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July 14 We Are Officially a Police StateWe are officially a police state. Go read your history of the Nazi and Soviet regimes, how they protected their states, and you can see the parallels with present practices of the American state. Yes, the American state, not just the Bush administration. We are all culpable either by our political actions or inaction. We deserve a police state. For those who oppose the actions of this administration on our behalf, you did not oppose it strenuously enough. For those who approved, you are fools, fascists, or practitioners of the most profound self deception. We all deserve what happened and what happens next. The vote to approve retroactive telecom immunity and to make legit warrantless intrusion into our lives limns our national character as something alien and ugly.
June 30 Links in lieu of me telling you what I said or said about mehttp://attrition.org/postal/z/037/1089.html June 25 OBAMA'S VP RUNNING MATENo previous job prepares a person to be president. I believe that all would be good choices for vice president and good presidents. Senator Obama choose one of these people: Governor Bill Richardson of New Mexico Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska Governor Chris Gregoire of Washington Governor Joe Manchin of West Virginia Governor Janet Napolitano of Arizona Representative Ron Paul of Texas Senator Claire McCaskill of Missouri Representative Artur Davis of Alabama Susan Eisenhower, president of the Eisenhower Group, Inc. Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon Representative Tammy Suzanne Green Baldwin of Wisconsin Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont June 20 FREEWARE & some paidware programs I've Used and UseThis is an easy way to tell my friends the programs that I use, I consider good programs, and which may make computing simpler and safer. Non-friends can benefit from my amateur expertise. I recommend some sites for information about configuring, maintaining, and securing Windows XP systems (some include info on that dog Vista). You will note that I have bought* only about a dozen programs and the rest are freeware. The essential programs ERUNT, MozyHome, Online Armor, NOD32, Maxtor OneTouch, Sandboxie, Trojan Remover, SpywareBlaster, Password Safe, PGP Desktop, and Mozilla Firefox are important because in some way each add a layer of protection to my system. The router is the second layer; the first layer is whatever filtering the ISP does for malware and hack attacks. Get a router with NAT and SPI firewall. You see below what I have, but D-LInk and NetGear also make some good routers. paidware* freeware Much of this post a repeat of the previous post. I wanted to place the diagnostic, information, and testing site links closer to the top. Although I am a bit geeky on this, I am still very much an average end user. And I am poor, so most of the programs here are freeware. Some of the programs come in paid and free versions. Peace.
If you suspect that a file may be malware even though your present security programs did not detect them as such, you can upload the file to these scanning sites. They use multiple scanning engines. Virus Total http://www.virustotal.com/ Test your firewall and browsers on these sites: http://www.pcpitstop.com/pcpitstop/default.asp http://bcheck.scanit.be/bcheck/index.php Check the evaluation of antivirus programs here: Check firewall evaluations here: Check these pages for information on configuring XP Professional, some settings also apply to Home too, and other sites for security information, and security programs. Optimize XP - good site for the novice Black Viper - good advice about how to configure XP and Vista for security Gizmo's TechSupportAlert (He produces a free internet publication and paid. Subscribe to one.) He lists the best free programs in all categories. You can populate your computer with all freeware if you wish. The Elder Geek on Windows XP Spyware Warrior Eric Howes' Privacy & Security Page on Spyware Warrior
Linksys WRT54G2 v1 Wireless Router * - You can find this at your local computer store, Circuit City, Best Buy (avoid their Geek Squad), or the like. Other programs that I use: BACKUP:: BROWSERS & MAIL: Mozilla Firefox is my default, but I can change defaults with a couple of clicks using BrowserTraySwitch. I use Flock, a social network browser for Facebook,Flickr, YouTube, and other social and photo sites. The other browser have different uses and with homepages that reflect their use. I have nine email addresses that I download into Mozilla Thunderbird and three more are downloaded to Windows Live Mail, but I leave one other as webmail. I use the Lightning addon for Mozilla Thunderbird which adds calendar function to it. DEFENCE: Eset NOD32 Antivirus* http://www.eset.com/ DIAGNOSTIC: ENCRYPTION: INTELLIGENCE: TCPView for Windows v2.53http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897437.aspxCurrPorts v1.36 - View Opened TCP/IP ports / connections http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/cports.html
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freeware May 19 CBP, NKVD, or Gestapo?CBP, NKVD, or Gestapo? Logged in as: ________@_____.com (If you are not ________@_____.com click here.) Update My Question https://cbpcomplaints.cbp.gov/cgi-bin/cbpcomplaints.cfg/php/enduser/... Problem solved was the response of the Customs and Border Protection Agency. Here was my complaint, or harangue: Why are you searching laptops and other data storage devices and media at the borders? It has no efficacy, balanced against violating the rights of citizens, for discovering miscreants, either terrorists or other criminals. It is a behavior, I believe, more suited and practiced by the like of Nazi Germany, the old Soviet state, and other police states. Your behavior and the courts decision, the reversal of a lower court's decision, have finally convinced me to buy strong encryption to This was the response of the Customs and Border Protection Agency: Discussion Thread Auto-Response 05/17/2008 10:44 AM And this is my response to it. I could understand, somewhat, doing the searches of media devices and media storage of non-citizens, perhaps of people suspected, probable cause, of smuggling narcotics or possessing child pornography, but you do random searches or searches of all without probable cause. What is your reaction if I have the data on my computer encrypted and refuse to decrypted it for you? I will do this unless the congress and/or the courts do not stop this practice. I will, if this occurs to me, fight this in the courts and congress for the remainder of my life if necessary. I am a Republican, patriotic, but a libertarian in political ideology, so you know where I am coming from. Stop giving me the programmed spiel "There are many reasons for deciding to examine someone. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has a program of random checks that helps us calibrate our information regarding smuggling trends. In addition, CBP officers will occasionally observe something that fits a smuggling characteristic. They will then want to conduct a search to see if anything else in the passenger's goods or answers would provide information that would indicate whether or not there is additional need for concern. Many people think that Officers only target people who look disreputable or suspicious, and are therefore offended when they themselves are singled out. Please be aware, some of CBP's biggest seizures have come from inspections of "respectable looking" people, such as grandmothers, corporate executives, college professors, etc. Everyone is subject to a CBP inspection when they arrive in the U.S." You are infringing on the privacy and abrogating the rights of the many to catch a few. To extend your logic, the police departments should search every apartment and house in the cities; I am sure that they would catch some criminals by doing this. But this is the United States of America and we have a Constitution that constrains the use of government power. These constraints keep us free. If this practice of yours continues you may lose the respect, trust, and cooperation of the American people. When that happens your job will be impossible. Random searches is the problem. Do you have any people in your department who understand the internet? All a terrorist needs to do is upload plans outside the country to online storage encrypted and simply download when in the country. Or they can simply use a lowtech approach and send someone with a photograpic memory with the plans memorized, or someone with the plans written in code in an innocent looking notepad whereas it appears to be a diary, travelogue, or other notes. You plan to confiscate all these? I fear for this country when the people who are supposed to protect us are bumblers, who don't know the Constitutional protections or even care, and cannot or will not do the real, hard work of valid, none intrusive intelligence to protect us. Americans have to protect themselves from enemies foreign and domestic. You are increasingly becoming the domestic enemy. Take a civics course! April 27 Simple honest speech
Simple honest speech a rarity in public discourse a rarity in private. Say the facts, some say you opine. Some opinions you hear spoken as if fact.
In politics, the occupation of governance, simple honest speech the necessary requirement to produce a free, peaceful society; language without guile, pretension, or calumny in which you try to clarify public policy, not obscure. Language that you do not need to parse to understand.
President Bush, vice president Chaney, secretary Rice, secretary Rumsfeld please simple honest speech profane liars ever choose.
for,and under the influence of, Ronnog Seaberg (1932 – 2007). Photo by Mark Wolfe
April 14 WhosOnSecondYeah, it's a play on a play on baseball play by that classic comic duo; the first was used so it had to take seconds, but it ain't second-rate. Naw, it ain't second to any other. If you are interested in baseball cards, basketball cards, et cetera cards play your cards right and check on by this site. I am tired of my own tired word games, so some plain old lingo: Whos On Second Sports Website For Card Sharks is run by a fanatical Yankee fan and card collector. It is a work of love by a nice guy, Steve Salinas. You damn right I'm biased, he has been a friend for over a decade. Check out the site even if you are not a card collector or sports fan because he has a resident curmudgeon who is a Brooklyn Dodgers, Greenbay Packers, and Chicago Bulls fan. He does not collect cards; he just contributes to Salinas' site Side Arm Pitch, a column of what moves from his brain to the keyboard. Guess who's on second with his friend Steve. Go by, leave a comment, say I sent you along.
rare july © 2006 Thomas Elias Weatherly February 04 What matters is stronger
What matters is stronger than what does not matter;
it seems that we come from the tough side
of the universal tracks. That seems to be so,
according to a team of scientists at the Stanford Linear
Accelerator Center, in Palo Alto, California. They arranged
a rumble between antimatter particles and matter particles,
and some matter was left. So matter is tougher,
according to them, than antimatter: that is why we have
the universe; that is why we have life.
So it seems that god
favors matter over antimatter; god favors life over anti-life.
The creation is such a wondrous phenomenon to contemplate;
it stimulates the imagination of all, except those humans
numbed by opiates or ennui. Imagine the effects on one inspired
and animated by poetry.
If it, the matter of the universe, is the result of an accident,
a chance occurrence, it is a magnificent one. That accident
would be worthy of reverence. I do know that intelligence
could not produce such a result.
I agree with the line of thought from the Rambam: we can
only know what God is not.
From that premise, we may say that God is not
intelligent. What caused and operates the creation
is transcendent. It is beyond intelligence. The concept
intelligence we use for more mundane beings. We know from observations
of the produce of human intellect that the creator is above intelligence.
We may not know the substance of transcendence, it is beyond
our ken, but we know what we don't know and name it god, tao, or transcendence.
.
We may make the leap of faith and poetic license
to say that God does not like anti-life as much as it likes life.
Moral principles have been based on less. April 12 I Forgive ImusI forgive Imus. I forgive Imus and I want him off radio and television. I will not buy any product made and sold by a company that buys advertising on any show with Imus. I may even extend that to shows which have him as a guest. He is not a satirist like Bill Maher, Jon Stewart, or Colbert, Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle, Mort Sahl, or Lenny Bruce. You understand, whether it is Juvenalian or Horatian satire, the point of their satires even when they use race, gender, sexuality, religion, et cetera. Imus does not just attack evils in the society, committed by institutions, government entities, or public figures from entertainment, politics, social, and religious institutions. Often he spouts sexist, racist, and homophobic drivel which he spuriously calls humor. It has no point, no lesson for us, no attempt to point out an evil. He does not hold up our foibles in the light for us to see. His spurious satire or humor ain't funny, except to a racist. That's because it is racist. I don't care how much good he has done. Rev. Sharpton would be a legit target; Rev. Jackson would be a legit target. They are public figures. They are flawed, especially Rev.Sharpton. Hiphop artists are legit targets. The priests who molested children and the church officials who covered up the misdeed are legit targets. The liturgy and creeds, no matter how silly one thinks, are not legit targets, unless that religion attempts to impose them on others and into public policy. Then it is the attempt to impose their creed that is targetable. Actors who take ideological political positions in public are legit targets for satire and humor. Any public figure who tries to affect public policy is open to be satirized. Those young women were not legit targets, except for a program about how people can achieve in this society. Imus did not see that. He saw race and he saw loose women probably because of their race. It is an unfortunate fact that most racists in American society are good people. March 16 u s aI prescribe that all Americans read The Pirkei Avot (Ethics of the Fathers), The Beatitudes, and Friedrich A. Hayek's The Road to Serfdom. Some folk seem hell-bent on the enslavement of everyone. If you voted for Bush and his Democratic rival the first time, you were a fool; if you voted for Bush a second time, you are a fascist. I don't suffer fools and some of my political ancestors shot fascists. I am an intellectual wimp because I still believe that truth talk can convince fascists in training to read the U.S.Constitution and follow it. Liberal ain't a bad word, especially if public liberals practice that humane art in private. Conservative ain't the way it's practiced today; it's properly an admix of living the ethical life and the the libertarian ideal of not fracking with other folk. It certainly ain't the use of the government to to frack other folk. Most folk today who call themselves conservatives - mostly Republicans, and some Democrats - live something else, lie to us, lie to themselves, and endanger the republic. You know in your brain that this is true, unless you share their delusion. You know that we have a problem when the only senators I trust completely are Bernie Sanders, Barack Obama, and Susan Collins, the only representatives I trust are Ron Paul and Barney Frank. I know that most of you cannot see that this is not a contradiction or paradox. In case you want to know, I am a Republican. I evolved from conservative to libertarian. I believe in simplicities and the acts of many today confirm me in my simplicites. Liberals want to force you to spend your money their way and conservatives want to control how you have sex and with whom. Except today there is an anomaly, the Republicans, especially ones called to conservatism, have spent our money like it was theirs, and spent it with their business partners. They will ignore a true sexual crime to retain a seat. Representative Tom Davis what in the living hell is wrong with you? Your statement at the CIA Leak Investigation and questions later are a brain fart that defies rational examination. How about a fusion ticket? Ron Paul and Bernie Sanders? Either way. Or if you really want to retain the Republicans and Democratics, how about Senator Susan Collins and Representative Ron Paul versus Senator Barack Obama and Senator Bernie Sanders (If elected they must nominate Barney Frank for Attorney-General, later to the Court). These are my picks for 2008. With these we win either way. I don't expect the parties or electorate to behave rationally and humane. I plan to seance with Tom Paine and clean my ancestor's flintlock. If I can't have my tropes, I've been sold a bill of rights rotted. u s a truth lecture jeffersonians no right left u s a o moral jonah tom jefferson morale erects u s a thomas jeffer- sonian sexual assault beget u s a © 2006 Thomas Elias Weatherly December 09 short history of the saxophonetriage
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at my disposal moons never used until the tiger moans bama mines where i exhume grave omens for whose gamic magic there no names dark mānēs conjure my cryptic menus the son of a woman i have many ------------------------------------------------------------ levantine olive oil to anoint royal and prophet light the shack enlighten the palace ...................................................................
_ © 2006 Thomas Elias Weatherly
times times truly alone muley knows truce death music never muted heart knows moody brute hurts human blows sound blues weatherly © 2006 Thomas Elias Weatherly October 09 PATRIOT ActI have a mild proposal that will prevent postpartum depressed women from killing their babies. It has the additional benefit: it solves the abortion controversy. Under the PATRIOT Act arrest and detain all pregnant women until the offspring are eighteen. I recommend this to the compassionate conservatives in the Bush administration; it fits in well with their other humane initiatives. I am a loyal American.Dear folk
I am a loyal American. I would never burn an American flag for protest; although I would burn it in accordance with the rules for retiring a flag. I say this with stern loyalty to the spirit of America, to its freedoms, that if this amendment is ratified, I will load my flintlock and defend the right of those mean or angry creatures who do burn the flag in protest to do so. We decry the mechanisms that fascist states use to stifle dissent, yet in this some of us wish to add one to our Constitution.
I propose one solution. We should make one Flag. We should use the very best materials and craftmanship in its creation. We then place it in an enclosed container, along with the official American flags from our past history, in the Capitol building. Then we pass a law stating that these original Flags may not be desecrated. All other flags thus become copies of the originals, not Flags. Let contrary folk do anything that they wish to them; these are not the Flag. Does England have a law forbidding the burning of a picture of the queen? If it does, it should not. It does, I'm sure, have laws forbidding the burning of the queen. We can enact laws banning the desecration of that one true flag on exhibit in Washington.
affably, a patriot,
May 19 SIMPLE HONEST SPEECHSimple honest speech a rarity in public discourse a rarity in private. Say the facts, some folk say you opine. Some opinions you hear spoken as if fact. In politics, the occupation of governance, simple honest speech the necessary requirement to produce a free, peaceful society; language without guile, pretension, or calumny in which you try to clarify public policy, not obscure. Language that you do not need to parse to understand. President Bush, Vice-President Chaney, Secretary Rice, Secretary Rumsfeld please simple honest speech. Profane liars? September 25 What mattersWhat
matters is stronger than what does not matter; it seems that we come
from the tough side of the universal tracks. That seems to be so,
according to a team of scientists at the Stanford Linear Accelerator
Center, in Palo Alto, California. They arranged a rumble between
antimatter particles and matter particles, and some matter was
left standing. So matter is tougher, according to them, than
antimatter: that is why we have the universe; that is why we have life.
So it seems that God favors matter over antimatter; God favors life
over anti-life. I have made an assumption, some may say, that the
research does not imply. The creation is such a wondrous phenomenon to
contemplate; it stimulates the imagination of all, except those humans
numbed by opiates or ennui. Imagine the effects on one inspir |
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