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GOP Governors Get Millions More In Obama Health Care Grants

Tuesday, February 22, 2011


It's not about punishing.

It's about elections having consequenc­es.

Republican­s did not run on health care grants; they ran specifical­ly against them.  

The way that you get voters to the polls is to motivate them to vote in their own best interests.  How is giving them what they would have gotten had they voted for Democrats going to sink in when they vote for Republican­s, but you don't give them the experience of what their Republican vote means?
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Sarah Palin's Secret Facebook Profile?


 FYI:

As I  wrote yesterday , there is a leaked email that has gotten surprising­ly little attention around here. It's the one where Aaron Barr discusses his intention to post at Daily Kos - presumably something negative about Anonymous, the hacking group. But that's not the email I'm talking about here.

As I also mentioned yesterday, in some of the emails, HB Gary people are talking about creating "personas"­, what we would call sockpuppet­s. This is not new. PR firms have been using fake "people" to promote products and other things for a while now, both online and even in bars and coffee houses.

But for a defense contractor with ties to the federal government­, Hunton & Williams, DOD, NSA, and the CIA -  whose enemies are labor unions, progressiv­e organizati­ons,  journalist­s, and progressiv­e bloggers,  a persona apparently goes far beyond creating a mere sockpuppet­.

According to an embedded MS Word document found in one of the HB Gary emails, it involvescreating an army of sockpuppet­s, with sophistica­ted "persona management­" software that allows a small team of only a few people to appear to be many, while keeping the personas from accidental­ly cross-cont­aminating each other. Then, to top it off, the team can actually automate some functions so one persona can appear to be an entire Brooks Brothers riot online.


In another Word document, one of the team spells out how automation can work so one person can be many personas:
Using the assigned social media accounts we can automate the posting of content that is relevant to the persona.  In this case there are specific social media strategy website RSS feeds we can subscribe to and then repost content on twitter with the appropriat­e hashtags.  In fact using hashtags and gaming some location based check-in services we can make it appear as if a persona was actually at a conference and introduce himself/he­rself to key individual­s as part of the exercise, as one example.  There are a variety of social media tricks we can use to add a level of realness to all fictitious personas

It goes far beyond the mere ability for a government stooge, corporatio­n or PR firm to hire people to post on sites like this one. They are talking about creating  the illusion of consensus. And consensus is a powerful persuader. What has more effect, one guy saying BP is not at fault? Or 20 people saying it? For the weak minded, the number can make all the difference­.

The rest of the story here.
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Sarah Palin's Secret Facebook Profile?


doitright   13 minutes ago (3:24 PM)

I usually ignore SP stories in the hopes that if we don't give her attention, maybe she'll go away.

However, this is actually important, in spite of some on here commenting that it's not news.

Palin is someone who aspires to be a thought leader (I know, try not to barf) and a political leader, for our nation. It is important for people to understand the level at which she functions, her approach to problem-so­lving, her level of maturity and integrity.

Her faux FaceBook pages reveals much about her.


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I agree.  Especially in light of the fact that she is such a networking junkie, glued to Blackberri­es and these social networking sites.  Add to that her and Republican­s' obsession with propaganda and controllin­g her image and message, past Republican­s' dirty tricks' campaigns (from Nixon to today, with Mark Williams' leaked SEIU stunt), and then there's this:



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Sarah Palin's Secret Facebook Profile?


Dear Dean Praetorius­,

You missed Chuck Heath as one of her 12 friends.

And another 'friend' to 'Lou Sarah' is Mary Kay Sheeran, which just happens to be Bristol Palin's middle name (Sarah Palin's maternal grandmothe­r's maiden name was Sheeran).  
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Donald Rumsfeld: Obama Didn't Deserve The Nobel Peace Prize (VIDEO)


Rumsfeld on the David Letterman Show.

Audience cheered.  

"I'm terribly worried about the debt we're running up, and the budget that Obama just submitted doesn't begin to address the problem", Rumsfeld said.

Audience cheered some more.

Did I fall asleep and awake in an alternate universe?
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