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1. Squirrel says:

   May 11, 2012 at 1:42 am

   Editorial in the NYT

   Yesterday, the Republicans passed a bill (despite their earlier agreement on the budget) to:

   Save the Pentagon from cutting $55bn. (Having already voted to add $8bn.)

   By:
   Stopping 2m Americans from getting food stamps, and reducing what all the others get;
   Cutting the Consumer Protection Bureau’s money by half;
   Eliminating the $1.7bn social services block grant to states that helps 27m with home help, meals on wheels, child assistance, foster care. . .

   But I’m sure that the 27m or so Americans affected will be happy that the Pentagon will be so much better placed to protect them against a supersonic flying undetectable explosive underwear attack.

   Read The Hunger Games, have we?

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2. Bluthner says:

   May 11, 2012 at 2:39 am

   the 27m or so Americans affected will be happy that the Pentagon will be so much better placed to protect them against a supersonic flying undetectable explosive underwear attack.

   That’ll be the budgets for CIA and Homeland security, which they haven’t even started on yet…

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3. Bluthner says:

   May 11, 2012 at 3:21 am

   Not to mention the cost of keeping people like Lieutenant Colonel Matthew Dooley lecturing the troops.

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4. Pornstar says:

   May 11, 2012 at 11:59 am

   o/t, but Tomasky seems to be banging out 3 – 4 blog posts a day. The man is a beast (as is Richard Adams tho, respect there). Too bad it’s on the Beast though, the architecture and low quality of the commenters and trolls makes discussion not really worth the effort.

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5. Leigh says:

   May 11, 2012 at 3:24 pm

   I agree with Squirrel re this cartoon, and Pornie re Michael T’s new blog. Is there some kind of trick to finding his blog? I do research for a living, and I think the Beast’s page sucks.

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6. gunnison says:

   May 11, 2012 at 3:32 pm

   Leigh, couldn’t agree more that TDB is not especially user-friendly. In many ways.
   But here’s a link to MT’s new venture’s main page.
   I’ve commented there a few times, but it’s a total pain to pick up where you left off some hours later because of the nested comment architecture and lack of pagination.
   The comment threads themselves are, I find, quite disorienting. And irritating. I did grumble about it, for all the good that will do.

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7. Bluthner says:

   May 12, 2012 at 1:47 am

   It’s good to read MT’s blog, as always, but the BTL there is of no interest. He’s trying like hell to work it into something like what used to happen at the G, but there’s too many kooks and too little conversation. Which the nested architecture would wipe out in any case, even if one did threaten to flare up.

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8. Pornstar says:

   May 12, 2012 at 6:04 am

   Bluth -

   Agree. Maybe he just signed another year contract. Too bad the Graun didn’t jump on him, he’s totally wasted at the Beast. I don’t think it’s going to happen over there either, it’s just the wrong platform. I doubt if many people interested in politics do more than check in over there, it’s not a go to news source like the Graun.

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9. Di-Ohso says:

   May 12, 2012 at 6:17 am

   I enjoy MTs style of writing so much that I just read what he’s said and don’t bother with the comments.

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10. Pornstar says:

    May 12, 2012 at 8:40 am

    Gunny -

    I blinked – looks like you’re playing around / test driving – i use the Social Sharing Toolkit plugin for posts.

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11. gunnison says:

    May 12, 2012 at 11:51 am

    PS;

    I blinked – looks like you’re playing around / test driving – i use the Social Sharing Toolkit plugin for posts.

    That sounds fascinating. When you get a minute can you explain what it means?
    I’m a long way from being computer literate.

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12. Pornstar says:

    May 12, 2012 at 12:09 pm

    Gunny -

    Rest easy, has nothing to do with being computer literate, and everything to do with finding your way around your WordPress admin.

    Look to your left sidebar inside WP, and you should see “Plugins”. Mouse over that and click on “Add New”. That will bring up a search field. Then you can go to town! If you type in “Social Sharing”, that will bring up a list of plugins for social sharing. The one i use is called Social Sharing Toolkit – what that does is put a list of links at the bottom of each post – for Splatter, FB Like, Google +!, and a host of others. So folks can splat or like your posts, or circulate them in any number of ways. You can choose which ones you want to show. You may have to fiddle with it a bit till you get it to look the way you want to. There are many others besides the one i use. Installation directions for plugins are usually included under one of the tabs when you click on the “details” link. If you need help from there, let me know.

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13. gunnison says:

    May 12, 2012 at 3:26 pm

    PS
    Oh, I get what you’re talking about now. I’m using several plugins—captcha, contact form, spam filter, twitter posting thingy—already.

    Isn’t there a “share” button after each post that opens up to allow folks to circulate things via christknowswhat anyway?
    It’s a built-in thing with WP Jetpack. Does what you’re talking about do something desirable in addition to that?

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14. Pornstar says:

    May 12, 2012 at 3:45 pm

    I don’t see a share button. Or a splatter button. All i see is a “bookmark the permalink” link.
    Which means that to share it, someone would have to paste the url from the browser to share it. That takes labor

    What that plugin will give you is something like this, from one of the blogs on your roll. See the buttons at the bottom of each post – Splatter, Like, G+1, etc? That’s what it will do.

    http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/

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15. Pornstar says:

    May 12, 2012 at 3:57 pm

    Nevermind Gunny, i just now found your share button. My bad.

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16. gunnison says:

    May 12, 2012 at 3:58 pm

    There’s supposed to be a “share” button right after the last word in the post, and before the categories and tags line.
    It only shows when the post and the comments to that post are loaded (and thus the URL for that post is loaded too, I assume), but not on the main blog page, just like the permalink option.
    When you hover over it, it’s supposed to open up to options for Tweet, Reddit, Digg, FaceBook etc etc.

    It certainly shows for me, anyway, both with Firefox and Safari.
    But not for you?
    That’s weird.

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17. gunnison says:

    May 12, 2012 at 4:08 pm

    heh heh.
    OK. that’s a relief.
    It’s the one marked “share”
    That’s what you’re talking about, right?

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18. Pornstar says:

    May 12, 2012 at 4:09 pm

    Yeah, but i still had to look hard for it. Wasn’t real obvious

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19. Pornstar says:

    May 12, 2012 at 4:17 pm

    There ya go.

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20. gunnison says:

    May 12, 2012 at 4:22 pm

    Well alrighty then.
    It looks too damn cluttered when I pull them all out singly, at least to my eye.
    They show on the main blog page now too…

    better I think…

    Thanks for that.
    

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21. Pornstar says:

    May 12, 2012 at 4:43 pm

    I only use 3 or 4 of them on mine too – Splatter, FB Like, Tumblr and G+1. I don’t really think many people use Digg or Stumble Upon anymore. Reddit maybe for scientific and atheist stuff, but that’s sort of died too i think. Myspace is worthless unless you’re a musician now.

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22. gunnison says:

    May 12, 2012 at 5:20 pm

    Hmm, I don’t have tumblr as a ready-made option, but I can add it I think, once I find out how to configure the “sharing URL”, whatever that is. I’ll look it up when I have nothing else to do.

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