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DEL.ICIO.USReading other people’s mail
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
New Yorker magazine has a quick piece on a fellow named Guru Raj, who four years ago — while watching the Democratic National Convention in his parents’ Norcross, Ga., basement — set up a Gmail account in the name of the “young senator from Illinois” he’d just seen on TV.
Here’s a snippet:
“I just thought it would be kind of funny to create an e-mail address based on a random senator whose name no one could spell.”
Over the next four years, as Gmail became the third most popular Webmail provider in the U.S. and [Barack] Obama became a serious contender for the next President of the United States, Raj used the account for his personal e-mail.
In the fall of 2006, he received, for the first time, a message intended for the Senator. By February, 2007, when Obama formally announced his candidacy, Raj was daily receiving dozens of misdirected notes from all over the world.
One more thing about the piece: It was written by Charles Bethea, who lives in New Mexico — but whose mother is Sally Bethea, executive director of the Upper Chattahoochee Riverkeeper.
Comments
By COL. [retd] A.M.Khajawall
July 23, 2008 10:12 AM | Link to this
Dear American Citizens and the Press
As a concerned citizen, I consider it is my duty to bring following message to you all.
“We the citizens of the United States of America have the ultimate responsibility to elect the ” Right Candidate” to lead our nation, out of our huge present and future internal and external challenges as well as opportunities. This is to prevent depression and isolation in-spite of being the only superpower in the world morally, democratically, economically, and militarily.
We need to consider the “critical qualities and characteristics” of our presumptive presidential nominees at the time we vote.
In my personal and professional opinion the critical considerations are as under:
Stay informed, stay involved, and stay engaged. Do not allow some partisan media, pundits, pollsters, and perpetual political opinion makers effect your vote in the wrong direction.
Don’t be effected and duped by “Psychological Terrorism” that is afflicted upon you all the time.
Long live U.S.A and its diverse but democratic people.
Col. A.M. Khajawall [Ret] MD., ABFM., ABDA. Chief Consultant: World Wide Porfessional Consultants[WWPC] Colonel, USAR/MC Combat Stress Control[Ret], Disabled American Veteran and Freedom team. Consultant Psychiatrist: CA State, Medical Board of California, and Los Angeles Mental Health Department Address: 7642 Eaglehelm Court Las Vegas NV 89123
By Ramblin' Man
July 23, 2008 11:18 AM | Link to this
Colonel K:
Have you got a quart of buttermilk I can kindly borrow?
I’ll send Nellie right over.
Thanks.
By Hear the Herd
July 23, 2008 12:01 PM | Link to this
Col Khajawall, did you minor in psychology in college?