Senate Democrats Win Important Baseball Debate. Also, Healthcare.
- Oh look, here is Harry Reid with your public option, for healthcare, even though Her Majesty Queen Olympia Snowe does not care for it! (CBS News)
- If the Democrats really cared about bipartisanship, they would have let the St. Louis Cardinals go to the World Series. (NYT The Caucus)
- Some of the RNC’s Facebook friends are terribly racist and do not care for our mixed-race president. (Raw Story)
- President Obama has more women in his Cabinet than any previous president. But does he invite them over for basketball enough? That is the real important question. (ABC News)
- Rep. John Culberson (R-TX) took his daughter to a public clinic to get the terrible socialist swine flu vaccine that he voted not to fund. What will Glenn Beck say? (Roll Call via Daily Kos)
10/26/09 4:47 pm | | Permalink | Tags: Barack Obama, Facebook, Harry Reid, healthcare, John Culberson, Olympia Snowe, public option, racism, RNC, St. Louis Cardinals, swine flu, women
Dear Journalists,
I have Facebook. Can I be on TV?
10/19/09 4:23 pm | | Permalink | Tags: Facebook, NBC, Sarah Palin, traditional media
More GOP Facebook Racism
If Republicans really want to revitalize their image, they should just quit the internet forever. Just a few days after the Young Republicans elected Audra Shay, who embraced racist comments made on her Facebook wall (that is, before she was caught, denounced her friend, and scrubbed her profile), to be their national chairman, another Republican has stepped in it:
Republican establishment has often appeared worried that attacks on Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, the first Latina nominated to the court, could appear racist. But the activists of the conservative movement are less concerned. In May, blogger Debbie Schlussel called Sotomayor “Justice J-Lo.” Now, the Washington Independent’s Dave Weigel reports that Jason Mattera, the spokesman for Young America’s Foundation, has posted a blatantly offensive message about Sotomayor on his Facebook page:
Mattera, according to his employers at the Young America’s Foundation, “is the surprisingly fresh face of conservatism.” If I were young conservative, I’d be ashamed to have him as the face of my movement.
7/13/09 9:00 pm | | Permalink | Tags: Facebook, racism, Sonia Sotomayor
Merrill Lynch: Heroes of American Capitalism!
- Ted Kennedy and friends are not very pleased with niece Caroline for using his fatal and uncurable brain cancer as an excuse to drop out of the New York Senate “race.” (TIME)
- Merrill Lynch spent $4 billion paying bonuses three days before it was taken over by Bank of America. Any guesses where that $4 billion came from? Yep, from you, the American taxpayer, courtesy of that nice big bailout. (Daily Kos)
- Mark Foley, who resigned from Congress after sending sexually explicit messages to Congressional pages, is on Facebook. Ugh. (ABC News/Facebook)
- Former Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne bid his employees adieu with a 600-image slide show of himself at national parks. (Washington Post)
- Sarah Palin will be a part of your life forever once she publishes her autobiography, for which she would like to be “earmarked” $11 million. (Los Angeles Times)
1/22/09 3:46 pm | | Permalink | Tags: bailout, Caroline Kennedy, Dirk Kempthrone, Facebook, Interior Department, Mark Foley, Merrill Lynch, NY-Sen, Sarah Palin, Ted Kennedy
Protect Your Privacy on Facebook by Disabling Beacon
If you or your friends have visited Fandango, Overstock, Kongregate, or dozens of other sites recently while logged into Facebook, you may have noticed what you or your friends do or buy showing up your Facebook news feed. That’s because of Beacon, Facebook’s new social advertising system, which collects what you do on participating websites and sends it to Facebook for public posting. The first time you visit a participating website, a small notice will appear in the bottom-right corner of your browser asking if you want to opt-out of sending Beacon notifications for that website. If you don’t click opt-out before the message disappears… that’s it. Facebook interprets that as permission to send Beacon notifications to anyone who can read your news feed and mini feed (and anyone who can read them) and sends your personal information to its partner websites..
Not surprisingly, Beacon has come under a lot of criticism, including in the form of a petition started by MoveOn.org. Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg has responded with an emotional mea culpa, but, more importantly, you now have the option of disabling Beacon completely and globally, for all of Facebook’s partner sites.
To disable Beacon, log in to your Facebook account and go to your privacy settings. Click on External Applications to see the privacy settings for Beacon. You’ll see a list of any Beacon-affiliated websites that you’ve visited, and you can adjust privacy settings for individual sites there. To disable Beacon completely, check the box for “Don’t allow any websites to send stories to my profile.”
A commenter on the NYT’s “Bits” blog says:
Well, just tried to use the new opt-out feature and guess what, I can’t find it on my privacy settings page. Apparently it doesn’t show up as an option for me to select until an external website has sent me stories.
If you are unable to find the External Applications page on your privacy settings, try visiting a time-waster website like Kongregate or College Humor.
12/5/07 1:33 pm | | Permalink | Tags: Beacon, Facebook, privacy
Facebook Conservatism
Ever wonder what the Republican presidential candidates’ Facebook profiles would look like? Thanks to the fine folks at People for the American Way, you can take a look at profiles for Rudy, Fat Mike, Mitt!, Frederick of Hollywood, and that other guy who’s still running. For those of you who don’t want to click on all the links, here are some of the highlights:
Rudy Giuliani’s activities:
Travelling across the country spreading my uplifting message of the country’s imminent destruction at the hands of terrorists as official U.S. Roving Ambassador of 9/11, answering cell phone calls in the middle of speeches.
About Mike Huckabee:
Not much to say really. I’m just a good ol’ boy who happens to be running for president. I took off a lot of weight recently and I’m feeling great! Want me to tell you about it at length? Because I’d be happy to.
Basically, I’m just trying to distance myself as far as possible from the president while still embracing all his policies. It’s a little tricky, but I think I’m doing alright! lol!
Mitt Romney’s interests:
Combing my hair, tying my dog to the roof, having children, discouraging discussion of my family tree.
Fred Thompson’s groups:
All For Equality, Except the Marriage Kind ▪ My Wife is Hotter Than Your Wife (Unless You’re Dennis Kucinich)
John McCain’s activities:
Firing staffers, “hangin’” with my Religious Right “homies” (do the kids still say “homies” these days?), searching for loose change for gas money for the Straight Talk Express, reminding people I’m actually still running for president.
I’m afraid I don’t have space to do the whole parody justice. Check it out for yourself. You won’t regret it.
10/20/07 11:05 am | | Permalink | Tags: 2008, Facebook, president
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