Carrie Newcomer

We had seen Carrie Newcomer several times, prior to September 11, 2001. I have quite a few of her CDs, with one that she signed for me. We saw her at Uncle Calvin's Coffee House, on Friday nights. I was listening to her music, today, while driving home from having lunch with my son. That reminded me how much I had liked her signing and songs. I am often very much in accord with her words. I am saddened how things have turned out. After September 11, Carrie has aligned herself with the radical left, anti-war types, who blame America. I had found out the hard way how bitter she has become. I ended up being banned from her forum. I had the audacity to comment that I wished she would not put her politics so far in front of her music. We had made the decision not to buy her CDs or pay to see her, given that we don't want to financially support the sort of thing she is now advocating. I would like to think that she might have backed off from the position that she had taken, but I doubt that she has. I don't know of a way to find out, either, without doing something that I would rather not do.

A test

I scored 33 on this test. 0 is the most liberal while 40 is the most conservative. Ann Althouse pointed out this test. She says that she scored 20, while Andrew Sullivan scored 26.

Molly Good say that Lindsay Lohan had her appendix out

Molly Good obviously does not like Lindsay Lohan. She treats Lindsay badly in this piece about Lindsay's appendectomy.

Heather Mills in trouble...again

Heather Mills comes across as an arrogant lefty-gold digger. Now, she is in trouble for kicking a woman, at a Starbucks, who tried to photgraph her with her cellphone camera. Daily Celeb Search has the story.

Another (fake) Emma Watson pic from Trashovnik/Garry

Back in December 2006, Trashovnik/Garry continued to obtain fakes which were nice Emma Watson racy pics. If they were not fake, the thought police would have gotten him (except for being in Russia!). It turns out that he didn't do the original work.

The reason that the Tammy NYP video is gone

After people found out that the girl in the "Tammy NYP" video was 17 years old, there was a systematic effort to erase the video from the Internet (or at least make it impossible to find). The video was deleted from YouTube and a goofy replacement was put in its place. Now, when you see links to the video, you will just be following links to people that are essentially spammers.

I really get angry at the censorship that is happening on the Internet

This was not happening 8 years ago. The Internet was a wide-open place with few limits on what could be seen. Developments over the last 6 years have essentially clamped down so far that a combination of the U.S. Government and pressure groups with a political agenda have shut down free expression on the Internet. Goofballs, such as the self-styled "Public Citizen" are going to make things even worse, so that political speech that they don't like will be banned, contrary to the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The goofballs at Google, also with a leftist political agenda, and trying to satisfy all the leftist pressure groups, are doing their part to limit what can be found on the Internet, as well. There seem to be no uncensored search engines, either for the web or for news groups. If anything, the censorship of search for news groups is even worse, because some rogue news groups are continuing in defiance of the pressure groups. The whole business surrounding the "Tammy NYP" video is a case in point. The Tammy NYP video is just the latest example of the drive to censor and control what is available on the Internet. It won't be the last, given the influence that these leftist organizations think that they have. Or leftist masters decided that we are not allowed to see the video, so they have banned it from sight.

Google has been the best search engine in the past. Starting in late 2003 or early 2004, they started taking steps that have degraded their search results. At some point after that, Google started censoring results. The problem is that not only Google, but all the other major search engines seem to be doing the same thing, for the same reason. Some of the alternative, more current searches, such as Bloglines seem to get a bit more, but the whole search issue is a big problem. We seem to be unable to search, without someone jiggering the results to hide things from us. Part of the deal is, if you did create an uncensored search engine, you would be threatened, and if you did not agree to censor, you would be shut down (at a minimum).

This seems to be the best I have been able to do, for Tammy NYP

I suspect that if the search engines were not censoring, we would see the Tammy NYP video. These screen grabs are all I have found, so far. they are from "Popblogging".

So Myriam Bedard is involved in the sponsorship scandal

I am not that familiar with the details, but Macleans.ca has the story about Myriam Bedard, and why she left Canada. She was being pursued over her alleged role in the sponsorship scandal, and left Canada to avoid what she thought was an unfair prosecution.

"Carol Cox" (Carol McAlear)

The Globe and Mail has a rather old article about "Carol Cox" (actually, Carol McAlear), porn star and wife of a Canadian entrepreneur. There is a pic of her and her husband, who runs the web site. She is billed as "The Original Internet Amateur". I am not going to link to their site, but you can find it with Google Image Search, with the search string "carol cox naked". The McAlears certainly have an odd relationships.