has accepted contributions from the same 'special interests' he accuses Bush of being too cozy with: HMOs, drug companies and energy firms. He has raised nearly $27,000 from oil and gas companies, tops of the remaining Democratic candidates; $34,000 from health maintenance organizations, second to Dean; and $18,500 from pharmaceutical companies, third behind Dean and Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (Conn.). Even after subtracting money Kerry has raised for his presidential campaign, he ranks in the top four Senate beneficiaries of lobbyist cash, the CRP found."

Study of Disputed Florida Ballots Finds Justices Did Not Cast the Deciding Vote

Intel sticks with Windows 2000

Symantec's pledge to Microsoft: "We've long been of the belief that Intel is far better than writing software than Microsoft - but it's always laid off doing much more than just writing excellent real time operating systems." I think that was meant to be: "We've long been of the belief that Intel is far better AT writing software than Microsoft - but it's always laid off doing much more than just writing excellent real time operating systems." But we get the point. And agree.

The Observer | Comment | Hitler was evil. Our bombs were not: "'I am sorry that my bombs killed many and made many homeless,' he concluded, 'but I am not ashamed. If a malignant growth must be cut out, without benefit of anaesthetic, then surrounding tissues are bound to be hurt. Had Nazi Germany won the war, the world would now be in an even worse mess. If the only merit was that the gas chambers were abolished, it is sufficient.' And that is why we most definitely do not need to apologise for Dresden. Not unless we want Goebbels to have the last laugh. ? Tony Rennell is the co-author with John Nichol of Tail-End Charlies - The Last Battles of the Bomber War, to be published next Thursday."

BigBlueBall Forums - Hotmail upgrade in process...: "I don't rely on Hotmail for anything, but I did notice they upgraded my account a while ago -- not to 250 MB but a paltry 25 MB. Granted, it's better than 2 MB, but with Gmail account so readily available, who gives a rip?" Sounds like they must be doing the upgrades using people typing in the new storage size BY HAND. Can't they invent a nice point and click GUI interface for their admins?

Hotmail Suffers Storage Gaffe I can't imagine PAYING this group for anything. (Especially when I can get more for free elsewhere)

MSFN - The Hotmail 250MB 2MB saga continues and continues and continues. Look like some MS workers get a bit testy here.

80 hour weeks... Microsoft and Hotmail eat Gmail's dust.

No IllusionsIn a sense it's unfair to blame any political party for attracting the unhinged. Lots of wingnuts on the right claim to have visions, too. Their letters, however, do not appear in National Review Online. Salon, however, seems to celebrate its readers' dysfunction. I'm sorry, but liberals exhibiting signs of mental illness isn't proof that Bush is the antichrist. One Chicago Boyz commenter expresses a similar sentiment: I am voting Bush because I can no longer tolerate stupidity." HA HA!

Forbes.com: Ballmer: Microsoft CEO Says Linux More Vulnerable, Costly Than You Think Well, but then Steve Ballmer is probably a bigger blowhard than we think too. NAH!

Yahoo! News - The tiresome second best: "It's a lot easier to prescribe another dose of free-market medicine than to deal with the intricacies of the second best. Which brings us back to vaccines and airlines. Clearly, neither market is working well now. But the right policy choices will take hard thinking. How many competitors do we want in each field? How much will we pay for broad availability and a high degree of safety? Who should foot the bill? Unfortunately, the demonstrated ability of Washington policymakers to deal with this tough sort of question is all too often, well, second best, at best."

FactCheck.org - Media Fund Twists the Truth More Than Michael Moore I didn't think that was possible. From the article: "This anti-Bush radio ad is among the worst distortions we've seen in what has become a very ugly campaign. It states as fact some of the most sensational falsehoods that Michael Moore merely insinuated in his anti-Bush movie Farenheit 9/11 . The ad was released Oct. 25 by The Media Fund, an independent Democratic group run by former Clinton deputy chief of staff Harold Ickes. It falsely claims that members of the bin Laden family were allowed to fly out of the US "when most other air traffic was grounded," though in fact commercial air traffic had resumed a week earlier. The ad also falsely claims that the bin Laden family members were not "detained," when in fact 22 of them were questioned by the FBI before being allowed to leave -- and their plane was searched as well. And by the way, the man who gave approval for the flight wasn't Bush or even any of his close aides, it was former White House anti-terrorism chief Richard Clarke, now one of Bush's strongest critics."

Yahoo! News - Iran Refuses Nuclear Suspension Again "Britain, France and Germany have offered Iran incentives ? a trade deal and peaceful nuclear technology, including a light-water research reactor ? in return for assurances that Iran will stop enrichment, which can produce fuel for both nuclear energy and atomic weaponry." The Circle Jerk continues.

New Study Finds Media Favored Kerry in First Two Weeks of October They had to do a study?

These Days, Microsoft Isn't So Scary

Yahoo! News - Kerry: Bush Won't Own Up to Bad Decisions I wonder what this obsession is that John Kerry has about mistakes of GWB? In fact listening to Kerrys droning rhetoric on thing that is clearly absent is an confession of error on his part. He was right to go to Vietnam, but it was a wrong war. He either ratted on his compatriots there or was guilty of his own atrocities. He seems, if nothing else, and expert at pointing out the wrongdoings of others in the past and even when those wrongdoings involved him he feels above any blame. Will the Democrats produce yet another Presidential study for the psychiatrist's couch?

DRUDGE REPORT 2004?: "But tonight, NBCNEWS reported: The 380 tons of powerful conventional explosives were already missing back in April 10, 2003 -- when U.S. troops arrived at the installation south of Baghdad!" DUH

Arizona Daily Sun - Flagstaff GOP office vandalized