Archive for August 5th, 2004


We already knew that

We already knew that


President Bush offered up a new entry for his catalog of “Bushisms” on Thursday, declaring that his administration will “never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people.”

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Bush is Coming to LA:…

Bush is Coming to LA: Emergency Protest


Thursday., August 12, 4 pm
Santa Monica Airport
Corner of 31st St. & Ocean Park Blvd
Santa Monica


Initiated by ANSWER LA



On Thursday, August 12 President Bush will breeze into town to hold a “Presidential Gala” for his political base: “The haves and The have-mores” as he smirkingly calls them.


While Bush is partying with his cronies, Iraqis and U.S. soldiers will continue to die in a war and occupation fought for oil and the big money corporations. More and more, people here and all over the world are growing in their anger and disgust for the suffering caused by the Pentagon’s ruthlessness, Wall Street’s greed and Bush’s right wing agenda of racism, bigotry and cut backs here at home.


 Let’s take it to the streets on August 12 to demand:

Bring the Troops Home Now!  U.S. Out of Iraq!  End the Occupation!

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Spam, spam, and (less) spam

Spam, spam, and (less) spam


CTTSWEB, where I have multiple email accounts and websites, reported recently on their spam fighting measures.



Since the installation and initialization of the Barracuda spam/virus filter server, more than 10 million messages have come into the mail servers here. And we are happy to report that more than 9 million messages were stopped dead in their tracks, being classified as either spam or virus infected.  In other words 90% of the messages are coming in are junk and you are being spared the necessity of dealing with them.


You read that right. They got 10 million emails in the past few months, of which 9 million were spam or viruses that they killed before it got to an Inbox.



However, there is still junk mail getting through to you.  The spammers are becoming more and more sophisticated (devious) in the formatting of their garbage.


I use Mail Washer Pro to filter out whatever spam Barracuda misses. It has a unique feature that allows you to kill spam and viruses before they get to your mail reader. They are erased on the server and never travel to your PC. Unlike other spam killers, it works with any POP mail reader, not just Outlook. And guess what, it reports that 50% of my email is spam.


So my ISP kills 90% of the spam before I see it, Mail Washer kills 50% of the mail I do get. That means 95% of the email going to my accounts are spam. Yow.

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The Vote for Change Tour

The Vote for Change Tour


The Vote for Change Tour (October 1-10) includes Pearl Jam, Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band, R.E.M., Bonnie Raitt, Dave Matthews Band, Keb-Mo, Dixie Chicks, Jackson Brown, John Mellencamp, Kenny “Babyface” Edmonds, and more.


The shows will be in battleground states only, with different lineups for  each show. Tour schedule (pdf)

Artists Statement



VOTE FOR CHANGE is a loose coalition of musicians brought together by a single idea—the need to make a change in the direction of our country. We share a belief that this is the most important election of our lifetime. We are fighting for a government that is open, rational, just and progressive. And we intend to be heard.

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Let’s go to the transcripts,…

Let’s go to the transcripts, Mr. Ridge


August 3, 2004

    “We don’t do politics in the Department of Homeland Security.”


August 1, 2004



“But we must understand that the kind of information available to us today is the result of the President’s leadership in the war against terror.


As reported by Rising Hegemon!

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Too weird.

Too weird.


Rev. Moon sold missle technology to North Korea for use in their submarines.


This is the very same Rev. Moon who has serious ties to the right here in the US, and who also owns the Washington Times and UPI, among other properties.

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