First good moment in Democracy since I got to college

Connecticut August 08, 2006 - 10:55PM ET (i) = incumbent = winner = runoff Governor - - Dem Primary 713 of 748 Precincts Reporting - 95.32% Name Party Votes Pct
DeStefano, John Dem 127,208 50.50
Malloy, Dan Dem 124,711 49.50

Lieutenant Governor - - Dem Primary 696 of 748 Precincts Reporting - 93.05%
Name Party Votes Pct
Glassman, Mary Dem 113,087 57.06
Slifka, Scott Dem 85,091 42.94

U.S. Senate - - Dem Primary 706 of 748 Precincts Reporting - 94.39%
Name Party Votes Pct
Lamont, Ned Dem 136,353 51.73
Lieberman, Joe (i) Dem 127,249 48.27

Lamont pulls ahead

Hit up these guys for the results
U.S. Senate
Connecticut U. S. Senate Democrat
Candidate Votes Percent Winner
Ned Lamont 40,044 55%
Joe Lieberman 32,575 45%
Precincts Reporting - 184 out of 748 - 25%

Finally a good day for democracy

We are working on the Tactical situation

The scene from Israel-Lebanon border according to Stratfor, laid by yours truly over a google earth situation. Google added transparency in overlaid PNG files in Google Earth 4, so it is possible to do nice translucent images.

It is not perfectly accurate, but you can get a good sense of how things are laid out. This is a little project for the evening.

Lieberman: This account is under construction

Joe Lieberman's website went down and they blamed the bloggers. Here is the view, 1:15 after polls closed. It looks shady to me. I strongly suspect that this bullshit was staged by the Liebs as a last-second false flag kinda thing.

The site redirects here:

Shady. I think Lieberman's going down - i still think about 6 to 8 points although I haven't heard any results yet. It could easily be closer...

Chomping away at comment spam paves the way

In lieu of writing this evening, I have decided to attack the 7000+ individual items of comment spam that have flooded into the server. As per our long-standing strategy to take over the internet, this collection of spam helped elevate our rank in the search engines, but overall creates far more static than anything funny (though sometimes, of course, it's pretty funny).

Some of the crew have been waiting patiently to contribute to this website once I get it switched to Drupal. One of the major barriers was getting the comment spam cleaned up. I want to import the comments into the new site, but I sure as hell don't want all that spam messing up the process. A little bit of spam, perhaps, for fun, but not all that shit.

So now we are already down to 1,464 from some 7000+. Basically once it's down to a few hundred, that will be good enough. Of course, I also gotta close off many old stories to comments, since those are the ones that get pounded by spammers.

If anyone's real comments got deleted, I am really sorry. I personally glanced over each entry and I hope none of the good stuff got nailed. When I switched over to PowWeb, all the old comments from the last site got detached, even a really interesting thread by a few Turks on the Kurtlar Vadisi Irak story. With a bit more engineering I'll get the old (also spam-filtered) comments back up onto the new site.

So to recap, this was one of the shittiest steps to deal with before going to Drupal. Now it's basically ready to go!! On the content side, that is.