Bendomenech.com: The Rundown Safire has the best take on the coverage of the Sarin gas shell. Or non-coverage: Only at the NYTimes is a gallon equivalent to “small traces.” The find is significant, as Joe Carter points out effectively.
Safire has the best take on the coverage of the Sarin gas shell. Or non-coverage: Only at the NYTimes is a gallon equivalent to “small traces.” The find is significant, as Joe Carter points out effectively.
Gov. Schwarzenegger has done the easy stuff – repealed the car tax increase and the illegal immigrant driver license bill, passed the deficit bond, and written a reasonably tight budget – and now he’s going after the real bad guys in California, the gaming tribes and the public employee unions. In particular, the prison guards … Continue reading “Now the real work starts”
Gov. Schwarzenegger has done the easy stuff – repealed the car tax increase and the illegal immigrant driver license bill, passed the deficit bond, and written a reasonably tight budget – and now he’s going after the real bad guys in California, the gaming tribes and the public employee unions. In particular, the prison guards got a sweetheart raise from Davis after spending millions to elect him:
The contract has come under fire for its generous pay raises and its semisecret provisions. Many legislators now say they were ignorant of its true dimensions when they voted to approve it during the Davis regime. If the Legislature refuses to appropriate money for the contract, as the 17 senators are urging, the CCPOA would be forced back to the bargaining table. The action would bolster Schwarzenegger’s call for renegotiating public employee union contracts signed by the Davis administration, saying the state can’t afford them since it’s running multibillion-dollar deficits.
Few pols have taken on the CCPOA and lived to tell about it, because their election tactics make Abu Ghraib look like Sunday School. In the Davis/Lungren contest, they bought up all the media time in the Central Valley so that Lungren couldn’t get his ads on in October when he was desperate.
Free speech belongs to the guy who owns the ads.
There’s an interesting little aside at the end of this essay by Christopher Hitchens on Hersh’s fantasy: So a Sarin-infected device is exploded in Iraq, and across the border in Jordan the authorities say that nerve and gas weapons have been discovered for use against them by the followers of Zarqawi, who was in Baghdad … Continue reading “Those pesky WMDs”
There’s an interesting little aside at the end of this essay by Christopher Hitchens on Hersh’s fantasy:
So a Sarin-infected device is exploded in Iraq, and across the border in Jordan the authorities say that nerve and gas weapons have been discovered for use against them by the followers of Zarqawi, who was in Baghdad well before the invasion. Where, one idly inquires, did these toys come from? No, it couldn’t be.
Oh, but it could, couldn’t it?
Jerry Brown wants to be California Attorney General: “I’d bring creativity and innovation to that office. I have a lot to give,” Brown, 66, said Monday in an interview from London, where he stopped en route to a conference in Croatia. Brown last week quietly filed his required statement of intention to run for attorney … Continue reading “Attorney General Moonbeam?”
Jerry Brown wants to be California Attorney General:
“I’d bring creativity and innovation to that office. I have a lot to give,” Brown, 66, said Monday in an interview from London, where he stopped en route to a conference in Croatia. Brown last week quietly filed his required statement of intention to run for attorney general in 2006. The filing, a prerequisite to raising campaign funds, was an unusually stealthy move for a career politician who has been California’s secretary of state, governor, a three-time presidential contender, a U.S. Senate candidate and mayor of Oakland.
This is truly bizarre, but Brown’s an interesting guy who’s come a long wasy since the Gov. Moonbeam days. Likely Republican opponent Rod Pacheco would be my choice, but there’s an element of personal relationship there. When he was in the Assembly, he answered his own phone after 5:00; I really liked that.
This is a real shocker. After her party won national elections in India, Sonia Gandhi was the presumptive Prime Minister. But now she declines the post amid widespread fears of foreign-devil commie takeover: Investors feared that if she became prime minister, Gandhi would have to backtrack on her pledge to go forward with economic liberalization, … Continue reading “Gandhi Declines Leadership of India”
This is a real shocker. After her party won national elections in India, Sonia Gandhi was the presumptive Prime Minister. But now she declines the post amid widespread fears of foreign-devil commie takeover:
Investors feared that if she became prime minister, Gandhi would have to backtrack on her pledge to go forward with economic liberalization, or that the leftists could block key reforms such as the privatization of state-run companies.
In the long run, this is best for the Congress Party.
Two good reasons to vote for Kerry.
Two good reasons to vote for Kerry.
Kathy Kinsley offers up a useful hack.
Kathy Kinsley offers up a useful hack.
Alan Kellog isn’t too impressed with WordPress: I say the Hell with it. The documentation is written by people with something close to Aspergers Syndrome, with no consideration for people who have no background in coding, scripting, or any of that shit. I didn’t find it especially difficult myself – the basic stuff installed and … Continue reading “Ringing endorsement”
Alan Kellog isn’t too impressed with WordPress:
I say the Hell with it. The documentation is written by people with something close to Aspergers Syndrome, with no consideration for people who have no background in coding, scripting, or any of that shit.
I didn’t find it especially difficult myself – the basic stuff installed and imported MT in less time than it took to transfer the MT export file over, so to each his own.
This blog runs WordPress: WordPress is a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. What a mouthful. A little rough around the edges, but it’s good enough. The main things I like about WordPress are performance and ease of management. In WP, you don’t have to compile pages … Continue reading “WordPress”
This blog runs WordPress:
WordPress is a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. What a mouthful.
A little rough around the edges, but it’s good enough. The main things I like about WordPress are performance and ease of management. In WP, you don’t have to compile pages into psuedo-static HTML, and it seems to grab stuff from MySQL faster than MT. The user interface stuff is a little rougher, but it’s probably not all that hard to hack, given that it’s all php and stuff.
Very nice software, I give it three out of four stars.
I’m experimenting with WordPress, a GPL blogware that’s a lot faster and more solid than Movable Type. There’s a lot of controversy over the new Movable Type licensing terms, and I don’t want to weigh into all of that because I don’t care. I’m looking at other packages because MT is way too buggy and … Continue reading “New blog”
I’m experimenting with WordPress, a GPL blogware that’s a lot faster and more solid than Movable Type. There’s a lot of controversy over the new Movable Type licensing terms, and I don’t want to weigh into all of that because I don’t care. I’m looking at other packages because MT is way too buggy and way too poorly designed for my purposes. The WordPress conversion was extremely easy – you just export your MT blog and import it, and the only problems I’ve encountered so far are with the hosting server, Hosting Matters, because they set default permissions too strictly.
WordPress accommodates zFeeder, the Robopundit software, extremely well. I’m still using the default template, and learning the tricks. Check out the experimental blog here: Mossback on WordPress.
