Nightly Ramble: The Crossing Edition

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This is the Crossing Edition. Yes, we’ll hold you up for a few minutes, but at least you’ll have something interesting

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This is the “smart Guy” Edition

• Burris and Blago: Apparently, we have Burris on tape offering Blago money.  Bruce at Q&O

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This is the “Future Camper” Edition

• I have the POWER…. So now Arlen Specter is willing to compromise on “Card Check”?  I

James Joyner at OTB:

The big story at memeorandum is a report by MinnPost‘s Eric Black, passed on by Raw Story‘s Muriel Kane, that Dick Cheney ran a super secret assassination ring out of his office.

An update was performed on BitsBlog, tonight, to version 2.71. This is a bugfixer. Nothing major. Problems, leave me some feedback.

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Nearly the last one of the year. A slower day than some, so tonight’s ramble through the headlines will be a shorter

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Lots going on today, most of it predictable, most of it was avoidable. Let’s get to it:w

• The value of Oil has dropped

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First, an announcement:

As I suggested a few days ago, WordPress 2.7 is out. I’ll be running the upgrades this weekend, most likely on

WordPress v2.7RC1 is up at the WordPress and looking pretty good.

If you’re a blogger, and want a peek here’s where to look behind the scenes.

It’s quite a change from the interface WP has had for the last few

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…where we pound out a few rhythms every weeknight for your dining and dancing pleasure. Let’s get it…

• With all the Democrats in

Joe the Plumber. You remember the story. Obama rolls up to his house one day. Joe plucks up his courage and asks a question of Barack Obama, the subject of which Mr. Obama would apparently rather not discuss. Result? 

Great news!

Since a week ago when I last posted on this topic, Books For Soldiers has been able to raise another $4,000! Thank you for all you’ve done so far, including passing this word along to others!

They still

Several things done tonight;

• Removed about 1 million spams from comments and trackback. Quite literally. Database was getting sluggish, and I’m sure the scripts I was running made it worse for about an hour. It’s running a lot faster now,

Decided I had such good luck with the theme changeout, that I’d press my luck and attempt the WordPress Upgarde to v2.6.1. All seems well.

(From The Conservative Reader)

Well, it took almost 3 months, but Congress finally passed the bill Saturday, on older version of which was  passed by the House in May, after some considerable back and forth between the Senate