Monthly Archives: June 2008

New Plugin Time – TTC Security Tool Plus Many Others

Yes, new plugins, yea, yea! The first one is TTC WordPress Security Tool. This one “blocks cross-site script attempts, ip numbers of ill behaved people and bots and bans bad user agents.” You can also manually blacklist IP address. I installed this because neither Akismet nor Bad Behavior can really manually block. Spam Karma 2 […]

Obama Treats Women On Staff Unfairly

It’s all about the hope and change, ya know. CNS News – Obama’s for Equal Pay, Yet Pays Female Staffers Less Than Males While Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has vowed to make pay equity for women a top priority if elected president, an analysis of his Senate staff shows that women are outnumbered and […]

Paul Krugman Exposes What Democrats Cheer For

You have to go all the way down to the end of the article, but, he finally exposes the reality of the Democrats. NY Times – The Obama Agenda One thing is clear: for Democrats, winning this election should be the easy part. Everything is going their way: sky-high gas prices, a weak economy and […]

Aside: Blogger Shuts Down Pro-Hillary Sites

Why are pro-Hillary/anti-Obama sites run by folks on the left being shut down? Read about it at Bloggasm.

Good News! Grey Lady Exposes Yet Another Secret Operation

Good thing the Islamic Jihadis do not use the Internet or anything, eh? NY Times – Amid Policy Disputes, Qaeda Grows in Pakistan Late last year, top Bush administration officials decided to take a step they had long resisted. They drafted a secret plan to make it easer for the Pentagon’s Special Operations forces to […]

Global Warming Today: Coffee, Floods, And Ice Cap

One of the bright sides of the anthropogenic global warming hysteria is the amusing stories that they just keep coming up with. To start out, from Newsweek, Global Warming Is a Cause of This Year’s Extreme Weather The frequency of downpours and heat waves, as well as the power of hurricanes, has increased so dramatically that […]

San Fran Loves Those Illegal Alien Crack Dealers

What’s even more amazing is that the San Francisco Chronicle actually covered the story, rather then covering for the city – Feds probe S.F.’s migrant-offender shield (h/t Cassy Fiano and Michelle Malkin) San Francisco juvenile probation officials – citing the city’s immigrant sanctuary status – are protecting Honduran youths caught dealing crack cocaine from possible federal […]

The Next ObamaBus Victim: Wes Clark

How soon will Wesley Clark be run over by Senator Neophyte? Gen. Wesley Clark, acting as a surrogate for Barack Obama’s campaign, invoked John McCain’s military service against him in one of the more personal attacks on the Republican presidential nominee this election cycle. Clark said that McCain lacked the executive experience necessary to be […]

Cancer Cure To Get Human Trials

Well, well, here is a very interesting story about excellent progress in medicine here in Flyover Country < too snarky. News and Observer – Cancer cure in mice to get human trials Clinical trials begin this week at Wake Forest University on a cancer therapy that has completely cured the disease in every mouse tested […]

Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

Happy Sunday! This is the pre-Independence Day edition. The pinup is by Joyce Ballentine, with a wee bit of help. What’s happening in ye olde blogopshere? Over at Stop The ACLU, Roger W. Gardner discusses the Obama on Iraq, and the disturbing implications Uh oh. It is apparently Israel’s faul that the murderous Palestinians broke […]

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