Want to take telephony for the deaf or hard of hearing to the next level? Have this set up so deaf users can receive calls, have them turned into text in something approaching real-time speeds, and then allow the deaf user to respond by text or voice. This would be a godsend, especially for persons who went deaf later in life and are more comfortable speaking than texting, which for nearly a decade has been a favored means of telecommunication for the hearing-impaired.

If the voice-recognition software is already that spiffy, we're just a chip speed upgrade away from making what I describe happen.

That's actually good news. Too many people treated their homes as ATMs over the past eight years, masking the fact that they aren't as well off as their parents with union jobs were thirty-odd years ago. In fact, the whole campaign to get Americans addicted to sky-high debt loads is tied to making them not realize that real wages peaked in 1974 and have been going down for the most part ever since, the main exceptions being during the Clinton years.

Take away the Saudi sugar tit, and the Taliban collapses.

But of course the billionaire oil sheikhs want to keep their own little version of Gor on Earth, so they'll have to be dealt with first.

Climate change deniers and evolution deniers seem to be cut from the same or at least similar cloth.

In between the nearly-interchangeable extremist rants, we have this:

Who's to blame.. those who hated unions, and the Southern states who had no labor laws, and we the people who were dumb enough to let the Germans and the Japanese set up shop in Georgia and the south. And GM itself, a company so foul with dull hubristic pride and confidence that even the Gods stopped laughing.

But what happened you say. Well... You see the South won this battle, and they won it with the same foreign aid they lacked to win their war of secession. Oops, and hello Lincoln.

The irony is that when the Japanese started to set up shop in the South, they soon realized that they couldn't do the full-on build-engines-from-scratch car factories that exist in Detroit or Nagasaki. Why? Because the school systems of the South -- especially after decades of legal and de facto segregation (aka 'white flight') -- weren't giving them the educated workers they needed for true factories.

So instead, they either went to Canada (where in addition to having a workforce that could read, they didn't have to worry about health care costs) to build the true factories, or set up simple final-assembly plants that put together the complex components made elsewhere. This also meant that they could justify paying their workers a lot less than what true factory workers got paid.

This needed to be seen again:

Google "life dynamics" and 20/20. You'll find that Life Dynamics made allegations about the sale of fetal tissue and "baby body parts" that became the basis of an ABC 20/20 investigation. The allegations were so disturbing that they prompted a Congressional investigation. The Congressional investigation, however, fell apart when it turned out that Life Dynamics' star "whistleblower" had been paid by Life Dynamics to tell his story, and the "whistleblower" admitted under oath that the statements he made in videos circulated by Life Dynamics were lies.

Life Dynamics also has a history of making claims that abortion providers routinely provide abortions to underage girls and fail to report that the pregnancies are the result of sexual abuse -- allegations that, regardless of a decade's worth of investigations, have yet to be substantiated.

In fact, the best piece on this is from Salon itself:

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/11/04/parental_notification/

The old saying "if men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament" is true. Notice that condoms are one of the few birth-control devices that have been legal in most locales since their creation centuries ago? It's because when they were created, their primary purpose was NOT to prevent pregnancy, but to save the man from getting a venereal disease.

She watched him leave and later found pictures of him online

So why not publish his name and web pictures to the world? Why isn't this site linked in the article? If law enforcement is unresponsive, then these people need to be exposed before they commit horrific crimes in some other way. Let them know that there are millions of people who are watching, that they are not protected in their shadow world, and that if they "need to know where you live" then they will have to bear the world knowing where they live. These maggots abhor sunshine, so why not turn it on full bore?

Exactly! But -- before you do all that, document, document, document.

Don't just publish the website link -- copy all the pages that are there, so the creeps can't get away with scrubbing off all the evidence.

Make sure you document -- and save, preferably among many friends -- the evidence, both online and physical.

THEN publish, and dare them to either sue you or go away. They won't want to face a lawsuit because that turns a klieg light on them.

Pretty much solely because Obama picked her. (He backed somebody else in the primaries -- somebody whose views are nearly identical to his, but who he pretends would have been soooooo much more liberal.)

Said lawyer would look at the very thing you and I see as a Good Thing and say: "LOOK! I told you she's a right-wing fascist!" Anything that could show her in a good light, such as her work for campaign finance reform, he pooh-poohs or twists around to make it an alleged negative.

Can't win for losing.