Flight Pundit

Nov 30, 2005
woo hoo, kill my leash!

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd. was dealt another legal setback in a key patent infringement case on Wednesday, raising pressure to settle or face a possible shutdown of its U.S. mobile e-mail service.

I know some people that would hate that.

U.S. District Judge James Spencer rejected RIM’s request to delay the case and refused to enforce a disputed, $450 million settlement with patent holder NTP Inc.

I thought it was a very large cash case. that is nothing. they should ask for 450Billion.

Now RIM is a canadian Company. let them burn, Blame Canada!

“Valid patents would be rendered meaningless if an infringing party were allowed to circumvent the patents’ enforcement by incessantly delaying and prolonging court proceedings, which have already resulted in a finding of infringement,” Spencer said in his ruling from Richmond, Va.

Spencer said he would request briefs and set a hearing date to deal with NTP’s request for damages against RIM and an injunction that would halt U.S. sales of the BlackBerry and shut its service.

RIM shares, halted for the news, reopened down as much as 7.92 percent before recovering slightly to a decline of 5.2 percent at $61.55 on Nasdaq.

Please shut it down. People drive while typing email.

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Become a brick in the wall.
Lets wall out the wackos from Westboro Baptist Church. This is the Fred Phelps and his loser America Hating jerks that like to have an Anti-American, Anti-War protest at the funerals of American Heroes that gave it their all.

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Taking care of their own…

If there’s one thing the Marine Corps does without hesitation, it is looking after its own.Marines go to great lengths on the battlefield to bring back their dead and wounded. Off the battlefield, they are the first to come to the aid of their fallen comrades’ families.

The Band of Brothers at the heart of a Marine’s soul also binds them both in life and in death.

So it’s not surprising that a group of leathernecks would fly to Mobile, Ala., to aid of the mother of a Marine who didn’t make it back from Iraq. It is something that they would consider a debt of honor, a bargain they made with their friend and fellow Marine.

It all began when Marines discovered that the mother of Lance Cpl. Bradley Faircloth, who served with 1st Battalion, 8th Marines, needed help. The young Faircloth was killed in the battle for Fallujah in November 2004, leaving behind his single mother, whose home sustained damage when Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast.>br>

The Marines from 3rd Platoon, Alpha Company, 1/8, had stayed in touch with Faircloth’s mother, Kathleen.

When they learned her home had been damaged in the hurricane, they wanted to help her and, in the spirit of the Corps, managed to overcome great obstacles in order to fulfill their mission.

Read the rest here…very honorable.

Speaking of the Marines…

Arlington, Va. (AP) - The Marine Corps War Memorial is in the midst of its most extensive restoration in more than 50 years.

The iconic bronze statue of Marines raising a flag during the legendary World War Two battle at Iwo Jima is getting its first major facelift but remains open to the public. The memorial was originally dedicated in 1954.

Semper Fi

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I’m putting my support behind Tom Tancredo for President. It’s early and many don’t think he has a standing chance. Tough on them right? Here is a LONG but interesting article about this man, why he thinks they way he does, some of upbringing that made him who he is today.

Washington - U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo wants to inflame people.

He speaks on talk radio and cable television as often as 15 times a week, warning that illegal immigrants are stealing jobs, destroying American culture and killing police officers.

With every word, the ex-schoolteacher son of Italian immigrants pours fuel on a grassroots brush fire.

Tancredo strives to agitate people enough that they demand change from Congress. As outraged citizens pressure lawmakers to follow Tancredo’s lead, his power grows.

Although he’s never passed significant legislation on his top issue, Tancredo now is invited to dinners with those shaping legislation. He’s asked to speak at forums. His opponents create lobbying groups to counterbalance Tancredo’s contentious message.

President Bush, congressional leaders and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce all are talking immigration reform this year, pushing a plan to let some immigrants stay in the country as guest workers. Many in business want to hire more foreigners.

But pressure from outraged citizen groups - stoked by Tancredo and his allies - is forcing pro-guest-worker forces to retool their strategy.

Interviews with more than two dozen people - including current and past colleagues of Tancredo, immigration activists, political analysts and strategists - show Tancredo is not easily discounted as an extremist loudmouth.

An analysis of Tancredo’s campaign contributions reveals he’s increasingly supported by people outside Colorado, evidence of his growing national stature.

After only six years in the U.S. House, the lawmaker representing Denver’s southern suburbs has made himself the leader of one side of a debate over immigration that’s poised to split the Republican Party. He’s even considering a run for the presidency to force other candidates to debate the issue.

“He has had as much to do with moving immigration front and center onto the national agenda as anybody,” said Norman Ornstein, political analyst at the American Enterprise Institute, a Washington think tank. “It wouldn’t have been dealt with with this level of intensity or even urgency if it weren’t for him.”

Some blogs and other sites supporting Tancredo:

http://tancredo4prez.blogspot.com/

Tancredo For President

Tancredo Quotes (LOL)

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Rep. Jean Schmidt? From Ohio…
I wouldn’t have “booed” her off the podium. I would have gotten up and applauded. She’s right with what she said, and those who took offense- go screw yourselves and then take a long look in the mirror.

Schmidt said in her brief speech: “A few minutes ago, I received a call from Colonel Danny Bubp. He asked me to send Congress a message: Stay the course. He also asked me to send Congressman Murtha a message: that cowards cut and run, Marines never do.”

The chamber exploded in boos and catcalls from Democrats, and within minutes Schmidt had withdrawn her words and sent a note of apology to Murtha. But waters were still roiling when she went home Saturday to start a two-week congressional recess.

Those who speak the truth need to be respected. When the truth hurts, those who are spoken of need to accept responsibility.

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LOL the saga continues with the one and only Sir (ick) Ward LeRoy Churchill…You gotta read this.
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Tancredo Denounces Troop Withdrawal
The video clip of Congressman Tancredo debating troop withdrawal on the House Floor is available here.
Tom for President?, I woudl vote for him!

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Last week I wrote about a situation where a college professor was intimidating a student who hosted conservative meetings. It pissed me off then, and I found this article today that has me RIP ROARING mad now. This shit needs to stop. This isn’t a democracy, what this professor is promoting. It borders on harrassment and he needs to GO.

HERNDON, VA –Young America’s Foundation exposed Warren Community College’s radical Professor John Daly, who in an email to student Rebecca Beach, vowed to intimidate those students who host conservative speakers and called for American soldiers in Iraq to murder their superiors.

Instead of admonishing the professor’s intemperate attack on a student’s right of free expression, Warren Community College President William Austin said Prof. John Daly has “first amendment rights” to harass Rebecca. Furthermore, the President is trying to bully Rebecca into silence. He said Rebecca, not Prof. John Daly, is ruining the college’s name by going on talk radio and television exposing Daly’s mean spirited email.

In an interview with the Express-Times, a local New Jersey paper, Daly stood by his email to Rebecca. He told the paper that Rebecca’s conservative group is an “ultra right-wing, possibly fascist, group.”

Daly’s email to Rebecca came after she sent a note to faculty announcing the appearance of decorated war hero Lt. Col. Scott Rutter to discuss America’s accomplishments in Iraq.

Daly’s unedited email can be read in full below.

“Prof. John Daly knowingly intimidated one of his students. That’s not protected by the First Amendment,” said Jason Mattera, spokesman for Young America’s Foundation. “It was poor judgment to hire Daly to begin with. Warren Community College compounds their ineptitude by defending Daly’s harassment of Rebecca.”

The email that started this:

Dear Rebecca:

I am asking my students to boycott your event. I am also going to ask others to boycott it. Your literature and signs in the entrance lobby look like fascist propaganda and is extremely offensive. Your main poster “Communism killed 100,000,000″ is not only untrue, but ignores the fact that CAPITALISM has killed many more and the evidence for that can be seen in the daily news papers. The U.S. government can fly to dominate the people of Iraq in 12 hours, yet it took them five days to assist the people devastated by huricane Katrina. Racism and profits were key to their priorities. Exxon, by the way, made $9 Billion in profits this last quarter–their highest proft margin ever. Thanks to the students of WCCC and other poor and working class people who are recruited to fight and die for EXXON and other corporations who earning megaprofits from their imperialist plunders. If you want to count the number of deaths based on political systems, you can begin with the more than a million children who have died in Iraq from U.S.-imposed sanctions and war. Or the million African American people who died from lack of access to healthcare in the US over the last 10 years.

I will continue to expose your right-wing, anti-people politics until groups like your won’t dare show their face on a college campus. Real freedom will come when soldiers in Iraq turn their guns on their superiors and fight for just causes and for people’s needs–such freedom fighters can be counted throughout American history and they certainly will be counted again.

Prof. John Daly

UPDATE: WND is reporting this:

A New Jersey college’s board of trustees has called for an emergency meeting tonight to discuss how to handle the controversy surrounding an e-mail by a professor suggesting soldiers in Iraq should kill their superior officers.

Cross Posted @ ARS

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The headlines about Iran, yesterday, read like a typical peace party playbook from Europe. They have to make it look legit by using terms suggesting “the Americans” are going along with the act.

Nov. 21 (Bloomberg)– The U.S. and its European allies won’t seek this week to refer the issue of Iran’s nuclear program to the United Nations Security Council, in order to give more time for an agreement that would permit uranium enrichment to take place in Russia, French and German diplomats said.

“There is a general assessment, with the Americans, that this is not the right time,” French Ambassador Jean-Marc de La Sabliere said today. “It may happen, but not this time. The situation is not mature enough.”

The situation isn’t mature enough? Says who? EU nations? Russia? What is their idea of mature when it comes to the threat of an Iran with nuclear weapons?

Under the proposed agreement, Iran wouldn’t be allowed to complete the nuclear fuel cycle by enriching uranium. Converted uranium would be transported to Russia for full enrichment, the UN would monitor its use in Iran, and the spent fuel would go back to Russia.

Anyone who trusts Russia to do the right thing is crazy. I’m not even sure this is the right thing; doing business with Iran is like playing with the devil. Russia’s motives cannot be in the best interests of freedom.

Today, I read a headline with a threat from Iran:

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran’s president on Tuesday confirmed his government would start enriching uranium and end U.N. snap inspections of nuclear facilities if its case were referred to the U.N. Security Council.

Iranian lawmakers on Sunday overwhelmingly voted these retaliatory measures into law, attempting to give the Islamic Republic some leverage before a board of governors meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Thursday.

“We follow the parliament and will definitely implement its bills,” President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told state television.

The Iranian president is a madman. He speaks with an evil tone and his demeanor is not trustworthy. Kind of like Saddam once did. When are we going to put him out of his glory? These regimes must be destroyed and new, freedom loving Iranian citizens must be enabled to take over their own governments. There are enough people over there who would do this and do it right. Why the US is dilly-dallying around this issue baffles me. It wouldn’t take much to go in, dispose of this crazy government in Iran, and put in place some good people. It could be done overnight without any media attention. It’s time to take the War On Terror to a higher place.

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My dog needs a name!

Last night at a charity event, my really cool neighbors bought me a 8 week old Golden Retriever in an auction. He is a beautiful papered puppy. They really shouldn’t have, no really.
So now comes that hard part of getting a new pet.
What do I call him? I thought about going with some standard dog names or really getting a cool name but I couldn’t htink of any so I figured I would ask for help with this (just this once)
Here are a list of the names that I have crossed off my list so far

1. Dog
2. Cat
3. Jill
4. Buddy
5. Sue
6. Max
7. Taz (although Taz 2 might work, kinda like terminator 2)

He is sitting on the couch next to me farting as I write this…darn dawg
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We need to build the fence to stop the invasion of the USA. President Bush needs to get his head out of his butt on this subject and deal with it.
BillyBud has more thoughts on this topic:

I think an air strike would have been an appropriate response

and links to what you can do to help stop this madness.

What the hell is this? Why was the Texas Rangers involved and locked and loaded?

“It’s a very serious incident,” Doyal said. “We are very fortunate … no one got hurt. Everyone had the presence of mind not to cause an international incident, or start shooting.”

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Michelle Malkin has dealt with more than her fair share of stupid leftist and slapped them down with facts and knowledge. Her husband helps a couple hours a week.
in comparison:

Al Franken needs a dozen, overpaid Harvard-trained research assistants.

That might be a little generous. The greedy people that work for Al Franken give a bad name to even the elementary school they went to.

but isn’t the left supposed to be open minded and loving of minorities and women?

The racist and sexist “yellow woman doing a white man’s job” knock is a tiresome old attack from impotent liberals that I’ve tolerated a long time.

I guess it is only if you fall in line with the wako point of view. I am glad that Michelle is on our side.

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Impediments to Counterterrorism Efforts in the United States

Why was the PATRIOT Act enacted? Why does the CIA operate secret detention and intelligence facilities? Why has the number of National Security Letters issued by the FBI increased significantly? The answer is simple…to preserve national security and prevent another 9/11.

Apparently, select interest groups in the United States have either lost sight of this undisputable fact or have chosen to disregard it in deference to their parochial agendas. Unfortunately, over the past few weeks, considerable public attention focused on the PATRIOT Act, CIA secret facilities and FBI National Security Letters…dangerously casting each in the wrong light and threatening their continuity.

the whole thing is worth the read

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Here’s some proof in a Technorati search I ran for the Coward Murtha
This is the google adds stuck in the middle of the results.

What do you think? pretty good technology, totally stupid otherwise.

and yes, I called him coward

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Just got a call from my Mom who is at our cabin in Grand Lake CO today. I am waiting for pictures from today but this is what I am told it looks like

Reports have 18 inches of fresh snow on the ground.

All the while I am in Arizona where it is 73 degrees today.

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