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Wisconsin SC Recount Insanity.

By kgb999 on Sat, 05/07/2011 - 8:55pm |

If you haven't been following the recount for the recent Wisconsin Supreme Court race, you probably should be. It keeps getting crazier and crazier. This is pretty much a highlight of the past week's coverage by Brad Friedman at Bradblog. His coverage opens....

Where Minnesota's post-election hand count of the 2008 U.S. Senate election between then Sen. Norm Coleman and now Sen. Al Franken was, as we wrote at the UK's Guardian at the time, "one of the longest and most transparent election hand-counts in the history of the US," Wisconsin has made it extremely difficult (putting it nicely) to know what the hell is actually going on in their statewide "recount" of the April 5th, 2011, state Supreme Court election between Justice David Prosser and Asst. Attorney General JoAnne Kloppenburg.

From there, things have just gone downhill.

Anti-war liberals shoot us in the foot.

By kgb999 on Mon, 03/21/2011 - 8:44pm |

So, Obama went to war. Well. Sort of. Obama launched a bunch of missiles against Libya and is trying to get out of it as quickly as possible. Or at least that's the "let's not call it war" way of presenting it. Past protests of Bush and his followers not withstanding, launching missiles on an army is war. So Obama went to war.

Somewhat predictably, those who are always against war no matter what instinctively moved to condemn American hegemony (as did those who are against America doing pretty much anything no matter what). Some of the criticism is valid in my opinion. Some of the argument against action, notsomuch.

Union busting in Idaho.

By kgb999 on Tue, 03/01/2011 - 5:42am |

Well, like most of the states that posses a Republican governor, Idaho decided this was the year to break our teacher's unions as well. Basically, there are three bills. One strips collective bargaining rights (passed the senate), then there is the, "merit pay" one (also passed the senate). The bill that would have axed over 1000 teachers outright is back to committee. The teachers association page on the saga tells the basic tale.

Rev. Lynn: Separation of Church and State or Discrimination?

By kgb999 on Wed, 02/16/2011 - 5:04pm |

The Rev. Barry Lynn, executive director of Citizens United for Separation of Church and State, has an article up up at HuffPo expressing concern over First Amendment brutalization. The source of his ire? Well, the NPS recently announced the 2010 recipients in the "Save America's Treasures" grant program. And with it, Christianity is cemented as national religion. Apparently.

HB Gary Federal, Anonymous and Wikileaks.

By kgb999 on Wed, 02/09/2011 - 9:31pm |

A conflict between everyone's favorite hacktivists and an obscure security research company has just gotten interesting. HB Gary Federal is a cyber-security company run by Aaron Barr who has been researching individuals he believes are associated with Anonymous. Specifically he has been trying to link the handles of IRC participants to real people. When he decided to publicize his findings in the Financial Times last Saturday, it touched off a very interesting series of events which are still unfolding.

Those amazingly civil centrists.

By kgb999 on Mon, 01/24/2011 - 4:43pm |

So, centrist hero Rahm Emmanuel had some bad news today. As you may recall, the gentleman is running for mayor of Chicago. Yes indeed. And his candidacy brings all that classic charm and respect for the electorate that we have all come to love and appreaciate to the Twitters with this amazing bio:

A look at the anon "hacking" tool ('n stuff).

By kgb999 on Thu, 12/09/2010 - 5:53am |

Out of the gate, let me just say it pains me to call this hacking. Might as well go out like a total /tard with it ... "Do you want to know how the 3771 haxors took down Visa?" ... barf. However. Damn script kiddies and MSM screwing up the brand aside, this is what they're calling hackers these days so ... you might be wondering what exactly the guys "hacking" Visa/MC/Sarah Palin/Various Swiss/Swedish institutions/etc. are actually doing...

Three guys who seem to "get it"

By kgb999 on Mon, 11/08/2010 - 12:14am |

I've been a big fan of The Young Turk's Cenk Uygur for a while now, and this confirms for me exactly why.  I never agree with anyone all the time, but his world view is pretty close to mine on a lot of stuff. Ratigan and Greenwald tend to be more hit and miss.  But this segment ... the three of 'em together ... pure awesome.

 

MSNBC: Worst person in the world.

By kgb999 on Fri, 11/05/2010 - 3:46pm |

So, MSNBC decided to suspend Keith Olbermann. Why? Because he dared to participate in Democracy!

I've made no bones about the fact that I think systemically the product produced by MSNBC is the same as all the other cable outlets in selling outrage over information - anger over reason. And as one of their flagship personalities, I've mentioned the way Olberman presents himself as an example.

Who's been paying for Sharron Angle's campaign?

By kgb999 on Sun, 10/31/2010 - 11:37pm |

OK, file this one under a creepy coincidence (the vid itself, being creepy, the coincidence just being coincidental). I've been obsessing on the Nevada race somewhat of late, and got off on a tangent regarding who's been financing the Angle campaign in a discussion with another poster. By the common method of assessing "who benefits here?" he came to the conclusion, Ensign. Which at the time, didn't seem a *bad* thought.

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