You read that right! But ya know? Just because you’re ambitious and you race out onto the stage, doesn’t mean wiser handlers behind the curtain don’t have vaudiville’s old hook! When theatre was live entertainment … the show went on when the cabbages and the tomatoes brough the hook out … so we could laugh as the untalented fools were brought to a halt.

The dems have to do something. But enlightened change? I don’t think so! Nor is the MSM any smarter as they shed Rather-Blather and Eason Jordan. Those houses just have too many termites. Ain’t worth the bother to invest, no matter what the “fixer-upper” sign says.

Oh, on a personal note, I’m glad I can amuse Knucklehead. Thanks for writing to your legislators on the shinanigans they’re trying to pull. HA! Threatening us bloggers with jail. (I wanna be cuffed to Beldar.) Ya know, in Washington, they only count the numbers. You can never be too early, or too late, to the party of peppering them with paper. It ain’t like confetti. And, we’re better than a roomful of balloons.

The judge, according to the original story which I have linked to (on my own blog of course), didn’t give a reason for prematurely drawing a dividing line between bloggers and journalists who work for established outlets such as the NY Times.

In a future court case this could potentially be used as ammunition against political bloggers. I agree with Apple’s vehement protection of their IP, they need to do it, except the way that they are doing it threatens some nasty unintended consequences.

I hadn’t considered the withdrawal aspects of this! Good point. If I don’t get blog jones satisfied there’s real potential for ugliness (well, more ugliness).

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Roger’s post above, Et tu, Apple doesn’t accept comments (or something’s funky on my side), and since Roger himself sees Apple as a threat similar to the FEC, I thought I’d comment here. I refuse to join those “registration required” sites like the San Jose Mercury regardless of whether or not their free. I just grew weary of registering and won’t do it anymore. Petty, I know.

So I can’t (alright, won’t) read the full article. Roger quoted

In a case with implications for the freedom to blog, a San Jose judge tentatively ruled Thursday that Apple Computer can force three online publishers to surrender the names of confidential sources who disclosed information about the company’s upcoming products.

Based upon that tiny snippet of information I’d say this is a very different animal than the FEC thing and does not represent a particular danger to bloggers in general. I have no idea what three electronic publishers were defendents or what product information was disclosed through the electronic publishing, but I don’t see how bloggers or the MSM has a right to publish information about a corporation’s intellectual property.

The courts have ruled that the MSM does not have blanket protection wrt to their sources where a crime may have been committed. See the recent rulings re: the Plame affair for just one example. The unauthorized disclosure of intellectual property is a crime. Apple really had no choice but to bring this to court. If one leaves one’s IP unprotected it ceases to be one’s IP.

And, what irony. Just as Bush and our military are pressuring oppressors to fold and closed societies to open up, our very own Democrat People’s Party members would clamp down on free political expression at home in favor of licensed groups and commercial news to suit their partisan purposes. China, Iran and NoKo would approve. Oh, and the UN, too.

BRING IT ON!

Colleen Kaka Kolly Molly & the FEC can take their their ruling attacking bloggers, and smoke it! Ladies, I know you love your shovels. But it’s time. Stop digging. You’ve accomplished your goal. I stopped voting for democrats. CAROL HERMAN