Monday - 18 September 2000
Hawai'ian Punch. That's boxer Brian Viloria. The Waipahu, Hawai'i resident beat Russian Serguei Kazokov in first round action in the Sydney Olympics. It may not have been a pretty fight, but if that's what you want, go watch a couple of gymnasts. <g>
U.S. Women's Volley Ball Spikes Kenya. Also doing well in the Olympics are the former University of Hawai'i Na Wahine volleyball players Heather Bown and Robyn Ah Mow. Heather has been a little spotty so far but Robyn has been spectacular as setter. As soon as Heather gets going, watch out.
Mail Call.
From: Jeff Timm
To: Dan Seto
Subject: Rats and other government employees
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 06:04:33 -0400Dan,
Reference: http://www.jewishworldreview.com/tony/snow.html
Now about the abuse of the Explorer Scouts by the Democrat National Convention and the abuse of the flag and the police honor guard at the New York State Democrat Convention....care to explain how proud you are of those demonstrations?
Jeff Timm
Who hopes you will outgrow the Democrat Party...I did.----- Original Message -----
From: Dan Seto
To: [gcjtimm@earthlink.net]
Subject: Re: Rats and other government employees
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 06:54:31 -1000Jeff,
"Yet, let us assume the very "worst." Suppose Castellanos deliberately plotted to truncate "bureaucrats" to "rats" for one-twelfth of a second.
What's wrong with that?"
Surely you jest. Surely you could see a parallel with Donald Segretti? That prince of pranksters. But, for the sake of the argument, let's assume that it was an honest mistake. Then the only conclusion is that they are incompetent. On the other hand, perhaps they are both (incompetent and juvenile pranksters). <G>
As far as outgrowing the Democratic party. To what? The Libertarians? The Socialists? The Communists? None of those lifted a finger to help the Americans of Japanese ancestry in Hawai'i (well, okay, maybe the Communists helped the labor unions a little) during the 1950s). And of course, the Republicans in power did everything they could think of to keep them in their place (working the fields).
Aloha - Dan
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Tuesday - 19 September 2000
Yikes. Not much time to post much of anything this morning [so what else is old? - Ed.]. I spent all of my allotted time writing a response to JHR so I am out of time. PS - Sorry for putting the post up late. I had it ready, but I just plain forgot to ftp it. Sigh. Age.
Have a good one - Aloha!
Mail Call.
From: Jeff Timm
To: Dan Seto
Sent: Monday, September 18, 2000 10:08 AM
Subject: RE: Rats and other government employees"As far as outgrowing the Democratic party. To what? The Libertarians? The Socialists? The Communists? None of those lifted a finger to help the Americans of Japanese ancestry in Hawai'i (well, okay, maybe the Communists helped the labor unions a little) during the 1950s. And of course, the Republicans in power did everything they could think of to keep them in their place (working the fields)."
1.
Wellllll...
If you wanna go back that far, I suppose FDR and his Hollywood friends the A-o-J's a favor in 1942 by locking them up in prison camps and taking away their land on the west coast. That way they didn't have to worry about increasing land values in the 1950-80 time frame.2.
Facts are facts Dan, and the Democrat party has taken over the news media and established a power elite, above God and above the Law. Are you really sure you want such people controlling your life?3.
Unless of course you believe the Dems will destroy the country and Hawai'i will be better off under the Red Chinese?4.
Now about the abuse of the Explorer Scouts by the Democrat National Convention and the abuse of the flag and the police honor guard at the New York State Democrat Convention....care to explain how proud you are of those demonstrations?Jeff
Who wants to know what part of "To tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, don't you understand?From: Dan Seto
To: [gcjtimm@earthlink.net]
Subject: Re: Rats and other government employees
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 10:40:39 -1000Well, I guess we disagree. For every point you bring up about Democrats, I can bring up a similar one about Republicans. Once in power, each abuses said power. The strength of our democracy is that the abuses are usually made public. And hopefully, corrected.
1. Look to the extreme right wing of the Republican party and the military for the genesis of the taking of land.
2. I assume you looked at the URL that your article came from right? Is this part of the Liberal Elite (codeword for Jews) that you are referring to as "Hollywood" friends?
3. Destroy the country? The Democrats? They couldn't organize a boy scout jamboree much less destroy the country. No. I fear the right wing of the Republicans. They are the ones that say only they know what's right for the country. And any one who says otherwise is a Communist.
4. If you could be more specific it would be helpful. For example, how does defending the Constitution of the United States equate with abusing the flag? In other words, what part of the Constitution don't you understand and feel should be repealed?
Aloha - Dan
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania (1759)
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." -- Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Stuart, 1791.
From: J. H. RICKETSON
To: Dan Seto
Sent: Monday, September 18, 2000 7:11 PM
Subject: Your 09/18/00 PostDan -
Your Democrat advocacy at your site, and in particular, your 09/18 post, requires a response. I usually ignore such rant, having experienced regrettable acrimonious results when I deviated from a policy of not commenting on matters of Faith. IMO, Politics is a matter of Faith, rather than fact, as is Religion and OS (in some cases). As an agnostic an all areas, I find this really hard to understand. Fact seems to be ignored or tailored to fit Faith in the case of True Believers. Boggles my mind.
Anyway: Here I go again. I believe you assert that the Republican Regimes have done nothing for Americans of Japanese Ancestry. Consider: was it a Republican Regime that incarcerated Americans of Japanese Ancestry at the outset of WW II, thus precipitating the whole mess that lingers even today?
I suspect it would have been no different under any regime. America was traumatized by Pearl Harbor. On 6 December we were a nation at peace. By 8 December we were involved in a total war for our very survival. It was an extremely desperate time, and required desperate measures, not all of which have gained the approval of the Sunday Morning Quarterbacks. The incarceration of Americans of Japanese Ancestry was one such desperate measure. I suspect it may have achieved its purpose if it removed the small percentage of Americans of Japanese Ancestry who were indeed not loyal Americans, by taking them out of play. No one will ever know.
The fact remains: America did not wish to become a part of the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere." Fortunately, we did not. As a result, you - and I - can speak our minds freely. I, for one, am grateful for that.
Read history, Dan - and remember.
Regards,
JHR
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J. H. RICKETSON
[JHR@WarlockLltd.com]
18/09/2000 10:08:08 PMFrom: Dan Seto
To: JHR
Subject: Re: Your 09/18/00 Post
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 07:28:38 -1000JHR,
Thanks for your comments. Obviously, I respectfully disagree. Perhaps because my parents lived through it, so it still fresh in my mind. They have first hand knowledge of what happened here.
And I'm not sure I would call my response a rant. If you look at the subject heading of Mr. Timm's email I think it deserved a bit of a response. I will also be posting a follow-up email that we had. And I find it strange that he would use code words like "Hollywood friends" (i.e. Jews) and the Democratic dominated press (i.e. Jews) and yet refers to a column in a Jewish domain to back up his own rant. Politics does indeed make strange bed fellows.
The fact remains, however, that Americans of Japanese ancestry (AJA) were interned, and those of German ancestry were not.
And perhaps I should clarify that I was referring to what was happening here in Hawai'i. There was NO WHOLESALE rounding up and sending off of AJAs in Hawai'i. Why? Many reasons. First, there were so many of them that to round up all of them up would have caused chaos. Second, Democrats that had been able to move up in to power positions were able to deflect calls for such a round up (calls that came from, the most part, Republicans, not Democrats). And third, since they were so many here, everyone knew them. Worked beside them. Went bowling with them. Played baseball with them. Married their sons and daughters. Heck, ate apple pie with them. These were everyone's friends and neighbors. They were NOT the enemy. They were Americans.
On the other hand, the Republicans here did not lift a finger to help the loyal AJAs. I can not speak to what happened on the mainland. Other than to say paranoia, whipped up by certain rabid Republican senators did not help. But you are probably right, some Democrats did take part in the paranoia. The same ones that tried to ride the wave of the "Red menace" in the 1950s. But most did not. And when it came time to apologize to those wronged, it was the Democrats who led the way.
As far as faith. To a certain extent you are right. One has to take on faith that the majority of people are good, decent Americans. Americans who only want to be able raise their families the way they see fit without having Big Brother tell them how to live. Without having Big Brother come into their homes and tell them what to think. How to act. To force them to have children. To outlaw behaviors between consenting adults.
And in the end, I think I am afraid that some Republicans do not feel the same as everyone else. Oh, they say they are for "freedom and liberty." But that only applies as long as it follows their definition of freedom and liberty. As soon as it deviates from that, the Constitution goes out the window and you go to jail. And they say they are for education, but when it comes time to pay for it, they seem to have other places to be. They say they are for the family, but do everything they can to keep one apart when it is politically expedient to do so.
I know we could go on and on. And in the end, we will each believe what we choose to believe. But I agree that it was because of the sacrifices of our fathers, fighting against those who would use aggression as an arm of foreign policy, that we have the freedom to say what we wish today. Although I will leave for another day a debate of whether the Japanese wanted to invade the mainland US so as to create a "Greater East Asia Co." hint: NOT. <G> Aloha - Dan
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Hump Day Wednesday - 20 September 2000
Today's email, tomorrow's legal evidence. This email will self-destruct in 10 seconds. Well, no it won't. But it could. If you were using SafeMessage (see it here) by AbsoluteFuture. Not only can you encrypt a message, but you can have it delete itself automatically.
Other systems also doing similar things are Disappearing Email (here), Zixmail (here), and ZipLip (here). YMMV.
Whitewater Survival. So, after spending six years and untold millions of your tax payer dollars, Independent Counsel Robert Ray concluded that there is insufficient evidence to charge the Clintons with anything related to their Arkansas business dealings. The Clintons may have done a lot of other things, but criminal activities relating to this situation is not one of them. See the story here from the Los Angeles Times.
Speaking of the Clintons. There's a new Republican attack ad running in New York. I don't live in NY so I have not seen it, but the New York Times has. And they describe it thus:
A woman's hand, representing Hillary Clinton's, reaches out with an electric prod, digs into the most sensitive part of the male anatomy, and - bzzzzz!!...[it] depicts Hillary as a castrating rhymes-with-rich.
I guess you have to expect such things now-a-days. But whatever happened to running on ones own merits, instead of trying to tar your opponent with innuendo, half-truths, and outright lies? Now, I'm the first one to say that Hillary may not be the best person for the job, but do you have to stoop to such tactics to get what you want? If you do, then you are worse than she is. And that's saying something.
I have to finish the term paper I've been working on this week so I am out of here - Aloha!
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Thursday - 21 September 2000
My Aching Back. Every once in awhile my back let's me know that it does an important job. Yesterday was one of those days. And so is today. So I am at home trying not to move. Which is pretty difficult to do when you are at your computer trying to post something.
So this is my way of saying that there won't be much of a post today. And no, I didn't strain my back moving concrete around.
What? Me Worry? As InfoWorld's Brian Livingston says, even if you don't install MS Me on your own systems. You may need to support it on others. So he has some basic tips on what to do prior to upgrading. See the list here.
Dying a Grave Offense. And no, I didn't come up with that one. It's from a Los Angeles Times story ( here) that talks about the French Riviera town of Le Lavandou. It seems they passed a law Tuesday which prohibits your dying there without a cemetery plot. Hmmm. So if we all move there, but don't have cemetery plots, does that mean we will never die? NOT.
My back is killing me, so that's it for today. I hope my back gets better by tomorrow - Aloha!
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Aloha Friday - 22 September 2000
It's Friday!
And the Hits Just Keep on Coming. I finally got around to looking at my site stats yesterday. In the month of August I had 16,209 hits. As I've said before, that's not bad for a site that is as Miscellaneous as mine. All I do is write this stuff. I don't visit newsgroups or chat rooms telling everyone that I'm here. I'm not an author/writer. But somehow, people find this place anyway. Thank you for your support.
Home Free. I don't know if he's kidding or not but PC Mag's Bill Machrone has an article about how to live in a house, mortgage or rent free (see it here). The catch? Ahhh, there's the rub. You will be bombarded with ads from wall sized touch screens. And you have to buy at a minimum, 80% percent of your purchases per month through these screens while not spending more than 20% outside. YMMV.
Formula for Success. Formula One racing will be back on US soil this weekend after being absent from these shores since 1991. The premiere international race series will be at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, home of the Indy 500. Unfortunately, there are no US drivers in the F-1 series right now. The last being Michael Andretti for McLaren in 1993.
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Have a Great Weekend Everyone! - Aloha
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