In a follow-up to an earlier post, the cold weather apparently compelled the Bushies to increase funding for heating oil for the poor. And the sound and fury about the TIA apparently convinced the Senate to demand a detailed report by the Bush administration on the program's goals and how it would be used; all work would have to stop unless the report is given to the Senate within 60 days. That means the Senate suddenly recognized civil liberties, after 16 months of watching Ashcroft and his acolytes usurp them. Maybe now they'll revisit some aspects of the Patriot Act (yeah, right).
Suppose the Raiders decided to go public? Here's the (satirical) red herring. Speaking of red herrings, here's a top-ten list of most annoying spam messages of 2002. I don't know about you, but I got a bunch of each type on the list.
Posted by Linkmeister at January 24, 2003 03:02 PM5. Tiny remote control car
7. #1 Pasta pot
9. Meet singles in your area
(does "Married but Lonely" count?)
10. Copy DVDs in one click
Hotmail screwed up - i didn't get any of the above. lucky i guess ;-P
Posted by: deborah at January 24, 2003 04:56 PMWhere's my all-time fave, "Increase penis size, guaranteed"? Is that just, like, totally 2001? Or am I the only one who apparently still needs a bigger one?
I'm just sayin'....
Posted by: shelley at January 25, 2003 01:15 PMGee, deborah, if hotmail missed those, they were the only ones it missed, judging from my experience with it.
Shelley, maybe those ads are targeted more specifically? You got your gender posted on a highly-trafficked site? ;)
Posted by: Linkmeister at January 25, 2003 01:46 PMi apparently need a larger penis as well. that spam shows up almost daily including graphic pictures. i can't help but giggle at them.
Posted by: deborah at January 25, 2003 02:24 PMI swear to God, TIA is just about the most intrusive program ever created, and it might have just had good intentions, but it's a perfect example of politicians being completely out of touch with the reality of the world and being completely reactionary by overcompensating.
All too common. And maybe it might be something worth doing to some extent, but it's what it spur its usage for. Not to mention the evil power it can have and the things it can be done with if power hungry politicians or administrators can wield it if they ever wanted to.
Too dangerous in the end.
Posted by: fran at January 25, 2003 03:34 PMI DO feel a little better now, Linky. Thanks for the comment over at my place! :o)
Posted by: JeanNINE at January 30, 2003 10:44 AMhi i would like to buy a crap german football team
Posted by: bob the builder at March 19, 2003 12:46 AM