1) There is no information to help out those who might want to donate or otherwise help.

2) This is an AP article. Why does Salon continue to put AP articles in their own sections? Please leave these in the "Wires" section.

3) This seems to have been posted about 60 hours ago, and this is the first comment.

Happy Thanksgiving!

As of 9:55EST I don't see the image on the first page of results.

Either way, I do think it is a little whiny to blame Google....even if the way that it got to the top (perhaps against Google standards as commented above) was manipulated, are they really expected to monitor this stuff? How closely? How long has the image been on top? How long have they known?

These complaints always remind me of an email I received when email and the Internet were still relatively new. It was a plea to not allow a White Power-style group to maintain a website, claiming we must not allow them to spew their hate, etc (obviously that didn't work, reading the comments on Salon more and more). No. Wrong. They should be allowed to spew their hate.

Sure, the morphed image of Michelle Obama is classless, racist, hateful, etc. But so what? Is it illegal? Besides how it got there -if indeed it violates Google's own rules- so what? Why shouldn't it be there?

"The rest of your comment is self important chattering. Go fling poo with the other monkeys."

This is exactly what I mean by being a parody of yourself. Have you read your comments? Can you not see it?

Perhaps you are as entertaining as Stinks, just less intentionally.

What makes you think that is a woman?

Why does someone (a man, it would seem)licking a plate clean make you think of dogs instead of someone enjoying food?

Why do you think women are dogs (as your projection clearly demonstrates)?

Why have you quickly become such a parody of yourself?

Good god, man! Even Stinks is more entertaining than you!

PS to Salon: How about a function where I can block certain people whose comments I would never have to see again? I'd love to block Glock, Zorkna, Stinks and a handful of others who never/rarely say anything that isn't batshit crazy or solely hateful. They are free to post and those who want to read them may. Not censoring, just allowing me to ignore them to the point where I never even have to see them. This is a serious request...

Great answers!

My contribution to this boozy world:

The Maker Cream (aka Creamy Knob)

Over ice in an old fashioned glass:

1 part bourbon (Maker's Mark or Knob Creek if you want to stay true to the name(s) above)

2 parts cream soda

Really is a most excellent drink!

Right. Exactly.

Because when Obama presented his legit HI birth certificate (which he did) the whole thing went away.

Also, just because someone files a FOI request doesn't mean they have a right to the info they request.

How right you are!

Your ignorance regarding the homophones "breaking" and "braking" in #5 proves #3!

Your entire response is a non-sequitor. It deals neither with your original post or my response to it.

Well done.

It would be fun to hear/see the results.

On another note, I have to ask you Patrick, do you really believe that flight 188 went off course because "both pilots became distracted by their laptop computers". As a pilot, do you find that a believable scenario? Can you imagine anything on your laptop so distracting that you forget to check your communications or location for over an hour? And then have the identical thing happen to the other pilot?

I know that is the "official" story. But do you believe it?

Since you've taken the opportunity to frame the argument in a way that suits you, I'll do the same:

Which do YOU think is more likely to have remained relatively constant over the past few hundred or thousand years, mankind's foibles, CO2 production and other actions with demonstrable environmental impacts or our sun an enormous nuclear furnace, larger than one million earths that has been acting in a predictable way for millions and millions (4+ billion) of years? Take your time... don't jump to any conclusions, here...

I am NOT saying that there isn't a cyclical nature to temperatures on earth. I am NOT saying that the sun doesn't affect the earth. I am NOT saying that the sun isn't getting hotter. I am also NOT saying that we know everything about the effect humans have on global climate change. What I AM saying is that your reduction of the argument as you've posted it is childish and a great example of how I would expect The Lesser Bush to talk about such subjects. "Well, golly! That thar sun is so big 'n hot! That's fer sher what's making this place so dern warm! And I'm pretty sure dem der swamp vapors cause malaria!

as a drunk airline pilot.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8L-ZZSc8JU

Low rise jeans creep up your crack(s).

"...the two Northwest pilots who wandered off course [allegedly] after becoming engrossed in their laptops."

Patrick - Do you really believe this? If you had to place a bet, what would you say?

1 - Laptops/cellphone

2 - Sleeping

3 - Sex/naked play of some sort

4 - Other

Honestly, 3 seems just as likely as 1 (to this non-pilot). I vote for 2.

Don't forget what Calvin said.

"[The] purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning and inhibit clarity. With a little practice writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog."

http://digitalconversations.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/calvinacademiahereicome.jpg

Answer: No soap. Radio.

I have to use IE at work...poopy. And everytime they update IE it gets worse and worse! Really!

At home, both computers run Firefox, eschewing Safari. Smooth, easy, clean.

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