Welcome to 2006; and 2006 welcomes careful drivers.

Well, 2005 was a good year for me, the last month was a bit uncomfortable, but the end brings a new feeling of new beginnings.

I’m hopeful for 2006, personally.
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Ironic, that Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com Vicinity should be returning to Tucson today.

Ten Years ago today, January 2, 1996; The Editors of Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com and their trusty Chevy Cavalier rolled into their new home, after a mighty-mighty Tour-de-Jeremy road trip across the United States (part of which was chronicled here.)

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One of the greatest gifts I got this Christmas was from my niece Rachael.

I just updated Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com to the recently released Version 2.0. It wasn’t all that difficult of an upgrade, and Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com visitors should not see anything different. (Most of the changes were done in the back end)

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Behold, the last Searchy Fun for the Year 2005.

For those of you who came in late, these are the top 20 Search Results used to find Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com on the various Search Engines on the World Wide Web.

Let’s get to Checking!
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In the everpresent quest to prevent spam comments from plaguing Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com; The Editors of Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com have added yet another layer of anti-spam protection.
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While this is one of the better “blonde jokes” I’ve seen, I think you could easily plug “AOL User” as the subject, and its still hilarious (and true!)

This has been a special week in the world of the United States SuperCarriers. So the Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com Team has been hard at work to compile the answer to the question that many a world leader has asked since December 7, 1941.

I’ll give you a hint:

Sources

Navy-dot-mil
Global-Security-dot-org

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More stories from the great humanitarian nation that is China.

China has successfully petitioned Microsoft to shut down a disident blog of Michael Anti.

Granted, I’m not frowning at Microsoft (for once) they are meerly following their standards about users following the local laws of their country.

I’m frowning at the oppressive Chinese laws operating inside the Great Firewall of China.
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After a long, dark night of Battlestar Galactica Re-runs, the Second Season of Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com’s favorite show resumes with new episodes!

Horray!
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Somehow, somewhere, in the Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com web-architecture; the mySQL server went FOOM.

(FOOM is a technical term. It looks and sounds like something blowing up, but without the combustion of blowing up. It can involve smoke.)
[Okay, I had to add that to the Vernacular Glossary Database (Which also uses the same broken mySQL) - ed.]
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Bruce Thornton of Private Papers offers an insightful essay in Reflection on 1862.

You might remember some of these pontifications from a certain website back in 2003.

Hattip: PowerLine
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The Senators are taking their seats, and all the jokers are present.

Time for lots of long, pointless posturing questions, and few actual answers from the Judicial Candidate.
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I heard this idea on The Mike Church Show, so I had to make this a new parody.

With sincerest apologies to Boz Scaggs
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While this could easily turn into a defamation blog; a rather snarky political junkie has put a “Live Blog” of Samuel Alito, himself!

The Right Honorable Samuel A. Alito, Jr.
Being the official, sanctioned, most righteous blog of the man who is going to get past those pesky senators.
The A Stands For Awesome
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There is some Troubling News from the Ukraine, via The Politburo Diktat; and Russia is not too far away from the scandal.

UKRAINE’S Parliament sacked the government overnight over a costly gas deal with Russia, pushing the country deeper into crisis just two months before a parliamentary election.

President Viktor Yushchenko, whose euphoric rise to power has been marred by a weak economy, bitter feuds and graft scandals, said the vote to ditch his second government in just over three months was unconstitutional.

Its clear to this blogger (ie. me) that Russia is not yet willing to let go of the precious territory that is Ukraine.
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I’m guessing that most readers of Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com have not spent more than 30 seconds listening/watching the Alito hearings. (And to be honest, you have not missed much.)

I listened to about 50%, and was half listening at the time, so I’ve got a sample size of 25%

This is the attempt of the The Editors of Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com to round-up their observations of the events of the Alito Circus.
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After listening to two hearings for confimation to the Supreme Court, I have figured out some of the codewords that both Republicans and Democrats have been using. It is no different than the cubicle jungle when cubicle monkeys learn a new catchphrase.
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Since I pretty much cannot talk about the Philadelphia Eagles for almost a year, I might as well make fun of a rather interesting convergence of Football and Politics. It is called the Washington Redskins vs. the Seattle Seahawks; or as the Seattle Times refers to Washington [D.C.] vs. Seattle [Washington].

Only on the Left-Coast could something like this happen:

To avoid insulting native American heritage, the Seattle Times decided to limit severely the use of the term Redskins in the paper — even if a team with that name will dominate news coverage this week. The Times will not use the moniker in headlines or captions. Reporters can use it only once, as a first reference, in all stories. The Redskins will be referred to almost exclusively as Washington — which could get a little confusing for local readers who also live in that state.

Hattip: Wizbang
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Henseforth, to all Homestar-runner-dot-com fans, January 13th shall be known as Trogday.

It is amazing how much a silly little cartoon gimmick has perpetuated in today’s society.

(Plus, I can’t believe its been three-years)

Its a slow Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com Newsday, so we, The Editors of Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com present you with a rather interesting (at least to us) meme which we found out there in the World Wide Web of blogs.
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I stumbled across this last night.

As I’ve said before, I love Google Maps, and I’ve had some nice downtime just exploring the Earth with it. I’ve found a few gems myself (Like the U.S.S. New Jersey, outside, New Jersey; or the U.S.S. John C. Stennis, [or at least her berth, now -.ed] bearthed at San Diego; and I think this is the U.S.S. America, which was decomissioned and then sunk off the Virginia/North Carolina Coast just last year).

But The Edge of i-Hacked found a bunch of Google-Map-Goodies for everyone’s perusal.
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Last night, while geeking out, The Editors of Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com were quickly coming to the conclusion that their Geek-O-Sphere needed a serious upgrade. Too many applications were crashing, and well, its time for new computers.

Currently, “Kosh” is the primary box, and he’s only running 350MHz under the hood.
“Morden” is the secondary, and he’s got 800MHz under the hood.

Its 2006, and we’ve not crossed the Gigahurt barrier! (Yes, we know how Hertz is spelled, Hurt just sounds meaner)
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This is something I found over at Allison-Lives-dot-com.

The Prejudice Map
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The big news on all the networks and the blogs is this:
Bin Laden offers Americans truce

“We know that the majority of your people want this war to end and opinion polls show the Americans do not want to fight the Muslims on Muslim land, nor do they want Muslims to fight them on their [US] land.

“But Bush does not want this and claims that it is better to fight his enemies on their land rather than on American land.

“Bush tried to ignore the polls that demanded that he end the war in Iraq.

“We are getting increasingly stronger while your situation is getting from bad to worse,” he told the US, referring to poor US troop morale and the huge economic losses inflicted by the war.

“The war in Iraq is raging and the operations in Afghanistan are increasing.”

“In response to the substance of the polls in the US, which indicate that Americans do not want to fight Muslims on Muslim land, nor do they want Muslims to fight them on their land, we do not mind offering a long-term truce based on just conditions that we will stick to.

“We are a nation that Allah banned from lying and stabbing others in the back, hence both parties of the truce will enjoy stability and security to rebuild Iraq and Afghanistan, which were destroyed by war.

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Its amazing, last year at this date Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com was celebrating 3-years of bloghood; today, a year later, it celebrates 4-years!

It is amazing how time and space work.

Even more amazing, 2 Years ago the SAME Website celebrated 2-years!

What are the odds that a website celebrates an anniversary on the SAME EXACT DAY?
Awhile back, Randy asked the perennial question: Why do you blog?
I ask myself that question everyday.
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Not since the inception of Khaaan-dot-com has a website transcended the mundane nature of the World Wide Web:

Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com presents: Dooku-dot-net
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I know, I know, I NEVER write about the AFC.

Well, since the Eagles are no where to be seen in the NFC Title game (something that hasn’t happened in five years) I’ve got to give props to the “other” team from Pennsylvania.

The Pittsburgh Steelers

They beat the Broncos, and that is something I can cheer for.
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Our Friends over a Independent Sources pointed us to Parade Magazine’s article on their:

2006 List of the Worst World Dictators

If you don’t know the names on this list, be thankful that you live in such a free country that you don’t need to worry about such third world atrocities:
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Report!
Outrage!
Vilification!
Puffer-Fish Mode!
Self-Imporatance!
Re-Assurance!
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Remember all those news stories in 1993 about how the nomination of former ACLU lawyer Ruth Bader Ginsburg to replace conservative Justice Byron White on the United States Supreme Court would “tilt the balance of the court to the left?”

Of course you don’t. Because there weren’t any.

In the past three months, the major media have repeatedly hammered away at the theme that Judge Samuel Alito Jr. would “shift the Supreme Court to the right” if he replaced retiring Justice Sandra Day O’Connor.

This blurb is from Reason Online’s The Ginsburg Shift

It didn’t matter then—it shouldn’t now

Hattips:

The Commisar
Attila Girl
The Volokh Conspiracy

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To continue a conversation from the Previous Post (which turned into an amusing analogy between the SCOTUS nominations and the NFL Draft); I learned something yesterday.

The question was, why is there such an opposition to President Bush, and why is there such a change?
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The vote came down party lines; unfortunately.

I watched a little of the vote. (It really wasn’t a vote, it was more of a closing statements bath of mindless banter.) I could not watch/listen to most of it without keeping my appetite for Lunch.

The vote was 10-8 (Ten Republicans and Eight Democrats)
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I just filed my Tax Return for 2005.
I liked the value I got at the end. (First time in awhile I’ve been “positive” for both Federal and State)

It sucks that the Government had that money, interest free, for so long.

I think someone should complain.
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The Modernist Papers

I think there is a misconception, in society, about what is Liberty and what is Civil Government.

One of the theories, that I hold to, was something I learned when I read the Second Treatise of Civil Government by John Locke, who has been called the primary philosopher of the United States Contitutional Convention (as many of his writings are echoed in the Federalist Papers as well as the works of James Madison, and many of the Constitutional Framers)

In particular, I point the readers of Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com to Chaper 7 of the above text: Chapter 7: Of Political of Civil Society and Chapter 8: Chapter 8: Of the Beginning of Political Societies
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I’m not sure what my stance is on the recent news that Google is bowing to the oppresive Great Firewall of China; or how I feel about the backlash that Google is getting as a result of their business decision.
Like:

• Michelle Malkin
• Randy Thomas
• Little-Green-Footballs
• VodkaPundit
• The Joy of Tech

Among others…

My biggest hangup, is the argument that the internet is a form of free speech. (That argument, is too United-States-centric for me.)
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First, we learned that NBC’s “The West Wing” is ending this season.

Now, we learn that ABC is puting their “hit”, “Commander in Chief” on hiatus for the Spring.

I wonder if this was due to the President’s low approval rating?
Or the NSA Wiretaps?
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There go the hopes of a Filibuster.

72-25 (60 required for Cloture)

So that is it, the “public” debate is over. Meaning that the Senate can now move onto the actual Up or Down vote to approve/disapprove the Supreme Court Nominee. That vote is scheduled for tomorrow.
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Yet another Tour-de-Jeremy is in progress, and The Editors of Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com are moving Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com Vicinity to a remote location.
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