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Captain Ed is a father and grandfather living in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota, a native Californian who moved to the North Star State because of the weather. He lives with his wife Marcia, also known as the First Mate, their two dogs, and frequently watch their granddaughter Kayla, whom Captain Ed calls The Little Admiral.
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There Goes The Undefeated Season
Notre Dame managed to get its first loss out of the way as soon as possible -- and as badly as possible. Georgia Tech came to South Bend and stomped the Irish, 33-3, in the worst home opener loss in school history. The offense fumbled twice and allowed seven sacks on Evan Sharpley, who must have longed to have Brady Quinn back on the field instead. If Charlie Weis doesn't turn this debacle around fast, he may want to start asking Ty Willingham for some career counseling ....
Would Early Primaries Allow More Donations?
Jim Geraghty at The Campaign Spot believes that candidates will benefit if primaries and caucuses get pushed into 2007. A loophole in campaign finance regulation appears to allow an extra $2,300 per donor for candidates if those elections are held this year. Be sure to check out Jim's analysis, and the surprising candidate that may benefit the most.
When Tom Met Jeralyn
One of the interesting aspects of politics is finding out that opponents are people, too. Jeralyn Merritt of TalkLeft met Rep. Tom Tancredo backstage at NBC's studios, and found him more likable than she had anticipated. Perhaps it was their mutual interest in Dog, The Bounty Hunter ...
Joe Lieberman A Right-Wing Nut?
That's what CAIR says, according to Joe Kaufman. He has a link to a CAIR official's blog post that calls Lieberman, along with John Bolton, former CIA director James Woolsey, and the Heritage Foundation's Peter Brookes as "extremists". Affad Shaikh also calls Dick Cheney a "fat bastard of a liar," apparently not meant as a pop-culture reference to the Austin Powers movies. (via Let Freedom Ring)
Broadband Homelessness
The Japanese have made homelessness more efficient, and more Net-friendly, too. Their Internet cafés have become homeless shelters for the struggling manual-labor sector. The problem has grown into such a problem that government intervention will shortly become a political priority.
Found My Law Firm
Power Line links twice to this story regarding an attorney at Faegre & Benson who refused to become a victim and helped capture a very dangerous man. Keith Radtke is a partner in the firm as is Power Line's John Hinderaker. Radtke is listed in satisfactory condition after getting shot in the back, but that didn't keep him from locking up his attacker in a wrestling grip until police could arrive. I don't know about you, but that's the kind of man I'd want as my counsel ....
Don't Click That YouTube E-mail
The latest in spam seems to be redirections from YouTube links in e-mail to IP addresses without domain names. They attempt to entice people by making it seem that they have been inadvertently YouTubed. I'm sure most people can see through this scam, but just in case, you've been warned ....
Rick Moran Escapes The Floods
Rick Moran has kept us up to date on his travails along the Algonquin River. Yesterday, the police showed up to get him evacuated before the river flooded his home -- but today, Rick finds that a minor miracle has taken place, and that his house survives ... at least for now. Keep Rick in your prayers, and keep checking in at Right Wing Nut House for updates.
Rule 1: Drag The Corpse On Over First
If I've learned anything in four years of blogging, don't try to be out in front of the death rumors, especially with the villains of the world. Saddam died a hundred deaths before we caught him alive in his spider hole, and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi almost as many before his demise last year. Osama may or may not be alive, but everyone's avoided speculating on his fate for a while now. Maybe Val at Babalu Blog will get luckier with his "Castro Is Dead" story. We all hope so. I'll wait for the announcement ....
Hobbs Choice
Volunteer Voters is holding its annual "Best of Nashville" on-line polls, and one of the categories is for the best political writer. Our friend Bill Hobbs, now posting at Newsbusters, and he'd like his on-line fans to cast their votes. Drop by and put one in for Bill if you get a chance!
Murtha Getting Backlogged On Apologies
Gary Gross of Let Freedom Ring sees another case collapsing on the Haditha charges. He's called for Murtha to apologize earlier, and adds another reason to the tally.
No Such Thing As 'Moderate' Islam?
Turkish PM Tayyip Erdogan told a television interviewer that he finds the label "moderate Islam" offensive. Shrink Wrapped has a lot more on this, but at least in the same interview Erdogan acknowledged that "radical Islam" exists, and that it's been a catastrophe. Be sure to read the whole post.
MS-NBC Gets Punk'd
Power Line has a great post on a lack of journalistic effort on the part of MS-NBC. In covering the Michael Vick story, they reported on what they thought was Al Sharpton's website proclaiming Vick's innocence. I guess Alex Johnson and two other MS-NBC reporters couldn't bother to read the title bar of the site, which proudly proclaims it as a "parody site".
New Instapundit Podcast On Pharmaceuticals
I just caught this e-mail from Glenn Reynolds about his new podcast with Richard Epstein, the author of Overdose: How Excessive Government Regulation Stifles Pharmaceutical Innovation. Haven't had a chance to listen to it yet, but the topic is important enough to make sure I carve out time for it tomorrow. Get their first and tell me what I'm missing ....
Fed Trying A 'Stealth Easing'?
The Federal Reserve seems to have conducted a quiet campaign to steady markets that started spinning out of control, according to King Banaian at SCSU Scholars. He thinks that the Fed has conducted a "stealth easing". Be sure to read his explanation and follow his lnks.
Comments (8)
Posted by LiberalJoshua | September 1, 2007 1:39 PM
Sounds interesting. Maybe if I have time, I will meander over to AM 1280 The Patriot's website to check it out.
P.S. On a completely unrelated note. You should probably bump that post (or make a new post) you made yesterday about the three Democratic Presidential candidates making a pledge to not campaign in states that violate DNC rules.
John Edwards
http://www.johnedwards.com/news/press-releases/20070901-four-state-pledge/
and Barack Obama
http://www.barackobama.com/2007/09/01/obama_pledges_to_honor_role_of.php
have signed the pledge.
Posted by viking01 | September 1, 2007 4:07 PM
Off topic but perhaps useful for the radio show discussion and future commentary.
At 11:45AM National Review Online posted an article by Karl Rove on Bush 43 and how the media portrays Bush (and other presidents. He discusses his view of Bush 43 despite the activist media efforts against them both.
Posted by unclesmrgol | September 1, 2007 8:39 PM
Captain,
When they designed your style sheets, they added specific fonts to the styles.
I personally prefer sans-serif -- a lot. Yours is the first site that has made me uncheck the "allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of my own selections, above.
By the way, "georgia" is a microsoft font (literally), so linux (and, undoubtely, MacOS) chooses a substitute anyway. It would be best to define the fonts in terms of points or pixels, but leave the choice of font to the user. That's what you used to do, and what most of the major sites do as well.
Posted by brooklyn - hnav | September 1, 2007 9:46 PM
Sounds like a great show, sorry to have missed it.
Will you have a taped - pod version to hear the show if we missed it?
Hoping all the CQ readers and the Captain have a pleasant weekend.
Personally, this poster is somewhat struggling with the conception of prospects for 2008.
It just seems deeply concerning, that some want to return the unethical likes of Hillary Rodham and Bill Clinton to the White House.
As we near the 9-11 Anniversary, how could anyone forget about the negligent 8 years which led up to the horror of that tragic attack in NYC.
And yet, still, today, many Conservatives seem more eager to debase the imperfect GOP, than to stop the corrupt, misguided efforts of today's Democrat.
I suppose if I could have called the show, this is what I would have wanted to speak about.
Posted by Captain Ed | September 1, 2007 10:08 PM
Brooklyn,
All of our NARN shows are podcasted at Townhall. It usually takes a couple of days for them to show up. However, if you hit the Patriot's stream at 8 pm CT Sunday night, it should replay the entire 6 hours of NARN.
Posted by Christoph | September 2, 2007 1:11 AM
No. They don't.
That's old school thinking. They usually use ems, a relational font size, which allows the user's browser to more easily resize everything depending on the user's visual needs.
Georgia is a Windows font and additional fonts should be declared, definitely. I suggest Georgia, 'Times New Roman', and serif as adequte.
I think his serif font best suits the look and feel of Captain's Quarters considering the old time nature of that. But as I mentioned in a previous thread, it would be SO trivial to make a stylesheet switcher to give people the option of the old blue theme and image if they wanted, just for coolness.
Instead of that, assuming the Captain prefers his new design and wants to keep it as one for color scheme for branding purposes, I do agree it would be a nice touch to including a small text link at a a minimum to a PHP stylesheet switcher that could switch the fonts to: helvetica, arial, gadget, non-serif, for you and for the many other people like you who prefer these fonts.
I LOVE Palatino Linotype and the other serif fonts... but I reluctantly switched to the above selection for my modern rounded corners, etc., new business design... it fits it.
Anyway, good comment! If you wanted that stylesheet switcher to give people the option of non-serif fonts, it could be added so quickly. Also, other serif fonts should definitely be defined (trivially easily) or your design will NOT look as good on a Mac or Linux box.
Yeah, I just checked your stylesheet. Where it says 'Georgia', serif, you should change it to:
Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif (the single quotes should not be there unless the font has more than one word in its name).
This is quite an easy -- and important -- change.
Where it says Arial, sans-serif, you should change it to:
Arial, Gadget, sans-serif.
Also important, especially for Mac users. Super easy to do too!
Posted by Christoph | September 2, 2007 1:20 AM
Or better yet:
Helvetica, Arial, Gadget, sans-serif
Helvetica has almost the same spacing as Arial, but is better looking. Basically, Microsoft copied Helvetica, but changed it enough so they didn't have to pay royalties to have it on their OS.
If you like Arial, and it's fine, then instead change it to:
Arial, Helvetica, Gadget, sans-serif
... which gives a good presentation in many different operating systems and will look exactly identical to what you have now in Windows.
Posted by brooklyn - hnav | September 2, 2007 9:10 PM
thanks Captain Ed...