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GMail is GREAT. I can receive (not forward) all of my other mail on my gmail account. this is important because I can use my old personal email, my school email, my business email and my gmail all in one. It also shows up very nicely on mobile phones. I don't always have access to a computer, but I need to check my email, so it's really nice when I can check my email on the road from my phone. Just about unlimited storage isn't bad, either. My favorite part is google docs. I would type up all of my lectures in google docs and then you can share and collaborate with others. It came in really useful in my government lecture when we would review. I would type the lectures as my friends would type the reviews. Google really does know what they're doing, I'd be lost without gmail anymore.

I really like the top banner, but I'm not a huge fan of the font. It looks like there are a few scraggles on the text. If you used Photoshop, I would change the anti-aliasing from crisp (it looks like what you used) to something like smooth. Sorry, little things like that bother me.Besides that, I like it. Nice and centered, good color scheme, making the tagboard front and center. Load times are good, and there are no unnecessary links. Besides little minor things, I like it a lot.

It's funny to think that the government wouldn't even think of doing it though. They have, and it's a declassified document. Check out operation northwoods on google. It says how the United States (back in the 60s) would attack it's own country to gain backing for a war. It's also kind of funny how Cheney stated we needed "another Pearl Harbor" to invade the middle east in his 2000 book. I don't know for sure if the United States did it to themselves, but they knew it was going to happen, it's pretty obvious. It got us into war, and I'd bet that we are at war with Iran before Bush/Cheney are out of office in Jan '09. Really sad when you think about it, all so that Halliburton does well.

I haven't played CS all summer because I've been busy but I love playing. Me and my roommate would both play, one on terrorists, one on counter terrorists. We'd then alternate dying so that we could rack up our stats on the other side. It was kind of like a wall hack without the hack. At oine point I had like a 4.0 KD ratio on my favorite server and on others I'd hvae 2.0 KD ratio at best.

The only candidates I would like to see in office are Ron Paul and Barack Obama. Hillary is too corrupt, and I can't stand any of the other Republicans. I am impressed by what Ron Paul says, but who knows if he'll go through with it. Either way, he isn't going to win the Republican primary, no matter how much internet backing he has. I honestly don't think Republicans stand a chance in the upcoming election, but it'll be fun to watch.

I personally believe Bush and Cheney should be impeached RIGHT NOW. Every day that they are in office, we lose a little more of the Constitution. Do you enjoy the first amendment? Well nowadays, you can be arrested for asking a controversial question if a larger entity doesn't like it, even if you have proper credentials. Case in point, read http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ . A reporter was arrested for asking a Giuliani press secretary about 9/11 at the press secretary's command, even though the reporter made no physical contact and had the proper credentials to be there. Be careful what you say people, you could be a DOMESTIC TERRORIST!!!!!1111 Do you enjoy the fourth amendment? Yeah.. that's kinda gone, too. This protects against unreasonable search and seizures. Too bad the NSA has been illegally listening to your phone conversations and monitoring your internet activity for years. They know it's illegal, it's been known that it's been done for a long time now, but they don't care because they are arrogant and Bush/Cheney have given them the power. Once again, gotta watch out for those domestic terrorists. Do you enjoy the sixth eighth amendments? Yes, the important ones about trials. Here is the official text of the sixth amendment: "In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defense." The eight amendment pertains to cruel and unusual punishment and how its illegal. Those are gone too, and you can thank the Military Commissions Act of 2006 for that. This bad boy can decide that you are a domestic terrorist (unlawful enemy combatant as they call it, and yes, this applies to US citizens), detain you without telling you why for as long as they want (speedy trial eh?), and then give you to a military tribunal to decide your fate. So basically, you're probably going to Guantanamo Bay, where they can use whatever tactics they want on you (the geneva conventions is NOT a defense with this act). Without the Geneva Conventions defense, the US can do a number of things to you to get the information they want. If you want to read the act fully, google it, it's there, it's about 90 pages, but directly in the act, it is stated what IS legal to get information out of you. Just some of the things include rape, torture, scientific experiments. Seriously if you don't believe me, go read it yourself, it's right there in the act. So now, after you've been denied the right to a speedy trial and are tortured until they get what they want out of you (remember, you don't know why you're detained and you don't know what you're getting charged for), then you get to go to trial in a military tribunal to decide your fate. This is absolutely disgusting. But that's all OK, this isn't a fascist nation, the power is divided. Too bad the John Warner Defense Authorization Act of Fiscal Year 2007 was passed. With this, President Bush can declare martial law (forget the insurrection act) and take charge of the National Guard WITHOUT STATE GOVERNOR OR CONGRESSIONAL AUTHORIZATION if he feels that public order has been lost. So basically, if he wanted to, he could take Michigan's militia over to Oregon where he feels that a public gathering of protesters have become out of order without consent of anyone. He makes the decision solely. But Bush still isn't the sole leader, right? Not exactly. On May 9th of this year, the Bush administration has released a directive called the National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive. (next excerpt taken from roguegovernment.com) "In this directive, Bush declares that in the event of a Catastrophic Emergency the President will be entrusted with leading the activities to ensure constitutional government. The language in this directive would in effect make the President a dictator in the case of such an emergency. Further on in the document it states the following. The President shall lead the activities of the Federal Government for ensuring constitutional government. This directive on its face is unconstitutional because each branch of government the executive, legislative and judicial are supposed to be equal in power. By putting the President in charge of coordinating such an effort to ensure constitutional government over all three branches is effectively making the President a dictator allowing him to tell all branches of government what to do." Based on what I've already said, do you really want Bush to ensure something is Constitutional? Does he know what that means? So while most Americans are being dumbed down by watching American Idol (the most popular show on TV!), other countries have decided to spend their money intelligently. While we've spent about $418 billion on the Iraqi War, other countries have spent money on education. The United States is now only the 28th most literate country in math and science. Reports also say that the Canadian dollar (now $.97 to American $1) will be equal to the American dollar by the end of 2007, so the economy is booming. And I haven't even touched on foreign affairs. (Just to be clear, I support our troops wholeheartedly, they have 1000x more courage than I do, but I do not support the war.) Congressman right now are working on impeaching Bush/Cheney before they do anything worse, heres to hoping that gets done. By the way, only 32% of Americans believed Clinton should have been impeached in 1999, 39% of people today believe Bush should be impeached. It's obvious that Bush is being judged by ratings and personal beliefs and not by the standard of law in which our Constitution is based off of. Don't you dare call me Anti-American, because our leader is the most Anti-American of them all, essentially raping our Constitution and profiting from the deaths of our soldiers (heard of Halliburton? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halliburton). The current administration has done a terrible job and our founding fathers are rolling over in their graves.

I am very happy with the new phpBB3. It's built in with a lot more features. Before, I would take phpBB2 and add 100s of hacks to get exactly what I wanted. Well, when I did that, my MYSQL database filled up really quickly, and loading times went through the roof. phpBB3 is much more efficient than phpBB2 ever was, but I still prefer vBulletin.