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Goodbye 2010: Decade in Review and Junk

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In our lifetime we’ll only get a few moments to wax poetic and review things from our narcissist pinnacle, and with MCF now being gone from the blogging world, I am left picking up the slacker’s slack. In this post, I want to flashback over the last ten years and declare, as only a person who is overly self-assure can, what is the best-of-the-best-of-the-decade. Of course, this also being the end of 2010, I’ll have to also touch on the Best-of-the-Best of 2010. And maybe, I might just throw in the best of my blog posts, to put a cherry on top of my ego.

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Links and Junk: Politics

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palin. Blip on the radar: Palin cleared but no one notices (except maybe Jeremy who gets the hat tip).

voting. A Couple of black panthers (ninjas?) with clubs look scary in a Philadelphia voting locale. Cops show up, shoo one away (the other lives there). Fox News here. CNN Here. (HT: The write Jerry and Darrell.) MCF has some good words on voting with respect. Jeremy has some good words on voting even when you will lose in your area. Doug’s heart is in the right place but he links to a guy who has some crazy ideas about voting for Obama.

baracka. Obama on the coal industry. “Bankrupt them.” Worthy goals though.

socialweb. I started dabbling in twitter. It feels like Facebook status message without all the rest of the facebook coolness.

money. Save $1000 in 30 days.

ideology. Is there a lot of it in the US?

Declaration of Internet Dependence

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When junk happens to sites, like lots of junk, coders and designers have to do what’s best.

No joke all sites are the same in this respect, all having certain FTP and htaccess rights. Rights to post, blog, and surf and be happy doing it. Hosting Companies get together to make sure these rights happen and the only reason they can do that is because Web Surfers says they can.

You guys just keep holding us down over here with our sites and, like r u joking? We’re SO done with that. We dealt with the slow load times long enough so we’re not taking that junk anymore King of Britain and UK Hosting IP Networks. We’re gonna’ let you know, in front of everybody.

King, you’ve played us when we asked for chmod access. You’ve blocked us from your buddy list. You’ve tagged our messages as Spam. You’ve signed out from your second account whenever we come online. You don’t even answer your Live Help line.

Plus, you’ve launched attacks at our sites! You’ve dropped a Trojan in our code and let your buddies have back door access so they can go marching up and down our web portal.

You’ve affected our google ranking and have brought our possible readership way down low. We’re not even listed in Yahoo.

We here, the most active members of this United Websites of America, here in this chat room together, appealing to the Mod of the Internet (Al Gore? LOL! j/k…we’re really serious!) make a promise: we’re done with you. Good luck, UK Hosting IP Networks: we’re getting our own fiberoptics cabling and setting up our own server.

(BTW: Don’t bother writing back, if you step to us you’re gonna’ get p0wn3d. Internet Mod’s got our back.)

original letter.

Obama: President of the Harvard Law Review

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This has come up enough times that I thought I should say something about it. Folk like to raise the Obama Harvard Law Review thing to prove scholarly level of intelligence and qualification. Thing is, I don’t think people have to do that. They should point to the fact that he went to Columbia and then went to Harvard and graduated magna cum laude. They should point to the fact that he was a teaching fellow (I guess an adjunct professor) in Constitutional Law at the University of Chicago Law School. But what they don’t have to do is say he’s smart and qualified because he was voted president of the Harvard Law Review. Well, here’s why (link to Harvard Law Review):

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Sarah Palin Rumors

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Huge hat tip to Jeremy for linking to these sites. The first is one that focuses on the sexist commentary toward/around/about Sarah Palin. There’s nothing wrong with submitting a vice presidential candidate to scrutiny but some of this scrutiny is simply ridiculous. Like newspaper articles that focus on the fashionable way she dresses–ridiculous stuff like that.

The second is a (growing) list of rumors that have been flying around and which answers them and often links to evidence.  Some of it even made its way into my Facebook discussion.

Anyway, here are some samples from the list:

23. No, she’s doesn’t believe that the Iraq War was directed by God. Yes, she did pray that proceeding with the war was God’s will: “they should pray ‘that our national leaders are sending them out on a task that is from God, that’s what we have to make sure we are praying for, that there is a plan, and that plan is God’s plan.’” (Ever hear the phrase “Not my will, but Thine, be done”?) Yes, this apparently freaks some people right out.

50. No, she doesn’t believe in “abstinence only” education. Yes, she thinks abstinence is an effective way of preventing pregnancy. Duh. Yes, she believes kids should learn about condom use in schools.

37. No, she didn’t cut funding for unwed mothers; yes, she did increase it by “only” 354 percent instead of 454 percent, as part of a multi-year capital expenditures program. No, the Washington Post doesn’t appear to have corrected their story. Even after this was pointed out in the comments on the story.

Anyone else getting annoyed by my incessant politics posts?

Fact Checking McCain

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Full article over at FactCheck.org. (HT: Daniel)

  1. McCain claimed that Obama’s health care plan would “force small businesses to cut jobs” and would put “a bureaucrat … between you and your doctor.” In fact, the plan exempts small businesses, and those who have insurance now could keep the coverage they have.
  2. McCain attacked Obama for voting for “corporate welfare” for oil companies. In fact, the bill Obama voted for raised taxes on oil companies by $300 million over 11 years while providing $5.8 billion in subsidies for renewable energy, energy efficiency and alternative fuels.
  3. McCain said oil imports send “$700 billion a year to countries that don’t like us very much.” But the U.S. is on track to import a total of only $536 billion worth of oil at current prices, and close to a third of that comes from Canada, Mexico and the United Kingdom.
  4. He promised to increase use of “wind, tide [and] solar” energy, though his actual energy plan contains no new money for renewable energy. He has said elsewhere that renewable sources won’t produce as much as people think.
  5. He called for “reducing government spending and getting rid of failed programs,” but as in the past failed to cite a single program that he would eliminate or reduce.
  6. He said Obama would “close” markets to trade. In fact, Obama, though he once said he wanted to “renegotiate” the North American Free Trade Agreement, now says he simply wants to try to strengthen environmental and labor provisions in it.

Fact Checking the GOP

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Here’s a direct quote from FactCheck.org and you can read the full article over yonder. Is anyone else annoyed that all I’m posting is politics? Anyway:

Joe Lieberman and his former Senate colleague Fred Thompson both made misleading claims about Obama in their prime time GOP convention speeches on Tuesday. We’ve heard two of them before – many times.

  1. Lieberman said Obama hadn’t “reached across party lines” to accomplish “anything significant,” though Obama has teamed with GOP Sens. Tom Coburn and Richard Lugar to pass laws enhancing government transparency and curtailing the proliferation of nuclear and conventional weapons.
  2. Thompson repeated misleading claims about Obama’s tax program, saying it would bring “one of the largest tax increases in American history.” But as increases go, Obama’s package is hardly a history-maker. It would raise taxes for families with incomes above $250,000. Most people would see a cut.
  3. Lieberman also accused Obama of “voting to cut off funding for our American troops on the battlefield.” But Obama’s only vote against a war-funding bill came after Bush vetoed a version of the bill Obama had supported – and McCain urged the veto.