Does anyone know what time Hillary's speech is today? nt

RCP - i sent an e-mail. Is there anything else I can do?

I'm really fed up. It's been 3 days and RCP still hasn't shown the 8/22 Reuters/IPSOS poll. The last one they included was Aug 18. This isn't OK!!!!

“Why did no one care that Bob Dole was majority leader and his wife ran the Red Cross?”

Exactly!

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/hillary-clinton-trump-email-strategy-227347

The HRC campaign still needs money!

"Clinton’s more pressing concern, her donors said, is raising money for the expensive ground organization she will need to deliver a win."

Don't forget that the campaign still needs money, even though the primaries are over!!!

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/hillary-clinton-trump-email-strategy-227347

Hillary is doing something else for America!

Besides her service in the Childrens' Defense Fund, and First Lady and senator and secretary of state, Hillary is showing us that it is possible not to cave under the pressure of a vast right wing conspiracy. (Yes, that's what I said. She was right then and it's true now.) It's scary that 40% of Americans are willing to vote for him. I can only hope that many of them aren't following the news and just say "Republican" because that's what they've always done.

She has a method (don't get knocked off course, don't spend all your public time defending yourself). It's working. After decades of this horror, she keeps achieving. After decades, nothing comes of the attacks.

Hopefully, now that national attention is focused more than ever people will get bored with the constant barrage of fruitless attacks.

We ALL have to resist this kind of pressure. THANK YOU HILLARY!!!!!

Finally! An energetic explanation of the good that...

... the Clinton Foundation does and it's "stellar" rating as a charity, right up with Doctors Without Borders, the American Red Cross and the Salvation Army. CNN is running a story with a graphic showing that over 400 MILLION children with HIV/AIDS would lose their 90% medication subsidy if the Clinton Foundation was "shut down." They're quoting charity rating organizations' very high ratings. Finally, finally, finally.

The Mormon Press had this little story.

Sorry, I got it from another magazine, no link. But I was glad to see such succinct evidence for the facts that:

Democratic political candidates/leaders* are just more moral than Republican ones.

Politico is not a left wing megaphone.

According to Politico fact checks
Three most un-truthful in order: Donald Trump, Carly Fiorina, Ted Cruz


Three most truthful in order: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Jeb Bush

* Couldn't tell if this applied only to Obama's days as a candidate

What does "message auto removed" mean?

I posted this in General Discussion: 2016, http://www.democraticunderground.com/12512378889 . It was a warning about a hack I got from trying to log into a pro-Hillary site recommended to me here on DU. I thought others might reasonably try to join the site and might get similarly caught. I see a number of replies with "message auto removed," and I was asked to remove the post, as "it is attracting asshole spammers. "

1 - What does "message auto removed" mean?

2 - Why would such a post attract spammers?

3 - What does a spam message on DU look like/consist of?

4 - Why might there be more than the expected number of self-deleted replies in this thread?

TIA
LAS

Hacking alert

Admins, please let this off-topic post remain, as it’s important that DUers be warned.

My computer got hacked today, and the path to it started on DU, although I don't suspect any bad behavior on the part of DUers. But I thought I should share my experience, lest this happen to someone else.

I posted a question about the whereabouts of Cha and Her Sister, who haven’t been posting since the very end of July. I got several answers and then a DU Mail telling me that Her Sister was present at a different Hillary site, by invitation only, and she gave me a link to it. She also said that another DUer, who apparently is an administrator on that site said that I had previously had difficulty proving I was a human, so she encouraged me to try again. In retrospect that may have been a red flag… dunno.

The DUer has a long history of postings, so I won’t mention her name here. I also won’t mention the name of the web site unless she gives permission. I won’t try to go back there unless I get a screen shot of posts from her and Her Sister on that site.

Anyway, I successfully created an account via the familiar method of getting an authorization message in e-mail. I tried to actually log on, and got to the point of proving I was a human. It was clear that the login process was handled by a separate company whose name I can’t remember, and I’m afraid to go back and look. I moved a graphic around to prove I was human and then got another “pop up” (I don’t think it was a real popup, just a small window looking thing) that looked just like the first, but this wanted me to get involved in a sales pitch for something completely different. I’m not sure what I did, but then I got a 3rd “popup” that looked just like the first two which asked me to call an 800 number.

Here’s where I get embarrassed. I’m really very good about not clicking on suspicious things. But I called this number. Last week I’d had the experience of letting a real Microsoft technician take control of my computer to help with a failure of two level verification. That was not spurious. They fixed the problem, etc., etc. So I can only attribute my idiocy to a lingering glow.

Bottom line, this technician took control of my computer. He “showed me” how my network and e-mails were hacked. I didn’t suspect criminality until he said I couldn’t call back to engage their fixit services. Fortunately I didn’t go that far. They hung up when I asked for a phone number. I did take a screen shot of the instructions he left in notepad, but I can’t use my computer to put it in dropbox. Can’t use it on the internet til it’s cleaned, according to my techie go-to guy.

I don’t know where the intrusion started, whether the Clinton web site’s login company is bad, or whether the Clinton web site itself is bad. But be forwarned.

Thanks,
LAS

Hacking alert

Admins, please let this off-topic post remain, as it’s important that DUers be warned.

My computer got hacked today, and the path to it started on DU, although I don't suspect any bad behavior on the part of DUers. But I thought I should share my experience, lest this happen to someone else.

I posted a question about the whereabouts of Cha and Her Sister, who haven’t been posting since the very end of July. I got several answers and then a DU Mail telling me that Her Sister was present at a different Hillary site, by invitation only, and she gave me a link to it. She also said that another DUer, who apparently is an administrator on that site said that I had previously had difficulty proving I was a human, so she encouraged me to try again. In retrospect that may have been a red flag… dunno.

The DUer has a long history of postings, so I won’t mention her name here. I also won’t mention the name of the web site unless she gives permission. I won’t try to go back there unless I get a screen shot of posts from her and Her Sister on that site.

Anyway, I successfully created an account via the familiar method of getting an authorization message in e-mail. I tried to actually log on, and got to the point of proving I was a human. It was clear that the login process was handled by a separate company whose name I can’t remember, and I’m afraid to go back and look. I moved a graphic around to prove I was human and then got another “pop up” (I don’t think it was a real popup, just a small window looking thing) that looked just like the first, but this wanted me to get involved in a sales pitch for something completely different. I’m not sure what I did, but then I got a 3rd “popup” that looked just like the first two which asked me to call an 800 number.

Here’s where I get embarrassed. I’m really very good about not clicking on suspicious things. But I called this number. Last week I’d had the experience of letting a real Microsoft technician take control of my computer to help with a failure of two level verification. That was not spurious. They fixed the problem, etc., etc. So I can only attribute my idiocy to a lingering glow.

Bottom line, this technician took control of my computer. He “showed me” how my network and e-mails were hacked. I didn’t suspect criminality until he said I couldn’t call back to engage their fixit services. Fortunately I didn’t go that far. They hung up when I asked for a phone number. I did take a screen shot of the instructions he left in notepad, but I can’t use my computer to put it in dropbox. Can’t use it on the internet til it’s cleaned, according to my techie go-to guy.

I don’t know where the intrusion started, whether the Clinton web site’s login company is bad, or whether the Clinton web site itself is bad. But be forwarned.

Thanks,
LAS