Oh Thank You Your Majesty For Touching Me!

Sheryl Crow & Laurie David:

In his attempt to dismiss us, Mr. Rove turned to head toward his table, but as soon as he did so, Sheryl reached out to touch his arm. Karl swung around and spat, 'Don't touch me.' How hardened and removed from reality must a person be to refuse to be touched by Sheryl Crow?

Source: The Corner – Karl Rove, Laurie David, and Sheryl Crow -- The Real Story (Byron York) Byron York excerpts Crow & David's version as they report on the Huffington Post. Byron also gets reports from a third party:

In the eyewitness' version, again, David and Crow are a bit more aggressive than their own story suggests. The eyewitness says David told Rove, You need to bring in new people to tell you the truth. Rove mentioned Dr. John Marburger, the White House science advisor. At that point, according to the eyewitness, Crow began poking Rove's chest with her finger, demanding to know what corporations were underwriting Marburger's work. Rove said Marburger had been in academia most of his career.

Source: The Corner – Karl Rove, Laurie David, and Sheryl Crow -- The Real Story (Byron York) What piques the blogger in me is this How hardened and removed from reality must a person be to refuse to be touched by Sheryl Crow? What stunning and monumental arrogance is contained in that statement? Karl should be flattered by being poked in the chest? Even if the Crow-David story is closer to reality why should we think Sheryl Crow's touch is soooo special?

In the end it is clear, Shreyl Crow & Laurie David want to restrict us peons from using the resources the aristocracy needs to jet around the world with their semi truckloads of gear so they can sing to us about soaking up the sun.

Something About Networking

Re-reading the blog Michelle Malkin's website its incredible about their dot connecting power. I wonder what dots they would have connected if they read the famous August 6th PDB? I hope I get inspiration, I'll write it up as a spoof piece.

Anyway, much of the nutter commentary shows a basic, if incomplete, understanding of the Internet and how it works. A phsical connection (whether via wireless channels, fiber, or twisted pair) has to be established with the mail server, those channels unless backed up by physical security and strong encryption are subject to intercept. It is not that hard to do and it is not that hard to monitor such traffic.

That is, Karl using his laptop to connect to his fantastic Coptix e-mail server must utilize the bandwidth of the Whitehouse to get at it. I am very certain via speculation the NSA (or similar executive office) monitors all bits, nybbles, bytes, halfwords, words, and doublewords going in and out of the Whitehouse.

Of course, he may leave the Whitehouse and pop into the local Charbucks and utilize their wireless network. Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.

Admit it you were punked. I'll admit to a punking I fell for. I posted commentary on another blog about the Belgium barbecue tax. Coptix was clever, they knew they were part of a pond the left was dipping its toes into and that picture made the left jump right in. Just the same, I am never amazed by the ambtion of Eurocrats to want to control and regulate the life the people so when I saw the barbecue story I fell for it.