Though John Kerry isn’t on the ballot Tuesday and does not have the excuse of too much campaigning, others who are running have joined him this fall in getting tangled up in their own ill-chosen words.
“People are running hard and very tired. That’s why the last two weeks of a campaign, I always locked my candidates in the bus and put them on a script,” GOP consultant Edward J. Rollins told the Los Angeles Times.
Peruse the Times’ Kerry-inspired roundup of campaign season gaffes with caution. There is something to offend everybody.
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It seems that inhibitions and caution often are cast into the wind during the heat of battle.
The Times article is a total hoot!
Posted by Rhonda Holman”When politicians speak, macaca happens”
I think the term macaca may have been misused in the title. It originally comes from a Africa tribe called the Bantu’s, where they called the monkeys (phonetic spelling) makato.
Later on, Macaque was used by Zoologists and etc to classify a species of a rhesus monkey.
As a slang word, English, Dutch and French used the term macaque as a deragatory word towards Africans. It was later picked up in Portugal and later Brazil and pronounced macaca. Regardless it’s a defamatory word from old world explorers in describing African Natives.
The name is still used to describe types of monkeys from the Macaque old and new world monkeys. Some are:
Macaca fascicularis (Japanese crab eating monkey)Macaca Speciosa (stump tail macaque)Macaca Mulayta (rhesus monkey)
Last type of the Macaque, the rhesus was commonly seen in research labs. Sam, a monkey shot into space in the 1960s was a rhesus monkey.
Why hasn’t much been said about Bush gaffe’s — one of the most memorable was regarding setting limits on law suits in medical negligence / malpractice he said some thing like: …. not letting ob/gyn doctors sharing there love with women ….
The biggest “MISSION COMPLETE” —
Actually Mission Complete could have referred to the final wrapping up in Iraq after the invasion.
Missions can be anything from securing machine gun nest to a NASA launch where a spy satellite is launched.
What I gathered from the statement Mission Complete by Bush is that the invasion part was successful and that mission was completed.
For those who have never been in the military, I can see why there may have been confusion on not understanding how the military uses the word mission.
So Kerry fumbles a joke about the President. The Republicans put on instructions to build an atomic bomb on the internet, in Arabic.
Which would you rather have, a politician who isn’t up for re-election telling bad jokes, or Republicans who sponsor terrorism by providing Arabic instructions on how to develop WMD to kill millions?
“So Kerry fumbles a joke about the President. The Republicans put on instructions to build an atomic bomb on the internet, in Arabic.”Posted by: Doug | November 04, 2006 at 09:20 AM
It’s not the first time the government put incomplete instructions or traps to catch criminals. I wonder how many terrorists fell for the trick and actually, actually logged on to the website thinking the information was real and got their location revealed.
I think it’s quite clever.
Good spin again JM. With millions of web-surfers visiting the site I’m sure our intrepid CIA guys will immediately notice the bad guy. NOT!
Posted by: hmmm … | November 04, 2006 at 09:31 AM
“Good spin again JM. With millions of web-surfers visiting the site I’m sure our intrepid CIA guys will immediately notice the bad guy. NOT!”
Not a problem when you have an entire part of the Agency sniffing out terrorists using high tech methods to sniff out terrorists.
With the proper gear and software, I can not only sniff your computer with its MAC address or Data Link Control and have it notify me everytime you come online.
Sure …
Just like we “know where the WMDs are”
When you have many hits how do you know which one to sniff out? Or do you just sweep in everyone who visits the site?
JM, apparently you are quite naive or you just don’t care about allowing terrorists to develop nuclear bombs. The US shut down the website that had the instructions. If the instructions were useless there would be no need to shut down the website. The Atomic Energy Commission had been trying to shut down the website for months, not because they were fake instructions, but because they really worked.
JM, you anti-American views are quite clear. You are giddy with anticipation that millions of people could die because your party is careless and incompetent. The only criminals in this issue are the Republicans who knowlingly put the lives of millions in danger.
“When you have many hits how do you know which one to sniff out? Or do you just sweep in everyone who visits the site?”
Posted by: hmmm … | November 04, 2006 at 10:01 AM
As you may know when you visit some websites they put a ‘cookie’ on your computer so they can remember you on your next visit. The traditional storage place on your hard disk for these cookies is the ‘temp’ file.
These can be done away by periodically cleaning out your temp file by ‘cleaning’ your hard disk.
A lot of people don’t know that they can update the rom on their computer by using software essentially making the motherboard a newer version that complies to updated standards.
And if you’re starting to catch on here, one can also put other information on the computer in the rom or dozens of other places not ‘cleaned’ by normal processes.
Now,let’s say you are using a laptop computer and you are in Pakistan. You are smart enough to use an anonymous IP address and everytime you fire up the computer you make a new MAC ID. How does one catch a person like this.
Simple, by using nodal access point traps, which put hitchhiker ’super cookies’ permanently on your computer. What you say?
In order to log onto the Internet, the computer uses a protocol of some type and contacts another computer which contacts another computer and so on until you get to your destination.
This means there are gateways that must be gone through to access your information. So, if I had a little minature man (heh) standing guard at each of these gateways or at least a few gates of high interests, they can tell me exactly when someone from a certain area is trying to get out and on to the Internet.
So now I have an area of interest narrowed down and monitored. I put my ’super cookies’ on all of these computers.
I notice that when one of these computers that has a ’super cookie’ on it keeps visiting my website, it keeps changing its MAC address and is using an anonymous IP each time it visits.
I modify the ‘Super Cookie’ to burrow into this particular computer when it visits my website and now I own him.
I know he logs in, what’s on his computer and where he’s connecting from. His computer is mine.
Posted by: Doug | November 04, 2006 at 10:11 AM”JM, you anti-American views are quite clear. You are giddy with anticipation that millions of people could die because your party is careless and incompetent.”
Hmm, I guess that a ‘lifer’ who spent 22 years in the military is anti-american, okay…
Have you ever been to a Nuclear Facility? I have.
JM – thing is, they know that too. With computers in internet cafes and libraries you will have a hard time tracking down the user. I frequently use computers at WSU; what are they going to do, try to lift my prints off the keyboard? (buried in everyone else’s of course)
Face it, it was stupid for Bush to put that out there. That is why when the folly was revealed they took it down.
Actually, JM, in Bush’s mind, the war was over. He thought Iraqui children were going to run out in the streets and throw flowers at our armed forces. My, wasn’t he surprised when that failed to happen.
It also seems the old guard of the bush admin have backpeddled on Iraq. Richard Perle, the acknowleged godfather of the Iraqui war, has said he regrets supporting the war for precisely that reason: Only the kurds think we are over there fighting for them.
There is now, and never has been a reason to invade Iraq. Push them out of Kuwait,yes, but invade? Consensus has it as a major blunder on this countries part. But for the bush admin, it’s business as usual.
But you keep on believing rush, ann and the rest of the morons. You’re in like company, as usual.
“JM – thing is, they know that too. With computers in internet cafes and libraries you will have a hard time tracking down the user. I frequently use computers at WSU; what are they going to do, try to lift my prints off the keyboard? (buried in everyone else’s of course)”Posted by: hmmm … | November 04, 2006 at 10:32 AM
That’s an even easier scenario. Each type a key is pressed on a computer it creates a unique signature electronically.
If the facility is not surrounded by a lead wall or buried in a mountain, you can ‘grab’ these signals from the air and use digital decode routines to parse these into the way you wish to read them.
If you don’t believe me ask someone who works at a secure facility where computers are used and why they have lead in their walls or electromagnetic (EM)disruptors/scramblers.
JM – I know people in the business. Yes, you might get that information; but it will take forever to sort it out. Meanwhile the guy will have finished his coffee and his business and moved on. You might find the computer; you will not find the user.
I forgot to mention that with the right equipment, one can actually see what is been displayed on someone elses computer Monitor. (your viewing screen becomes public)
While rom is what the storage chip is called, the actual name of the software is BIOS, as in basic input/output system. And to update it requires software from the board manufacturer. Choices in the bios are limited, and attempting to write to, that is, change the bios without manufacturers software, the bios can lead to catastrophic consequences to the motherboard, including burnout.
IP addresses are constantly changing. Your computer ip address can be changed by the user with no problem whatsoever. But the ip address is probably the most vunerable part of the net. Which is why products such as ghost surf, as well as firewalls, should be used by anybody who surfs the web.
What it boils down to is privacy: with no firewalls, poor security settings, and inadequate mallware, spam, rootkit, and virus protection, most net users are asking for trouble.
I would suggest people run online programs that check for all of those problems, as well as keyloggers (those insidious little programs that log everything you type, then send it out to whoever wants it.)
Privacy, folks . . . it’s something that doesn’t exist in this country, thank you big business and government.
JM–
I respect your service.
But you fall into the same trap we all do.
Ask a surgeon how to cure cancer and he says surgery.
Ask a radiologist, and he says radiate.
Ask a chemist, and she says chemotherapy.
Ask a soldier how to solve a problem and they say, “blow it up.”
Trouble it you can’t solve political problems with a bomb or an invasion.
Vietnam should have taught us that.
Now we’re learning again in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Ghost Surfing or Anonymous Surfing is no guarantee of remaining anonymous. If you have a network card on your computer, it has a unique address as I discussed previously. Hint: anyone that connects to the Internet has a network card or in the event of larger computers modules used for that purpose of networking to the ouside world.
The way anonymous surfing works is they contact certain types of computer and your IP address is altered and changes into another IP address for those trying to view your IP address.
This works if no one knows that you are not using an anonymous surfer. If they suspect it, there are other means to filter out your information disguise.
Posted by: CapnAmerica | November 04, 2006 at 10:59 AM”Ask a soldier how to solve a problem and they say, “blow it up.”
I don’t think you realize how complex the military is concerning its approach to solving problems.
Read a few books on the Cold War years and you might start to get a clue. Anywhere from Psy-Ops to very sophisticated surveillance.
The military is all about bang bang and shoot em up.
The people that do these types of things are publicized much, because it’s classified. But trust me, they are there 24/7.
“The military is all about bang bang and shoot em up.”
that should have read “isn’t all about bang ban and shoot em up.
heh
The terrorists don’t need a website to learn how to build atomic weapons..we have been teaching them for years.
Case in point..graduating class of Iowa State University in 1973..8 doctoral candidats who were awarded their PhD in nuclear physics..were all from Iran. This is fact..I was at that graduation ceremony.
At the time, any ‘repuke’ who suggested limiting enrollment in those classes was attacked as a profiling idiot by the liberal groups.
End of story: you reap what you sow.
if if if … when I use the computers at WSU I don’t have anything of mine it them. There is no way to trace it to me. Same at an internet cafe.
An IP address is unique if only for the reason that it is assigned to a particular computer, internet/intranet device (I’m limiting this to computer related items) either automatically (such as windows LAN/IP settings) or manually (in windows network connections.) I can either change the address everytime I go online, or write a program that will do the same thing everytime I go offline. Once IP is understood, it’s not a problem to cloak it. Kinda like removing all address labels from your house, with the exception your house will still be the same address, where the IP could be anything a network will recognize.
So long as my unique address does not conflict with anyone elses, I can use it. By using an annonymous web service, such as ghost surf, I can surf leaving no tracks, as long as my side is set up properly. The problem is the average surfer is clueless about IP addresses and therefore is subject to being traced with no problem. For instance, with any trace program, such as visual trace, neo-trace, etc., I could find anyone who posts here, if they have a live email address. And are using the usual security settings.
As for jumping in and reading screens, that requires more sophisticated software, and a computer with lousy privacy and security settings. Way more difficult. And if the user is using a Linux based op system, virtually impossible.
JM, anyone can go out and buy the Ghostsurf program and hide their tracks. Your brilliant idea just got thwarted by a $30 program. In the time someone downloads the nuclear information they can e-mail it out to millions. So even if you caught the guy who downloaded it the information would be spread worldwide.
Apparently your 22 years in the military didn’t teach you one thing about computers or the internet. Go back to stapling pages together because you certainly can’t speak about something you know absolutely nothing about.
Posted by: Doug | November 04, 2006 at 11:55 AM”Apparently your 22 years in the military didn’t teach you one thing about computers or the internet. ”
Apparently you didn’t read the other techniques I discussed about spying on someone’s computer.
Okay, go back again, gather your thoughts and speak yet again out of your backside.
“if if if … when I use the computers at WSU I don’t have anything of mine it them. There is no way to trace it to me. Same at an internet cafe.”
Posted by: hmmm … | November 04, 2006 at 11:29 AM
They have these things called cameras ya know. Some can be quite small and perhaps installed in strategic locations.
Oh and since everyone knows that cell phones can be monitored, that’s nothing new.
But did you know you can be listened to on a regular phone without even picking it up.
JM
There is no doubt in most people’s minds that Bushs “Mission Complete” was meant to be a wrap for the war on terror is over — if he meant what you imply he would have said “That Battle is complete … ” and not hung a banner touting “Mission Complete” but then again Bush, never having served full time in the military wouldn’t know what mission complete means.
Keep spinning JM …
And BTW – that is why I use pay phones when plotting.
“…but then again Bush, never having served full time in the military wouldn’t know what mission complete means.”
Posted by: ken | November 04, 2006 at 12:30 PM
Before a military pilot climbs into a cockpit, he gets a mission briefing.
I’m real sure Bush knew what “mission accomplished” meant.
“Keep spinning JM …
And BTW – that is why I use pay phones when plotting.”
Posted by: hmmm … | November 04, 2006 at 12:35 PM
Cool, even easier to surveil with a directional listening device.
Dusty–
“For instance, with any trace program, such as visual trace, neo-trace, etc., I could find anyone who posts here, if they have a live email address.”
Could you do this from your keyboard now or would you have to have access to the server that the Eagle uses for the WEBlog?
The reason I ask is because we get troll problems from time to time and if we could track their IP, we could make their trolling a lot less fun for them.
Going through the eagle server masks the posters ip address. You would have to have the person email you, then all the info would be there to trace it, at least to the servers source, if something like wsu’s computers are used. If it’s a home computer, with the usual skimpy protection, you can nail down the location. But all that is not possibe through eagles server. It’s just a mail-drop.
JM–
Military intelligence. Whoa, you shouldn’t have gone there, my friend.
Check out Operation Ajax in Iran, in which the US helped overthrow the duly elected prime minister, forcing upon Iranians a KING and resulting in Islamic insurgency that brought us the Ayatollah and the current Iranian leaders.
Or there’s always the brilliant CIA backed coup of Diem in Vietnam which insured that no sentient being would run for high office there ever again.
Or the overthrow of Allende which brought the butcher and convicted crimes against humanity Pinochet to power.
Or the coups and plots in Central America too numerous to list including the covert and illegal war against the Sandanistas.
You’re proving my case by bringing up “intelligence gathering.”
JM posts: “I’m real sure Bush knew what “mission accomplished” meant.”
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Okay thanks Dusty.
That’s what I figured.
JM – your spinning is absolutely amazing. Sure, if you have you Mission Impossible team on me they do. But are you trying to tell us that they have each and every pay phone and public computer properly surveiled? BTW – why did they take the stuff down when it was revealed? Even they don’t believe your silly scenario.
You’re proving my case by bringing up “intelligence gathering.”
Posted by: CapnAmerica | November 04, 2006 at 12:50 PM
You like posting failures by someone or some organization. Do you know how many successes there are in Intelligence gathering?
and Dusty,
With that reaction I guess means you don’t have a clue either.
Again jm posts: “They have these things called cameras ya know. Some can be quite small and perhaps installed in strategic locations.
Oh and since everyone knows that cell phones can be monitored, that’s nothing new.
But did you know you can be listened to on a regular phone without even picking it up.”
And now you know the reason this country is at the bottom of the world community when it comes to privacy. Big brother is watching, and he wants you to buy his products, courtesy of the government.
Paranoia evidently does strike deep, and it is real, but people like jm and his ilk don’t seem to mind; after all, they are good little bushbots.
Funny thing is this – if a person really WANTS to be clandestine he can do so – pay phones, public computers, etc. It is the law-abiding person on his home computer and phone who is most subject to being eavesdropped upon.
Another jm post: “With that reaction I guess means you don’t have a clue either.”
Evidently well over 60% of the american people don’t have one either. But I would venture to guess that it is the bushbots who have no clue as to the real damage they are doing to america’s standing in the world community.
So I won’t be fully redundant when I still say: hahahahahahahaha! Just partially so, if you get my drift. By the way, tell your ex I won’t be in town tomorrow, so cancel the flight.
“Paranoia evidently does strike deep, and it is real, but people like jm and his ilk don’t seem to mind; after all, they are good little bushbots.”
Posted by: dusty chaps | November 04, 2006 at 12:56 PM
There isn’t much I can do about surveillance.
Besides, the U.S. is not the only body of assembled power that does surveillance. Other countries, companies (i.e.; Hewlett Packard) and some ‘unofficial’ entities not known to be associated with anyone do surveillance.
It’s sort of like the cartoon in Mad Magazine, “Spy vs. Spy.” Each trying to get the other, sometimes their own bufoonry gets them caught in their own traps.
“are you trying to tell us that they have each and every pay phone and public computer properly surveiled? “Posted by: hmmm … | November 04, 2006 at 12:54 PM
Nope, never said that. Only persons of interest.
Problem is, we don’t know who the eprsons of interest are until AFTER they become ‘interesting’; then it’s too late.
John McCain recently said the reason Chelsea Clinton was so ugly was because Janet Reno was her dad.
I din’t hear any outrage over that. To me that was much worse.
The republicans are great at accusing the DemocraTIC party of doing the very things they do and then claim “moral outrage” when they should all be ashamed of themselves
Pam – why that was just good clean fun! You know, Repubs will be Repubs!
I don’t understand the Bush Administration about terrorism.
They are so set on frisking any grandmother that goes through the airport check-in line but yet they post how-to manual for nuclear bombs on the Internet.
Is this really what Homeland Security has come to? Who is in charge?
and please don’t let Bush tell the person in charge he is doing a “heckuva job”.
Repubs jokes are a hoot – much like Bob Dole and his Viagra commercials.
If clinton had done those, the GOP would have gone nuts but Bobby can do them and it is funny. Go figure.
The Religious Righties have rubbed off on the GOP – do as I say and not as I do.
But lucee … he IS doing a heckuva job!
Apparently McCain hasn’t seen Chelsea Clinton lately. She’s an attractive young woman. Smart like her mom and dad, too.
On the flip side, let’s take a look at the Bush twins. On second thought, let’s not. I’d rather sleep tonight.