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Top 10 Posts of 2009: Wilderside New Year’s Countdown

Posted on December 31, 2009 by iwilder

Our Top Ten Posts of 2009 (in reverse order for drama…) 10. Long Island Concerts Winter/Spring 2009 Though we lean heavily towards politics, we do also consider ourselves to be an arts and culture website.  As with politics, we like to cover music that the corporate media ignores.  Our number ten top post this year […]

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Time to make big changes with air travel

Posted on December 28, 2009 by kwilder

It is amazing, the narrow box which elected officials, security officials, and the media use to evaluate what should be the response to a terrorist nearly blowing up another airplane. It is mystifying that when such a big, dangerous, longstanding problem exists, they all still return to the most simple problem solving model: “There are […]

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A Multipartisan Contest: Who does Dem. Senate Leader John Sampson mean by “we”?

Posted on December 21, 2009 by kwilder

The Wilderside’s “We Want More Than Bipartisanship Contest” Political blogger Elizabeth Benjamin caught a great line from an editorial that NY State Senate Majority Leader John Sampson (D) wrote: “Bipartisanship is the only tool that will help fix New York’s problems.” Bipartisanship. Harumph. Why is the word “bipartisanship” such a pet peeve of mine? Because, […]

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The Democratic Party is a bad “Yo Mama” joke

Posted on November 25, 2009 by kwilder

Thanks to Green Party Watch for the tip. Dan Kairis is running for Congress, 14th District, in Illinois. Kairis filed signatures to run on the Green Party line. Those challenges are being brought by someone who is receiving help from lawyers connected to the Democratic Party of Illinois. Among the accusations is that the signature […]

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Read when you have courage: Too many shootings and deaths

Posted on November 10, 2009 by kwilder

What should be done about all of these shootings and deaths?

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Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Michelle Malkin and Sarah Palin defeated in NY-23

Posted on November 4, 2009 by kwilder

Kimberly says…Okay, so the “winner” was a plain old Democrat candidate. And, my co-blogger doesn’t even think this belongs on our blog. Though, some of the way the battle fell out was just so delicious… (excerpt from) San Francisco Chronicle NY 23 election results – Bill Owens beats Doug Hoffman, Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh […]

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Healing Schools: Columbine and Jonesboro school massacres

Posted on October 16, 2009 by kwilder

KW: As noted in a story in The Guardian UK, the mother of one of the Columbine killers has released an essay with her reflections in “O”, the Oprah Winfrey magazine. The essay is by Dylan Klebold’s mother, Susan Klebold. No one from the family of Eric Harris had made public comments on the massacre […]

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Code Pink and UFPJ just Don’t Get It: Tom Hayden edition

Posted on September 10, 2009 by iwilder

Both of them are trotting out Tom Hayden as an anti-war spokesperson.  Hello?  Everyone forget that Hayden told everyone to vote for the pro-war Obama. UFPJ wants us to join Hayden in signing a petition against the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars.  (email below) Where was his signature in 2008?  How about Hayden sign a petition […]

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Random thoughts on Obama’s school speech

Posted on September 8, 2009 by kwilder

The full text of the speech, as released by the White House previously, is: here. Kimberly writes: In my house, we are just not amused by status quo politicians. So, I tried not have a lot of hot feelings either way about Obama making a speech for school children, or the right wing response to […]

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Robbie Woliver on Van Jones: I now officially hate Democrats.

Posted on September 6, 2009 by iwilder

from Facebook (with permission) I now officially hate Democrats. Green Czar Van Jones resigns because Repub. opponents are after him because he said bad things about Bush and the GOP? When are the Dems going to fucking grow a spine? What a goddamn wimp. So now all you have to do is… throw mud, and […]

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Suffolk County Board of Elections needs help…

Posted on August 27, 2009 by iwilder

Kimberly writes: Just two of the many, big problems at the Suffolk County Board of Elections: 1. As of 2009, the workers do not know their stuff and give out wrong information.

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Caster Semenya: Sports, gender identity, privacy

Posted on August 21, 2009 by kwilder

Quick summary: When track athlete Caster Semenya started standing out as a competitor, and as someone who looks different, The International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF) asked her to submit to a gender test. The testing takes awhile, so it was an ongoing controversy as Semenya won a gold medal. My thoughts: It is an […]

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What happens when a white guy with no i.d. is found wandering in a minority neighborhood?

Posted on August 15, 2009 by iwilder

He is taken back to his hotel. What happens when a African-American in his own home shows ID to police officer in a white neighborhood? He is taken away in handcuffs. In case you didn’t catch the story, Bob Dylan was confronted by police in Long Branch, NJ when a homeowner called police because an […]

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FEC releases 2008 prez/congressional vote count: mixed media response

Posted on August 8, 2009 by kwilder

Ballot Access News is a site which focuses on why and how independent and third party candidates have so many ballot access hurdles to overcome. So, when the Federal Elections Commission (FEC) released its report on votes in the 2008 US Presidential race and Congressional races this week, Ballot Access covered the story in a […]

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