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"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -Benjamin FranklinIll be sure to get some video up of the fireworks!...

I thought that was a great way to explain it... the bits flowing through the tubes of the interwebs are real and are electricity. The impacts of the power taken to run the internet is REAL. And we are only now noticing its impact. See this great article about the dark side of Google... (and ask.com, dogpile.com, live.com, yahoo.com) Now that it has unseated Microsoft as Earth's...

I just have to say.... I have been driven to this point to where I am writing this now. I have been frustrated so many times by this man. I am a HUGE fan of talk radio. An even bigger fan of progressive talk radio. And an enormous fan of Portland's KPOJ... I have listened to so much talk radio and so many different hosts. I have come to have listened to Ed Schultz several times. And...

F---.... truly a bad f---ing day for privacy. Google is ordered to hand over the data of users to lay out viewing patterns in order to show that the media clips produced by Viacom were watched more than those of amateurs. Lawyers for Google Inc., which owns YouTube, said producing 12 terabytes of data — equivalent to the text of roughly 12 million books — would be expensive,...

-The vultures are circling Iraq -US infrastructure reaching for 3rd world status -AZ: Medical choppers collide midair -WA: Handsfree cell phone law takes effect -Trouble brews in Zimbabwe -NY: Supermodel leaps to death in NYC -Bush refuses to open EPA emails -Aug 7th, Eugene OR, Skeptics toolbox -Gun camera for picture graffiti -Lost...

Closing 600 stores... certainly not a good foreshadowing of more things to come. SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Starbucks Corporation (NASDAQ: SBUX) has announced the next step in its multi-faceted plan to transform the company, with a decision to close approximately 600 underperforming company-operated stores in the U.S. market. This decision is a result of a rigorous...

Celebrating our amazing country - a wonderful time of the year. If anyone is looking for good stuff to do on the 4th - that is perhaps new for some... go to Long Beach, Washington and watch all the fireworks there. It is amazingly crazy as people line the beach and shoot fireworks non stop for hours. Then there are the cities fireworks on top of that....a really great time. Worth the gas....