There are real reasons that clear access employees should not be tinkering around on Facebook. For one, the use of facebook is at best a communication tool that could be deployed and used by off-site/out-of-network employees. This is scarcely inconcieveable. Rahm Emmanuel does not need to be chatting with john king.

The real reason they ought not - and why it was so irresponsible for Cheney to have been using gmail - is that it is not secure. One might find oneself opening connections to a third party company. Is any one suggesting that the White House entrust their security to a third party company, even one or merit with developed security. Sarah Palin learned right quick how easy it can be to hack into such accounts.

The security issues are to great to just assume you can carry on in such a matter. I daresay while there are real troubles here if one is discussing a massive upgrade, there is no real excuse for an inability to update the web site - well, except a lack of technological savvy in the employee ranks (not too much).

Well, the Emirates, particularly Dubai, have made it clear that they intend to parlay this oil wealth into a more diversified economic development plan. The Dubai International Financial Center (www.difc.ae) being just one of several initiatives, and the creation of a modern(-like) public transportation system evidences the intent (if not success) to create a sustained international hub for business and industry.

Whether this intent extends to other oil-producing nations, Qatar excepted as another such nation, though, might be debated.

"If her experience in national security and foreign policy were as shallow as advertised back then, after all, on what basis could he offer her the position of top diplomat?"

If you are a police officer, and you pull over a car, and a 10 year old is driving... said child must be legal to drive or he wouldn't be driving.... If I am in the cockpit, I must be the pilot?

You are conflating all opposition to Clinton into one straw-baugh-man. I don't like her because I think she is one hair short of Lieberman, and her fiery jingoistic rhetoric reflects a worldview I have not appreciated for the last 8 years. This has nothing to do with Bill; by any analysis of announced positions she is well to the right of the previous president on the matters significant to the position for which she will hold.

Much as I don't care about Michelle Obama's badunkadunk, or what fack school they put those girls into, I don't care about what Bill Clinton does anymore unless he serves as an envoy, official or unofficial, of the US. I had preferred Richardson on grounds of personal experience and record on relevant issues (admittedly he did not have to suffer the task of voting in house or senate).

On Richardson's southgating to Commerce(where he should exceed), one thing can be said: unlike the previous president, clearly Obama has no intent to absolutely reward loyalists.

The first thing I do every day when I open up Broadsheet, is to hit ctrl-f and search for the word 'creepy'.... It is there everyday -- not a day passes.... Now guess who the number one source is.

Was from Fishtown/Kensington/Port Richmond area.

The International airport in Mumbai (shivaji?) is pretty crap all around, mostly due to overcrowding. It was also the only place I have ever seen real (non-antique and mass produced) Jolly N****r coin banks... I just wandered past a trinket stand and my jaw rattled on the floor of its own accord...

Aswan airport, I actually liked.... because it is barely there.

But speaking of unneeded new airports and Sahel airports... Sudan of all places is building a new one... besides Congo or Mozambique, I can't think of any place LESS in need of an airport given all the horrid goings-ons.

"I believe there is an alternative view that says that massive government borrowing to finance spending drives up interest rates and makes credit more expensive and potentially unavailable to private enterprise to fund investment and operations."

Aye... but building off of this, some say that, in fact, rate cuts only exacerbate locked credit. By increasing interest, credit might be unleashed as the interest approximates actual risk assumed by the banks, thereby making such loans feasible. Credit is a push me - pull me animal and the loaners need to be incentivized as well as the loanees.

Or forced her to come to terms with being an asshole? Lets call it what it is... hassling strangers on an imaginary premise.

Actually, last week, fliers were distributed in predominantly black neighborhoods in Philly... if you have outstanding warrants or, ahem, parking tickets... settle them before election day, cuz the Man will be there to settle it on the spot. Mondesire said "we'll make public service announcements later and closer to the election".. probably the right thing to do given budget concerns and people forgetting. In this case Mondesire was right. Nevertheless, I will take this as an opportunity to state: Mondesire is a cocksuckidi.

That Mondale story is becoming Philly's political version of 'booing and throwing bottles at santa claus'.... "Where's the Money????"

McCain can do all he wants. PA is a loss for the republicans. There is just no chance at all. He should be pressing up on Colorado and Oregon... hell, this election is over.

"Guns n' Roses guitarist Slash never revealed the African roots beneath his curly mop" -- categorically untrue. Why did I know he was mixed race in 5th grade? Your role here at Salon is increasing rendered the Race Journalist, and whether that is your choice or that of the editors, I do not know. Either way, it is not a positive role, if major statements in your articles are observably untrue, seemingly invented to qualify your narrative.