A Slew of Stories

I WAS going to publish at least 16 paragraphs on 6 different subjects, but I'm WAY too pissed off right now. I lost it all! Why? Well, WHY is the Left-arrow key a delete all? And WHY do paragraphs stay high-lighted after you switch to another page. However, this would ALL have been prevented if when you opened an internet link from your desktop, it opened in it's OWN window, or at LEAST opened in the most RECENT internet page, instead of the first one ! ! !

Okay, moving on . . . Sorry, there's NO way I'm re-typing all that. So instead, I'm gonna give you a short summary on each topic.


Some of these stories are a few days old. Time to catch up . . .

GOOGLE

The Feds want to know what people have been searching online. Yahoo! & MSN have given in, but Google refuses to. The Feds want search results to see how much and what type of pornography is searched. While they say they aren't asking for who searched what, the Government always could collect that information. Hampering the wide band of internet porn good. Knowing what people search, even if it's NOT case specific, bad!

FORD

Ford Motor Co. is shutting down 14 production plants, firing 25,000-30,000 people. Included is a plant in Hapeville, GA, which is the only plant which produces the Ford Taurus. More importantly, though, the plant employs several of the 6,200 residents of Hapeville. The plant also provides 10% of the yearly income of the city. The mayor must find another place to get $1.4 Million. Car manufacturers have a habit of putting plants in small towns. Then, when they decide to shut down the plant, the town is the one who suffers.

TIES?

Photo's have surfaced which shows President Bush with lobbyist Jack Abramoff. The White House denies, however, that even though they were at several events together, shook hands, and talked to each other, the President has NO connection with Abramoff. Oh, yeah, Abramoff donated the top amount, $2,000, to the Bush-Cheney campaign . . .

TAPES

A tape surfaced days ago of Usama bin Laden. He talks of (pretty) recent events, which places the audio tape in the recent month or so. A day or two later, a tape by Ayman al-Zawahiri was released. Zawahiri was the one they were trying to kill, but most likely didn't, last week. However, the tape didn't mention any recent events, so the time it was recorded isn't able to be determined. It is unknown for sure whether he is alive or not.

SEAHAWKS

Send in the Hawks ! ! ! Oh, yeah, Super Bowl bound, baby! Going to Detroit!

WHITE HOUSE

National Broadcasting Bastards (another extraordinary circumstance!)

They canceled the BEST show on T.V. The West Wing will be canceled after 7 seasons, when it concludes on May 14. The show's "failure" is COMPLETELY NBC's fault!

Some say the show started to go south after Aaron Sorkin & Thomas Schlamme left (or were fired). I think the show was still great, as did many people. But, the show, in the last year or two, started to lose viewership. So instead of trying to tweak the show a bit & try to increase viewership, they decide to move the show to Sunday. This was completely stupid, because no one seriously watches T.V. on Sunday.

Recently, this show has gotten a LOT better. If NBC were to move the show to any other day, it would get more viewers. Much more! This is a GREAT show, and I blame NBC for it's demise. If you look at what else NBC plans to do, like put Law & Order up against Lost (insane!), you know they are hurting, BAD!

That's all for today, folks! See you next time!

-Adam