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Re: Eat to Ride

maulreius — Sat, 07 Feb 2015 22:22:30 -0000

Was it claimed Levi was a vegan? I don't see that claim in the article, I see he doesn't eat meat, that is all.

Re: No Sweat! How to Pack the Ultimate Gym Bag

maulreius — Thu, 22 Jan 2015 20:08:28 -0000

Contact lenses and related supplies and my heart rate monitor.

Re: George Patton’s Summer of 1944

maulreius — Sun, 28 Dec 2014 22:15:40 -0000

I call foul on this. Patton urged Eisenhower to get the upper level reporters to the camps to make sure the world knew about this. I've read a number of biographies on Patton and none of them mention anything about Patton having anti-semitic tendencies, do you have anything to back that up?

Re: Amazon Strikes A Blow In Defense of Free Speech

maulreius — Wed, 14 May 2014 22:47:08 -0000

Amazon marks reviews with a product purchased indicator where the customer purchased the item via Amazon. The article states this outfit has been marketing its gear solely on Amazon, so it is easy to tell.

The company clearly violated the Amazon TOS and had an opportunity to respond. When I am shopping online I certainly don't take a single review good or bad as indicative of the product's quality. Lord knows I've seen enough of the same review (verbatim) spread out across multiple shopping & review sites.

Re: Nature Today Is Anything but ‘Natural’

maulreius — Wed, 30 Apr 2014 23:06:50 -0000

I recall reading in one of my tourbooks about African's confusion on mzungu (white folk) how when they first started coming to Africa they wanted to kill every animal in sight, now the mzungu don't want any one killing any animal anywhere.

Re: Own the Death Penalty: 'Humane' Does Not Mean 'Inoffensive'

maulreius — Wed, 30 Apr 2014 20:24:24 -0000

I've witnessed an execution, the full story is here: http://bloggerbeer.blogspot.... In any event, this is the old "chicken hawk" argument, supporting our fire department in their battle against house fires does not mean I must become a firefighter. In short I was in the Middle East and a fellow used his police credentials to aid in the robbery and murder of money changers, the authorities wanted to give notice to the public their extreme displeasure, all other executions occurring in that nation are behind prison walls and I do know of at least one pardon.

The comments by Jonah & Andrew are pretty much how I feel on this affair.

I recall a movie where dude had his wife and children taken away by two petty street thugs. One of which was sentenced to death, when long needle time came, dude was able to get the chemicals switched so the condemned died pretty much the same way Lockett did. Dude kept going and killed the other thug, the thug's attorney, and started to kill police and DAs and everyone who he viewed as aiding and abetting the criminals, I figure people's sympathy with dude ended when he murdered the pretty young A-DA.

Re: Painful

maulreius — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 08:26:18 -0000

Loved the commercial immediately after that race was done. A VISA commercial talking about 1/100th of a second and that was the difference that won him gold. I do not suspect we will see a similar commercial talking about him losing gold by 1/100th of a second.

Re: The Creepiest Tracking Video I’ve Ever Seen

maulreius — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 07:55:00 -0000

Reading the comments at Politico are a hoot, most of the leftards were yammering on about how Reid is crying about his public comments being put on display. I suspect their reading skills are about 8-16 years behind their supposed grade level, Reid noted his public appearances and comments were fair game but what should his house or his grocery shopping matter. The other tack was to whine about how some states are mandating ultrasounds prior abortions and therefore Republicans deserve such invasions of privacy. Incredible how low and dull the political left has gotten. Plus the old 2x standard remember Kagen's comment caught on film one talking about ".....time"?

Re: Mike's Grateful Dead Blog: Grateful Dead Songs that are Not Bobby or Jerry Songs

maulreius — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 09:38:50 -0000

A buddy of mine who is not really a 'Head but appreciates the band (due to his friendship with myself) notes he can't stand Bobby Songs, he like all of the Jerry songs but is less than enthused when a Bobby song comes on.

Re: Mike's Grateful Dead Blog: Dire Wolf - Grateful Dead Song Review

maulreius — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 09:32:07 -0000

While I am posting under my Disqus handle (a remnant of my political blogging days) I am @WisSkier and being a lover of the winter months (actually all months, but I do not relegate winter to a second season status and therefore this song has strong appeal to myself..

Re: Mike's Grateful Dead Blog: And We Bid You Goodnight Videos from Youtube

maulreius — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 09:27:58 -0000

They (except for a Johnny B Goode encore) closed one of the '89 Alpine shows with this song. I was there, I like this one too!

Re: Eva Longoria stumps for Obama and identity politics

maulreius — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 20:19:55 -0000

Somwhat ironic, Ms. Longoria got caught up in a "scandal" over a comment her character made in Desparate Housewives, insulting the doctor who was attending to her. A lot of ID groups got all indignant with her over that one.

Re: NYT: Primaries Are Important, But It's Okay for WH To Manipulate Them

maulreius — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 21:06:57 -0000

There is a big difference. WH officials were offering a public slot to Sestak (at least that is the story being pushed) paid for by our tax dollars.

Party bosses selecting candidates is a private matter, the Dems and Republicans are after all private organizations. In fact, I object to public dollars being used to setup primary election operations. I say let the parties choose their candidates with their own resources, even if that means using bubblegum-bubblegum to choose the candidate. Surely, party bosses have some say who will represent them in an election, no?

Re: Copied Websites

maulreius — Wed, 26 May 2010 14:59:29 -0000

Us programmers are fond of saying there is only one original program and all the rest are cloned from that one or each other.

Kagen's website was great fun, I remember I created a lesson in copying and then using search and replace for these guys.

That is where my propensity to reinvent the wheel comes in handy. Don't put up boiler plate, use that as a guide and rewrite, make it fresh, make it your own.

Re: Kevorkian Attorney Leads MI-Dem Governor’s Primary Poll

maulreius — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 10:36:08 -0000

Wow, if your addition is correct then I give a lot of credit to the DNC. Fieger is an all around detestable man. He often appears on Fox (IIRC usually Gretta's show) and appears to be 100% full of bile, hate, and bitterness.

Re: Wood Unable to Force Floor Vote on Own Expulsion

maulreius — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 22:30:19 -0000

Colon is a sack o' sh!+ and radio and TV commentators should pronounce his name properly. Alas, I am quite sure he was drafted to deliver the speech for a reason and any attempt to convince voters their fine old D friend representing them was in part responsible for that speech is bound to fall on deaf ears.

Re: Cutting Corners in Internet Marketing Might Get Us Stuck

maulreius — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 10:58:53 -0000

Stew, you can attribute that to @WisSkier, please hash it with #DailyCrushers. Maurelius is handle I use when commenting and writing on politics and is currently the only Disqus account I have. It is also becoming less and less active.

One technique on the borderline between black and white was the link exchange scheme. You place a link to a site on your front page and the linked site reciprocates. A lot of web rankers use incoming links as a metric of authority. However, most rankers can detect and discount link exchanges as opposed to "legitimate links". I don't place links on my front page except embedded into articles (a legit use of links), will not necessarily accept link exchange requests, and limit linked to sites relating to topical material. I may not regularly read the sites myself but they must be a site I would read. One last thing, I do acknowledge those who link to me and are topical.

Another technique a buddy pointed out to myself was to put keywords into every piece you wrote in some obscure corner of the piece and make the text-color identical to the background. Yeah that would render the text invisible to the human reader, but 'bots and spiders would be able to read it (as well as anyone viewing the unrendered HTML) and perhaps use that in ranking the page. I never utilized this. That is definitely black-hat.

Google says it well, sincerely create good content and make sure you present it in a neat and well conforming manner (i.e. make sure your HTML & CSS conforms to W3 standards. Browsers are very fault tolerant but that does not mean a developer is free to deliver sloppy code, spiders & 'bots are much more dependent on good conforming code) and as long as you do those things you do not need to resort to trickery.

In fact, my recollection is Google will penalize your site for using black-hat SEO techniques. A good idea.

The quote you give me props on, is based on a church hymn. "Seek ye first the kingdom of God and all these glories will be added onto you". St. Paul when he writes of love he is not necessarily talking of spousal love (as is the usual thought, that passage being commonly read at Weddings) but those thoughts can be can be generalized to all sorts of endeavors. I can have faith the computer system I am building is going to work, but if I don't love the reasons I am building that system for that faith may not be enough to get it done.

Re: Cutting Corners in Internet Marketing Might Get Us Stuck

maulreius — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 19:16:11 -0000

When I started web-authoring a buddy of mine know of some "tricks" they seemed appealing but they were black-hat and eventually the black hat stuff is recognized and factored out of the equation when calculating authority and search ranking.

I once signed up a twitter follower scheme. It promised hundreds of followers. I fell for it, signed up, got some followers but it was obvious they were poor followers and not interested in the least about what I had to say. I rarely tweet from that account anymore as it was my personal/general/political account. However, I opened up a new Twitter account and developing followers the old fashioned (LOL) way and the majority of those followers are good and we the situation is mutually beneficial. I read their stuff, they read mine.

Be sincere and passionate and love what you are doing and all of the glories we seek will follow.

Re: Nelson to Run for Lt. Governor(?)

maulreius — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 17:28:09 -0000

Ken, thanks for jogging my memory. The reason the OCRP was pumed about the race was due its redistricting. The suburban/urban areas of that district were diluted by splitting it up and adding in more rural area.

Re: Nelson to Run for Lt. Governor(?)

maulreius — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 12:04:23 -0000

Hmmm, St. Nubby's came out with a poll noting Barret would get trounced by either candidate.

Re: Nelson to Run for Lt. Governor(?)

maulreius — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 10:34:04 -0000

I have to concur with Mark. That seat is up in a portion of Outagamie County that is heavily unionized -- with the Kimberly, Kaukauna, and Little Chute mills. I do not know the exact geographical layout of the district, but I do know Black Creek is in it, so I am guessing a portion of the Oneida reservation is included in the district further adding to its leftward tilt.

I do not recall the exact political climate when Becky got elected, but I do recall excited http://www.ogop.org that put a little more than normal effort into that race.

Re: “Zoo Interchange” Bridge Closed Indefinitely

maulreius — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 19:47:44 -0000

Pete, while us conservative types will understand the connection between Doyle and Barret, the problem is convincing independents and Doyle is not a factor here as far as the indies are concerned. Walker has to show that Barret had some influence on the decision to forgo the maintenance.

Re: “Great and Historic Legislation” Doesn’t Need PR

maulreius — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 16:46:36 -0000

Whoops that is  yielding —.

Re: “Great and Historic Legislation” Doesn’t Need PR

maulreius — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 16:45:53 -0000

The former: &151; the later: —

Re: “Great and Historic Legislation” Doesn’t Need PR

maulreius — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 16:45:22 -0000

Make the em dash with the following HTML entity: &151; or —