Day: April 7, 2005

Blogger Status page says:

“Thursday, April 07, 2005 This afternoon we pushed into production a number of performance enhancements which have improved the responsiveness of the site. Additionally, we have eliminated an automated spam problem which was negatively impacting publish success rates.”

Yeh, great job. Now, about the ONLY way I can publish a darned thing is with “Hello!” or by CLICKing on the edit button in Opera, and ONLY in Opera. Let’s see… Internet Exploder can’t even FIND blogger.com, and Firebird reports the login page “has no data”… Opera seems to find everything all right, but I can’t even enter standard html code, let alone use the wysiwyg editor.

Great improvements, guys! Anybody ever heard the “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” line? Well, you might have fixed something that was “broken,” but you left the rest in a shambles on the sever room floor…

Apologies for the lack of links in the post below. I guess I could go back and put them in parentheses, since blogger is NOT accepting html tags [sigh] and just tell folks to copy n paste ’em. Guess that’ll have to do until I wait out blogger’s intransigence. [profound sigh]

Oh. Well. Early to bed and all that…

Holly Lisle was right in “Killing Grandma for Fun and Profit”

You knew this was coming, didn’t you?

“Georgia Woman Being Starved and Dehydrated

“85 year-old Mae Margourik of LaGrange, Georgia, is currently being deprived of nutrition and hydration at the request of her granddaughter, Beth Gaddy. Mrs. Margourik suffered an aortic dissection 2 weeks ago and was hospitalized. Though her doctors have said that she is not terminally ill, Ms. Gaddy declared that she held medical power of attorney for Mae, and had her transferred to the LaGrange Hospice. Later investigation revealed that Ms. Gaddy did not in fact have such power of attorney. Furthermore, Mae’s Living Will provides that nutrition and hydration are to be withheld only if she is comatose or vegetative. Mae is in neither condition. Neither is her condition terminal.”

Y’all be careful out there. Especially all you grannies. It just got a lot easier for your loving grandkids to kill you with impunity.

h/t The Corner’s K.J. Lopez.

13 things [in the world of science] that do not make sense

Michael Brooks, writing in The New Scientist, outlines 13 things that serious scientists are grappling with that are real conundrums. Baffling and contradictory-to-establish-theories data in such widely diverse areas of inquiry as

• The placebo effect
• The horizon problem
• Ultra-energetic cosmic rays
• Homeopathy
• Dark matter

And eight other areas of inquiry that have serious scientists baffled.

With serious scientists at odds over data in such fundamental fields as the temperature of the universe (and it’s contradictory implications for the fav Big Bang theory of the origins of the universe!), it boggles the mind that eco-religionists posing as scientists and spouting nonsense get so much press from the Mass Media Podpeople’s Army.

Check it out: 13 things that do not make sense.

(h/t: Jerry Pournelle’s Current View Wednesday, 04/06/05)

Just read it.

It’s at least a place to start talking about how to deal with ahild abuse in the classroom, prisons for kids, etc. (also known as “public education”). School choice. Who’d have thought that “choice” was evil to so-called “liberals”? Well, everyone with more than two active brain cells knows that where choice refers to any option exercised against the grain of loony left moonbat feelings (I won’t call them principles or even thoughts) it’s eeeeeeevilllll. To loony left moonbats, that is.