Huckabee and Al Gore
Deadly Clinton hatred
I was glad to see that this Times piece by Michael Luo and Kit Seelye got to the heart of the Wayne DuMond case — the underlying reason Huckabee intervened in favor of someone who went on to commit murder. DuMond’s rape victim was a distant relative of Bill Clinton - and
Mr. DuMond’s case had become something of a celebrated cause among conservative activists, who charged that Mr. Clinton had allowed an innocent man to languish in prison because of his connection with the case.
There’s a story still not told in regular news media about what really happened during the Clinton years — about the simply insane Clinton hatred on the right, which was aided and abetted by a lot of seemingly respectable people.
And Mike Huckabee, however gosh-aw-shucks-likeable he may seem now, was an accessory.
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Al Gore and the Internet
To this day people repeat the lie that Al Gore claimed to have invented the Internet. Chris Matthews did it just a couple of weeks ago.
Al Gore, he’s the one who said he created the Internet.
Meanwhile, the reality is that Gore played a crucial role in the Internet’s creation:
IN the 2000 election, Al Gore, then the vice president, was derided by opponents who claimed that he had said he “created” the Internet. But many of the scientists, engineers and technology executives who gathered here to celebrate the Web’s birth say he played a crucial role in its development, and they expressed bitterness that his vision had been so discredited.
Mr. Gore had been instrumental in introducing legislation, beginning in 1988, to finance what he originally called a “national data highway.”
“Our corporations are not taking advantage of high-performance computing to enhance their productivity,” Mr. Gore, then a senator, said in an interview at the time. “With greater access to supercomputers, virtually every business in America could achieve tremendous gains.”
Ultimately, in 1991, his bill to create a National Research and Education Network did pass. Funded by the National Science Foundation, it was instrumental in upgrading the speed of the academic and scientific network backbone leading up to the commercialized Internet.
“He is a hero in this field,” said Lawrence H. Landweber, a computer scientist at the University of Wisconsin who in 1980 made the pioneering decision to use the basic TCP/IP Internet protocol for CSNET, an academic network that preceded NSFnet and laid the foundation for “internetworking.”
I was glad to see that this Times piece by Michael Luo and Kit Seelye got to the heart of the Wayne DuMond case — the underlying reason Huckabee intervened in favor of someone who went on to commit murder. DuMond’s rape victim was a distant relative of Bill Clinton - and
Mr. DuMond’s case had become something of a celebrated cause among conservative activists, who charged that Mr. Clinton had allowed an innocent man to languish in prison because of his connection with the case.
There’s a story still not told in regular news media about what really happened during the Clinton years — about the simply insane Clinton hatred on the right, which was aided and abetted by a lot of seemingly respectable people.
And Mike Huckabee, however gosh-aw-shucks-likeable he may seem now, was an accessory.
---------
Al Gore and the Internet
To this day people repeat the lie that Al Gore claimed to have invented the Internet. Chris Matthews did it just a couple of weeks ago.
Al Gore, he’s the one who said he created the Internet.
Meanwhile, the reality is that Gore played a crucial role in the Internet’s creation:
IN the 2000 election, Al Gore, then the vice president, was derided by opponents who claimed that he had said he “created” the Internet. But many of the scientists, engineers and technology executives who gathered here to celebrate the Web’s birth say he played a crucial role in its development, and they expressed bitterness that his vision had been so discredited.
Mr. Gore had been instrumental in introducing legislation, beginning in 1988, to finance what he originally called a “national data highway.”
“Our corporations are not taking advantage of high-performance computing to enhance their productivity,” Mr. Gore, then a senator, said in an interview at the time. “With greater access to supercomputers, virtually every business in America could achieve tremendous gains.”
Ultimately, in 1991, his bill to create a National Research and Education Network did pass. Funded by the National Science Foundation, it was instrumental in upgrading the speed of the academic and scientific network backbone leading up to the commercialized Internet.
“He is a hero in this field,” said Lawrence H. Landweber, a computer scientist at the University of Wisconsin who in 1980 made the pioneering decision to use the basic TCP/IP Internet protocol for CSNET, an academic network that preceded NSFnet and laid the foundation for “internetworking.”
posted by John Liberty at 3:43 PM
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