{"id":12983,"date":"2008-08-26T22:42:23","date_gmt":"2008-08-27T05:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2008\/08\/26\/potpourri-on-a-warm-tuesday-night.html"},"modified":"2008-08-26T22:42:23","modified_gmt":"2008-08-27T05:42:23","slug":"potpourri_on_a_warm_tuesd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/08\/26\/potpourri_on_a_warm_tuesd.html","title":{"rendered":"Potpourri on a Warm Tuesday Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>POLITICAL<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li> <a title=\"Obama\u2019s Likes and Dislikes - Hold the Mayo - NYTimes.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/05\/27\/us\/politics\/27likes.html?_r=2&amp;adxnnl=1&amp;oref=slogin&amp;adxnnlx=1219349168-UFOVoUOKzcd2ErnSFUU8KA&amp;oref=slogin\">Obama\u2019s Likes and Dislikes &#8211; Hold the Mayo &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; He dislikes mayonnaise. He must be our next president.<\/li>\n<li> <a title=\"Sound familiar?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.decrepitoldfool.com\/index.php\/weblog\/sound_familiar26aug08\/\">Sound familiar?<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; So why are the pundits not calling Ahnold a looney-tune for his ding-bat&nbsp;fuel economy suggestions?&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li> <a title=\"Limbaugh Falsely Claims America Is A \u2018Conservative Majority\u2019 Nation\" href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2008\/08\/26\/limbaugh-conservative-majority\/\">Limbaugh Falsely Claims America Is A \u2018Conservative Nation&#8217;<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; Actually, I know some liberals who would argue the same thing. In my opinion, the nation, as a&nbsp;whole,&nbsp;is &#8220;conservative&#8221; in values, but progressive\/liberal in desires and aspirations. The GOP keeps playing the values card, with healthy dollops of fear-mongering, and paper over the rest with promises of tax cuts (or accusations of tax increases).<\/li>\n<li> <a title=\"Video of attendees at AT&amp;T's &quot;thank you for letting us spy on America&quot; party  at DNC\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/%7Er\/boingboing\/iBag\/%7E3\/375099820\/video-of-attendees-a.html\">Video of attendees at AT&amp;T&#8217;s &#8220;thank you for letting&#8230;<\/a> &#8211; Which serves as a reminder that money knows no political party, and politicians are politicians no matter which party they hang their hat on.<\/li>\n<li> <a title=\"Will McCain Poke The Right in the Eye?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/2008\/08\/will_mccain_pok.html\">Will McCain Poke The Right in the Eye?<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; I actually think Lieberman is the most likely pick, and that the conservative Right&#8217;s posturing about whether or not they will back McCain is just that, posturing. They will no more stay home than the Clinton supporters will.<\/li>\n<li> <a title=\"Being a Former POW is No Excuse\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/%7Er\/EnTequilaEsVerdad\/%7E3\/374194570\/being-former-pow-is-no-excuse.html\">Being a Former POW is No Excuse<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; Amen, sister.<\/li>\n<li> <a title=\"Why I Will Not Vote for John McCain\" href=\"http:\/\/www.military.com\/opinion\/0,15202,164859_1,00.html\">Why I Will Not Vote for John McCain<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; And amen, brother. Can we please put this &#8220;He&#8217;s a POW, thus he is instantly gifted with whatever insight we wish to give him and immune to any sort of criticism for anything he says&#8221; rhetoric away? Please?<\/li>\n<li> <a title=\"Fox News reporter Griff Jenkins tasked with \u2018causing trouble\u2019 at Democratic  convention.\" href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2008\/08\/25\/fox-jenkins-dnc-protest\/\">Fox News reporter Griff Jenkins tasked with \u2018causing&#8230;<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;Fair and Balanced,&#8221; right?<\/li>\n<li> <a title=\"Alan Fein: On The Amtrak To Wilmington With Joe Biden\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/alan-fein\/on-the-amtrak-to-wilmingt_b_120885.html\">Alan Fein: On The Amtrak To Wilmington With Joe Biden<\/a> &#8211; Worth a read.<\/li>\n<li> <a title=\"Military Draft Required To Catch Bin Laden?\" href=\"http:\/\/j-walkblog.com\/index.php?\/weblog\/posts\/military_draft_required_to_catch_bin_laden\/\">Military Draft Required To Catch Bin Laden?<\/a> &#8211; Is that really what McCain thinks? Or was it just another one of those off-the-cuff gaffes he seems to make on a regular basis? In either case &#8230; is that what we want from a president?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>APOLITICAL<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li> <a title=\"Google's File-Not-Found Helper Widget\" href=\"http:\/\/blogoscoped.com\/archive\/2008-08-19-n20.html\">Google&#8217;s File-Not-Found Helper Widget<\/a> &#8211; Marking for future reference for my own custom 404 pages.<\/li>\n<li> <a title=\"USB Office Showdown: Tiny USB Office vs. Portable Apps\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/%7Er\/Makeuseof\/%7E3\/372129370\/\">USB Office Showdown: Tiny USB Office vs. Portable&#8230;<\/a> &#8211; I&#8217;ve never had much need for living off a USB drive &#8230; but if I did, this would be a useful article.<\/li>\n<li> <a title=\"Adding reCAPTCHA to Movable Type\" href=\"http:\/\/joshcarter.com\/software\/recaptcha#\">Adding reCAPTCHA to Movable Type<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; Marking for future reference. I like TinyTuring, but the concept behind reCAPTCHA is so incredibly cool, I can&#8217;t stand it.<\/li>\n<li> <a title=\"\u201cA Free Thinker is Satan\u2019s Slave\u201d\" href=\"http:\/\/www.joeydevilla.com\/2008\/08\/24\/a-free-thinker-is-satans-slave\/\">\u201cA Free Thinker is Satan\u2019s Slave\u201d<\/a> &#8211; And that is precisely why Christians are looked at askance by so many people.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>POLITICAL Obama\u2019s Likes and Dislikes &#8211; Hold the Mayo &#8211; NYTimes.com&nbsp;&#8211; He dislikes mayonnaise. He must be our next president. Sound familiar?&nbsp;&#8211; So why are the pundits not calling Ahnold&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[55,54,63,38,12,20,17,9,16,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging-technical","category-elections-2008","category-environment","category-food-drink","category-fourth-estate","category-hi-tech","category-homeland-security","category-politics-law","category-potpourri","category-religion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":18498,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/10\/unblogged-bits-fri-10-sep-10-2331.html","url_meta":{"origin":12983,"position":0},"title":"Unblogged Bits (Fri. 10-Sep-10 2331)","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 10-Sep-10 11:31pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries .... 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