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As if putting up with the religious nutjobs that decry Halloween as a ‘devils night’ and ‘evil’ every year wasn’t fun enough, now politics has gotten involved.

A Grosse Pointe Farms woman refused to hand out candy to children of Obama supporters.  A sign in her yard stated “No handouts for Obama supporters, liars, tricksters or kids of supporters.”  How is a kid supposed to react to that? Crying and calling the lady mean, thats how. Way to get support for your cause lady, by making kids who can’t vote cry and bringing negative publicity to your candidate’s campaign. I did get a kick out of the guy who drew the peace sign on his ‘Obama 4 Peace’ sign wrong though.

I actually got a handout during trick-or-treating hours Friday night. A girl handed me a post card with a piece of candy on it. The card was about only buying ‘Fair Trade Certified’ chocolate, which apparently doesn’t use child labor (except for handing out the pamphlets).  If you go to the campaign’s site (which I won’t repeat here), you’ll find their other causes are war protests, world trade organization protests, and tours of Cuba and various third-world countries.

Thanks for the free chocolate, guys. But it still doesn’t hold a candle to a good old capitalism-powered Hershey’s bar.

Michigan had their primary election this past Tuesday.  When I voted at lunch, I was number 123 on the machine.  Fairly low turnout.  Part of the reason is the fact that both the Republican and Democratic National Committees decided to screw over Michigan voters just because Michigan moved up its primary election date.  That caused Iowa and New Hampshire to throw a fit and complain.

 As a result, the RNC stripped Michigan of half of its delegates, allowing only 30 instead of the normal 60.  If you voted Democratic, it was even worse.  Almost all candidates removed themselves from the ballot because the DNC is outright refusing to acknowledge Michigan’s primary.  Democrats had a choice between Clinton, and a few other trailing candidates.  Write-in votes for other candidates were not accepted, and voters were urged to vote ‘Uncommitted’ if they wished to vote for an unlisted candidate.

This is all a result of the few states who have ‘always been first’ in the nation to hold primaries or caucuses throwing a temper tantrum when some other states decided they wanted to be first for a change.  The end result is that thanks to the primarily two-party system we have here, a small group of people (the DNC and RNC) can decide whether or not your vote even counts in a primary election, based entirely on the actions of your state. 

When the primary is held shouldn’t matter whatsoever.  The national committees need to stop gaming the system for the most media exposure, and let the people decide which candidate is best qualified for the job, instead of hyping only a couple frontrunners and pretending like the others don’t exist.

W32.Cone is now at version D. Its another one of your typical spoof from address, harvest emails, and spread virus. Some messages that it generates actually admit to this though:

Hi lucky,
The attachment is a virus do not open it.
I write it to say : we dont want islamic republic in IRAN!
Im realy sorry, Im damaging some computers that I dont want to damage!!!!

Remember to patch your Norton/McAfee/AVG/ClamAV against this and the daily release of NetSky.