Thursday, July 29, 2004
Centrists.Org: Book Summary -- Pete Peterson's Running on EmptyChapter 5: “How The Democrats Got Us Into This Mess (With Republican Help)� This chapter describes the creation and expansion of major entitlement programs. Peterson maintains Democrat policy makers, including Franklin Roosevelt knew their programs were based on faulty economic assumptions and moved ahead anyway. Some of these programs were developed in response to genuine needs. Others were simply designed to buy political support from targeted special interest groups. All were deliberately designed to be larger than necessary in order to gain support from more affluent voters who might otherwise have objected to expenditures more tightly targeted to low income families. Once these programs were established, their funding became almost automatic. In the case of individual entitlements, the funding became mandatory and the government could be sued if it failed to provide the promised benefits. Although Democrats started this process, Republicans have also used expanded entitlement spending to curry favor with special interest groups. Peterson points out that according to a 2002 government survey, only about 4.2 percent of all senior citizens had a major problem affording prescription drugs. Nevertheless, Republicans pushed through the largest expansion of entitlement spending in 30 years in order to placate AARP and other senior citizen lobbies. Meanwhile Democrats attacked the new $400 billion program for not being generous enough.
Wednesday, July 28, 2004
ABCNEWS.com : Is Dems' Biggest Money Man Mob-Connected?: "Campaign reform advocates say the role of secretive big money is all a throwback to the days of Richard Nixon and the scandal that grew out of the 1972 Republican Convention."
FactCheck.org Kerry Blames Corporate Tax Code for Shipping Jobs Overseas: "But recent Labor Department data underscore what even Democratic economists have said for some time -- outsourcing jobs overseas, or 'offshoring,' accounts for just a small fraction of the many millions of jobs that are lost each year even in a good economy.
There is indeed a tax break for US-based multinational corporations to locate operations overseas. Bush isn't to blame for it -- it's been there for decades. It's also true that Bush doesn't support Kerry's proposed remedy, which is controversial."
Monday, July 26, 2004
FactCheck.org Bushs "16 Words" on Iraq & Uranium: He May Have Been Wrong But He Wasn't Lying ... and we don't yet know that he was wrong either.
Thursday, July 22, 2004
Wednesday, July 21, 2004
MacDevCenter.com: How to Fall in Love with Your iSight, Again
HAHA!: "Admit it. You are completely bored with your iSight. Your impulsive, giddy love affair has all but dried up, now that the reality of video chatting has settled in. To paraphrase the band Talking Heads, you may find yourself in front of a beautiful geekosphere, and you may find yourself on some beautiful bandwidth, but you may ask yourself: where is my useful device? Is this my beautiful iSight? How did I get here? My God! What have I done?"
AllPolitics - Berger Saw No 'Extraneous Influences' On Foreign Policy - Sep. 11, 1997: "Under questioning by Thompson, Berger defended his participation in weekly campaign strategy meetings during the Clinton re-election effort last year.
Berger said he wanted to make sure there was no distortion of Clinton's foreign policy record or positions in campaign ads or other materials.
'I was kind of a living stop sign,' he said."
Yeah. We get it.
Tuesday, July 20, 2004
Yahoo! News - Clinton Aide Investigated on Terror Memos: "'When I was informed by the Archives that there were documents missing, I immediately returned everything I had except for a few documents that I apparently had accidentally discarded,' he said."
Uh, yeah, sure.
Monday, July 19, 2004
Isaac Asimov - How I, Robot gets the science-fiction grandmaster wrong. By Chris Suellentrop: "The movie takes the exact opposite approach and thereby betrays Asimov's vision. It elevates feeling and emotion over reason as a tool to determine the right moral decisions. Will Smith's character, Del Spooner, sneers at robots as 'slaves to logic.' When another character pleads, 'Whatever you feel, just think,' the audience is meant to take his preference for reason over sentiment as a sign of his villainy. And when the main antagonist outlines the Dastardly Plan unveiled during the film's climax, the villain defends the treachery by asserting, 'My logic is undeniable.'"
Sunday, July 18, 2004
Bernard Lewis on BOOK TV.ORG
Used the phrase "Diversity of Lies" to describe how propegandist media in the modern world can expose truth by trying to cover it up in inconsistent ways. Book sounds interesting too.
Saturday, July 17, 2004
Cambridge Monitor System - "encyclopedia article about Cambridge Monitor System. Free access, no registration needed. What does Cambridge Monitor System mean? What is Cambridge Monitor System? Provided by the Free Online Encyclopedia."
Excel ate my DNA | The Register: "Genetic research is being hampered by a smart formatting function in Excel, according to US researchers."
Whew!. NO (answer to question below).
MS wins $4m from spammer scammmer | The Register: "Since the beginning of last year, Microsoft has initiated 60 US lawsuits against alleged spammers. Half a dozen cases have been decided in Redmond's favour, with one dismissal. Microsoft settled with four defendants and pushed two others into bankruptcy. In all, Microsoft has received $54m in judgments from the US courts, the company said."
Oh my. Do I HAVE to say something nice about Microsoft?
Airport snoop system thrown in $102m garbage can | The Register: "Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge gave word this week of his department's flip-flop on the Computer Assisted Passenger Prescreening Systems, or CAPPS II, project. "
Maybe they should have called it Craps.
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The service is not available. Please try again later."
OMG, WTF, teh Slashdot is down for an hour!, LOL
Les bom something.
Friday, July 16, 2004
Wired News: Los Alamos Lab Halts Operations: "'This willful flouting of the rules must stop, and I don't care how many people I have to fire to make it stop. If you think the rules are silly, if you think compliance is a joke, please resign now and save me the trouble,' Nanos added in a separate e-mail to Los Alamos employees."
Ah, if only more governmental manager would issue memos such as this. Of course in most governmental organizations employees can't be fired... something else that needs to change.
Microsoft Struggling on Linux, Says Former Top Exec - Computer Business Review: "Silverberg went on to note Microsoft faces a potential challenge maintaining an ecosystem of partners. Previously, the ecosystem helped propel Windows, as Microsoft created a platform that allowed others to benefit from Microsoft's success.
However, Silverberg said Microsoft's expansion into so many new areas is producing reluctance to invest in Windows because developers are unsure how to build their business based on Windows. These developers are now evaluating alternative platforms, according to Silverberg."
Thursday, July 15, 2004
Yahoo! News - No Computer for Kerry As He Writes Speech "It's not that he's opposed to keyboards — he said he uses computers and preferred to compose letters on a typewriter when he was fighting in the Vietnam War. He said it's just that he writes more effectively on paper."
I Wonder when we will get a computer-literate president.
Wilson contradictions leave Democrat senators speechless: "The committee found that the CIA report, based on Wilson's mission, differed considerably from the former ambassador's description to the committee of his findings. That report ''did not refute the possibility that Iraq had approached Niger to purchase uranium.'' As far as his statement to the Washington Post about ''forged documents'' involved in the alleged Iraqi attempt to buy uranium, Wilson told the committee he may have ''misspoken.'' In fact, the intelligence community agreed that ''Iraq was attempting to procure uranium from Africa.''"
Wednesday, July 14, 2004
Tuesday, July 13, 2004
Monday, July 12, 2004
Sunday, July 11, 2004
Saturday, July 10, 2004
Suspect in AltaVista hacking case works at Microsoft: "Chavet's arrest was announced by the U.S. attorney in northern California last week without reference to his current employment. Microsoft acknowledged yesterday that Chavet is a Microsoft employee but declined to name the team on which he works.
However, three other people with knowledge of Chavet's Microsoft employment confirmed that he has been working on the MSN Search effort. "
Duh, no kidding?
Friday, July 09, 2004
CNN.com - California education chief calls preschooler 'stupid dirty girl' - Jul 9, 2004: "Democratic state Assemblyman Mervyn Dymally, who had scheduled a protest by civil rights organizations, canceled the demonstration after an apparent mix-up over the girl's racial background.
Dymally was quoted in the San Jose Mercury News Thursday saying the child was 'a little African-American girl. Would he (Riordan) have done that to a white girl?'
The girl is white, with blonde hair."
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This is the funniest event in a long time for our F-ed up politically correct nation.
Senile old politico lets slip a rude remark and the NAACP comes to the rescue only to discover it was directed at a WHITE girl.
Where is the ACLU, NOW, or the NRA for that matter when you need them!
Business must be slow for hack political activists at the moment.
Maybe we can get Jesse Jackson to step in and conduct negotiations, and Jimmy Carter can supervise that everything is being done even handedly.
Thursday, July 08, 2004
Monday, July 05, 2004
Kerry Says He Believes Life Starts at Conception (washingtonpost.com)
Nod nod, wink wink.
The thing I hate most about Democrat politics is that Democrat voters don't EXPECT their candidates to be truthful about what they beleive, or what they will do once in office.
Oh, go ahead and pretend to be a good Catholic, we know better, you'll do the "right" thing once you get in office.
Sunday, July 04, 2004
Saturday, July 03, 2004
Friday, July 02, 2004
Yahoo! News - U.S. Steers Consumers Away From IE: "The Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team touched off a storm this week when it recommended for security reasons using browsers other than Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer."
Thursday, July 01, 2004
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