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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
We're used to seeing "gh" together in English, much more than we are used to seeing "dh." But it bugs me too... not leat because I came to understand that "ghandi" is a Hindi word for "dick." May just be urban legend, but it still irritates me...
I hate it when I'm a disappointment, particularly since "I" seem to have been loved :) But, alas, I am not the gpjones, SAS guru. But I am a really nice person and I think you might miss me if I wasn't here.
After that, it's time to lay the weary head on a black and white pole cat pillow.
I prey the moon don't wildly roam the world and drop from the sky and smack B. Obama.OR Mcain by hitting him in the jaw. Nor 'hit' his smackers. lip smackers.
The mind rambles and keeps roving, and cares nothing for 'facts' ?
Do you believe that? Are we people to comment and believe that?
Why golly. So i ignore the 'what' and not gonna expiate on a 'why'?
Wiseacres. We (me) got nothing to smoke and share a idea on that.
Look at the moon. We 'know-it-all' wiseacres on earth? `o plenum.
It's time for some to agree. ~'Hit' the hay. Dang, yelping, mia culpa.
ProGrocker (October 6, 2008 02:31 PM ):
PG: "I see no alternative to another 9/11. Please, fellow progressives, tell me what other option the NeoCons have left? There are not enough rigged voting machines to pull off another coup."
"Maybe someone needs to talk me down on this one."
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What makes you think there aren't enough rigged voting machines to pull off another coup?
From the deposition of Stephen Spoonamore,in which he admits to the theft of the Ohio vote in 2004:
Any time all information is directed to a single computer for consolidation, it is possible, and in fact likely, that single computer will exploit the information for some purpose.
In the case of Ohio 2004, the only purpose I can conceive for sending all county vote tabulations to a GOP managed Man-in-the-Middle site in Chattanooga BEFORE sending the results onward to the Sec. of State, would be to hack the vote at the MIM.
IN REGARD TO THE DIEBOLD SYSTEMS, Formerly Global, DESI and now called Premier.
In my opinion, there is NO POSSIBLE WAY to make a secure touch screen voting system. None. Secure systems are predicated on establishing securely the identity of every user of the system. Voting is predicated on being anonymous. It is impossible to have a system that does both.
It is possible to design relatively secure optical scan machines, but even these can be hacked in even the best of cases. In the case of optical scan you have the ability to recount manually the paper ballot itself, and the ability to spot check the machines for errors against a sample of hand recounting.
Even considering no secure system for touch screen machines can be designed, ever, the Diebold system is riddled with exploitable errors.
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Deposition-by-Spoonamore-A-by-Stephen-Spoonamore-080919-58.html
I know that's not much comfort, but it's the best I can do and remain honest.
I've been noticing how his inner Joseph Goebbels has been emerging with alarming frequency for over a year now. The way he ferociously rants like a bloodthirsty psychopath in his senate and stump speeches, the way he pounces over people in the media who dare to challenge or criticize him. That crazy, sick smirky-smile and tone of voice. This is not a well man, or a sane one, or a good-hearted one. This is one crazy mofo who is driven by inner demons so dark and nasty that few of us could possibly understand them. He personalizes every battle like a fight between life and death, good and evil, right and wrong, in a weird and disturbing combination of narcissism, rage, self-righteousness, megalomania, misanthropy and a will to defeat. There is something seriously, deeply, frighteningly wrong with this man on every conceivable level.
I don't know how far he's willing to go to win. But my gut feeling is that he's not willing, or perhaps able, to go quite that far (I think you know what I mean). Not because he's a good man, but because, on a certain level, I think that he simply lacks the nerve, or has just enough of a thin reed of connection to reality to realize just how crazy that would be, in so many ways.
Incidentally, an Israeli cousin of mine was the chief receiving nurse at the ER where Rabin was rushed after he was shot, and was there when he died. Ironically, she was almost killed herself several years prior to that when a scud missle landed just in front of the apartment building that she was in, during the first Gulf War. Luckily, she was in the back and wasn't hurt badly. It was, of course, the conclusion of that war that led to the Oslo Accords that ultimately led to Rabin's assassination. Life sometimes offers up some odd coincidences.
Well, I hope I at least spelled Gandhi correctly (aside from the capitalization, I suppose) in my previous comment. I have to keep plugging it into The Google to make sure I placed the h in the right place. But, that doesn't mean that my fyslexic™ (Pedinska) fingers don't frustrate the best of my intentions.
Kitt,
I am sorry, but I don't get your complaint. That's okay. The world doesn't owe me an understanding of things. For me, the worry is a real one. I don't generally feel the need to "second" someone else's fears when they are coincident with my own. However, I did get the sense that you were suggesting to gandhi to kindly STFU on that possibility I won't further explicate. And, I responded with - I hope - an example of other respected writers worrying similarly. Gandhi isn't alone in his/her fears. And, expressing those fears in a place like this does not seem to make the probability of an heinous event any more, or any less likely.
If my supposition is true, then I *really* don't understand your objection. It seems it would, then, fall into the category of I Just Don't Want To Hear It. I honestly don't have any reasonable way to respond to that. I seem to encounter things daily I don't want to hear, see, or read. The nice thing about the comments section of Glenn's blog, when I encounter stuff I don't want to read, is it's nicely addressed by the scroll wheel on my mouse.
Now, you're welcome to the last word. I'm going back to Krugman's model on the global crisis (pdf):
http://www.princeton.edu/~pkrugman/finmult.pdf
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