After I got the blog up yesterday, I spent a couple hours troubleshooting an IE9 problem and fixing a Firefox 4 problem. At around Noon, I crawled back into bed and that was it until got up at Midnight to begin my research. After two late nights of volunteer work this week, I obviously needed the sleep. Today I have errands and chores to do.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today it took me 3:42 (average 4:42). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From NY Times: Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s forces retreated from this strategic city on Saturday, running for dozens of miles back along the coast with Libyan rebels in pursuit in their first major victory since American and European airstrikes began a week ago.
That’s progress. I hope Libya dumps Daffy soon.
From Common Dreams: Some day soon, when pro-democracy campaigners have their cellphones confiscated by police, they’ll be able to hit the "panic button" — a special app that will both wipe out the phone’s address book and emit emergency alerts to other activists.
Egyptians charging their cell phones at Tahrir Square (credit: Samir Eshra) The panic are button is one of the new technologies the U.S. State Department is promoting to equip pro-democracy activists in countries ranging from the Middle East to China with the tools to fight back against repressive governments.
Egypt? China?? Hell! When is the US model coming out?!!? They are desperately needed in Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, Arizona, New Jersey, Florida, Texas and elsewhere!
From Think Progress: For years, former UN Ambassador John Bolton has been on a one-man mission to open up a new war in Iran. Last fall, he called for an immediate attack on Iran “in the next eight days.” When that didn’t happen, Bolton pointed to the downfall of former Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak this winter as a reason to “speed that timetable up” on an Iranian attack.
ThinkProgress spoke with Bolton, who is weighing a run for the Republican presidential nomination, at the Conservative Principles Conference in Iowa. Despite current military engagements in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya, Bolton urged the United States to also keep its focus on “the great risk” of Iran. When asked whether our bombing of Libya means we’re shifting focus away from Iran, Bolton argued for attacking both, declaring “I think a president’s got to walk and chew gum at the same time”.
If McConJob runs again, this clown would fit him perfectly.
Cartoon:
Pray for deliverance from the pseudo-Christian followers of Republican Supply-side Jesus (not the real one).
Did Mike Huckabee just flush his presidential aspirations down the proverbial toilet? Well, if American mainstream media has an ounce of journalistic gumption remaining the answer most certainly would be “yes”. Huckabee has just been caught on video, at a Christian supremacist conference, stating that Americans should be forcibly indoctrinated at gunpoint. The organization which hosted the “Rediscover God In America” conference, United in Purpose [Theocons delinked], has edited Huckabee’s comment from footage of his speech, but not before People For The American Way’s Kyle Mantyla captured the unedited footage, in which Mike Huckabee states, “I almost wish that there would be, like, a simultaneous telecast, and all Americans would be forced–forced at gunpoint no less–to listen to every David Barton message, and I think our country would be better for it. I wish it’d happen.”
