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  • Hot Off The Presses

    Linkdump: October 16th – October 31st

    October 31, 2010 - By ginny

    Make Your WordPress Blog More Like Tumblr – White Shaarks – Imagination is your future Install Bookmarklets on Delicious Blew this away by mistake on my iPhone, had to go find it again. Add a Facebook “Like” button to your WordPress blog Daily Episcopalian Elderly look for a little "action" in their quiet lives, and find heartache instead – chicagotribune.com

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  • Hot Off The Presses - Politics, Schmolitics

    Hey, Buddy, Wanna Buy An Election?

    October 31, 2010 - By ginny

    Outside groups are dumping wads of cash on “ad buys” in most states… guess somebody wants to buy some politicians, huh? An unprecedented influx of political cash — most of it from outside Illinois — is feeding an inescapable wave of television attack ads aimed at manipulating voters in the final weeks of high-stakes campaigns for U.S. Senate and governor. via Money rolls in, campaign ads roll on – chicagotribune.com.

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  • Clan: McTiVo - Hot Off The Presses

    James Bond’s Aston Martin DB5 Sold To American

    October 31, 2010 - By ginny

    The name’s Yeaggy; Harry Yeaggy. The Top Gear guys are in mourning. The 1964 Aston Martin DB5, which boasts revolving licence plates, ejector seat and bullet-proof shield, featured in the films Goldfinger and Thunderball. The silver model is still capable of 145mph and 0-60mph in 7.1 seconds. It was bought at a London auction by collector Harry Yeaggy, who will display it at a car museum in Ohio. Via BBC News

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  • Hot Off The Presses

    School Dance In Utah REALLY Blows

    October 31, 2010 - By ginny

    Not that I had any doubt, they did in my day too, but because the music, hair and clothes were so butt-ugly.

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  • Hot Off The Presses - Politics, Schmolitics

    The Truth Would Set Us Free If Only The Lies Weren’t So Irresistible

    October 31, 2010 - By ginny

    The stupid people shall elect the leaders that gave them the tastiest Kool-Aid to drink, which allowed them to blame their problems on the Dems who’ve been unable to solve them, instead of on the cynical Repubs who caused the problems in the first place, then blocked every solution they could. Polls are useless, and we’re in deeper trouble if sane people don’t vote. Stop the insanity, VOTE! One of the biggest problems facing the Democrats going into this election is that they’re getting absolutely zero respect for everything they’ve done for the average American over the past two years.…

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  • Hot Off The Presses - Mini-Posts

    Cargo plane bomb alert ‘dry run for terror campaign against US synagogues’ – Telegraph

    October 29, 2010 - By ginny

    Too close to home, and EMA is one of my clients’ locations. Yikes! Cargo Plane High Alert

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  • Hot Off The Presses - Uncategorical Weirdness

    Goodbye, Senator Zelig

    October 23, 2010 - By ginny

    We hardly knew ye, but we know all about the resume update you’ll have chiseled onto your tombstone. Link: Burris Looks Back On “Big Legacy” UPDATE: RATS! I can’t add just a link, because I didn’t want to replace my entry titles with the Tumblog entry title tag. I had to add the link and it’s title manually on this post.

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  • Good and Joyful Things - Hot Off The Presses - Only in Utah...

    Survey Links Gay Suicide To Religious Messages

    October 23, 2010 - By ginny

    So: not messages like “love your neighbor, love the sinner” but more like “hate yourself, hate your sin.” Testing Express, an app for iPhone that is supposed to work n conjunction with the WooTumblog app. UPDATE: Works! Still not the link-grabber bookmarklet Press This used to be before a recent “security” update, but it’s not difficult to set up a lightly edited post from the iPhone now. It’s not that easy to do links with the official WordPress app, and blockquote? Fageddaboudit, you have to go through hell just to get angle brackets. All in all, a modified “w00t!”

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  • Geek Out! - Hot Off The Presses

    Virgin Spaceport Flyby

    October 23, 2010 - By ginny

    The phrase “…and the thousands of astronauts to follow” made me burst into tears. Still testing WooTumblog, this is the Links function

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  • Hot Off The Presses - SABRE2th Tigress: Book 'em, Dano.

    Amtrak chugs along nicely to record ridership

    October 21, 2010 - By ginny

    After hosting a dear friend from college who’s traveling on an Amtrak USA railpass this month, I’m happy to see this news. In fact when I told my workmates about my friend’s epic journey to Glacier National Park, now they want to try it too… just not without using Amtrak’s horrible reservations system, “Arrow.” Maybe an improvement to one of our tools sometime next year will make it easier to book the occasional business traveler. That said, I’m a rail fan, and I really wish the US hadn’t turned its passenger rail systems into a few tourist routes and a…

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  • Insurance season is almost over, thank Dog

    Avoid health sharing plans, they're not that great a deal. A friend had one while getting some pretty serious treatment, and he struggled to get the care he needed.

    Elisabeth Yoder and her son Darragh recently experienced a huge gap in their health care "coverage." They stand in  front of the family home, and they belong to a Christian "health sharing" plan that didn't reimburse for a recent ambulance ride.

     

     

    Link: Not serious enough to turn on the siren, toddler’s 39-mile ambulance ride still cost over $9,000

  • Charm Patch Quilt: On Point

    From Sew Can She - this looks like a great way to use up charm squares and scraps that can be at least 4 1/2-5 inches square. The contrast fabric and on-point arrangement add good visual interest without being too busy.

    Link: Charm Patch Quilt Pattern: Free Throw quilt Pattern for Pre-Cut Charm Squares!

  • Tea Towel Hems

    Bought some tea towels for gifts, looking for tutorials for adding colorful hanging cuffs after hemming.

    I lean toward Method 1, mitred corners. Will decide once the towels arrive in case the selvage edges are good quality.

    https://blog.fabrics-store.com/2023/03/26/tutorial-how-to-make-a-tea-towel-three-ways/

  • Sorry About The Mess: Trump Wrecking World Economy

    Post: He’s nuts if he thinks manufacturers will move to the US; they like paying rock bottom non-union wages and they’ll pass the higher costs to American consumers. Lose-lose! What can possibly go wrong?

    Since he lives in his own bubble universe, I’m wondering how long his big donors, the few relatively sane conservatives in Congress, and his “IKEA cabinet” will hold out until the murmurs behind the scenes become screaming fights in the Oval Office.

    Spine of steel? Nope. Skull of rock.

    Maury Povich lie detector meme: It says here… Trump is as dumb as a box of rocks.

    Global economy rocked again as rates on imports to the US from dozens of trading partners rose further, with China hit by 104% tariffs

    Link: Donald Trump unleashes new wave of tariffs against dozens of countries

  • Now Listening: Joni Mitchell | Black Crow

    Joni Mitchell album cover Black Crow. A woman is superimposed over an empty road that leads into her silhouette.

    Text:

     

    ”Black Crow - There's a crow flying Black and ragged Tree to tree He's black as the highway that's leading me Now he's diving down To pick up on something shiny I feel like that black crow Flying In a blue sky I took the ferry to the highway Then I drove to a pontoon plane I took a plane to a taxi And a taxi to a train I've been traveling so long How'm I ever gonna know my home When I see it again I'm like a black crow flying In a blue blue sky In search of love and music My whole life has been Illumination Corruption And diving diving diving diving Diving down to pick up on every shiny thing Just like that black crow flying In a blue sky I looked at the morning After being up all night I looked at my haggard face in the bathroom light I looked out the window And I I saw that ragged soul take flight I saw a back crow flying In a blue sky Oh I'm like a black crow flying In a blue sky”

     

    Link: Check out this song I heard on Radio Paradise

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