Heard on Hartmann -- google "Bushism" and

[kaitykaity]

and your IP is reported to the FBI???

Some guy called in and said he was going to do
this from a library computer or something to see
what happens.

[atommom]

1. Did someone really get a visit from the FBI for that?

Slate has "Bushisms of the day" all the time. Surely we can't be blamed for the president's verbal ineptitude...

[kaitykaity]

3. Thom had a guest on today talking about additions to the

new Oxford dictionary, and she said searches for "Bushism"
get reported.

:shrug:

Yeah, that's what I said.

[CoolOnion]

2. That sounds highly unlikely

But just in case, we should tell all our friends to do it at noon today, just to f*** with 'em.

Synchronize your watches, everybody...}(

[kaitykaity]

4. Central? Mountain? Eastern?

In shifts?

I'm there!

[CoolOnion]

9. I'm Central time, you can join me then, or we could do a "rolling search"

if we have enough people--everybody do it at their own noon-time.

[kaitykaity]

11. I'm Pacific, so 10 am it is.

Oh, fun.

[CoolOnion]

16. Cool!

:toast:

[Warpy]

7. They may track your visits.

Shoot, they've probably got a computer somewhere with a hard drive chock full of all our visits to DU. They're just at the information gathering stage now. They're not going to use any of it for the foreseeable future.

However, if Jebbie gets into office in 2008, thus continuing the fascist dynasty and their march towards totalitarianism, all bets are off.

The Gulags won't be so bad. Just think of the conversation!

[JNelson6563]

10. Kinda like Mark Twain's quote

Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company. heh

[CoolOnion]

13. I search "impeach bush" all the time...

...they're probably watching me, but I don't give a rat's ass.

Need a morale boost? Here's some inspiration from Elie Wiesel:

"There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest."

http://www.eliewieselfoundation.org/

[grace0418]

20. I seach "I hate George Bush" and "George Bush is

a fucking asshole" all the time, so I'm totally screwed.

[babylonsister]

18. Yes, we'd all be in fine company! nt

[randr]

8. Interesting approach to wrench their system

If enough citizens were to swamp the system with the key words and phrases they are reported to be on the lookout for---------
We may have the ultimate monkey wrench!
Edward Abbey Lives!

[atommom]

5. If that's true, I wonder what other searches might also be reported?

There are a lot of things we research here that the BFEE might not approve of. (I'm not suggesting that we stop, though!)

[kaitykaity]

6. Thom said the reason why they nabbed Jose Padilla

was that he researched "dirty bomb."

:shrug:

[ck4829]

12. The technology does exist

Perhaps the FBI has a souped up version.

http://www.bitmedia.com/spy/

[mrfrapp]

14. Anonymous Proxies

I rather doubt that. But for the nervous, you can find a list
of anonymous proxies here.

[kaitykaity]

15. Wow. Gonna have to figure this one out.

Thank you.

:thumbsup:

[SalmonChantedEvening]

17. Let's find out! Hours of endless internets fun!

I hit google did 'bushism' went to the 4th or 5th page, hit the search bar and started all over again.


:evilgrin:

[CoolOnion]

21. If the Feds show up, ask 'em which one of the "internets" tipped them off!

[Liberal In Texas]

19. This smells like an urban or internet legend....

...just sayin'

[kaitykaity]

22. Go to the hartmann chat room and ask them then.

I'm just reporting what the reporter said.

http://www.thomhartmann.com/chat.shtml

Ask them then.

Geez.

[Liberal In Texas]

27. Oh, if it's in a chat room, it must be true.

What was I thinking?

(BTW, I'm not registering to have a look in a chat room.)

It could be true, but like I said, it smells like an urban legend.

I'll wait and see on this one.

[kaitykaity]

No, I heard it on the RADIO and they heard it TOO and so

you can ask them if they heard it TOO.

It's the chatroom for the RADIO SHOW.

What are you just looking for an excuse to call
me a liar or something???

I could resent that if you hadn't jumped to such
inane conclusions. Pay attention to the OP why
don't you.

[Liberal In Texas]

30. Why don't you calm down!?

I don't care if you heard it in a chat room, the radio, FOX?News, the Vatican, aliens, WHATEVER.

ALL I SAID WAS IT SMELLS LIKE AN URBAN LEGEND This is not JUMPING TO A CONCLUSION. Where is the conclusion? Furthermore, I said I'd wait and see.

AND...NOBODY CALLED YOU A LIAR. Where do you see that?

JEESH.........SOME PEOPLE....

[kaitykaity]

31. You deride my sources with the implication that I would

pass along something like this lightly and
then you tell ME to calm down?

Maybe you should find some manners somewhere
wherever it was you lost them.

:eyes:

[Liberal In Texas]

34. At the risk of keeping this tedious post kicked...

I'm making some last points here, which will probably leave you with the last word with some come-back which will no doubt have nothing to do with what I wrote in ANY of the posts here, if your past posts are any indication. But, here I go anyway.

1) First, your sources: a radio show and a chat room. Not that there is anything inherently wrong with either medium, but if you believe everything you hear on the radio and read in a chat room, you've got quite an education coming.

2) "...that I would pass along something like this lightly...": I don't see any thing direct or implied that I was accusing you of passing this on lightly...you can't point to one thing.

3) Apparently you think that anybody that doesn't fawn all over some post you put up, has bad manners. I think jumping down someones throat for saying something they didn't, is bad manners. One who lives in a glass house, should't throw bricks.

4) Go back and acutally READ what I wrote. You were not called a liar.

5) One last time...I drew no conclusions. You are the one trying to scare the beejeezus out of people with some FBI is after us story. I merely pointed out that it SMELLED (remember when I wrote that???) like an urban legend. Then what did I say? Come on remember?? Here it is...(copied and pasted from the post..)>I'll wait and see on this one.

6) Don't bother to answer me directly, I'm not opening this post up again.

-Have a nice life.

[kaitykaity]

29. OOPS double post.

[CoolOnion]

24. Most likely...

...but I did see the offices of Google on the news one time--they have a scrolling ticker of top searches that visitors see when they walk in.

So whenever you feel like it, keep up the "Bush Sucks," "Impeach Bush," and "Bushism" searches--just to get the message to the Google visitors, if nothing else!

[progressoid]

23. What if I google "George Bush gives horses handjobs"?

I guess its time for the :tinfoilhat:

[Name removed]

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[kster]

26. I think there

is enough of us,that we should start watching the FBI,and not worry so much about them watching us. Their fear shit is over with me.

[Bozita]

28. Was this Hartmann's local show?

[CoolOnion]

32. There are 143,000 links to "bushims" on Google

90,000 for the singular "bushism."

"Bush is an asshole" yielded 7,180 results, with 176,000 for "impeach Bush."

If this is true, the Feds have their hands full! If anyone shows up at my door, I'll him to get back to work finding real "terrorists," instead of harrassing the merely disgruntled.

[Roland99]

33. Yeah...& Bill Gates is going to send me $1,000 if I forward to 10 people