LIBERTY: Justifying America to a doubtful audience

Thursday, May 3, 2007

http://author.nationalreview.com/latest/?q=MjE5NQ==

 

May 03, 2007, 6:30 a.m.
Oxford’s Preposterous Proposition
Justifying America to a doubtful audience
By Jonah Goldberg

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Yes, anti-Americanism fashions itself a form of anti-globalization. But this is most often a ruse. Do keep in mind that my opponents represent a truly tyrannical form of globalization. Whether it’s “Workers of the World Unite” or the World Caliphate, the choice they are presenting is globalization for losers, while America, to the extent it represents globalization at all, offers the globalization of liberty.

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Well said. America stands for liberty. The Gooferment, aka the USA, is having its identity problems.

He missed one argument.

“If wasn’t for the Americans, then this discussion would be being held in German, And, I wonder who’d be around to debate anything?”

But, it was well said.

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TECHNOLOGY: Shift Happens? If this is half-right, fasten seat belts.

Thursday, May 3, 2007

http://www.wservernews.com/TY4XIX/070402-Shift-Happens

“Shift happens”
The need for 21st Century learning skills. An interesting presentation
by Carl Fisch: “Shift happens”

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“Shift happens”

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Wow! Don’t miss this video. It’ll stretch your paradigm.

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TECH SOFTWARE: STICKYNOTES free softwware

Thursday, May 3, 2007

http://www.sticky-notes.net/sticky-notes-software-free.html

Sticky Notes Software

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This free software allows you to create sticky notes on your computer desktop to remind you of important events.

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Comes highly recommended. I’ll try it.

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TECH SOFTWARE: BLOGDESK is fixed and resumes it’s place on my most recommended list

Thursday, May 3, 2007

http;//www.blogdesk.org

Highly recommended and superbly supported.

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TECH SOFTWARE: BLOGDESK now “disappears” ? XPFAILS SEV4

Thursday, May 3, 2007

FROM A POST ON BLOGDESKDOTORG:

Periodically, BLOGDESK “disappears”. I leave it up, open, and blog when I have time. Since the upgrade, BLOGDESK disappears. It’s not on the taskbar, not can I alt-tab task switch to it. When I look at what processes are running, there it is. If you use the “switch to” in the process view, nothing happens. It’s like a little kid sulking in their room. :-) If I terminate the task from the process view, it goes away peacefully (i.e., I don’t see any effects). If I then restart it from the program menu or quick launch it runs fine. Could this behavior be from that dll that wouldn’t register? Is there another bug? Am I the only “problem child”? Your attention when you have time would be appreciated. It is only severity 4.

UPDATE: The developer fixed it. Try and get that from Microsoft!

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TECHNOLOGY: What’s a Sev4?

Thursday, May 3, 2007

Some one pinged me about jargon. What’s a sev4?

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Severity 1 – complete platform failure (i.e., no power)

Severity 2 – partial platform failure (i.e., some part not working)

Severity 3 – complete application failure (i.e., my game doesn’t play, but everything else works)

Severity 4 – partial application failure (i.e., some part of an app does work)

Severity 5 – something isn’t working as documented it should and it’s needed (i.e., OUTLOOK2003 can’t copy mailbox settings)

Severity 6 – something is not documented correctly (i.e., it works but the book on it say it doesn’t do that)

Severity 7 – A shortcoming is noted.

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That’s the one I was taught.

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TECH SERVICE: FEEDBLITZ fails me again (Sev 4); time to look for alternatives

Thursday, May 3, 2007

PRODUCTIVITY: What is the one small step you can take within 24 hours?
https://reinkefj.wordpress.com/2007/05/01/
productivity-what-is-the-one-small-step-you-can-take-within-24-hours/
http://tinyurl.com/yoq2fo
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TECH SERVICE: MICROID might ease claims and proof of identity issues
https://reinkefj.wordpress.com/2007/05/01/
tech-service-microid-might-ease-claims-and-proof-of-identity-issues/
http://tinyurl.com/2z6pgp
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TECH SERVICE: MYBLOGLOG has multiple advantages imho
https://reinkefj.wordpress.com/2007/05/01/
tech-service-mybloglog-has-multiple-advantages-imho/
http://tinyurl.com/2ykmgv
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TECH SOFTWARE: BLOGDESK upgrade has problems
https://reinkefj.wordpress.com/2007/05/01/
tech-software-blogdesk-upgrade-has-problems/
http://tinyurl.com/3bgr5u
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JOBSEARCH: “Age proofing” your resume is a waste of time and attention
https://reinkefj.wordpress.com/2007/05/01/
jobsearch-age-proofing-your-resume-is-a-waste-of-time-and-attention/
http://tinyurl.com/2bjkfp
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LIBERTY: A Small Government self-test for self-diagnosis
https://reinkefj.wordpress.com/2007/05/01/
liberty-a-small-government-self-test-for-self-diagnosis/
http://tinyurl.com/2cqoee
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TECH SOFTWARE: ROBOFORM recommended for saving most user ids & passwords
https://reinkefj.wordpress.com/2007/05/01/
tech-software-roboform-recommended-for-saving-most-user-ids-passwords/
http://tinyurl.com/28refq
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LINKEDIN: One Smart Way to Use LinkedIn – Create a Granfalloon!
https://reinkefj.wordpress.com/2007/05/02/
linkedin-one-smart-way-to-use-linkedin-create-a-granfalloon/
http://tinyurl.com/2lohm6
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TECH SERVICE: PLAXO updates based on LINKEDIN
https://reinkefj.wordpress.com/2007/05/02/
tech-service-plaxo-updates-based-on-linkedin/
http://tinyurl.com/3aw8v8
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LIBERTY: Push the problem to the next president?
https://reinkefj.wordpress.com/2007/05/02/
liberty-push-the-problem-to-the-next-president/
http://tinyurl.com/3bdscp
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RANT: The Guv “demands” his ticket. What “barbara streisand”!!
https://reinkefj.wordpress.com/2007/05/02/
rant-the-guv-demands-his-ticket-what-barbara-streisand/
http://tinyurl.com/33koxa
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TECH SERVICE:WORDPRESSDOTCOM’s blogroll could give better control
https://reinkefj.wordpress.com/2007/05/02/
tech-servicewordpressdotcoms-blogroll-could-give-better-control/
http://tinyurl.com/34gttb
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RANT: McSleezey using a vocation to upstage wife?

Wednesday, May 2, 2007

http://blog.nj.com/ledgerupdates/2007/05/
mcgreevey_mulling_episcopal_pr.html

http://tinyurl.com/2jd4pt

McGreevey mulling Episcopal priesthood
Posted by The Star-Ledger May 02, 2007 12:08PM

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Former Gov. James E. McGreevey has started the process to become a priest in his newly adopted Episcopal faith and hopes to begin a three-year seminary program in the fall.

McGreevey, who often described himself as a devout Catholic while in public office, was officially received into the Episcopal religion on Sunday, at St. Bartholomew’s Church in Manhattan, and is now part of the church’s “discernment” phase that usually precedes any seminary work, said the Rev. Kevin Bean, vicar at St. Bartholomew.

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Sorry, maybe I am cynical. This story breaks the day after the Oprah show. I sure hope he drops out, shuts up, and does his 3 years in the seminary in quiet seclusion. Then he moves on toe obscurity. I feel empathy for the wife and child. He has a lot of “discerning” to do. I think the taxpayers of NJ should be outraged at the fraud that was pulled on them. Where is my pitchfork?!

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TECH SERVICE:WORDPRESSDOTCOM’s blogroll could give better control

Wednesday, May 2, 2007

FROM FEEDBACK TO WORDPRESSDOTCOM

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I’d like to be better able to control the sequence of links on my blogroll. (Yeah, I know beggars shouldn’t be choosers. But making suggestions might help you anticipate what the paying customers want.) So for instance, I would like to give “linklove” to sites I like. When I find one to love, I want to put it on the top of the stack so people see it. I want to move the “oldest” off to a “shrine”. I can do that manually. No need for a lot of complicated programming. What I can’t to is control the order of the links well enough. FWIW

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Don’t get me wrong. I think this is the BEST blogging platform and as a free service it knocks my sox off. I’m hard pressed to think of a better ROI. Is it perfect? No. But darn close. I’ve been using it for a more than a year and, other than the javascript restriction, I’m hard pressed to find any fault with it. The fact that it a free service to the average joe is gravy.

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RANT: The Guv “demands” his ticket. What “barbara streisand”!!

Wednesday, May 2, 2007

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=3116831

N.J. Governor Pays Seat Belt Ticket
AP NewsBreak: N.J. Gov. Corzine, Injured in Crash, Pays Fine for Not Wearing Seat Belt
The Associated Press
By TOM HESTER Jr. Associated Press Writer
TRENTON, N.J. May 1, 2007 (AP)

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Gov. Jon S. Corzine has voluntarily paid a $46 fine for violating state law by not wearing a seat belt during the trip in which a car crash left him critically injured, his spokesman said Tuesday.

Corzine met with State Police Superintendent Col. Rick Fuentes, Attorney General Stuart Rabner and two state police investigators Tuesday at the governor’s mansion in Princeton to discuss the accident, spokesman Anthony Coley said.

As the meeting ended, Corzine asked Fuentes for a ticket, Coley said. Fuentes wrote one, and Corzine wrote a check for $46, Coley said.

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I am still steamed about the radio reporting that he supposedly was demanding, getting, and paying his 46 $ tix. And the media says it’s over.

:-(

The political komisars think they are better then us schmoes. And this is over when the schmoes say it is! Not when the fawning media that lets the politicians get away with this “barbara streisand” says so!

I also blogged about his caravan left the hospital with 6 escort cars and the reporters clocked going 70 in a 55 zone. Where’s the demand for ticket for that?

It’s about the assumption that they can use force on other people, but don’t dare hold them accountable to the SAME rules.

Argh!

Politicians. If they just be content to run out in traffic as quick as they are to run out in front of a parade, then we’d all be better off.

I hope that everyone who gets a speeding ticket or a seat belt ticket demands a trial and raises the 14th Amendment issue of equal protection. If the Guv can do it, then we all can do it. If I’m on the jury, you’re out of there.

We’d be better off picking governors and legislators by lottery. At least we’d get “real people” in power. I still think that we should not vote for anyone who campaigns.

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