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Molly Wood over at CNET has a great comment on the current situation with digital music and the RIAA. I love her blog: always short and sweet.

With all thats going on right now, sometimes you just have to relax and have some fun. I saw a preview for a movie called Ultraviolet that looks awesome. The movie doesn’t look like it is trying to be realistic at all, but looks like it might be a fun sci-fi action movie. We all need movies to help us escape from time to time and this looks like an excellent one the help with that need.

Michelle Malkin: SUPPORT DENMARK: WHY THE FORBIDDEN CARTOONS MATTER

“Things came to a head over the past week. In Gaza City, Palestinian gunmen took over an EU office to protest the cartoons:

Masked gunmen today took over an office used by the European Union to protest the publication of cartoons deemed insulting to Islam. About five gunmen stormed the building, closing the office down, while 10 other armed men stood watch outside. One of the militants said they were protesting the drawings, one of which depicted Islam’s Prophet Muhammad wearing a turban shaped as a bomb.

Danish flags are being burned. Danish workers have reportedly been beaten. The country now faces an international boycott from Muslim nations.

While the intrepid newspaper has not apologized for printing the cartoons, it has issued a statement acknowledging that the cartoons “offended many Muslims, which we would like to apologize for.” Paul Belien at The Brussels Journal singles out the courage of Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen, who has refused to capitulate to the bullies:”

From the WSJ Opinion Journal:

“During her August protest, she gave a speech to an outfit called Veterans for Peace. According to a transcript on the group’s Web site, she said that if the President agreed to meet with her:

I’m gonna say, “And you tell me, what the noble cause is that my son died for.” And if he even starts to say freedom and democracy I’m gonna say, bullshit. You tell me the truth. You tell me that my son died for oil. You tell me that my son died to make your friends rich. You tell me my son died to spread the cancer of Pax Americana, imperialism in the Middle East. You tell me that, you don’t tell me my son died for freedom and democracy.

Cuz, we’re not freer. You’re taking away our freedoms. The Iraqi people aren’t freer, they’re much worse off than before you meddled in their country.

You get America out of Iraq, you get Israel out of Palestine.

In September, after Hurricane Katrina had brought her 15 minutes of fame to an end, Sheehan wrote on the Huffington Post website: “George Bush needs to . . . pull our troops out of occupied New Orleans and Iraq.”

All these comments were easily available on the Internet, yet they were seldom mentioned in the news coverage of Mrs. Sheehan’s protest. They didn’t fit the script–a script in which Mrs. Sheehan was playing the role of an ordinary American whose personal tragedy had turned her against the war.”

I don’t know if anyone reading this has been keeping up with the whole 12th Man debaucle, but in case you haven’t, here’s the run-down:

In the 1920’s, during an Aggie football game, a series of injuries forced the coach to call a student out of the stands to suit up. Ever since that day, Aggie students have stood through every game, ready to play, yell, or do whatever to help their team out. Thus, the 12th Man was born.
Well, it seems that some time in the ’80s the Seattle Seahawks fans began to think of themselves as the 12th man, due to their vigor at the games. The excitment died down while the Seahawks weren’t doing so well, but, as the team prepares for the Super Bowl, the 12th man moniker has come back.
Similar situations have occured in the past with the Bears and the Bills, and both teams stopped using the phrase for one reason. As it turns out, Texas A&M happens to have trademarked the 12th Man. The universtiy has sent letters to the Seahawks in 2004 and 2005 requesting that the stop using that phrase. There has been no response. Due to the silence, Texas A&M University has filed a restraining order against the team using the trademarked moniker.

All of that is just fact. However, the sports media seems to think that the Seahawks have the right to steal what has been widely voted the greatest tradition in all of college football. They’re even lying to help Seattle out. Jim Rome, host of “Rome is Burning” on ESPN, actually said “until I actually see Seattle fans having sex in the stands like Aggie fans do, I’m going to have to give Seattle the benefit of the doubt.”

WHAT THE HELL? How is he allowed to accuse Aggie fans of having sex in the stands and still be called credible. The last time I checked the matter was as simple as this: the 12th Man is trademarked, so they can’t use it.