Political Rants

I got the names screwed up and I thought Trent Lott was just a saying, like thats a whole trent lott. Well maybe its just me. Alright, well yea... Franson is a lazy bastard

First who the hell is Trent Lock and do you mean Trent Lott the (to be) majority leader of the senate. But besides that little point I agree with you a lot, so many politicians try and attack inconsequential matters of other politicians lives to discredit them and good God is it annoying. And to be supprised that Gore did something stupid and feebish is no suprise to anyone, he needs what ever angle he can get to have people start respected him again and not as the robot man.

During the celebration of Strum Thurman's 100th birthday, Trent Lock gave a speech in which he called Strum Thurman a good man. Now all gore is calling Trent Lock racist and wants an apology from Trent because Strum Thurman back in 1948 is said to have said racist remarks against African Americans. Honestly, how old was Trent Lock when this was going on, I'm sure he was speaking of Strom Thurman as he is today and not as he was fifty years ago. It is my belief that Al Gore actually lives in his own little world of nonsense where as he invented the internet.

I dont' think many people are going to be able to understand anything that I am writing unless you are Catholic, but whatever. The Catholic Church of Rome is out of touch with the American church and the hierarchy is starting to fall apart. The communication is breaking down and thus we have the new reforms taking place during a time of a lot of dissent of the church. The church is trying to push the dogma more and more while people are recoiling after the exposure to much of the church scandal. I wonder how much the scandal actually affected the Vactican because the way they are dealing with the American church would make me believe that it is not a big deal. I am not mocking Rome because I think we have one the most scholary and intelligent popes we have had in awhile even more so that Pope Paul 23. So in essense I believe the Catholic Church needs more communication and more understading of the American Church or it will not continue to have a strong influence here. To branch from my post I would also like readers who are Catholic to note as the reason their is the dissent between the Vatican and the American Church is that there is a difference between the two churches. A lot of protestants try to classify American Catholics by the dogma of the faith and also the Vatican which is obviosly not true. :Side Note Ended: We need the Church to start listening to the will of the American and creating reforms that appreciate that will.

According to an article I just read, the Department of Homeland Security considers Wi-Fi 802.11 wireless access points a terrorist threat and is threatening to regulate their use. This could potentially be an extremely annoying invasion of privacy for personal users like myself, unless the Department commissioned experienced IT people to assist in developing standards. Essentially, the Department is creating positions with the authority to regulate vulnerable wireless networks. I can see the importance of securing corporate information assets accessible by Wi-Fi, but standardizing the use of personal wireless networks seems a bit unrealistic and far fetched. The problem with standardizing Wi-Fi security is that there is no "best" way to do it, and certain forms of encryption, such as WEP, remain completely crackable. For such a standardization to be successful, a simple, efficient way of encrypting 802.11 signals must be developed that can be implemented into hardware or at least be packaged as software with the devices. Also, I think the feds are overreacting slightly. Yes, wireless vulnerabilities exist, but are terrorists actually exploiting them in order to gain valuable information? Probably not. Is a terrorist going to cruise through the suburbs and find some juicy tidbit of information on a personal wireless network? Again, probably not. I think the Homeland Security people should look at the situation realistically and focus on patching corporate security holes not just to avoid leaking information to terrorists, but also to stop curious American hackers who commonly break into these networks (trust me). This should happen only with the help and advice of experienced IT security professionals. As for personal Wi-Fi use, security should remain the user's problem not the government's. Thoughts?

Andrew, stop whining. I'll try to keep my posts more relevant from now on. I simply thought other writers would find the story amusing.

Mike I know for a fact that Dan and I both dislike poltical parties and Jesse and Franson can sometimes be enravelled in the republican rhetoric they still are not mindless followers of the party. So for you to say that you are a "new" addition to the times with your "radical" view points is quite incorrect. You should try raising an issue or even mocking one of us directly instead of generalizing all of the times. And lastly how dare you call me a GOPer, I may agree with them on several issues, but at the same time I agree with the democrats on some issues, I call myself an extreme moderate or a libertarian (lower case because I don't neccessarly agree with the party due to the fact i dislike parties) and in no way am I a "dirty republican."

Nick I would recommend not attacking people who have no say in this forum unless they are of the political realm. You can attack a group of people as a whole but unless they are able to defend themselves in this forum it is and act of cowardice and I would say it is grounds for becoming a Magico. If you want you could post that person's response under your name or convince Jesse to allow that person to post their response under their own name. But unless you do that Don't attack people who are defenseless.

This is the wourst breach of the constitution during the 21st and 20th centuries. For those of who don't know about it try researching it to get more details but i will give a brief description. Basically any citizen or non citizen can be moved from the normal legal system into the parrallel legal system based on any anti American rhetoric or terrorism. The parallel legal system can hold people in prison and not give them a swift trial don't allow them their phone call, don't read them their rights, don't allow them to contact lawyer, and they don't neccessarly get a jury when they are eventually tried. This is far worse than the Sedition Acts of Adams and it definitely looks like the Mcartney courts of the cold war. The government should not have the power to break its own constitution so it can take away even more civil liberties. Furthermore, Jesse is perfectly correct in his last article, the government is becoming a bigger brother.deliberately Because the bombings on september 11th the government is able to grow. Which of course it quite hyprotical of the GOP because they always plead for a smaller government. With this growing size of the government our conutry is in the wourst condition since the cold war and yet people will keep on wagging their flags as their rights become so dismayal that waving the flag won't even be protected by the constitution.

My Message, Mister Mike (and other fun alliterations too!)

To start, I'd like to say that I resent being catagorized is "the rest". Secondly, I'm insulted by the fact that you say everybody here is republican. If you would care to look back, you would have noticed that neither Gross, nor I are republican. In fact, I associate myself with the Whigs, and would advise you to be a bit more attentive to the politcal statuses of this blog. And lastly, I lied about the other alliterations. There aren't any more.