“Oh, you wanted the sent items too?”

Interesting.

Ailes said that though Fox News won’t “go to air from anything off a computer,” many bloggers are accurate news sources.

“Bloggers are not only checking the accuracy of CBS, they’re checking the accuracy of each other,” he said. “We know which bloggers — within a very short period of time — are generally credible and which ones are not.”

Oops.

There’s a problem with the open-container law in Fort Wayne.

Officials have discovered that the ordinance bans all open containers in vehicles — not just containers of alcohol.

That means an open can of soda, or even an open bag of chips in the car, is technically against the law, and could be subject to a $50 fine.

This is a really interesting concept.

Basic Procedure

Gmail allows you to forward incoming messages to any other e-mail address. Go to the Settings page and then to the Forwarding and POP tab. In the Forwarding option, set Gmail to forward all incoming mail to your regular e-mail account, and keep a copy in Gmail’s inbox.

(In this explanation, I will assume your regular e-mail address is user@domain.com and your Gmail address is user@gmail.com, and I apologize to Mr. User over at Domain.com and Mr. User over at Gmail if they get any extra mail from people following the steps in this article too literally.)

Once that forwarding rule is set on Gmail, all incoming mail to user@gmail.com will get spam filtered and anything left over will be forwarded to user@domain.com, with a copy left at Gmail. But that doesn’t help you much yet, because people are still sending spam directly to your user@domain.com account.

Now, over at your user@domain.com’s mail server, create a server-side filter to check the headers of any incoming e-mail. Have it forward to your Gmail account if it does not find the following in the header:

X-Forwarded-For: user@gmail.com user@domain.com

In English, the filter would be written: “Any mail that does not contain ‘X-Forwarded-For: user@gmail.com user@domain.com’ in the mail header should be forwarded to user@gmail.com”.

Once this server-side filter is in place, only mail on its way back from user@gmail.com (already filtered for spam) will be passed to your user@domain.com account’s inbox. Everything else will be forwarded on to user@gmail.com to be filtered and forwarded back.

This is big.

Gay rights proponents had been hoping that Connecticut would follow the lead of neighboring Massachusetts by allowing same-sex couples to marry. That’s why they were pleased but still unsatisfied Wednesday when Connecticut offered civil unions to gay couples, becoming the first state to do so voluntarily, without being forced by the courts.

Also here.

The landmark law permits same-sex partners to enter into civil unions and grants nearly all of the rights and responsibilities available to married couples. Gov. M. Jodi Rell signed the bill late Wednesday afternoon, about an hour after the state Senate gave the measure final legislative approval. It takes effect Oct. 1.

Vermont is the only other state to recognize civil unions. Massachusetts allows gays to marry. But unlike Connecticut, those states were reacting to court rulings.

Dan (aka GayPatriotWest) responds:

Twenty years ago, few, even in the gay community, recognized gay couples as a social unit. Nor did many more “mainstream” institutions, whether commercial, civic, educational, religious or governmental. Today, a growing number of commercial enterprises offer benefits to the partners of their employees while other institutions welcome same-sex schweeties (i.e., significant others) to meetings, services and social events.

And now, a state, not forced by a court and with an elected legislature close to the people, has recognized gay unions. This is huge. Let me repeat, this is huge.

The Family Institute of Connecticut has a plan:

Brian Brown, head of the Family Institute of Connecticut, said his group intends to keep the issue squarely before the public.

“From now until 2006, our mission will be to let every person know in the state of Connecticut which lawmakers voted to redefine marriage, and which lawmakers voted to protect marriage,” he said.

Ryvr, a proponent of civil unions, is not happy about the DOMA in the bill:

We have fought hard and successfully for several years to keep Connecticut one of the few in the bastion of states without a DOMA. Civil Unions are NOT worth a DOMA.

Underzealous sighs.

Senator Andrew McDonald:

“The vote we cast today will reverberate around the country and it will send a wave of hope to many people, to thousands of people across the country,” said Sen. Andrew McDonald, who is gay.

AGR agrees with Dan that this is a big step.

Those last few words are the important part. This can be accomplished legislatively, but it takes work. Granted, it’s not marriage, but it’s a huge step in the right direction.

It seems the concensus on all sides of this debate is that this is a monumental event. The floodgates have been opened and the dam is bursting. No matter what your thoughts on the subject of gay marriage, there is no doubt this is a significant bit of legislation from Connecticut.

Instapundit wonders if this story will have legs.

A Democratic fund-raiser involved in Senator Clinton’s 2000 campaign has offered a guilty plea to bank fraud charges and is likely to become a government witness at the upcoming federal trial of a top finance aide to Mrs. Clinton, David Rosen, court records obtained by The New York Sun show.

Last week, Maxine waters said:

There is no excuse not to control the border, she said. ‘I’m a liberal with a capital ‘L’,’ she said, ‘but I’m sick of it.

LaShawn reacts:

The point is that no matter how liberal people may be, everyone has a limit to what they’ll tolerate, and foreign criminals fighting in her district must be hers.

Hah!