Monthly Archives: February 2007

NOTE: This blog entry is a supplement to our February 5 Downsizer-Dispatch message which can be found above (the Dispatch will be posted after this entry so we can’t link to it here).::::::In an earlier blog item in November we told you how a hacker attacked a minor vulnerability in our “Tell-a-friend” mechanism. It was fixed almost instantly. We won’t rehash that story. You can read it for yourself.::::::We’ve been blacklisted by AOL. All we were told was that we had a “compromised script.” We don’t know the specific nature of the compromised script, but the November Tell-a-friend hack was our first appearance on the AOL blacklist and we’ve had problems with that company ever since. We’ve been in a kind of “off and on” situation with them — more off than on — but it was mostly a minor, occasional annoyance. Each time that we would end up on the list, we’d wait 24 to 36 hours, and the problem would go away. ::::::That ceased to be the case, starting in about mid-January. Now we’re just plain “on” the AOL blacklist, and we’re having a very hard time getting off!::::::To make matters worse,

Today’s Downsizer-Dispatch . . . :::Sunday’s Downsize DC Conference Call radio show is going to be a repeat of last week’s episode. We’ll get to that in a moment.

But first, we want to talk about Breakfast with the Babka’s — in New Hampshire, February 24th.

Jim Babka will be giving a speech, at the Free State Project’s Liberty Forum. The speech is titled, “How New Hampshire can Change the Federal Government Forever.” We’ll give you a hint: Jim’s speech has something to do with the Read the Bills Act.

The Liberty Forum will be great fun. Other speakers include John Stossel from the ABC Show 20/20, Rob Kampia of the Marijuana Policy Project, and Congressman Ron Paul.

Would you run the ultimate experiment in Iraq?

Today’s Downsizer-Dispatch . . .::::::Please forward to concerned friends . . .::::::President Bush has had four years to bring peace to Iraq. Every experiment he’s tried to achieve that goal has failed. Now he wants to expend more American lives and money on yet another experiment. ::::::The Democrats, by contrast, seem to have adopted a “stay the course” strategy. They oppose the President’s new experiment, but seem in no hurry to leave the laboratory. ::::::U.S. policy is adrift, at the cost of innocent American lives and hundreds of billions of your tax money. It’s time to stop the experiments.