Yes, he did!
How long have we heard that e-mail is not private, that any e-mail message has a public component, which is why it looks like a memo. In fact, it should never have been called "e-mail," but "e-memo," but that just doesn't have quite the same ring to it. Marketing would have suffered.
So here we go again. The boneheads in the Bush White House tried to run their clandestine politically motivated firings of U. S. Attorneys by using e-mail. Duh! And good ol' boy Karl Rove is back in the picture. Thousands of pages of e-mail is being used in the Justice Department investigation and much of it indicates the degree to which Rove and other political lackeys were involved in the decision making process. It would be nice to see someone go to jail for this, but that's not likely to happen. Jail time is almost completely reserved for the poor.
(See today's New York Times' story.)
"This is about the dismantling of this country":
New York Times reporters Ian Urbina and Katharine Seelye quote thirty-five-year-old Katy Abram as shouting in the face of Senator Arlen Spectre yesterday in Pennsylvania at a town hall meeting about health care. Urbina a Seelye said the statement received the loudest applause at the meeting. "We don't want this country to turn into Russia," Abram's said.
Abram has found herself on a bus traveling at high speed and headed for a deep canyon and a crash that will destroy everyone on the bus. And she's complaining because someone is telling the driver to avoid the canyon. Turn left and we won't all die. Abram doesn't want the bus to turn. She wants it to go off the cliff. And take all us with her.
The other day my daughter IMed me, asking how it could be that a whole roomful of people could be so stupid as not to realize that Medicare is a government program, even when Medicare is their primary healthcare provider?
Well, do you realize there are probably more members of the KKK in Pennsylvania than in Alabama?
Note the final paragraph of Urbina a Seelye's article. It's all about power.
How long have we heard that e-mail is not private, that any e-mail message has a public component, which is why it looks like a memo. In fact, it should never have been called "e-mail," but "e-memo," but that just doesn't have quite the same ring to it. Marketing would have suffered.
So here we go again. The boneheads in the Bush White House tried to run their clandestine politically motivated firings of U. S. Attorneys by using e-mail. Duh! And good ol' boy Karl Rove is back in the picture. Thousands of pages of e-mail is being used in the Justice Department investigation and much of it indicates the degree to which Rove and other political lackeys were involved in the decision making process. It would be nice to see someone go to jail for this, but that's not likely to happen. Jail time is almost completely reserved for the poor.
(See today's New York Times' story.)
"This is about the dismantling of this country":
New York Times reporters Ian Urbina and Katharine Seelye quote thirty-five-year-old Katy Abram as shouting in the face of Senator Arlen Spectre yesterday in Pennsylvania at a town hall meeting about health care. Urbina a Seelye said the statement received the loudest applause at the meeting. "We don't want this country to turn into Russia," Abram's said.
Abram has found herself on a bus traveling at high speed and headed for a deep canyon and a crash that will destroy everyone on the bus. And she's complaining because someone is telling the driver to avoid the canyon. Turn left and we won't all die. Abram doesn't want the bus to turn. She wants it to go off the cliff. And take all us with her.
The other day my daughter IMed me, asking how it could be that a whole roomful of people could be so stupid as not to realize that Medicare is a government program, even when Medicare is their primary healthcare provider?
Well, do you realize there are probably more members of the KKK in Pennsylvania than in Alabama?
Note the final paragraph of Urbina a Seelye's article. It's all about power.
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