I know this is something that is pretty old and has been there since the campaign, but who runs this site? do those emails being forwarded create a conflict of interest now that barack obama is in the whitehouse and is not supposed to collect data on private citizens by law and by law cannot get rid of certain correspondence including email. this is why he had to take down the flag@whitehouse.gov thing. how is he still getting around this questionable practice and why are we letting him? also who actually *gets* those emails and do they work in the obama administration? are they being paid by *our* tax dollars? does anyone have this info?

Yahoo! is a big company, as such its only drive is to make money. I don’t believe that they would make a service like this unless it was doing something for them. Are they compiling profiles on us? is every answer we give slowly categorizing us? what are they going to do when they have enough data to pinpoint who we are and what we know? what does this mean for us?
Yahoo! already have a prosess called behavioral targeting where they indevidualy advertise things to us depending on what we like. Is answers an extention of this?

Recently major news broke out about Climategate which came out on November 14th and the e-mails were made public on the 21st. Major news stations are reporting that this is used as a tool to force Obama to reconsider going to the conference. Its said that Borack first announced he will be attending Copenhagen on November 25th but an unsure why the large media outlets are calling it a smear campaign if the emails were released before Obama ever announced if he would be attending….

In the rural Teoc community of Carroll County, Miss., where the ancestors of Sen. John McCain owned enslaved Africans on a plantation, black, white and mixed-race family members unite every two years for their Coming Home Reunion, on the land where the plantation operated.

Some of McCain’s black family members say they are not sure exactly where they fall on the family tree, but they do know this: They are either descendants of the McCain family slaves, or of children the McCains fathered with their slaves.

White and black members of the McCain family have met on the plantation several times over the last 15 years, but one invited guest has been conspicuously absent: Sen. John Sidney McCain.

“Why he hasn’t come is anybody’s guess,” said Charles McCain Jr., 60, a distant cousin of John McCain who is black. “I think the best I can come up with, is that he doesn’t have time, or he has just distanced himself, or it doesn’t mean that much to him.”

Other relatives are not as generous.

Lillie McCain, 56, another distant cousin of John McCain who is black, said the Republican presidential nominee is trying to hide his past, and refuses to accept the family’s history.

“After hearing him in 2000 claim his family never owned slaves, I sent him an email,” she recalled. “I told him no matter how much he denies it, it will not make it untrue, and he should accept this and embrace it.”

She said the senator never responded to her email.

http://www.sfltimes.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2041&Itemid=42

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If you want to hide your past as McCain does what does this say about the individual?

If this man can’t even recognize his own black family members, how in the world is he to recognize the nation and its diversity of all races?

Its not so much what Hillary did. But my $2300 went up in smoke when there was no reason she should not have been on the ticket.

McCain 08.
Obama got away with the Alice Palmer Fiasco.
But 10 million voters will make him pay for the Hillary Clinton Snub.

Obama is still playing townie games in a professional arena where he will be burned.

I have been sent emails as part of a marketing campaign and they show up in my spam box. I have been told that it happens with other yahoo accounts. The sender received several “hard bounces” mostly from Yahoo and no results from the mailing.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/04/18/mccain-camp-says-hamas-wants-obama/

Can you arrange starting from most likely to be targeted to least likely?
a. Elderly
b. *** Women
c. *** Men
d. Straight Women
e. Mixed Genders
f. Straight Men
g. Children

FYI - Profile of the Sociopath:

-Glibness and Superficial Charm
-Manipulative and Conning
-They never recognize the rights of others and see their self-serving behaviors as permissible. They appear to be charming, yet are covertly hostile and domineering, seeing their victim as merely an instrument to be used. They may dominate and humiliate their victims.
-Grandiose Sense of Self
-Feels entitled to certain things as “their right.”
-Pathological Lying
-Has no problem lying coolly and easily and it is almost impossible for them to be truthful on a consistent basis. Can create, and get caught up in, a complex belief about their own powers and abilities. Extremely convincing and even able to pass lie detector tests.
-Lack of Remorse, Shame or Guilt
-A deep seated rage, which is split off and repressed, is at their core. Does not see others around them as people, but only as targets and opportunities. Instead of friends, they have victims and accomplices who end up as victims. The end always justifies the means and they let nothing stand in their way.
-Shallow Emotions
-When they show what seems to be warmth, joy, love and compassion it is more feigned than experienced and serves an ulterior motive. Outraged by insignificant matters, yet remaining unmoved and cold by what would upset a normal person. Since they are not genuine, neither are their promises.
-Incapacity for Love
-Need for Stimulation
-Living on the edge. Verbal outbursts and physical punishments are normal. Promiscuity and gambling are common.
-Callousness/Lack of Empathy
-Unable to empathize with the pain of their victims, having only contempt for others’ feelings of distress and readily taking advantage of them.
-Poor Behavioral Controls/Impulsive Nature
-Rage and abuse, alternating with small expressions of love and approval produce an addictive cycle for abuser and abused, as well as creating hopelessness in the victim. Believe they are all-powerful, all-knowing, entitled to every wish, no sense of personal boundaries, no concern for their impact on others.
-Early Behavior Problems/Juvenile Delinquency
-Usually has a history of behavioral and academic difficulties, yet “gets by” by conning others. Problems in making and keeping friends; aberrant behaviors such as cruelty to people or animals, stealing, etc.
-Irresponsibility/Unreliability
-Not concerned about wrecking others’ lives and dreams. Oblivious or indifferent to the devastation they cause. Does not accept blame themselves, but blames others, even for acts they obviously committed.
-Promiscuous Sexual Behavior/Infidelity
-Promiscuity, child sexual abuse, **** and sexual acting out of all sorts.
-Lack of Realistic Life Plan/Parasitic Lifestyle
-Tends to move around a lot or makes all encompassing promises for the future, poor work ethic but exploits others effectively.
-Criminal or Entrepreneurial Versatility
-Changes their image as needed to avoid prosecution. Changes life story readily.
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(The above traits are based on the psychopathy checklists of H. Cleckley and R. Hare.)

Is it: a) unmotivated clients who think a reinforcer has no potency for them…b) Assisting unmotivated clients to develop target goals…c) training clients to assert themselves.
It is a question on a take home test, I have read all the lecture notes and it just isn’t there.

13 million - number of people on Obama’s campaign email list, twice as much as Moveon.org the largest online political organization.

3 million - number of people who donated to his campaign.

2 million - number of profiles created by supporters on MyBarackObama.com

1.2 million - number of volunteers who were recruited by Obama’s campaign.

4,500 - number of “house parties” - designed to organize and discuss political issues - held by Obama supporters in December.

5,000 - number of groups who responded to a call from Obama’s transition team for reports on the best way to tackle health care issues.

100,000 - number of people who voted on Change.gov for questions they would most like to see Obama answer.

What can Obama do to harness the power of this community for the good of the country?