FINALLY, Bill Dyer is back to blogging at Beldarblog!

I was very happy to see that Bill Dyer has returned to blogging at BeldarBlog after a year hiatus. Thankfully, Glenn Reynolds noticed and let us all know.

My American accent (the quiz and result)

I just took the quiz about my accent:

What American accent do you have? Your Result: The Inland North You may think you speak "Standard English straight out of the dictionary" but when you step away from the Great Lakes you get asked annoying questions like "Are you from Wisconsin?" or "Are you from Chicago?" Chances are you call carbonated drinks "pop."
The Midland
The Northeast
Philadelphia
The South
The West
Boston
North Central
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I grew up 120 miles east of Chicago, so this is pretty accurate. This looks poorly in Firefox, but looks good in IE6. This is the image version of my results:

Norm Geras is an interesting guy

I looked at Norm Geras's blog and his bio at the University of Manchester because I had read his interview with Pat Santy, who blogs at Dr. Sanity. Norm seems like an interesting guy. Much of his writing has been about Marxism.

Ed Kilgore, the "NewDonkey" blogger

It turns out that there is a photo and biography of Ed Kilgore, the NewDonkey blogger, at TPMCafe. Ed's blog is one of the few Democrats that I read. I read a few blogs on the left, such as Marc Cooper and NewDonkey, as well as The Washington Monthly, on occasion.

Cricinfo South Africa has a page about Robert Crisp

I was interested to see that I was able to find a page about Robert Crisp and his life, including cricket career at Cricinfo South Africa. There is also a much shorter Wikipedia page.

Britney Spears with no underwear

Ace provided the link to this page (from Defamer), with two Britney Spears pics showing her without underwear. This is one and this is the other. Here are two more from Perez Hilton (one and then the other).

Dr. Z has a Wikipedia page

I just now noticed that Dr. Z has a Wikipedia page for his Z++ programming language. Dr. Z is affiliated with ZH Micro.

Minneapolis is a great place (only in Minneapolis)

Chad, the Elder, at Fraters Libertas, has the ongoing story about the Lesbian soon-not-to-be firechief in Minneapolis. Leftist politics dominates Minneapolis, so this story should not be a surprise to anyone. I find it amusing that this story has dragged on for so long. On the CBS News site, WCCO has a picture of Bonnie Bleskachek. You would not necessarily know that this is a picture of a woman.

Dr Sanity has a good political cartoon

Pat Santy, at the Dr. Sanity blog, has a good political cartoon by Mike Thompson from the Detroit Free Press.

A nice little Heather Mills pic from "back when"

Heather Mills porn pics, all of them pretty soft, keep surfacing. This is a nice little pic of her from bild.t-online.de.

Criticizing Paul McCartney in Britain is equivalent to criticizing Islam

In Britain, Paul McCartney has near deity status, so when Heather Mills has repeatedly attacked his conduct, Paul's fans have been enraged. andPOP has the story about her repeated receipt of death threats. The fact that Heather is without class and has shown herself to have gold digger aims is rather irrelevant to the wackiness of Britons over Paul McCartney.

A couple of days ago, Sitemeter zeroed out the database for Dreadnought Cruisers blog for about a week

One of the downsides of using a free service is that you are at their mercy. A couple of days ago, Sitemeter lost some history for the Dreadnought Cruisers blog. I am not sure of the explanation, but everything historical seems to be gone from the database. I had thought that they had lost everything, but they just zeroed out from 18 November to 24 November 2006.

A couple of blogs for those who would not be offended

These are a couple of blogs with pics and movies of a sexual nature. One has vintage material and the other is Danish. Decidedly not worksafe. The last, you can go to his homepage and then the blog.

Weight Watchers Update

This week, I was down 2.2 lbs for a total of 47.8 lbs since I started the last Saturday of February 2006. An amazing feature of the Weight Watchers program has been that I have home-fry potatoes almost every day for breakfast. On the weekends, I have a fried egg, three slices of crisp bacon, sliced tomatoes, a grilled English muffin, and home fries with onions and green peppers. Once every week or two, at Chili's, I have Queso and chips, along with a burger, no bun, and sauteed onions, green peppers, and mushrooms. The secret being that on the plan, you compensate for splurges in the week.

Fred has a post about Pre-Raphaelite art

The blogger Fred, at GoodShit, has a post about Pre-Raphaelite art and has a Waterhouse painting, the Lady of Shallot (the link to Fred's blog isn't working for me). For more, look at Lit19.com. Jim has many Waterhouse paintings, which I like a great deal. Dante Gabriel Rossetti is also quite good, but I am most partial to Waterhouse. Fred links to this page on PracticalPainting.com about Pre-Raphaelite art. They also have a page of thumbnails that are good.

Jennifer Love Hewitt's daring dress

Les-stars-nuez.biz has a pic of Jennifer Love Hewitt in a "daring" dress.

Thanks to Google Image Search, I would say that the video is probably Jennifer Love Hewitt

Jennifer Love Hewitt has not always had the Ghost Whisper look, with the dark hair, eyebrows, and hair style. I got a more balanced view of her from Google Image Search. There is a nice pic of her from cherudat.com, but they are playing games so that I can not link directly to the pic. That forces me to use the same pic from another site, my.toast.com.au.

Stan, at nudesonline, has a nice loop

The link was from a Jennifer Love Hewitt pic the nude-celeb-site.com. That takes you to a page from Stan at nudesonline.com. What you get is to see a loop, in Flash video, that is very nice, although I don't recognize it as Jennifer Love Hewitt, although it could be, as I have only seen her in her Ghost Whisperer guise. Of course, while softcore, it is not anywhere near "worksafe".

Google Image Search Rules!

Some truly amazing things can be found with Google Image Search, at least with "Safe Search" turned off. All you have to do is search and much is there for free. I addition, Google Video Search has things such as a video of Denise Richards stripping. Just use the Google Video Search with "Denise Richards" as the search string. That will bring this up:

Denise Richards stripping

Rare footage from some arabian channel I think.

videovat.com - 1 min - Aug 11, 2006

Web site traffic

Since June, I stumbled on to the fact that traffic was coming from Google Image search, primarily from North America, but also from the UK and other European countries. Since then, I have been periodically "priming the pump". Since I run with open Sitemeter, you can see what has been happening by clicking on the Sitemeter image. Sadly, going this direction has "lowered the level" of content, but I thought that bringing readers would allow them to look at more than pics. The peak was early in the spike in traffic: October 19th, 2006, when traffic reached about 1,590 Sitemeter visits in a single day. The lowpoint, since this started, was on Friday November 10th., when there were just 134 Sitemeter visits. Traffic has picked back up, since that low, so that yesterday was an estimated 535. I won't know the real numbers until I get the weekly report. All I can do now is to make estimates from the weekly graph. I have not heard about anyone writing about this sort of phenomenon, but I cannot believe that this is a unique situation. The higher traffic level started late in the day on October 17th, and has not stopped, despite the slowdowns along the way. The Sitemeter graphs leave a lot to be desired, but they allow you to have a look at what has happened in the last month, at least. Something that you should know is that you do not have to directly link to images and have them show in the page when you go there. I link to them with a "target='_blank'", which will cause a new browser to be opened with the image. I see this as saving someone's bandwidth, unless a reader clicks the link. I always try to put a link to the original page, to help whomever has hosted the image.

There are more Denise Richards pics out there

There are more Denise Richards pics, such as this bottomless one at BlanzinBeauties.com.

Some Denise Richards pics

Denise Richards is a hot lady. In this case, the thenewsvault.com has pics that are linkable. They are the real thing, although there are some nice fakes "out there" as well. One has her showing her cleavage. Another is "showing off" her breasts in stills from a movie. There is another of her, showing part of her topless in a pool.

For the first time this year, I spent a good big of time watching a football game

I have not spent any time this year watching any sports, and especially football. Tonight was different, however. My wife turned on the Dallas-Indianapolis game. I kept being drawn back to the television. The reason being that the Cowboys did well. As the game progressed and you could see that the Cowboys had a shot at winning, we were riveted to the game. We didn't go to the restaurant until the game ended. The Cowboys knocked off the Colts and handed them their first loss of the year.

The News Vault has a good selection of Heather Mills pics

The News Vault has a good selection of Heather Mills porn pics from the 1988 shoot. There are a few I have not seen before, such as this. They make it so that it is not possible to link directly to pics.

From the sound of Paul McCartney's comments, he must have found a way to keep Heather Mills quiet

The Daily Mail continues to be on top of the Paul McCartney-Heather Mills story. They say that contrary to what was expected, she will not talk about her impending divorce. That makes the interview worthless, as that is the only thing worth talking to her about. I can imagine: she wants to talk about a vegan retaurant in New York! And someone would have her on television to talk about that? Give me a break.

At least John Murtha lost to Steny Hoyer

Breitbart.com has the pic and story about Steny Hoyer winning the House Majority Leader spot over John Murtha. I am not particularly a Steny Hoyer fan, having lived in Maryland and seen him in action, but he is vastly superior to John Murtha.

At least John Murtha lost to Steny Hoyer

Breitbart.com has the pic and story about Steny Hoyer winning the House Majority Leader spot over John Murtha. I am not particularly a Steny Hoyer fan, having lived in Maryland and seen him in action, but he is vastly superior to John Murtha.

What's wrong in Iraq: from Karol Scheinen at Alarming News

Karol Scheinen, at Alarming news, says that she has heard from soldiers who have been in Iraq is that we have placed unacceptable limits on our ability to fight. That is the reason that we are not doing better:

Acknowledge that we are at war and act accordingly- this is my preference and from anecdotal conversations with returning troops, it seems to be the one military people favor as well.

We are pretending that we are there on some kind of humanitarian mission. When I hear about "good news" from Iraq it's inevitably a new water tower or pipeline or road or school. And that's all terrific. But how many terrorists did we kill today? How many towns did we lock down and show that if people support terrorists, if they harbor them, if they help them, we will kill them? The kid glove treatment has got to stop. I only care about the hearts and minds of the Iraqi people if they are helping us secure the region. If they are assisting in the chaos-kill them.

I approve of the humanitarian component of the Iraq war, I do, I just don't approve of the war part of the Iraq war. Don't tell me about the Iraqi schoolchildren and how they have shoes now or how Baghdad has multiple cell phone companies. I care, just not as much as I care about the survival of our civilization and about world peace and prosperity in the long-term.

Let's stop pretending we're not in a war. It's the only way to win it.

Heather Mills' reputation is long gone

The Dirty Laundry gossip blog has a piece about an interview with a former customer of Heather Mills, a well-known arms dealer, Adnan Khashoggi.

Sam Rapoport at WCBS has new stuff on Heather Mills' past activities

In video on the WCBS site, Sam Rapoport talks about new information about Heather Mills' past activities.

My family member, the Objectivist, was glad to see the Republicans lose but sorry to see Donald Rumsfeld go

My family member, the Objectivist, has a rather different viewpoint on the election. He is glad to see the Republicans lose and sorry to see Donald Rumsfeld go. He is a hardline supporter of Israel and taking tough measures in the war against the Islamic jihadists who are our main enemy. President Bush's failings are that he is not tough enough in his stance in the war and that he is a supporter of conservative Christians. There is a strong concern in Objectivists about the strong influence of evangelical Christians on the President and the Republican party.

More unclothed Britney Spears: is this for real?

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So, is this for real: Britney Spears naked from the waist up

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News of the World has the scoop on Britney's divorce and sex tape

I hope Britney can come to accept sale of the sex tape as well as Paris Hilton eventually did. News of the World, in the UK, has the story. The main thing she has going for her is the pre-nuptial agreement. If she can bear the tape, then she is safe. If she lets Kevin use the tape for blackmail, then she is in trouble.

Ann Althouse on Kevin Barrett

What Ann Althouse says that Kevin Barrett is teaching is appalling. He is lucky that we don't jail 9/11 deniers the way the Europeans jail holocaust deniers:

"It's become much more opinionated now that we're doing 9-11," Bromley said, referring to the tone and progress of the course. "He's trying to explain both views, but he's biased. I don't feel like he's presented enough info on the other side."

Freshman Jesse Moya disagreed, saying Barrett had been "very objective."

Moya, who said his uncle died in the World Trade Center attacks, said he had entered the course believing the attacks were the work of Islamic terrorists. He now believes otherwise.

"It seems like a more logical explanation that it was the U.S. government," he said.

How interesting that the student who did not perceive bias is the one who became convinced of the truth of the conspiracy theory. It's not surprising. Trying not to show bias -- as Barrett was told he needed to do -- doesn't necessarily produce neutrality. It is more likely that it will package the message in a more palatable form.

Weight Watcher's update: my current status

I have now been following Weight Watchers for 38 weeks. This week, I lost 1.4 lbs for a total of 44.8 lbs since I started on the last Saturday of February. Both Weight Watchers and low-carb work. If you want to lose weight fast, then low-carb will do it. If you want more diversity in what you can eat, and you want to eat things that you really like, then Weight Watchers offers that opportunity while you still lose weight. I have lost at somewhat more than a pound a week, although I have tended to lose very little or even pop up a bit, and then lose a good bit in one week. I was interested to hear this week that a large study showed that there were no ill-effects and even good effects from a low-carb diet.

Paul Graham on wealth: "Mind the Gap"

Paul Graham has a great essay on incomes and wealth: "Mind the Gap":

If I had a choice of living in a society where I was materially much better off than I am now, but was among the poorest, or in one where I was the richest, but much worse off than I am now, I'd take the first option. If I had children, it would arguably be immoral not to. It's absolute poverty you want to avoid, not relative poverty. If, as the evidence so far implies, you have to have one or the other in your society, take relative poverty.

You need rich people in your society not so much because in spending their money they create jobs, but because of what they have to do to get rich. I'm not talking about the trickle-down effect here. I'm not saying that if you let Henry Ford get rich, he'll hire you as a waiter at his next party. I'm saying that he'll make you a tractor to replace your horse.

Ann Althouse says that the Democrats would eliminate the AMT

Ann Althouse has a piece that says that the Democrats plan to eliminate the Alternative Minimum Tax, which is so burdensome to anyone with a good income:

Those damned Republicans only want to help the super-rich, while the Democrats' beneficence concentrates on the humble folk in the $100,000 to $500,000 range. Finally, someone's looking out for the working man.

Hollywood Rag has another Britney Spears pic "hanging out"

The Hollywood Rag has a pic of Britney Spears, "letting it all hang out".

Razib apparently does not think that these are modern Neanderthals

Razib, at Gene Expression, has been writing a great deal about Neanderthals, recently. He has two photos that are said to be modern Neanderthals, which I am hosting to save his bandwidth. The pictures are definitely very striking, and different. I think that Razib thinks that these are at the edge of the Celtic gene pool, and not necessarily Neanderthals living in modern times:

Blogger balks at letting me put the GOP Straw Poll script in a page, but I apparently outsmarted Blogger

I was disappointed that Blogger balked at the GOP Straw Poll script, but I think that I have worked around the problem. I was pretty sure that I have put scripts in the page before, but perhaps not. Scripts can go into the template, as there are three or four there. I could not publish the post by itself, but I published this post, and then republished the entire blog. I had gotten the script from Ed Morrissey, at Captain's Quarters.

The 2008 GOP Straw Poll

Ed Morrissey had the 2008 GOP Straw Poll.:

I found the results, so far, to be quite interesting. At least one potential candidate (George Allen) was decisively eliminated on Tuesday.

Zone Porno is way better, these days, than XTube

Once XTube got overwhelmed by gay videos, I gave up on it, and switched to Zone Porno videos. If you are offended by this stuff, or have qualms about this sort of thing, don't look. It is definitely not worksafe. I learned about this from Goodshit. The proprietor of Goodshit, Fred, is a lefty, and I think he is not linking to as interesting stuff as he used to link.

Dick Armey on the "End of the Revolution"

Dick Armey is a sharp guy (PhD?). He has a piece in the Opinion Journal about the "End of the Revolution" that he and Newt Gingrich had taken to success in 1994. To even create the 1994 revolution, they had to beat the old, bad Republicans who eventually coopted the revolution and drove it into the ground. They might have been different "old, bad Republicans" (Robert Novak Republicans), but they had the same, bad attitudes. Being in the House and Senate was an opportunity to exercise power and rake in goodies. That was the same sort of attitude that doomed the Democrats in 1994. Now, the Republicans had become them.

Pat Tillman's death appears to be a criminal

There is an AP story on Yahoo News that makes Pat Tillman's death look like a criminal act (to my unpracticed eye). The shooters even heard him say who he was, and shot him and his Afghan companion, who was working with Army Special Forces. To make matters worse, the facts were covered up, all the way up the line, as they were so damaging.

Britney Spears is showing off what she's got

There is a pic where Britney Spears is showing off what she's got, and from the expression on her face, she knows what she is doing. The pic and words are on Yeeeah.com.

The new Dallas County Prosecutor has been a defense attorney

I think you would find throughout the corps of Democrats who were elected yesterday in Dallas County, that the new people are generally under-qualfied. The new Dallas County Prosecutor has been a defense attorney, while the guy he defeated has worked as a prosecutor for at least 20 years. Where the question was decided by people who lived within the city of Dallas, Democrats were elected. The only time when that was not the case was when Republicans were running unopposed. The Democrats seemed to have had to stretch to recruit enough people to run.

K-Fed is "gone"

The split between Britney Spears and Kevin Federline is long overdue. The only remaining questions are: why did she marry him to begin with and why did the split take so long, given all the provocations she had over the last two years. Another question is: "why now?" The National Ledger has a piece on this subject.

In Dallas County, the Democrats ran many underqualified candidates, and they won

The Democrats seem to have had a harder time finding well-qualified candidates in Dallas County, but they won anyway. Only one Republican judge may win, and that is still extremely close. The Dallas Morning News has the story.

We could well be in the "doomsday" scenario

I would not be surprised, at this point, if the Democrats take control of both houses of Congress. All indications are that we would be in deep trouble, if that actually happens. I would expect that some immediate steps with bad consequences would be that they would follow through and rescind the tax cuts, if not raise taxes, and cause a percipitous pull out from Iraq. Both of those would be a bad thing for the country.

My theory about the stock market

My theory about the stock market is that there had been six down days because the market had come to believe that the Democrats would take the House and Senate. The latest polls gave hope that this might not happen. My theory is that the big move up on the Dow and NASDAQ were due to this hope. I think that Yahoo Finance is trying to spin this by saying that buyouts were fueling the move up. My coworker says that I am wrong, and that foreign markets were up before ours opened, and we went up because they did.

Heather Mills reportedly wants

MonstersAndCritics.com has a piece saying that Heather Mills wants £80 M from Paul McCartney. That is better than the £250 M she could conceivably get in court (although that figure might assume, wrongly, that Paul McCartney is worth £1 Billion.

A page of Heather Mills pics

I found a page of Heather Mills pics. Some are erotic and a few are not. We have seen many of these, but a few are at new to me. To see the larger pics apparently takes a membership.

2000nakedgirls.com has an artsy nude pic of Heather Mills

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Michael Heraghty on reusable HTML and CSS

Michael Heraghty is finally back blogging regularly at Media Junk, and today, he has a piece about creating reusable HTML and CSS. The outline of what he says is:

1. "Begin the Document with Last Modified Details"
2. "Indent the HTML Code Properly and Consistently"
3. " 'Close' div and span Tags Using Comments"
4. "Use Breadcrumb-style CSS Selectors" and
5. "Explain Your Hacks"

Michael's blog now has a spiffy new look, which I like.

Rotten.com has a Paris Hilton page with pics

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Horndog.com has a nice Jessica Simpson page

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Then again, maybe things are not so bad

There is an AP story about employment falling and payrolls increasing. Maybe, there is just a lot of spin, trying to influence the election. After all, we saw that employees are finally starting to see big pay increases. That had been the negative spin, that the economy was good but employees were not seeing their pay increase. Well, employees are finally starting to see higher income, and companies are hiring.

I suspect that the economy is being hurt because of the poll numbers

I believe that the poll numbers indicating that the Democrats could win the House and Senate are hurting the stock market and economy. My prediction is that if the Republicans pull off an upset win, the stock market and economy will improve.

More on John Kerry

Brian Maloney, at The Radio Equalizer, talks about Don Imus talking with John Kerry. He says that Don Imus let him off easy:

While Imus prides himself on supposedly being so tough with politicians and other guests, when it comes to Kerry, he has a nasty habit of melting like butter.

In 2004, the crusty curmudgeon even proclaimed his outright support for the senator from Massachusetts during his ill- fated presidential bid.

Yet, for some reason, many people still view him as leaning conservative, or at least as an "independent". How in the world did that happen?

Funny enough, in the written transcript of Kerry's visit (necessary just to make sense of Don's notorious mumble- talk), it almost appears that the senator is being taken to task.

But when viewing the segment, it's clear Imus let his guard down after mere moments. What does he see in Kerry that's so spectacular?

PaparazziFilth has preview vids (not work safe)

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Marc Cooper, my favorite leftist, will not defend John Kerry

I suspect that John Kerry's remarks that got him into trouble reflect what he actually thinks. He is a goof-ball leftist elitist (who is not very elite), and this is very consistent with that position. Marc Cooper, my favorite leftist intellectual, who I largely disagree with, says he will not defend John Kerry, in a piece called "Dumb and Dumber":

Just because I find George W. Bush distasteful doesn't mean I have to either excuse or defend John Kerry. In this age of television, Bush is a guy who seems a lot dumber than he actually is (he got a 1206 score on his SAT -- about 100 points more than I did, but then again I was still recovering from some, um, experimentation the night before with lysergic acid). And Kerry looks smarter than he probably is (he got D's in geology, history and political science during his first year at Yale). What a great, national relief it will be to see Bush retire from the national political stage. I would have hoped Kerry would have been shut down after his 2004 defeat. But no such luck. His highly-publicized remarks made here in California on Monday were just plain...dumb:

"Education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. And if you don't, you get stuck in Iraq."