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Tracker down for Maint

Installing new tracker, so all torrents are down for a little bit.

Ok, maybe I have it fixed, give it a whirl.

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In an effort to eliminate our incredible spam problem, I've added a CAPTCHA to the comment system. I realize that this is a pain, but it's just 6 numbers you have to type in, so please bear with us.

*Muddy's Note*
It's not working, please be patient while Skywalker gets off his duff and figures it out. :-)

...And From Neal's Nuze Today

I got this from Neal's Nuze today:

"EVERYONE AGREES"

Yeah ... as the NBC reporter said .... "everyone agrees."

Baseball

Steroid scandals aside, this season has been interesting. You have the AL where the Yankees may very well not make the playoffs for the first time in years (No complaint here!) You have the NL West where for the first time ever, the entire division may finish with sub .500 winning percentages. The AL West has a heck of a pennant race going on. The Royals have been one of the losingest teams to ever play the game. And then the NL East where my Braves, against all odds, are in first place, in a division where most likely every team is going to finish with a winning record.

What do I mean by against all odds? I can think of one sportswriter who picked them to win it. His words, "I picked em to lose last year and I lost. We go through this every year with them, and every year they find a way to win it." At one point over a third of the 25 man roster was rookies. They've been injury plagued, particularly in the first half. The 2nd game of the season (that I was at) was a 15 strike-out performance by John Smoltz - and he took the loss!

Alas, soon the season will be over and my Falcons and Yellow Jackets both face tough schedules. Particularly the Yellow Jackets who face one of the toughest schedules in the NCAA!

These Articles Speak For Themselves

USAToday
NewsMax
FrontPageMag

I will only say that at least one of these articles is a column which makes it more of an opinion piece. However, after reading all three, I think all of them are less than neutral one way or another. That being said they present certain facts well. Argue away.

Hey New Orleans, RUN!!!

Katrina now a cat 5 and growing stronger.

You can no longer discount this storm, New Orleans residents and surrounding areas need to get up and run.

How to tell you your fat, let me count the ways

But a New Hampshire woman who was sternly lectured by her doctor about being obese has taken her hurt feelings to a new level - filing an official complaint against him with state health authorities.

The New Hampshire case, while rare, highlights an increasing problem in the fight against obesity - how does a doctor sensitively tell a patient that he or she is overweight?

The patient - whose name was not released - was upset after Dr. Terry Bennett, a Harvard-educated family practitioner in Rochester, N.H., told her she was obese and her weight was contributing to her diabetes and other health problems.

New York Daily News

*Note* I'm going out on a limb here and saying she's a flaming liberal. ;-)

Shaddup Pat!

When your trying to spread the good news of Jesus and his love for us.
You might not want to publicly announce we need to wack a nation's leader.
Maybe Chavez is a danger, however I believe Pat you just exposed yourself as a man of Religion and not a man of God.
Two different things buddy.
Pat go back to begging for money on T.V. and leave world politics to the rest of us.

Full Story @ CNN.com

Tracker Fixed and should be stable

I hope anyways.

Steeler fans enjoy, and remember, keep your torrents running after the download.
It allows us ALL to to enjoy our team.

It's ''Let's Roll!'' Not, ''Let's Roll Over''

Commentary on the News
Saturday, August 13, 2005
Ann Coulter
Since the London bombings, there has been a palpable feeling in the air here in the U.S. that another terrorist attack is imminent.

Maybe not as bad as 9/11, perhaps a train or subway bombing. Or maybe it will be something worse. There were fevered rumors circulating over the last few weeks about massive attacks on New York and Washington scheduled for Aug. 6 and 9, to mark the anniversaries of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

But now Aug. 6 and 9 have come and gone. More significantly, 47 months have come and gone since 9/11 without a major terrorist attack on U.S. soil. The closest thing we had to a major bombing was the new Pauly Shore show on TBS.

cwilli note: How many ways can I say 'I love Ann Colter'? Click 'MORE' below to read the rest of this article

Even if the next attack comes tomorrow, it is worth pondering that we've gone 47 months without the savages being able to mount another terrorist attack in a country virtually designed for terrorist attacks, a country where we search the purses of little old ladies so that recent immigrants from Saudi Arabia named "Mohammed" wearing massive backpacks don't feel singled out.

But instead of news stories about how we must be doing something right in the war on terror, we're being carpet-bombed with news stories about how Bush doesn't have a "plan," the war was based on "lies," we're losing the war, the redcoats are coming!

As Republicans were saying repeatedly — captured on Lexis-Nexis for a year before it showed up in a Frank Luntz talking points memo in 2004 — the savages have declared war, and it's far preferable to fight them in the streets of Baghdad than in the streets of New York (where the residents would immediately surrender). That strategy appears to be working. Then again, maybe it's just that it's so damnably hard to find parking in New York ...

Two weeks ago, Gen. Jack Keane, a former deputy chief of staff for the Army, said our forces in Iraq have killed or arrested more than 50,000 insurgents in the past six or seven months. It appears the majority of those were captured and released, but that may be good enough.

Consider the intriguing diary entries of British jihadist Zeeshan Siddique, reported in The New York Times this Monday (somewhat less prominently than the 4 billion front-page stories on Abu Ghraib). Siddique was captured last April in Pakistan by that country's security forces. His diary is a sort of Plan-a-Jihad journal, much like California seventh-graders were required to write in 2002. (There's also talk of publishing his diary under the title "Hello, Allah? It's Me, Siddique.")

In addition to heartwarming entries like the one on the pope's death — "Allah will throw him in hell" — a number of Siddique's diary entries suggest that it's not all sunshine and song for the Islamo-fascists these days. Day after day for six weeks, it was nothing but bad news for Siddique — except for the good news about the pope's death, Saul Bellow's death and the Prince of Monaco's death, all of which cheered him considerably.

After visiting his fellow jihadists in early March, Siddique reports that he received "bad news" — and something tells me it wasn't about Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston. He writes: "The relaxing place was done over" and "7-8 of the guys taken whilst asleep." He was told "guys need 2 make a move soon. Cant stik round."

A week later, he is informed by someone, probably not the Prince of Monaco, that "the situation is really bad" and he should "just sit tight & wait it out until things get a bit better." Oddly enough he is also a Mets fan, so this spring was an all-around bummer for Siddique.

A few weeks later, Siddique is vowing to make "an all out immense effort" to "rejoin my contingent." And then he was captured, too, along with his diary and phone numbers for other al-Qaida operatives and his co-religionists in Britain involved in the failed subway bombing. If you made a movie of this bumbling nincompoop's misadventures, you'd have to call it "Dude, Where's My Car Bomb?"

Siddique's diary entries refer to Iraq Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari as "the dog of the hell fire" and Pakistan's president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, as "Satan." That's not the talk of a winner! Siddique's future as a jihadist may be fading, but he has a good shot at writing speeches for Howard Dean. (He also describes Maya Angelou as "America's national treasure," so I guess some things are universal.)

Meanwhile, every time Americans get a gander at these lunatics ranting about the "Great Satan" and the "Zionist entity," we can't believe we're at war with such a comical enemy. No wonder they dream of an afterlife with 72 hot teenage girls. These guys are klutzes. Nerds. Dweebs. In the Las Vegas of life they're at the convention center with the other "Star Trek" fans. Even in Pakistan, Siddique says he is "constantly laughed at & ridiculed."

Ahmed can't get a date, and now the rest of us have to suffer.

But you will notice, the jihadists are not pouring across the Syrian border to, say, Brooklyn Heights. They are running to Iraq, where they run smack dab into the glorious U.S. military.

Eagles vs. Steelers

Ok, what little I have from the game is up now. (1st qtr and about half of 2nd qtr)

I left it at the full 640x480 resolution I captured it in, however the normal games may not be so big, or I may opt to break them down into quarters at 700MB each so you can put one game on 4 cd's.
Or one DVD.

Either way they are going to be big unless I drop the quality which I don't think anyone wants. :-)

*Edited 09:45*
Ops, I just deleted the game, I'll re-process it and post it back tonight. :-/

*edit 21:00*
Game is backup ready for download. (remember it's only the 1st and most of the 2nd quarters.)

Eagles at Steelers Pre-season

Well we won, some good plays some bad.
Hines is back and all, yea.

It's the pre-season for me as well. Trying to move the game file to my workstation to edit out the ads, and lost it.
Oops. Now I know how to tar up the file without overwriting it. :-(
I have the first quarter and some of the second though.

I'll get it up when I can, been one hell of a day here. (in a bad way)

U.S. Govt. Sleeping with Microsoft

My.. my.. my.., the big bad U.S. Government who so aggressively attacked Micro$oft is now starting to push for "Micro$oft" only websites??

Beginning with the Copyright Office, which is funny if you think about it.
If you create or invent something and want to copyright it, you can't unless you bow down to corporate America and Micro$oft.

I realize this may seem like nothing to most of you, but it just gets under my skin.

If you want to voice your opinion on this as I do write a letter to the following:
Copyright GC/ I&R
P.O. Box 70400
Southwest Station
Washington, DC 20024-0400

by August 22nd that is. :-)

For the skinny on this check out copyright.gov

Congressman: Defense Knew 9/11 Hijackers

WASHINGTON - The Sept. 11 commission will investigate a claim that U.S. defense intelligence officials identified ringleader Mohammed Atta and three other hijackers as a likely part of an al-Qaida cell more than a year before the hijackings but didn't forward the information to law enforcement.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050809/ap_on_go_co/sept_11_hijackers

cwilli note: This is just more proof that Bill Clinton was responsible for 9/11. He dropped the ball on his watch. Imagine if George Bush would have been President during this time, they would want his head on a platter. Thats ok, at least old Billy nailed an intern. Thats all that matters. Oh wait thats right; Oral sex isnt sex and its ok for a Democrat President to bomb asprin factories on the same day that his sex scandel came out, no coincedence there...

MPlayer Crisis

Open Source Brothers and Sisters, our beloved MPlayer is in need of our support.
Please head over to their site and see what you can do to help.
(besides spread the love of open source) :-)

Full Story @ MPlayer

PROTESTING SOLDIER MOM CHANGED STORY ON BUSH

The mother of a fallen U.S. soldier who is holding a roadside peace vigil near President Bush's ranch -- has dramatically changed her account about what happened when she met the commander-in-chief last summer!

Cindy Sheehan, 48, of Vacaville, Calif., who last year praised Bush for bringing her family the "gift of happiness," took to the nation's TV outlets this weekend to declare how Bush "killed an indispensable part of our family and humanity."

http://www.drudgereport.com/flash4.htm

cwilli note: I realize that this lady is greaving the loss of her son. But If I would have died in battle (not to mention; as a volunteer) and my mother did what this lady has, I would feel disgraced.

Just thought I would post something positive, and stir the pot at the same time. If you get a chance check out the website of my favorite cartoonist; John Rule.

http://oneimage.org/Images/index.htm

SCUM

All I can say is this:
These people are scum.

Read the story at Yahoo! News

For further reading:
God (Allegedly) Hates Fags

News Flash - London

Reports coming in now that Gray's Inn Road is closed by King's Cross due to a smoking bus and a suspicious package. Also the bomb squad has been called in.

developing...

*Update*

False alarm, seems a bus engine caught fire and when the fireman arrived they found a suspicious package on the bus. Turned out to be harmless.
Good news.