The Exercise of Vital Powers

So one of the projects I’m working on is an online calendar of all the republican/libertarian events in Georgia. Robbie pointed me to Google Calendar which has a lot of neat features. So I setup Georgia Political Events and embedded it on my blog. Its got very nice integration with Apple’s iCal. I haven’t gotten it to interact with outlook (probably more useful to the intended audience) so if anyone figures that out, please drop me a line.

I’m looking for people to help me populate it.

So I’ve separated Exercise of Vital Powers from my LJ, and got a neato little plugin to cross post to my LJ. This will allow me to do some things with wordpress I’ve been wanting to do.

“Bush has pretty much been a Republican Jimmy Carter.” – mspgs2

Here is the money quote:

In sum, the court holds that the state secrets privilege applies to Plaintiff’s data-mining claim and that claim is dismissed. The privilege, however, does not apply to Plaintiff’s remaining claims challenging the validity of the TSP, since the Plaintiffs are not relying on or requesting any classified information to support these claims and Defendants do no need any classified information to mount a defense against these claims. (p15)

I’m pretty convinced that the TSP is basically a big social networking data-mining project. If call doorslam who calls radiantfleet who then calls octal who is a known associate of Usama Bin Laden, and I call rjhatl who calls nietzscheslies who was last seen eating lunch with Mohammad Atta, then I’m probably involved with terrorists somehow and a file should be opened on me.

The Bush Administration has indicated that the programs doesn’t violate FISA which prohibits electronic eavesdropping. However, if my theory is correct, the TSP isn’t eavesdropping on the content on the calls but on the (if I may geek out for a moment) the headers of the calls. The To: and From: lines. In cop speak its called a pen register.

…. and its a good day for the Republican Party and the people of Georgia.

First off I want to congratulate all my comrades in the 4th. You’ve once again tossed off the yoke of insanity and nominated a candidate that might actually represent some of you. Talk show hosts across the land are in mourning.

As for the RLC, two of our three endorsed candidates won last night. Karen Handel beat Bill “that’s one hell of a limp” Stephens by 14% of the vote. Karen will make an excellent Secretary of State. RLC endorsee Brian Kemp lost his bid to become Georgia’s next Ag. Commissioner. Up in the Canton area, Sean Jerguson beat this opponent by 35 votes.

Nationally, the Republicans did pretty well too. Joe Lieberman’s loss to Ted Lamont indicates a shift in the Democrats power structure to the far left. I consider this good news because the farther left the Democrats go, the more incompetent the Republicans can be and still maintain their majority.

Speaking of incompetent Republicans, Joe Schwarz (R-MI) lost his primary re-election bid to Tim Walberg. Walberg was being backed by my favorite 527, the Club for Growth. And in Colarado, another Club for Growth candidate, Doug Lamborn won his primary and will most likely be the next Congressman from the 5th district.