Sarah Palin’s speech to a freezing cold but good-spirited crowd in Madison was the work of a competent battlefield commander in the war for our country’s future. Sarah Palin has just carved a notch on the doorjamb that any GOP candidate is going to have to beat to win my vote. Continue reading
After an epic struggle this weekend, I now have a database which is somewhat out of date, but WORKS! The structure and the data are CONSISTENT, so the fact that it is now a week or so out of date is not much of a challenge. Now that the thing works, I can simply make updates, rather than have to hack and kludge my way around it.
Maybe now my rapid app development software will stop giving me such trouble. Hard to complain about the front end when you know the back end ain’t exactly holding water.
That’s right–this is a new front in the blog wars. SQL by the spoonful.
I’m getting shaken from the west now, which is unsettling indeed.
Believe it or not, kids, this is an Obama quote.
“…any deal that leaves him in power would lead to further chaos and lawlessness. We know from bitter experience what that would mean. Neither Europe, the region, or the world can afford a new safe haven for extremists.” [And therefore AMerican military power is being used to force a dictator from power–hbd]
Yup. He wrote that in an Op-Ed in the New York Times. I have issues with an American President being so inept that he must use a frigging editorial page to get his point out, but for now we’ll let that slide. Priorities, kids, priorities.
I suppose I could wail and gnash my teeth over how angry I am, etc. But at this point I’m far past accepting this as true, and simply trying to show unequivocal documentation to those who are less inclined to agree that he is, in fact, a liar.
Senator Obama, 2006:
“Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that ‘the buck stops here. Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better.”
President Obama, 2011:
“We will raise the debt limit. We always have. We will do it again.”
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UAE blogger who called for reform taken from apartment, says wife – CNN.com.
Ahmed Mansoor needs your support. UAE’s supposedly modern marvels are built by slave labor for a dictatorship which wears toothless legislative bodies like handbag Chihuahuas. This is what happens to those who dare ask for reforms.
No doubt the dictators of the Gulf States would like relief from the universal, unending desire for Freedom. The answer is No.
Government of Japan has released guidance for agencies to certify that their Twitter accounts are truly the official accounts. I see some references to “the Japanese version of Twitter” and hope that they do not Galapagos that thing into an unworkable, walled-off, useful-only-to-Japan-and-therefore-useless “hinternet” system. So far, so good.
In fact, I have been pleasantly surprised by the recent development of high-quality, well-populated information in English from the Japanese government, at least in matters not directly pertaining to (ahem) the violent and menacing death throes of the stricken nuclear powerplant at Fukushima. Even there, I am finding that better information than what we think of as official and public is indeed available. The government seems to make lots of raw and evaluated data available online.
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The government which prohibits the burning of one holy book will prohibit the reading of one or more holy books. Nobody wants to go down this road, Lindsay Graham You’re done.
I have Muslim friends whom I would not wish to give personal offense, but this is not personal, and I will trust my friends to make a distinction. I support the right of that idiot in Florida to burn a Koran. Same as I support his right to burn a Bible, or any other pertinent scripture.
If I were to YouTube myself burning a Bible with my home address in the shot, I would not be killed.
