2.5 seconds.

Try Firefox 3. -- Northwestwoods

I use Linux so naturally I use Firefox, and with a Debian based distro I always have the very latest. I run 3.0.1 on this computer and have been doing so for some time. I ran version 3 in beta form for months before it was released. I have tried it on a 32 bit installation as well as a 64 bit installation.

The problem is with just the one server of commercials on Salon, the one I referenced. I can get 2.5 seconds when net traffic is slow, like early morning, but later in the day I run several tabs so I can read other blogers while I wait for Glenn's pages to load. The longest time is around 2 minutes. (mostly it is half a minute to a minute)

I am surprised no one else is complaining; it could be a flash/Firefox problem on the latest version. However, I can find no other site that gives any trouble and I read a lot of political sites that have tons of multimedia.

I will give it a few more days and if it continues, I'll just spend more time writing essays for other places. I should do that anyway, I've gotten lazy in these last couple of months.

Thanks for the suggestion, I do appreciate the offer of help.

"... a full explanation of exactly who was peddling the bentonite lie in the first place, and why they were doing it ..." (Drum)

Yes, that would be a small start in the right direction. I live in a country that has a government that wants to watch every tiny move I make, including my grocery store habits. If we have moved into an age of "transparency" then it is high time we found out who these anonymous sources are.

I see not reason for the government to have any secrets at all. In a democracy, transparency of government is the gold standard to measure freedom. These so-called reporters, helping government agents manipulate public opinion by passing propaganda off as "whistle blowing", are a blight on the republic. Therefore, a repeal of all "shield laws" has to come soon for the health of the country.

Real whistle-blowers can find ways to get the inside information out to the public without reports having a law that lets them write anything and claim anonymous sources.

The media narrative is now that U.S. government scientist Bruce Ivins, a prominent anthrax researcher, was a lone nut. He is to be painted a "homicidal maniac" who poisoned the five people killed in the 2001 anthrax attacks. It is also told that he was determined to go on another killing spree at his workplace as the Feds closed in on him.

The Times of London headline says, "Mad Anthrax Scientist in Threat to Kill Co-Workers". As Connie would tell you in "Wag the Dog", it is all over. We have it on TV and in the papers. We have our lone nut.

Americans always act as lone nuts and there never is government involvement or conspiracy --- it is well know that only the Arabs go in for conspiracies. And no, you smart asses, Mossad opps are "government operations" which can not be a "conspiracy" by definition. Ah, well, unless an Islamic government does it.

Are Americans stupid enough to buy the polished line and sinker that is the unfolding legend? Does American Idol get ratings?

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=13251

Justin Raimondo

... It seems to me a stretch to divorce motive not only from context, but also from important physical evidence in this case, i.e., the letters themselves. Other equally important evidence has been completely ignored. Over the years, I've presented much of this neglected-albeit-fascinating aspect of the anthrax mystery in a series of columns – here, here, here, here, here, and here – in which I related the story of what happened to another Ft. Detrick scientist, Dr. Ayaad Assaad.

Assaad, an American citizen born in Egypt, worked for USAMRIID in the early 1990s and was involved in a conflict with a group of Ft. Detrick employees who dubbed themselves the "Camel Club." As detailed in a series of eye-popping pieces by Dave Altimari and Jack Dolan of the Hartford Courant, this cabal was engaged in systematic harassment of Assaad and other Arab-American employees at the facility, including putting obscene and racist poems on his desk and presenting him with a rubber camel adorned with a sex toy. The Camel Club's harassment of Assaad had a distinctively ideological edge, one that pre-dated the "invade their countries, bomb their cities, and convert them to Christianity" meme that later became so popular with post-9/11 neocons of a Coulterish stripe ...

The "camel club" sounds like suspects to me. The past articles that Justin wrote over the years have hyper-links in the original for easy navigation to them.

All in all, this article is a wonderful recap by someone who has written about this episode many times. I recommend it. As always with Justin, the article is long and fact-filled.

As often happens, Justin Raimondo gives props to Glenn Greenwald for his analysis and work on the case.