Archive for January, 2008

Political Roundup

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

There is so much good stuff in the blogosphere today, I decided it might be easier to do a roundup post than to highlight the hot points.

McCain’s real thoughts on secure borders (and who wants them). [ManSizedTarget.com]
Reagan vs. McCain on profits, business, and the free market. [Michelle Malkin]
McCain vs. Reagan on, well, everything. [Michelle Malkin]
McCain’s [...]

How to Lose an Election

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Bill Clinton says, “We just have to slow down our economy” to fight global warming. This is the same guy who swept into office on James Carville’s mantra that it’s “the economy, stupid,” right? Is the Clinton campaign even looking at polls like this one? This one?

Hillary . . . says she . . . What?!?

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Clinton Says She Can Control Her Husband. Priceless.

More on the Berkeley Stupidity

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Berkeley is still trying to force out the United States Marine Corps. I can’t even summarize this one; just go read it. Berkeley gives Marines the boot.

Why the Field is so Bad

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

I have no idea for whom to vote. None. I am a staunch, free-market, old-school conservative. A fan of men like Burke, Reagan, and Kirk. That means I don’t have a candidate in this race.

I Hate Spam

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

I hate spam. Which is unfortunate, because I get enormous quantities of it. The true horror in graphic form:

I get about 940 emails per day, excluding the 30 or so on my school account and about 10 per day on Gmail and Yahoo! I am working on implementing some server-side filtering, because my poor little [...]

Still More Outlook 2007 Stupidity

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

I receive a lot of newsletters as HTML email messages. For obvious reasons, I want to view the images in those messages, so I tell Outlook 2007 it’s okay to download the images from site somesite.com. The problem is that Outlook will download some images from a site, but not others. For example, http://www.somesite.com/image1.gif might [...]

There’s opposing the war…

Monday, January 28th, 2008

And then there’s trying to undermine the nation’s ability to protect itself. Berkeley wants to treat military recruitment offices like porn shops. Hat tip: Michelle Malkin.

Freeroll

Friday, January 25th, 2008

Just finished 23rd in a 2,757-player no-limit hold ‘em freeroll on Ultimate Bet. W00t!
EDIT: Also, just finished 70th out of 3,589 in a no-limit Omaha freeroll on PokerStars. Fun times.

Where the WMDs Really Were?

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

A new report indicates that maybe they were all smoke and no fire. Interrogator: Invasion Surprised Saddam, Tells 60 Minutes Former Dictator Bragged About Eluding Capture - CBS News