You can't put a widget up unless you can make it fit where you put it. Instead of reading the dynamic posted content on the page, people will be trying to figure out what the whole darn widget says. So fix it or delete it.
So says the IT Manager, who inevitably gets asked to figure it out. Well he's on strike. Or fussy.
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
more fact-based liberal hectoring from the effete snobs in the left-wing media
Of course, this story is from the arugula-addled mind of NPR, so it's probably a yoooge pack of America-hating lies...
BRIAN WILLIAMS QUOTING JOE KLEIN: "I hope my colleagues," meaning his colleagues in the news media, "stand strong in this case. It’s important for the public to know Palin raised taxes as governor, supported the Bridge to Nowhere before she opposed it, pursued pork-barrel projects as mayor, tried to ban books at the local library and thinks the war in Iraq is, quote, 'a task from God.'
The attempts by the McCain campaign to bully us into not reporting such things are not only stupidly aggressive but unprofessional in the extreme."
. . .
BOB GARFIELD: So offended was the McCain campaign at Brown’s shameless -- question-asking -- that it cancelled the candidate’s planned appearance later in the week on CNN, where McCain would have been subjected to more vicious attacks by noted pit bull Larry King.
BRIAN WILLIAMS QUOTING JOE KLEIN: "I hope my colleagues," meaning his colleagues in the news media, "stand strong in this case. It’s important for the public to know Palin raised taxes as governor, supported the Bridge to Nowhere before she opposed it, pursued pork-barrel projects as mayor, tried to ban books at the local library and thinks the war in Iraq is, quote, 'a task from God.'
The attempts by the McCain campaign to bully us into not reporting such things are not only stupidly aggressive but unprofessional in the extreme."
. . .
BOB GARFIELD: So offended was the McCain campaign at Brown’s shameless -- question-asking -- that it cancelled the candidate’s planned appearance later in the week on CNN, where McCain would have been subjected to more vicious attacks by noted pit bull Larry King.
Elections, Canada Style Eh? (cont'd)
From the Chronicle of Education and Pointy-Headed Intellectualism:
On Tuesday a new ad featured a puffin pooping on Mr. Dion's shoulder. Uproar over the ad forced Mr. Harper to apologize, saying the caricature was in poor taste. The offending droppings were soon dropped from the ad, although the puffin continues to fly past Mr. Dion. But the news media had already seized on the issue as a campaign goof.
Mr. Dion went on the offensive to counter the "prejudice that an intellectual is not a human being," pointing out that while he liked to read books and enjoyed the outdoors, he wasn't a wealthy man and shared the same concerns as other Canadians, including worrying about paying the bills at the end of the month. (Nice try, Poindexter... we ain't electorating nobody who reads books... Ed.)
"The attempt by the Tories to portray Mr. Dion as elitist ignores the fact that, like Mr. Obama, he comes from modest roots," said Errol P. Mendes, a law professor at the University of Ottawa and a commentator on North American elections. "It's sad that the right wing in both countries is trying to portray well-educated people as elitist."
The portrayal of professors as elite and effete is "as offensive as it is inaccurate," said Henry Mandelbaum, executive director of the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations. Polls have shown that professors are highly respected by Canadians (NERDS! Ed.) and that academics are involved in their communities in every way, he said. "The notion of attacking professors as eggheads played well with Adlai Stevenson, but we've moved on from there."
McCain campaign estimate of Americans' intelligence plunges to new low in heavy trading; also, AP's Nedra Pickler still fullas#i+
Nedra:
Oh, my, yes, it was such a clear connection. It was almost as glaring as the time he "didn't mention Clinton by name".
"You can put lipstick on a pig," he said to an outbreak of laughter, shouts and raucous applause from his audience, clearly drawing a connection to Palin's joke. "It's still a pig. You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called change. It's still going to stink after eight years."
Oh, my, yes, it was such a clear connection. It was almost as glaring as the time he "didn't mention Clinton by name".
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
something to get excited about
I usually don't notice these things, but this is already post #36 of the 09/07-09/14 week, and the most posts we've had in a week in 2008 is 78 (04/06-04/13), so we seem well poised to CRUSH that mark.
this is all *SO* Cubs / Sox
Chi Cubs 3
St. Louis 4
Final
Toronto 3
Chi White Sox 1
Final
Toronto 8
Chi White Sox 2
Final
St. Louis 4
Final
Toronto 3
Chi White Sox 1
Final
Toronto 8
Chi White Sox 2
Final
there's sucking, there's George Bushian how to suck at presidenting sucking, and there's Bulgarian women's ice hockey sucking
Humiliating 82–0 loss
Bulgaria's women's hockey team gives up more goals in four games than NHL champs did all last season.
Bulgaria's women's hockey team gives up more goals in four games than NHL champs did all last season.
also known as a LIE
Out of bounds: McCain ad misstates Obama sex-ed record
"This is a deliberately misleading accusation..."
"This is a deliberately misleading accusation..."
bees schmees... there is nothing at all to see here (literally)
EPA Withholds Pesticide Information While Bees Die
A conservation organization has sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for failing to release information about a pesticide linked to dramatic declines in honeybee populations. The pesticide was approved on the condition that the manufacturer study the effects of the chemical on the bee species. The EPA has received the studies but refuses to release them to the public, even though a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request was filed.
. . .
An EPA fact sheet from 2003 states clothianidin is potentially toxic to honeybees, as well as other pollinators, though residues in nectar and pollen. Bayer maintains that clothianidin does not pose long-term risks to bees.
. . .
Existing research, as well as much anecdotal evidence, has convinced French (phokks - Ed.) and German (America-haters - Ed.) agricultural authorities to suspend use of clothianidin until evidence of its safety to bees is established. Despite having the same facts before them, the EPA has not taken similar precautions.
Instead, the EPA has repeatedly used "emergency exemption provisions" under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) to approve use of clothianidin in five states. The agency has also used the emergency provisions to approve use of IMD 163 times in 26 states. These emergency exemptions are intended to allow unregistered use of pesticides for a limited time if EPA determines that an emergency condition exists. (I guess all the bees dying is not an emergency... Ed.)
isn't staycationing a travel expense?
WASHINGTON - Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has charged her state a daily allowance, normally used for official travel, for more than 300 nights spent at her home, The Washington Post reported Tuesday.
An analysis of travel statements filed by the governor, now John McCain's Republican running mate, shows she claimed the per diem allowance on 312 occasions when she was home in Wasilla and that she billed taxpayers $43,490 for travel by her husband and children.
An analysis of travel statements filed by the governor, now John McCain's Republican running mate, shows she claimed the per diem allowance on 312 occasions when she was home in Wasilla and that she billed taxpayers $43,490 for travel by her husband and children.
News item: world ends tomorrow
The End of the World
Some scientists, on the other hand, went to the European Court for Human Rights to try to stop the collider being turned on. They fear it may create a black hole – which would certainly violate our rights by sucking the planet into... well we don't really know. Professor Sir Chris Llewellyn Smith of Cern says: "The chance we produce a black hole is minuscule." Which is not all that reassuring. But he adds: "Even if we do, it can't swallow up the Earth." It would be too small, and disappear in moments. In any case, they will only send the hadrons in one direction this week. The collisions start in October. Until then, at least, we're not all doomed.
Some scientists, on the other hand, went to the European Court for Human Rights to try to stop the collider being turned on. They fear it may create a black hole – which would certainly violate our rights by sucking the planet into... well we don't really know. Professor Sir Chris Llewellyn Smith of Cern says: "The chance we produce a black hole is minuscule." Which is not all that reassuring. But he adds: "Even if we do, it can't swallow up the Earth." It would be too small, and disappear in moments. In any case, they will only send the hadrons in one direction this week. The collisions start in October. Until then, at least, we're not all doomed.
Elections, Canada Style
Pooping Puffin Paralyzes Canada Conservative Event
Canada's having an election too, y'know. Before ours, even. Though we like to pooh-pooh our opponents with words, Canada has taken it to the literal level. Well almost.
Also, apparently this was post #4000. 4000 pieces of $#!+.
Canada's having an election too, y'know. Before ours, even. Though we like to pooh-pooh our opponents with words, Canada has taken it to the literal level. Well almost.
Also, apparently this was post #4000. 4000 pieces of $#!+.
Why can't we just have a nice narrative without all the fact-mongers jumping in?
Lies to Nowhere
As The New Republic's Brad Plumer first noted, Palin "was fine with the bridge in principle, never had a problem with the earmarks, bristled at all the mockery, and only gave up on the project when it was clear that federal support wasn't forthcoming." "We need to come to the defense of Southeast Alaska when proposals are on the table like the bridge," Palin said in August 2006, "and not allow the spinmeisters to turn this project or any other into something that's so negative." In fact, not only did Palin support the project while running for governor in 2006, but when she finally redirected funds away from the bridge, she lamented the fact that Congress had "little interest in spending any more money on a bridge between Ketchikan and Gravina Island." Afterwards, Palin "did not return the federal money. She just allocated it elsewhere."
The McCain campaign jumped back with spokesman Brian Rogers calling the attacks "hysterical."
Yes...
As The New Republic's Brad Plumer first noted, Palin "was fine with the bridge in principle, never had a problem with the earmarks, bristled at all the mockery, and only gave up on the project when it was clear that federal support wasn't forthcoming." "We need to come to the defense of Southeast Alaska when proposals are on the table like the bridge," Palin said in August 2006, "and not allow the spinmeisters to turn this project or any other into something that's so negative." In fact, not only did Palin support the project while running for governor in 2006, but when she finally redirected funds away from the bridge, she lamented the fact that Congress had "little interest in spending any more money on a bridge between Ketchikan and Gravina Island." Afterwards, Palin "did not return the federal money. She just allocated it elsewhere."
The McCain campaign jumped back with spokesman Brian Rogers calling the attacks "hysterical."
Yes...
Biden - too phokking potty-mouthed for America's delicate sensibilities?
Does Biden Need to Watch His Language?
"I knew somebody famous was gonna come out of Scranton and I sure as HELL knew it wasn't gonna be me so I left," Biden joked of his upbringing.
Can't a guy be folksy anymore?
"And I sure as HELL can't talk about HELL without using the word HELL, now can I?"
-- Bart Simpson
"I knew somebody famous was gonna come out of Scranton and I sure as HELL knew it wasn't gonna be me so I left," Biden joked of his upbringing.
Can't a guy be folksy anymore?
"And I sure as HELL can't talk about HELL without using the word HELL, now can I?"
-- Bart Simpson
Fun Horror Facts
AAA Catcher leads the Andersonville Horror in OPS. MI@@Y Montero is 2nd.
AAA Pitcher leads the team in walks, losses, and runs allowed. He is second in appearances (behind Joe Smiff!). He has stepped on a rake, fallen down the dugout steps, punched 23 Gatorade buckets, fallen from the upper deck, been run over by a bus, attacked by penguins, suffered a season-long imbalance of the humours, stapled his hand to a rosin bag, squirted suntan lotion into his eye, and been attacked by crabs, but has not spent a day on the disabled list.
AAA Pitcher leads the team in walks, losses, and runs allowed. He is second in appearances (behind Joe Smiff!). He has stepped on a rake, fallen down the dugout steps, punched 23 Gatorade buckets, fallen from the upper deck, been run over by a bus, attacked by penguins, suffered a season-long imbalance of the humours, stapled his hand to a rosin bag, squirted suntan lotion into his eye, and been attacked by crabs, but has not spent a day on the disabled list.
Be Very Afraid
Why rednecks may rule the world
The fact is that we American rednecks embrace the term in a sort of proud defiance.
Yes, just like black people embracing the term "nigga" is a sort of proud defiance.
white Southern Scots-Irish values - redneck values.
So the English are the aristocratic "uppity" ones then? (see below)
We come in one size: extra large
We fry things nobody ever considered friable - things like cupcakes, banana sandwiches and batter dipped artificial cheese…even pickles
Anyone think these two statements are related?
And most of all we are defiant and suspicious of authority, and people who are "uppity" (sophisticated) and "slick" (people who use words with more than three syllables). Two should be enough for anybody.
There's that uppity word again - will they ever learn?
We all understand that there is a political class which dominates in America, and that Sarah Palin for damned sure is not one of them. And the more she is attacked by liberal Democratic elements (translation: elite highly-educated big city people) the more America's working mooks will come to her defence. Her daughter had a baby out of wedlock? Big deal. What family has not? She is a Christian fundamentalist who believes God spat on his beefy paws and made the world in seven days? So do at least 150 million other Americans. She snowmobiles and fishes and she is a looker to boot. She's a redneck.
What they fail to understand is that once they vote in rednecks, they'll turn into those elites that they so hate. Except they aren't that smart. Those you vote in, that is. So you'll hate them, and they'll phokk things up to boot.
The fact is that we American rednecks embrace the term in a sort of proud defiance.
Yes, just like black people embracing the term "nigga" is a sort of proud defiance.
white Southern Scots-Irish values - redneck values.
So the English are the aristocratic "uppity" ones then? (see below)
We come in one size: extra large
We fry things nobody ever considered friable - things like cupcakes, banana sandwiches and batter dipped artificial cheese…even pickles
Anyone think these two statements are related?
And most of all we are defiant and suspicious of authority, and people who are "uppity" (sophisticated) and "slick" (people who use words with more than three syllables). Two should be enough for anybody.
There's that uppity word again - will they ever learn?
We all understand that there is a political class which dominates in America, and that Sarah Palin for damned sure is not one of them. And the more she is attacked by liberal Democratic elements (translation: elite highly-educated big city people) the more America's working mooks will come to her defence. Her daughter had a baby out of wedlock? Big deal. What family has not? She is a Christian fundamentalist who believes God spat on his beefy paws and made the world in seven days? So do at least 150 million other Americans. She snowmobiles and fishes and she is a looker to boot. She's a redneck.
What they fail to understand is that once they vote in rednecks, they'll turn into those elites that they so hate. Except they aren't that smart. Those you vote in, that is. So you'll hate them, and they'll phokk things up to boot.
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