Bob Morris @ Jan 29th 2004 14:12 - Category: Unfiled ;
Republican dirty tricks against Greens and Democrats
This is a local story that I think might be of more than local interest. Can I get a round of applause going for our local Green Party, which has taken a strong stand against being used as a vehicle for Republican dirty tricks?
Bob Morris @ Jan 29th 2004 09:02 - Category: Unfiled ;
Why socialized medicine is a good idea
Tenet, a scandal-ridden healthcare company, plans to sell 18 hospitals in the LA area because rather than retrofit them to earthquake safety standards. If they can sell them, that is. If they can’t, they will be closed, then thousands will lose jobs and LA healthcare will deteriorate further.
Tenet, the largest hospital chain in the state, said it hoped to find buyers for the facilities but couldn’t guarantee that they all would remain open.
“This is not good news,” said John Edelston, a health-care consultant in Westlake Village and former chairman of the Los Angeles County Emergency Medical Services Commission. “If hospitals close, it will mean less access and longer waits than there already are. And it will create more haves and have-nots” in the medical-care system.
In a socialized system, the hospitals would have been retrofitted by the government and thus would remain open. It’s criminal that a sleazy company like Tenet should be allowed to do this. And sickening that many will suffer because of it.
Bob Morris @ Jan 29th 2004 09:01 - Category: Unfiled ;
Democrats energized against Bush
From Political Wire
“Democrats’ record turnout in Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary, following similarly heavy attendance at the Iowa caucuses last week, shows that the party is organized and motivated to oust President Bush next fall,” USA Today reports.
<Influential conservative blogger> Andrew Sullivan says Bush is in deep trouble. “The huge turn-out in New Hampshire; the electability factor for Kerry; the passion of the Dean people: all this shows how thoroughly energized the Democrats are to win back the White House. Bush is in the Rove-Cheney cocoon right now. From the SOTU, it looks like he’s going to run on 9/11. Bad, backward-looking idea. His coalition is fracturing; his reach out to Hispanics seems to have hurt him more with the base than won him new votes; his spending has independents deeply concerned; Iraq is still a wild card; prescription drugs pandering hasn’t swayed any seniors; the religious right wants him to attack gay couples in the Constitution - which will lose him the center. More worrying: I’m not sure he even knows he’s in trouble.”
Bob Morris @ Jan 29th 2004 00:10 - Category: Unfiled ;
Great moments in traffic law
Driver Peter O’Flynn was stunned to receive a speeding notice claiming a roadside camera had zapped him — at an astonishing 406 MPH. The sales manager, who was driving a Peugeot 406 at the time, said: “I rarely speed and it’s safe to say I’ll contest this.” Officials admitted it was a clerical bungle, but insisted he would still be prosecuted.
Bob Morris @ Jan 29th 2004 00:10 - Category: Unfiled ;
More on MyDoom. The worm gets smarter.
A new, nastier variant of the MyDoom worm has been released and is beginning to spread across the Internet, according to antivirus experts.
This worm, as noted before, attacks SCO.com (which is already down) and Microsoft.com. However, this new variant changes system files to block antivirus websites from sending virus updates. This is a smart, devious program written by a pro who knew exactly what he was doing.
I just noticed my spam catcher, CloudMark Spam Net, is now flagging the worm as spam and putting in the spam folder so I never see it. This is good! What is not so good is the virus is now, and I think this is new behavior, sending itself to made-up names.
For example, the only valid email address at polizeros is bob at polizeros. However the worm is now sending itself to brenda, brian, brent, etc. at polizeros.com. This is a spammer trick, sending email to zillions of made up addresses on the theory that some will end up being real. And I was getting all of them, because my email setting was to accept all mail to polizeros.
So, I changed my email settings on the server so any email not specifically to me is deleted at the server. If you know how to make such changes, I suggest you do so too.
Bob Morris @ Jan 29th 2004 00:09 - Category: Unfiled ;
The counter-revolution has been televised
From John Perry Barlow:
Politics as usual was working like God’s wristwatch in Iowa, where the RNC and various Republican PAC’s outspent many of the Democratic candidates on negative TV ads aimed exclusively at Dean. But more damaging, in my opinion, was the remarkably open bias that the traditional media seemed to display against Howard Dean in their presentation of the news itself. I don’t watch much television, but what little I’ve seen in the last month indicated to me that Dean was being systematically slimed.
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