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I think that the U.S. is experiencing a wholesale social breakdown, not just isolated problems. I could give many, many examples of people who are having a very difficult time in life, but, if they are people you don't know, the examples might not interest you. So, I will use Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Dick Cheney and their families as examples. The voters in the U.S. picked them as the best people to lead the country. If they are the best, consider the problems of the average person. The social breakdown is the reason for the self-destruction of U.S. companies and for the unprecedented government corruption in the United States.
Both U.S. President George W. Bush and U.S. Vice-President Dick Cheney are alcoholics. Dick Cheney has two DUIs and George W. Bush one:
DUI means "Driving Under the Influence" of alcohol. A DUI is a conviction for a very, very serious crime, a crime that endangers everyone on the road, a crime that often kills people. A DUI conviction means that the driver was so needing to pursue alcoholic behavior that he or she was willing to take a chance of murder.
According to Laura Bush and George W. Bush himself, she threatened to leave him because of his drinking.
Most people have little experience with alcoholics. If you know one, ask him or her about the information presented here. Alcoholics say that it usually requires "4 to 6 years" of driving drunk before they get a DUI. (If you want to investigate alcoholism, it's easy to find alcoholics and recovered alcoholics in the United States. Anyone can go to meetings of Alcoholics Anonymous. In the small city of Portland, Oregon, USA, there are 27 AA meetings each week, three each day.)
You may have heard the saying "Once an alcoholic, always an alcoholic." This does NOT mean, "Once an alcoholic, always a problem drinker." It means that those who have become alcoholics typically have many, many characteristics of an alcoholic personality, and that those characteristics don't go away when the person stops drinking.
For example, alcoholics are often very socially engaging and likable.
Former U.S. president Bill Clinton was not an alcoholic, but his parents were violent alcoholics. You can read the book. Bill Clinton's misuse of sexuality is typical of the children of alcoholism-influenced families.
Here are some typical characteristics of an alcoholic personality. You can decide for yourself if they apply to George W. Bush. I have, however, supplied a few links to articles that support this view, and the books listed at the bottom support it also. Note that I've just pulled this information together by quick Googling as a very part-time effort. There is a huge amount of information available, too much to mention here:
Absence of deep or analytical thinking (If anyone has any information about George W. Bush showing evidence of analytical or sophisticated thinking, please write to me.)
Polarized thinking. Mr. Bush's statement, "you are either with us or against us" is an example. Another example is his statement, "Look my job isn't to try to nuance. I think moral clarity is important... this is evil versus good."
Rigid thinking. A praising April 2, 2003 article about Bush in USA Today newspaper says, "He has a special epithet fo
If the educators are the kind of people who are routinely dishonest to get more money, you cannot expect them to be the kind of people who want do a good job.
At least two of those books were written by former highly placed members of the Bush administration. Republicans are saying George W. Bush is incompetent, not just Democrats.
What is trolling? Is trolling saying something that is demonstrably true, but
inconvenient?
What part of the arrest records of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney don't you
believe? Do you think that someone who gets a DUI is someone who is having no
problems with inner conflict?
According to Laura Bush and George W. Bush, he had such a bad drug problem
that she threatened to leave him. Are you saying Mr. Bush had no such
problems?
A DUI is a conviction for a very, very serious crime, a crime that endangers
everyone on the road, a crime that often kills people.
Noelle Bush was arrested and charged with fraud, not for trying to buy
marijuana, but for trying to by an anti-anxiety drug. Are you arguing that she
thought she had anxiety, but she didn't really, everything was fine in her
life?
Are all these books just trolls?
Perfectly Legal: The covert campaign to rig our tax system to benefit
the super rich -- and cheat everybody else by David Cay Johnston,
2003.
House of Bush, house of Saud: The secret relationship between the
world's two most powerful dynasties by Craig Unger, 2004. Available as a
book and as excerpts on CD.
Worse than Watergate: The secret presidency of George W. Bush by
John W. Dean, 2004.
The book on Bush: How George W. (mis)leads America by Eric Alterman
and Mark Green, 2004. Available as a book and excerpts on CD.
Fraud: The strategy behind the Bush lies and why the media didn't tell
you by Paul Waldman, 2004, Sourcebooks, Inc. Paul Waldman is the past
associate director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center and holds a Ph.D. in
communications.
American dynasty: Aristocracy, fortune, and the politics of deceit in
the house of Bush by Kevin Phillips, 2004.
The price of loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the
education of Paul O'Neill by Ron Suskind. Available as a book and excerpts
on CD.
Against all enemies: Inside America's war on terror by Richard A.
Clarke, 2004. Available as a book and excerpts on cassette and CD.
Boy genius: Karl Rove, The brains behind the remarkable political
triumph of George W. Bush by Lou Dubose, Jan Reid, and Carl M. Cannon,
2003. George W. Bush has a habit of giving disrespectful nicknames to those
with whom he works. "Boy Genius" is one of Mr. Bush's nicknames for Karl Rove.
Mr. Bush also calls Karl Rove, "Turd Blossom".
Supreme injustice: How the high court hijacked election 2000 by
Alan M. Dershowitz, 2001.
The president of good & evil: The ethics of George W. Bush by Peter
Singer, 2004, Dutton. The cover of the book says, "Paul Singer reveals the
gigantic gap that exists between Bush's noble rhetoric and the down and dirty
realities of this president."
Bush's war for reelection: Iraq, the White House, and the people by
James Moore, 2004.
Thieves in high places: They've stolen our country -- and its time to
take it back by Jim Hightower, 2003.
Lies (and the lying liars who tell them): A fair and balanced look at
the right by Al Franken, 2003, Dutton.
The buying of the President, 2004: Who's really bankrolling Bush and
his Democratic challengers -- and what they expect in return by Charles
Lewis and the Center for Public Integrity, 2004, Perennial.
The lies of George W. Bush: Mastering the politics of deception by
David Corn, 2003.
Had enough? A handbook for fighting back by James Carville with
Jeff Nussbaum, 2003.
Bushwomen: Tales of a cynical species by Laura Flanders, 2004.
Global village idiot: Dubya, dumb jokes, and one last word before you
vote by John O'Farrell.
The secret history of the CIA by Joseph J. Trento, 2001.
Sorry, forgot to preview. (I'm supposed to be fixing bugs and delivering a new build today, so I rushed to post my comment.) The link to the first arrest record of each man was incorrect in my comment above:
The problems with family in the U.S. are much, much worse than you are saying. Even when there is no divorce, a high percentage of families are disfunctional. For example, both U.S. President George W. Bush and U.S. Vice-President Dick Cheney are alcoholics. Dick Cheney has two DUIs and George W. Bush one:
Most people have little experience with alcoholics. If you know one, ask him or her about this. Alcoholics say that it requires "4 to 6 years" of driving drunk before they get a DUI. (DUI means "Driving Under the Influence of an intoxicating drug.) They will tell you that "once an alcoholic, always an alcoholic".
While you are talking to a (recovered) alcoholic, ask them about the other characteristics of alcoholics, such as the black-and-white thinking ("You are either with us or against us") of George W. Bush. Alcoholics are often very socially engaging and likable. At other times, alcoholics are often very angry and violent, for example, consider the war in Iraq that even hawks agree serves no purpose. It's easy to find alcoholics and recovered alcoholics in the United States. Anyone can go to meetings of Alcoholics Anonymous. In the small city of Portland, Oregon, USA, there are 27 AA meetings each week, three each day.
Former U.S. president Bill Clinton's parents were violent alcoholics. You can
read the book. Bill Clinton's misuse of sexuality is typical of alcoholism-influenced families.
Family life is so stressful in the U.S. that children turn to drugs to try to cope:
"The daughter of Florida Gov. Jeb Bush was arrested...... while allegedly trying to buy the anti-anxiety drug Xanax." (Jeb Bush is George W. Bush's brother.) Why was she willing to break the law to buy a drug to become less anxious? Because living in her family is very anxiety-producing?
George W. Bush's daughters seem to be imitating their alcoholic father: "Barbara and Jenna Bush were both charged ". Ask yourself, why do these teenage women feel they need a drug like alcohol so badly that they are willing to break the law?
Don't try to talk about this with most Americans, however. They have been told many times that the U.S. is a "Superpower" and that "The U.S. is the best country in the world". (My father says that, for example.) Most of them are unwilling to look at the problems and therefore don't truly love the United States. There is so much pain in the life of many Americans that looking at one more problem would be an overload beyond their ability.
The disfunctionality of families in the U.S. has created a social breakdown that affects everything in U.S. life. For example, consider breakdowns of large companies such as the Enron fraud and the WorldCom fraud and the Tyco fraud.
The disfunctionality of families in the U.S. has created corruption in the U.S. federal, state, and local governments:
Those who want corruption in the U.S. federal and state governments arrange that there is not enough money to do the work. This is happening throughout the United States. Here is a quote from an article written by the president of the Oregon State Bar Association:
I'm disappointed with the quality of the articles.
The major issue is that it is far more difficult to improve lenses than it is to improve digital sensors. The development of lenses is already very mature.
It often happens that a digicam has a high number of pixels, but a poor lens, so that the captured image is of poor quality.
If you truly understand yourself, you will stop liking to view violence. Those who like violent games are only seeing the game as a symbol for their own anger. If they work on their anger directly, they will not need the game.
Maybe you have never asked your senators to stop selling the government to special interests. The Saudis leaders are irritated at George W. Bush right now (one of them called him "goofy"), so you are paying more for gasoline. But, of course, the Bush family will make more money, since they are in the oil profit business, through the Carlyle Group, I understand, and through other involvements.
George W. Bush likes to give people disrespecful nicknames. He sometimes calls Karl Rove "turd blossom". Read all about it in the book Boy Genius by Lou Dubose. If you look at the front cover, you see that the word "Boy" is under the photo of Bush, and the word "Genius" is under the photo of Karl Rove. Karl Rove designed the misleading ads about John Kerry that are running now. Before him, the Republican party had Lee Atwater, who also believed in winning through dishonesty. When Lee Atwater got a brain tumor at age 40, he decided that maybe he was dying because of his dishonesty. But it was too late to change his behavior; he died two months later.
If George W. Bush says that the chief architect of his political success is a "turd blossom", who are we to argue? If a Saudi who knows George W. Bush well calls him "goofy", who are we to say the word does not apply?
It's a Slashdot comment. I have real work I'm doing; Slashdot is a distraction from it. I'm typing too fast, and not looking at what I've typed. Obviously, semantics.
Another article: The United States of Oil. Quote from the article: "The bin Laden family and other members of Saudi Arabia's oil-wealthy elite have contributed mightily to several Bush family ventures, even as the American energy industry helped put Bush in office." [My emphasis]
The issue here is that there is a lot more happening than most U.S. taxpayers suspect. They pay for the U.S. government, and they have a right to a complete understanding.
I've never understood why people voluntarily give themselves login names like "The Confused One" as you have done. Didn't it ever occur to you that name might weaken any argument you make?
Miami Herald, Jan. 23, 2002, Hundreds cast votes illegally in Broward:"The irregularities in Broward cast further doubt on the hotly contested Nov. 7 presidential election and amplify similar findings of illegal voting in Miami-Dade."
The issue of this patent may be finished, but the larger issue of why the
patent office is not receiving enough funding is extremely important.
Those who want corruption in the U.S. federal and state governments have found
a new way of accomplishing it. They arrange that there is not enough money to
do the work. This is happening throughout the United States. Here is a quote
from an article written by the president of the Oregon State Bar Association:
"The crippling loss of nearly one-third of their staff have left our [Oregon State] courts
unable to hear criminal cases such as car theft, shoplifting, prostitution,
fraud and identity theft. Criminals, meanwhile, have figured this out and in
some cases are operating virtually unchecked by a broken public safety
system." [From "In Our Opinion", by Charles Williamson. Published in the
Oregonian newspaper on 2003-06-24. Available from OregonLive.com for a charge
for archive access.]
The U.S. is a rich country. It is not that there is not enough money. This is
widespread corruption. This is deliberate degradation of government by those
who want to use governmental power to make money.
The corruption in the U.S. government is becoming severe. For example, read the book, House of
Bush, House of Saud: The Secret Relationship Between the World's Two Most
Powerful Dynasties. (I make no money from book purchases.) If you haven't been reading books and magazine articles about this is the last 20 years, you will learn that a close Bush family friend
knows Osama bin Laden, and that George W. Bush served in the national guard with someone
who has done a large amount of business with one of Osama bin Laden's
brothers, and with the Bush family.
This week the U.S. Supreme Court is hearing a
case about U.S. vice-president Dick Cheney's secret activities involving
large oil businesses. One of the Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, Antonin
Scalia, is a long-time friend of Cheney and is judging this case, even though
there are strong rules against conflict of interest.
Here are some tips for those who plan to take an interest
in U.S. government corruption:
1) Most people don't read books. Only 2% read non-fiction about subjects other
than their work. So, although there is plenty of information available about
U.S. government corruption, most people don't know that.
Television, magazine, and newspaper news reporters rely on being granted
access to politicians, and therefore cannot say anything very negative without
risking losing their jobs.
Only books have comprehensive information. A book author has the luxury of
spending two years gathering facts.
Of course, not all books are written by authors who care primarily about the
facts. Bob Woodward, for example, is known for being especially positive
toward those who grant him access. That creates a kind of blackmail in which
people grant him access to avoid having negative things written about them.
Those who corrupt government for money don't care about what book authors
say because only 2% of the population reads books.
2) When someone is reputed to be an "oilman", that does not mean he has an
interest in geology. That means that he is interested in profit.
It's wrong to say that the U.S. government goes to war over oil. The amount of
oil is the same. It is who gets the oil profit that motivates U.S. government
violence.
My evaluation only took three whole days. That's because many hosting providers could be eliminated very quickly. Many provide a very narrow range of services, connected with selling web site design, for example.
Many hosting providers can be eliminated because their web pages indicate that they are badly managed.
Yes, Powweb makes changes without warning their customers. Stupid. One Powweb tech support person told me that fundamental changes were made to the OS without logging them!
One influential tech support person at Powweb was very immature and very willing to lie. I see no evidence he is still at Powweb.
I think clients could be warned that there are often problem with Yahoo, AOL, and Hotmail email, and offered a free alternative if they want it. Properly introduced, I think a free, business-only email account would be well received.
About two years ago, I reviewed 550 web hosting providers and came to the conclusion that PowWeb was the best for low- and medium-traffic sites. I've had to explain to customers that, even though Powweb is inexpensive, it is better than all the $30/month web hosting providers I've seen.
I should have mentioned not to use Yahoo, also. Yahoo has shown itself to be very adversarial also, with its tricky practices opting users into receiving ads.
He could give free email accounts using Powweb as a web host. (650 email accounts allowed for $7.77 per month.) Powweb seems to be the best web hosting provider. Since all the mail would be coming from and going to his own domain, it can't be blocked. Isn't that a complete solution?
He could provide instructions to prospective customers about how to configure a new account in each of several email clients. He could tell them to use only their new account to communicate with him. Since the email activity would be only Powweb moving messages from one of their computers to another, there is unlikely to be any loss. (It's easy for a customer to know if he didn't successfully transmit a message to the Powweb ISP, because he will get an immediate error message.)
Make it a rule that you will not take anyone as a client unless they have an email address with someone other company than Hotmail or AOL. Recommend an email company, and suggest they have an email address just for your messages.
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"What do you folks think?"
I think that the U.S. is experiencing a wholesale social breakdown, not just isolated problems. I could give many, many examples of people who are having a very difficult time in life, but, if they are people you don't know, the examples might not interest you. So, I will use Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Dick Cheney and their families as examples. The voters in the U.S. picked them as the best people to lead the country. If they are the best, consider the problems of the average person. The social breakdown is the reason for the self-destruction of U.S. companies and for the unprecedented government corruption in the United States.
Both U.S. President George W. Bush and U.S. Vice-President Dick Cheney are alcoholics. Dick Cheney has two DUIs and George W. Bush one:
George W. Bush DUI, 1st record of arrest
George W. Bush DUI, 2nd record of arrest
Dick Cheney DUI, 1st DUI arrest record
Dick Cheney DUI, 2nd DUI arrest record
DUI means "Driving Under the Influence" of alcohol. A DUI is a conviction for a very, very serious crime, a crime that endangers everyone on the road, a crime that often kills people. A DUI conviction means that the driver was so needing to pursue alcoholic behavior that he or she was willing to take a chance of murder.
According to Laura Bush and George W. Bush himself, she threatened to leave him because of his drinking.
Most people have little experience with alcoholics. If you know one, ask him or her about the information presented here. Alcoholics say that it usually requires "4 to 6 years" of driving drunk before they get a DUI. (If you want to investigate alcoholism, it's easy to find alcoholics and recovered alcoholics in the United States. Anyone can go to meetings of Alcoholics Anonymous. In the small city of Portland, Oregon, USA, there are 27 AA meetings each week, three each day.)
You may have heard the saying "Once an alcoholic, always an alcoholic." This does NOT mean, "Once an alcoholic, always a problem drinker." It means that those who have become alcoholics typically have many, many characteristics of an alcoholic personality, and that those characteristics don't go away when the person stops drinking.
For example, alcoholics are often very socially engaging and likable.
Former U.S. president Bill Clinton was not an alcoholic, but his parents were violent alcoholics. You can read the book. Bill Clinton's misuse of sexuality is typical of the children of alcoholism-influenced families.
Here are some typical characteristics of an alcoholic personality. You can decide for yourself if they apply to George W. Bush. I have, however, supplied a few links to articles that support this view, and the books listed at the bottom support it also. Note that I've just pulled this information together by quick Googling as a very part-time effort. There is a huge amount of information available, too much to mention here:
Yes, it is deliberate fraud.
If the educators are the kind of people who are routinely dishonest to get more money, you cannot expect them to be the kind of people who want do a good job.
At least two of those books were written by former highly placed members of the Bush administration. Republicans are saying George W. Bush is incompetent, not just Democrats.
He lied. They died.
Often something goes wrong with no runtime error. Those bugs are often really, really difficult to find.
What is trolling? Is trolling saying something that is demonstrably true, but inconvenient?
What part of the arrest records of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney don't you believe? Do you think that someone who gets a DUI is someone who is having no problems with inner conflict?
According to Laura Bush and George W. Bush, he had such a bad drug problem that she threatened to leave him. Are you saying Mr. Bush had no such problems?
A DUI is a conviction for a very, very serious crime, a crime that endangers everyone on the road, a crime that often kills people.
Noelle Bush was arrested and charged with fraud, not for trying to buy marijuana, but for trying to by an anti-anxiety drug. Are you arguing that she thought she had anxiety, but she didn't really, everything was fine in her life?
Are all these books just trolls?
Sorry, forgot to preview. (I'm supposed to be fixing bugs and delivering a new build today, so I rushed to post my comment.) The link to the first arrest record of each man was incorrect in my comment above:
George W. Bush DUI, 1st record of arrest
George W. Bush DUI, 2nd record of arrest
Dick Cheney DUI, 1st DUI arrest record
Dick Cheney DUI, 2nd DUI arrest record
The problems with family in the U.S. are much, much worse than you are saying. Even when there is no divorce, a high percentage of families are disfunctional. For example, both U.S. President George W. Bush and U.S. Vice-President Dick Cheney are alcoholics. Dick Cheney has two DUIs and George W. Bush one:
Bush DUI, 1st record of arrest
Bush DUI, 2nd record of arrest
Cheney DUI, 1st DUI arrest record
Cheney DUI, 2nd DUI arrest record
Most people have little experience with alcoholics. If you know one, ask him or her about this. Alcoholics say that it requires "4 to 6 years" of driving drunk before they get a DUI. (DUI means "Driving Under the Influence of an intoxicating drug.) They will tell you that "once an alcoholic, always an alcoholic".
While you are talking to a (recovered) alcoholic, ask them about the other characteristics of alcoholics, such as the black-and-white thinking ("You are either with us or against us") of George W. Bush. Alcoholics are often very socially engaging and likable. At other times, alcoholics are often very angry and violent, for example, consider the war in Iraq that even hawks agree serves no purpose. It's easy to find alcoholics and recovered alcoholics in the United States. Anyone can go to meetings of Alcoholics Anonymous. In the small city of Portland, Oregon, USA, there are 27 AA meetings each week, three each day.
Former U.S. president Bill Clinton's parents were violent alcoholics. You can read the book. Bill Clinton's misuse of sexuality is typical of alcoholism-influenced families.
Family life is so stressful in the U.S. that children turn to drugs to try to cope:
"The daughter of Florida Gov. Jeb Bush was arrested...
George W. Bush's daughters seem to be imitating their alcoholic father: "Barbara and Jenna Bush were both charged ". Ask yourself, why do these teenage women feel they need a drug like alcohol so badly that they are willing to break the law?
Don't try to talk about this with most Americans, however. They have been told many times that the U.S. is a "Superpower" and that "The U.S. is the best country in the world". (My father says that, for example.) Most of them are unwilling to look at the problems and therefore don't truly love the United States. There is so much pain in the life of many Americans that looking at one more problem would be an overload beyond their ability.
The disfunctionality of families in the U.S. has created a social breakdown that affects everything in U.S. life. For example, consider breakdowns of large companies such as the Enron fraud and the WorldCom fraud and the Tyco fraud.
The disfunctionality of families in the U.S. has created corruption in the U.S. federal, state, and local governments:
Those who want corruption in the U.S. federal and state governments arrange that there is not enough money to do the work. This is happening throughout the United States. Here is a quote from an article written by the president of the Oregon State Bar Association:
"The c
B4RSK, I agree with what you said.
I'm disappointed with the quality of the articles.
The major issue is that it is far more difficult to improve lenses than it is to improve digital sensors. The development of lenses is already very mature.
It often happens that a digicam has a high number of pixels, but a poor lens, so that the captured image is of poor quality.
If you truly understand yourself, you will stop liking to view violence. Those who like violent games are only seeing the game as a symbol for their own anger. If they work on their anger directly, they will not need the game.
Read The Primal Scream: Primal Therapy: The Cure for Neurosis
by Arthur Janov.
Also read Gestalt Therapy: Excitement and Growth in the Human Personality
by Frederick S. (Fritz) Perls, Ralph Hefferline, PaulGoodman.
I don't profit from book sales. Those are Amazon's codes for the books exclusively.
Here is an article I wrote for a friend about other books I would recommend: Read the Recent Great Books.
Maybe you have never asked your senators to stop selling the government to special interests. The Saudis leaders are irritated at George W. Bush right now (one of them called him "goofy"), so you are paying more for gasoline. But, of course, the Bush family will make more money, since they are in the oil profit business, through the Carlyle Group, I understand, and through other involvements.
George W. Bush likes to give people disrespecful nicknames. He sometimes calls Karl Rove "turd blossom". Read all about it in the book Boy Genius by Lou Dubose. If you look at the front cover, you see that the word "Boy" is under the photo of Bush, and the word "Genius" is under the photo of Karl Rove. Karl Rove designed the misleading ads about John Kerry that are running now. Before him, the Republican party had Lee Atwater, who also believed in winning through dishonesty. When Lee Atwater got a brain tumor at age 40, he decided that maybe he was dying because of his dishonesty. But it was too late to change his behavior; he died two months later.
If George W. Bush says that the chief architect of his political success is a "turd blossom", who are we to argue? If a Saudi who knows George W. Bush well calls him "goofy", who are we to say the word does not apply?
It's a Slashdot comment. I have real work I'm doing; Slashdot is a distraction from it. I'm typing too fast, and not looking at what I've typed. Obviously, semantics.
The U.S. is invading countries and killing people, and you are worried about symantics? The issue of the corruption of the U.S. government is severe.
You know what I mean: The people no longer have control.
Correction: TotalFinaELF.
Another article: The United States of Oil. Quote from the article: "The bin Laden family and other members of Saudi Arabia's oil-wealthy elite have contributed mightily to several Bush family ventures, even as the American energy industry helped put Bush in office." [My emphasis]
The issue here is that there is a lot more happening than most U.S. taxpayers suspect. They pay for the U.S. government, and they have a right to a complete understanding.
I've never understood why people voluntarily give themselves login names like "The Confused One" as you have done. Didn't it ever occur to you that name might weaken any argument you make?
I had never heard of TotalFinalELF until I read the book, House of Bush, House of Saud: The Secret Relationship Between the World's Two Most Powerful Dynasties . That book says that TotalFinalELF is an investor in the Carlyle Group, a company owned by the Bush family and friends. So, whoever is doing the corrupting, they are doing it together.
Miami Herald, Jan. 23, 2002, Hundreds cast votes illegally in Broward: "The irregularities in Broward cast further doubt on the hotly contested Nov. 7 presidential election and amplify similar findings of illegal voting in Miami-Dade."
Palm Beach Post, May 27, 2002, Felon Purge Sacrificed Innocent Voters .
Quoting you: "The United States is not a democracy. Never was intended to be one."
So, who controls the U.S. government then? That's the entire issue: The people have less and less control now.
Maybe my comment did not go into enough detail. Should we believe an AC or a book by Alan Dershowitz, who is a legal scholar?
The issue of this patent may be finished, but the larger issue of why the patent office is not receiving enough funding is extremely important.
Those who want corruption in the U.S. federal and state governments have found a new way of accomplishing it. They arrange that there is not enough money to do the work. This is happening throughout the United States. Here is a quote from an article written by the president of the Oregon State Bar Association:
"The crippling loss of nearly one-third of their staff have left our [Oregon State] courts unable to hear criminal cases such as car theft, shoplifting, prostitution, fraud and identity theft. Criminals, meanwhile, have figured this out and in some cases are operating virtually unchecked by a broken public safety system." [From "In Our Opinion", by Charles Williamson. Published in the Oregonian newspaper on 2003-06-24. Available from OregonLive.com for a charge for archive access.]
The U.S. is a rich country. It is not that there is not enough money. This is widespread corruption. This is deliberate degradation of government by those who want to use governmental power to make money.
The corruption in the U.S. government is becoming severe. For example, read the book, House of Bush, House of Saud: The Secret Relationship Between the World's Two Most Powerful Dynasties. (I make no money from book purchases.) If you haven't been reading books and magazine articles about this is the last 20 years, you will learn that a close Bush family friend knows Osama bin Laden, and that George W. Bush served in the national guard with someone who has done a large amount of business with one of Osama bin Laden's brothers, and with the Bush family.
This week the U.S. Supreme Court is hearing a case about U.S. vice-president Dick Cheney's secret activities involving large oil businesses. One of the Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, Antonin Scalia, is a long-time friend of Cheney and is judging this case, even though there are strong rules against conflict of interest.
Remember that it was Republicans on the U.S. Supreme Court that decided that George W. Bush would be president of the U.S., not the voters. For more about that, see the book Supreme Injustice: How the High Court Hijacked Election 2000 by Alan M. Dershowitz
Here are some tips for those who plan to take an interest in U.S. government corruption:
1) Most people don't read books. Only 2% read non-fiction about subjects other than their work. So, although there is plenty of information available about U.S. government corruption, most people don't know that.
Television, magazine, and newspaper news reporters rely on being granted access to politicians, and therefore cannot say anything very negative without risking losing their jobs.
Only books have comprehensive information. A book author has the luxury of spending two years gathering facts.
Of course, not all books are written by authors who care primarily about the facts. Bob Woodward, for example, is known for being especially positive toward those who grant him access. That creates a kind of blackmail in which people grant him access to avoid having negative things written about them.
Those who corrupt government for money don't care about what book authors say because only 2% of the population reads books.
2) When someone is reputed to be an "oilman", that does not mean he has an interest in geology. That means that he is interested in profit.
It's wrong to say that the U.S. government goes to war over oil. The amount of oil is the same. It is who gets the oil profit that motivates U.S. government violence.
My evaluation only took three whole days. That's because many hosting providers could be eliminated very quickly. Many provide a very narrow range of services, connected with selling web site design, for example.
Many hosting providers can be eliminated because their web pages indicate that they are badly managed.
An woman from India who worked in India's embassy in London told me, "Visiting India is not a vacation. It's work."
Yes, Powweb makes changes without warning their customers. Stupid. One Powweb tech support person told me that fundamental changes were made to the OS without logging them!
One influential tech support person at Powweb was very immature and very willing to lie. I see no evidence he is still at Powweb.
I think clients could be warned that there are often problem with Yahoo, AOL, and Hotmail email, and offered a free alternative if they want it. Properly introduced, I think a free, business-only email account would be well received.
Do you have any experience with Powweb?
About two years ago, I reviewed 550 web hosting providers and came to the conclusion that PowWeb was the best for low- and medium-traffic sites. I've had to explain to customers that, even though Powweb is inexpensive, it is better than all the $30/month web hosting providers I've seen.
I should have mentioned not to use Yahoo, also. Yahoo has shown itself to be very adversarial also, with its tricky practices opting users into receiving ads.
He could give free email accounts using Powweb as a web host. (650 email accounts allowed for $7.77 per month.) Powweb seems to be the best web hosting provider. Since all the mail would be coming from and going to his own domain, it can't be blocked. Isn't that a complete solution?
He could provide instructions to prospective customers about how to configure a new account in each of several email clients. He could tell them to use only their new account to communicate with him. Since the email activity would be only Powweb moving messages from one of their computers to another, there is unlikely to be any loss. (It's easy for a customer to know if he didn't successfully transmit a message to the Powweb ISP, because he will get an immediate error message.)
Try Acronis TrueImage. Makes backups while Windows XP is running. Has scheduler.
Make it a rule that you will not take anyone as a client unless they have an email address with someone other company than Hotmail or AOL. Recommend an email company, and suggest they have an email address just for your messages.