http://rochesterturning.com turning the tide upstate Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:35:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Check out this LTE in today's D&C. Surge 'success' doesn't redeem us The claim that the "success" of the surge is an affirmation of our presence in Iraq is baffling. We invaded Iraq on the pretext of nonexistent weapons of mass destruction, unsubstantiated rumors of terrorist support and the claim we were ... http://rochesterturning.com/2008/08/07/lte-about-the-the-troop-escalation-in-iraq/ It is about adding value, isn't it? I'll come back to that in a moment. The D&C continues coverage of Cheryl Dinolfo and her office posting Social Security numbers on the internet for all to see. Monroe County Clerk Cheryl Dinolfo acknowledged Wednesday that the Social Security numbers of untold numbers of ... http://rochesterturning.com/2008/08/07/the-loss-of-your-privacy-is-the-cost-of-doing-business-at-the-county-clerk-office/ TAP found a great NY Post article about Republican Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos' master plan to hold onto the Senate: beg Mike Bloomberg for 10 million dollars. State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos told Mayor Bloomberg yesterday the GOP needs roughly $10 million to hold on to its one-vote majority ... http://rochesterturning.com/2008/08/07/aint-too-proud-to-beg-2/ Randy Kuhl, as quoted in today's Messenger-Post: “My opponent (Massa) is saying, ‘save the oil for our children,’” Kuhl said. “There won’t be any children, there won’t be any United States if we don’t figure out our energy problems real quick.” What? He really thinks we're on the verge of extinction as ... http://rochesterturning.com/2008/08/07/department-of-overreaction/ The days of cheap gasoline are gone and they are never coming back. There. I said it. I wasn't the first and I won't be the last. The truth is that oil is a finite resource. In the past century, humans have already used up a majority of the world's oil and ... http://rochesterturning.com/2008/08/06/the-gas-prices-debate-would-be-a-joke-if-it-wasnt-so-sad/ Off-shore drilling and ANWR drilling have become the darlings of the Republican candidate's energy/economic platforms and now, some of the Democrats are buying into it. This is, somehow, going to solve our energy woes and decrease prices at the pump because everyone knows that, if it's produced locally (North ... http://rochesterturning.com/2008/08/06/there-is-no-new-reasonable-drilling/ The Democratic Campaign Congressional Committee will be airing ads in response to Freedom's Watch ads. From the (slightly over-the-top press release): The DCCC Independent Expenditure (IE) today announced it will launch radio ads across the country responding to Freedom’s Watch latest bogus claims. Freedom’s Watch has put more deceptive radio ads on ... http://rochesterturning.com/2008/08/06/dccc-response-to-freedoms-watch-ads/ Yikes! Anyone, who, like me, has done business with the county (like bought a house or registered a business for example), should be really nervous right about now: Hundreds of social security numbers found on County Clerk's website Hundreds of social security numbers were found on the County Clerk's website ... http://rochesterturning.com/2008/08/06/breaking-social-security-numbers-sitting-unsecured-on-county-clerks-site/ Someone somewhere is going to be talking about this so I'll start. From the D&C: City Councilman John Lightfoot called the past year "a long journey," and spoke Tuesday of the opportunity he had in moving on from a third drunken driving conviction to be a better person for his family ... http://rochesterturning.com/2008/08/06/the-end-of-a-long-journey-for-john-lightfoot/ A reader writes, apropos of the Frontier download cap we mentioned earlier: Someone at Frontier who works at the NOC (Network Operations Center) told me the following about Frontier's DSL cap.  I have a pretty high certainty that this person is an honest broker.  Here's what that person said: The cap is ... http://rochesterturning.com/2008/08/06/update-on-frontier-download-cap/ I like to view us as a pan-New York State blog at times, so I think this falls under our purview: Alice Rocchio is an office manager at the New York headquarters of the Hess Corp., drives a 1993 Chevy Cavalier and lives in an apartment in Queens, N.Y., with her ... http://rochesterturning.com/2008/08/06/funny-money-from-flushing/ I'm not not sure how many of our readers can get radio stations from Buffalo, but since I can generally get Buffalo AM stations when I'm in western Monroe County, I'm guessing some can, so I'm passing on this info (from TAP): Just saw that Jon Powers will be taking questions ... http://rochesterturning.com/2008/08/06/powers-on-buffalo-radio-today/ I guess "Hot talk 1280" isn't really a sports tag anyway. As we all know as we told you earlier and were reminded by Bill Press, when RT interviewed him during his visit to Rochester, 950AM WROC is changing its radio format from Progressive talk to Sports talk effective September 1st. ... http://rochesterturning.com/2008/08/06/nothing-like-helping-the-competitor-say-hello-to-sportsradio-1280-whtk/ Thought I'd start the day with a Bill Press shout out.  I'll have more on WROC 950 AM format change shortly. Who is Bill Press' favorite Rochester Blog? The full interview is still up to at Bill Press' Web site or over at  good old reliable rochesterturning.com.ShareThis http://rochesterturning.com/2008/08/06/bill-press-says-hi-rochester/ Freedom's Watch, a pro-war Republican 527 501(c)(4) group co-founded by George W. Bush press secretary Ari Fleischer, is up on the air with ads in NY-29 and elsewhere (via the Politicker): Freedom’s Watch, the conservative advocacy organization heavily funded by Las Vegas billionaire Sheldon Adelson, is hitting the airwaves with a ... http://rochesterturning.com/2008/08/05/freedoms-watch-up-with-ads-in-ny-29/