Ron Paul spokesperson, Autobot 716B v2.0
-Spammers for Paul-
Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul may be capturing the internet vote the old fashioned way -- with robots.
Paul's evil robot army has been caught sending out emails of support using spambots. Emails supporting Ron Paul have been found to haved spoof IP addresses, hiding their countries of origin. According to the reporter, "This meshes well with a report I have from a friend in the IT industry who started looking into comment spam on his blog from supposed 'Ron Paul supporters'. When he started looking back into their IPs they were all spoofed to look unique but actually came from the exact same place."
Asked for comment, a Paul spokesperson said, "We don't know anything about these emails and they clearly weren't sent by our campaign. Over-eager supporters may be sending these and ERROR 404 - SUITABLE EXCUSE NOT FOUND. I'm sure this will all be cleared up soon." (Election Geek)
-"Bumber sticker statements"-
Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld had a habit of micromanaging through the release of constant memos. The memos were referred to by DoD officials as "snowflakes," because Rummy wrote so many of them that they often made up a paper blizzard.
Turns out, that wasn't a very good idea. If you're going on a campaign of pushing horseshit, it's not a good idea to leave literally piles of evidence. Memos are turning up that tell DoD employees to "keep elevating the threat," "link Iraq to Iran" and develop "bumper sticker statements" to get people to support war in Iraq. He also argued that Muslims avoid "physical labor." Nothing like a little bigotry to go with your simplemindedness. (Washington Post)
-[FARK] headline of the day-
"Captain of Enola Gay dead at 92. If it had not been for his efforts, we might all be driving Japanese cars and watching Japanese TVs today." Hai, so desu! Actual story from AP. (FARK)
