Bob Morris @ Dec 21st 2002 10:07 - Category: Unfiled ;
Jesus appears on street sign?
Many claim divine image on street sign
“A “No Parking†sign posted to keep the street in front of a South Alpine home clear of unwelcome vehicles has done just the opposite, with many local residents claiming to see the face of Jesus Christ in dark patterning on the sign.”
Bob Morris @ Dec 21st 2002 09:39 - Category: Unfiled ;
Republican four-decade-long addiction to race-baiting
Via Latino Vote News
“Check out this radical media’s (Time Magazine) analysis of the Republicans history of using race as a divisive issue just to stay in power. “They won’t make any headway with blacks by bashing Lott if they persist in giving Ronald Reagan a pass for his racial policies. The same could be said, of course, about such Republican heroes as, Barry Goldwater, Richard Nixon or George Bush the elder, all of whom used coded racial messages to lure disaffected blue collar and Southern white voters away from the Democrats.”
Bob Morris @ Dec 21st 2002 09:34 - Category: Uncategorized Tags: Venezuela;
Chavez will survive
At least that’s my guess Why? Because the military backs Venezuela president. Coups and revolutions can not happen if the military stays loyal. It’s as simple as that.
On Jan 1, 2003 major new laws go into effect in Venezuela which will vastly strengthen Chavez. thus, the opposition knows it only has ten more days to knock him out of power. Hence they are pushing very hard now.
Be aware the “strikes” in Venezuela are, for the most part, business shutdowns by the owners, rather than strikes by the workers. The major media there is running virtual nonstop attacks on Chavez. Imagine the Fox News bias multiplied by 1000, and running constantly on all radio and TV stations and you understand how much the monied class wants Chavez out.
And it is a class conflict. For the most part, the poor, the peasants, the brown skinned support Chavez while the wealthy business class wants him gone.
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Bob Morris @ Dec 21st 2002 09:10 - Category: Unfiled ;
Blix bashes Bush
“Hans Blix, the chief weapons inspector, delivered a stinging attack on the US and Britain, accusing them of failing to co-operate with his team.
“If the UK and the US are convinced and they say they have evidence, then one would expect they would be able to tell us where is this stuff,” Mr Blix said. Asked if he was getting enough co-operation from Western intelligence agencies, he said: “Not yet. We get some, but we don’t get all we need.”
Gosh you don’t suppose the US isn’t sharing information because it has nothing to share? I mean, if we did have solid info on Iraqi WMD, wouldn’t we have “shared” it long ago?
Bob Morris @ Dec 21st 2002 00:38 - Category: Unfiled ;
U.S. government denies plans for Net monitoring system
“The Department of Homeland Security denied a report Friday that the U.S. government was planning to release a proposal requiring ISPs to help build a centralized system designed to monitor Internet use. <Heck, I sure believe them, don’t you?>
The denial came after the New York Times reported in its online edition Friday that a final version of “The National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace” report, due out early next year, called for the creation of a centralized Net monitoring system.
Despite the government’s claims that it has no plans to monitor Internet use, Stewart Baker, a partner with Washington, D.C.-based law firm Steptoe & Johnson LLP who represents a group of ISPs, said Friday that his clients have seen a version of the report that includes a Net monitoring system.
“This struck us as a bad enough idea that we should talk about it,” Baker said in an interview.”
It’s not just a bad idea, it’s a terrible idea. First they want to monitor everything we buy, what book we check out of the library, etc. through the grotesque Total Information Awareness (what an Orwellian name) program, now they wish to monitor everything happening on the Net. Do you trust our government to handle this information responsibly and do the right thing with it? I didn’t think so. Neither do I.
And, as I’ve pointed out earlier, it can’t work. There’s just too much data out there to filter in an effective, timely manner. Not to mention that the data sources are always changing, as are the data formats. Ain’t no way it can be done. Which will mean a vastly expensive failure of a system that will undoubtably make major errors and, oh, mark you as a terrorist when you aren’t one.
Plus, of course, it’s yet another ugly, intrusive, no doubt unconstitutional attempt by the lunatics in the White House to put all of us under surveillance all the time.
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