http://wnymedia.net Buffalo and Western New York's online news resource Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:09:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en John Cole at Balloon Juice wraps up our contemporary discourse, and Republican political & messaging strategy, in one perfect nutshell. He argues that the GOP's aim is to leave the country ungovernable, and one way to do that is spew a bunch of utter bullshit, and they've found the perfect ... http://wnymedia.net/wnymedia/buffalopundit/2009/11/not-all-information-is-good-information/ The Buffalo News covers its policy on Astroturf letters to the editor here. For one thing, we don’t do third-party thank-you letters, preferring to allocate scarce space to the public debate of issues. For another, the same sort of letters went to editorial pages and editors all across the country, triggering ... http://wnymedia.net/wnymedia/buffalopundit/2009/11/astroturf-2/ There's been a spate of incidents on the renovated Main Street where undisciplined, brutal gangs of medians have jumped out in front of various vehicles. This is reminiscent of, among other things, the vicious gangs of keep left signs that attacked unsuspecting pedestrians in Bolton, UK in the early 70s. [HTML1] http://wnymedia.net/wnymedia/buffalopundit/2009/11/vicious-gangs-of-medians/ http://wnymedia.net/wnymedia/buffalopundit/2009/11/the-internet-news-business/ A few weeks ago, way up in northern New York, Democrat Bill Owens defeated Doug Hoffman, a Conservative Party candidate who drew support from the tea-steepage-pouch crowd all around the country to defeat the evil Dede Scozzafava. The result hasn't been finalized, and the final corrected counts are coming in, and ... http://wnymedia.net/wnymedia/buffalopundit/2009/11/hoffman-calls-givesies-backsies-in-ny-23/ Former New York Mayor and punch-line-of-the-week Rudy Giuliani has decided that he won't run for Governor in New York in 2010.  Instead, he'll apparently run for the US Senate against Kirsten Gillibrand. What makes this somewhat interesting is that, despite all his recent Palinist bluster, Giuliani is as much a New ... http://wnymedia.net/wnymedia/buffalopundit/2009/11/giuliani-still-looking-to-get-elected/ Via Andrew Sullivan, Spencer Ackerman on a Khalid Sheik Mohammed trial in New York City, and the possibility that KSM will grandstand or make idiotic pronouncements somehow. My hope for the KSM trial is that it does more than all this. It should forever shatter the pernicious myth that al-Qaeda is ... http://wnymedia.net/wnymedia/buffalopundit/2009/11/a-bearded-jim-jones/ ACORN thought it would be a good idea for OJ to try the glove on in front of the jury, over a latex glove. #acornfacts ACORN put up the "Mission Accomplished" banner. #acornfacts ACORN guilted Sarah Palin into doing the Couric interview. #acornfacts every time Michael tries to get out, ACORN pulls him ... http://wnymedia.net/wnymedia/buffalopundit/2009/11/acornfacts/ By Christopher Smith Last week, WNYMedia.net celebrated it's fifth birthday.  In those five years, 6,200,000 visitors have stopped by to leave nearly 250,000 comments on 500,000 articles, videos and podcasts. As a community, our readers have donated nearly 10,000 hours of their time to political candidates and activism efforts for which we ... http://wnymedia.net/wnymedia/buffalopundit/2009/11/reader-survey/ Want to reduce taxes? Reduce the cost of government. Want to reduce the cost of government? Reduce the size of government. Want to reduce the size of government? Slough off a completely useless and redundant legislative house. This would also need nonpartisan redistricting and comprehensive abolition of state authorities in their ... http://wnymedia.net/wnymedia/buffalopundit/2009/11/new-york-state-senate-useless-and-redundant/