The MoveOn.org primary

From Lean Left

“Who to Vote For: Dean.

I want to go on the record here as being opposed to the MoveOn primary. It is not that I think the primary itself is a bad idea, it is just that real campaigning has barely begun.“

Lean Left then gives a paragraph each to the other candidates detailing why they fall short. I agree with his thoughts on Kucinich.

“I cannot bring myself to vote for Kucinich because of his flip flop on abortion rights and because of his inability to control even a little bit of his message. I consider abortion rights tightly coupled with privacy rights, and I am always leery of politicians who do not seem to grasp that. More importantly, Kucinich has been unable to move the press off the “monnbeam” candidate theme, even a little. Part of that, of course, is a lack of money, and part of that, of course, is the generally lousy nature of our mainstream press. But Kucinich has not helped the situation. His Department of Peace is a stupid name, playing right into the press’s stereotype, and the original message on his campaign web site read like, well, Ben and Jerry’s flavor. He should be able to do better than that.”

I also voted for Dean. Whoever wins the Move On primary (they announce results on Friday) gets huge publicity points and media exposure. Plus, given how Move On can raise money, quite possibly several milion in contributions also. So, this is a big deal, and another indication of how important the Net is becoming.

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US declares Qatari ‘enemy combatant’

A Qatari national accused of being an al-Qaeda member has been declared an enemy combatant and handed over to the military. He is now with the Navy in South Carolina, where he can be held indefinitely without charge and loses his right to legal representation. Mr Marri’s lawyer, Mark Berman, told the Reuters news agency he had not been able to speak to his client for almost three weeks.

If a U.S. citizen was held on indefinitely foreign soil without charge, and not allowed to see a lawyer, the Bushies would be screaming about how we need to invade that country to teach them Democracy.

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Big fun with my camphone

The adventures with my incredible Nokia 3650 cell phone/camera/web browser continue!

The 3560 also supports Bluetooth and infrared wireless data transfers. This means I can sync it with the Outlook contacts and calender on my PC. If you are planning on doing wireless transfers with this phone, let me save you hours of time and much gnashing of teeth.

Many Bluetooth/infrared devices refuse to pair with the Nokia 3560. However the Belkin F8T001 and F8T003 work just fine. PC Connection has the F8T003 for $32.95. It took me many phone calls and two other failed devices to learn this.

TextAmerica now has a free camphone posting website. Thus I can now post photos from the cell phone directly to the web via email to the PoliZeros site on TextAmerica. (Ok ok, right now I just have the obligatory picture of one cat, Joey, since Suzy, as usual, refuses to be photographed). More photos will be there soon. In fact I plan to post photos and text virtually real time from the Protest Bush rally here in L.A. on Friday. Wheee….

Update: I don’t have the Belkin Bluetooth device yet. However Nokia tech support told me it worked with the 3650, and when I called Belkin they had it on their list of phones it worked with. And PC Connection is an ultra reliable mail order vendor.

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