Posts from September 2003

So the Terminator thinks that the recall is a “great idea” according to the New York Times this morning.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/25/national/25DEBA.html

Well I think that if he’s elected Governor, the Democrats should immediately start a second recall process to get rid of him.

This is nutty. It makes a total mockery of the democratic process.

When is an election not an election? When the Republicans lose. That was proven in Florida and now it looks to be the case again in California.

Chuck Schumer is the senior senator from NY. He’s a good guy.

He’s against guns in the hands of the wrong people, conservative judges, people trying to turn back the clock on abortion rights.

He’s for rebuilding NYC, improving poor people’s access to prescription drugs, fighting the war on terrorism, and protecting us all from spam and telemarketing.

In short, he’s my kind of guy.

We held a small get together for Chuck last night at our home in NYC. He was there to raise money for his next campaign. That’s the unfortunate part of the politcal game. The fortunate part is that the people who came got to see a real person hanging out and telling it like it is.

He thinks Bush is dangerous, that he’s right of Reagan, that’s he’s made a deal with the ultra right wing of the republican party to nominate judges who are committed to rolling back the clock on important laws that protect our freedoms. He thinks Bush is beatable. He thinks that the current slate of Democratic Presidential candidates is weak and we don’t have a clear winner in the group. He likes Clark but thinks he’s going to make rookie mistakes unless he gets a lot of help fast. He supported the war in Iraq, but thinks the Bush Administration’s lack of a plan to get us out has put us in a costly and dangerous predicament.

The best part of it was my kids got to sit there and listen to all of that. They asked questions. And got to see a glimpse of how politics works. How our country is governed. Chuck loves kids. He told us how he wished he’d had more than his two wonderful daughters.

I hate the money part of politics. It makes everything suspect. But last night was OK. Probably because Chuck is my senator and I like the guy.

If you want to learn more about Chuck Schumer and how to support him, go to http://www.senate.gov/~schumer/

The Dali Lama spoke in Central Park this weekend. He said, “The very concept of war is out of date,” he said to applause. “Destruction of your neighbor as an enemy is essentially a destruction of yourself.”

I agree with that. I wish our leaders did too.

See the whole article at http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/22/nyregion/22DALA.html

I have a Spam Filter. It’s from a company called Postini. It’s a good spam filter. It stops 75%+ of my inbound mail because it is spam.

And yet, I have to delete the first 30 messages in my inbox every morning because they are spam.

God forbid you send me an email at 3am in the morning, because I may not read it because I am fast and furiously deleting the first 30 emails I get every day.

Why can’t my spam filter figure out that “pen1s” is just a code word for “penis”?

Why can’t my spam filter figure out that an email address that has the word “great offers” in it is spam?

Why can’t my spam filter figure out that an email with the words “free money” in the first sentence is spam?

I guess I need a new spam filter but I can’t be switching these things every six months.