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There is no reading, there are no words, that can truly bring comfort those who are grieving the loss of their loved ones today; and no matter how we try to make sense of it all it is hard, so hard, to do.
“Nine days on, there is still the shock and disbelief; there is anger; there is fear; but there is also, throughout the world, a profound sense of solidarity; there is courage; there is a surging of the human spirit. We wanted to be here today, to offer our support and sympathy to the families of the lost ones. Many are British as you know. So the bonds between our countries for so long so strong, are even stronger now.
“For my reading I have chosen the final words of The Bridge of San Luis Rey written by Thornton Wilder in 1927. It is about a tragedy that took place in Peru, when a bridge collapsed over a gorge and five people
died.
“A witness to the deaths, wanting to make sense of them, to explain the ways of God to his fellow human beings, examined the lives of the people who died, and these words were said by someone who knew the victims.
“‘But soon we will die, and all memories of those five will have left earth, and we ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all those impulses of love return to the love that made them. Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead, and the bridge is love. The only survival, the only meaning’.”
Where is Mr John ?
Break the champagne and cubans, let celebrate in style
The Useful Idiots
News: America closes in on bin Laden
INTRODUCING an occasional monitor of Western defeatism. The atrocities in New York and Washington brought out some elevated emotions in Britain. But uglier sentiments are also being voiced.
Many in the Left-wing press and the BBC are beginning to take the line that the attack was somehow the fault of Americans themselves. "American bond traders, you might say, are as innocent and undeserving of terror as Vietnamese or Iraqi peasants," a New Statesman editorial read. "Well, yes and no." After all, the Americans helped to bring the calamity on themselves, thinks the paper, since "they preferred George Bush to Al Gore and both to Ralph Nader". In yesterday's Mail on Sunday, Suzanne Moore blamed terrorism on US foreign policy, and on the country's "gas-guzzling", "complacency" and "spiritual barrenness".
The day after the massacre, the Guardian ran several opinion pieces that linked the attack with "global injustices" and "world poverty", as well as an article by Labour's George Galloway, arguing that in much of the world "people will consider the US to have had to swallow its own medicine". The next day, no fewer than three opinion columns - one of them headlined, "They can't see why they are hated" - laid into American "arrogance". A fourth, by Hugo Young, attacked the US, albeit in more measured tones, for its isolationism. (Thus Americans are condemned if they take up their global responsibilities, and equally condemned if they don't.)
Underlying almost all these articles is a common refrain: that the outrage should persuade the US to change its foreign policy, and that Britain should play no part in any retaliation. Or, as Saddam Hussein argued on Saturday, that the West should display "common sense, and not force". In taking the same line, the useful idiots of the liberal Left are acting like proxies for those who hate the West and everything it represents. We'll keep you posted on them.
THE invocation of Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty is unprecedented. It does not, however, at once enhance the military power that America will deploy in its war on terrorism. It merely makes it possible for Washington to call on its allies to lend assistance. What assistance will be given remains for each to decide.
The declaration does have the effect, however, of defining what will now be a theatre of war. It includes not only the territories of the member states, but also the North Atlantic "area" - the whole of the world north of the Tropic of Cancer. That line runs just under the mouth of the Gulf and below the southern coast of Iran. What may be presumed to be the primary target states, Afghanistan foremost, therefore lie within it.
It is also important that the invocation of Article 5 will not limit America's freedom to act unilaterally, which may prove vital if some or any of its partners jib at measures it decides to take.
As sympathy for its plight fades, together with revulsion at the atrocity, it is possible that states less resolute for armed action and more sympathetic to the Arab world will shuffle their feet. France comes immediately to mind, but Italy may also backslide, perhaps Germany as well.
Militarily that will not signify greatly because none of those states, except France, has worthwhile military forces to deploy. Nor do any of the continental European Nato states have bases to offer in the probable operational area. The over-flying and logistic facilities they could make available would be valuable; real force, however, will come from America's own resources and is being assembled urgently at this moment.
Britain, at least, can be counted on - as always. Tony Blair has already said the right things and will undoubtedly hold true to his words. He will be supported wholeheartedly by the British people, in whom the New York horror has reawoken that sense of Anglo-American solidarity that animated the United Kingdom during the Second World War.
Britain can actually lend something substantial to America's war effort. Small though our Armed Forces are, they are well balanced and of high quality, with particular skills in expeditionary and low-intensity operations that will prove useful. The American special forces have largely learnr their expertise from ours, which they admire, and they will be ready to call on their help without demur. Such help will be given fully.
What, however, will America do of its own accord? No obvious targets have yet been identified. The evil-doers have not declared themselves and there is a variety of culprits to be blamed. Islamic fundamentalist movements, it is generally agreed, are at the centre. Both supposed motivation - hatred of America, "the great Satan" - and methods of operation point to them.
Suicide attacks have, since the civil war in Lebanon that began 30 years ago, become the preferred method of Islamic protest, and the displaced peoples of that region, Palestinians foremost, provide candidates for martyrdom in profusion. Not only Palestinians, however; young men of many other Islamic nationalities, including Afghans, flocked to Lebanon while it was a base for operations against Israel, learnt suicide techniques there, imbibed the spirit of fanaticism and took it home.
The target is therefore diffuse. Because of the Islamic diaspora, there may now be suicide cells in many countries, throughout the Middle East and North Africa, of course, but also in western Europe. There are certainly potential suicide bombers in Britain.
The root of the evil, now clearly associated with Osama bin Laden's group, lies, however, in the Islamic world and probably in Afghanistan. The problem is how to strike at it.
Afghanistan is a remote country of difficult terrain, ruled by fanatics who do not fear retaliation. Moreover, taking war to the Afghans has a bad history. The British, in three wars, twice came off badly - in 1842 and 1919. The Russians came off very badly indeed in the last days of communism. Pessimists will, therefore, probably argue that an American campaign against Afghanistan, to root out terrorists who shelter there, is also doomed to failure.
It should be remembered, however, that, in 1878, the British did succeed in bringing the Afghans to heel. Lord Roberts's march from "Kabul to Kandahar" was one of the most celebrated of Victoria's wars. The Russians, moreover, foolishly did not try to punish rogue Afghans, as Roberts did, but to rule the country. Since Afghanistan is ungovernable, the failure of their effort was predictable.
The Americans should try to repeat Roberts's success. He, however, operated from a firm base within India. Modern India is unlikely to offer America such facilities. Where else might they be found?
Ironically, it seems possible that America may look to Russia. There are two reasons why President Putin might help. The first is that Russia is also plagued by the menace of Islamic terrorism that, in Chechnya, has inflicted humiliation on the successor to the once-great Soviet army. The second is that lending assistance to Nato might persuade the alliance to admit Russia to membership.
Since the collapse of communism, one of the main strands of Russian foreign policy has been to seek closer alignment with the West. Russia has been constantly rebuffed - it took particularly badly the sop of membership of the so-called Partnership for Peace, but perhaps there has - until now - been no substantial basis on which the leader of the former Warsaw Pact and Nato could have made common cause.
But the world changed on Tuesday. America and Russia may well now be able to agree a common cause in the war against nihilistic terrorism and to join in military alliance. For those who regard the combination of national humiliation and international ostracism that Russia has suffered since 1989 as dangerous and undesirable, an American-Russian reconciliation would be a wholly beneficial outcome of Tuesday's atrocity.
Given bases, America can undoubtedly wreak terrible vengeance on its new-found enemies. We may expect operations as improbable as Tuesday's itself. With appropriate logistic facilities, America's deployable ground-air forces, such as its two air-assault and airborne divisions, could move from the regions bordering Afghanistan's northern frontier with the former Soviet Union to inflict violent strikes on its Islamic enemies. America would not seek to change the regime, but simply attempt to find and kill terrorists. It would do so without pity.
There would be no more fear of the body-bags coming home. There are body-bags aplenty in Manhattan this week and young Americans will risk their lives, with a fervour as intense as any Islamic suicide killer, to do their duty to honour and country.
America, once roused, is a terrible enemy to fight, as Japan found on Okinawa and Iwo Jima. Those islands were captured, not by air power or naval bombardment, but because young GIs and marines were better and braver soldiers than their Japanese opponents.
There are other current movements of which to take note, as yet insubstantial but certain to gather concrete form. One is the retreat of human rights lawyers from the forefront of public life. America in a war mood will have no truck with tender concern for constitutional safeguards of the liberty of its enemies. The other, which ordinary Americans will have to learn to bear, is interference with their liberty of instant electronic access to friends and services.
The World Trade Centre outrage was co-ordinated on the internet, without question. If Washington is serious in its determination to eliminate terrorism, it will have to forbid internet providers to allow the transmission of encrypted messages - now encoded by public key ciphers that are unbreakable even by the National Security Agency's computers - and close down any provider that refuses to comply.
Uncompliant providers on foreign territory should expect their buildings to be destroyed by cruise missiles. Once the internet is implicated in the killing of Americans, its high-rolling days may be reckoned to be over.
THE invocation of Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty is unprecedented. It does not, however, at once enhance the military power that America will deploy in its war on terrorism. It merely makes it possible for Washington to call on its allies to lend assistance. What assistance will be given remains for each to decide.
The declaration does have the effect, however, of defining what will now be a theatre of war. It includes not only the territories of the member states, but also the North Atlantic "area" - the whole of the world north of the Tropic of Cancer. That line runs just under the mouth of the Gulf and below the southern coast of Iran. What may be presumed to be the primary target states, Afghanistan foremost, therefore lie within it.
It is also important that the invocation of Article 5 will not limit America's freedom to act unilaterally, which may prove vital if some or any of its partners jib at measures it decides to take.
As sympathy for its plight fades, together with revulsion at the atrocity, it is possible that states less resolute for armed action and more sympathetic to the Arab world will shuffle their feet. France comes immediately to mind, but Italy may also backslide, perhaps Germany as well.
Militarily that will not signify greatly because none of those states, except France, has worthwhile military forces to deploy. Nor do any of the continental European Nato states have bases to offer in the probable operational area. The over-flying and logistic facilities they could make available would be valuable; real force, however, will come from America's own resources and is being assembled urgently at this moment.
Britain, at least, can be counted on - as always. Tony Blair has already said the right things and will undoubtedly hold true to his words. He will be supported wholeheartedly by the British people, in whom the New York horror has reawoken that sense of Anglo-American solidarity that animated the United Kingdom during the Second World War.
Britain can actually lend something substantial to America's war effort. Small though our Armed Forces are, they are well balanced and of high quality, with particular skills in expeditionary and low-intensity operations that will prove useful. The American special forces have largely learnr their expertise from ours, which they admire, and they will be ready to call on their help without demur. Such help will be given fully.
What, however, will America do of its own accord? No obvious targets have yet been identified. The evil-doers have not declared themselves and there is a variety of culprits to be blamed. Islamic fundamentalist movements, it is generally agreed, are at the centre. Both supposed motivation - hatred of America, "the great Satan" - and methods of operation point to them.
Suicide attacks have, since the civil war in Lebanon that began 30 years ago, become the preferred method of Islamic protest, and the displaced peoples of that region, Palestinians foremost, provide candidates for martyrdom in profusion. Not only Palestinians, however; young men of many other Islamic nationalities, including Afghans, flocked to Lebanon while it was a base for operations against Israel, learnt suicide techniques there, imbibed the spirit of fanaticism and took it home.
The target is therefore diffuse. Because of the Islamic diaspora, there may now be suicide cells in many countries, throughout the Middle East and North Africa, of course, but also in western Europe. There are certainly potential suicide bombers in Britain.
The root of the evil, now clearly associated with Osama bin Laden's group, lies, however, in the Islamic world and probably in Afghanistan. The problem is how to strike at it.
Afghanistan is a remote country of difficult terrain, ruled by fanatics who do not fear retaliation. Moreover, taking war to the Afghans has a bad history. The British, in three wars, twice came off badly - in 1842 and 1919. The Russians came off very badly indeed in the last days of communism. Pessimists will, therefore, probably argue that an American campaign against Afghanistan, to root out terrorists who shelter there, is also doomed to failure.
It should be remembered, however, that, in 1878, the British did succeed in bringing the Afghans to heel. Lord Roberts's march from "Kabul to Kandahar" was one of the most celebrated of Victoria's wars. The Russians, moreover, foolishly did not try to punish rogue Afghans, as Roberts did, but to rule the country. Since Afghanistan is ungovernable, the failure of their effort was predictable.
The Americans should try to repeat Roberts's success. He, however, operated from a firm base within India. Modern India is unlikely to offer America such facilities. Where else might they be found?
Ironically, it seems possible that America may look to Russia. There are two reasons why President Putin might help. The first is that Russia is also plagued by the menace of Islamic terrorism that, in Chechnya, has inflicted humiliation on the successor to the once-great Soviet army. The second is that lending assistance to Nato might persuade the alliance to admit Russia to membership.
Since the collapse of communism, one of the main strands of Russian foreign policy has been to seek closer alignment with the West. Russia has been constantly rebuffed - it took particularly badly the sop of membership of the so-called Partnership for Peace, but perhaps there has - until now - been no substantial basis on which the leader of the former Warsaw Pact and Nato could have made common cause.
But the world changed on Tuesday. America and Russia may well now be able to agree a common cause in the war against nihilistic terrorism and to join in military alliance. For those who regard the combination of national humiliation and international ostracism that Russia has suffered since 1989 as dangerous and undesirable, an American-Russian reconciliation would be a wholly beneficial outcome of Tuesday's atrocity.
Given bases, America can undoubtedly wreak terrible vengeance on its new-found enemies. We may expect operations as improbable as Tuesday's itself. With appropriate logistic facilities, America's deployable ground-air forces, such as its two air-assault and airborne divisions, could move from the regions bordering Afghanistan's northern frontier with the former Soviet Union to inflict violent strikes on its Islamic enemies. America would not seek to change the regime, but simply attempt to find and kill terrorists. It would do so without pity.
There would be no more fear of the body-bags coming home. There are body-bags aplenty in Manhattan this week and young Americans will risk their lives, with a fervour as intense as any Islamic suicide killer, to do their duty to honour and country.
America, once roused, is a terrible enemy to fight, as Japan found on Okinawa and Iwo Jima. Those islands were captured, not by air power or naval bombardment, but because young GIs and marines were better and braver soldiers than their Japanese opponents.
There are other current movements of which to take note, as yet insubstantial but certain to gather concrete form. One is the retreat of human rights lawyers from the forefront of public life. America in a war mood will have no truck with tender concern for constitutional safeguards of the liberty of its enemies. The other, which ordinary Americans will have to learn to bear, is interference with their liberty of instant electronic access to friends and services.
The World Trade Centre outrage was co-ordinated on the internet, without question. If Washington is serious in its determination to eliminate terrorism, it will have to forbid internet providers to allow the transmission of encrypted messages - now encoded by public key ciphers that are unbreakable even by the National Security Agency's computers - and close down any provider that refuses to comply.
Uncompliant providers on foreign territory should expect their buildings to be destroyed by cruise missiles. Once the internet is implicated in the killing of Americans, its high-rolling days may be reckoned to be over.
written by a Canadian author.
America: The Good Neighbor
Widespread but only partial news coverage was given recently to a remarkable
editorial broadcast from Toronto by Gordon Sinclair, a Canadian television
commentator. What follows is the full text of his trenchant remarks as
printed in the Congressional Record:
"This Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the Americans as the most
generous and possibly the least appreciated people on all the earth.
Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy were lifted out of
the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and
forgave other billions in debts. None of these countries is today paying even
the interest on its remaining debts to the United States.
When France was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who
propped it up, and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of
Paris. I was there. I saw it. When earthquakes hit distant cities, it is the
United States that hurries in to help. This spring, 59 American communities were
flattened by tornadoes. Nobody helped. The Marshall Plan and the Truman
Policy pumped billions of dollars into discouraged countries. Now newspapers
in those countries are writing about the decadent, warmongering Americans.
I'd like to see just one of those countries that is gloating over the erosion
of the United States dollar build its own airplane. Does any other country in
the world have a plane to equal the Boeing Jumbo Jet, the Lockheed Tri-Star,
or the Douglas DC10? If so, why don't they fly them? Why do all the
International lines except Russia fly American planes?
Why does no other land on earth even consider putting a man or woman on the moon?
You talk about Japanese technocracy, and you get radios. You talk about German technocracy,
and you get automobiles. You talk about American technocracy, and you find
men on the moon - not once, but several times - and safely home again.
You talk about scandals, and the Americans put theirs right in the store window
for everybody to look at. Even their draft-dodgers are not pursued and
hounded. They are here on our streets, and most of them, unless they are
breaking Canadian laws, are getting American dollars from ma and pa at home
to spend here. When the railways of France, Germany and India were breaking
down through age, it was the Americans who rebuilt them. When the
Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central went broke, nobody loaned them
an old caboose. Both are still broke.
I can name you 5000 times when the Americans raced to the help of other people in trouble.
Can you name me even one time when someone else raced to the Americans in trouble?
I don't think there was outside help even during the San Francisco earthquake.
Our neighbors have faced it alone, and I'm one Canadian who is damned tired of
hearing them get kicked around. They will come out of this thing with their
flag high. And when they do, they are entitled to thumb their nose at the
lands that are gloating over their present troubles. I hope Canada is not one
of those."
Stand proud, America!
written by a Canadian author.
America: The Good Neighbor
Widespread but only partial news coverage was given recently to a remarkable
editorial broadcast from Toronto by Gordon Sinclair, a Canadian television
commentator. What follows is the full text of his trenchant remarks as
printed in the Congressional Record:
"This Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the Americans as the most
generous and possibly the least appreciated people on all the earth.
Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy were lifted out of
the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and
forgave other billions in debts. None of these countries is today paying even
the interest on its remaining debts to the United States.
When France was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who
propped it up, and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of
Paris. I was there. I saw it. When earthquakes hit distant cities, it is the
United States that hurries in to help. This spring, 59 American communities were
flattened by tornadoes. Nobody helped. The Marshall Plan and the Truman
Policy pumped billions of dollars into discouraged countries. Now newspapers
in those countries are writing about the decadent, warmongering Americans.
I'd like to see just one of those countries that is gloating over the erosion
of the United States dollar build its own airplane. Does any other country in
the world have a plane to equal the Boeing Jumbo Jet, the Lockheed Tri-Star,
or the Douglas DC10? If so, why don't they fly them? Why do all the
International lines except Russia fly American planes?
Why does no other land on earth even consider putting a man or woman on the moon?
You talk about Japanese technocracy, and you get radios. You talk about German technocracy,
and you get automobiles. You talk about American technocracy, and you find
men on the moon - not once, but several times - and safely home again.
You talk about scandals, and the Americans put theirs right in the store window
for everybody to look at. Even their draft-dodgers are not pursued and
hounded. They are here on our streets, and most of them, unless they are
breaking Canadian laws, are getting American dollars from ma and pa at home
to spend here. When the railways of France, Germany and India were breaking
down through age, it was the Americans who rebuilt them. When the
Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central went broke, nobody loaned them
an old caboose. Both are still broke.
I can name you 5000 times when the Americans raced to the help of other people in trouble.
Can you name me even one time when someone else raced to the Americans in trouble?
I don't think there was outside help even during the San Francisco earthquake.
Our neighbors have faced it alone, and I'm one Canadian who is damned tired of
hearing them get kicked around. They will come out of this thing with their
flag high. And when they do, they are entitled to thumb their nose at the
lands that are gloating over their present troubles. I hope Canada is not one
of those."
Stand proud, America!
What about 'WHO FLUNG DUNG" ?
Time to pick up a little, Deng has his check book out
I am reminded of the old song "Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do" she's a player.
From todays NY Times.
August 17, 2001
A Welcome Mat for Gay Customers
By CLIFF ROTHMAN
One in a series of Subaru advertisements in gay publications.
Testing the Waters at a Gay Dealership (August 17, 2001)
FTER decades of treating gay consumers as the invisible minority they often were, automakers are courting them directly, often with messages that wave the rainbow banner of gay acceptance.
This year, Jaguar, Volkswagen and Volvo began advertising in national gay publications, joining three companies — Saab, Saturn and Subaru — that had signed on earlier. And the commitment often runs deeper than a few strategic ads. Carmakers are sponsoring gay events, awards and causes.
Last year, DaimlerChrysler, Ford and General Motors were sponsors of the annual show of the Lambda Car Club, a group of nearly 2,000 gay collectors. For two years, Jaguar has sponsored media awards given by the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. In June, Volvo provided cars for the Los Angeles gay pride parade.
Subaru, whose cars have long sold well among gay men and lesbians, has taken an increasingly prominent role. It sponsors the Los Angeles gay pride festival and events organized by an advocacy group, the Human Rights Campaign. It was a founding sponsor of the Rainbow Card, an affinity credit card program — co-founded by Martina Navratilova — that has raised more than $1 million for gay causes. Subaru gives discounts of up to $3,000 to cardholders.
"We're clear that we support the health and civic-mindedness of the gay and lesbian community," said Tim Bennett, director of national marketing for Subaru. "We were the first to offer domestic partnership benefits. We're not just here to sell you a car as an exploited segment."
Saab was the first to advertise in the national gay press, in 1994. Saturn dipped its toes in the water a year later, then retreated, but returned in 1999. Although it only recently joined the party, Volvo seems intent on having fun. Last month, it ran an ad in Genre, a gay lifestyle magazine, that showed a man's bare upper torso and an S60 sedan. The tagline read: "Lust and logic. Don't they make a lovely couple?"
Subaru, which began gay-specific advertising in 1997, is probably the most visible, and daring. Typical of its sassy tone was a recent ad with the tagline, "Get out. And stay out," a sly wordplay on leaving the closet — and exploring the great outdoors.
"It says, `We acknowledge you as a consumer; this is the language that you speak,' " said John Nash, president of Moon City Productions, the San Francisco company that created the campaign.
In 1994, Subaru identified gays as one of its five core groups of buyers. "There were educators, health-care professionals, technical professionals, rugged individualists — man vs. nature types — and then gay men and lesbians," Mr. Bennett said.
Research also determined that the gay community was a good market for Saturn, a G.M. division. "It's been underserved," said Tom Else, senior vice president of Publicis & Hal Riney, which does Saturn advertising.
National gay publications offer prized demographics to advertisers. According to the most recent survey commissioned by Liberation Publications Inc., which owns Out, a lifestyle magazine, and The Advocate, a newsmagazine, the publications' average reader is a 39-year-old white-collar professional man with a college degree and a household income of $95,000. Readers also have a strong propensity to buy European cars, the survey found.
Yet, however visible many gay people have become, automakers face a marketing conundrum. "How do you reach a group that in many ways wants to remain hidden?" asked Bret Scott, a G.M. engineer who is co-chairman of G.M. Plus, an advocacy group for the company's gay and lesbian employees. "And how do you advertise to a group that is really a subset of a lot of other groups of people?"
Relations between the industry and many gay people warmed considerably last year when the Detroit automakers began offering employee benefits to same-sex partners, under a joint agreement with the United Automobile Workers. The change came after Big Three employees jointly petitioned the companies, and the union, on the issue.
"The recognition of gays and lesbians as car consumers is something that has been put on the radar screen of the Big Three companies by their employee resource groups," said Cindy Clardy of Ford Globe, a gay employee group. "We also told Ford not to try and consider direct marketing to gay and lesbian consumers until they had their internal policies in place. You run the risk of being seen as, `You just want to take our money but you don't care about your gay employees.' "
Throughout the car industry, diversity consultants are popping up. "All the leading companies are taking initiatives to do diversity marketing," said Javelyn Ibarra Baldwin, cultural marketing manager for Jaguar. "They are realizing that they can no longer ignore, or do marketing or advertising, without having a consideration of all the groups that exist."
Still, most companies do not advertise in the gay press. "We don't do any specific targeting to the gay community," said Karen Vonder Meulen, marketing and events communications manager for BMW. "The community already purchases our cars without having to target them individually."
Though Mazda has a new diversity program, the company is channeling its marketing energies toward three groups — African-Americans, Hispanics and Asians — that showed more marketing potential, said Jyoti Bates, a media and diversity marketing specialist for Mazda.
But industry executives are also sensitive to the possibility of a backlash from the majority of their customers. "They worry that reaching out to gays with a particular model can then affect the rest of the lineup," a senior advertising executive said, adding that the companies aimed their promotions where only gays were likely to see them. "They may view it as a political nightmare to be strongly associated in the market."
But Mr. Bennett of Subaru is pragmatic about his company's explicit stance: "Look, we know that our owner base and our consumers are extremely well educated, and they celebrate diversity. A person who would be offended by our advertising probably would not have bought our car anyway."
I think JMHollen could do a lot for this company.
Mr Chairmen, I am requesting permission to put this thread on hold for 3 months.
news :
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Ya that's it AWOL RB really sucks lately, diito our stocks.
Mt Chairmen is AOL
Which big city would that be? Newport Beach
You are so cheap, you were supposed to "drop a dime"
20 cents today? RB has a long list a mile long
PR out today, check it out.
Who said this
Welcome to Largo Vista, currently a 10-bagger for those who got in around $0.10, it has a long way to run.
We have 2 million out there, they may or may not dump. I have
an unfilled 50 k order in.
Don't forget your penny stock time, or do you do this at work
What about them Lakers ?
Just another one of the count's many names
From another thread in praise of our absent chairman
"I think Jim Hollen is the personification of good taste and good judgement. I second the nomination. '
Can you "drop a dime" early tomorrow and find out how the show went.
You are such a gentlemen, willing to pay top dollar, 2 cents,
yet they ignor you
MMs don't want to play today ai 1.8 cents
This an old newspaper article on mailstart:
Sunday, June 4, 2000, 12:00 a.m. Pacific
Inbox
Cost of 'free' Web mail soars when frustration spikes
by Charles Bermant
Special to the Seattle Times
Web mail is a great idea that hasn't yet reached its potential. Free services like Yahoo! and Hotmail throw up a lot of obstacles (where do you get tech support?) and you essentially get what you pay for.
So anyone who seeks the convenience of universal retrieval has to make some unwelcome compromises - including the inability to access mail from your main mailbox without instituting a forwarding scheme.
Things have just gotten a little better. MailStart,
http://www.mailstart.com provides instant Web Mail service for the masses. It asks for your e-mail address and password, then searches for the server name and retrieves the mail. You can then answer messages or send new ones, which do not append little commercial plugs for the service.
Aside from the basic service, you can sign up for a "Web Box," which adds several common e-mail features along with file storage. Or you can pay a monthly fee for fax service, virus scanning and increased security.
It's not an entirely flawless system. MailStart won't work with MSN or with some firewalls. As security needs change, your mail operator may add features that could interfere with checking your mail. And the response time isn't exactly swift.
I sent a press query about the service one afternoon, 24 hours later I was still waiting. So while MailStart offers a unique service - the ability to check your main mailbox without forwarding - there is still not a lot you can do if it doesn't work. Again, it's a case of "you get what you pay for."
But MailStart still qualifies as a keeper, a URL worth writing down, carrying around, and using if you ever pass a live browser while on the road.
Attaching a Web Mail component to an existing mailbox can also act as a spam filter. If you don't set your mail for automatic retrieval, you can log on to Web Mail and select messages to answer or delete before actually retrieving messages to the hard drive.
Furthermore, a Web Mail service that includes storage or folders can increase convenience. Before a trip just e-mail yourself needed files along with a list of cyber cafes, and leave the laptop at home.
Many Internet service providers (ISPs) now offer a Web Mail
component, often as part of their service package. Perhaps your ISP has added this option and you can add it quickly and simply. Otherwise, those choosing a new provider should make sure Web Mail is part of the package.
Ironically, this is one area where the oft-maligned America Online leads the pack. AOL Mail has always been Web-based, so people with an AOL account don't need to do a darn thing in order to stay ahead.
Charles Bermant's advice on e-mail appears weekly. If you
have questions or suggestions, you can contact him, by
e-mail, at ptech@seatimes.com. Type "Inbox" in the subject
field.
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Once more into the breach dear friends, once more. Where did everyone go? did they get into the lifeboats? Our captain/ chairman would never desert us? would he ?
Going in the wrong direction, cash is king, wish I had some more to throw at it
It's turn around time folks, no place to go but up.
Everyone shoiuld get a little, I got lots
We flamed out, mr chairman relight the burners
Houston we have lift off
Filing done $$$$$$ flowing. Evryone should have a little
BMKS and AREE
I have a 144 filing to complete before I have $$$$$$