New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer scheduled an abrupt announcement Monday from his office as news reports were breaking that the governor told staffers he was involved in a prostitution ring. Spitzer, who was especially tough on corporate crime as New York attorney general, told his staff Monday that he was involved in the ring, ...

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Not only is Wall Street celebrating his fall; those in the game industry are as well.

Update: There is now a new word thanks to Spitzer: Spitzenfreunde

Update II: He has finally sucked it up and gone.

Ahhh, I knew the grubby-statist-fingers-in-wallets-not-their-own aspect was gonna crop up somewhere. Cherchez le greenbacks, baby, always and forever with these dimestore dictators. If they can control it, they
’ll damned sure try. If they can control it AND suck up some dollars for their warped, tyrannical notion of the commonweal…

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I may not want to die; but for the sake of my mental health, I probably need to.

So if you are FPS gamer don’t be a wuss and play on easy…its hard or nowt! Been getting a healthy level of arse kicking in Hellgate: London. I am right now fighting around Downing Street. The deamons coming out of Number 10 are pretty damn tough.

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The Manhattan Declaration on Climate Change

Global warming is not a global crisis

We, the scientists and researchers in climate and related fields, economists, policymakers, and business leaders, assembled at Times Square, New York City, participating in the 2008 International Conference on Climate Change,

Resolving that scientific questions should be evaluated solely by the scientific method;

Affirming that global climate has always changed and always will, independent of the actions of humans, and that carbon dioxide (CO2) is not a pollutant but rather a necessity for all life;

Recognising that the causes and extent of recently observed climatic change are the subject of intense debates in the climate science community and that oft-repeated assertions of a supposed consensus among climate experts are false;

Affirming that attempts by governments to legislate costly regulations on industry and individual citizens to encourage CO2 emission reduction will slow development while having no appreciable impact on the future trajectory of global climate change. Such policies will markedly diminish future prosperity and so reduce the ability of societies to adapt to inevitable climate change, thereby increasing, not decreasing, human suffering;

Noting that warmer weather is generally less harmful to life on Earth than colder:

Hereby declare:

That current plans to restrict anthropogenic CO2 emissions are a dangerous misallocation of intellectual capital and resources that should be dedicated to solving humanity’s real and serious problems.

That there is no convincing evidence that CO2 emissions from modern industrial activity has in the past, is now, or will in the future cause catastrophic climate change.

That attempts by governments to inflict taxes and costly regulations on industry and individual citizens with the aim of reducing emissions of CO2 will pointlessly curtail the prosperity of the West and progress of developing nations without affecting climate.

That adaptation as needed is massively more cost-effective than any attempted mitigation and that a focus on such mitigation will divert the attention and resources of governments away from addressing the real problems of their peoples.

That human-caused climate change is not a global crisis.

Now, therefore, we recommend –
That world leaders reject the views expressed by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as well as popular, but misguided works such as An Inconvenient Truth.

That all taxes, regulations, and other interventions intended to reduce emissions of CO2 be abandoned forthwith.

Agreed at New York, 4 March 2008. [End of Declaration]

Posted as part of the effort to report this as its not showing up in the media. Encouraged to post it by Wonko.

When Sting wrote “Message In A Bottle” he presented it to the rest of the band with a guarantee that they had a #1 hit on their hands. Inspired by this, I made the same boast for “Fashion Patrol,” but the security guards threw me out before I could properly introduce myself. Security guards, I have found, are terrible judges of music.

I was fooling around with the drum machine one day, and erased (whether deliberately or accidentally I can’t remember) some of the instrumentation (you could program the bass and snare drums, and the hi-hat and ride cymbals independently) from a fairly standard rock pattern and wound up with an odd, loping beat. That immediately suggested the bass riff, and the song was built out from there. The lyrics I slapped together in about five minutes for the purpose of having something to sing, with the intention of someday rewriting them—keeping the same theme, but smoothing out the glitches and maybe adding a new verse.

So, the premise was that we were a special unit going around arresting anyone who didn’t meet our lofty sartorial standards. Given our usual get-up of jeans and T-shirts, I can only conclude we were hitting the “Irony” button pretty hard; but hey, it would have been a pretty cool job. Not unlike, um, the religious police in Saudi Arabia. But with a more highly-developed sense of irony.

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the blog québécois

Welcome to the March 10, 2008 edition of best of me symphony.

Madeleine Begun Kane presents Vive La (Brain) Diffrence! posted at Mad Kane’s Humor Blog.

Alice Audrey presents Suzies House 57: Miranda at the Caribou posted at Alice’s Restaurant, saying, “A little bit of fiction.”

Brent Hodgson presents Keeping your Flow in Salesletters posted at Brent Hodgson, Copywriter.

blue skelton presents Blogging: What is Your Blog About? posted at Blue Skelton Publications, saying, “This brings me to the first step of blogging. The first thing that you should do (after deciding to create a blog) is to decide what you want to blog about. To do that: you must first decide whether you want to have a personal blog and blog about your life/whatever; or a commercial (niche) blog in which you blog about something for the purpose of making money.”

Ivan presents 10 Benefits of Keeping a Journal, and What to Write in It posted at makeGENIUS.com.

Jeremy Neal presents Community Involvement Changes the World posted at Thoughts on Quotes, saying, “The world has always been changed by small groups of people who are willing to get involved.”

Freddie L. Sirmans, Sr. presents 2008 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION NIGHTMARE posted at 2008 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION NIGHTMARE..

Rose Walbrugh presents Beliefs of happy people posted at FreeMyMind.Net, saying, “How do we set about discovering a set of well grounded beliefs certain to result in a happy, constructive life?”

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Check out the new SNN. There is a good selection in Britblog round-up.