Robert M. (Mike) Duncan, RNC Chairman, would like you just to calm down.  

Hello, Leftist Utopian Radical Optimist Pigs,

Rush Limbaugh and I would like you to stop being so unrealistic.  Stop trying to save the world, recognize that it is just a wild dream that you Leftist Utopian idiots believe in because you are not mature enough to understand that the End Is Near.  I mean, didn't you read Revelations?  Forget the rest of the world, we're all doomed anyway, and hunker down at home and pray.

Besides, the UN goal of 0.7% of GDP is too much to give.  Forget that starving populations breed terrorism, forget that when other nations prosper they become good customers of American goods and services, forget the loss of Florida, Los Angeles and New York City to rising sea levels.  We've come far enough in the last 50 years and need to stop.  

Now.  Before it's not too late.

Crossposted at DKOS and MyBO

We are in the fourth year of an unprecedented change in political registration.  Never before has there been as sustained a pattern of decrease in one party's registration and increase in the other's.

Jennifer Steinhauer today in the New York Times discusses this significant trend.

Well, now we know.

At Barack Obama's Economic Security Townhall yesterday, the Senator held up Friday's St. Petersburg Times.  The front page tells the story:

Crossposted at DailyKOS and MyBO

With no power beyond his use of words, the person who will next month become the Democratic nominee for the office of President has caused more action at home and abroad than those who hold the reigns of power in their hands.

Frank Rich makes this point in his article "How Obama Became Acting President":

IT almost seems like a gag worthy of "Borat": A smooth-talking rookie senator with an exotic name passes himself off as the incumbent American president to credulous foreigners. But to dismiss Barack Obama's magical mystery tour through old Europe and two war zones as a media-made fairy tale would be to underestimate the ingenious politics of the moment. History was on the march well before Mr. Obama boarded his plane, and his trip was perfectly timed to reap the whirlwind.

He never would have been treated as a president-in-waiting by heads of state or network talking heads if all he offered were charisma, slick rhetoric and stunning visuals. What drew them instead was the raw power Mr. Obama has amassed: the power to start shaping events and the power to move markets, including TV ratings. (Even "Access Hollywood" mustered a 20 percent audience jump by hosting the Obama family.) Power begets more power, absolutely.

Well, we have recently been told that McCain is not whining about the media.

Maybe that is so.  

Maybe it is because he doesn't have to bother, since he has Robert M. "Mike" Duncan, Chairman, Republican National Committee to do it for him.

Not only is "Mike" Duncan whining about the media, he is whining about you: "the Democrats and their leftist allies".  Your "radical groups" connected with "Big Labor" and the "liberal Media".

This is what good-ole Mike thinks of you, as of about three minutes ago when it hit my Inbox:

"Toto, I don't think we're in Creationist Kansas anymore!"

Sean Tevis is an Information Architect and fellow netroots geek who decided to run against Arlen Siegfreid, the current State Representative.  

You supported Sean Tevis, and you won.

Met a Proud PUMA in a diary today.  He makes a compelling argument for supporting John McCain and I just have to agree with him.  There is no price too high to show those media pundits who's boss, to slap back at the horrible Democrats for betraying their base.  No price too steep for the personal satisfaction of sitting back and smugly grinning as the Chickens Come Home To Roost.

With some help from the Jed Report, I stand firm with this handsome man in striking back at the sexist media, at Obama for not battling FISA this week, at all those who conspired to thwart his wishes.

No price is too high to pay for justice.

Reading Reaper0bot0's diary tonight reminded me very much of all the Internet Security debates I have been involved with since the early nineties.  I invented one of the early firewalls (BorderWare), and since that time it has been my mixed pleasure and angst to engage in heated debates that are very very similar to this one.

The people who know a lot about Internet security are by and large very smart technical geeks who spend all their time thinking and worrying about keeping bad folks from doing nasty things.  We get really passionate about it - if we screw up people are harmed.  In some areas of our profession like Critical Infrastructure (which I focused on 2005-2007), when we screw up, people die.

Tempers get very sharp about the specific things we should do, and how we can do them.  The worst part?  I never know whether what I believe to be the right thing to do is not horribly wrong, and may lead to horrible consequences.  But since the alternative is doing nothing, I have to do the best I can and live with the results.