If you have a WordPress site, here’s why I either a) never visit it, or b) never comment on it. The login keeps asking me for a different username than the one it accepted from me a week ago. Just when things are working fine, they stop working at all. Pshaw. Keep your stinking WordPress. Count me out.
UPDATE: Well, now, I moved to WordPress in 2014 and I have to say that its comment system works fine. Must have been a fix since I wrote the above.
I didn’t watch much of it live. I have seen several clips, and I followed some of the live-blogging, and read the conclusions of others–some of whom thought that, while Barry may not have won, he didn’t lose, either. Mr. B.’s mom, whose job it is to watch such things, thought it was a tie. She thought Mac won on content but Barry won on style. Style. Like an Olympic gymnast. Sigh. In some of the clips I saw, he was clearly irritated. I thought it was Mac who was supposed to have the temper?
All in all, I don’t think any of these "debates," are very meaningful, since the participants seldom say anything imaginative. Just their stump speech points. Nor do I think they have much impact on the elections. On the Big Media and the soundbite collections, sure, but how many people do they persuade? I think Biden and Palin will be more fun to watch and I won’t miss that one.
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Posted in Blogosphere, Mr. Boy, Rancho Roly Poly, Scribbles
Tagged McCain, Obama, Oxford debate
Hard as it may be to do, these last few weeks of the presidential election are the time to ignore the polls. Many of them will be phony from here on out, as the polling companies weight their results on the Dem side to satisfy their clients, usually partisan-Dem Big Media.
If mystery-man Barry somehow proves more compelling than "reporting-for-duty" Kerry did in 2004, and the turnout on election day is wholly different (packed, for instance, with bright-eyed Dem youth), then the polls might be meaningful. Otherwise, there’ll be a repeat of 2004, when the polls showed right up until election day that Kerry was going to take it. Then he lost by three million votes. There’s already some indication that Barry could lose by a lot more.
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Posted in Blogosphere, Scribbles
Tagged Kerry, McCain, Obama, polls, weighting of polls by party
I had a suspicion the Dems would want to prolong the economic agony as a way to help their presidential candidate. When the economy falters, as the saying goes, the voters turn to the party out of power. Hence liberal Big Media’s partisan assertion all year that we are in a recession, despite the lack of statistical evidence for it.
But it never occurred to me the Dems were so cynical as to try to use the bailout bill to benefit the very groups whose radical missions (in pursuing no-money-down minority housing loans) helped create the mess. No, not Freddie and Fannie, but La Raza, ACORN, and the Urban League.
The Seablogger calls it "a kind of creeping civil war, conducted through politics, in accordance with revolutionary theory," which Mac probably knew about and was determined to thwart when he pulled his return-to-the-Capitol-to-look-presidential stunt. Presidential politics has always been fierce, and 2008 seems especially so, though I suppose if we’d lived in the 1850s, in the runup to the real, shooting Civil War, we might think this was all pretty tame.
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Posted in Blogosphere, Civil War, Scribbles
Tagged ACORN, bailout, La Raza, McCain, no-money-down mortgage, Obama, Urban League
The Texas Rainmaker, who did not evacuate, has a good post on the storm, the aftermath, and the continued deprivations in the old (1830s-40s) capital of Texas. His photographs tell the story of downed trees and signage, blocked roads and long lines at gas stations and groceries better than words. Our evacuated friends from Kingwood, on Houston’s northwest side, are still in Austin, but not staying at the rancho as they have two dogs. A wonder they found a hotel that would take the dogs, but they did.
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Posted in Blogosphere, Scribbles, Texana, Weather/Climate
Tagged Houston, Hurricane Ike, Kingwood
Not hardly. It was something a lot bigger, a lot nosier, and still necessary after all these years.
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Posted in Blogosphere, Rancho Roly Poly, Scribbles, Texana, Weather/Climate
Tagged air conditioning, six-gun
I see I’m not the only one who dislikes the new Sitemeter. It’s much harder to figure out than the old version, which I was used to digesting at a glance. No more.
UPDATE: Apparently overwhelmed with unhappy customers, they "rolled back" to the original. Yes!
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 