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Monday, April 02, 2007
Monday, February 19, 2007
Monday, November 20, 2006
How naive am I?
WTF? I just got done talking to my dad. Somehow our conversation devolved from my SO's aunt dying to my hatred for the "man's burka" aka suit. I said my company doesn't appreciate/pay me enough...he said buy 5 suits. I said I wouldn't "lick asshole" (really) to get more pay
Any moron can buy a suit and any thief can buy a better suit...it is one of my little sayings.
Am I right or wrong?
Either way, I'll take less pay for genuineness before I give in to "the man"
That is all.
PS - apparently we both have enough alcohol in us to have had this conversation
PPS - he ripped on my friend for no reason. Compared myself and said friend as if I did something great. The fact is I lucked out (still don't get the pay/appreciation I should)
Any moron can buy a suit and any thief can buy a better suit...it is one of my little sayings.
Am I right or wrong?
Either way, I'll take less pay for genuineness before I give in to "the man"
That is all.
PS - apparently we both have enough alcohol in us to have had this conversation
PPS - he ripped on my friend for no reason. Compared myself and said friend as if I did something great. The fact is I lucked out (still don't get the pay/appreciation I should)
Saturday, October 21, 2006
Senseless War by Kevin Tillman (Pat Tillman's brother)
After Pat’s Birthday
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| Courtesy the Tillman Family |
Pat Tillman (left) and his brother Kevin stand in front of a Chinook helicopter in Saudi Arabia before their tour of duty as Army Rangers in Iraq in 2003. |
Editor’s note: Kevin Tillman joined the Army with his brother Pat in 2002, and they served together in Iraq and Afghanistan. Pat was killed in Afghanistan on April 22, 2004. Kevin, who was discharged in 2005, has written a powerful, must-read document.
It is Pat’s birthday on November 6, and elections are the day after. It gets me thinking about a conversation I had with Pat before we joined the military. He spoke about the risks with signing the papers. How once we committed, we were at the mercy of the American leadership and the American people. How we could be thrown in a direction not of our volition. How fighting as a soldier would leave us without a voice… until we got out.
Much has happened since we handed over our voice:
Somehow we were sent to invade a nation because it was a direct threat to the American people, or to the world, or harbored terrorists, or was involved in the September 11 attacks, or received weapons-grade uranium from Niger, or had mobile weapons labs, or WMD, or had a need to be liberated, or we needed to establish a democracy, or stop an insurgency, or stop a civil war we created that can’t be called a civil war even though it is. Something like that.
Somehow our elected leaders were subverting international law and humanity by setting up secret prisons around the world, secretly kidnapping people, secretly holding them indefinitely, secretly not charging them with anything, secretly torturing them. Somehow that overt policy of torture became the fault of a few “bad apples” in the military.
Somehow back at home, support for the soldiers meant having a five-year-old kindergartener scribble a picture with crayons and send it overseas, or slapping stickers on cars, or lobbying Congress for an extra pad in a helmet. It’s interesting that a soldier on his third or fourth tour should care about a drawing from a five-year-old; or a faded sticker on a car as his friends die around him; or an extra pad in a helmet, as if it will protect him when an IED throws his vehicle 50 feet into the air as his body comes apart and his skin melts to the seat.
Somehow the more soldiers that die, the more legitimate the illegal invasion becomes.
Somehow American leadership, whose only credit is lying to its people and illegally invading a nation, has been allowed to steal the courage, virtue and honor of its soldiers on the ground.
Somehow those afraid to fight an illegal invasion decades ago are allowed to send soldiers to die for an illegal invasion they started.
Somehow faking character, virtue and strength is tolerated.
Somehow profiting from tragedy and horror is tolerated.
Somehow the death of tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of people is tolerated.
Somehow subversion of the Bill of Rights and The Constitution is tolerated.
Somehow suspension of Habeas Corpus is supposed to keep this country safe.
Somehow torture is tolerated.
Somehow lying is tolerated.
Somehow reason is being discarded for faith, dogma, and nonsense.
Somehow American leadership managed to create a more dangerous world.
Somehow a narrative is more important than reality.
Somehow America has become a country that projects everything that it is not and condemns everything that it is.
Somehow the most reasonable, trusted and respected country in the world has become one of the most irrational, belligerent, feared, and distrusted countries in the world.
Somehow being politically informed, diligent, and skeptical has been replaced by apathy through active ignorance.
Somehow the same incompetent, narcissistic, virtueless, vacuous, malicious criminals are still in charge of this country.
Somehow this is tolerated.
Somehow nobody is accountable for this.
In a democracy, the policy of the leaders is the policy of the people. So don’t be shocked when our grandkids bury much of this generation as traitors to the nation, to the world and to humanity. Most likely, they will come to know that “somehow” was nurtured by fear, insecurity and indifference, leaving the country vulnerable to unchecked, unchallenged parasites.
Luckily this country is still a democracy. People still have a voice. People still can take action. It can start after Pat’s birthday.
Kevin Tillman
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
I say anyone who has blindly followed this guy should go. Democrat or Republican
(AP / CBS)
Iraqis walk past a car bomb wreck in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday Oct. 18, 2006. A parked car bomb blast wounded seven bystanders in Baghdad's central Alwiya district. (APBAGHDAD, Iraq, Oct. 18, 2006
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Iraqi police officers secure the site of a car bomb attack in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday Oct. 18, 2006. A parked car bomb blast wounded seven bystanders in Baghdad's central Alwiya district. (AP Photo/Samir Mizban)Monday, October 09, 2006
Firefox Shorcuts
Mouse Shortcuts
This is a list of the most common mouse shortcuts in Firefox, and the equivalents in Internet Explorer and Opera. The shortcuts are for Windows, but most of the Firefox shortcuts should work in Linux too.
| Command | Firefox | Internet Explorer | Opera |
|---|---|---|---|
| Back | Shift+Scroll down | Shift+Scroll down | Shift+Scroll down |
| Close Tab | Middle-click on Tab 1 | Feature Not Available | Shift+Left-click |
| Decrease Text Size | Ctrl+Scroll up | Ctrl+Scroll up | Ctrl+Scroll up |
| Forward | Shift+Scroll up | Shift+Scroll up | Shift+Scroll up |
| Increase Text Size | Ctrl+Scroll down | Ctrl+Scroll down | Ctrl+Scroll down |
| New Tab | Double-Click on Tab Bar | Feature Not Available | Double-Click on Tab Bar |
| Open in Background Tab | Ctrl+Left-click 2 Middle-click | Feature Not Available | Ctrl+Shift+Left-click Middle-click |
| Open in Foreground Tab | Ctrl+Shift+Left-click 2 Shift+Middle-click 2 | Shift+Left-click | |
| Open in New Window | Shift+Left-click | Shift+Left-click | |
| Paste URL and Go | Middle-click on Tab 1 | Feature Not Available | Feature Not Available |
| Reload (override cache) | Shift+Reload button | Shift+Reload button | |
| Save Page As | Alt+Left-click | ||
| Scroll line by line | Alt+Scroll |
1: A Middle-click on a tab closes it on Windows by default. However, in Linux it pastes whatever is currently in the Clipboard and visits that site (or performs a search). This can be changed by setting the middlemouse.contentLoadURL pref to either true (for the Content Load URL feature) or false (for closing the tab).
2: By default, Ctrl+Left-click opens the link in a background tab (which will keep you navigating on the page you clicked the link on) and Shift+Ctrl+Left-click opens the link in a foreground tab. In order to reverse this behavior, select Tools > Options..., click on Advanced and check the Select new tabs from open links option.
© 2002-2005 David Tenser.| Command | Firefox | Internet Explorer | Opera |
|---|---|---|---|
| Add Bookmark | Ctrl/Cmd+D | Ctrl/Cmd+D | Ctrl/Cmd+T |
| Back | Backspace Win/Linux Alt+<- Win/Linux Cmd+<- Mac | Backspace Alt/Option+<- | Backspace Alt/Option+<- Ctrl/Cmd+<- Z |
| Bookmarks | Ctrl/Cmd+B Ctrl+I Win | Ctrl/Cmd+I | F4 Ctrl/Cmd+Alt/Option+B Ctrl/Cmd+1 |
| Caret Browsing | F7 | Feature Not Available | Feature Not Available |
| Close Tab | Ctrl/Cmd+W Ctrl/Cmd+F4 | Feature Not Available | Ctrl/Cmd+W Ctrl/Cmd+F4 |
| Close Window | Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+W Alt/Option+F4 | Ctrl/Cmd+W Alt/Option+F4 | Ctrl/Cmd+W Alt/Option+F4 |
| Complete .com Address 1 | Ctrl+Enter Win/Linux | Ctrl/Cmd+Enter/Return | Enter/Return |
| Complete .net Address 1 | Shift+Enter/Return | Feature Not Available | Feature Not Available |
| Complete .org Address 1 | Ctrl+Shift+Enter Win/Linux | Feature Not Available | Feature Not Available |
| Copy | Ctrl/Cmd+C | Ctrl/Cmd+C | Ctrl/Cmd+C |
| Cut | Ctrl/Cmd+X | Ctrl/Cmd+X | Ctrl/Cmd+X |
| Decrease Text Size | Ctrl/Cmd+- | 9 | |
| Delete | Del | Del | Del |
| Delete Individual Form Auto-Complete Entry | Shift+Del | Del | |
| DOM Inspector | Ctrl+Shift+I Win/Linux | Feature Not Available | Feature Not Available |
| Downloads | Ctrl+J Win Ctrl+Y Linux Cmd+J Mac | Feature Not Available | Ctrl/Cmd+Alt/Option+T Ctrl/Cmd+5 |
| Find Again | Ctrl/Cmd+G F3 | F3 | |
| Find As You Type Link | ' | Feature Not Available | , Shift+/ |
| Find As You Type Text | / | Feature Not Available | / . |
| Find Previous | Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+G Shift+F3 | Shift+F3 | |
| Find in This Page | Ctrl/Cmd+F | Ctrl/Cmd+F | Ctrl/Cmd+F |
| Forward | Shift+Backspace Alt/Option+-> Win/Linux Cmd+-> Mac | Shift+Backspace Alt/Option+-> | Shift+Backspace Alt/Option+-> Ctrl/Cmd+-> X |
| Go Down One Line | Down | Down | Down |
| Go Up One Line | Up | Up | Up |
| Go Down One Page | PageDown | PageDown | PageDown |
| Go Up One Page | PageUp | PageUp | PageUp |
| Go to Bottom of Page | End | End | End |
| Go to Top of Page | Home | Home | Home |
| Full Screen | F11 Win/Linux | F11 | F11 |
| Help | F1 Win/Linux | F1 | F1 |
| History | Ctrl/Cmd+H | Ctrl/Cmd+H | Ctrl/Cmd+Alt/Option+H Ctrl/Cmd+4 |
| Home Page | Alt/Option+Home | Alt/Option+Home | Alt/Option+Home |
| Increase Text Size | Ctrl/Cmd++ | 0 | |
| Move to Next Frame | F6 | ||
| Move to Previous Frame | Shift+F6 | ||
| New Mail Message | Ctrl/Cmd+M | ||
| New Tab | Ctrl/Cmd+T | Feature Not Available | Ctrl/Cmd+N |
| Next Tab | Ctrl+Tab Win/Linux Cmd+Opt+Tab Mac Ctrl/Cmd+PageDown | Feature Not Available | Ctrl/Cmd+Tab Alt/Option+PageDown Ctrl/Cmd+F6 2 |
| New Window | Ctrl/Cmd+N | Ctrl/Cmd+N | Ctrl/Cmd+Alt/Option+N |
| Open File | Ctrl/Cmd+O | Ctrl/Cmd+O | Ctrl/Cmd+O |
| Open Link | Enter/Return | Enter/Return | Enter/Return |
| Open Link in New Tab | Ctrl/Cmd+Enter/Return | Feature Not Available | |
| Open Link in New Window | Shift+Enter/Return | Shift+Enter/Return | Shift+Enter/Return |
| Open Address in New Tab 1 | Alt/Option+Enter/Return | Feature Not Available | Shift+Enter/Return |
| Page Info | Ctrl+I Linux Cmd+I Mac | Ctrl/Cmd+8 | |
| Page Source | Ctrl/Cmd+U | Ctrl/Cmd+F3 | Ctrl/Cmd+F3 |
| Paste | Ctrl/Cmd+V | Ctrl/Cmd+V | Ctrl/Cmd+V |
| Previous Tab | Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+Tab Ctrl/Cmd+PageUp | Feature Not Available | Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+Tab Alt/Option+PageUp Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+F6 1 |
| Ctrl/Cmd+P | Ctrl/Cmd+P | Ctrl/Cmd+P | |
| Redo | Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+Z Ctrl+Y Win/Linux | Ctrl/Cmd+Y | Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+Z Ctrl/Cmd+Y |
| Reload | F5 Ctrl/Cmd+R | F5 Ctrl/Cmd+R | F5 Ctrl/Cmd+R |
| Reload (override cache) | Ctrl/Cmd+F5 Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+R | Ctrl/Cmd+F5 | |
| Restore Text Size | Ctrl/Cmd+0 | 6 | |
| Save Page As | Ctrl/Cmd+S | Ctrl/Cmd+S | |
| Save Link Target As | Alt/Option+Enter/Return | ||
| Select All | Ctrl/Cmd+A | Ctrl/Cmd+A | Ctrl/Cmd+A |
| Select Location Bar | Ctrl/Cmd+L Alt+D Win/Linux | Alt/Option+D F4 Ctrl/Cmd+Tab | F8 |
| Select Next Auto-Complete entry in text field | Down | ||
| Select Previous Auto-Complete entry in text field | Up | ||
| Select Next Search Engine in Search Bar | Ctrl/Cmd+Down | ||
| Select Previous Search Engine in Search Bar | Ctrl/Cmd+Up | ||
| Select Tab [1 to 9] | Ctrl+[1 to 9] Win Alt+[1 to 9] Linux Cmd+[1 to 9] Mac | Feature Not Available | |
| Stop | Esc | Esc | Esc |
| Undo | Ctrl/Cmd+Z | Ctrl/Cmd+Z | Ctrl/Cmd+Z |
| Web Search 2 | Ctrl/Cmd+K Ctrl+J Linux | Shift+F8 |
Win: This shortcut only works in Microsoft Windows.
Linux: This shortcut only works in Unix/Linux.
Mac: This shortcut only works in Mac OS X.
1: This shortcut only works in the Location Bar.
2: Web Search moves the cursor to the Search Bar and only works if the Search Bar is visible. If the Search Bar is hidden, this keyboard shortcut has no effect.
Tuesday, September 26, 2006
Something about buttons - No time
- Digg.
http://digg.com/submit?phase= 2&url=<$BlogItemPermalinkURL$>&title=
<$BlogItemTitle$> - Reddit.
http://reddit.com/submit?url= <$BlogItemPermalinkUrl$>&title=<$BlogItemTitle$>
- Del.icio.us.
http://del.icio.us/post?v=4&noui&jump=close&url= <$BlogItemPermalinkURL$>&title=<$BlogItemTitle$>
- Yahoo MyWeb.
http://myweb.yahoo.com/myresults/bookmarklet?t= <$BlogItemTitle$>&u=<$BlogItemPermalinkURL$> &ei=UTF
- Fark.
http://cgi.fark.com/cgi/fark/edit.pl? new_url=<$BlogItemPermalinkURL$>&new_comment= <$BlogItemTitle$>
- Furl.
http://www.furl.net/store?s=f&to=0&ti= <$BlogItemTitle$>&u= <$BlogItemPermalinkURL$>
- Magnolia.
http://ma.gnolia.com/beta/bookmarklet/add?url= <$BlogItemTitle$>&title= <$BlogItemTitle$>&description= <$BlogItemPermalinkURL$>
You can put some images inside link tag and in the end you’ll get something like this:
Monday, September 25, 2006
Who's out of touch...?
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Saturday, September 23, 2006
This was a president
FULL TRANSCRIPT: Clinton Takes On Fox News
Today, President Bill Clinton taped an interview with Fox News’ Chris Wallace, which is scheduled to be aired Sunday. He was told the interview would focus on his nonpartisan efforts to raise over $7 billion to combat the world’s biggest problems.
Early in the interview, Wallace attempted to smear Clinton with the same kind of misinformation contained in ABC’s Path to 9/11. Clinton was having none of it.
ThinkProgress has obtained a transcript of the interview. Here are some highlights –
Wallace repeats Path to 9/11 misinformation, Clinton fights back:
WALLACE: When we announced that you were going to be on Fox News Sunday, I got a lot of email from viewers, and I got to say I was surprised most of them wanted me to ask you this question. Why didn’t you do more to put Bin Laden and al Qaeda out of business when you were President? There’s a new book out which I suspect you’ve read called the Looming Tower. And it talks about how the fact that when you pulled troops out of Somalia in 1993, Bin Laden said “I have seen the frailty and the weakness and the cowardice of US troops.” Then there was the bombing of the embassies in Africa and the attack on the USS Cole.
CLINTON: OK..
WALLACE: …may I just finish the question sir. And after the attack, the book says, Bin Laden separated his leaders because he expected an attack and there was no response. I understand that hindsight is 20/20.
CLINTON: No let’s talk about…
WALLACE: …but the question is why didn’t you do more, connect the dots and put them out of business?
CLINTON: OK, let’s talk about it. I will answer all of those things on the merits but I want to talk about the context of which this arises. I’m being asked this on the FOX network…ABC just had a right wing conservative on the Path to 9/11 falsely claim that it was based on the 9/11 Commission report with three things asserted against me that are directly contradicted by the 9/11 Commission report. I think it’s very interesting that all the conservative Republicans who now say that I didn’t do enough, claimed that I was obsessed with Bin Laden. All of President Bush’s neocons claimed that I was too obsessed with finding Bin Laden when they didn’t have a single meeting about Bin Laden for the nine months after I left office. All the right wingers who now say that I didn’t do enough said that I did too much. Same people.
Clinton takes on Fox News bias:
WALLACE: Do you think you did enough sir?
CLINTON: No, because I didn’t get him.
WALLACE: Right…
CLINTON: But at least I tried. That’s the difference in me and some, including all the right wingers who are attacking me now. They ridiculed me for trying. They had eight months to try and they didn’t…I tried. So I tried and failed. When I failed I left a comprehensive anti-terror strategy and the best guy in the country, Dick Clarke… So you did FOX’s bidding on this show. You did you nice little conservative hit job on me. But what I want to know..
WALLACE: Now wait a minute sir…
CLINTON:…
WALLACE: I asked a question. You don’t think that’s a legitimate question?
CLINTON: It was a perfectly legitimate question but I want to know how many people in the Bush administration you asked this question of. I want to know how many people in the Bush administration you asked: Why didn’t you do anything about the Cole? I want to know how many you asked: Why did you fire Dick Clarke? I want to know…
WALLACE: We asked…
CLINTON:…
WALLACE: Do you ever watch Fox News Sunday sir?
CLINTON: I don’t believe you ask them that.
WALLACE: We ask plenty of questions of…
CLINTON: You didn’t ask that did you? Tell the truth.
WALLACE: About the USS Cole?
CLINTON: Tell the truth.
WALLACE: I…with Iraq and Afghanistan there’s plenty of stuff to ask.
CLINTON: Did you ever ask that? You set this meeting up because you were going to get a lot of criticism from your viewers because Rupert Murdoch is going to get a lot of criticism from your viewers for supporting my work on climate change. And you came here under false pretenses and said that you’d spend half the time talking about…
WALLACE: [laughs]
CLINTON: You said you’d spend half the time talking about what we did out there to raise $7 billion dollars plus over three days from 215 different commitments. And you don’t care.
Clinton on his priorities and the Bush administration priorities:
CLINTON: What did I do? I worked hard to try and kill him. I authorized a finding for the CIA to kill him. We contracted with people to kill him. I got closer to killing him than anybody has gotten since. And if I were still president we’d have more than 20,000 troops there trying to kill him. Now I never criticized President Bush and I don’t think this is useful. But you know we do have a government that thinks Afghanistan is 1/7 as important as Iraq. And you ask me about terror and Al Qaeda with that sort of dismissive theme when all you have to do is read Richard Clarke’s book to look at what we did in a comprehensive systematic way to try to protect the country against terror. And you’ve got that little smirk on your face. It looks like you’re so clever…
WALLACE: [Laughs]
CLINTON: I had responsibility for trying to protect this country. I tried and I failed to get Bin Laden. I regret it but I did try. And I did everything I thought I responsibly could. The entire military was against sending special forces into Afghanistan and refueling by helicopter and no one thought we could do it otherwise…We could not get the CIA and the FBI to certify that Al Qaeda was responsible while I was President. Until I left office. And yet I get asked about this all the time and they had three times as much time to get him as I did and no one ever asks them about this. I think that’s strange.
Read the full transcript (rough) HERE.
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