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  1. Breaking news: Millions of men wake up without being diagnosed online as having erection difficulties:
    “The world’s biggest source of spam email shut down”
    “The Rustock botnet, an international network of virus-infected computers, had for years generated billions of emails per day, promoting unlicensed online pharmacies and cut-price impotence pills.
    “But on Wednesday, security firms noticed email traffic from Rustock completely collapsed. It has now been revealed that Microsoft, backed by US Marshals acting on a court order, seized servers that it’s estimated covertly controlled almost a million Windows PCs.”
    […]
    “The servers were rented from commercial internet hosting firms across the Mid West, who were apparently unaware of their role in Rustock. These ‘command and control’ servers would issue instructions to infected home and business PCs worldwide.”
    So much for those fancy replica Rolexes I ordered.

  2. Wow, EBD… that was one of the most amazing things I’ve ever seen. Thank you.

  3. Once again, an Australian, no matter how deformed and crippled, proves his spirit to be more than a match for all you bloody whinging Canucks. Wake up, you people. What do you want – to be spoon fed by your government, or to have a life you can call your own?

  4. Here is you WTF moment of the day:
    “Shrinking town luring Muslims”
    “The textile mills here have closed, the population is shrinking, but Mayor Stéphane Gendron is not abandoning hope. Elected in 2003 under the slogan, “Let’s bring this town back to life!” Mr. Gendron has a new plan to revitalize his community of about 2,600 people -build a mosque and establish a Halal slaughterhouse in a town with hardly any Muslim residents.”
    The article is about Huntingdon, Quebec.
    http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/Shrinking+town+luring+Muslims/4453419/story.html

  5. ausi-heart I’d like the second one….please…if it’s not too much trouble sir…..don’t want to be too much of a bother…

  6. Btw, for anyone who’s wondering, I have taken down my previous post – perhaps temporarily – after talking to a lawyer friend who suggested that it may not be wise to comment on a defamation case, even one in a foreign country. I’m looking into it further, but the bottom line is that it’s not my site, and I’m not willing to risk even a 0.00001 percent chance that it might prove…pesky.
    My apologies to the four people who left comments.

  10. Once again, an Australian, no matter how deformed and crippled, proves his spirit to be more than a match for all you bloody whinging Canucks. Wake up, you people. What do you want – to be spoon fed by your government, or to have a life you can call your own?
    Posted by: ausi-heart at March 18, 2011 10:26 PM
    Knock it off. Canadians have far more personal freedoms than Australians. Your accents used to be considered cool, but not so much any more. And, when Russell Crowe need a personal trainer for his role in Cinderella Man, he had to come to Canada to find one.

  11. > when Russell Crowe need a personal trainer for his role in Cinderella Man, he had to come to Canada to find one.
    Why? To sound understandable to Americans? Ah, you gormless twits.

  12. There’s enough trouble in the world – and in blog comments – without an internecine Anglospheric war.
    RT:
    The proximity effect:
    “US leaders and their public see Turkey’s EU bid more favorably than Europeans, reports Today’s Zaman. 71% of US leaders thought Turkey joining the EU would be a ‘good’ thing. Only 51% of EU leaders thought Turkey joining the EU would be a ‘good’ thing.’

  13. Nick is a great courageous human. Thanks EBD.
    EBD, don’t sweat taking down the post. I could not figure what the blazes was going on as I was attempting to comment, but after thinking about it figured something like this.
    Hey ausi relax. I also prefer the second option. You guys waaaay down under have had your share of lefty progressive governments that think human freedom is a travesty. Matey, go bag a roo or hoist a pint in a salute to freedom loving Canucks.

  15. The left wing groups in the UK like fascism when applied to the EDL: … As DC Andy Haworth from the National Domestic Extremism Unit puts it: ‘We are working to support all police forces with Crasbo applications against any individual who persistently commits criminal acts at (or travelling to and from) Defence League demonstrations, regardless of whether they profess to support the Defence League or oppose it, in order to ensure future demonstrations are peaceful and lawful.’
    As has been argued previously on spiked, much of what the EDL says may be unpleasant, but they are not a fascist organisation. In the name of tackling ‘right-wing’ extremism, both left-wing groups and the state are actually advocating and implementing far more authoritarian measures than the EDL has so far suggested.
    What’s a Crasbo? Behold: a Crown Court can slap a Criminal Anti-Social Behaviour Order – ‘Crasbo’ – on you and place hefty restrictions on your freedom of assembly, freedom of movement and freedom of expression to the extent that you’re not really free at all.
    http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/10290/

  18. Unhappy with the repressive strictures of Islam? Looking for fun? Well, I guess that leaves you with only one option then:
    “A senior Muslim politician has blamed unhappy arranged marriages to cousins for leading some Asian men to prey on vulnerable young white girls to fulfil their sexual needs. Lord Ahmed of Rotherham, Britain’s first Muslim peer, is the first politician to make a link between first-cousin marriages and sex crimes by Asian men.
    “He has spoken out after a spate of high-profile court cases where groups of Asian men have been sentenced for grooming white girls as young as 12 in Derby, Blackburn and Lord Ahmed’s home town of Rotherham.
    “Lord Ahmed, who wants an end to cousin marriages, said: ‘They are forced into marriages and they are not happy. They are married to girls from overseas who they don’t have anything in common with, and they have children and a family.
    “‘But they are looking for fun in their sexual activities and seek out vulnerable girls.’”

  19. It’s like an Arabic Good Housekeeping magazine!
    According to Memri.Org, the Oct. 11 2010 edition of the Arabian Peninsula Al Quaeda’s glossy magazine “Inspire” – perfect title for a glossy – featured an article by someone named Yahya Ibrahim, who wrote:

    The idea is to use a pickup truck as a mowing machine, not to mow grass but mow down the enemies of Allah. You would need a 4WD pickup truck – the stronger the better. You would then need to weld on steel blades on the front end of the truck. These could be a set of butcher blades or thick sheets of steel. They do not need to be extra sharp because with the speed of the truck at the time of impact, even a blunter edge would slice through bone very easily. You may raise the level of the blades as high as the headlights. That would make the blades strike your targets at the torso level or higher.

    Maybe I’m missing something, but…wouldn’t that risk causing injury?

    Pick your location and timing carefully. Go for the most crow[d]ed locations. ..To achieve maximum carnage, you need to pick up as much speed as you can while still retaining good control of your vehicle in order to maximize your inertia and be able to strike as many people as possible in your first run…The ideal location is a place where there are a maximum number of pedestrians…in fact if you can get through to ‘pedestrian only’ locations that exist in some downtown (city center) areas, that would be fabulous.

    Maybe I’m a bit old-fashioned, but as a progressive Canadian I find that sort of motoring advice a bit careless, and, quite frankly, unacceptable.

  20. SDH at March 18, 2011 10:42 PM
    Thanks
    Wisconsin Judge Maryann Sumi temporarily blocks GOP Gov. Scott Walker’s anti-union law
    Pro-labor groups in Wisconsin won a minor victory Friday when a judge temporarily blocked a controversial anti-union bill pushed through the state legislature last week.
    http://tinyurl.com/5r3kb82

  21. The latest goofiness to hit B.C. is a run on KI tablets – to guard against thyroid cancer caused by fallout from Japan don’ cha know. There are even scam artists claiming to have cornered supplies that they are offering at as much as 4 times normal drugstore prices. This would be hilarious except that some well-meaning parents will be giving them, without medical advice to very young children. Hey, if one tablet is good, two must be better, eh?
    The villain here is the media that is, as usual, stirring up hysteria but blame has to be shared with our mickey mouse high schools that, in the course of about three generations have degenerated to the point that diplomas are handed to people who haven’t been exposed to even rudimentary science – much less to the periodic table and the basics of atomic theory.

  22. Globe and Mail, Thursday, Mar. 17. Andre Picard attempts to defend the denial of Herceptin treatment to a woman with early-stage breast cancer, tumour size under 1 cm.
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/health/andre-picard/denying-a-breast-cancer-patient-funding-for-herceptin-was-a-necessary-evil/article1944787/
    AP: “This early detection and prompt treatment [standard chemotherapy] reflects wonderfully on our cancer-care system.”
    No, it reflects wonderfully on patient self-examination and physician medical knowledge that almost certainly would have been present with or without the present “system”.
    AP: “Sure, Herceptin was prescribed by the woman’s oncologist. But do we really want individual doctors – no matter how qualified and well-meaning – to have a blank cheque?”
    Let’s see. All her doctor has done is go through medical school, get some experience, examine the patient in question, run some tests, make a diagnosis and prescribe a treatment. How could this possibly carry as much weight as the airy musings of an arrogant jackass who writes a newspaper column?
    AP: “And what about patients: Should they have the right to demand a treatment, no matter how experimental and no matter how expensive, because they read about it on the Internet or in The Globe and Mail? Do we really want the provision of healthcare services to be an all-you-can-eat buffet? Do we want treatment priorities determined by a cybermob? Having processes, rules, policies and cost controls is too often portrayed as bureaucratic, penny-pinching and inhumane. But it is a necessity – a necessary evil, if you will – in every sector, and the health sector is no exception.”
    Health care services should be determined between the patient and the doctor. The only “extra” government can ever bring to any enterprise is coercion, and coercion is not productive. Most of this bureaucratic deadweight would not exist in free market medicine. Medicare is not about health, it is about control.
    AP: “The biggest flaw in the system is not the decisions … it is a failure to communicate how the decisions are made.”
    No, the biggest flaw is that the system is funded from taxation, which leaves the individual with less money to pay for his or her own health care should the need arise — such as the state “medical care” system refusing to do so. In other words, the patient has the right to use his or her own resources to fund his or her own treatment.
    AP: “In women with early-stage breast cancer, the gains [from Herceptin treatment] were more modest: A recurrence of 14 per cent in Herceptin users, compared with 22 per cent in the chemo-only patients, and there was no change in death rates, at least in the short term.”
    To which a letter in Friday’s Globe responds, “Methinks the definition of marginal benefit in this case is that it is someone else’s tumour”.

  24. Thanks for that, Black Mamba. The precise combination of voice and image at 19 seconds is really, really funny. Python-esque, slightly.

  25. Neo-AGW Progress Report.
    It’s Barff Night.
    …-
    “Solar panels on schools on hospitals in jeopardy”
    “Thousands of solar panel projects on schools and community centres are expected to be scrapped after the Government announced plans to slash green subsidies.”
    “The Feed-In-Tarrif was designed to encourage households and communities to invest in green energy projects like solar panels.
    However the Department of Energy and Climate Change said projects over 50 kilowatts (kW), the equivalent of putting solar panels on around 20 homes, will now receive less money.”
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/8391256/Solar-panels-on-schools-on-hospitals-in-jeopardyafter-green-subsidy-slashed.html
    …-
    “* Part 1: Is Environmentalism Really Working?
    * Part 2: Does German Garbage Really Get Recycled?
    * Part 3: The Problem with Water Conservation
    * Part 4: The Danger of Dust
    * Part 5: Mercurial Light
    * Part 6: The Paradox of Insulation
    * Part 7: Bottle Deposits and the Grim Truth”
    “In economics, it’s called the law of diminishing marginal utility. The first glass of water you drink will help a lot to quench your thirst. The second will help a little less and so on. By the 10th glass you will be feeling unpleasantly full or even sick. That’s the worst aspect: some major environmental policies aren’t just ineffective — they are counterproductive.”
    http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,751469,00.html

  26. Excellent article maz2:
    The conclusion should be mandatory reading for anyone contemplating a new environmental regulation:
    “The frequency with which environmental policies backfire should give pause for thought. Biofuels were meant to protect the environment and combat global warming — in fact it destroys rainforests and causes greater CO2 emissions than conventional fuel.
    Saving water was meant to protect natural resources, but it just drives up water bills. Banning the light bulb was seen as a milestone on the path to carbon neutral living in Europe — but China has been cranking up its mercury production to satisfy demand for the alternative energy saving bulbs.
    In the fight to protect the environment, it may be time to pause and ask oneself: what is really helping, and what isn’t? And to admit at times: sorry, we were wrong. But it doesn’t work like that. Environmentalism knows no doubt. The idea is never wrong, the problem is always in the implementation.
    And so it will continue. Additional rubbish containers will be introduced, for different types of rubbish. The EU will ban the stand-by function on electronic appliances to reduce energy consumption — even though engineers know this reduces product lifespans.
    At some point, only electrical cars will fulfil environmental requirements, but the electricity will have to come from somewhere — maybe French or Czech nuclear power stations?
    Ordinary people will put up with all this patiently, what else can they do? It all serves the environment, and no one can object to that.”
    People need to wake up to this antifreedom scam run by control freaks. Here is Winnipeg our water bills are going up; why, because usage is down. We are not consuming enough water to pay for the system!!! Conserve, conserve, conserve has been the mantra for years (in a city that’s up to it’s armpits in water every year) and now we are penalized for complying. Use less, pay more; use more, pay more.

  27. Helen Thomas in Playboy!!!
    I will give you all a couple minutes to clean up the vomit on your keyboards………..
    All better now?
    Double edged sword here. It is, of course, an interview with her and she REALLY expands on her views that got her fired in the first place. The other side of the blade is that now us guys cannot claim to buy it for the articles…….
    “On the Jews’ influence and power: “[The Jews are] using their power, and they have power in every direction…Power over the White House, power over Congress…Everybody is in the pocket of the Israeli lobbies, which are funded by wealthy supporters, including those from Hollywood. Same thing with the financial markets. There’s total control…It isn’t the two percent. It’s real power when you own the White House, when you own these other places in terms of your political persuasion. Of course they have power. [To the interviewer] You don’t deny that. You’re Jewish, aren’t you?””
    http://www.sacbee.com/2011/03/17/3483272/helen-thomas-is-playboys-april.html

  28. Heh…poor beagle.
    Not sure if it makes you feel better but if EBD let’s your comments get posted I usually choose to not read them when I see your ‘name’….

  29. Delusional Public Unions equate their struggles with the life’s work and assassination of one Doctor Martin Luther King. Egads it’s as if these dolts are living in an alternate universe or something.
    To make the point, the AFL-CIO is planning a series of nationwide events on April 4, the 43rd anniversary of the day the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated after speaking in Memphis, Tenn., on behalf of striking black garbage collectors. The message: King’s cause, and that of angry schoolteachers in Madison, are one.
    Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/politics/2011/03/union-equates-lavish-benefits-black-civil-rights#ixzz1H391ETT0
    Yes deluded dudes MLK died so you can continue to live a be royal lifestyle (parasites)

  31. More interesting information—a great analogy—from John Hinderaker over at Power Line about the minuscule spending cuts the Democrats are planning in order to “reduce” the colossal debt Obama’s piling up:
    “The arithmetic is pretty simple, due to the extensive nutrition information that McDonalds makes available online. A Big Mac Extra Value Meal has three components: a Big Mac, a large order of french fries, and a medium soda. The McDonalds site tells us that a Big Mac has 540 calories, a large fries has 570 and a medium Coke has 210, for a total of 1,320 calories.
    “Meanwhile, the federal budget is currently around $3.8 trillion, which means that a $6 billion cut represents one 633rd of the total. What would be an equivalent cut in a Big Mac Extra Value Meal? . . .”
    The Democrats’ proposed cuts are the equivalent of ONE THIRD OF ONE FRENCH FRY out of a Big Mac Extra Value Meal. Read more at:
    http://www.powerlineblog.com/
    Those DemocRats!

  33. Thank for that, batb. Rex is great:
    “I cannot imagine a Ronald Reagan being so removed from the pain and distress of a long-time ally. Reagan would have sensed that his role as a president required a dedicated acknowledgement of Japan’s plight, required the right words at the right time from America’s leader. Nations speak the language of empathy to each other through their leadership.
    “Obama seems to feel that if he nods toward the crisis, gives one of his flat-toned, affectless mini-speeches on it, he’s done his bit, and then it’s off to the more glamorous perks of the job (NCAA picks). He doesn’t seem to understand that the dynamic of large-scale world events require something more, actually and metaphorically, than a nod of ‘present’ from an American president…”
    […]
    “It is ironic that this high celebrity of a president seems more comfortable with acting the celebrity role than being the president. There’s a vacancy at the top of the world. And his name is Obama.”

  34. Black Mamba @ 11:40, thanks for that. This bullet looks impressive. Does anyone know if it available in Canada? Could use some around here.

  35. Of Liberal Iggy’s Separatist Coalition.
    …-
    “Sandy: Why CIDA supporters & opposition targeted Tory Minister Oda
    If ever Canadians needed proof of a Liberal entitlement culture in certain scholarly and foreign aid circles in this country, this CIC article says far more than I ever could. See also the original piece at the “Embassy” magazine site as well, although you have to be a paid subscriber to get the whole article. Whatever the case, it shows that CIDA public servants have a lot of explaining to do. Titled “CIDA revamp models coming fast amidst fear, anger over Tory plan,” it clearly shows what started and is the driving force behind the witch hunt and faux scandal against Conservative Government International Affairs Minister Bev Oda.
    Here, for example, are some selected quotes (my highlighting):
    “But while each proposal has its own specific vision and focus, the consensus is that these plans aren’t being developed for the current government. Rather, they are being crafted for future governments interested in undoing what many feel is the damage being caused by the Conservatives.”
    “After their presentation at the University of Ottawa, the two men were invited to CIDA for the afternoon where they met with senior managers as well as representatives from IDRC, the Finance department and other officials.”
    More at Crux of the Matter.”
    http://cruxofthematterinfo.wordpress.com/2011/03/19/why-cida-supporters-opposition-target-tory-minister-oda/
    http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/

  36. Cudos to J. Simpson (no, really) on upcoming election, especially remarks v.v NDP/Jack Layton:
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/opinion/why-were-headed-for-an-election-we-dont-need/article1947837/
    Will Mr Layton ever figure out the Liberals are his nemesisor will he continue to let them fish in his pond? Stop applying for the PM job, apply for the Opposition Leader, and farm votes from the Grit left, rather than the other way around. Think long-term buddy!
    BTW these joke scandals/partisan contemp crap won’t cut it with the electorate, IMO. OTOH, if the coalition wants to have a go at in the mud, then so be it. So, Mr. Simpson, why shouldn’t the Tories be ready, and willing?
    Having said that, now the public is truly disgusted – with everybody, so tread carefully, Mr. Harper.

  38. Gwynne Dyer opines in the Toronto Star
    [Nuclear Power: Why The Panic?]
    Starts off ok, but half way though, he writes this gem;
    [In the long run, hundreds of millions may die from the global warming }
    And notice he covers his a$$ (and book sales) with the word ‘may’.
    And to think, twenty years ago, I used to watch this Jerk on CBC and believed what he was saying.
    There has got! to be a law somewhere concerning journo integrity, yelling fire in a theater, scaring children.

  39. Ditto here ron in kelowna. I also at one time, decades ago, had a high opinion of Gwynne Dyer.

  41. Good lord AtlanticJim, the Words “Helen Thomas” and Playboy should not be used in the same paragraph.
    The old witch thinks Obama is a Conservative. Seriously: “On Obama’s conservatism”.

  42. re. me @1:40 – for those having trouble with being allowed to see the prairie dogs because of some idiot age requirement thing (oh, the things I’ve seen on Youtube without being asked to prove my age! But not, evidently, exploding gophers), this link might work better:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYigC49tnh8&oref=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fresults%3Fsearch_query%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.youtube.com%252Fwatch%253Fv%253DsYigC49tnh8%26aq%3Df&has_verified=1
    (When I signed up for a youtube account I was required to show my passport and a long form birth certificate, and three witnesses of good character testified under oath that I was over the age of 18 and mature enough to handle bullet commercials. The system is ironclad.)

  43. let me correct that for you Black Mamba, “…the Words ‘Helen Thomas’ and ‘Playboy’ should not be used in the same post.”
    btw, don’t you mean long form census?

  44. Picked this up from the comments at Atlas Shrugged. Its why Albertans get along so well with Texans. We don’t mind having a Texas colony at all here. This guy would be leading the town parade.
    lonestar said…
    Pamela, I don’t know if you’ve seen this yet. Some muslim bought land in TX right next to a pig farm. He knew it was a pig farm when he purchased his land. Within a week, he sent a letter asking the farmer to move with his pigs to some where further out in the country. He wants to build a mosque.
    Well, the pig farmer didn’t take too kindly to the request, so, he found the perfect solution.
    Every Friday night to coincide with muslim prayer services, he holds pig races at his place.
    Here is a you tube link:
    http://www.youtube.com/embed/dUr1NxJDC94?rel=0
    Thought you would appreciate it.

  45. “Wind turbine opponents sense victory”
    “After losing one round in court to the McGuinty government, anti-wind turbine activists now can sniff political victory in the air.
    The wind energy issue has turned red hot in rural areas with enough people angry to bring down Liberal candidates, said Wind Concerns Ontario president John Laforet.
    “Wind is a far hotter issue on the local level than anything else. The government did it to themselves because they took away local control,” Laforet said Saturday during a break at Wind Concerns Ontario annual meeting in London.
    Formed as a coalition in October 2008 with 22 organizations belonging, the group that opposes wind farms now boasts 57 members.”
    http://www.lfpress.com/news/london/2011/03/19/17683891.html
    …-
    “Florida’s broken windmills: A California problem”
    “From this American Thinker article “Wind energy’s ghosts”:”
    “The reality of wind turbines in California – video”
    “As many know, I was on a road trip for two weeks. On my return into California, I traveled a road I had done many many times – California Highway 58 through Tehachapi pass, one of the windiest areas of California, and loaded with wind turbines like you see in this photo from http://www.wind-works.org which seems to be taken during 2003. All the turbines seem to be spinning.
    But, the reality I encounter when I drive through there is much different than what you see in the photo above. I often drive this road, but always wished I had a video camera with me to show how many turbines are inoperable since this doesn’t show up well in still photos. Unless you have a slow shutter speed to show “blade blur”, they all look inoperable.”
    http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/03/19/the-reality-of-wind-turbines-in-california-video/

  46. Can anyone explain to me in plain English what the Apache page was all about last night when I tried to open SDA numerous times? The basic message, amidst a whole page of gobbledeegook, was “”Apache is working on your cPanel® and WHM™”
    What THE …????
    I didn’t know if Apache was working on my panel, whatever that would be, or Kate’s.
    I figured it was some kind of cyber attack. Were my instincts correct, or not?

  47. Batb: it was a temporary server malfunction that had nothing to do with your – or anyone else’s – computer. Everyone got the same message; tomahawk-wielding Apaches weren’t actually working on your panel.
    As for the “plain English” part – and words like “panel” – you are – trust me – talking to the wrong guy…
    /:>}>

  48. Socialism’s natural end result: Fear*.
    >>> “of the sacrifices ahead, of more austerity, of a ruined domestic economy, of suffering, of hope.”
    Hope*.
    …-
    “Ireland for sale”
    […]
    “And then something happened. Something like a switch tripped and the Minister began talking of the challenges stricken Ireland faces. The room tensed, as he laid out the government view, so similar to the last government’s, of the sacrifices ahead, of more austerity, of a ruined domestic economy, of suffering, of hope. He invited investors to come to a country which was now much cheaper than three years previously. It was obviously not easy for him, talking like this – with less fluency and warmth – on these dry technical issues. At a certain moment he called Ireland a “company”, and not a “country”. As he spoke, I thought I would like to hear a politician speak with the same warmth about politics as about what we term “real life”. I also thought, given our Irish character, as the country prepares to sell off the little that is left of it, that the last thing we would do is confront him on such an enormous issue.
    As the Minister finished his speech, he looked across the room, and said “As for that man at the back, shaking his head vigorously, I’d be happy to have a talk with him later.” He was looking in my direction. I looked around. There was no-one there. Even now, I’m still wondering whether he was referring to me. I distinctly remember at one moment harrumphing. I think I must have rolled my eyes once. When he left the podium, however, I loped off to the bar, like everyone else. I am Irish too. I would have been completely unable to debate something as enormous, as vital to the country’s interests, as this. Because it’s all so embarassing. Being Irish, I think we have a default gesture, one obvious when the country was rich and madly heading for the drop, and now poor, and desperate for investment, and money, and heading for the drop. It’s a gesture which is to cross your fingers, scrunch up your eyes, your body clenched, hoping the good times last, the bad times don’t.”
    http://www.spiegel.de/international/
    *Hope and *Fear:
    “Hope* is charming, lively, blue-eyed wench, & I am always glad of her company, but could dispense with the visitor she brings with her, her younger sister, fear*, a white liver’d-lilly-cheeked, bashful palpitating, awkward hussey that hangs like a green girl at her sister’s apron strings & will go with her whithersoever she goes.”
    (Letters of Charles and Mary Anne Lamb)

  49. Thanks, EBD. I don’t have a clue what a “panel” in this context means, either!
    I went online and Googled the message, and opened a site with someone’s bewildered question about the same thing that had happened to them (in 2008). The subsequent answers this poster received were so steeped in Geek Computereze that I was no further ahead than when I first clicked on it.
    I’m still puzzled, but thanks for responding to my query!

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