Comcast Is Blocking Legitimate Email
Nov 29, 2006 Political
I have written to inform you before that Comcast is blocking emails I send through my website. I, as many bloggers do, have a hosted server that is nowhere near my home. I send messages out through the mail program on that server and most people get the mail. I am a Comcast customer and since I have a Comcast IP they will not let me send from that IP through my server and to Comcast recipients. A server that is not in the residence that has the Comcast service does not appear to violate their TOS.
They continually bounce legitimate messages that people signed up to receive and refuse to remove the block. I am not the only one that this happens to. Search the web for Comcast blacklist and you will find many unhappy customers. Comcast uses automated replies so the chances are this will not be resolved any time soon. They indicate that their concern is for spam. The patterns of my email are similar to those used by spammers (according to their robot) so Comcast just blocks it all. Comcast is concerned about spam so they block my legitimate email and yet everyday my inbox contains real spam.
It seems to me that people pay Comcast for a service. Instead of arbitrarily blocking email they should allow people to receive those emails and people can report the spam when they get it. This would help stop the spammers while allowing legitimate email to go through. It is a shame that people pay so much for a service and then are denied the use of that service. I realize that spammers use these servers as a means to distribute their garbage but I also realize that the way to stop it is not to punish the people who use email legitimately.
I have been working on a work around for this problem. We will see how that works. Until Verizon installs FiOs in my area, I am stuck with Comcast.
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Bush Slaps Webb Like a Child
Nov 29, 2006 Political
Looks like President Bush can be a bit snippy when he wants. I am glad to see that and hope he is able to give the Democrats a bit of Hell as they prepare to take charge in six or so weeks. The President was at a function with incoming Senator James Webb, a relic of days gone by, when Bush asked Webb how his son was doing.
At a private reception held at the White House with newly elected lawmakers shortly after the election, Bush asked Webb how his son, a Marine lance corporal serving in Iraq, was doing.
Webb responded that he really wanted to see his son brought back home, said a person who heard about the exchange from Webb.
“I didn’t ask you that, I asked how he’s doing,†Bush retorted, according to the source. The Hill
Webb was a big wig in the service and I wonder how he reacted when parents told him that they wanted their children home? It is also a pretty stupid answer when you figure that all parents want their children to come home. Bush asked how the boy was doing, not if he wanted to come home and not what Webb wanted. Webb had to take the chance to try and show up the President and he got his shorts tightened up a bit. Webb said it made him so angry he wanted to punch Bush.
Webb confessed that he was so angered by this that he was tempted to slug the commander-in-chief, reported the source, but of course didn’t. The Hill
I see that Webb suffers from BDS and he is just getting to the Senate. This should be a fun two years. I really wish that Webb had punched Bush. First of all, I think Bush could take Webb in the fight but Webb would be in jail and he is not black like Cop Socker McKinney so he could not throw the race card. That would have been hilarious.
I think Webb is genuinely concerned about his son. We all read how he thinks little boys should be treated by their dads and maybe he is longing for the good ole days. Perhaps, given the descriptive nature of the father son interaction displayed in his book, the boy is safer in Iraq.
I imagine that some from the left will chide Bush for the response. These would be the same people who saw Bill Clinton come unhinged and said it was time he defended himself and the Democrats.
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John Kerry’s SF-180 Held Hostage
Nov 28, 2006 Political
Cross Posted From Cao’s Blog.
Here we are again, and I have a special treat for you.
October 29, 2004
The Editor, Wall Street JournalDear Sir/Madame:
I hope you will print this letter about my classmate, John Kerry. Thank you.
As a graduate of the Yale class of 1966, I resent the self-serving lies and misrepresentations advanced by my classmate John Kerry. Herewith, a few corrections:
John Kerry has been using the Pershing name to dramatize his Vietnam experience, claiming to have been a close friend of Richard Pershing, the grandson of General (Black Jack) Pershing. Richard Pershing was a member of the Yale class of 1966, and he was killed in Vietnam shortly after we graduated. However, Kerry’s constant references to his ‘dearest’ friend are exaggerated and exploitative. In fact, Dick Pershing and I roomed together for all 4 years at Yale. I don’t remember John Kerry ever being in our room or even being a particular favorite of Dick’s.
In this regard, it is particularly revealing that a recent biography of General Pershing, Until The Last Trumpet Sounds (by Gene Smith), includes an entire chapter on Dick, primarily on his years at Yale; the name John Kerry does not appear. The Pershing Family did know Kerry, but they disliked him intensely. This antipathy stemmed primarily f rom an incident at the Pershing home on Park Avenue not long after Dick’s death: at a gathering of friends and family, Kerry worked the room with his anti-Vietnam message, incurring the undying enmity of Mr. and Mrs. Pershing and Dick’s older brother Jack, a Green Beret. The family was shocked and insulted by Kerry’s insensitivity. Kerry has implied – as recently as the first Presidential debate – that he became disillusioned about Vietnam by his military experience.
However, as early as 1965, in his junior year at Yale, he was giving anti-war speeches; and his Class Day Oration in 1966 – prior to graduation – criticized American involvement in Vietnam. These sentiments clearly antedated his Vietnam experience. So why did he join the Navy? He told some classmates that it would help his career. The above pattern suggests a callous and opportunistic personality – hardly what I would call Presidential.
David Schlossberg, MD Yale ‘66
Tell john Kerry to sign the 180 allowing complete release of his military records. He promised to do so and has not kept his word, as if this should surprise anyone. “You go to school and get an education, otherwise you end up hiding your military records.”
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Huffington Attracts A Lot of Kool Aid Drinkers (and Idiots)
Nov 28, 2006 Political
This is from the Huffington Post:
Comedy writers all across America have been buoyed by news that President Bush is looking to raise half-a-billion dollars to build his legacy-burnishing presidential library. The punchlines write themselves: What’s it going to house, 100,000 copies of The Pet Goat? Will there be exhibits on waterboarding and the quaintness of the Geneva Conventions? A room devoted to the nobility of the Hanging Chad? The Abu Ghraib Game Room? But it’s no joke that the names of donors to the library don’t have to be made public. Bush 43 may be a lame duck, but he still has two years left in which he can throw open the doors of the White House favor bank. Whatever happened to the concept of government transparency?
I do not know what idiot wrote this but it is evident that it was some left wing jackass who conveniently forgot how Bill Clinton sold the Lincoln bedroom and accepted large sums of cash for his Presidential trailer library from various entities around the world like Muslims who want to kill us.
We should wait and see if this White house favor bank pans out before making accusations. As for that aspect, perhaps this writer is unaware of all the pardons issued by Clinton in the final days of his tenure to many well connected people for large sums of money. When it comes to selling political favors no one is better than the gangsters Clinton [Bill and Hillary].
This is typical of Bush Derangement Syndrome and of the left’s blind obedience to stupidity. They are just not capable of looking at anything objectively and they always dismiss what they have done as for the good of the people, or better yet, the chirren…
The items mentioned by the idiot who wrote this are childish attempts to belittle the President. I don’t know so I need a little help here. Are there sections of the Clinton Library dedicated to cigars, blue dresses, Monica, the missile technology given to China, the nuclear technology given to North Korea and the cowardice in Somalia which gave us 9/11? Maybe there is a wing dedicated to the USS Cole and the President’s inaction, or to the aspirin factory he had bombed? How about any area dedicated to his dodging of the draft and abuse of the ROTC system to avoid service to this country?
Just thought I’d ask.
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America is in a Civil War, Right Here at Home!
Nov 27, 2006 Political
No, not in Iraq but thanks to Iraq we now know that we are in a civil war. On the Today Show Matt Lauer said that after careful consideration (as if the MSM actually does that) a name change was needed and that they would now classify Iraq as in a civil war. I do not know what criteria they used to make that determination but there were several offered in the story.
There are different criteria for defining a civil war. Webster’s New World College Dictionary defines it simply as “war between geographical sections or political factions of the same nation.” Some political scientists use a threshold of 1,000 dead, which the current conflict has long since passed.
We are in a civil war here in America and we did not know it. Matter of fact, we are in several. The Bloods and the Crips are two rival gangs that fight over turf (geographical sections) and they are both in this nation. They have damn sure killed more than 1000 of each other’s members. There are also many other gangs here like MS 13 which is fighting with the other gangs. In the mid 1990s there were about 650,000 gang members in this country so we have been in a civil war for a long time.
The US also has two other warring factions that are fighting for turf. They are the Democrats and the Republicans. Notice that the definitions above are mutually exclusive. They are two different definitions so there does not have to be death by the first description. Democrats and republicans are constantly fighting for turf. We even call the places they compete battleground states. They draw up this big tactical map with red and blue all over it and they use strategy to see how to win more turf. Yep, we are in a civil war.
Now, if they could get the idiots in the MSM to stop making things up and start reporting the truth then we might get somewhere. NBC is still outback exploding trucks to show how dangerous they really are so they might be too busy to actually do things right. It should not surprise us that they have started this just before their butt buddies in the Democratic Party take charge and demand that we cut and run. NBC is trying to soften the blow so it will be easier for America to take. By January they will have said civil war so many times that the mindless idiots who watch them will believe it and be demanding that we bring our troops home.
Here is the definition that we use to define a civil war. You will notice that Iraq does not meet the criteria:
There are more conservative definitions. The Web site GlobalSecurity.org, which provides information on defense issues, said five criteria must be met: the contestants must control territory, have a functioning government, enjoy some foreign recognition, have identifiable regular armed forces and engage in major military operations.
Source:
Yahoo News
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