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Category Archives: Rants and Raves

Issues in the every day world that I feel strongly about, one way or the other.

Continued Use Of Fear And Deception

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

How quickly we forget that these ‘patriotic’ telecoms that helped illegally spy on citizens was paid a great deal of money at taxpayer expense, and the fact that the illegal spying started long before 9/11. Letting 9/11 play out the way it did created the perfect opportunity to scare a stunned public and brazenly break [...]

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Another Case Of White House Censorship

Saturday, February 9, 2008

Another prime example of the White House attempting to censor and silence the media was revealed yesterday. Below is a post from Crooks and Liars about how CBS caved in to pressure from the White House, aided by a Senator, to kill a story with damning evidence of illegal Bush-style justice and politics.
This is an [...]

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Too Much News Ignored By The Media

Saturday, December 22, 2007

It’s becoming painfully evident that the main stream news media has a really bad habit of sitting on or covering up and ignoring news stories — sometimes twisting words around to distort the truth — raising questions as to why certain stories are ignored as well as questions about ethics, integrity and morals. Failing to [...]

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The Microsoft 6 month vulnerability report

Friday, June 22, 2007

In yet another play on numbers (not to mention another attempt to persuade consumers that Vista is the greatest thing since sliced bread), yesterday Microsoft released a report titled “Microsft Vista Has Fewest Vulnerabilities at 6-Month Mark”, (PDF) implying that Vista has turned out to be an exceptionally secure operating system (OS)…much more secure than [...]

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Beware of AT&T’s business practices

Thursday, April 12, 2007

If you’re an AT&T customer, check your phone bill carefully if you’re moving and transferring your phone number to the new address. Even if you’re moving a couple of blocks away from where you were.
In April of 2007 I moved a few blocks down the street from where I was. Before I moved I received [...]

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The sad state of our Veterans Affairs

Thursday, March 1, 2007

On February 18, 2007 the Washington Post broke a startling story (a long 5 page article) describing neglect and frustration the wounded soldiers from Iran and Afghanistan face when they’re sent to the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. One particular building, known as building 18, stands out because of the more advanced deteriorating conditions.
Deteriorating conditions [...]

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The new school prayer

Wednesday, November 1, 2006

As with other geeks, I have several email accounts that I use on a regular basis. I don’t have a tendency to put emails I receive online, but this one makes a very good point about the way times have changed since I was a student so I decided to put here. There are 8 verses [...]

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