I’m glad I don’t have to explain this
It seems Egypt is pursuing a nuclear power program and that’s ok with the Bush Administration. So says White House spokesman Dana Perino. She pointed out that the United States is supportive of countries pursuing civil nuclear energy because it’s clean burning and because it provides electricity in a clean-burning and affordable way.
Except if it’s the Iranians.
President Bush has made references to World War III if and when Iran develops a nuclear power program. The idea is that Iran having nuclear power will be a threat to Israel. Iranian President Ahmadinejad has questioned the historical accuracy of the holocaust and has said that Israel should be wiped off the map. At least that is what he supposedly said. I don’t speak Farsi.
Some may talk about wiping Israel off the map, but Egypt has actually tried. More then once. In fact, the United States pays Egypt over $2 billion a year for the assurance that they won’t try to wipe Israel off the map anymore.
And it’s ok with the Bush Administration if Egypt goes nuclear?
The Bionic Woman is stupid
I think I’ve finally given up on NBC’s new fall television show Bionic Woman. It’s just too stupid. Not the concept, but the execution. I was a big fan of The Six Million Dollar Man when I was a kid, but then again, what kid wasn’t? I don’t remember watching that show’s spin off and this show’s predecessor the original Bionic Woman. I don’t need to have ever watched it to know that it was better then this show is.
It bothers me to admit this show stinks because I really had high hopes for it. There is something about the concept of a bionic woman that trumps the concept of a bionic man. It’s interesting to see the supposed weaker sex be able through the power of bionics to kick some major ass. In The Six Million Dollar Man, the main charactor Steve Austin (played by manly man Lee Majors) already looked as though he could more then take care of himself in a physical altercation. The addition of bionics only added to his already perceived physical strengths. You might not guess that Steve Austin could pick up a custom van, but you probably had an idea that he wasn’t a weakling.
With a bionic woman, you wouldn’t guess that she was strong, let alone super bionic strong. She doesn’t look like she could open a jar of pickles, let alone pick someone up off their feet and throw them 30 feet.
The problem with this show is that they have gone too far with making her look the part of the dainty female.
They constantly have the title character Jamie Sommers (played by British actress Michelle Ryan) wearing high heeled boots. They then put her into one physical altercation after another. The only thing more ridiculous looking then a woman running in high heels is a bionic woman running 60 miles an hour in high heels.
The show is called the Bionic Woman, not the Bionic Lady.
Outed CIA covert agent Valerie Plame Wilson worked on keeping nuclear weapons from Iran
It’s been reported that tonight’s 60 Minutes will have an interview with former CIA covert agent Valerie Plame Wilson. She will explain that when Bush administration officials leaked her name to members of the press, she was working on keeping nuclear weapons out of the hands of Iran. Something I thought Bush felt strongly about.
This certainly is not good. It doesn’t surprise me though. And to think that Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi still cannot stop repeating her promise that impeachment is off the table. I would think this is just the type of thing that would get a president impeached. Granted, it’s not as serious as a sexual act between two consenting adults, but outing a CIA covert agent is a serious offense.
Not only did members of the Bush administration out a CIA covert agent, they stonewalled the subsequent investigation. Bush then commuted the sentence of the only defendant to be prosecuted in connection to this crime.
KATIE COURIC: This Sunday on 60 Minutes, Valerie Plame Wilson gives her first interview since top Bush administration officials exposed her role as an undercover CIA agent four years ago. CBS News has learned she was involved in operations to prevent Iran from building a nuclear weapon. In the interview, we talked about what it meant to have her identity revealed.
[BEGIN 60 MINUTES CLIP]
COURIC: What went through your mind when you saw your name in print?
PLAME: Oh, it was horrifying, absolutely horrifying.
COURIC: She served 20 years in the CIA, many undercover in the agency’s counterproliferation division, rising to top positions and confronting one of the most ominous threats of our time.
PLAME: Our mission was to make sure that the bad guys, basically, did not get nuclear weapons.
COURIC: When senior administration officials leaked her name to reporters, they may have exposed other spies and damaged operations targeting Iran. CBS News has learned that she was involved in one highly classified mission to deliver fake nuclear weapons blueprints to Tehran. It was called Operation Merlin, and it was first revealed in a book by investigative reporter James Risen.
COURIC: Are you familiar with that?
PLAME: I don’t think I can tell you.
COURIC: He said the idea was to give the Iranians blueprints for the bomb that were seriously flawed to set them back. Does that sound like something the counter-proliferation division would do?
PLAME: I think I can say it sounds like a good idea.
COURIC: Were you surprised to read about Operation Merlin in the press?
PLAME: Indeed.
COURIC: Is that problematic for the CIA?
PLAME: Leaks are always bad news.
COURIC: She should know, revealing for the first time that the leak of her name had serious repercussions.
PLAME: I can tell you all the intelligence services in the world were running my name through their databases to see did anyone by this name come in the country? When? Do we know anything about it? Where did she stay? Who did she see?
COURIC: And what would be the ramifications of that?
PLAME: Well, it was very serious. It puts in danger, if not shuts down, the operations that I had worked on.
COURIC: Valerie Plame Wilson also has some harsh things to say about President Bush. That and much more in our interview this Sunday on 60 Minutes.
Not only was Valerie Plame Wilson’s career with the CIA ruined, but the lives of the people she dealt with were put into extreme peril. Maybe may have died over her being outed. This is why it’s a crime to out the identity of a covert agent.
Now Christians have one more reason to hate Harry Potter
Not only do the Harry Potter books feature witches and wizards, at least one of the main characters was gay. A gay wizard. What’s the world of literary fantasy based fiction coming to?
This from Newsweek:
In front of a full house of hardcore Potter fans at Carnegie Hall in New York, Rowling, sitting on the stage on a red velvet and carved wood throne, read from her seventh and final book, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” then took questions. One fan asked whether Albus Dumbledore, the head of the famed Hogwarts School of Wizardry and Witchcraft, had ever loved anyone. Rowling smiled. “Dumbledore is gay, actually,” replied Rowling as the audience erupted in surprise. She added that, in her mind, Dumbledore had an unrequited love affair with Gellert Grindelwald, Voldemort’s predecessor who appears in the seventh book. After several minutes of prolonged shouting and clapping from astonished fans, Rowling added. “I would have told you earlier if I knew it would make you so happy.”
To some people, the only thing worse then a gay wizard would be a gay wizard conducting stem cell research. I’m not sure how the religious right will react to the notion of a character loved by millions of children being gay. I’m guessing it wont be good.
SCHIP, the right-wing bolgosphere, and Graeme Frost
A couple of weeks ago the Democrats decided to have 12-year Graeme Frost present a radio rebuttal to President Bush’s weekly radio address. The topic was a bill that would expand SCHIP. It’s a federal program that helps pay for health insurance for children of the working poor. People that make too much money to be eligible for Medicaid, but don’t have access to health insurance through their employer. Bush was planning on vetoing the bill.
Graeme Frost was chosen because he enrolled in the SCHIP program through the state of Maryland. He and his sister were in a terrible car accident that left both children in comas. Shortly after the radio address, the right-wing blogosphere started looking into the Frost family. Right-wing bloggers started to publicly question whether the Frost family fit their preconceived notion of the term working poor.
They went snooping into the Frost family’s lives. Some right-wing bloggers turned to Google to try to find some dirt on the Frosts. Their address was posted online along with links to satellite photos of their home on Google. Right-wing crackpot blogger Michelle Malkin even drove by their house.
Graeme’s father, Halsey Frost, is a self-employed woodworker. Graeme’s mother, Bonnie Frost, works part-time and doesn’t have health insurance through her employer. They earn less then $50,000 a year. The Frost’s own their own home, a 1936 Baltimore rowhouse they purchased in 1990 for $55,000. It’s since been assessed at $263,140. The Frost’s own a commercial property as well. It’s where Halsey operates his woodworking business. And to think Republicans used to like it when people ran their own business.
Judging from above the photo, they also own a very nice looking pumpkin.
What were the Frost’s supposed to do, sell their home, business, and their pumpkin so they could buy health insurance?
The problem is that health care in our country is still treated as though it’s a luxury instead of a basic fundamental human right. Access to quality health care shouldn’t be a luxury for the rich or the privileged. Maybe that mindset made sense when our machines were powered by steam and our commerce was conducted with the exchange of beaver pelts.
At the end of the day, programs like SCHIP only put a band aid on the problem. Until we as a nation put into place a national health care system like the rest of the industrialized world, we will continue to have these type of problems.
Our health care problems wont be solved with a Michelle Malkin drive by.
Stars Wars to be a live-action TV show
George Lucas announced that he has begun working on a live-action television series rooted smack dab in the Star Wars universe. From the LA Times:
“The Skywalkers aren’t in it, and it’s about minor characters,” Lucas said in an interview with Times’ reporter Geoff Boucher. “It has nothing to do with Luke Skywalker or Darth Vader or any of those people. It’s completely different. But it’s a good idea, and it’s going to be a lot of fun to do.”
I’m glad that it wont have any of the main Star Wars characters in it. The thing I like the most about Star Wars aren’t the main characters, but the many minor characters that help make up the Star Wars Universe. I don’t think I’m alone either.
Michael George to stand trial for wife’s murder
Comic book retailer and Pittsburgh Comicon organizer Michael George was ordered by judge Linda Davis to stand trial for the 1990 murder of his wife Barbara George. Davis ruled that although most of the evidence against George was circumstantial, it was sufficient to warrant the case proceeds to trial.
Barbara was murdered in the comic book shop that she and Michael both owned. The prosecution has a witness that puts Michael George at the scene at the time of the murder. Comic book collector Michael Renaud testified that he placed a call to the George’s shop around the time of the murder and spoke to Michael George. Renaud testified that Michael George sounded “sounded busy”.
Janet George, Michael’s mother testified that Michael was taking a nap on her sofa at the time of the murder.
A woman that worked at a nail salon near the comic book shop testified that she witnessed Michael and Barbara arguing outside the comic book shop the day of the murder.
Girl that takes off her clothes on the Internet likes Ron Paul
Not only is Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul popular with dorky men on the Internet. He’s also popular with at least one live girl who likes to take her clothing off while standing in front of her webcam. She says she’s a Paul supporter because his presidency would mean more personal liberty for individuals.
Unless of course she was raped and needed an abortion.
In that case, Ron Paul wouldn’t want her to make that decision. No, he would want that decision to be made for her by someone else. He believes that the issue of abortion should be made not by the woman, but by the state in which a woman lives.
If every state decided that the issue of abortion is strictly a private matter and should be up to the woman, Ron Paul would most likely then say the issue should be decided at the county level.
Even though he pretends that the issue of abortion should be decided at the state level, Ron Paul tried to invoke a federal law that stated human life begins at the moment of conception. He authored H.R. 776, the “Sanctity of Life Act of 2005.”
That means the moment a rapist’s sperm fertilizes his victim’s egg, the result is a human being no different then you, me, or any other real person. I have no doubt that if the impossible happened and Paul somehow became President, he would abuse the power of the Oval Office to promote his own personal beliefs about abortion. Much like he has tried to do with his position as a congressman.
Ron Paul believes this microscopic fertilized-egg citizen deserves all of the rights and privileges afforded to all Americans. Is it any wonder why Ron Paul attracts so many kooks?
Probable cause hearing begins in comic book convention promoter murder case
A probable cause hearing began Friday for Pittsburgh Comicon organizer and comic book retailer Michael George. George is charged with murdering his first wife Barbara George execution-style 17 years ago in Michigan.
Some of the evidence emerging from the first day of the hearing included the fact that Michael George told police that the killer was really out to get him, not Barbara.
He also admitted to having “emotional” affair with another woman at the time of his wife’s murder.
Even though George told the police that boxes of expensive comic books were missing from the store, police could find no other evidence that a robbery had taken place. Money was found in the cash register along with money and jewelry found on Barbara’s body.
Friends of the George’s testified that Barbara told them her marriage was in trouble and that Michael had a gambling problem.
Witnesses described Michael George’s behavior around the time of his wife’s funeral as strange. One woman told of Michael George showing his grief by “hugging the vacuum cleaner his wife used”.
Two woman testified that Michael George made unwanted romantic advances toward them, both before and after the murder. On one occasion, Michael George told one woman that he considered his wife unattractive and wanted to move to Florida with the children. Barbara and the children where in the store only a few feet away when Michael said this. The same woman testified that about six weeks after his wife’s murder, Michael George put a note in her hand that stated she “looked very pretty today.”
Witnesses also testified of making telephone calls to the store around the time of the murder and speaking to Michael George. Macomb County assistant prosecutor Steve Kaplanin told the court this places Michael George in the store at the time of the murder.
Two years after the murder, Michael George relocated Comics World from Michigan to Windber, Pennsylvania. Some have written that George owned and operated a comic book shop in Pittsburgh. Windber is about 100 miles outside Pittsburgh. I think part of the confusion comes from the fact that George is the organizer of the Pittsburgh Comicon. Michael George later opened another Comics World in the Chambersburg Mall located in Scotland, Pennsylvania. Though he later sold the Chambersburg Mall Comics World store, the store remains today retaining it’s original Comics World name.
It’s where I buy my comics. I live in Hagerstown, Maryland, but I work in Scotland.
I didn’t really know Michael George when he owned the comic book shop in the Chambersburg Mall, but I knew who he was. I knew that he was the owner. I certainly didn’t think he was capable of murdering someone, especially his wife. Then again I didn’t think he was the type of guy that would hug a vacuum cleaner either. It just goes to show you that you never know someone as much as you may think.
CNBC explains to Ron Paul admirers why they removed poll
After a recent CNBC Republican candidate debate, CNBC threw a poll of on their website asking readers who they thought won the debate. Ron Paul supporters responded by flooding the poll with votes for Ron Paul in an attempt to skew the poll’s results. Ron Paul won by a whopping 75%. CNBC responded by removing the poll from the website. This from the CNBC website:
And the computer logs showed the poll had been hit with traffic from Ron Paul chat sites. I learned other Internet polls that night had been hit in similar fashion. Congratulations. You folks are obviously well-organized and feel strongly about your candidate and I can’t help but admire that.
What’s to admire? I didn’t realize that being “well-organized” and “feeling strongly about something” were necessarily traits to admire. Nazis were well-organized. Nazis felt strongly about something. Should they be admired too? Not that I am comparing Ron Paul fanboys to Nazis. Even though at least some neo-Nazis are Ron Paul supporters and it seems that at least some of the people helping to flood these online polls in Ron Paul’s favor have goose-stepped over from antisemitic white supremest websites.
What about substance? Having fans on the Internet that spam online polls and vote for every Ron Paul story on Digg aren’t things to brag about.
Also from the CNBC website:
But you also ruined the purpose of the poll. It was no longer an honest “show of hands” — it suddenly was a platform for beating the Ron Paul drum. That certainly wasn’t our intention and certainly doesn’t serve our readers … at least those who aren’t already in the Ron Paul camp.
I don’t know what Ron Paul’s über fanboys expect when they do stuff like this. Sure, they may get some momentary personal pleasure by throwing the results of an online poll, but all they are really doing is making their candidate look bad. Manipulating Internet polls just makes their candidate look weird. That’s something Ron Paul doesn’t need any help with.
He already has that down pat.
Ann Coulter thinks the U.S. would be a better place without Jewish people
Ann Coulter is losing it. I realize most of the time she says stuff just to get attention, but sometimes I really wonder if there is something wrong with her. It’s like she has a tumor that is pressing on some part of the brain that makes one say totally asinine things in public.
Ann Coulter was on Donny Deutsch’s CNBC show, “The Big Idea,” and she said that the U.S. would be a better place if there weren’t any Jewish people. She said that they needed to “perfect” themselves into Christians. Media Matters has the entire transcript. It’s worth a read.
At least she didn’t talk about invading Poland.
Ron Paul thinks this is a person
Texas Republican/Libertarian Congressman Ron Paul is running for President and he thinks the above photo is that of a human being. It’s a fertilized egg. He believes it is a person like you and me.
I was listening to Air America Radio yesterday and heard the host conduct an interview with Ron Paul.
Ron Paul is at his core a Libertarian which means he thinks the government shouldn’t pass laws that prohibit people from doing things unless doing those things impede or intrude on the rights of others. Unless it’s something Ron Paul personally doesn’t like. In that case, he’s all for laws that prohibit that.
Ron Paul is against abortion. I heard him say so on Air America Radio. Normally I would tell someone who is against abortion to simply not have one. In Ron Paul’s case, that’s not very practical advice because he doesn’t even have a uterus.
He wont ever need to have an abortion.
That’s not good enough for Ron Paul. He doesn’t want anyone else to get an abortion either. He said in the Air America Radio interview that he is an OB/GYN doctor and over the course of his career he has delivered close to 4 million babies. Maybe it was closer to 4 thousand babies. I don’t remember. The point is, because he has delivered a whole bunch of babies, he doesn’t want a woman to have a choice when it comes to something as important as her own reproduction.
He wants to make that choice for women everywhere.
Ron Paul even authored legislation that sought to define that human life begins at conception. He not only believes a fertilized egg is a person, he wants everyone else to believe that too. He wants it to be a law.
That doesn’t sound too Libertarian to me.
More on the Hagerstown refugee issue
I was reading an article in the Baltimore Sun about Hagerstown’s refugee situation. I found a couple points somewhat interesting. The first was something said by Mukhabbat Gilmanova, a Russian Turkish refugee now living in Hagerstown. I think it illustrates one of the main problems with bringing refugees to Hagerstown:
“I really like Hagerstown. I really like the U.S.,” said Gilmanova, 21, who lives with her husband and in-laws and is studying to be a nurse. “I like packing … I like paycheck … I like everything.”
She and her husband live with his family. Many of the refugees resettled in Hagerstown are living in similar situations. Married couples live with the husband’s parents and in some cases, the husband’s grandparents. This might be the norm in Russia and other parts of the world, but it’s not typical here in Hagerstown. I don’t think that is the type of living arrangement most Americans want.
Because refugees are willing to blended families with parents and grandparents, they are able to work for far less then a living wage. Bringing refugees to Hagerstown creates a cheap and ready workforce for local businesses. It helps to drive wages down.
This too is from the Baltimore Sun article:
“To be honest with you, we’ve had a hard time finding people who want to work here from the Hagerstown area,” said Cheryl Eyler of Parker Plastics, who has hired about eight refugees. “The refugees have a great work ethic. They’re here every day, they don’t call in sick and they work hard. … They’re extremely thankful for having a job.”
Eyler currently has a few openings for $10- to $11-an-hour packing jobs. She would like to hire more refugees, she said, but now that is unlikely.
It’s hard to find employees to perform strenuous, manual labor jobs when you are only paying $10 an hour. Especially for employees with a great work ethic and that don’t call in sick. It’s hard to get by in Hagerstown on $10 an hour. That’s probably why many of these refugees sought financial aid from the city and the county. If they were being paid a living wage for their hard work, they wouldn’t need help from local taxpayers. The Virginia Council of Churches decided to quit bringing refugees to Hagerstown because city and county officials refused to assist refugees with money for housing.
If the refugees were earning a living wage in exchange for their hard work and good work ethic, they wouldn’t need help from the government.
Hagerstown and the 911 calling Burundian refugees
Hagerstown has been in the news lately. A religious organization that works in refugee resettlement called the Virginia Council of Churches has announced that they will no longer resettle refugees in Hagerstown. They have determined that Hagerstown is just too unfriendly to refugees.
The Virginia Council of Churches’ announcement caps 12 months of sour relations. Many residents of the western Maryland city of 39,000 didn’t know that nearly 200 refugees had been placed in their community until last October, when emergency medical workers, lacking an interpreter, mistook a Burundian woman’s morning sickness for a chemical or biological threat and set up a decontamination tent on a downtown street.
Since then, despite regular monthly meetings with local officials, the group’s requests for funds to help pay refugee housing costs have been denied by the city and Washington County.
The emergency medical technicians mistook a Burundian woman’s morning sickness for some type of biological threat because she called to 911. Maybe women in the Republic of Burundi call 911 when they have morning sickness. Woman in Hagerstown do not.
When the emergency medical technicians arrived on the scene, they had no idea that they were called because a woman was experiencing a bad case of morning sickness. They thought she was severally ill. After all, she called 911. As fate would have it, none of the EMT’s spoke Kirundi and the woman didn’t speak English. None of the refugees spoke English. The other refugees in the home mistakenly conveyed to the EMT’s that they too were sick.
The EMT’s believed the refugees may have had a communicable disease. Can’t say I blame them. Hazmat units were sent to the area, and the 12 African refugees were briefly quarantined.
Up until the historic morning sickness 911 call was made, nobody in Hagerstown even knew the Virginia Council of Churches had placed 12 non-English speaking Burundian refugees in our fine city. Maybe they should have told someone.
Some people in Hagerstown have wondered why a religious group from Virginia placed African refugees here in Maryland. I can’t really blame them.
Is Stifler’s Mom married to the president of Oral Roberts University?
Looks like there may be some scandal brewing at Oral Roberts University. Richard Roberts, president of Oral Roberts University and son of it’s founder and name sake stands accused of being illegally involved in a local political campaign. He is also accused of spending donated money on lavish luxury items including home remodeling projects, use of the university jet for his daughter’s senior trip to the Bahamas, and fancy cars for his wife, Lindsay.
The most interesting thing in all this is something his wife is accused of.
This from the AP story:
She is accused of dropping tens of thousands of dollars on clothes, awarding nonacademic scholarships to friends of her children and sending scores of text messages on university-issued cell phones to people described in the lawsuit as “underage males.”
What is this woman doing sending text messages to underage males? There is nothing new with evangelical men of God misusing donated money intended for The Lord. It’s to be expected. If you donate money to one of these charlatans, you had better just expect them to blow the money on something stupid. Don’t be surprised if they use your money to buy a golden toilet or vacations for their spoiled children. Just be thankful they don’t use it for crystal meth and gay male prostitutes.
Having wives trolling for boys is something fairly new for these crooked evangelical men of God. Normally you expect them to be the ones just a little too interested in the underage boys. You don’t expect such activity coming from their wives.
An example of good military camouflage
That is what I call a well camouflaged soldier. No matter where the fight takes our military, the men and women in our armed forces are ready for the challenge. Whether it’s the mountains of Afghanistan or the sofa in Grandma’s living room, our fighting men and women can blend into almost any environment.
(photo stolen borrowed from Imager.cc)
Transcript of Rush Limaugh saying that soldiers who dissagree with the war are phony soldiers
LIMBAUGH: Another Mike, this one in Olympia, Washington. Welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.
CALLER 2: Hi Rush, thanks for taking my call.
LIMBAUGH: You bet.
CALLER 2: I have a retort to Mike in Chicago, because I am a serving American military, in the Army. I’ve been serving for 14 years, very proudly.
LIMBAUGH: Thank you, sir.
CALLER 2: And, you know, I’m one of the few that joined the Army to serve my country, I’m proud to say, not for the money or anything like that. What I would like to retort to is that, if we pull — what these people don’t understand is if we pull out of Iraq right now, which is about impossible because of all the stuff that’s over there, it’d take us at least a year to pull everything back out of Iraq, then Iraq itself would collapse, and we’d have to go right back over there within a year or so. And –
LIMBAUGH: There’s a lot more than that that they don’t understand. They can’t even — if — the next guy that calls here, I’m gonna ask him: Why should we pull — what is the imperative for pulling out? What’s in it for the United States to pull out? They can’t — I don’t think they have an answer for that other than, “Well, we just gotta bring the troops home.”
CALLER 2: Yeah, and, you know what –
LIMBAUGH: “Save the — keep the troops safe” or whatever. I — it’s not possible, intellectually, to follow these people.
CALLER 2: No, it’s not, and what’s really funny is, they never talk to real soldiers. They like to pull these soldiers that come up out of the blue and talk to the media.
LIMBAUGH: The phony soldiers.
CALLER 2: The phony soldiers. If you talk to a real soldier, they are proud to serve. They want to be over in Iraq. They understand their sacrifice, and they’re willing to sacrifice for their country.
LIMBAUGH: They joined to be in Iraq. They joined –
CALLER 2: A lot of them — the new kids, yeah.
LIMBAUGH: Well, you know where you’re going these days, the last four years, if you signed up. The odds are you’re going there or Afghanistan or somewhere.
CALLER 2: Exactly, sir.
Rush Limbaugh and phony soldiers
A lot has been made of late about something stupid conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh said about members of the military that favor leaving Iraq. He referred to them as “phony soldiers”. This comment has got a lot of people upset. So much so that Limbaugh has even gone back and edited the transcript of his show to change the context of what he said.
This is something Limbaugh doesn’t normally do when he says something stupid.
I’m having a hard time understanding all the outrage over this specific comment. Granted, it sounds as though Limbaugh is dishonoring those who serve their country, both past and present, but how is that newsworthy? Why is it so hard to understand that Limbaugh doesn’t have respect for members of the military? What would make anyone think that Limbaugh cares about the troops?
I would think that if Limbaugh really cared about the troops, he would be outraged that so many of them have been killed in a war waged over false pretenses. The last time I checked, George W. Bush went to war in Iraq because Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction (WMD’s) and he had ties to al-Qaeda. Things that turned out to be not true. If Limbaugh cared about the troops, he would want them to come home, especially now that it’s clear they were sent to wage a war under false pretenses. If Limbaugh really cared about the troops, he would speak out against the idea of a never ending war. Instead of speaking out against it, he advocates it.
It seems to me that Limbaugh is being criticized for simply being Limbaugh. Rush Limbaugh said something stupid. That’s just what he does.
My WordPress 2.3 upgrade is now complete
I think I’ve finally completed my upgrade to WordPress 2.3. I wish I knew then what I know now. There are things I’ve learned since upgrading that would have been nice to know back when I originally upgraded. For instance, even though WordPress 2.3 wont work with tagging plugins such as Ultimate Tag Warrior, it will import existing data from Ultimate Tag Warrior. It will import from other tagging plugins such as Jerome’s Keywords and Simple Tagging too.
This would have been nice to know. Instead of importing, I manually edited posts with new links. It was probably for the best since I was able to correct some issues with images and other alignment issues.
I also found a great plugin today that takes the built-in tagging capability of WordPress 2.3 and converts tags to link to Technorati. It’s ingeniously called Technorati Tags For WordPress 2.3. Once you’ve installed the plugin to it’s usual spot (/wp-content/plugins/), you will need to manually edit your theme’s single.php and index.php files. This is what I did:
Before
Tags: Jerome’s Keywords, Simple Tagging, Ultimate Tag Warrior
After
Technorati Tags: Jerome’s Keywords • Simple Tagging • Ultimate Tag Warrior
This will make your tags link back to Technorati instead of an archive on your own blog comprised of posts using that tag. I would rather have tags link to Technorati. Like they used to.
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