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Rayne

About Me:
Blogger since 2002, political activist since 2003, FDL community member since 2005, geek since birth. Fan of science and technology, wannabe artist, decent cook, successful troublemaker and purveyor of challenging memetics whose genetics may be only nominally better. Assistant Editor at Firedoglake and Editor at The Seminal.
 
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About Me:
Blogger since 2002, political activist since 2003, FDL community member since 2005, geek since birth. Fan of science and technology, wannabe artist, decent cook, successful troublemaker and purveyor of challenging memetics whose genetics may be only nominally better. Assistant Editor at Firedoglake and Editor at The Seminal.

Something New This Way Comes…Announcing MyFDL [UPDATE]

By: Friday October 22, 2010 9:22 am

This platform you’ve both loved and fretted over will get a screaming hot upgrade to be launched Sunday morning.

With it will come a new name: MyFDL.

Nutty Inputs, Squirrelly Results: What’s Going on with Pew Research?

By: Thursday October 21, 2010 12:33 pm

Strategist Dana Houle noticed some squirrelly results based on nutty inputs in The Pew Research Center for the People and the Press’ “Ground War More Intense Than 2006, Early Voting More Prevalent” report released today.

Republican Party, Candidates Beneficiaries of Housing Bubble and Foreclosure Crisis

By: Monday October 18, 2010 3:53 pm

A critically important point are the political and financial relationship of these four subpoenaed Fannie Mae retained attorney firms, the state attorney general and Florida’s Republican Party supporters.

Watercooler – Pentagon Bracing for Wikileaks’ Next Document Dump

By: Sunday October 17, 2010 8:00 pm

What do you think will be in this next batch of documents expected to be released by Wikileaks this week??

Foreclosure Fraud: The So-Called Errors Weren’t a Bug but a Feature

By: Sunday October 17, 2010 8:46 am

The foreclosure fraud was intentional, repeated, systemic because the entire system relied on the documentation being prepared just as it was.

Watercooler – Broadband Speed over Dispersion: Wrong Priority?

By: Saturday October 16, 2010 9:06 pm

Unless we ask the right questions, we might end up spending state and federal dollars on the wrong priority — putting in faster broadband when we really ought to make sure more of us have access to high speed internet.

Watercooler – Former CEO Admits His Hiring a Mistake

By: Friday October 15, 2010 9:32 pm

What about you, have you ever heard a business figure of this stature make such a big admission?

Watercooler — Our Tax Dollars At Work = Good News!

By: Thursday October 14, 2010 8:03 pm

Not having followed the entire underlying chain of design I can’t be absolutely certain — but I think our tax dollars were the seed money for this marvelous bit of real hope for paraplegics.

It Wasn’t a ‘Lifestyle Choice’, and It’s Not a Mistake

By: Thursday October 14, 2010 8:05 am

I’m so freaking angry right now I could spit. White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett referred to the sexual orientation of now-deceased teenager Justin Aarberg as a “lifestyle choice” — and then phones in her tepid apology through Washington Post meat puppet Jonathan Capehart.

A paid professional who is tasked with representing the White House doesn’t simply — oopsy! — slip and talk like that about somebody else’s child.

Foreclosure Mills: Convoluted Relations with State Party, Legislature?

By: Wednesday October 13, 2010 4:59 pm

One might wonder whether other states have similar situations, where the foreclosure services firms are tightly entwined with the state’s Republican Party while preventing all efforts to change the number of foreclosures.

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