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Listing Starboard–again

First, a note about my browsing habits (part of which are noted here). After 13 years of using the Opera browser (during most of which I paid for the privilege–it was that good in its early years as opposed to the competition), I have developed habits some of which may be becoming a new habit for recent Firefox and IE7 users, notably humongous numbers of open tabs. In fact, since I may be running two or three instances of Opera–different versions, for different OSes–at once in the same machine, I may have b etween 50 and 80 different tabs open at once. Hence, I sometimes lose track–bad habit!–of what led me to a particular link. And, since some of the Opera installs I run are THE latest snapshots of works-in-progress, I do see this come into play every now and then:

WARNING: This is a development snapshots: it contains the latest changes, but may also have severe known issues, including crashes and data loss situations. In fact, it may not work at all.

*heh*

That said, here are a few recent “starboard leaning” lost links:

Essential reading on recent Wall Street/Banking events.: How the Masters of the Universe ran amok and cost us the earth

“The first casualty of an American presidential campaign is context…” (*heh*) Paul Greenberg notes in his column, “In the Pigs and Lipstick Dept., Context Can Be All”

In “The Gibson Doctrine” Dennis Prager, the epitome of a “kinder, gentler” conservative columnist, deconstructs Charlie Gibson–oh so kindly and gently–and leaves the bastard bleeding on the floor. An excerpt:

When he asked Palin whether she agreed with the Bush Doctrine without defining it, he gave the game away. He lost any pretense of fairness. Asking the same unanswerable question three times had one purpose — to humiliate the woman. That was not merely partisan. It was mean.

I couldn’t answer it — and I have been steeped in international affairs since I was a Fellow at the Columbia University School of International Affairs in the 1970s. I have since been to 82 countries, and have lectured in Russian in Russia and in Hebrew in Israel. Most Americans would consider a candidate for national office who had such a resume qualified as regards international relations. Yet I had no clue how to answer Gibson’s question.

I had no clue because there is no right answer…

Charlie Gibson trying to assume Dan Rather’s mantle: “Exact words”=”Fake but accurate” for an audience that cannot keep its eye on the ball.

Obama and His Blankie. Just read it.

Grading Obama’s essay on economics. *heh*

I can actually recall the web search that led to these next couple of links. I had reason to recall The Third World County Great Blackout of January 2007 and thought to doublecheck my emergency preparedness:

Disaster Survival Food Pantry Basics

Survival Guide More priented toward TEOTWAWKI events, but a useful check on preparedness for events like The Third World County Great Blackout of January 2007.

One of the best Palin stories yet.

Found under, “Things That Make Me Go, ‘Hmm…'”–

Top Clinton fundraiser backing McCain, not Obama

Obama’s “community organizer” resume bullet point demolished.

That should about do it for today.

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The Obamassiah’s New Release: “I Took My Prompter To The Rodeo”

I don’t know how it’s doing on the charts–heck, I didn’t even know The One sang Country!–but it’s a hit with folks here in America’s Third World County who already think he’s a bad joke.

(CNN) — It appears Barack Obama’s teleprompter is hitting the campaign trail.

The Democratic presidential nominee has never tried to hide the fact he delivers speeches off the device, though normally he doesn’t use one at standard campaign rallies and town hall events.

But the Illinois senator used a teleprompter at both his Colorado events Monday — making for a particularly peculiar scene in Pueblo, where the prompter was set up in the middle of what is normally a rodeo ring.

As Mark Steyn notes, this could be even more amusing if The Obamabot uses a teleprompter at the debates…

h.t. Tim Blair

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I Agree With The Obamassiah!

For once I agree with The One:

“If we’re going to ask questions about, you know, who has been promulgating negative ads that are completely unrelated to the issues at hand, I think I win that contest pretty handily,” Obama said.

(Whadda maroon.)

And here I thought he didn’t have an honest bone in his body…

h.t. IMAO

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fo’ shizzle…

Seen at American Digest:



You saw it here (probably last *heh*)

Check out more “news” that beats the socks off the Mass Media Podpeople Hivemind faux news for accuracy… even though it’s deliberately fictional humor at The Onion. One of the few “news” (that’s not news) outlets worth paying any attention to, IMO.

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Q For WP Users: What Are Your Fav Plugins?

I list my top five six (because two are tied :-)) favorites just to get the ball rolling:

  1. Askimet I used to use SpamKarma, but frankly it was just too much hassle, and the number of false positives with the latest Askimet is low enough for me to live with.
  2. Content with show/hide javascript for “more” Just too handy. Instead of opening to a post-only page, with the “more” tag, it just does what it says. Slick.
  3. Inline Pingbacks and Trackbacks Slobokan’s implementation of this feature that’s essential for doing Linkfests right (show the trackbacks on the front page “automagically” ) is better than the old one from Simply Kimberly, and works better with WP 2.5+.
  4. Ozh’ Admin Drop Down Menu (for WP 2.5+) SLICK! Turn the cluttered WP Admin interface into a clean, very, very slick menu bar with hover-over drop-downs. Oh, very nice!
  5. WordPress Automatic Upgrade Just click through following the prompts. Backups, plugin deactivations/reactivations, etc. all handled “automagically”. I’ve not had any real problems upgrading WordPress except for finding that something about my old template wasn’t happy with WP 2.5, and upgrading manually is simply backing up, deactivating plugins and uploading the new files, so it’s not as if this plugin is exactly necessary. Sure, I sweated bullets the first time I upgraded WP, but all subsequent upgrades have been no really big deal. Still, just clicking through has its appeal. In fact, it’s so appealing, I’m going to try to “forget” it can be done manually.

There. That’s my top five six fav WP plugins. What’re yours?

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Mark Steyn: a treasure nonpareil

Oh, just read.

Snark bark:

Alas, while setting their own pants on fire, Howie [Kurtz] & co also managed to spill the lighter fluid all over Barack’s coronation robes.

(*sigh* Envious much, twc? Yeh, such turns of phrase are priceless.. :-))

(h.t. Powerline. Note: the NRO site is among the slowest-loading news/commentary sites around, but Steyn’s post is worth the wait.)

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One Democrat At a Time

McCain is so far inside The Obamassiah’s OODA Loop now it’s beginning to get scary for the Dhimmicrap Party elite. Lifelong Dhimms, PUMAs and self-labeled independants are all seeing something different, but a Bethesda p-sych shows one typical response to the McCain Palin pick(among many–and that’s what’s so devastating: many different “typical responses”):

Right now, for me, gender trumps everything else. If Democratic women wait for the perfect woman to come along, we will never elect a woman. I will vote for McCain-Palin. I urge other women to do the same. I promise to be the first person knocking on her door if Roe v. Wade or any other legislation that goes against the rights of women is threatened. But in Governor Palin, I find a woman of integrity, who not only talks the talk but walks the walk. I can work with that. I will work with that.

While I disagree with a one-issue litmus test for political candidates (heck, I’ll admit I came close with my two-issue-based distaste for Juan Mexicain), I find it interesting that Governor Palin’s obvious authenticity in a field of manufactured political personalities is what apparently won over this commenter–and others like her I’ve read.

More, please.

Glad I asked me. Here’s more:

It’s time to build, and build big. As PUMAs let us make it our personal mission to personally recruit 3 people to our cause between now and election day. What is our cause? Taking as many votes away from Obama/Biden as possible. Those two should NOT and must NOT be elected in 2008.

And there’s plenty more at the site linked. More?

Go McCain!! Sarah Palin may be the best choice this year. I wanted, will want, will always want Hillary. Since I am deprived of her, this ticket will get my vote. If it is a political maneuver, I don’t care. At least he wants my vote. Big Donna told me to stay home. Ain’t gonna happen folks…….I’m a McCain voting PUMA.

And

I am for Palin. I think she is courageous in her convictions. I was for Hillary, but now I am in the thak for McCain/Palin.
PumsaForPalin!!!

And the tin eared attacks on Palin haven’t helped The Obamassiah’s case, either, since his best weapon–the Mass Media Podpeople Hivemind in the tank for him, is discrediting itself with abandon:

“Courtney Hazlett over at MSNBC’s “The Scoop” is reporting that thousands of “Us Weekly” subscribers have not only called the magazine to cancel their subscriptions — some reports say up to 10,000 cancellations have occurred — but have also contacted advertisers and expressed their outrage that they are advertising with the celebrity news magazine that would so blatantly try to destroy Governor Palin.

Hazlett is hearing that the editorial board of “Us Weekly” had thought they pegged it right that media pressure and attacks would see Palin pulled from the McCain ticket even before her debut speech. Because the media had so quickly swarmed to destroy her, they thought she was toast before she even had the chance to accept the nomination.”

Oh, Hivemind, please, please don’t throw Sarah into that briar patch! *heh*

And thanks to the folks at Puma08.com for running down the pic of Sarah Palin and the hog. A nice contrast with Urkle on a Bike:

Hmmm… doesn’t The One know he’s contributing excess CO2 because he didn’t check his tire pressure?

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Birds of a Feather

Before going off to law school in the early 90s, Obama directed ACORN’s partner organization, Project Vote. Meeting with ACORN leaders in November, he reminded them of this, saying, “I’ve been fighting alongside ACORN on issues you care about my entire career. Even before I was an elected official, when I ran Project Vote voter registration drive in Illinois, ACORN was smack dab in the middle of it, and we appreciate your work.”1

About ACORN…

So, less than a week before the midterm elections, four workers from Acorn, the liberal activist group that has registered millions of voters, have been indicted by a federal grand jury for submitting false voter registration forms to the Kansas City, Missouri, election board. But hey, who needs voter ID laws?

We wish this were an aberration, but allegations of fraud have tainted Acorn voter drives across the country. Acorn workers have been convicted in Wisconsin and Colorado, and investigations are still under way in Ohio, Tennessee and Pennsylvania 2(WSJ, Friday, November 3, 2006)

And,

Acorn and its affiliates have pulled some real stunts in recent years. In Ohio in 2004, a worker for one affiliate was given crack cocaine in exchange for fraudulent registrations that included underage voters, dead voters and pillars of the community named Mary Poppins, Dick Tracy and Jive Turkey. During a Congressional hearing in Ohio in the aftermath of the 2004 election, officials from several counties in the state explained Acorn’s practice of dumping thousands of registration forms in their lap on the submission deadline, even though the forms had been collected months earlier.

“You have to wonder what’s the point of that, if not to overwhelm the system and get phony registrations on the voter rolls,” says Thor Hearne of the American Center for Voting Rights, who also testified at the hearing. “These were Democratic officials saying that they felt their election system in Ohio was under assault by these kinds of efforts to game the system.” 2

And,

…if photo I.D. requirements had been the law in Washington state, the voter fraud scandal involving ACORN in 2006 would never have happened. According to Washington Secretary of State Sam Reed, the incident “was the worst case of election fraud in our state’s history. It was an outrage.”

Two years ago ACORN submitted just over 1,800 new voter registration forms, but there was a problem. The names were made up — all but six of the 1,800 submissions were fakes. Reed said he was appalled.

“There is nothing more fundamental to a democratic republic and to a citizen of the United States than participating in selecting your public officials. For people to undermine that and try to perpetuate fraud on the system is an outrage,” he said.
The ACORN workers told state investigators that they went to the Seattle public library, sat at a table and filled out the voter registration forms. They made up names, addresses, and Social Security numbers and in some cases plucked names from the phone book. One worker said it was a lot of hard work making up all those names and another said he would sit at home, smoke marijuana and fill out the forms. 3

And this is an organization The One claims as comrades, fellow travelers, on his political pilgrimage?

Birds of a feather, folks. ‘Nuff said.

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