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You already know how I feel about the Texas Residential Construction Commission. So, this story about how they're trying to...
Offthekuff.com Sunday, September 07, 2008

Don't you know who I am?

I for one am glad to see Tom DeLay do his best to get back into the public eye. DeLay...
Offthekuff.com Sunday, September 07, 2008

New food in the 'hood

This sounds cool. Fall should be an exciting time on Houston's food scene, with chef Robert Gadsby's new signature restaurant--named...
Offthekuff.com Sunday, September 07, 2008

Schweitzer Gets Harkin Invite

Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer (D), "whose feisty speech in Denver was one of the rhetorical highlights of the Democratic National Convention, will be the headline speaker at U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin's annual steak fry," the Chicago Tribune reports. "Harkin's annual event, scheduled for Sept. 14, is one of the largest political gatherings of the year, drawing thousands of people to fields just south of Des Moines. Past speakers have included President clinton, Vice President Al Gore and the event traditionally draws presidential candidates in droves during precinct caucus cycles."
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire Sunday, September 07, 2008

Unnamed Experts Say Low Arctic Ice Means Man Sucks

Perhaps if the Grey Lady wasn't so busy laying off the people who actually go out and find the news, due to the fact the people who hired the people who went out and wrote the news hiring people who...
Rrightwingnews.com Sunday, September 07, 2008

Bait and switch

What do you get from the Democrats if you do a Google search for SARAH PALIN speech? And what are the intellectual property law implications of it? Well, at least as of last night, you got something other than what...
Rrightwingnews.com Sunday, September 07, 2008

Go tell it on the mountain!

Don't feel too bad if you don't know that Richard Greene has a radio show called "Clout." It's on Air America which means, of course, that the title is pretty ironic, even if it isn't meant that way. Greene is...
Rrightwingnews.com Sunday, September 07, 2008

Afghan PRT Shows How It's Done

A while back, "Fort Apache, Afghanistan" discussed the Provincial Reconstruction Teams, who combine civic projects and aid with military force projection. Cuba was way ahead of everyone with this idea, and it's an important one. Many NGOs will not operate in dangerous situations, or will choose to buy their security via collaboration with evil, or will be governed by political or financial rather than humanitarian goals. In an era of failed states, that level of reliability won't cut it. NGOs can still play useful roles, but there must be a military option ready to go. PRTs have made solid strides since 2002, and have now become an alliance-wide concept, with other countries like germany, Spain, canada, Austraia, et. al. leading PRTs in key areas. It's also a cross-service effort, as this article shows: "After two Air Force medical professionals spent some time on the ground in Southeastern afghanistan, they came to a conclusion -- providing clinical medical care for locals was just
Windsofchange.net Sunday, September 07, 2008

Willie Brown on Palin

Willie Brown is probably the smartest politician I've ever personally met. I'd pay good money to see him and Karl Rove sit down and chew the fat on the mechanics of politics - there's an Internet TV show idea for someone for free - and today, in the SF Chronicle, he's got his take on Sarah Palin. Palin's speech to the GOP National Convention on Wednesday has set it up so that the Republicans are now on offense and Democrats are on defense. And we don't do well on defense. Suddenly, Palin and John McCain are the mavericks and Barack obama and Joe Biden are the status quo, in a year when you don't want to be seen as defending the status quo. From taxes to oil drilling, Democrats are now going to have to start explaining their positions. Whenever you start having to explain things, you're on defense. I used to go watch him at the Alameda County Labor council's BBQ, where he once finished his speech by exhorting the whole crowd to put their hands up in the air. Then he told them to reach
Windsofchange.net Sunday, September 07, 2008

Nice Picture, Bad Analysis

In my work life, I follow a lot of blogs about social media; one of them is 'The Network Thinker' (in my Bloglines feeds to the right over in the blogroll). There was a post there today by blog author Valdis Krebs on 'bundlers'. I downloaded data of the top bundlers of donations for the 2000 and 2004 Bush campaigns and the 2008 McCain campaign. What's the overlap of donors between the Bush and McCain campaigns? Will the same people influence both campaigns/administrations? Or will it be starkly different groups? Or something in between? Below is a map of those who donated to BOTH Bush and McCain. The campaigns are shown as the two red nodes on the left of the map. The green links show donations coming into the McCain 2008 campaign. The blue lines show donations coming into the Bush campaigns of 2000 and 2004. The 128 bundlers, who have contributed to both McCain and Bush, are shown in the arc on the right. A nice graphic follows, and then the conclusion: Most of McCain's 534
Windsofchange.net Sunday, September 07, 2008

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