Perhaps someone who opposes Sen. Obama is funding and/or inciting Rev. Wright. Recall that Republican hitman Roger Stone coached and helped fund Al Sharpton's 2004 presidential campaign. Republicans arguably prefer Sen. Clinton as the Democratic candidate. But hey, maybe I'm just paranoid.

He should repent his inauthentic political ways, and speak truth to power. And he should invite Rev. Wright to be his running mate. Hey, why not give it a shot? Running Republican-lite candidates certainly hasn't served Democrats so well lately (except for Bill, and he could have won running as a Whig). How bad do things need to get before we realize how throughly we've been pwned?

PS - I owe Rev. Wright an apology for cynically suggesting last night that he might be a Republican sockpuppet. That honor seems to be Salon's, albeit however inadvertently. Or maybe they're in it for the lulz.

1) fully support Sen. Obama

2) use xerobank.com for all online access (web, e-mail, VOIP, chat, etc.)

The most-public member of the XeroBank team is Steve Topletz, who's well-known from Cult of the Dead Cow and Hacktivismo. Based on XeroBank's contact information for law enforcement at xerobank.com/leo.php, it's apparently incorporated in Panama. I have found nothing regarding its ownership.

None of its exit nodes are reportedly in the US, and all of its US-based servers are reportedly virtual and encrypted. Being a private version of Tor, it's apparently not vulnerable to the evil exit node attack. And according to its privacy policy at xerobank.com/privacy_policy.php, it doesn't log IPs or activity.

Although it does cost $35 per month for 75 Gb, it's much faster than Tor (1.5 Mbps down and 0.5 Mbps up).

One could say that I'm just trusting XeroBank instead of the US government. However, I'm not really trusting XeroBank. At the worst, XeroBank knows no more about me and my activities than my ISP (and anyone with access to their servers) would if I didn't use it. Anything that I really want to be private is protected by additional layers of encryption and anonymity.

I've heard that Hunter modeled Raul Duke in part on his associate Duke Sun. Having known Duke in the late 60s, that connection seems plausible. If y'all have anything to share about that, please do.

... but not really, for y'all don't know who I am, so you wouldn't know how incessantly I've been sharing about XeroBank.

Anyway, if you care about your privacy, do this: subscribe to XeroBank.com, and use its xB Browser. You get an encrypted VPN (OpenVPN) to one of their its exit nodes in Canada or the Netherlands, and nobody can match any of your internet traffic to your true IP address.

Personal subscriptions, paid anonymously via Dalpay in Iceland, cost $35 per month ($1 for a one-month trial) for 75 Gb (1.5 Mbps down and 0.5 Mbps up). Multiple machines can connect simultaneously via one account, and each establishes a separate VPN. Indeed, virtual machines establish separate VPNs, and don't use their host's VPN.

Because XeroBank is incorporated in Panama, fishing expeditions would be nontrivial. However, malicious activity (e.g., fraud, child porn or other violations of the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights) will trigger investigation.

Disclaimer: I am not connected with XeroBank in any way, except as a client, and nothing in this message has been sourced or approved by it.

Hey, it's boilerplate to say "they didn't conclude that, and even if they did, which I'm not conceding, they're wrong". Also, based on a quick reading of the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act, which is available online (click my sig), I don't see any criminal penalty for violations. I suspect that Rick Davis' fallback is that there were no _criminal_ violations of any kinds of laws or ethics rules.

Indeed, it appears that an employee's designated supervisor is responsible for "mak[ing] a written determination whether an employee's involvement violates AS 39.52.110 - 39.52.190 and shall provide a copy of the written determination to the public employee and to the attorney general." See Sec. 39.52.210., Declaration of potential violations by public employees. Who is the governor's designated supervisor? Is it the legislature, which commissioned the Branchflower report? Or is it the attorney general?

Also, it appears that penalties are limited to reassignment and/or divestiture of conflicting interests. Does that mean that Gov. Palin committed an impeachable violation? Perhaps the fun's not over yet.

I wasn't defending Rick Davis (or by extension, Gov. Palin). They're fascist slime, IMHO. I was just speculating that, if pressed under oath, they'd probably say something like what I wrote. And regarding the statute, I'm genuinely curious about what's next.

I'm sure that this one is at least as campy and boring as most porn. And of course, it's sexist. Perhaps it's targeted at Joe Sixpack. But really, I'm quite sure that it's not; that's Sarah's job. This is just Larry Flynt's sick way of expressing his displeasure with fundies (and perhaps making some money). If he had a real McCain or Palin sex video, it'd be online already. And BTW, the spoof on break.com is sweet and funny. It features Trooper Wooten _and_ a moose.

cherylsass123,

The "ad" in question asserted that he had lost his virginity in an outhouse (to his mother, sharing some Campari).