Nightly Ramble:Spam,KCJJ,Iran;Oil Still Going Down;more

Welcome dear reader, to the most intense nightly read on the ‘sphere… BitsBlog’s Nightly Ramble.

• Is there doubt in anyone’s mind that this incursion into personal freedom is going to happen, if/when Democrats get into power?  Of course, consider the discussion about rationality we had yesterday… some idiots consider this a good thing.(Shake of the head)
• Boortz is on freakin’ FIRE today.
• Yeah, I gotta agree, Billy, that IS lame  in today’s world. I wonder, though, about the reasons behind it; Are they something unique to South Africa?
• There’s still questions about Dodd and campaign funding. If Dodd were a Republican and guilty of one Iota of what we know about him, the Democrats would be making his behavior a campaign issue.
• Stumbled over this one while looking up something else. If we’re to believe this poll, more Americans know about Joe the Plumber than they do about Obama and his ties to ACORN. Here comes the ‘educational’ aspects of all this again.
• They found Jennifer Hudson’s Nephew. Dead, of course.  I don’t suppose I need to comment on this; The raw facts do a fair enough job for the readership of this blog. But note the distinction I make. See, I wonder how many will take the points out and I find obvious, as such.  Not enough, I expect.
• Spam.  I’ve recently done some serious work to eliminate trackback and comment spam from BitsBlog. Cost me several hours to get rid of the sludge that had built up. Between the two, I eliminated over a million database lines, all of which were spam. Took me most of Thursday night and into Friday morning.  (For those who don’t know, every post, every link, every comment, everything on this blog is run on an SQL database. The HTML that make up what you see, doesn’t exist as such. What you see as HTML is generate when you ask for it, based on what is in the database.) Think of the scope involved here!  That 1 million figure, given I have around 10,000 posts up, in total, means that every post we’ve ever put up had an average of 10 spams attached to them… each. Now that I’ve got that huge pile cleaned out, I’ve started to turn my attention to automated bloggers and linkers who I consider to be spammers as well.  It’s the noise level of blogging, I suppose, but that doesn’t mean I have to support their act with my bandwidth and put up with the sluggish site performance because of their nonsense.  Mostly, I’m finding an IP ban solves a lot of problems. But that amounts to ‘whack a mole’, and I’m not overly happy with the game.
• Why isn’t KCJJ having it’s operating pulled? They should be gone. Remember, I spent a few years in the business. Time was, if I got behind a mike and encouraged illegal activity,the station would be off the air by FCC fiat before the echo died.   I’m telling you, gang… I thought the place one of the best staions in that area of the country. But I’m convinced now they should be gone. Mind this is not political in nature. We’re talking about them clearly encoruaging illegal activity… a clear violation.
• Speaking of radio, I’m reminded by NERW’s Scott Fybush, that Mercury Radio’s ‘War Of The Worlds’ first was broadcast 70 years ago this week. I remember listening to a tape of that show back in the Junior High school library, and being riveted by what I heard.  After one listening, I could easily see the panic such a broadcast would create. And there’s a connection, there, between the effect that broadcast had, and the effect of a slanted news media has, even in today’s supposedly far more cynical world.
• So now we have lawyers who are watching out, supposedly, for our voting rights, who turn out to be Obama donors? Gee, that gives me warm fuzzies that they’ll be unbiased, huh?
• Something weird in Iran. Frankly I don’t accept what they’re telling us about Ahmadinejad. Becoming ill ‘from stress’?  Sorry, I don’t buy it.
• You guys ARE aware there’s a drug war going on in Mexico as we speak, right?
• I spoke earlier today about the attacks on Joe the Plumber. Apparently, info on him was gathered on government computers.  So, perhaps my saying that Obama didn’t have the power of government behind him was a bit off the mark.Why do I get the idea that those tapping those computers are union members?  There’s a teaching moment involved, here.
• Someone’s pulled the plug on the drain. Gas costs are down over 50 cents in around 10 days. I’m seeing prices on FlyingJ… my usual fuel-’em-up spot, at below $2 a gallon in some places.  Oil’s at $63 as of this morning, and likely lower by now. Speculation is we’ll see it in the $40’s shortly. All this is happening a little faster than I said it would, even.
• I was sorry to see news of Anne Pressly’s passing. If she was known as a big Obama backer, the press would be going wall to wall with the story.  I wonder how this will play out.
• Recall this morning, how I mentioned silencing the opposition? Remember I drew compaisons to Crazy Uncle Hugo? Well, it seems he’s still on that path. And who is to stop him, now?
• And speaking of that article, this morning Megan McArdle says :
  

  Wondering if we can’t prosecute the person who exposed the campaign’s error smacks of police state tactics. Yes, I still support Obama, and I have no reason to think that the error was deliberate. But that doesn’t mean that I think the Obama team has a right to have its errors protected from public exposure. . . . If it had been a corporation rather than a campaign whose shoddy protections were thus exposed, would Kleiman really be urging us to pursue a fraud claim?”

  Actually, Megan, as we pointed up here this morning, you have many reasons to think the ‘error’ deliberate. It fits a rather long and less than savory pattern. It’s about time you woke up, and stopped enabling that Marxist. It’s not like the signs haven’t been out there, Lady.

• Yeah, I know… Syria. I don’t know as there’s anyone who has really been watching this thing develop who didn’t figure on Syria being in play directly sooner or later, since it’s more than obvious they’ve been in lay behind the scenes forever. As Bruce points out, this is where most of the AQ morons are coming from now.
• No, Mikey, I’ve said for years that this whole thing is an educational process. Now consider, please… they call terrorist bomber and socialist Bill Ayers an ‘educational reformer’. Do the math.
• A must read, here. Just go.