 | Archive - July 2007 More on the CrisisPosted Jul-20-07 07:09:40 PDT Updated Oct-29-07 13:38:42 PDT At Raw Story, Muriel Kane writes "Americans think their danger is terrorists," said Roberts. "They don't understand the terrorists cannot take away habeas corpus, the Bill of Rights, the Constitution. ... The terrorists are not anything like the threat that we face to the Bill of Rights and the Constitution from our own government in the name of fighting terrorism. Americans just aren't able to perceive that." The full audio of Thom Hartmann's interview with Paul Craig Roberts can be found here.  In a separate, but related editorial comment, Countdown's Keith Olbermann blasts the Bush administration's latest scapegoatting of Hillary Clinton. No matter how one feels about Hillary Clinton either as a person or a Presidential candidate, Mr. Olbermann discusses how and why the Bush Administration has stooped to blaming anyone who has questioned the war in Iraq, how we've executed the war, or our "torture-whomever-it-takes" tactics —or how it relates to the so called, "war on terror" for loosing the war in Iraq. Proposing the impossible—if not for Hillary Clinton's due and just execution of her duties as a Senitor to provide a check and ballance of the Executive branch by questioning our policies and their efficacy, we would have been victorious in Iraq. Never mind that Republican Senators have also questioned if we can possibly prevail under the circumstances created by the Bush Administration. Never mind that success is immesurable as this Administration has changed the definition of success and the dates for acheiving any success repeatedly. But regardless of the Amdinistration's inability to succeed at Bush's folly in Iraq, it is incomprehensible how the questioning of the policies could possibly have been the cause of our lack of success. Like every disaster this administration has caused from the poor handing of New Orleans following Katrinia to Gitmo, to the shameful scandal of Alberto Gonzalez, it is always someone else's fault even though the administration has had a free hand to choose people who time and time again lack the skills, maturity, or integrity to conduct themselves in the interests of the public they are sworn to serve. Meanwhile the most of the Republican party complicitly follows their leader to the very end of our democracy in blind support of an administration that refuses to consider that the reasons we went to war were either complete lies or a series of incompetent decisions. To be sure, there was no plan for winning the peace after we toppled Saddam. Not content with attacking those who are serving the people in this democracy, the Bush Administration recently used a Presidential signing statement to open the door to a new wave of the Imperial Presidency. Called, "Executive Order: Blocking Property of Certain Persons Who Threaten Stabilization Efforts in Iraq says that the US government may seize the property of anyone who:
 "to have materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial, material, logistical, or technical support for, or goods or services in support of, such an act or acts of violence or any person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order; or to be owned or controlled by, or to have acted or purported to act for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, any person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order." Taken broadly this could be easily used to seize the property of anyone who attends an anti-war rally in their own neighborhood. Ridiculous? You would like to think so but again look at at how the administration blames Hillary Clinton for questioning our practices. Look at how Carl Rove and other Republican water carriers like commedian Bill Oreilly and Rush Limbagh constantly tyrad atainst anyone who disagrees with the current President or questions the constantly strained logic used by his administration to continue to declare, "Mission Accomplished". (You remember, thousands of days ago when Bush declared that we'd "won" in Iraq? Check out this video from the Whitehouse...poof! History rewritten.) So no one can dare question the policies or practices of our govenment.
What a perfect storm. Good luck. Safari vs FirefoxPosted Jul-15-07 18:25:19 PDT Updated Oct-29-07 13:38:09 PDT Des Traynor, a Usability Analyst from Ireland, wrote an intereresting piece in his blog called, "9 things Firefox should steal from Safari". Des has some interesting things to say. Here are my takes:
Firefox updates and thoughts on Safari for WindowsPosted Jul-10-07 00:28:46 PDT Updated Dec-05-07 11:38:43 PST  OK I have been terrible about writing in my blog. So first, let me say that the day Apple released Safari for Windows I went and downloaded it. I was pretty interested to see what the good people at Apple had to offer. There are lots of reviews of Safari, so I won't spend the time right now to do another full one, but let me say that it is not a Windows app. First, you can't resize it except from the lower right corner. Why does Apple persist in thinking that this is somehow a more usable interface? But why quibble over usability? Otherwise, Safari is like a bike with training wheels. It isn't bad…and it will get you there but it is a browser on training wheels—not a tool for power users…and you may not want your friends to see you using it if you are over the age of six. Bold accusation, Brash Boy!Maybe so. But to me it is simple.
To me, you can't make the most use of any Web 2.0 technology without a smart, user-configurable, adaptable, and extensible browser and Safari isn't it. On the plus side, Safari's font rendering is pretty nice when compared to Firefox (or even IE 7.x). The text did look very sharp in the browser, so my hat is off to Apple on that. Compare these screen shots of Firefox and Safari. Maybe it is me, but I like the font rendering in Safari.  On the downside, I could not login to digg.com with Safari because when I clicked on the "Login" button the login fields didn't appear! In sort, it isn't that that Safari is all bad, but even with superior font rendering (in my subjective opinion) it will not be replacing Firefox as my primary browser anytime soon. I'm just more productive with Firefox and I get more out of the web with Firefox. Latest Installment of My Firefox ExtensionsHere's my latest update on my favorite Firefox extensions. All work great in Firefox 2.0.0.4.
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