Roll Out the Astroturf
and we’ll sing re-education camp songs in 4-part disharmony and roast marshmallows around the flames of the Constitution
Well, the AxelTurf email virus viral Health Care Insurance Nationalization Improvement Memo has been out there all day, and some interesting things have sprung up. Maybe some dots to connect. Maybe some patterns. Maybe just too much heat and iced coffee....
--> John David Lewis put out some very reasonable questions citing details of HR 3200 and saying, “I would rather have used my time in other ways—but this is too important to ignore.”
shorter version here
--> FOXNooz’s Major Garret asked the Obamaberry Press Boy Gibbs about a stack of emails Garret had received from folks who had received AxelTurf’s missive despite having had no communication with the White House, the Obama Campaign or anything related. Garret posed the reasonable question, “where did you get your mailing list from?” Gibbsy da Goon spluttered around quite ineffectually for rather a long time and then wandered off. Ineffectually. As is his wont.
video here
I heard on some random talk shows today that they’d also heard from listeners who had gotten Teh AxelTurf Email and didn’t know why/how, so it’s apparently wide-spread. [*checks email* nope. nuttin’ rly?!?? after all my hard work - nuttin?!?!? amateur noob.]
--> Here’s another demonstration of ∏eh n∅∅b’s sophistication, cooool and executive competence: remember that well-researched intelligence-based DHS “threat assessment” about us right-wingnut extremists and any/all veterans being domestic terrorist incubators? [in the days before we were Crypto-Nazi Raacist Mobsters. *sigh* good times...] yeah.... not so much:
Americans for Limited Government filed a Freedom of Information request in April demanding all documents related to the drafting of the controversial “right-wing extremism” memo. ... an interim response from the Department [was received including] 217 pages, , “releasable in their entirety, all of which are publicly available,” according to the DHS FOIA response. All of the data used by the Department are available via the Internet. A summary of the web-links is included here.
[slow-load PDF warning]
It includes regular news stories from usatodaytoday, cnn, the csmonitor, Huffingtonpost and the washingtonpost. [HuffPo?!? hm… ‘Turfing pays off in powah! Also “credibility."] It also cites [10 out of 51 listed - 19.6%] articles from the Southern Poverty Law Center [whose lead article today is about the “antigovernment militia movement is surging across the country"] and 11 cites from a website called WhatDoesItMean.com. [11 out of 51 - 21.6%]
Their lead article today Their site prompted a spam/BS warning [which I never see] when I attempted to open the page. Go see at your own risk. [or use your moonbat cousin’s ‘puter] I heard it described on the raadio [I forget who] as being brightly decorated with unicorns, faeries and flying saucers and having articles explaining how the US Gubbmint is communicating with aliens on a regular basis. [No; not raaacist. The little green ones—not the little brown ones. BEMs, Baby. BEMs.]
So that’s clearly a serious source of intelligence for our DHS to be basing terrorist watch lists to put citizens on.
--> OTOH, in an apparent attempt to clean up those rampant list problems,
The White House is reversing a nine-year-old policy forbidding the use of tracking cookies on those who visit federal websites.
...OMB is now seeking to change that policy and is considering the use of cookies for tracking web visitors across multiple sessions and storing their unique preferences and surfing habits. Though this is a major shift in policy, the announcement of this program consists of only a single page from the federal register that contains almost no detail.
...The use of cookies allows a website to differentiate between users and build a database of each user’s viewing habits and the information they share with the site. ...[As well as collecting information entered and] search request terms, the use of cookies frequently allows a user’s identity and web surfing habits to be linked. In addition, websites can allow third parties, such as advertisers, to also place cookies on a user’s computer.
“We’re from the government and we’re here to help you.”
ZZMike
“... folks who had received AxelTurf’s missive despite having had no communication with the White House, ...”
Aren’t there a couple of other laws on the books, against spam?
These guys are the reincarnation of the Keystone Cops.
(I feel left out. I didn’t get the spam. But then, maybe my filter is working just fine.)
Posted by ZZMike on 08/14/09 at 12:10 PMPS: whatsitmean.com is a little “eccentric”. They’re a sort of “Drudge on Meth”. Here’s a bit from one of their other lead articles:
“A disturbing FSB report delivered to Prime Minister Putin yesterday states that a “cabal” consisting of some of the most powerful people and corporations in the United States are behind the deadly rampage which occurred in the US city of Pittsburg, where three women were killed, and nine wounded, in a massacre blamed on an “anti-social, woman hating” man named George Sodini”.
They tell us that Soldini was a graduate of Carniege-Mellon (”... this institutions decade’s long research into human mind control...") and that lets them talk about Andrew Carnegie (who was “responsible for the 1889 Johnstown Flood which killed over 2,200.")
That’s enough. My head hurts already. It gets worse.
Posted by ZZMike on 08/14/09 at 12:19 PM
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