This documentary shows the actual video of Bush administration officials justifying the war in Iraq. The overall effect is powerful.
Quotes:
"... it is a federal felony, it's a crime, to mislead and distort information and present it to the Congress." -- 23:14 minutes into the movie.
"... the administration has not been honest..."
"... very disturbing... intervention by people particularly from Vice President Cheney's office and Vice President Cheney himself... to produce precisely the language which would allow them... to support the decision to go into Iraq." -- Dr. David C. MacMichael, former CIA analyst. Page 7 of the transcript, 7:32 minutes in the movie.
"It is somewhat puzzling, I think, that you can have a hundred percent certainty about the weapons of mass destruction's existence, and zero certainty about where they are." -- Hans Blix, chief weapons inspector, referring to the administration's statements, at 34:44 minutes into the movie.
This work is available several in several forms, some of which are free:
A transcript of the movie is available online. NOTE: Both forms of the transcript contain errors. The errors I've seen are minor. The quotes here have been checked against the movie.
The transcript is also available as a downloadable Adobe Acrobat PDF file. The Acrobat PDF Reader software needed to view the transcript is a free download for all computers.
You can buy the DVD online for $9.95 from Amazon or Barnes & Noble or from CafeShops.com, at a Cafe Shops online store that is inappropriately titled Disinformation. The store originally sold items connected with a humorous TV show called Disinformation.
Make your own copies: Kate McArdle, one of the producers, told me that they encourage people to make copies of the DVD and give them to friends (but not sell them, of course). Also, they encourage people to play the movie for groups of people, without extra payment.
I'll try this. The Knoppix CD is a little complicated to configure for flash memory access; it seemed that more could be done in software. I hope this one is easier.
A CD like this is essential when using cyber cafes in poor countries especially. Booting from the CD eliminates one vulnerability to spying.
This is not a major story. It is just meant to be a local story. For
example, see this 2002 story: Secrets of Aids
'immunity'. Here is a quote, "Scientists have known since the mid-1980s
that some people with HIV do not go on to develop Aids."
This is not a major story. It is just meant to be a local story. For example, see this 2002 story: Secrets of Aids 'immunity'. Here is a quote, "Scientists have known since the mid-1980s that some people with HIV do not go on to develop Aids."
Jatropha curcas description and photos
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A Viable Biofuel?
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· Score: 3, Informative
Someone thought of using Jojoba seeds for biofuel. However, after giving
the Jojoba plant enough water to grow fast, the resulting product was too
expensive and too slow-growing.
So, I was skeptical about this plant until I read more. This plant is
different. It's a tropical plant, where presumably there is enough water.
I agree. That's a shocking conclusion, however, because business owners are usually a higher proportion of Republicans. Do Republicans in Crawford know something we don't know?
"... especially here on/. (which is quite liberal when I've very conservative)."
The words "liberal" and "conservative" have no precise meaning, and should not be used in a logical discussion.
Supposedly, most Republicans are "conservative". But that makes no sense whatsoever. When Reagan was president, the U.S. government became by far the biggest debtor the world had ever seen. Then the "liberal" Democrat president Clinton reduced the debt enormously. Now the "conservative" Bush is borrowing money and surpassing even Reagan.
Republicans are "conservative" only in the sense that they "conserve" and "preserve" the gap between the rich and poor by borrowing money that somehow reaches the hands of the rich.
When I was a teenager I worked in a restaurant for a short time. There were alcoholic chefs that had both 1 and 2.
What about behavior that is of more direct concern to others? Here are traits that many people think are characteristic of George W. Bush. Do you see these traits:
Likability, anger, lying, absence of deep or analytical thinking, polarized
thinking, rigid thinking, obsessive repetition, inability to perceive the
needs of others and inability to understand someone different from oneself,
grandiosity, believing that one's own ideas are all-important, impatience,
incoherence, illogic, and mood swings.
The first needs a little explanation. Often alcoholics can be very socially engaging for short periods.
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Bush: Borrowing money to try
to make his administration look good. You must pay it back.
I've read a little about Crawford. I get the impression that the newspaper's EXTREMELY negative view of George W. Bush is not so unusual that they would have to worry about people canceling their subscriptions, or advertisers boycotting the paper. Newspaper must reflect the ideas of their readers and advertisers at least a little just to stay in business.
"The publishers of The Iconoclast endorsed Bush four years ago, based on the things he promised, not on this smoke-screened agenda."
"He let us down."
"He merely told us to shop, spend, and pretend nothing was wrong."
"Again, he let us down."
"Job training has been cut every year that Bush has resided at the White House."
People in Crawford are in a position to know George W. Bush a little better than most citizens. It seems that the newspaper is merely saying openly what a lot of people in that town think.
You said, "If Col. Killian routinely had his secretary type
documents of this type (and she said that he did), then why is it plausible
that they were sent off to be typeset, when she herself stated that they
reflected things she herself had typed."
If you were in the USAF at the time, it is plausible. Remember, these
are people who have agreed to kill anyone, anytime, simply on the order of
their government. Also, people in leadership positions were less educated
then. And, the alcoholics were in the majority. They didn't want anyone
opposing them, since their job depended on no one fully realizing the truth.
The official rules were that they would be fired if discovered. Many of them
had very little employability outside the Guard or regular Air Force. Being
discovered was equivalent to losing job, family, and being on the street.
For that reason, you didn't want anyone to see memos that you wrote
that opposed this behavior. Yet you needed the memos in case there was a big
investigation. It was very capricious.
It's plausible that Lt. Colonel Killian was especially concerned on a
weekend, or during a time when his secretary was on vacation, and took his
handwritten notes to a typesetter in Houston, and asked that they be typed.
Someone typeset them instead. As I said, that happened to me. Then, when the
secretary returned, he handed his notes to her to type and translate into the
strict military language of the time.
There was a lot of insistence on petty things, and not much attention
was given to important things. For example, the model of aircraft after the
one that Bush flew, the F-106 Delta Dagger (he flew the Delta Dart), had a
VERY, VERY high failure rate. Some of the failures were due to parasitic
oscillations in amplifiers with faulty solder joints. Everyone pretended that
the F-106 was operational. However, if you used a few wrong words in a memo,
someone would make a hassle over it.
I'm not the only person who thinks the documents look real. For
example, see I'm
an Expert, and I Say They're Not Forged. When you struggled with the old
typesetting machines as much as I did, it is easy to find it laughable that
someone would know enough to try to impress you by copying all the quirks.
By some measures, the U.S. government is the most violent government in the history of the world. The U.S. government has directly killed an estimated 3,000,000 people since the end of the Second World War in 24
military actions.
The system of violence works by creating fear in citizens so richpeople
can profit. Purchases of oil for war making and purchases of weapons are areas that are secret enough that those who want corruption can make huge profits.
This is only a small part of weapons research, and you only heard about it because of an accidental leak.
It's 1:20 PM. Do you know what your government is doing? No, you don't.
I was a little surprised at what you said, so I checked the math. At 7 cents per kilowatt-hour, the cost is $6.64/month:
Power in Watts: 130 Hours/Day: 24 Days/Month [365/12]: 30.42 Hours/Month: 730.00 Watt-Hours/Month: 94,900.00 Kilowatt-Hours/Month: 94.90 $/KW-Hour 0.07 Cost/Month: $6.64
That's approximately $1 per penny of cost per KW-Hour.
It is true that a desktop computer, with monitor off,
draws a little over 1 Amp at 120 Volts, or approximately 130 Watts.
I tested with an AC clip-on ammeter.
This depends on the CPU, of course. I tested with a 2.2 GHz Athlon. (My meter did not measure
RMS values, which means that it may be inaccurate for unusual waveforms.
My meter is not particularly accurate at that low current. Does anyone have a more accurate meter?)
The conclusion is that it is better to put a computer in Standby when it is not in use.
In Windows, I use Wizmo for that. A problem with that is that
some computers don't recover from Standby very well. Hibernation works better, but
Windows XP even has trouble recovering from hibernation on some computers.
I liked your sig: "We have to go forth and crush every world view that doesn't believe in tolerance and free speech." - David Brin
Here are others:
"When Saudis attack, invade Iraq."
"War for peace."
"Invasion to promote democratic independence."
"Bombing for social stability."
"Iraqis should be happy to be killed by those well-meaning Americans."
There is too much stupid joking lately. Look at the beginning of most stories. Maybe 5 or 10 people are making adolescent jokes. Not only do they join every story to act like adolescents, they act like socially-challenged adolescents.
High-tech security is a valuable subject, no matter what is being monitored. Someone asks an interesting question, and a few immature people attack the author of the question!
I came here hoping that someone else had already done the engineering, and I could learn from that, and a few people waste my time.
It is not possible to develop an accurate opinion by listening to the carefully
crafted phrases from media employees who would lose their jobs if they seemed
to indicate a preference for one candidate over another. Remember, the media
exists to make money. Unfortunately, we don't have directly supported media,
only ad supported media, and advertisers, understandably, are careful not to
alienate anyone.
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Bush: Borrowing money to try
to make his administration look good.
You cannot develop an accurate opinion by listening to the carefully
crafted phrases from media employees who would lose their jobs if they seemed
to indicate a preference for one candidate over another. Remember, the media
exists to make money. Unfortunately, we don't have directly supported media,
only ad supported media, and advertisers, understandably, are careful not to
alienate anyone.
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Bush: Borrowing money to try
to make his administration look good.
I get responses like yours a lot. It is extremely frightening. You
don't know anything about Neil Bush, apparently, and you didn't even bother to
read the linked ABC 20/20 News story. If you had done only that, you would
have realized that Neil Bush is heavily involved with the corruption of the
Bush family. Like the others, he sells government influence to get money. They
are doing it together, and they are doing it extremely extensively.
"Neilsie" has certainly not been repudiated by his family. When Billy
Carter took a loan that showed conflict of interest, president Jimmy Carter
publicly said no one should give his brother money. "Neilsie" is Barbara
Bush's name for Neil.
Check the 20/20 link for Neilsie's himself talking about his casual
involvement with prostitution. The Bush family could not get elected to
anything if people really understood that their "Christian family values" are
a lie. For another example, see this quote from The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty:
"The official family tree provided by the Bush archivists does not
include the two mentally retarded daughters of John M. Walker, and lists only
two of James Smith Bush's wives, not all four of them; one of Ray Walker's two
wives is omitted, and George Herbert Walker III is listed with only two,
instead of three, wives."
You cannot develop an accurate opinion by listening to the carefully
crafted phrases from media employees who would lose their jobs if they seemed
to indicate a preference for one candidate over another. Remember, the media
exists to make money. Unfortunately, we don't have directly supported media,
only ad supported media, and advertisers, understandably, are careful not to
alienate anyone.
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Bush: Borrowing money to try
to make his administration look good.
The biggest shortage is not enough good managers.
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Inside Wal-Mart IT
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· Score: 2, Interesting
That's sad.
"... looking like a junk heap." It's amazing what a mess the stores are now.
It's even more amazing that a huge company was so dependent on just one person for good management.
A famous venture capital manager said that there is plenty of money and plenty of ideas. The biggest shortage is not enough good managers.
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Bush: Borrowing money to try
to make his administration look good.
Wal-Mart does not play games with prices.
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Wal-Mart charges enough to make a nice profit. Every other retail store plays games with prices. Shoppers who don't want to play adversarial games go to Wal-Mart.
Here's an example of two companies playing games: We bought a Netgear FVS318 router/firewall from Fry's. It was advertised with a rebate.
After many lost hours we found: 1) The remote administration requires sending the password in the clear, so there is little remote security. 2) Netgear technical support is in Tamil Nadu, India. Netgear does not appear to have given the Tamil employees much training. 3) The log out menu choice sometimes does not log out. So, arguably no one should buy the FVS318. Maybe that's why the rebate offer.
Fry's and Netgear played another trick. The wrote a very long rebate form, with the name and the address at the top, as usual, and asked for the name and the address again at the bottom. If you didn't see the second request for name and address, or thought it was a mistake, they deny the rebate request.
People don't like playing these kind of games. Wal-Mart acts as the shopper's advocate. If a company wants to play games, Wal-Mart will stop buying from that company.
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George W. Bush's brother was on 20/20 talking about his prostitutes. Family values?
"... there are people in this world that request that the information
they receive about important people and issues be based on something other
than hearsay."
"Hearsay" is not someone saying "I saw this myself". Hearsay is
someone saying, "I heard this, but wasn't there myself." For example, Sharon
Bush said she herself saw George W. Bush using cocaine at Camp David. It's
plausible; alcoholics use cocaine to lessen the negative effects of
drunkenness. George W. Bush and his wife Laura Bush both have said publicly
that he was a problem drinker,
which is a polite phrase for alcoholic.
You cannot develop an accurate opinion by listening to the carefully crafted
phrases from media employees who would lose their jobs if they seemed to
indicate a preference for one candidate over another. Remember, the media
exists to make money. Unfortunately, we don't have directly supported media,
only ad supported media, and advertisers, understandably, are careful not to
alienate anyone.
The Bush administration is the most secretive in the history of the
United States. There is an entire book written by a Rebublican that talks
about the secrecy: Worse Than Watergate:
The Secret Presidency of George W. Bush. There are many situations in
which there is information about obvious corruption that will probably never
be fully understood because the secrecy is legal, especially after the Bush
administration wrote new secrecy laws.
For example, video of George W. Bush's brother was shown on 20/20 last Friday night talking
about his prostitutes and situations that
obviously involve conflict of interest and misuse of government influence.
"Neil-sie", as their mother Barbara Bush calls him, is fully supported
by her. He divorced his wife of 23 years and married a volunteer in Barbara
Bush's office.
Read the transcript. What will you do when you hear of literally hundreds of
situations like those in which the Bush family is able to hide the full truth,
but something inappropriate and probably dishonest obviously happened?
This is an administration that cannot be re-elected, literally cannot
be re-elected, unless a large number of people are convinced of the Bush
family's Christian and moral and family values. Kerry will win if the voters
know the truth. George W. Bush would never have been elected to anything if
the voters had known the truth.
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Bush: Borrowing money to try
to make his administration look good.
I've read the analyses. Every time there was a new fact, the "experts"
retreated from something they said before. The last issue was the signatures.
First, they could not have been signed by the Lt. Colonel. Next, they were
photocopies of the Colonel's signature. Even if the signatures were forged,
that was entirely in concert with things that happened at the time. The USAF
at that time was very, very, very corrupt, as in pretending that major,
repetitive aircraft failures did not exist. A clerk photocopying signatures
would not have been a big event. It really helps if you were there, and I was.
It's fine with me if the documents are proved forgeries. However, I haven't
seen that yet. If you have a link, I would like to see it. I would like to
meet the forger, too, who made documents that look genuine to me and fake to
almost everyone else. It was a lot of work to impress me, just one guy, a guy that
the forger could easily guess might not exist.
Back then we really struggled
with the shortcomings of the typesetting equipment we had. The cheaper
equipment needed constant maintenance. The documents look like they were done
on a machine that needed maintenance. That was a big joke back then, because
it meant that the machine was either stolen, or someone got the machine and
didn't want to spend the money to maintain it. Usually someone who did not
want to spend the money was someone who was an enthusiast like me. Usually
they got the machine on loan from someone who had a lot of money and not much
understanding of how difficult the machines were to operate, and was
embarrassed at wasting so much money, and wanted the machine out of sight. It
was something we kidded about.
The big issue is that George W. Bush acts and thinks like an
alcoholic. Alcoholics are usually angry people who act out their anger in a
destructive way. 13,000 innocent
Iraqis and their families have suffered, and tens of thousands of others.
Before, Saddam Hussein was killing Iraqis, and the Iraq government was somewhat stable.
Now the U.S. government is killing Iraqis, and the Iraq government is less stable, and you pay.
Is that, in your judgement, an improvement?
Some people say it will be at
least 50 years until the U.S. government can build a good reputation again.
All because of one highly conflicted man who is in power because he sells the U.S. government to
the highest bidder.
Proving whether George W. Bush dropped out of the Air National Guard
because he could not pass the drug tests begun in the Guard on the month he
dropped out is not necessary. The Bush administration has carried conflict of
interest in U.S. government to a new level. They have also carried deniability
to a new level. Three movies and 35 books tell a little of the story: Unprecedented
Corruption: A guide to conflict of interest in the U.S. government. Some
of those books were written by Republicans. Some of the books were written by
former members of the Bush administration. There is an overwhelming amount of
material; however, because of the carefully maintained deniability, in many
cases we may never know exactly what happened. If you didn't read the books,
you have no way of knowing how bad the corruption is.
You cannot develop an accurate opinion by listening to the carefully crafted phrases from media
employees who would lose their jobs if they seemed to indicate a preference
for one candidate over another. Remember, the media exists to make money.
Unfortunately, we don't have directly supported media, only ad supported
media, and advertisers, understandably, are careful not to alienate anyone.
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Uncovered: The Whole Truth about the Iraq War by Producer/ Director Robert Greenwald, 2003, 56 minutes. Independent film by the Producer. Web site: Uncovered. Reviews: Powell's (out of stock, no reviews) Barnes & Noble Amazon
This documentary shows the actual video of Bush administration officials justifying the war in Iraq. The overall effect is powerful.
Quotes:
"... it is a federal felony, it's a crime, to mislead and distort information and present it to the Congress." -- 23:14 minutes into the movie.
"... the administration has not been honest..."
"... very disturbing ... intervention by people particularly from Vice President Cheney's office and Vice President Cheney himself ... to produce precisely the language which would allow them ... to support the decision to go into Iraq." -- Dr. David C. MacMichael, former CIA analyst. Page 7 of the transcript, 7:32 minutes in the movie.
"It is somewhat puzzling, I think, that you can have a hundred percent certainty about the weapons of mass destruction's existence, and zero certainty about where they are." -- Hans Blix, chief weapons inspector, referring to the administration's statements, at 34:44 minutes into the movie.
This work is available several in several forms, some of which are free:
A transcript of the movie is available online. NOTE: Both forms of the transcript contain errors. The errors I've seen are minor. The quotes here have been checked against the movie.
The transcript is also available as a downloadable Adobe Acrobat PDF file. The Acrobat PDF Reader software needed to view the transcript is a free download for all computers.
You can buy the DVD online for $9.95 from Amazon or Barnes & Noble or from CafeShops.com, at a Cafe Shops online store that is inappropriately titled Disinformation. The store originally sold items connected with a humorous TV show called Disinformation.
The DVD is available on loan through Netflix.
Make your own copies: Kate McArdle, one of the producers, told me that they encourage people to make copies of the DVD and give them to friends (but not sell them, of course). Also, they encourage people to play the movie for groups of people, without extra payment.
Unprecedented - 2000 Presidential Election by Richard Ray Perez, Joan Sekler, and Robert Greenwald, 2002, reissued 2004. Web site: Unprecedented. Reviews: Barnes & Noble Amazon, DVD Amazon, VHS IMDB
From a
I'll try this. The Knoppix CD is a little complicated to configure for flash memory access; it seemed that more could be done in software. I hope this one is easier.
A CD like this is essential when using cyber cafes in poor countries especially. Booting from the CD eliminates one vulnerability to spying.
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When Saudis attack, invade Iraq?
This is not a major story. It is just meant to be a local story. For example, see this 2002 story: Secrets of Aids 'immunity'. Here is a quote, "Scientists have known since the mid-1980s that some people with HIV do not go on to develop Aids."
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Bush borrows money to kill Iraqis. 140 billion borrowed. With interest, you pay 200 billion. When Saudis attack, invade Iraq?
This is not a major story. It is just meant to be a local story. For example, see this 2002 story: Secrets of Aids 'immunity'. Here is a quote, "Scientists have known since the mid-1980s that some people with HIV do not go on to develop Aids."
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Bush borrows money to kill Iraqis. 140 billion borrowed. With interest, you pay 200 billion. When Saudis attack, invade Iraq?
Someone thought of using Jojoba seeds for biofuel. However, after giving the Jojoba plant enough water to grow fast, the resulting product was too expensive and too slow-growing.
So, I was skeptical about this plant until I read more. This plant is different. It's a tropical plant, where presumably there is enough water.
See the Jatropha curcas description and cost and photo. The Jatropha System explains the advantages.
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U.S. Gov.: Borrowing money to kill Iraqis. 140 billion borrowed. With interest, you pay 200 Billion.
I agree. That's a shocking conclusion, however, because business owners are usually a higher proportion of Republicans. Do Republicans in Crawford know something we don't know?
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U.S. Gov.: Borrowing money to kill Iraqis. 140 billion borrowed. With interest, you pay 200 Billion.
"... especially here on
The words "liberal" and "conservative" have no precise meaning, and should not be used in a logical discussion.
Supposedly, most Republicans are "conservative". But that makes no sense whatsoever. When Reagan was president, the U.S. government became by far the biggest debtor the world had ever seen. Then the "liberal" Democrat president Clinton reduced the debt enormously. Now the "conservative" Bush is borrowing money and surpassing even Reagan.
Republicans are "conservative" only in the sense that they "conserve" and "preserve" the gap between the rich and poor by borrowing money that somehow reaches the hands of the rich.
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Bush: "When Saudis attack, invade Iraq."
When I was a teenager I worked in a restaurant for a short time. There were alcoholic chefs that had both 1 and 2.
What about behavior that is of more direct concern to others? Here are traits that many people think are characteristic of George W. Bush. Do you see these traits:
Likability, anger, lying, absence of deep or analytical thinking, polarized thinking, rigid thinking, obsessive repetition, inability to perceive the needs of others and inability to understand someone different from oneself, grandiosity, believing that one's own ideas are all-important, impatience, incoherence, illogic, and mood swings.
The first needs a little explanation. Often alcoholics can be very socially engaging for short periods.
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Bush: Borrowing money to try to make his administration look good. You must pay it back.
I've read a little about Crawford. I get the impression that the newspaper's EXTREMELY negative view of George W. Bush is not so unusual that they would have to worry about people canceling their subscriptions, or advertisers boycotting the paper. Newspaper must reflect the ideas of their readers and advertisers at least a little just to stay in business.
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U.S. Gov.: Borrowing money to kill Iraqis. You must pay it back.
I have a friend like that. But, there are times when he is super crabby.
Do you see any behavior, other than drinking alcohol at 8 AM, that would make you think they were being affected by alcoholism?
Quotes from various places in the article:
"The publishers of The Iconoclast endorsed Bush four years ago, based on the things he promised, not on this smoke-screened agenda."
"He let us down."
"He merely told us to shop, spend, and pretend nothing was wrong."
"Again, he let us down."
"Job training has been cut every year that Bush has resided at the White House."
People in Crawford are in a position to know George W. Bush a little better than most citizens. It seems that the newspaper is merely saying openly what a lot of people in that town think.
Also, Bush's alcoholism is a matter of importance. For example, look at this: Is Bush drinking NOW?. For a more in-depth analysis, see this: The psychological effects of alcoholism provide a framework for understanding the Bush administration. Remember, Bush quit the Air National Guard the same month the ANG instituted drug testing. Did he fall off the wagon again?
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Bush: "When Saudis attack, invade Iraq."
Bush's alcoholism is a matter of the most extreme importance. For example, look at this: Is Bush drinking NOW?. For a more in-depth analysis, see this: The psychological effects of alcoholism provide a framework for understanding the Bush administration. Remember, Bush quit the Air National Guard the same month the ANG instituted drug testing.
You said, "If Col. Killian routinely had his secretary type documents of this type (and she said that he did), then why is it plausible that they were sent off to be typeset, when she herself stated that they reflected things she herself had typed."
If you were in the USAF at the time, it is plausible. Remember, these are people who have agreed to kill anyone, anytime, simply on the order of their government. Also, people in leadership positions were less educated then. And, the alcoholics were in the majority. They didn't want anyone opposing them, since their job depended on no one fully realizing the truth. The official rules were that they would be fired if discovered. Many of them had very little employability outside the Guard or regular Air Force. Being discovered was equivalent to losing job, family, and being on the street.
For that reason, you didn't want anyone to see memos that you wrote that opposed this behavior. Yet you needed the memos in case there was a big investigation. It was very capricious.
It's plausible that Lt. Colonel Killian was especially concerned on a weekend, or during a time when his secretary was on vacation, and took his handwritten notes to a typesetter in Houston, and asked that they be typed. Someone typeset them instead. As I said, that happened to me. Then, when the secretary returned, he handed his notes to her to type and translate into the strict military language of the time.
There was a lot of insistence on petty things, and not much attention was given to important things. For example, the model of aircraft after the one that Bush flew, the F-106 Delta Dagger (he flew the Delta Dart), had a VERY, VERY high failure rate. Some of the failures were due to parasitic oscillations in amplifiers with faulty solder joints. Everyone pretended that the F-106 was operational. However, if you used a few wrong words in a memo, someone would make a hassle over it.
I'm not the only person who thinks the documents look real. For example, see I'm an Expert, and I Say They're Not Forged. When you struggled with the old typesetting machines as much as I did, it is easy to find it laughable that someone would know enough to try to impress you by copying all the quirks.
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Bush: "When Saudis attack, invade Iraq."
By some measures, the U.S. government is the most violent government in the history of the world. The U.S. government has directly killed an estimated 3,000,000 people since the end of the Second World War in 24 military actions.
The system of violence works by creating fear in citizens so rich people can profit. Purchases of oil for war making and purchases of weapons are areas that are secret enough that those who want corruption can make huge profits.
This is only a small part of weapons research, and you only heard about it because of an accidental leak.
It's 1:20 PM. Do you know what your government is doing? No, you don't.
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Bush: When Saudis attack, invade Iraq.
I was a little surprised at what you said, so I checked the math. At 7 cents per kilowatt-hour, the cost is $6.64/month:That's approximately $1 per penny of cost per KW-Hour.
It is true that a desktop computer, with monitor off, draws a little over 1 Amp at 120 Volts, or approximately 130 Watts. I tested with an AC clip-on ammeter. This depends on the CPU, of course. I tested with a 2.2 GHz Athlon. (My meter did not measure RMS values, which means that it may be inaccurate for unusual waveforms. My meter is not particularly accurate at that low current. Does anyone have a more accurate meter?)
The conclusion is that it is better to put a computer in Standby when it is not in use. In Windows, I use Wizmo for that. A problem with that is that some computers don't recover from Standby very well. Hibernation works better, but Windows XP even has trouble recovering from hibernation on some computers.
I liked your sig: "We have to go forth and crush every world view that doesn't believe in tolerance and free speech." - David Brin
Here are others:
"When Saudis attack, invade Iraq."
"War for peace."
"Invasion to promote democratic independence."
"Bombing for social stability."
"Iraqis should be happy to be killed by those well-meaning Americans."
"Neil Bush: Prostitution for family values."
I'm not against jokes, only against immature jokes.
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Before, Saddam was killing. Now, the U.S. Gov. is killing and destabilizing, and you pay. Improvement?
There is too much stupid joking lately. Look at the beginning of most stories. Maybe 5 or 10 people are making adolescent jokes. Not only do they join every story to act like adolescents, they act like socially-challenged adolescents.
High-tech security is a valuable subject, no matter what is being monitored. Someone asks an interesting question, and a few immature people attack the author of the question!
I came here hoping that someone else had already done the engineering, and I could learn from that, and a few people waste my time.
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Bush: Borrowing money to give to the rich.
As you said, the lies are extremely extensive. The Bush administration corruption is the worst in U.S. history. Read the reviews of 3 movies and 35 recently published books that say the corruption is extremely intense: Unprecedented Corruption: A guide to conflict of interest in the U.S. government.
It is not possible to develop an accurate opinion by listening to the carefully crafted phrases from media employees who would lose their jobs if they seemed to indicate a preference for one candidate over another. Remember, the media exists to make money. Unfortunately, we don't have directly supported media, only ad supported media, and advertisers, understandably, are careful not to alienate anyone.
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Bush: Borrowing money to try to make his administration look good.
"Politicians lie all the time, as said above."
The Bush administration corruption is the worst in U.S. history. At least read the reviews of 3 movies and 35 recently published books that say the corruption is extremely intense: Unprecedented Corruption: A guide to conflict of interest in the U.S. government.
You cannot develop an accurate opinion by listening to the carefully crafted phrases from media employees who would lose their jobs if they seemed to indicate a preference for one candidate over another. Remember, the media exists to make money. Unfortunately, we don't have directly supported media, only ad supported media, and advertisers, understandably, are careful not to alienate anyone.
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Bush: Borrowing money to try to make his administration look good.
I get responses like yours a lot. It is extremely frightening. You don't know anything about Neil Bush, apparently, and you didn't even bother to read the linked ABC 20/20 News story. If you had done only that, you would have realized that Neil Bush is heavily involved with the corruption of the Bush family. Like the others, he sells government influence to get money. They are doing it together, and they are doing it extremely extensively.
"Neilsie" has certainly not been repudiated by his family. When Billy Carter took a loan that showed conflict of interest, president Jimmy Carter publicly said no one should give his brother money. "Neilsie" is Barbara Bush's name for Neil.
Check the 20/20 link for Neilsie's himself talking about his casual involvement with prostitution. The Bush family could not get elected to anything if people really understood that their "Christian family values" are a lie. For another example, see this quote from The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty:
"The official family tree provided by the Bush archivists does not include the two mentally retarded daughters of John M. Walker, and lists only two of James Smith Bush's wives, not all four of them; one of Ray Walker's two wives is omitted, and George Herbert Walker III is listed with only two, instead of three, wives."
You cannot develop an accurate opinion by listening to the carefully crafted phrases from media employees who would lose their jobs if they seemed to indicate a preference for one candidate over another. Remember, the media exists to make money. Unfortunately, we don't have directly supported media, only ad supported media, and advertisers, understandably, are careful not to alienate anyone.
At least read the reviews of 3 movies and 35 other books that say the corruption is intense: Unprecedented Corruption: A guide to conflict of interest in the U.S. government.
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Bush: Borrowing money to try to make his administration look good.
That's sad.
"... looking like a junk heap." It's amazing what a mess the stores are now.
It's even more amazing that a huge company was so dependent on just one person for good management.
A famous venture capital manager said that there is plenty of money and plenty of ideas. The biggest shortage is not enough good managers.
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Bush: Borrowing money to try to make his administration look good.
Wal-Mart charges enough to make a nice profit. Every other retail store plays games with prices. Shoppers who don't want to play adversarial games go to Wal-Mart.
Here's an example of two companies playing games: We bought a Netgear FVS318 router/firewall from Fry's. It was advertised with a rebate.
After many lost hours we found: 1) The remote administration requires sending the password in the clear, so there is little remote security. 2) Netgear technical support is in Tamil Nadu, India. Netgear does not appear to have given the Tamil employees much training. 3) The log out menu choice sometimes does not log out. So, arguably no one should buy the FVS318. Maybe that's why the rebate offer.
Fry's and Netgear played another trick. The wrote a very long rebate form, with the name and the address at the top, as usual, and asked for the name and the address again at the bottom. If you didn't see the second request for name and address, or thought it was a mistake, they deny the rebate request.
People don't like playing these kind of games. Wal-Mart acts as the shopper's advocate. If a company wants to play games, Wal-Mart will stop buying from that company.
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George W. Bush's brother was on 20/20 talking about his prostitutes. Family values?
I didn't know that. It's an awkward and unnecessary usage, however.
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Bush: Borrowing money to try to make his administration look good.
"... there are people in this world that request that the information they receive about important people and issues be based on something other than hearsay."
"Hearsay" is not someone saying "I saw this myself". Hearsay is someone saying, "I heard this, but wasn't there myself." For example, Sharon Bush said she herself saw George W. Bush using cocaine at Camp David. It's plausible; alcoholics use cocaine to lessen the negative effects of drunkenness. George W. Bush and his wife Laura Bush both have said publicly that he was a problem drinker, which is a polite phrase for alcoholic.
You cannot develop an accurate opinion by listening to the carefully crafted phrases from media employees who would lose their jobs if they seemed to indicate a preference for one candidate over another. Remember, the media exists to make money. Unfortunately, we don't have directly supported media, only ad supported media, and advertisers, understandably, are careful not to alienate anyone.
Read the reviews of 3 movies and 35 books yourself: Unprecedented Corruption: A guide to conflict of interest in the U.S. government. Then read the books themselves. If you didn't read any of the books, you probably don't suspect the strength of the evidence.
The Bush administration is the most secretive in the history of the United States. There is an entire book written by a Rebublican that talks about the secrecy: Worse Than Watergate: The Secret Presidency of George W. Bush. There are many situations in which there is information about obvious corruption that will probably never be fully understood because the secrecy is legal, especially after the Bush administration wrote new secrecy laws.
For example, video of George W. Bush's brother was shown on 20/20 last Friday night talking about his prostitutes and situations that obviously involve conflict of interest and misuse of government influence.
"Neil-sie", as their mother Barbara Bush calls him, is fully supported by her. He divorced his wife of 23 years and married a volunteer in Barbara Bush's office.
Read the transcript. What will you do when you hear of literally hundreds of situations like those in which the Bush family is able to hide the full truth, but something inappropriate and probably dishonest obviously happened?
This is an administration that cannot be re-elected, literally cannot be re-elected, unless a large number of people are convinced of the Bush family's Christian and moral and family values. Kerry will win if the voters know the truth. George W. Bush would never have been elected to anything if the voters had known the truth.
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Bush: Borrowing money to try to make his administration look good.
I've read the analyses. Every time there was a new fact, the "experts" retreated from something they said before. The last issue was the signatures. First, they could not have been signed by the Lt. Colonel. Next, they were photocopies of the Colonel's signature. Even if the signatures were forged, that was entirely in concert with things that happened at the time. The USAF at that time was very, very, very corrupt, as in pretending that major, repetitive aircraft failures did not exist. A clerk photocopying signatures would not have been a big event. It really helps if you were there, and I was.
It's fine with me if the documents are proved forgeries. However, I haven't seen that yet. If you have a link, I would like to see it. I would like to meet the forger, too, who made documents that look genuine to me and fake to almost everyone else. It was a lot of work to impress me, just one guy, a guy that the forger could easily guess might not exist.
Back then we really struggled with the shortcomings of the typesetting equipment we had. The cheaper equipment needed constant maintenance. The documents look like they were done on a machine that needed maintenance. That was a big joke back then, because it meant that the machine was either stolen, or someone got the machine and didn't want to spend the money to maintain it. Usually someone who did not want to spend the money was someone who was an enthusiast like me. Usually they got the machine on loan from someone who had a lot of money and not much understanding of how difficult the machines were to operate, and was embarrassed at wasting so much money, and wanted the machine out of sight. It was something we kidded about.
The big issue is that George W. Bush acts and thinks like an alcoholic. Alcoholics are usually angry people who act out their anger in a destructive way. 13,000 innocent Iraqis and their families have suffered, and tens of thousands of others. Before, Saddam Hussein was killing Iraqis, and the Iraq government was somewhat stable. Now the U.S. government is killing Iraqis, and the Iraq government is less stable, and you pay. Is that, in your judgement, an improvement?
Some people say it will be at least 50 years until the U.S. government can build a good reputation again. All because of one highly conflicted man who is in power because he sells the U.S. government to the highest bidder.
Proving whether George W. Bush dropped out of the Air National Guard because he could not pass the drug tests begun in the Guard on the month he dropped out is not necessary. The Bush administration has carried conflict of interest in U.S. government to a new level. They have also carried deniability to a new level. Three movies and 35 books tell a little of the story: Unprecedented Corruption: A guide to conflict of interest in the U.S. government. Some of those books were written by Republicans. Some of the books were written by former members of the Bush administration. There is an overwhelming amount of material; however, because of the carefully maintained deniability, in many cases we may never know exactly what happened. If you didn't read the books, you have no way of knowing how bad the corruption is.
You cannot develop an accurate opinion by listening to the carefully crafted phrases from media employees who would lose their jobs if they seemed to indicate a preference for one candidate over another. Remember, the media exists to make money. Unfortunately, we don't have directly supported media, only ad supported media, and advertisers, understandably, are careful not to alienate anyone.
See this section of the same article: The psychological effects of alcoholism provide a framework for understanding the Bush administration.
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George W. Bush's brother was on
Quote from the Slashdot story: "quick analyzation"
Should be "quick analysis". Slashdot is the only publication I've seen where editors do not need to know their own language.
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George W. Bush's brother was on 20/20 talking about his prostitutes. Family values?