…all the really interesting news items begin to appear. BBC NEWS | Americas | US military plans for ‘long war’ The US Defence Department has released a long-awaited report on how the US military will organise and equip itself in the face of “new and elusive foes”. The quadrennial defence review will be presented to the US Congress next week. The document opens with the words: “The United States is engaged in what will be a long war.” It describes what the US military must do to defeat current and future enemies – flagged as “rogue powers, terrorist networks and…
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Yahooo! the Daily Herald published the article about Holy Moly today! They were really interested in the blog part of the site. I told him that it was really just because I couldn’t stand to work with Front Page for another moment, and switched the church site over to static pages, while leaving the blog piece working. I’m so happy! I hope the work is finally paying off. Will try to ping AKMA about this.
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Previously, I mentioned how irritated I was with clueless idiots from Myspace who hotlink who hotlink images from my site because they can’t be bothered to simply copy them and upload them to their own server. This can include images I made myself, and images I copied from somewhere else to illustrate something. Well, the first iteration of .htaccess needed some tweaking, and the original image was too small. After checking my stats tonight, I decided it was time to configure .htaccess to allow “trusted” hotlinks and then pull the trigger on the more obnoxious of the two images. I…
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Comedian and crackerjack political commentator Adam Felber sets the record straight: Fanatical Apathy – Corrections Dictatorships shelter terrorists, and feed resentment and radicalism, and seek weapons of mass destruction. Democracies replace resentment with hope, respect the rights of their citizens and their neighbors, and join the fight against terror. The President meant that democracies that do not elect terrorists will join the fight against terror. Those other nations are actually “terrocracies,†and shouldn’t be confused with actual “democracies.†This is also true of so-called democracies who elect dictators, which are actually “dictocracies,†or so-called democracies who elect communists (â€commocraciesâ€), anti-American…
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Caveat Lector ? Dramarama I am in contact with New Librarian’s parents, who are afraid to lay the appropriate smackdown because New Librarian “shuts down” when they try, since she “is threatened by them” and (eye-rolling alert, folks) “her self-esteem is shattered.” I shall endeavor to convince them that some tough love is in order. You spelled “uhhsteeem” wrong. 😉 But good luck with setting them straight. It sounds like you’ll need it. As you explained, the apple didn’t fall far from that tree.
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Lobbying Colors GOP Leadership Contest Boehner, the guy who handed out checks on the House floor from tobacco concerns, has just been elected Majority Leader. A fair chunk of his change was raised from Abramoff-linked Indian tribes. Not that it’s wrong that they’re Indians, it’s that they were working with Abramoff. “We will want people who are clean running the House,” said Rep. Melissa Hart (R-Pa.), a Boehner supporter. So do we, Melissa. So we’ll just have to elect them. Do these people not get it? Do they not realize that the lobbying scandal taints everyone in their leadership? I…
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My buddies on HIGHLA-L will be amused by this for several reasons. First of all, ferrets is always funny. Second, most of them were proabably into “Due South,” too. Back in the day, I was the official “Ferret Minion Wrangler” and “Stoat Recruitment Specialist” on the list. Good times. via Manolo The Shoeblogger
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You now, I heard Our Leader say this the other night, but due to an unfortunate overenthusiasm for Adam Felber’s SOTU Drinking Game, it just skidded on by: “Tonight I ask you to pass legislation to prohibit the most egregious abuses of medical research: human cloning in all its forms, creating or implanting embryos for experiments, creating human-animal hybrids, and buying, selling, or patenting human embryos. Human life is a gift from our Creator — and that gift should never be discarded, devalued or put up for sale.” Guess there’s no tax credit for hybrid humans, only hybrid cars. Damn.…
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Okay, things done: Removed cruft from side columns Signed up for del.icio.us Signed up for Feedburner Created new feed, David redirected old feeds Tinkered with Quicklinks, got MTAmazon partly working Tinkered with stylesheet, fiddled with tags/categories footer Things left undone: Get MTAmazon fully working in Quickbooks Add del.icio.us links on right column Look for more old cruft to delete Update “About” page Go through Bookqueue, cycle books around Learn more about adding music links via del.icio.us iTunes: Would like to blog playlists Find more Hawaiian slack-key for iPod Start using the rating system more Tasks: Pet-related chores >^t^ Try to…
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Chicago Tribune | At least 1 engine was working Jeez, I can’t even imagine the horror of this moment.