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    Do you know Sharkat? He is a very smart and astute commentator, and that in itself makes him difficult to review and do justice to. If you're going to also follow his links and read the articles he comments on, you will be there for hours, but will come away with knowledge you never had.Just... more

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  • Rated by FriarZero on Sep 05, 6:35pm

    The first thing that comes to mind is, "Damn right brother man".

  • Rated by judefa on Aug 29, 6:28am

    Do you know Sharkat? He is a very smart and astute commentator, and that in itself makes him difficult to review and do justice to. If you're going to also follow his links and read the articles he comments on, you will be there for hours, but will come away with knowledge you never had.Just in the last few days, eg, he has commented on the following, which of course are all intertwined:Tax evasion by the wealthySecret bank accountsGOP politicsThe cabal that controls finance in the US -- and indirectly, the western worldManoeuvring by international finance companiesThe health care debateBlood-sucking corporationsFinancial crimes and skulduggeryHere's an example of a stumbler whose arguments are well articulated, the product of wide reading and a great deal of background information.There are no concessions to ignorance, nothing folksy and no eye candy offered the reader.He presents very substantial and intelligent material but since it is in the form of blog posts and not reviews of websites, I suspect most people never find him.His items go untagged, and often even undiscovered in SU, since he appears to not even use the toolbar.No URL review = no show in SU's "What's New" feature, and thus even Sharkat's subscribers won't know he is posting unless they look in on the off-chance.This would explain why he has only a meagre 179 subscribers; few people even know he's there in spite of the quality of his postings.~ ~ ~It is tempting to lash out at SU for what seems to be discrimination against independent blog posts but there is another factor people need to come to grips with: Web 2 applications work best with tagging, which is under our control.Unless you can place tags on your items -- whether in SU or any other network -- they just won't be indexed, or will at least be much harder for anyone to find.I don't know whether it's technically beyond SU to enable tagging on posts that are not comments on websites, or whether it is a matter of SU policy not to enable it; that's one for the forums to debate.

  • Rated by scrabbleddie on Jul 19, 7:59am

    ...similar, active, real news stumbles, smart comments etc., keep up the good work-- you are appreciated.

  • Rated by ASWIN on Jun 22, 12:11pm

    powerstumbler

  • Rated by psyffer on Jun 05, 10:01am

    http://thinkprogress.org/2009/06/01/cheney-blames-clarke/ http://www.guardian .co.uk/environment/gallery/2009/may/28/national-ignition-facility-fusion-energy? picture=348067577 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/28/antonin-scalia-judges-mak_n_208531. html Antonin Scalia, who, in the majority opinion of 2002 case Republican Party of Minnesota v. White, wrote: This complete separation of the judiciary from the enterprise of "representative government" might have some truth in those countries where judges neither make law themselves nor set aside the laws enacted by the legislature. It is not a true picture of the American system. Not only do state-court judges possess the power to "make" common law, but they have the immense power to shape the States' constitutions as well. See, e.g., Baker v. State, 170 Vt. 194, 744 A. 2d 864 (1999). Which is precisely why the election of state judges became popular. Here kitty, kitty, kitty.

  • Rated by brainbeam23 on Apr 03 2009, 10:39am

    Very heavy on liberal politics, but it backs it point of view with a lot of facts. Conservatives will hate it, but of course they hate everything anyway,so, who cares?

  • Rated by Vault on Feb 25 2009, 7:02am

    fantastic blog !

  • Rated by Dashiell on Oct 26 2008, 9:33pm

    Incisive and funny.