I received this response today on a post from another blog about Mitt Romney’s Facebook hacking (emphasis mine):
I told my husband that I have been seeing friends of his that we KNOW would never vote for Romney “like” him on facebook. We are discussing this while family is visiting and then my husbands father tells me that he saw I had “liked” Romney on facebook a couple of weeks ago. I would know if I had done this. I would rather eat a hand full of stink bugs. I do not like this one bit.
Zonkers! My transaction abilities were suspended, according to this breathless email I just got, straight from the Secutity Department of the FDIC!! I do all my corporated and business banking with the FDIC and now I can’t!!! I guess I should try to save and install the newest installations, by browsing this link!!1!!!
Oh, thank you Secutity Department, for watching out for me!1!!1!!eleven!!
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 14:49:11 +0200
From: “FDIC” cautiono@yhbia.com
To: markt at markissupercoolbutthisisnthisemailaddress.edu
Subject: Your transaction abilities were suspendedYour Corporated and Business Banking
Federal Deposit
Insurance CorporationYour ACH & Wire transaction abilities have been temporarily disabled in order to ensure your security, because of the expiration of your security version. Please save and install the newest installations, by browsing this link.
As soon as update being installed, your account entire features will be completely restored.
Faithfully yours, Secutity Department, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
Here’s another look at Tony Tata’s firing. I have to say as likable as the General is, I think his lack of experience in education was one of his biggest flaws.
I’m hoping the board can find a Bill McNeal type to be the new superintendent.
It is telling that the Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce, Wake County Tax Payer’s Association, Wake County Republican Party, and Tea Party members of the BOE are supporting Tata. They are calling the firing a partisan distraction. Nonsense. First, a vote along party lines isn’t necessarily a partisan vote, and not all partisan decisions are necessarily bad decisions. Second, how is it a “distraction” to ensure WCPSS has a qualified, effective superintendent?
via Broadie Tata fired by Wake County school board | Parents Across America.
My letter to the editor ran in today’s N&O.
Horse sense
Contrary to what the N.C. GOP would have you believe, you won’t find any horses on Raleigh’s 80 miles of beautiful greenways. What you will find are citizens of all political stripes appreciating one of Raleigh’s more popular and unique amenities.
While the N.C.GOP has backed off a bit for implying Sig Hutchinson “raised taxes” (which is, um, interesting as he’s never held public office before), it has not apologized for insulting our city by calling greenways “horse trails.”
(Looks like they didn’t fix my typo, where I wrote “support” instead of “supported.” Oh well.)
I found out last night that Gus Gusler, owner of Raleigh’s Player’s Retreat, discovered to his surprise that he was now a fan of Mitt Romney’s Facebook page. Anyone who knows Gusler knows how ludicrously improbable it is that he chose to do this willingly.
“I wouldn’t vote for that empty suit phony for dog catcher,” Gusler says.
Still hoping that the media starts taking this Mitt Romney Facebook hacking seriously.
Speaking of Foreign Affairs, I was delighted to see a writer make the same point about Israel as I did.
Israel is an ally, true, but Netanyahu needs to shut his piehole.
But it is Americans who ought to be incensed with Netanyahu. By insisting on red lines and threatening to launch a unilateral strike on Iran’s nuclear infrastructure, Netanyahu is trying to commit the United States to fighting a preventive war on Israel’s behalf. In effect, he is demanding that the United States do far more to protect Israel’s security than it does for any of its other allies. Netanyahu is also inserting himself into a U.S. presidential campaign to a degree unprecedented for the leader of a close American ally, implicitly echoing the Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s charge that the Obama administration is “throwing Israel under the bus.”
