Lead story and headline on the NBC evening news again tonight talked about the “Controversial statement by President Obama about the NY Mosque”. If the news editors were being honest they might say that “President Obama today reaffirmed a belief in freedom of religion that has been a foundation of our country for 200+ years”. [...]
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Rachel Maddow went too far tonight
In tonight’s interview with Dan Stein, the head of FAIR, I believe that Rachel went over the line. She brought up some very questionable position points from a handful of people that are or were connected with the organization. The worst being some ideas taken from a founder of FAIR written in the 1980s. As [...]
TV news is no better than following twitter
Saw some blog posts today discussing the provably wrong statements that Guiliani is making on the TV news stations and it’s led me to belief that TV news is no better than following twitter. It’s not real journalism. There is no control for making sure that the statements made are accurate. You’ll probably getter a [...]
Journalism Isn’t Dying, Newspapers Are
I just finished reading the article “The Story Behind the Story” in this month’s Atlantic Magazine where Mark Bowden goes through the backstory and context of the videos of now Justice Sotomayor. The article takes on the fall of real journalism and its replacement with political hit jobs. As someone raising an infant at home [...]
Is Obama playing with the courts?
There have been a couple of actions taken by the Obama Administration that have left people scratching their heads. The first occurred soon after taking office when his Justice Department, instead of doing as everyone thought that they would and not continuing Bush’s State Secrets claims, instead pushed the idea of State Secrets even further [...]
I enjoyed watching the democratic convention tonight
It was nice to see Bill Clinton speak, there’s just something about that guy. It was pretty funny when the crowd looked like it could keep cheering for hours when he got up on stage. I also enjoyed seeing Joe Biden speak. There were some bits that were repeated out of his speech with Barack [...]
Nervous about the results of tonights primaries
I really can’t explain why, I just am. It’s the whole issue with believing that something should go a certain way and then not really being confident that reality is going to follow through. I’ll probably spend the night watching the pundits talk for hours. Hopefully there will be some sort of resolution after tonight. [...]
Business Speach vs. Political Speach
I’ve been listening to some quarterly earnings conference calls for several businesses over the last couple weeks and something struck me during the last one. There are very defined rules for what can be said during these calls as well as most of the rest of the communications that come out of a public company. [...]
We’re one step closer to Judgement Day
Army’s unmanned aerial drone kills for the first time. A Hunter unmanned aerial vehicle engaged and killed two suspected improvised explosive device emplacers overwatching a major thoroughfare for Coalition Forces during a historic flight near Qayyarah, Iraq, in Nineveh province Sept. 1. And of course that’s Judgement Day in the Terminator sense. And it’s also [...]
A little bit of sanity returning to the world
I saw two posts today showing that the pendulum of reason is finally swinging back in the right direction. The first was over at Glenn Greenwald’s Blog and deals with making good on the intelligence mistakes of the last several years. Only problem is that it’s the Canadian Government that’s decided to come clean. The [...]
V for Vendetta
Went to see “V for Vendetta” sunday morning and was very pleasantly surprised. I felt the movie was even better than the book. They changed a few aspects of the story and simplified some plot points and toned it down a bit, which all worked together to create a more cohesive story. It’s still a [...]
Why datamining for terrorists won’t work
Bruce Schneier has an excellent article on why datamining for terrorists isn’t statistically feasible.
Web Applications
I’m starting to see a change in the feelings of the people around me in acceptance of using online applications. I’m hearing the same things over and over again. Why do I have to install this again I just need that file that’s on the other computer I really don’t want to have to worry [...]
There is no war on terror
Just as there really isn’t a war on drugs, there isn’t really a war on terror. Until communities can form militias and open fire on the enemy combatants on our street corners selling heroin we’re not really at war. Of course everyone understands that waging war in the streets against drug dealers isn’t how things [...]
VMware and my linux laptop
With my linux setup I’ve been pushing the edge of what you can do on a laptop. I run vmware so that I can test Windows applications. VMware isn’t the happiest with the setup though. It won’t run bridged mode netwoking over a wifi nic. You have to use nat mode instead. This was a [...]