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Ralph's Comment:

One gigabyte of storage. Wow. To think that just a few months ago, I considered paying Hotmail $19.95 a year for a ten meggabyte in-box. Now I we can trade music through e-mail!

Posted on Extreme Tech Weekly, May 5, 2004
Preview: Google's Gmail Beta , By Jim Lynch

Just in case you've been living in a cave with no Internet connection, Gmail is Google's almost-ready e-mail service. The company will be taking on Hotmail and Yahoo in the webmail arena. With rumors flying around about Yahoo and Microsoft beefing up their search services, Google is sticking a thumb in their collective eyes with this new service. One of its key features is a full gigabyte of disk space for your mail.

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Ralph's Comment:
Wonder how long its going to take the majority of the public to realize maybe we didn’t have to go war in Iraq...


Published August 18, 2004
Some Voters Grow Skeptical of Iraq War

The Associated Press

Among those increasingly skeptical about the war are older people, minorities, people with lower incomes, residents of the Northeast and Catholics, according to Associated Press polling.

The shifts in overall public sentiment reflect the difficulties in Iraq including a death toll nearing 950 U.S. soldiers, the violent insurgency against the new Iraqi government and U.S. forces and the failure to find weapons of mass destruction, which was among the central justifications for Bush's decision to go to war.

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Ralph's Comment:

But, Mr. President, aren't we fighting a war against terrorist that are more likey to hit us with planes or truck bombs?

Published Wednesday, August 18, 2004 on the Washington Post
Bush Assails Kerry on Missile Defense
By Mary Fitzgerald and Vanessa Williams

Although Bush did not mention his Democratic rival by name on Tuesday, his speech here at a Boeing Co. plant included a thinly veiled attack on John F. Kerry's stance on missile defense. "I think those who oppose this ballistic missile system don't understand the threats of the 21st century," he told 1,400 cheering Boeing employees and supporters.

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