The GOP Valentine’s Day cards are absolutely priceless! Can you believe how much the GOP Valentine’s really “cut to the heart?  The NRCC, GOOOH, are on board for Funny Valentines and some delightful funny Valentine quotes!  Look at the Valentines Cards below!

What would you give your Political representative for a Valentine’s day card?

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An insurance man called “as regular a guy as you’ll ever meet” was ordered back to California on Saturday to face charges that he stalked ESPN reporter Erin Andrews and video taped her nude by aiming a cell phone camera through an altered peephole in her hotel room door.

Barrett faces charges of interstate stalking for allegedly taking videos of Andrews in her hotel rooms while she was covering sporting events, trying to sell them to celebrity Web site TMZ and posting the videos online. The charges carry a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

From all the information floating around on the internet it must be a huge relief for Ms. Andrews to finally lock down the perpetrator. Unfortunately, Mr. Insurance salesman dipped his hand too deep into the cookie jar - and he got caught.

Will he be convicted? How will the court of public opinion rule in this case?

The Internet is filled with sexual content, so ESPN’s direct demand to an obscure site begs the question: Why would ESPN take interest in the privacy of a woman, on an obscure site, which ESPN refused to identify officially?

ESPN managed to recognize an unidentified woman on an obscure site as one of their own. Sounds more like finding a needle in a haystack, unless they knew where to look, that is.

Subsequent to the demand by Mr. Pahl, the identity of Ms. Andrews was ultimately discovered. Of course, the finger was then pointed at Internet trolls, cranks, and their lack of ethics.

This clear double standard should tell you that ESPN has no integrity.

It took years and a wasteful Congressional investigation in 2005, and an independent report in 2007 by former US Senator George Mitchell before ESPN cared about Steroids in Baseball.

ESPN did not investigate Spygate with any modicum of intelligence in 2007 and instead relied on stories by the Boston Herald that were ultimately discovered to be fabricated.

Was Peeping Tom Michael Barrett a true “stalker” - or was he hired by others to do the job?

Winner Winner Chicken Dinner!

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Now, “Megan Wants a Millionaire” contestant Ryan Alexander Jenkins has been named a “person of interest” by authorities in the U.S. and Canada in the investigation of the slaying of former swimsuit model Jasmine Fiore.

32-year-old Ryan Alexander Jenkins, Ryan Jenkins picture above, who is a competitor on a Television Reality show (Wants a Millionaire) of VH1. Ryan Alexander Jenkins is still appearing on the show. Even though he reported of Jasmine’s missing but according to the police, Ryan Jenkins possibly is trying to run away to Canada and they could not be able to contact with him. According to TMZ, Ryan Alexander Jenkins is a person who could be interested in the killing of Jasmine Fiore as she was also a contestant on TV show (Wants a Millionaire).

What is Megan thinking?

Megan Wants a Millionaire the VH1 show has been cancelled after one of the show’s contestants became a “person of interest” in a murder. The murder that Ryan Alexander Jenkins, 32, stands accused of is that of his wife of two months, former bikini and Playboy model, Jasmine Fiore.

The pair met in Las Vegas and then married two days later, in March 2009. Fiore, 28, was found murdered. Her body had been left in a dumpster behind an apartment building in Buena Park, California. She’d been strangled, stuffed naked into a suitcase and dumped like trash. Such a sad way to go.

According to a friend of the victim who spoke to media outlets, Jenkins was not only a finalist, but supposedly the winner of the whole Megan Wants a Millionaire show. In addition, Jenkins is rumoured to have told numerous friends that he won $250,000 on the show after being chosen as the winner. However, there are conflicting reports about this and the winner has not been verified as yet by VH1.

In either instance, VH1 would have been left in a difficult position. They could not easily edit around him, as he’d featured so extensively by getting so far into the competition. They were not really left with a choice but to pull the plug, even deleted references to it from their website.

Uh oh Ryan! Good luck with this one!

What do you think?

Google vs. Bing, Google vs. Yahoo, GOOGLE VS. THE WORLD!?! - There are plenty of articles out in the online world about Google’s supremacy in the search engine world.  It seems “thinking outside the box” when it comes to internet user’s habits in the search world is not too much of an option.

Read this article by USA Today’s Edward Baig:

Google vs. Bing: Bing holds its own in search-off

Microsoft’s Bing search engine has a more attractive look than Google’s search page, and it holds its own in a head-to-head comparison.
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By Edward C. Baig, USA TODAY

Talk about an iron grip on search. To research this column comparing Google’s venerable search engine with Microsoft’s upstart Bing, I Googled “Bing versus Google.” It didn’t even occur to me to Bing the search.

In a nutshell, that’s Microsoft’s problem. The company recently unveiled a fresh and attractive search alternative to Google. It’s just darn difficult to change habits, including my own.

Google’s is the search box affixed near the top of the Web browsers I use. And way more often than not, Google delivers the thorough search results I’m seeking and does so with expediency: If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

But give Microsoft props. Bing, launched about a month ago, is really impressive, in another league compared with the Live Search engine it replaces.

Bing bests Google on aesthetics. The Google home page is clean and sparse with the familiar Google Search button and links at the top for images, video, maps, news, shopping, Gmail and more.
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Bing’s home page adds pizazz, with a stunning travel-oriented photo posted daily. An image of manta rays in Mexico graced Bing.com one day this week. Mouse over the image for factoids — “These curious creatures are gentle, sociable and playful.” Such brief digressions are fun. From the home page, you can click on images, videos, shopping, news, maps and travel.

Of course, there’s more to search than sending you on a wild, um, manta chase. You want fast, comprehensive and relevant results, a Google strength. Microsoft more than holds it own, especially in the areas Bing is initially concentrating on — travel, health, finding local businesses and shopping. There’s even a cash-back program on certain items you buy through Bing.

Type “New York Mets,” and the team’s most recent scores and upcoming schedule are shown at the top of the results. Google displays the score of the last game and lets you know when the next game will be played.

Type a company name in Bing, and its customer-service phone number appears near the top. Bravo. Such numbers are hard to uncover through Google.

Throughout the Bing experience, you can access snippets of information that may satisfy what you’re looking for without leading you elsewhere. If you move the cursor to the right of a Bing search result, a summary window opens with excerpts lifted from the underlying site. You can quickly determine whether to navigate to the full site.

When you hover over a video thumbnail with the cursor, it starts playing, though I hit an occasional snag. You don’t have to click “play” or go to the video source (YouTube, Hulu, etc.). Clicking a thumbnail lets you watch in a larger window, often without leaving Bing. Hover over an image, and it jumps out in a somewhat larger window.

Another plus: the “quick tabs” that appear down the left side of the results pane to help you refine a search. Enter “Charleston, S.C.,” and you can categorize results by hotels, restaurants, real estate, weather, etc.

On Google, you must scroll to the bottom of a page to see “related searches,” though you can also summon a side panel, by tapping “show options.”

Bing is also dabbling in real-time search. For example, if you search for an influential person and add Twitter to the search, such as “Al Gore Twitter,” you’ll get a list of their recent tweets.

Here’s how Google and Bing handled a few sample queries.

•Cataracts. Listed at the top of a Bing query on this eye condition was a description of cataracts culled from a Mayo Clinic article. Google’s top result was a sponsored advertisement from a lens manufacturer called Transitions. Overall, both Google and Bing delivered several excellent listings, many from the same sources. Google reported about 3.3 million results compared with about 2.3 million for Bing.

•Hilton, Paris. An intentionally vague query. Google started with a sponsored listing for Hilton.com, followed by a news result for the socialite. Bing also had a hotel link at the top (for hotelreservations.com). The Hotels by Hilton site came next, followed by the “official” website for Paris Hilton.

Bing is big on travel. Clicking “Travel” brings up a site that resembles Expedia. You can search for flights, hotels, cars, etc. Bing will predict whether airfares will rise or fall for certain cities, helping you determine to buy now or wait.

•Michael Jackson. Google and Bing posted news stories first. Google put links to the Wikipedia entry for Jackson and the official michaeljackson.com site, above images and videos. Related searches (songs, jokes, kids not his) were at the bottom. Bing listed similar sites but put videos and images higher up. The pane to the left of the Jackson search on Bing let me narrow the search by news, songs, biography, downloads, merchandise and more. Bing claimed 101 million results compared with 85 million for Google. I didn’t count.

•Ford Fusion. Bing delivered helpful stats near the top — price range, fuel economy and user ratings. The side panel categorized searches by dealers, reviews, forum, manual, recalls and images. You have to poke around a bit to uncover that information on Google.

You rarely go wrong Googling something. But for a search that sings, you may want to Bing it.

The bottom line:

Google

www.google.com

***1/2 (Out of four)

Pro: Fast, comprehensive — you rarely go wrong with a Google search.

Con: Some powerful search tools are buried.

Microsoft Bing

www.bing.com

***1/2 (Out of four)

Pro: Attractive. Gives you a lot of information without the need for you to navigate elsewhere. Plays videos inside Bing. Excellent on travel resources. Good on presenting related searches. Has cash-back discount shopping program when you buy through a link.

Cell phone plans where you’re shackled to a one- or two-year service contract are the norm in the United States, plans to pay as you go for prepaid cell phones are popular throughout Europe.

They’re also gaining steam in the U.S. The allure of not being bound to a long-term contract – and not having to pay the typical $150 or $200 penalty to be released if you change your mind – is attractive enough for some pay as you goers.

While many contract-based plans have learned to take into account changing monthly habits (i.e. with “flexible” plans and “rollover” features), the draw to using 100 minutes in one month and 1,000 minutes the next while fairly paying for the difference is the kicker for other pay-as-you-go people.

Some even engage pay-as-you-go pricing to avoid credit issues often associated with contracts. Pricing is becoming attractive, too, such as $49.99 with Virgin Mobile for unlimited minutes with no contract.

But what’s the real difference between the two pricing models in an apples-to-apples comparison? What would 400 minutes a month cost in both scenarios? Which one is ultimately cheaper?

Let’s explore that very question. For the purposes of this analysis, I’m highlighting two popular pay-as-you-go companies: the ever-popular Virgin Mobile (which caters to a younger and often more fickle demographic) and Verizon Wireless.

While Verizon Wireless is more known for its contract-based plans, its pay-as-you-go plans are directly competitive with Virgin Mobile’s non-contract plans. It’s time to jump into the numbers. These figures are current as of publication of this article on May 30, 2008.

Virgin Mobile pay-as-you-go pricing with roll-forward minutes:
* $20 a month, 200 anytime minutes, 10 cents per minute
* $30 a month, 400 anytime minutes, 7.5 cents per minute
* $50 a month, 1,000 anytime minutes, 5 cents per minute
Note: Texting costs $5 a month extra for 200 texts, $10 a month for 1,000 or $20 a month for unlimited

Verizon Wireless pay as you go with unlimited calling to same-carrier phones:
* 99-cent charge on days used, 10 cents per all minutes and texts
* $1.99 charge on days used, unlimited night minutes, 5 cents per minute and per text
* $2.99 charge on days used, unlimited night minutes, 2 cents per minute and per text

For comparison, below is a matrix of Virgin Mobile’s current contract-based plans.

Virgin Mobile contract-based plans:
* $24.99 per month, 200 anytime minutes
* $34.99 per month, 300 anytime minutes
* $49.99 per month, 400 anytime minutes
* $59.99 per month, 600 anytime minutes
Note: Texting costs $5 a month for 1,000 texts or $10 a month for unlimited

Now it’s time to calculate a couple example situations with these three payment scenarios. We’ll analyze 200 minutes per month and 400 minutes per month since all three appear in each situation. For the Verizon Wireless pay-as-you-go plan, I’ve made the assumption of 10 calling days used as an average figure.

200 minutes per month:
* Virgin Mobile pay as you go: $20
* Virgin Mobile contract plan: $24.99
* Verizon Wireless pay as you go: $29.90 using 99-cent days, $29.90 using $1.99 days and $33.90 using $2.99 days

400 minutes per month:
* Virgin Mobile pay as you go: $30
* Virgin Mobile contract plan: $49.99
* Verizon Wireless pay as you go: $49.90 using 99-cent days, $39.90 using $1.99 days and $37.90 using $2.99 days

While many variables can change this analysis, I’ve used typical and everyday scenarios so we can see a clear comparison.

Based on this analysis, we can conclude that the Virgin Mobile pay-as-you-go plan is the superior solution in all cases. Also, notice how the option with $2.99 charges on days used becomes a more cost-effective choice only when you use more minutes.

When it comes to paying as you go, Virgin Mobile is explicitly priced to be among the best in the mobile phone industry. That’s chief among the reasons why the Sprint reseller has such a high customer base electing for its flexible, no-contract route.

Update: An even more extensive prepaid wireless analysis is now live on About.com comparing prepaid versus contract-based plans at Virgin Mobile, Boost Mobile, Net10, T-Mobile, Verizon Wireless, Tracfone and AT&T. Read this analysis here.