| Friday,
June 17, 2005 An example of a new attack. They got the TO:
wrong, there being no Pat here, but note the plausibility. Norton removed
the payload, so this one was older.
From: warhawke [mailto:warhawke @wideopenwest.com]
Sent: Friday, June 17, 2005 12:54 AM
To: Pat
Subject: Laptop computer alert
I DO hope this turns out to be a hoax, but I checked
Snopes and a couple other sites and found nothing. PKM
The message is ready to be sent with the following
file or link attachments: Shortcut to: http://www.chromance. de/wtf/lol.htm
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They are getting smarter out there. Be careful.
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I sent a mailing yesterday. There were a very large number of returns. I
have put up those on BADMAIL. If you
subscribe, your mailbox is not full, and you did not get the mailing
yesterday, check BADMAIL for instructions
and to see why your mail was rejected. So far as I know my subscription list
is up to date, so the large number of returns is a bit disconcerting.
Elizabeth, your mailbox is full...
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Subject: The first Mac Tablet?
http://tinyurl.com/bre2e
-- Roland Dobbins
Hoo Hah!
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Thought you might like this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleoconservative
John Quincy Adams <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Quincy_Adams>
avowed, "America does not go abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She
is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the
champion and vindicator only of her own."
Brice Yokem
Indeed. Thanks. I see I am listed among the "paleoconservatives" and
there is a biography of me there. Hmm. I suppose I was aware that such
things exist, but I confess to having paid little attention to them.
Having had a look, I can't object to being placed in the list of
paleoconservatives, but that may require some explanation, so here goes:
I don't believe I can be labeled with any accuracy. I have some claim to
being a intellectual descendent of Burke, and I was a protege of Russell
Kirk. In my younger days I was concerned with political philosophy and I was
a "theory major" in graduate school in political science. Kenneth Cole,
co-founder of Modern Age with Russell Kirk, was one of my mentors at the
University of Washington. My career though was mostly in operations
research and military applications, and while I taught Constitutional Law
and political philsosophy ("theory") my involvement in politics was anything
but theoretical: I was a political campaign manager and advisor to
politicians ( I have not the temperament to run for elective office; I do
not suffer fools gladly nor damned fools at all, and it shows, and that
attitude is fatal for an elected official). Of course Burke himself
was a party manager and not a terribly successful politician.
In any event, I suppose I am properly put in some small corner of the
paleo-conservative movement so long as it is clearly understood that I don't
agree with all they say. I was once offered publication in The American
Conservative but I declined, but many of those who do publish there are
friends. Once again I do not mean that I agree with all they say. I read
Chronicles, and have some admiration for Fleming, but I have never met
anyone of the Chronicles group. Sam Francis and I corresponded on congenial
terms, and I miss his clearheaded populist view, but most of our
correspondence was about our disagreements. It is fair to put me on the list
of paleo-conservatives so long as it is understood that way.
Of course there was a time when Kirk was an editor of National Review and
Possony a contributor; but that was some time ago, and the egregious Frum
pretty well read people like me out of the National Review sympathizer list
and in the name of the magazine using the editorial "we" turned his back on
us publicly and finally. National Review did good work at one time but it
seems to have fallen into other hands as Buckley got older. I no longer
correspond with Buckley but then I haven't since I left academia a lifetime
ago, so nothing need be read into that. I doubt he remembers me in any
event.
I did have some influence in matters military during the Reagan era; I
was also science and technology advisor to Gingrich when he was Minority
Whip during the days of what looked like a permanent Republican minority in
Congress. I suppose the high point of my "influence" was Reagan's 1983 SDI
speech. The more visible result was the DC/X which General Dan Graham, Max
Hunter, and I persuaded then VP and Space Council Chairman Dan Quayle to
fund.
The truth is that since Newt Gingrich left being Speaker I haven't had
much involvement in Washington politics. That's partly due to the death of
General Graham, who maintained a sane presence inside the Beltway without
succumbing to the Beltway Disease of assuming the nation ends ten miles
outside the Capitol Beltway.
On the other hand, this place seems to be widely read, and every now and
then I get messages from people I would not have assumed paid any attention,
so I suppose I can still say that I have an entry, sometimes, to being
persuasive in places where being persuasive might make a difference. That is
all I ever promised with the Council.
And this is far too much about me. Leave it that paleo-conservative is
not an entirely accurate label, but no labels are entirely accurate, and the
paleo-conservative tent includes many who don't agree with everything said
on the posters outside the revival meeting...
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