A New Look, a Faster Load

After fooling with the templates for a few days, I think I’ve got it close enough to put the new look for BitsBlog online. The result is what you see. It’s a little cleaner and a lot faster in loading.

You will doubtless remember John Kerry’s passionate retelling of his saving the life of Licorice the hamster.

Well, it’s appears that it’s all another Kerry Lie. Licorice called a press conference today, and … Well.. Poisoning pigeons has the details.

Chris Lawrence over at Signifying Nothing weighs in on the issue of allowing OSCE monitors for the election.

Like Chris, I’m not overly worried. Yes, I understand very well indeed that OSCE represents a group of people… Europe… who would

Rochester’s Democrat & Chronicle, otherwise known to the local populace here in my home town as the Chronic Democrat, is running a story you’ll find of interest.

“(August 7, 2004) — It was bad enough, Asif Iqbal said, when

Drudge reports today:

“Democrat presidential hopeful John Kerry and his wife got into a heated argument after a campaign rally in Arizona Sunday night — a heated argument so hot they spent the night in different rooms!

A well-placed law

(Reuters) reports from Najaf:

“U.S. marines said on Wednesday they were preparing a final assault on Iraqi Shi’ite militia in the holy city of Najaf, after a radical cleric ordered his men to keep fighting even if he was killed.

I’m slowly getting to the updating of the files over at BitsBits.
Someone on the SwiftVets site posted a few of my old Roadrunner links last night and the hit counters are going nuts, so I’ve gotta mae sure when

Speaking of Boortz, looks like he’s started to figure out what I told you this last February 17th… that the Tides Foundation was a shakey org at best. I even ran a BitsBits on that subject.

Boortz says this

I’d planned to write something along these lines, butBoortz said it better

“PREPARE FOR AN ALL-OUT PERSONAL ASSAULT
We are just days away now from the release of ‘Unfit For Command, Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John

I tried to add the Blgroll for Bush last night.

Looked initially like it was working OK, and I guess it was. But for a page already a little topheavy on scripting, it pushed the load times way too high,

Apparently, but not quite what you think.
Jason Smith, of Generation WHY? who is guest blogging at Blogs For Bush has noted a very interesting trend.

2000
George W. Bush – government before Presidential campaign – 4 years
Al Gore

(Yes, I know the title’s mis-spelled… I trackbacked the post before I noted the typo… arrgh)

Captain’s Quarters makes note that the legal threats from the Kerry camp have not stopped.

“Apparently unable to respond substantively to the charges outlines

Every once in a great while you run across some comment that you know is going to totally offend, be totally inflamitory, and you know is exactly correct, at the same time.Hugh Hewitt strikes such a cord today.

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A story on the …AP Wire just now just about made me spill my coffee….

“SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – A Nebraska man who once weighed more than half a ton has lost 321 pounds in a Sioux Falls hospital,

OK, I’m not sure where he got this, but a reader passed this on, and it seemed a good idea to post it. I have my disagreements with O’Reilly, some of them quite pronounced… but it’s nice to see someone