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Bush says that the national anthem should be sung in English, not Spanish. What I find amazing is that people want to sing the anthem at all considering the stolen elections, the fake war in Iraq, the domestic spying, the secret CIA torture camps, the corruption, lawlessness, and corporate greed. And in spite of being threatened with deportation and prison these hard working people still want to sing the anthem. I say why not? But Bush says if they are going to live in America they need to learn the language. And Bush gets to say that because he's the "decider".
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In the face of rising gas prices and record profits by the oil companies the Republicans have a brilliant idea as to how to fix the gas price crisis. The solution - give everyone a $100 election year bribe. It's not just that it's a really bad idea, but that the Republican's think the voters are dumb enough to fall for it. Or maybe they understand the voter, which is even worse. I guess they are so used to getting bribes that it never occurs to them that it's wrong. We are a nation in serious trouble.
Every network is featuring Cynthia McKinny's remarks calling someone a fool. As if that is some kind of news or something. why is calling someone a "fool" even interesting? because she's a blak woman and the news media is trying to put the nigers in the back of the bus. CNN has had the story on their front page for almost a week now.
I've been a big fan of Clamav as an anti-virus solution for server side spam filtering under Linux. But I'm running a 64 bit server and the server daemon hasbeen dying with segment faults a few times an hour. I set up a process to check and restart it every 5 minutes and with 3 servers I'm never down at the same time, but it was a real annoyance.
I finally found a solution that was a one like patch that fixed the problem. I am however concerned that the folks at Clam AV are not taking it seriously and have yet to offer an official fix. I don't think they get it that reliability is important.
To fic the problem go to the file:
libclamav/zziplib/zzip-zip.c
After the lines:
#include sys/stat.h
#include unistd.h
Add this line and recompile.
#include "others.h"
http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=84509
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U.S. Secretary of the Treasury John Snow said Sunday that the United States should end it's policy of lending money to poor nations and forgiving the debt. I question if it's wise to take that position now that we are 9 trillion dollars in debt ourselves. At some point in the future we are going to have to stop our borrow and spend policies and start paying down our national debt. If America takes a harsh position against the debt of poor countries then who will have compassion for us when we come to the world with our hat in our hand asking for help? America needs to be both compassionate towards others and fiscally responsible for our own borrowing. Right now we are neither.
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Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger strongly criticized Bush Saturday because he refused to declare a federal disaster for California's fragile levees. And Arnold is surprised by this? In 2004 Arnold could have fixed the levy problem and most all other California problems by opposing Bush for president so that the "dicider" wouldn't continue to ruin America. But instead Arnold make a last minute run to Ohio to help put Bush over the top. Had Arnold declared Bush to be the worst president ever then Bush would have lost and Arnold would get his levy money from a new president.
Now it's election year for Arnold and his karma has returned to haunt him. He put politics ahead of the people. It was more important to be loyal to Republicans than to act for the good of the people. So if there is any silver lining to this it is a lesson for people in both parties that if you don't put the people first then you will suffer the consequences. Unfortunately the people have to suffer the consequences too.