The U.S. filed its extradition request for Kim DotCom and the other MegaUpload defendants on Friday in the North Shore District Court in Auckland. The deadline was March 5.

The court is not releasing the documents at this time. The hearing is August 20.

If you missed last week's TV3 News interview with Kim DotCom in which he quite articulately explains why he's committed no crime (summary here), you can still view it online here.

Via Spencer Ackerman at Wired, West Virginia Governor Earl Ray Tomblin has proudly announced the state's new snitching App is available on iTunes.

[A] project of the West Virginia Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management and the West Virginia Intelligence Fusion Center, the app sends submitted information, including photos and texts, to the Fusion Center where the information can help authorities react to and prevent incidents from occurring.

What's wrong with this? As Spencer says:

There’s nothing in the app to stop you from snapping a picture of your annoying neighbor and sending it to the attention of federal and state counterterrorism agents in West Virginia, who can keep information on your neighbor’s face, body and perhaps his vehicle for an unspecified period of time.

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Another Sunday with weather too nice to stay indoors. Here's an open thread, all topics welcome.

ProFlowers today suspended advertising on the Rush Limbaugh show, notwithstanding his apology yesterday:

At ProFlowers, our mission is to delight our customers with fresh and long lasting flowers, and that is our singular focus each and every day. We do not base our advertising decisions to align with any particular political view or opinion as our employees and customers are as diverse as the USA. Mr. Limbaugh’s recent comments went beyond political discourse to a personal attack and do not reflect our values as a company. As such, ProFlowers has suspended advertising on The Rush Limbaugh radio program.

The apology was also insufficient for Carbonite: which issued this statement: [More...]

As BTD noted, Rush Limbaugh has now apologized to Sandra Fluke.

Contrast the tone and brevity of his apology with his screed yesterday mocking objections to his attack on Ms. Fluke and with his original verbal assault on her. Either he's completely obtuse or he got arm-twisted. Either way, his apology is unlikely to satisfy anyone.

No one would be up in arms if he had just vigorously stated his position on funding or covering the cost of contraceptives without the completely gratuitous character assassination of Ms. Fluke. While it may be his job to be polarizing -- it's why he has a million fans on Facebook and gets the big bucks -- this time he struck a raw nerve across America. He over-played his role as the playground bully and abused his pulpit. No one likes a bully who beats people up for sport. And that's just what he did. In his "apology" he describes his attack as an "attempt to be humorous." Even followers of the Church of Limbaugh aren't laughing with him on this one. [More...]

Update 8:00 pm: Good for Mediaite -- It has updated with WRAL's correction. I've removed them from the headline of my post. Fox has yet to correct its headline. And now the Washington Post runs with the inaccurate story and speculates there must be something on the tape that helps his defense. How about reading the pleadings that set out his defense instead of writing things like "His defense strategy seems to be... " This is journalism?

Original Post: Fox News has an article today with the headline"John Edwards asks judge not to destroy sex tape." The article begins with:

John Edwards has asked a judge not to destroy a sex tape he made with his former mistress Rielle Hunter that was slated for destruction under a settlement reached last week, WRAL-TV reported.

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Non-apology apology from 'I'm just an entertainer'.

'Blowing off some steam' reference.

Displaying the usual lack of acumen, the Beltway mistakes activist shrugs regarding Bob Kerrey's announced run for Senator from Nebraska for dismay. Starting with a silly Politico article and ending where stupidity generally goes to live, Joe Klein, the Beltway mistakes progressive disinterest in Kerrey's candidacy with disappointment.

Here's the point - Bob Kerrey, by his own admission, is no progressive. He is the candidate of the Third Way. Mind you, Kerrey will no doubt be better than the Republican, as was Ben Nelson before him. I hope he wins. But on the list of campaigns that progressives need to prioritize, Kerrey is pretty far down the list. Unlike Beltway idiots like Joe Klein, progressive activists are focused on races with candidates who actually agree with their views. Klein wrote:

I like him a lot, especially when we disagree.

I like my politicians when they agree with me and that's when I am moved to support them. Enthusiastic Kerrey supporter Dean Esmay is enthusiastic about Kerrey for a good reason, Kerrey agrees with him on most of the big issues. No doubt the Third Way is enthusiastic about him for the same reason. Joe Klein is enthusiastic about Kerrey because he likes to support pols who disagree with him. And he calls us stupid. What an idiot.

Speaking for me only

I doubt I'll be online most of the day, so here's an open thread, all topics welcome.

Sleep Train Mattress Makers has pulled its ads from Rush Limbaugh's show:

We don't condone negative comments directed toward any group. In response, we are currently pulling our ads from Rush with Rush Limbaugh.

Sleep Number Sara has done the same:

Recent comments by Rush Limbaugh do not align w/our values, so we made decision to immediately suspend all advertising on that program.

So has Quicken Loans:

Due to continued inflammatory comments– along w/valuable feedback from clients & team members– QL has suspended ads on Rush Limbaugh program.

Rush thinks the outcry over his Sandra Fluke remarks are hilarious. He is also unlikely to care if his advertisers jump ship. [More...]

Denver criminal defense attorney Harvey Steinberg does it again. The Douglas County jury has found former Denver Bronco Perrish Cox not guilty of sexual assault charges. Background here. Congrats, Harvey!

After the verdict, Cox said:

Outside the courtroom, Cox expressed appreciation for his attorney, Harvey Steinberg, and others who supported him during the trial. "I love my lawyer and everybody else who's been," with me."

Update: #PerrishCox and "Harvey" are now trending on Twitter in Denver.

Jon BonJovi, the best face in rock and roll, turns 50. Since I'm sure I'm his biggest fan west of the Mississippi, I just have to play one of my favorite songs, "We Weren't Born to Follow." Hit the full screen button and watch the great collage of images. (I know them all by heart.)

"Walking beside the guilty and the innocent
How will you raise your hand when they call your name?"

This is an open thread, all topics welcome.

The Attorney General for Pennyslvania filed a Bill of Particulars yesterday in the criminal case against Jerry Sandusky. It provides the ages of the ten alleged victims at the time of the alleged assaults (the youngest was 8) and the locations where they took place.

Eight of the ten alleged victims were abused on Penn State’s campus, including five in the Lasch Football Building.

More details here. You can read the actual document here.

Edward Norris Myatt is 54 years old, originally from Ballarat in Victoria, Queensland Australia. He's been living in England in recent years, working as a construction worker and selling jewelry. (There's a Myatt Jewelers in Victoria, I have no idea if they are connected.)

I think the pictures tell the story.

Here's the sign that hangs in Bali's airport:

Myatt gets stopped at the airport, they suspect he has swallowed pills, so they arrest him and take him to the hospital where he spends three days, waiting to expel 72 capsules. Then they do their perp walk for the media. (Video here.) Not only does he have to wear an orange shirt, the shirt announces he's a prisoner. ("Pelaku")[More...]

FBI Director Robert Mueller delivered this speech yesterday at the RSA conference in San Francisco. Highlights:

Cyberattacks will replace terrorism as America's number one threat

Terrorism remains the FBI’s top priority. But in the not too distant future, we anticipate that the cyber threat will pose the number one threat to our country.

Stings and more electronic surveillance are coming, including on social networks and wireless technologies: [More...]