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Discussion of important issues of the day without name-calling or meaningless arguments. Unless I'm in a bad mood, in which case body armor is recommended. I welcome your comments! Of late, this blog has gone from being a Critique of Pure Obama, to a Critique of Impure Trump.

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Tuesday, September 20, 2016

Trump militias planting NY bombs?

The conspiracy theory that Trump-allied militias are planting the NY bombs seems to make some sense.  Here are some interesting clues:

1.  There have been very few casualties.  Militias are AMERICANS, after all, and they do not really want to kill people.  They just want to help Trump.  If these bombs had been planted by ISIS, you can guarantee that many, many, many more people would have been killed.

2. The word "Chelsea" is pregnant with significance.  This smacks of Trump heavy-handedness. The bomb placed in Chelsea could most definitely be an implicit threat to Hillary's daughter.  Perhaps it implies that if Hillary doesn't go easy on Trump and throw the election, then daughter Chelsea will be killed in a bomb attack.

After all, why would ISIS plant a bomb in a quiet neighborhood like Chelsea, when they could have planted it in Times Square or a train or subway station?  The terror effect would have been infinitely greater, and it would have been just as easy.

3. Naturally, the more bombs going off, the better it is for Trump, because then he can do his "I told you so" number.  It reinforces his whole anti-Muslim line and makes Hillary look like an idiot.

4. Trump's propaganda arm, Breitbart has been harping the line that this is a war against Muslim fundamentalists and other foreigners.  Indeed. How about if the bombers are AMERICANS, like Timothy McVeigh?

5. The suspect seems extremely dubious.  Some IDIOT sleeping in a doorway? WTF!? Serious terrorists don't sleep in doorways after a concerted attack like that.  They would almost certainly have some escape plan set up in advance  to either hide out in NY or quickly exit the city and go elsewhere.  But sleep in a doorway?

Picking up some vagrant in a doorway looks like the cops and politicians are either grasping at straws or trying to set up some dumb Muslim fall guy.  Really. A terrorist who sleeps in a doorway after an attack?

These are a few thoughts.  They are probably wrong, but it is important to remember that the most MASSIVE terrorist attack in recent history, before 9/11, was the Oklahoma City federal building bombing. And this was done by red-blooded, right-wing Americans.  So don't be so quick to buy the line that this is all being done by ISIS.  Let's see some proof first.

Draft 1, 9/20/2016.

Wednesday, September 14, 2016

Secretary of State is Not Hired to Speak Linux

As an IT person myself, I find the entire Hillary E-Mail "scandal" to be EXTREMELY dubious.

Why on earth should Hillary be held responsible for IT security at the Department of State?!  The Department of State has entire ARMIES of Cybersecurity specialists with PhD's from places like MIT and Berkeley.  

THESE are the people who are IN CHARGE of security, NOT the freeking Secretary of State of the United States of America!!!  What the freek does HILLARY know about computer seccurity?  Was she selected for the position of Secretary of State because she speaks perfect Linux?  Was she selected because she has vast knowledge of Computer security protocols? Like most 68 year old women, it is unlikely that computer security procedures are her favorite subject.  And that was NOT her job.

Here is the way computer security works in corporations and government.  It should be TOTALLY TRANSPARENT to the user, and particularly to TOP LEVEL users like the Secretary of Freeking State!!!

Why on EARTH did the Cybersecurity people at the Department of State even ALLOW Hillary to have a private server???  That is patently INSANE!  And where was the Secret Service?  And where was the CIA?  And where was the freeking FBI (with all their DUMB investigations)? And where was the NSA?  

If they were doing their freeking jobs, the Cyber geniuses at State, CIA, FBI, NSA, Secret Service, et. al., should have been IMMEDIATELY AWARE that the Secretary of Freeking State of the United States of America was using some kind of dorky private server. WTF?  A 12 year old HACKER could have detected THAT!

But nobody noticed?  Hell-ooooooo.  Anybody home? Duh. 

That unsecured server should have been shut down immediately, whether or not Hillary wanted it to or not.  They should have IMMEDIATELY informed her AT THE TIME that this was insecure and unwise. Given that information, I am sure that Hillary would have stopped using it.  But apparently all of the cybersecurity experts were were all too busy doing ... what? 

So rather than blaming themselves, these ARMIES of Cybersecurity experts all gang up on Hillary, who didn't know didly squat about computer security, and blame HER for stuff that is not even REMOTELY at her level of security?  I have seen anything so totally OBNOXIOUS in my entire life!

Hillary Clinton was NOT appointed to be Secretary of State because she has a vast knowledge of Linux commands and Network Protocols.  She was not appointed because she knows TCP-IP inside and out and she can hack any computer in the known universe.  

No.  She was appointed because she had 8 years of experience as FLOTUS, and 6 years as NY Senator, and several years as Governor's wife of Arkansas.  

The Secretary of State is about 20 pay grades above computer NERDS who know ANYTHING about the kind of crap that she is being "investigated" about.  And quite frankly, I think that the freeking FBI should investigate THEMSELVES, not Hillary!  Why were THEY totallly unaware of Hillary's unsecure computer configuration?  And why do the incompetent BOZOS at the State Department blame the Secretary of State for not following some dorky classification rules that should be AUTOMATIC and built into the system?

Aa an IT person myself, I can not COMPREHEND how this entire ARMY of Cybersecurity experts were TOTALLY CLUELESS about the configuration of Hillary's e-mail!!!  And that is THEIR freeking fault, NOT Hillary's!  

The Secretary of State of the United States of Freeking America has better things to do then fart around with Linux code.  That is all supposed to be TOTALLY and COMPLETELY TRANSPARENT to her and she should never have even been ALLOWED to set up a server in that way.

And how was it that all this freeking CIA, FBI, NSA, Secret Service, State Department computer PhD geniuses were totally OBLIVIOUS to this going on?  Like what on EARTH do these dudes get PAID for???  

So cut the BS about this IDIOTIC E-mail scandal and start blaming the people who are REALLY to blame, rather than picking on Hillary. 

First draft, 9/14/2016

I'm back again!  I have torn off the brainshrinking 140-letter shackles of Twitterdom  to now explode into unbridled VERBOSITY!

Stay tuned for my next VERBOSE communication!

Trumps Method: The Best Defense if a Good Offense

I have just now discovered the essence of Trump's campaign. It is actually somewhat similar to Obama's in past years, but a million times louder, grosser and more transparent.

This is what it is about:  Whenever Trump suspects that somebody is going to attack or expose him on the basis of one of the dozens of skeletons that he has dancing in his closets, he IMMEDIATELY attacks Hillary Clinton with the accusation that she has just committed this type of crime.

The beauty of this approach is that it steals the thunder of any accusations against him, as well as making any of those accusations sound copy-cat.  For example, Trump SHOULD be getting CRUCIFIED for conning millions of dollars out of chumps at Turmp U.  However, he and the attack-dogs of the Right have defused this by viciously, loudly and incessantly SCREAMING about Hillary's so-called e-mail scandal.

And the amazing thing is that Hillary is getting hit a hundred times harder for this minor indiscretion while Trump is walking away from a scam that he could likely be imprisoned for.  There is no comparison!  But Trump is just WAY smarter.  At least when it comes to sleaze tactics.

Another best-defense-is-a-good-offense is the whole Hillary "health" brewhaha. Trump has not released his health records because he is probably under some very SERIOUS threat of heart disease.  What do we know?  Trump has SEVERAL heart risk-factors that are much worse than anything the Hillary has.

Fir of all, females live an average of FIVE YEARS longer than males. Plus Hillary is 2 years younger than Trump.  That means that there is a general probability that Trump will die 7 years SOONER than Hillary, and at age 70, that might be fairly soon.

What else? Trump is fat.  He is on cholesterol medication so that is evidence that this is indeed a problem.  He probably follows a rich diet of high-fat fancy-restaurant food. That is his business. That all contributes to heart disease.  He also follows and aspirin regimen to reduce blood clots, indicating that his doctor sees serious risk:  Not only cholesterol medicine, but also an aspirin regimen!

Trump does not get regular exercise. He says that campaigning is exercise.  It aint. Not the kind of exercise his heart needs.  He gets very excited and apopleptic.  Not desirable. Dangerous.

So how does Trump handle this?  By him and his meatheads making a HUGE amount of noise over how sickly and weak HILLARY is!  What about HIM?

He makes out like Pneumonia is some horrible deadly disease.  It aint.  His heart disease is much worse.