AOL - Users Watch out

MetaFilter:" I tripped into this site, and found this, so I am posting this to tell everyone...Thank-you Quartmass: You waive any right to privacy. AOL has just updated the terms of service for Instant messenger, which include agreeing to the new requirement that AOL owns everything you write, has the right to reproduce it at will, and that you waive all requirements for prior approval to do so. Although you or the owner of the Content retain ownership of all right, title and interest in Content that you post to any AIM Product, AOL owns all right, title and interest in any compilation, collective work or other derivative work created by AOL using or incorporating this Content. In addition, by posting Content on an AIM Product, you grant AOL, its parent, affiliates, subsidiaries, assigns, agents and licensees the irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide right to reproduce, display, perform, distribute, adapt and promote this Content in any medium. You waive any right to privacy. You waive any right to inspect or approve uses of the Content or to be compensated for any such uses. Here is AOL terms of service : http://www.aim.com/tos/tos.adp

I left AOL 4-yrs ago, If you have AOL you may want to think twice on what you write or look at or even save, never know it could come back and bite you. I also looked at YAHOO's terms and they are a lot safer in my eye's. I warned you now it's up to you what you do...Bye"

McDonald's Food Rating & More

I saw this and laughed... Well guess Mcdee"s is not the - IN - place to work anymore. Guess I won't be applying for a job their... Hey wait I need a job....LOL...
UPDATE...(3/13/05) I just watched on TV tonight on Date-Line on Fast-Food & Health Dept. Ratings...Mc Donalds ..rated as the NUMBER_ONE ..Worst place to eat , as they had tons of bad marks in the food safety dept on things that would make you sick. In case youtr wondering, they said the best places to eat were: 1-jack in the box,2-Taco Johns,3-Wendys. So , where do you want to eat now? huh"

Government - You have a right to know what your government is doing

Herald:" Jorge Morales had every reason to feel blessed on this night. He'd become a father just the day before and was excited about his wife and newborn coming home. He also had the love of his 5-year-old stepdaughter, Dalia, whom he was taking for an evening walk in the Allapattah section of Miami after eating at McDonald's. That's when Morales was shot dead. I remember he said, Run, honey run! And grabbed me and took me to the ground, Dalia Roman recalled. I remember he was covered with blood. I was covered with blood. I was crying and kicking and screaming when they took me away. Morales was struck in the head by one of 59 bullets fired by two cops that night. Two bullets entered the spine of an alleged robber running from the police. The other 56 ended up inside nearby homes, cars, fence gates, the McDonald's. At least one other bystander was wounded. They shot everywhere. They didn't care, a witness said of the cops. How did The News-paper come to know all this? Because of freedom of information laws that enable the public to access even the most sensitive documents of public agencies and governments, in this case ballistics reports prepared by internal investigators. And it mattered. The newspaper's investigation into what was then a trigger-happy Miami Police Department responsible for numerous deliberate and accidental killings and injuries. Another would hide information gathered in an investigation into a law-enforcement officer's actions. Sounds harmless enough, until you realize that The News-paper's ability to ferret out the wild-West behavior of several Miami cops could have been blocked had this proposal been the law. Our common enemy is apathy. We worry that most Americans won't notice, or worse, won't care, as their right to know what their government is doing slips away. This is no idle threat. A recent Knight Foundation survey of more than 100,000 high-school students found that nearly 75 percent had little understanding of the First Amendment's guarantee of freedom of the press, of religion, of assembly and of the right to petition government to redress grievances. More alarming, more than a third believe that the First Amendment goes too far. And high-school students aren't alone. The late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black paid homage to Madison in 1971 when he concluded an opinion by writing, ``And paramount among the duties of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell....Or, perhaps, to die of trigger-happy cops at home. I read this and it really made me scared, like this parent he was just doing a normal thing with his child and because he was in the wrong place at the wrong time he's dead. So What I need to ask when is or where is the safe place to be and at the right time?...ALSO, did you read the last to line's? Remember what they said. If not read them again, does Iraqi come to mind?"

Iraqi -Remembering All Those Arguments Made-1,500 Deaths Ago

Washington:" Something about anniversaries prods us to pause and reflect on what's transpired in the intervening time. March 20 is the second anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, and it's a good time to consider what's happened since then. Do you recall our civilian leadership's rationale for a pre-emptive war against Saddam Hussein? President George Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney and, yes, former Secretary of State Colin Powell told the world that the United States had no choice but to invade Iraq. They said Saddam was hiding chemical and biological weapons,and that his scientists would be able to produce a nuclear weapon in a few years. Do you remember those who predicted that the operation would be financed in large part by sales of Iraqi oil? It would be cheap, easy and, oh yes, so swift that civilian leaders in the Pentagon ordered the military to plan to begin withdrawing from Iraq no later than the summer of 2003. There was no need for much post-war planning because there wasn't going to be any post-war. America would come, conquer and get out. At that moment, in late February 2003, on the eve of the invasion, the U.S. invasion force of 278,000 American troops began to dwindle as someone tried to prove the job could be done with fewer than Shinseki's 200,000 troops. Call that the Shinseki Threshold. One division's tanks and Bradley fighting vehicles bobbed around at sea for weeks and arrived too late for the attack. A second division of tanks and Bradley armored vehicles slated for the follow-up to the invasion was canceled; a third division's deployment to Iraq was postponed for several months. Military Police units needed to secure a hundreds of miles of dangerous supply lines - and to establish law and order - disappeared from the war plan.But as the invasion forces regrouped, the world witnessed an orgy of looting and burning of government ministry buildings, and even the power plants upon which a city of 11 million people depended. There was no one to prevent it. Birthing democracy, Rumsfeld allowed, can be "messy.'' After nearly 18 months, the Pentagon admitted that a team of nearly 1,000 intelligence officials and scientists had combed Iraq for evidence of chemical and biological weapons or any sign of an active nuclear weapons program. They found nothing. This war that was supposed to be a cakewalk has taken the lives of 1,510 American troops and sent thousands more home, maimed by improvised explosive devices that tear off arms and legs. American taxpayers have paid more than $200 billion in two years for a war we were told wouldn't cost much, if anything, and the cost in fiscal 2006 will be at least $70 billion more. Now the administration tells us that we had to attack not because Saddam had weapons of mass destruction and ties to al-Qaeda, but because he wasn't a democrat. Sadly, however, the costs of trying to make Iraq a democracy probably would have been lower, and the chances of succeeding better, if we hadn't gone to war with flimsy evidence and wishful thinking.

I too, ask my government why? How high does the body count have to be before someone says enough is enough? I personally feel myself that this war, and for that fact every war we as American's have fought in for the last 50 years was not some place we really needed to be. Like this one now..NOT Our War!!