by Madeleine Begun Kane
(No one dissects the silliness and hypocrisy of Washington better than humourist MadKane. Here are her latest offerings on everything from Town Hall Meetings to amazon’s Kindle and from Sarah Palin to wandelust filled Governors and Senators. -Ed.)
Tantrum Politics
Planning to attend a local town hall meeting about health care reform? Hoping to [...]
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Hot Summer Limericks
Posted on 09 August 2009 by Madeleine Begun Kane | Comments (0) | Tags: 1984, Alaska, amazon, Animal Farm, Big Lie, Birthers, Bookstores, Congress Humor, Crime, E-books, Elderly, Electronic Theft, Euthanasia, Facebook, George Orwell, Governor Palin, Governor Sanford, Governors, Hawaii, health care, Home Invasion, Insurance Reform, Invasion of Privacy, James Inhofe, Jim DeMint, Kindle, Law Satire, Lou Dobbs, Media, Media Humor, Mobs, Nevada, obama, Obama's Birth Certificate, Oklahoma, Paperbacks, Publishers, Reform, Repossession, Republican Humor, Scandals, Scare Tactics, Senator Ensign, South Carolina, Tantrums, town hall meetings, Waterloo
Is Sarah Palin About to Become Mrs. John Zaccaro?
Posted on 10 September 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: $17, 000+, 18-months to pick a real running mate, 1984, 312 days worth of meal and housing per diems, base went wild, Blair, Chinese water torture, Conservative leader David Cameron, day-12 of the “when will she talk to the press” watch, Democratic Senator Joe Lieberman, drip of scandal, earmarks, general feeling of entitlement, Geraldine Ferraro, Homeland Security, just keep breathing, Lib Dems Sir Menzies Campbell, live vetting process, McCain, MP expenses, Mrs. John Zaccaro, MSM questions, obama, off-the-cuff gaffe about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, outrageous lies, political napalm, polls rebounded dramatically, President Reagan, Prime Minister Brown, pro-choice, real estate developer husband, reams of documents, rightt wing blogs trying hardest to protect her, Sarah Palin, scurrilous and ridiculous, Sex Education for 5-year olds, show her incredibly poor judgment, spinning badly out of control, Stump speech embellishments, tied to indicted Alaska Senator Ted Stevens, to stay at home, Tom Ridge former Pennsylvania Governor, trooper-gate, up yours to the party, Walter Mondale, won re-election in a landslide, worse than Dan Quayle
In 1984, Geraldine Ferraro was chosen by Democratic Presidential candidate Walter Mondale. The base went wild, polls rebounded dramatically and then when “our Geraldine” became Mrs. John Zaccaro, her real estate developer husband and the press focussed in on his “interesting” business dealings, President Reagan won re-election in a landslide.
Now, Sarah Palin whose high pitched [...]
I Rob Banks Because That’s Where the Money Is
Posted on 11 August 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: 1984, 28.8 dial-up modems, 40-million credit card numbers and passwords, 600 MOD laptops, ADSL, afraid, auto-generated SPAM comments, bank robber, big ad company cookies, BT Broadband, cable, CD’s and data cards, click-through ads, DoubleClick, dozens of other agencies, employees who sell data, Encryption software, everyone wants to own search and advertising business s, FBI, frightening accuracy, google, hackers attack and steal data, hassle of changing e-mail, highest level ever, Home Office, I Rob Banks Because That’s Where the Money Is, important security and personal identity stealing data, inside companies, internet, Internet security, large players in this game, meaningless whether I say no or not, missing, obscure ISP, oxy-moron, pingbacks, privacy cost, recognition software "cookies", size and ability to share and mine my viewing behaviour, surfing the web, UK MoD (Ministry of Defence), Web transaction, web-crawling tools, web-traffic, Willie Sutton, worried, Yahoo!
Willie Sutton, uttered that famous line after a long career of bank robberies a century or so ago. He would have loved the Internet.
This topic was first written about in January over Internet click-through ads. I said that unless I know the website to where I am being pointed, I just say no. Now with [...]
Somebody’s Watching Me and You!
Posted on 22 April 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (1) | Tags: 1984, Business & Economy, data-mining, Double-click, George Orwell, google, hijack worm, internet, Microsoft, privacy, spyware, technology, web surfing, Yahoo!
I’ve become hyper-cautious with Internet click-through ads. Unless I know the website to where I am being pointed, I just say no. Back in ’00 I pulled a team out of a web development contract because of
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