Of which I’m reminded amidst all the discussion about the forged documents–people who don’t know the difference between a typeface and a font, including journalists, who should know better. Microsoft and the computer industry have blurred the distinction that was once very clear to the printing community.
Times Roman is a typeface, people.
Times Roman twelve-point italic is a font.
After everything that happened yesterday, and backtracking by CBS, the Boston Globe is continuing to cite the forged documents to libel the president:
CBS also produced documents that appeared to show that in 1973 Bush’s superior officer complained of being pressured to ”sugar-coat” an annual officer evaluation for Bush even though Bush had not been at the base for the year in question.
Maybe we should have a little pledge drive to raise some money to get them a modem.
After everything that happened yesterday, and backtracking by CBS, the Boston Globe is continuing to cite the forged documents to libel the president:
CBS also produced documents that appeared to show that in 1973 Bush’s superior officer complained of being pressured to ”sugar-coat” an annual officer evaluation for Bush even though Bush had not been at the base for the year in question.
Maybe we should have a little pledge drive to raise some money to get them a modem.
After everything that happened yesterday, and backtracking by CBS, the Boston Globe is continuing to cite the forged documents to libel the president:
CBS also produced documents that appeared to show that in 1973 Bush’s superior officer complained of being pressured to ”sugar-coat” an annual officer evaluation for Bush even though Bush had not been at the base for the year in question.
Maybe we should have a little pledge drive to raise some money to get them a modem.
With Kerry’s poll numbers continuing to tank, and his negatives hitting an all-time low, the DNC, along with its 527s and its enablers in the media, are taking one more desperate run at Dubya’s National Guard record.
Hilarously, it looks like they’re doing so with forged documents. I find it highly unlikely that:
a) Anyone in the Air National Guard would be using a typeball with a superscript “th” in it in the early ’70s.
b) The same machine on which this magical typeball existed would also do proportional font (and break lines exactly the same way a word processor would and
c) any document typewritten in that era would be capable of being overlaid with a present-day Word document with exactly the same wording.
I have a high level of confidence at this point that the documents that Dan Rather and Sixty Minutes thought were going to salvage Kerry’s presidential campaign were forged. Moreover, I think that the CBS eye has to be looking very black right now, and their credibility in the toilet.
It’s been said before, but it bears repeating. If Kerry loses this election (as seems increasingly likely), it won’t be his loss alone. It will be a watershed event in which the Internet took down the mainstream media, destroying their increasingly unjustified reputations for either objectivity or accuracy. They will be the real casualties in this election, and it will put the lie to Evan Thomas’ notion that their support is worth fifteen points. At the rate they’re going, their best shot at getting Kerry elected is to start supporting the president, in an attempt to damage him as much as they have their own anointed candidate.
I have to say that it couldn’t happen to a more deserving pack of sanctimonious twits.
The power just came on, for the first time in five days.
Just in time to be knocked out by Ivan on Monday…
Time to shut down this jury-rigged laptop/car-battery setup and get the network back up.
[Update a few minutes later]
Good news: we have power.
Bad news: the air conditioner isn’t coming on. I’ve checked the breaker, and it’s closed. Any ideas?
[Update at 5:30 PM EDT[
Since the AC was working before the storm, and we turned it off before it hit, while we still had electricity, I’m guessing that there’s nothing wrong with it. My working hypothesis right now, based on other flaky behavior of other appliances (I still can’t work the internet off the house power–I’m plugged back into the car again), is low voltage. I measured out at the fuses of the air conditioner, and it was lower there than it was one of the 110 sockets in the house (I think that it’s supposed to be 240). The neighbors are having similar brownout issues. It may be that we’re only getting voltage on half the line.
At least we have light now, and ceiling fans. We’ll see if the fridges get cold.
For my move to Florida, if this article is correct.
Scientists say we are in a period of enhanced hurricane activity that could last for decades, ending a 24-year period of below average activity. They also say the law of averages has caught up with Florida, with a change in atmospheric steering currents turning the state into a hurricane magnet.
Great.
Ivan probably won’t be the last storm to have us in its boresight this year.
It makes me start to wonder how big, or how many nukes it would take to disrupt these damned things, or if that’s even feasible (ignoring, of course, the radiation issues)?
[Update a minute or so later]
As if they didn’t have enough to deal with, with a Category 5 hurricane bearing down on them, the Caymans and Jamaica just had a Richter 6 earthquake.
I, of course, blame George Bush.
Al Gore, that is.
His latest rant is stunning in its chutzpah:
“The claim by Bush and Cheney that the American people must give them four more years in office or else be ‘hit hard’ by another terrorist attack is a sleazy and despicable effort to blackmail voters with fear,” Gore said.
“They are going back to the ugliest page in the Republican playbook: fear,” he said. “They’re not even really trying to convince you to vote for George Bush. Their only hope, they’ve decided, is to try and make you too afraid to vote for John Kerry. It’s the lowest sort of politics imaginable. It is not worthy of a presidential candidate.”
This from a man who, in 1996, bellowed at the nation that if the Evil Republicans retained Congress, that they would poison the air and water, starve schoolchildren, and force old folks to eat kibbles and bits, before throwing them out of their homes. This from a man whose party ran radio ads in St. Louis claiming that “more black churches would burn” in the event of a Republican victory.
This only elicits one more sigh of relief that he didn’t win in 2000.
Al Gore, that is.
His latest rant is stunning in its chutzpah:
“The claim by Bush and Cheney that the American people must give them four more years in office or else be ‘hit hard’ by another terrorist attack is a sleazy and despicable effort to blackmail voters with fear,” Gore said.
“They are going back to the ugliest page in the Republican playbook: fear,” he said. “They’re not even really trying to convince you to vote for George Bush. Their only hope, they’ve decided, is to try and make you too afraid to vote for John Kerry. It’s the lowest sort of politics imaginable. It is not worthy of a presidential candidate.”
This from a man who, in 1996, bellowed at the nation that if the Evil Republicans retained Congress, that they would poison the air and water, starve schoolchildren, and force old folks to eat kibbles and bits, before throwing them out of their homes. This from a man whose party ran radio ads in St. Louis claiming that “more black churches would burn” in the event of a Republican victory.
This only elicits one more sigh of relief that he didn’t win in 2000.
Al Gore, that is.
His latest rant is stunning in its chutzpah:
“The claim by Bush and Cheney that the American people must give them four more years in office or else be ‘hit hard’ by another terrorist attack is a sleazy and despicable effort to blackmail voters with fear,” Gore said.
“They are going back to the ugliest page in the Republican playbook: fear,” he said. “They’re not even really trying to convince you to vote for George Bush. Their only hope, they’ve decided, is to try and make you too afraid to vote for John Kerry. It’s the lowest sort of politics imaginable. It is not worthy of a presidential candidate.”
This from a man who, in 1996, bellowed at the nation that if the Evil Republicans retained Congress, that they would poison the air and water, starve schoolchildren, and force old folks to eat kibbles and bits, before throwing them out of their homes. This from a man whose party ran radio ads in St. Louis claiming that “more black churches would burn” in the event of a Republican victory.
This only elicits one more sigh of relief that he didn’t win in 2000.