Funny Yahoo Mail Error Messages

"Can't talk now. System's down

Sorry for the holdup. Looks like a temporary glitch in our network has part of Yahoo! mail down, so you're briefly without service. Rest assured the alarms are blaring in the basement and our team is working frantically to get you up and running ASAP. Again, the snag is on our end --- so there's no need for you to do a thing.

Back to it,

Yahoo! Mail Team. "

It's not usual (at least for me) to see these messages even I've had problems with Yahoo! Mail multiple times before. Considering this is a free service, fixing the problem 5 minutes later is not bad.

Bill Maher: His time has come to an end?

Politically Incorrect was one of the best TV shows to me. I rarely watch the Tonight Show, another my favorite before 2002, when PI was canceled. The best format of the show is that you can hear the story from both (if not all) sides.

Although I do not like Bush, Bill Maher's comment after 9/11 is just plain stupid. His subsequent firing by ABC may further fanned his hate about George W, which has been shown in his stand up shows in HBO. In "Real Time with Bill Maher," he inherited the format from Politically incorrect while adding a whole lot more self centered political commentaries. The latter, sadly, concentrated too much on his own political stand, where I find to be too much in Bush bashing and too little in real issues. He also have developed a habit of cutting off his guests, particularly those from the other side.

It seems that he and the show are going down further in a path that makes both irrelevant. Last week, when he made fun of formal Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, he said that Bush should look at Home Depot's parking lot for evenly qualified candidates. Everybody knows what he implies. But is it okay to make this type of jokes now, even it's on HBO? Not to me. The comment is much more racism to me than the recently infamous Imus comments.

Will people remember Haditha?

Depends on which people.

For Americans, most likely the answer would be "what Haditha?"

For Iraqis, the horror memories of Haditha probably are there to stay, "Because Iraqis have become like dogs in the eyes of Americans."

Today, three senior officers have been publicly punished, while the charges against most of the soldiers involved have been dropped. The remaining accused, most likely will have a light sentence if ever been convicted. This would be another living proof of ""They are waiting for the sentence -- although they are convinced that the sentence will be like one for someone who killed a dog in the United States."

I will not be surprised to hear that Michael Vick gets a tougher sentence.

Why we fight? a documentary beats Fahrenheit 9/11

It is a documentary investigating why we fight wars. Given the time it's made, it naturally started with the war in Iraq and then went back to past wars we have been involved in the past a few decades. Of course, the main comparison is between Iraq and Vietnam. Once again, the American Military Industry Complex has been used to interpret the path that led us to all wars. No matter how much I resented the idea, I have to admit that the case this movie made is very convincing.

The best part (for me) is the movie follows the story of a father, retired NYPD officer Wilton Sekzer who lost his son in 9/11. The story went as far as his days in Vietnam, to his rage against the terrorists so he asked for putting his son's name on one of the bombs in Iraq, and to the disappointments for being cheated by the President (GW). His words were worth a whole a lot more than the scholars from both sides.

It ends with Karen Kwiatkowski, a retired Lieutenant Colonel of US military:
"I think we fight because basically not enough people are standing up saying, 'I'm not doing this anymore.'"