I occasionally get interesting e-mail. Often times it relates to chaos theory, since I've had a page up on the topic for well over a decade now. But today's weird e-mails were interesting for a couple of reasons: they're actually related to politics, and came to an e-mail address that, as far as I know, hasn't been on the web for months.
Does this mean that someone is actually spamming blog e-mails with this message? Using e-mail addresses that they collected months (or years) ago? Or do I actually have an audience that only now felt there was something important to send me a message about?
Anyhow, here's the e-mail:
The President is expected to explain government's life saving boat for American residents.
Government wants $700 Billion dollars of tax payers money to buy troubled assets from financial institutes.
99% of the people are saying NO to that.
President Bush will explain why government needs to do so.
Watch Presidnet Bush on any major TV channel Today, Wednesday, at 8 p.m. Central time.
I'm not sure that the 99% statistic is correct, but it's close enough, I suppose: there's bipartisan support for spending a bit more time thinking about the bailout scheme. Then again, there's bipartisan support for passing something right away (what, is this PATRIOT II? Come on, Congress, didn't you learn anything over the last 8 years?)
Anyhow, I missed Bush's address, but I'm listening to it now online. It's a bit predictable given Bush's history of economic policy.