Because the music execs (much like insurance companies!) wanted to raise prices for their music!!! Not out of need, but simple fucking greed. These music companies aren't exactly on welfare and living out of their cars. In making record profits the goal is always....more!

"Hey! This new Mariah Carey release is worth more than this old song from Toto! Let's make it $2.99 per download instead of .99 cents!"

Apple, thank God, has refused to gouge customers the exact same way the mortgage brokers, the banks, GM, Whole Foods and the all the rest have.

Looks like Google is going to finally "free" the music companies from Apples "tyrannical" price controls.

(sigh)

Say goodbye to 99 cent songs. Say hello to $2.99 per song downloads.

Oh well, poor Kevin Federline could use the money.

Glenn Beck: President Obama is a racist with a deep hatred for the white race. President Obama wants to destroy this country! President Obama and his cohort of radical Marxists are engineering an Islamic take over of this country! President Obama would allow terrorists to kill Americans to further his radical communists agenda!

But Glenn Beck is "shocked" at the violence that occured in Chicago...though he seemed oblivious (or willfully ignorant) to these exact same beatings and murders occuring in devestated cities like Detroit for the past 8 years!

And Glenn Beck think the "liberal media" is out of touch?

The liberal media routinely reports on urban poverty and violence.

Glenn Beck (like most other wealthy white Republicans) seems to just be waking up to the fact that its a problem.

C'mon.

We all know the reason the all-white (coincidence?) tea-baggers have a hysterical/irrational hatred for a small nonprofit is because it is primarily staffed and services....minorities.

"You jus knows ya can't trust them thar colored fellas" says the typical tea bag protestor.

Oh wait.

Are we still pretending that this isn't about a small group of pissed off white people losing their shit over a nonprofit run by and for minorities?

ACORN is going to $8 billion in stimulus money?

Didn't you read the article you're commenting on? They have only ever recieved a few millon (total!) over 15 years!

$8 billion?

Really?

And I suppose you believe in the Palin "death panels" too?

And finally a brave (and telegenic!) white couple proved how lazy and full of lies those darkies really were!

Like this isn't exactly what the all-white Beck-head teabag protestors are thinking?

They have an irrational and hysterical fear of minorities and have always believed that those "darkies" just want to steal money from hard working white Christians.

But here is what makes no sense:

Why would a prostitute making $90,000 a year (according to the video) go to ACORN to ask for advice on how to pay taxes on her illegal income?

Again: a prostitute earning nearly $100,000 wants to fill out government paperwork so that she can PAY TAXES on her illegal income?

And no one finds that a really, really odd things for a criminal making $100k a year to do????

You know how those secular humanists are!

Also, I heard that in Europe and Russia and places like that that if a woman goes to one of the "free" hospitals for a routine check-up and she is pregnant that they will automatically give her an abortion without even telling her what they are doing!!!

I am so terrified that this country will become like that!

Obama is out of control!!!

(sigh)

Why are the dumbest, most paranoid, most irrationally xenophobic members of this country Republican?

Does being a Republican make you insane...or do the insane just feel most comfortable in the Republican party?

The people robustly defending Facebook are people who themselves think typing a three word sentence to someone once a week equates to being someone's "friend."

Uh, no.

Sorry to burst your bubble but ACTUAL communication requires effort.

I know sitting down to actually write something interesting and meaningful and over four words long can sometimes be annoying....but if the person that is your "friend" isn't worth more than 4 words a week then why in God's name are they your "friend"?

I think the real battle is between people who do put forth a lot of effort in communicating -- such as writing a friend a 4 page email -- and then only getting back a single 3 word sentence in return.

The person typing the three word sentence is absolutely convinced that they are "communicating" in the exact same way and put forth the exact same effort as the person who wrote he 4 page email....and are confused as to why people are harshing their really, really short missives.

Because typing out, "LOL! Yeah, I know!" in response to a 4 page email is lazy bullshit.

I know I'll probably get flamed now. (sigh) Well, someone had to come right out and say it!

Facebook is for really lazy people who want to create the illusion of interaction without putting out any of the effort.

Which is easier: making a birthday card yourself and mailing it to your friend....or just typing "Happy BDAY!" to them on Facebook?

And which means more?

Sociologists from around the world will be writing papers on the "madness" and "mob hysteria" that griped America in the summer of 2009.

We're watching history in the making!

Unfortunately it's will be remembered in the same manner as the Salem Witch Trials were remembers.