Letter to the Editor
The war with Iran will happen because the Republicans need a new war for political cover for the 2006 elections. With the Republican Party poised to destroy social security they will need a serious distraction in order to hold onto power in the next election. How will the Republicans distract America from putting old people out on the street and record borrowing and deficits? They need a new fresh war. And since war seems to be necessary for Republicans to get elected on a record of failure - they will have to start another war for their political survival. And Iran is next on their list.
Letter to the Editor
When Bush talks about "privatizing" social security - what does that really mean? Doesn't that really mean that he's going to take our public tax dollars that we pay to help the elderly and put it in the pockets of private people (his friends) instead? Just like "protecting" Social Security is really a code name for destroying it. We're supposed to borrow money from the Communists in China to gamble it in the stock market and use those funds to make the government the biggest stock holder in the private US economy? I think someone has their head in a place where the sun don't shine. We are really in trouble.
I have been working with nonprofit organizations for years. I have what may be the best spam filter on the planet and it costs me very little to run it. I'm not rich - but I can afford to give this service away.
Nonprofit orgs waste a lot of time and money every year deleting spam and viruses.Most solutions are expensive and just plain don't work. The way I see it - I'd rather nonprofit employees spend their time doing good work rather than spending hours every week deleting unwanted email. And - I have a system that solves the problem.
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The setup is simple. Once you decide to do it all I do is make an entry in a table on my servers telling the system what domains get forwarded to what servers. Then - you change your MX record from pointing to your email server to pointing to my server network. The email comes to me - I clean it - and then you get it. It really is that easy.
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As you know the mid term elections are just two years away and by then people are going to be tired of Iraq. Republicans need a fresh new war to keep up the momentum - and that fresh new war will be Iran.
Of course by then the number of idiots who volunteer will have dropped off so the draft is coming back. Bush will need to harvest your children as props in his illusion of "America - a nation at War" theme.
The sad part is that American are stupid enough that it's going to work. But - when they start saying "who would have known?" - I did - and a lot of others see this coming. It's just too bad that the only opposition to this would be the Democrats who are generally spineless. There's no voice for reality in the government these days.
Letter to the Editor
Bush is cutting law enforcement so that he can make up for the funds he spent to give huge tax breaks to the rich. This on the heals of his proposal to destroy social security. The term "privatize" is a code word that really means give the money to rich private individuals instead of the public. We need to quit gutting society and go back to taxing the rich. I'm tired of rich people paying a lower tax rate than the middle class. We are a nation in decline and going down fast. Terrorist don't need to attack us. They can just sit back and watch as we destroy ourselves.