Wednesday, November 7, 2012

An Ironic Segment for NBC's Hoda and Kathie Lee portion of this morning's Today show

First, I want to congratulate those who won their elections even though I don't agree with the direction this country is headed in. But I don't want to discuss politics today since we have been crammed with this stuff for months.

Instead I want to mention the rather ironic segment on the Kathie Lee and Hoda part of this morning's Today show on NBC.

I found it very odd that Kathie Lee and Hoda are talking about tips to prevent being hacked with a computer expert even though NBC's own website (YES, NBC the company!) was hacked just this past Sunday by a computer hacker.

Not one mention of the successful hacking attempt was mentioned during this segment. This is not really surprising since NBC does not want to embarrass itself, but the problem is the public has the right to know, and therefore NBC News has the duty to report news that is negative to their own company.

I just thought how ironic it was that NBC is giving information on how to prevent a breach from a hacker. I would have probably found the segment somewhat more credible if NBC wouldn't have tried to hide the fact that they have computer security issues themselves.

Sunday, November 4, 2012

NBC.COM apparently has been hacked

Just wanted to let people know that NBC.COM appears to have been hacked by some Nigerians. This is not very comforting to know since this is happening so close to a presidential election here in the states. You might want to be careful when going to NBC.COM right at the moment.

Friday, November 2, 2012

This election year is getting ugly

I am back after several months because I have been rather busy the last several months, and I am getting very frustrated with the current election year political tactics. Therefore, I want to let some of my thoughts known.

The race that is really getting me the most frustrated right now is the Washington State Governor's Race between Congressman Jay Inslee and the Attorney General Rob McKenna.

This race is so ugly now since the Seattle Times newspaper has made some very poor choices in judgment.

For example, they publish an article just a week and a half before Election Day and after ballots have already been mailed out that makes Rob McKenna out to be a frequent traveler on the job going to places such as Disneyland during his days as Attorney General. Jay Inslee, who has already aired many misleading ads about McKenna during this campaign, quickly used the article in his new commercials with The Seattle Times logo making this look like a very negative fact about McKenna.

Why is it so bad about The Seattle Times running this article?

First, the article is a little biased favoring Inslee by making McKenna the main subject of the article.

Second, McKenna does not get a chance to debate this with his opponent on live TV before the election.

Third, it is too close to the actual election.

Fourth, this information was made available by McKenna a long time ago as it was public disclosure information.

and let me bring up a fifth reason that most people are not aware of:

Fifth, McKenna's daughters are now being used to make their own Dad look bad.

How is the fifth reason possible? Well it goes back to that Disneyland trip. It was actually for a conference that was a legitimate trip attended by other Attorney Generals from other nearby states.

What has happened is that one of his daughters happened to go to Disneyland with their Dad and innocently posted a Twitter picture taken at the amusement park.

Well someone against the McKenna campaign found this and are now using this as proof that McKenna was maybe abusing public money.

I find these types of political attacks offensive. Children shouldn't be used to discredit their political parent. With attacks like these, it is no wonder why there is a shortage of good politicians, both Democrat and Republican.

As for whether or not McKenna went to Disneyland funded by taxpayers, maybe he did, but even if you want to assume he did, why is going on a vacation with your family such a negative thing?

Would you have rather seen that money go towards something else such as his pension fund or more TV campaign ads that are already too frequently airing right now?

I didn't think so.

Even though there may have been some bad tactics used by McKenna's camp in this campaign, my vote is still for Rob McKenna. Sorry Jay Inslee, you lost my vote due to your rather misleading ads and your supporters dirty tactics which are way worse than your opponent McKenna's campaign.