licentious radio

Monday, June 3, 2002
[10:11:29 PM]

Bill of rights? I got your bill right here: $400 billion. But you don't get no rights.

[9:39:08 PM]

And here's the scoop on the Bush family profits from aiding Nazis generally, and from slave labor at Auschwitz in particular....

Clamor Magazine: "It is bad enough that the Bush family helped raise the money for Thyssen to give Hitler his start in the 1920s, but giving aid and comfort to the enemy in time of war is treason. The Bush bank helped the Thyssens make the Nazi steel that killed Allied solders. As bad as financing the Nazi war machine may seem, aiding and abetting the Holocaust was worse. Thyssen's coal mines used Jewish slaves as if they were disposable chemicals. There are six million skeletons in the Thyssen family closet, and a myriad of criminal and historical questions to be answered about the Bush family's complicity."

[9:17:20 PM]
Boondocks: <quote>Democrats today made a collective apology to President Bush for questioning what he knew about the terrorist attacks prior to September 11.

They said that tough, honest questions have no place in our government, and they will immediately go back to being their normal wussy selves.

They also promised to raise "much less of a fuss" should Bush decide to steal the 2004 election.
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[4:23:34 PM]
Cheney's former oil firm founders [Boston Globe].

This is a great story. Cheney personally drives a corporate merger. He fires 10,000 employees. He becomes more than $18 million richer. Then -- because of liabilities -- the stock value of the company goes from $18 billion to $8 billion. Oopsy.

Just to be clear: 1) Make 18 MILLION dollars. 2) FIRE 10,000 PEOPLE. 3) Lose 10 BILLION dollars.

Even funnier, the company Cheney bought just by coincidence happened to have been one of Prescott Bush's deals. Prescott Bush's fortune (partly based on Nazi slave labor and supplying Germany with material for weapons during World War II) was inherited by Poppy (G. H. W.) and placed in a blind trust for Little George (G. W.).

The article doesn't mention the fascist, war-mongering source of the Bush fortune.

Neither does it mention the contracts Halliburton got with the Pentagon just after Bush/Cheney seized power, or the fiscal crisis the contracts averted, or the court case a German company is winning in which it appears the German company was clearly a better choice for the contracts -- but somehow Dick's company got the $$$ instead.

And the article isn't at all about Halliburton supplying oil field equipment to Iraq during the embargo, or that Iraq's anthrax is produced with a Halliburton chemical.

I mean, you couldn't reasonably fit all of that (and all of the rest) into one article.

[3:16:22 PM]
Shame on Bush, his gang, and on the Republicans. Preventing nuclear war between India and Pakistan is the most important, most urgent thing to do on this planet. They have *again* abdicated their responsibilities as world leaders.

It's much worse than that, though: instead the Bush gang has focused on their psychotic, fascist power-grab -- promoting fear of terrorism as a blank check to curtail civil liberties, attack critics, avoid accountability for their failures, and rain money on their cronies.

[1:43:20 PM]
Why 64-bit encryption is really much safer than 128-bit: "You don't have to take the risk that someone will torture it out of you some day. Sort of a proactive escrow." (The Register)

[1:00:22 PM]
<flame>Internet Explorer has 80% of the browser market. Managers decide to create websites that only work with IE. How can they write off 20% of their customers? Is this some "customer is always wrong" trick they learn in business school?

Increase revenue by 25%! Make websites that everyone can use.

All you have to do is insist from the start on working cross-platform. You have to work a little smarter at first, but the day-to-day work is following standard procedures, and should be automated anyway.
</flame>