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Why bother with dates at all?
Can somebody tell me what people have against putting years in the dates on their blog posts?
Quite frequently, I find myself searching for something, and an interesting-looking blog post comes to the top. When I go to look at that post, I see it dated with a month and a day, but no year. Sometimes, this doesn’t matter. But in many cases for me, I’m looking for a programming-related topic, and I’d like to know whether what I’m about to read is current, or applies to the “new” version released five years ago. I’ll see a date like “Feb 2″ without a year. Great. I have to read the thing now to find out whether it’s even relevant.
Please, bloggers, put a year on it!
Springfield police charge one-armed man with unarmed robbery | masslive.com
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“No Chance”
“Biden was in Wisconsin to hit the campaign trail with Democratic Senator Russ Feingold. Just days earlier, the vice president told a crowd of Feingold’s supporters gathered at a fund-raising event that ‘there’s no possibility to restore the 8 million jobs lost in the Great Recession.’”
No chance? Is that how the stimulus is supposed to work? Let’s remember this for later.
(Via FOXNews.com.)
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HuffPo Blogger Slams Glenn Beck, But Hits Kipling Instead
The Trailer For Glenn Beck’s New Book Is Just As Nuts As You’d Expect (VIDEO): In the process of writing about a video promo for Glenn Beck’s new book, the author of the post had this to say:
The content of said trailer ups the ante with each over-the-top line.
With lines like “The dog returns to his vomit” and “The burnt fool’s bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the fire,” it’s very clear what this book is about. Nothing.
What the author didn’t realize is that those lines weren’t written by Glenn Beck or anyone remotely connected with him. The were written by Rudyard Kipling in the poem, “The Gods of the Copybook Headings”.
A little later, apparently after somebody had pointed this out, there was this:
UPDATE: This was not meant to imply that Beck wrote the lines used in the trailer. They are from a Rudyard Kipling poem, “The Gods of the Copybook Headings.”
So I’m sure that the author had no particular problem with Glenn Beck, right? Not on the Huffington Post for sure. I’m sure it’s all about Kipling, who points out in the final stanza of that poem the direction so many HuffPo progressives are taking us: “And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins/When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins”.
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The Lush Life in Gaza
What’s that? You’ve heard that they’re in awful shape, in need of humanitarian aid? And President Obama has pledged $400 million that we don’t have to building schools, affordable housing and providing access to clean water? Then you might want to take a look at this:
Some excerpts:
While prominent Western media continue to lead their viewers and readers astray with accounts of a non-existent ‘mass humanitarian catastrophe’ in Gaza, fancy restaurants and an Olympic-size swimming pool open there
Many Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza live a middle class (and in some cases an upper class) lifestyle that Western journalists refuse to report on because it doesn’t fit with the simplistic story they were sent to write
If you drop into the Roots Club in Gaza, according to the Lonely Planet guidebook, you can ‘dine on steak au poivre and chicken cordon bleu’
UN-run summer camp for Palestinian children burned to the ground for being ‘un-Islamic’; UN staff there threatened with murder; UN Security Council fails to react
(Via Michelle Malkin.)
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Well, isn’t that interesting?
In Arizona, you have to have reasonable suspicion for stopping somebody in the first place. So it has to be, they call them lawful stop or detention or arrest. So that’s number one. Not required under federal law. And number two, there has to be a reasonable suspicion to then inquire your immigration status. Not required under federal law. And number three, under Arizona law, you cannot consider the person’s race in determining whether you have that reasonable suspicion. Also not a problem under federal law.
So it turns out that the Arizona law is more stringent about just about everything than federal law is. Who knew? Obviously not the presidents of the United States and Mexico, the attorney general, or director of homeland security, none of whom had actually read the law before expounding on its injustice. And obviously not the people who are protesting, boycotting, and otherwise making much ado about nothing.
Greek leader considers action against US banks – CNBC
Greek leader considers action against US banks – CNBC:
Both the Greek government and its citizens have blamed international banks for fanning the flames of the debt crisis with comments about Greece’s likely default, actions that are causing the country’s borrowing costs to soar.
Is it banks “fanning the flames”? Or is it more likely this:
Greek debt is scheduled to exceed 140 percent of its economic output in 2012.
I’m going with the second one.
SPD Blotter » Man arrested for groping a woman
SPD Blotter » Man arrested for groping a woman: A man groped a woman in a Seattle hotel. Police were called to the scend, and the alleged groper was identified to them. The rest was just too good not to share:
“The suspect was highly intoxicated and initially tried to tell officers that he thought the victim was his girlfriend. He initially said that his girlfriend was staying with him at the hotel, but when asked where she was, admitted that he did not have a girlfriend, and that he lived at home with his mother. ”