Two pictures capture the essence of my frustration today. In the first, a trio of police officers drag a 5-year-old's hands behind her back, handcuff her, arrest her, and take her to the police station. All for "tearing papers off a bulletin board" and allegedly hitting a teacher. If this is the new response to a toddler's temper tantrum, we're in bigger trouble than I thought. That said, raise your hand if you think the same scenario would have gone down in ole' St. Pete if the 5-year-old, like the teacher and assistant principal, had been white...
Picture number two shows Our Man Dubya holding hands (in the traditional Arab style) and walking with his buddy, Crown Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. "Bandar Bush" brought his play brother to the Crawford ranch to beg the Kingdom to produce more oil. If the best the president of the United States can do to stave off an impending energy crisis in the country he perportedly runs (along with being the "leader of the free world") is to canoodle a foreign dictatorship for crude, we're in far more trouble than I thought.
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dim done
done = request.form("done")
if done = "" then
done = "No"
%>
Tell a friend
<%
Else
if request.form("done") = "Yes" then
'sets variables
dim email, sendmail
email = request.form("email")
Set sendmail = Server.CreateObject("CDONTS.NewMail")
'put the webmaster address here
sendmail.From = "webmaster@aspbasics.com"
'The mail is sent to the address entered in the previous page.
sendmail.To = email
'Enter the subject of your mail here
sendmail.Subject = "Check out this website"
'send a specific page or send a site url
dim url
'url = Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_REFERER")
url = "http://www.aspbasics.net"
'This is the content of the message.
sendmail.Body = "Site recommendation from a friend!" & _
vbCrlf & vbCrlf & "A friend has sent you this email and thought you would should check out this site." & _
vbCrlf & url & vbCrlf
'this sets mail priority.... 0=low 1=normal 2=high
sendmail.Importance = 1
sendmail.Send 'Send the email!
response.redirect Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_REFERER")
'Response.write ("Sent to ") & email
End if
End if
%>
"[T]he practice of arbitrary imprisonments, have been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny.' Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 84, August, 1788
