Posts Tagged ‘Politics’
The magical stimulus millionaire
I know the Stimulus package has been said to create a few well paying jobs… but this one just boggles the mind. According to Recovery.gov, a site which we’re supposed to have great faith in because it falls under the control of the government, a lucky American got a job created by $3,203,404 in stimulus money.
And this individual should feel even more lucky considering the fact that it was the one and ONLY job created in his/her congressional district!
Speaking of congressional districts… I wonder if Illinois is the only state with a 00 district? Who represents IL-00 and is it an open seat for 2010?
The post April 15th environment has left a lot of questions unanswered. The bad news is that in many cases, answers aren’t available. The good news is, some of the available answers are VERY sound and starting to unfold.
Now that things are starting to slow down a bit, I feel I can finally address the laughable charge and confront it head on. For those of you who do not know the back story, you can read Mary Katherine Ham’s piece in the Washington Examiner to catch up on the #dontgo movement story.
While the Washington Examiner story explains the #dontgo Movement from the GOP side of the story, I would like to take you into the much larger, much more privately organized “outside the beltway” part of the movement.
Indeed, far left groups and blogs are frothing at the mouths to proclaim this grassroots movement an “astroturf” campaign with strings being pulled by Republicans and Big Oil Companies. Continue Reading
During an online chat today the topic of political parties came up. I was talking with a developer who rarely involves himself with politics, so it was an interesting chance to gain some thoughts from someone who does not study politics day in and day out as I do.
When asked what party I align myself with, I replied saying that I’m a proud member of the Illinois Libertarian Party. The response was something along the lines of “and you’re not afraid to admit that?”
I found this reaction a bit intriguing. Mainly because… well.. because in this day and time I would be far more ashamed to admit my party if it were the Republicans or Democrats. Both parties are an embarrassment, in my opinion. So, I started searching for something to send this person with regards to the true definition of Libertarians. I came across Continue Reading
On Saturday Jed published my interview with him for NetSquared. The interview, titled “Fighting Taxation Without Information“, was a lot of fun and I enjoyed talking with Jed about the power of open source and crowd powered content to provide information to the masses.
We did the interview over skype, where the audio was recorded, and Jed moved it to text format for NetSquared.
You can read the full interview here.
These are the questions I addressed.
-Jed Sundwall: What is the stated mission of the Sam Adams Alliance?
-When did you get started with the Sam Adams Alliance?
-So Sam Adams did not begin as a tech centric initiative.
-What are your largest initiatives?
-Any notable successes?
-So it was fully open?
-Which social media tools have you found to be the most useful?
-What is your rationale for embracing open source software?
-I assume that your philosophy on what makes good software transfers over to your philosophy on what makes good laws as well.
-How do you propose to get people involved with these projects?
-Tell us more about Judgepedia.
-I’m looking forward to something like Fire-chief-pedia. I’m amazed at how many people we’re expected to vote for without having any idea who they are.
Go check it out. It’s a pretty good read.
This ad by the Courage Campaign is pretty damn genius in my opinion.
