Tuesday - October 24, 2006

Foxy Browser

Firefox Browser 2.0
_{(BBC) - October 24, 2006, 06:32 GMT 07:32 UK}

A new version of the Firefox browser for the web 2.0 age is to make its debut on 24 October. Built in to the updated software is anti-phishing technology, to prevent fraud, as well as built-in spell checking and a search engine manager. It is released less than a week after Microsoft unveiled Internet Explorer 7. The non-profit Mozilla Corporation, which oversees the development of Firefox, says more than one million people helped refine the final release.

Firefox 2 is due to be released at 1700 PST (0100 BST).

The first version of Firefox was released in November 2004 and since then has steadily been chipping away at the dominance of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser. Now it is believed to enjoy a 12-15% market share of the net browsing market globally. But, said Mike Schroepfer, vice-president of engineering at Mozilla, in some nations the share is far higher.

Mr Schroepfer said that there were about 12 big improvements in Firefox 2.0 along with thousands of minor tweaks and bug fixes. Big changes include a phishing finder that alerts people when they stray on to a site that tries to trick them into handing over login details for a bank or other valuable service.

Another change was a spell checker that keeps an eye on every bit of text typed in almost any Firefox browser box be it in a web-based e-mail program or an add-on that lets people post blog updates directly.

Firefox 2.0 also has an improved session restoration system that will let users resurrect tabbed webpages they accidentally closed or will re-start a net session at the point before a crash. Other changes include improvements to the web feed, search engine and add-ons manager.

Posted by The Skipper     on 10/24/2006 at 08:08 AM   
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Take Me Out To The Ballgame

_{Larry Wright - The Detroit News}

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Wake Up Call

 

GET ME OUT OF HERE ...

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   Monday - October 23, 2006

Through The Looking Glass

“Anchors Aweigh!”

San Francisco (October 7, 2006) – A Parade of Ships led by the nuclear aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68), pass under the Golden Gate Bridge while entering San Francisco Bay during San Francisco Fleet Week 2006. Since 1981, San Francisco Fleet Week has been an annual opportunity for Northern Californians to honor the men and women serving in the United States Navy, Coast Guard and Marines.

This year approximately 9,000 crew members on visiting ships will arrive in the City to participate in Fleet Week. Ship’s tours and community service projects are scheduled throughout the Bay Area. Ships participating included, the destroyers USS Higgins (DDG 76), USS Chafee (DDG 90), the Coast Guard cutter USCGC Steadfast (WMEC 623), destroyer USS John Paul Jones (DDG 53), and amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6).  -- U.S. Navy Photograph by Mr. John F. Williams

Posted by The Skipper     on 10/23/2006 at 05:21 PM   
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CENTCOM Briefing

Posted by The Skipper     on 10/23/2006 at 04:39 PM   
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Slinging Mud

Senate

Connecticut: Ned Lamont

Maryland: Ben Cardin

Michigan: Debbie Stabenow

Missouri: Claire McCaskill

Montana: Jon Tester

New Jersey: Bob Menendez

Tennessee: Harold Ford

Virginia: James Webb


Democrat House Seats

(CO-03): John Salazar

(GA-03): Jim Marshall

(GA-12): John Barrow

(IA-03): Leonard Boswell

(IL-08): Melissa Bean

(IL-17): Phil Hare

(IN-07): Julia Carson

(NC-13): Brad Miller

(PA-12): John Murtha

(WV-01): Alan Mollohan


Republican House Seats

(AZ-08): Gabrielle Giffords (CT-04): Diane Farrell (CT-05): Chris Murphy (CO-07): Ed Perlmutter (IA-01): Bruce Braley (IL-06): Tammy Duckworth (IN-02): Joe Donnelly (IN-08): Brad Ellsworth (IN-09): Baron Hill (FL-13): Christine Jennings (FL-16): Tim Mahoney (FL-22): Ron Klein (KY-03): John Yarmuth (NC-01): Heath Shuler

(MN-06): Patty Wetterling (NM-01): Patricia Madrid (NY-20): Kirsten Gillibrand (NY-24): Michael Arcuri (NY-26): Jack Davis (OH-15): Mary Jo Kilroy (OH-18): Zack Space (PA-06): Lois Murphy (PA-08): Patrick Murphy (PA-07): Joe Sestak (PA-10): Chris Carney (VA-02): Phil Kellam (WI-08): Steve Kagen

Posted by The Skipper     on 10/23/2006 at 09:52 AM   
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Open Post: Suggestions

I am fast approaching burn-out on this upcoming election. I just wish it would all go away. I am also sick and tired of the lamestream media’s bias, the Democrats’ constant obstructionism, Liberals’ endless moonbattery and troglodyte Muslims insisting on being offended.

With that in mind, I toss the ball to you gentle readers out there. This is an open post. Throw out your two cents in the comments on any topic you want. One thing I want you to consider is the following question:

Posted by The Skipper     on 10/23/2006 at 05:12 AM   
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And Now For Something Completely Different

 

GET ME OUT OF HERE ...

Posted by The Skipper     on 10/23/2006 at 04:07 AM   
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One If By Land …

_{Chuck Asay - The Colorado Springs Gazette}

To Stand or Fall in Baghdad: Capital Is Key to Mission
_{BAGHDAD (NY TIMES) - October 23, 2006}

After three years of trying to thwart a potent insurgency and tamp down the deadly violence in Iraq, the American military is playing its last hand: the Baghdad security plan. The plan will be tweaked, adjusted and modified in the weeks ahead, as American commanders try to reverse the dismaying increase in murders, drive-by shootings and bombings.

But military commanders here see no plausible alternative to their bedrock strategy to clear violence-ridden neighborhoods of militias, insurgents and arms caches, hold them with Iraqi and American security forces, and then try to win over the population with reconstruction projects, underwritten mainly by the Iraqi government. There is no fall-back plan that the generals are holding in their hip pocket. This is it.

- More ...

As G.O.P. Mopes, Bush Adds the Duties of Optimist in Chief
_{WASHINGTON (NY TIMES) - October 23, 2006}

The capital is filled with Republicans convinced that they will lose the House and maybe the Senate. So last week, the White House and party leaders convened a “friends and allies” teleconference to dispute what Ken Mehlman, chairman of the Republican National Committee, considers flawed conventional wisdom.

For 20 minutes, Mr. Mehlman and the White House political director, Sara Taylor, tried to lift the cloak of gloom that has descended on the top ranks of Republican strategists, using what one of the dozens of lobbyists, donors, party aides and other supporters who listened in later called “happy talk.”

President Bush and his political strategists may be the most outwardly optimistic Republicans in Washington these days, and perhaps the only ones. They are doing their best to fend off the sense of impending doom within their party that they fear will become a self-fulfilling prophecy on Nov. 7.

- More ...

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   Sunday - October 22, 2006

The Obama Conspiracy

The Chicago Tribune started it when they followed him to Africa and while doing so flattered him, adored him, promoted him and did their best to push him into the limelight. Follow the Tribune as they try to convince you what a humble, intelligent, nice young man Obama is and how much he feels your pain.

Then the Washington Post jumped in, helping Obama promote his new book, “The Audicity Of Hope” (which has nothing to do with Hope, Arkansas - or does it?). The Post obviously fell in love with Obama, calling him a “rising star” and a “magnetic speaker who delivers original phrases in composed yet passionate tones” and concludes by saying he “articulates a mode of liberalism that sounds both highly pragmatic and deeply moral”. Obviously, according to the Post, Obama can do no wrong and is fully capable of walking on water and raising the dead.

Then TIME magazine came along this week with a front-page cover story (that ran to over two dozen pages inside) entitled “The Fresh Face”. After reading this article, you would think Obama was the new Moses who can lead the Democrats out of evil Republican bondage and into the promised land of Washington. TIME compares his candor to John McCain and his empathy to Bill Clinton.  TIME also says the “white folks” just love him as a nurse proclaimed at one of his recent press-the-flesh events, “Oh, my God! Oh, my God! I just touched a future President! I can’t believe it!”.

Then Obama showed up on Larry King Live a few nights ago and King and his fans went wild over the new “Great Democratic Hope”. King’s introduction went like this, “Born to an exchange student from Kenya and a white woman from Kansas, who split when he was two, Obama was raised in Hawaii and Indonesia. He managed to attend an elite prep school while his mom was on food stamps. He became the first African American president of the prestigious Harvard Law Review before entering politics where his diverse background is reflected in his inclusive vision.” For Liberals, you can’t get any more perfect than that, I suppose.

Finally, the New York Times chimed in on the Obama bandwagon with an editorial by David Brooks entitled “Run, Barak, Run” (subscription required) and the excited proclamation, “Whether you’re liberal or conservative, you should hope Senator Barack Obama runs for president.” He can cross party lines, leap tall buildings in a single bound and he’s faster than a speeding bullet.

Are you starting to get the picture yet? The next presidential election is two years away and the Liberal Rags Of Record are already flogging Obama’s case to the American people. It wouldn’t be so bad if it weren’t so obvious and seemingly a concerted effort to plow the road for Obama to ride into the White House in 2008 on a white horse and packing silver bullets ready to take out those evil Conservatives. The only unanswered question is who will play the part of Tonto? Is Hillary already practicing how to say “Kemo Sabe”? That is the Sum Of All Fears ....

Sen. Obama Says He’s Weighing 2008 Run
_{(BREITBART) - Oct 22 1:40 PM US/Eastern}

Sen. Barack Obama acknowledged Sunday he was considering a run for president in 2008, backing off previous statements that he would not do so.

The Illinois Democrat said he could no longer stand by the statements he made after his 2004 election and earlier this year that he would serve a full six-year term in Congress. He said he would not make a decision until after the Nov. 7 elections.

“That was how I was thinking at that time,” said Obama, when asked on NBC’s “Meet the Press” about his previous statements.

“Given the responses that I’ve been getting over the last several months, I have thought about the possibility” although not with the seriousness or depth required, he said. “My main focus right now is in the ‘06. ... After November 7, I’ll sit down, I’ll sit down and consider, and if at some point I change my mind, I will make a public announcement and everybody will be able to go at me.”

Obama was largely unknown outside Illinois when he burst onto the national scene with a widely acclaimed address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention.

In recent weeks, his political stock has been rising as a potentially viable centrist candidate for president in 2008 after former Virginia Gov. Mark Warner announced earlier this month that he was bowing out of the race.

In a recent issue of Time magazine, Obama’s face fills the cover next to the headline, “Why Barack Obama Could Be The Next President.” He is currently on a tour promoting his latest book, “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream.”

- More on the story here ...

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Endorsement

I urge all of our readers in Pennsylvania to vote for Diana Irey on November 7. Why? Because she is running against Jack Murtha and Murtha is a butthead ... then again, you already knew that. Cast your vote for Diana and throw the bum Murtha out.

• He has voted himself 12 straight pay raises.


• He has voted to raise his own pay from $42,500/yr to $165,500/yr.


• He tried to take a $50,000 cash bribe from an undercover agent for the FBI.


• His “investment defense” was nothing more than a ruse to hide his $50,000 cash bribe from an undercover agent for the FBI.


• He wrongfully accused U.S. Marines of cold-blooded murder.


• He voted against allowing military personnel to assist the Department of Homeland Security with border security in times of a threat to national security.


• He has steadfastly refused to debate Diana Irey because of all the reasons above ... and more.

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The Galloping Gourmet

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Weird News Bytes

• Want to make sure your bloodline stays pure and no foreign genes get into your family? Easy, just have sex with all of your daughters ... for seven years, creating six grandchildren before the cops close in.


• Need to escape from prison in a hurry? That’s easy too. All you need is plenty of Ex-Lax and a butter knife and before you know it the “runs” will have you on the run.


• You know that blue water in airplane toilets? Well, guess what happens when it accidentally leaves the plane at 30,000 feet above your bedroom. Did the Earth move for you too?


• What’s worse than snakes on a plane? I’m glad you asked because snakes in your rental car has to rank right up there on the list of really cool movie plots. Samuel L. Jackson doing ads for Hertz? Hey, it worked for O.J.


• DO NOT ... I repeat DO NOT ... follow this link to the story about true love between a man and his female pit bull. And I DO MEAN true love. Hint. Hint. Fortunately, the guy’s wife had a camera phone and the cops broke up the affair. PETA has been notified.


• I suppose you thought radical Muslims had reached the ultimate idiocy when they got offended over cartoons? Well, you were wrong. Now they’re upset over a 100-year-old tree and Allah has apparently commanded them to become lumberjacks. Cue up the Monty Python song. Yeah, that one.


• No list would be complete without a story of a sword-wielding robber who held up a service station and ran away without the loot. Only to return shortly and beg the attendant hiding behind now locked doors to give him his booty. There’s one born every minute.


• Finally, just when you least expect it a real love story comes along to brighten your day. It’s the heart-warming tale of Heidi and Hannibal ... and a love affair for the ages. The only problem is Heidi is a donkay and Hannibal is a gander. The birds just love a cute ass, don’t they?

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Sunday Funnies

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