Finally, the noise is over. Alito has made it through the most grueling public process I can think of.

And, now that he is sworn in as a Supreme Court Justice, I can feel my Civil Rights disolving away.
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This week, whilst The Editors of Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com were away, Alan Greenspan stepped down from the office of the Chairman of the Federal Reserve.

This is an office in which The Editors of Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com felt was easily the Second-most-powerful position in the world.
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In Case you missed it, there was a reported drop in Unemployment today.
No, I didn’t see it on the news either.

But thanks to the art of parody, we have some journalistic evidence!

Low Jobless Rate Leaves Workers Too Tired to Shop
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Time for the first Searchy Fun of the year 2006. Unfortunately, due to technical difficulties, this is only a partial Searchy Fun. (As my illustrious webprovider somehow lost a whole half month of my Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com Administrative data.)

However, statisticly, this provides an adequate data sample.

For those of you who came in late, this is the top 20 Search Strings 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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Like most years, since I’ve moved to Arizona, I watched the Super Bowl with about 25 of my closest friends. It was a mixed crowd, no real die-hard fans of either team. But we all enjoied (both male and female) the meeting of the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Seattle Seahawks.

Some personal highlights of the evening follow:
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There is always this bittersweet moment after the SuperBowl, the uber-culmination of all that is good and proper in the world of Football. The painful release of the intesity of the most exciting game in the sport, and then… its gone.

The day after football, the last vestiges of the football season. The peak day to talk about THE game around the watercooler. Tuesday, it wont be the same anymore, and soon, it will be a football void.
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The Modernist Papers

I was listening to a talk show (which will remain unnamed) last week, in which a caller rang in and tried to explain why the wealthiest 1% of the world needs to pay 24.8% of the Tax Burden.
His logic was that in the Distribution of Wealth the top 1% “own” 32.7% of the available wealth.

The talkshow host got stuck on the word “own”, so he didn’t quite understand what the caller meant. The host thought that the caller was talking about Property Ownership in the country – ie, the top 1% own 32.7% of the United States.

But I was able to catch the philosophy of the caller, and I noticed a major philosophical error (one which many Americans either consciously, or unconsciously believe.)
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I made an executive Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com decision. I’ve deactivated the various themes of Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com.

If you are using a theme, right now, The Editors of Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com highly suggest moving back to the Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com Theme [When you next refresh it will be the default theme], as these will be ultimately deactivated soon.
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Just upgraded Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com to the latest release of WordPress.

I didn’t fix any of the bugs I’ve recently discovered (So I guess I need to log them, so they DO get fixed)
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Hugh Hewitt pointed me in the direction of this interesting website, forshadowing upcoming current events.
The Current List of US Court Vacancies of the 109th Congress.

Of course, all of these Federal positions are to be filled by the President of the United States, with the advice and consent of the Senate.
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Don’t look now, but this “loophole” recess appointment of a U.N. Ambassador was just Nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.
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Hey, it rained yesterday!

The drought, it is over.
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Growing up in Pennsylvania, one learns about severe winter weather. Especially in the Deleware Valley, February was the most common month to receive a snow storm from Mother Nature. 2006 did not disappoint in this area.

Currently, Mom and Dad are buried under inches of snow. Joe, G.B. and Rachael probably have a few more inches.

I enjoied the snow storm from Sunny Tucson Arizona, where the temperature is currently 75 degrees in a cloudless sunny sky.

I thought I would share some warm desert images, to help the snowed in feeling pass by:
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Now that the Chronicles of Narnia have come to the Theaters, in the form of The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, an old argument has come forth, due to the fact that the chronology of the books has been altered in the past 20 years.
You see, in the original distribution, the first book in the series is “The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe”, however, if you buy the books today, The Order has been altered. This debate got me thinking of another potential chronology debate:

Several years back, The-Roommate-Formerly-Known-as-Matthew-Maynard and I discussed the correct order to view the Uber-Mega Star Wars Trillogy.
At the time, Episode II was coming out, and we were holding our verdict.

The theory, and we have some mutual friends who fall into this case, is that there will soon be people who have not seen any of the Star Wars films. So what order should they be viewed in.

• In order of release?
• In order of chronology?

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There has been some recent blather about the recent change to Netflix‘s Terms of Use; and their new policy about “Throttling”.

From h-t-t-p-colon forward-slash forward-slash slash-dot-dot-org:

from the don’t-use-what-you-pay-for dept.
“Netflix has begun using a ‘fairness algorithm’ that slows shipments of movies to heavy users to protect profits, according to an MSNBC article. Netflix revised its terms of use in January 2005 to read, ‘In determining priority for shipping and inventory allocation, we give priority to those members who receive the fewest DVDs through our service’. Since revising this policy last year, more and more users are realizing ‘heavy renters are more likely to encounter shipping delays and less likely to immediately be sent their top choices’ according to the article.”

Hattip: Donnaville
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Some previous entries on the day of February the 14th:

• February 14, 2003 :: Happy Statehood Day
• February 14, 2005 :: Inquiry of Single Peoples

That is all.

Chiefly Musing points us to a very disheartning article.

Bald Eagle Nears End of Life on Endangered List

Animal Rights advocates have expressed deep concern over this development.

News at eleven.

G.B. sented us Desert Dwellers some of the snow carnage (okay, so its not really carnage) from the Blizzard of 2006.

Here are some pictures of our yard. We have had some melting today. Most of the snow fell off of the trees and fence yesterday. But you desert dwellers can get the idea. If the people living out there can’t imagine schools being open, try to imagine fighting a house fire in the snow storm. There were big house fires in Philly and Allentown during the snow storm.

Snow 5- there use to be a tree in the corner, but it is now lying down.
Snow 6-Bunny tracks, even they get around in the snow…

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With all the hijinx in the Supreme Court, a lot of citizens are learning the names of some of the more controversial justices.

Antonin Scalia is one of them; specifically, he is the poster justice of the Right Wing of the Federal Bench.

Here is why.
And here is why I like him.

Hattip: Stop The ACLU
Hattip: Wizbang

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The U.S.S. Iowa, the forerunner of the Iowa Class Battleship, the last class of mighty-mighty US Navy Battleships; the queens of the fleet.

It is sad that she is looking for a home. And the debate around this is even sadder.
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I’ve had enough of the Press’ softball questions on this whole Cheney Hunting Kerfuffle, so thanks to Opinion-Journal-dot-com the SERIOUS questions are finally being asked.

Cheney’s Coverup
The Vice President shoots a man. Questions must be asked
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This is something I’ve been thinking about as of late, so I decided to do some research and put my thoughts down.

When I was a less tolerant political pundit (circa age 14) I always considered the term “Democrat” to be below standard.
So when I saw records of Early American History, and people like Thomas Jefferson labeled as “Democratic-Republicans” I was frustrated, to say the least.

But today, I’m much more broad minded. Thanks to statements from my Dad like,

This is looking more like the Democratic Party I grew up with. The one that John Kennedy shocked when he suggested that lower taxes would create growth. And you thought that was a Reagan idea when in fact he copied Kennedy’s theory. Reagan was a democrat and labor leader and considered Kennedy forward thinking, but look who got the credit. Reaganomics!

This suggested to me that the current political party structure was not always what it appeared to be.
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From USA Today: Navy’s F-14 fighter jet flies its final mission

The Navy announced Thursday that the last F-14 combat mission was completed Feb. 8, when a pair of Tomcats landed aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt after one dropped a bomb in Iraq.

Hattips:

Outside-the-Beltway
The Comissar

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Today, I was prompted by my computer to download the latest update to Apple’s iTunes.
I did so, cause I know that its probably for the best that I do this. (Updates are good, they have bug fixes, bugs are bad.)

But, here is my gripe. NOWHERE can I find any release notes telling me what I’m installing!

Hello! Yes, I know you are the mighty-user-friendly-Apple-Computer, the majority of your users are not smart enough to understand such a weighty topic as “Release Notes” but some of us actually CARE about what we put on our PCs.
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With The Gipper on patrol, I had to get in a Where are the Carriers post before she came home to San Diego.

We can be pretty sure that she doesn’t have any Tomcats on board.

Unfortunately, details are sketchy, as Global-Security-dot-org has not updated at all in the past few months. So I’m working only only data I’ve gleaned from the Navy’s website.
Sources

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

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To Celebrate Rae’s Birthday, she asked for her friends to list off their favorite Top-40 titles from the past 36 years. (American Top-40 is 36 years old too?)

My Method, go through the top 100 titles for each year, from the top down, until I found a worthy title. (It was really hard in the late 70s, all that Disco in the way) And the picks in 2000+ are slim too (I can’t stand Top-40)

Anyway, here is my list:
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Uncertain Principles is having an informal poll on which Scientific Experiment was the Best:

Hattip: Pirate-King
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The-Roommate-Formerly-Known-as-Matthew-Maynard has graduated in his Beer Making techniques and has produced an India Pale Ale from his uber-secret-Beer Laboratory.

As you may remember my First Beer Review I have a few qualifications I look for in a brewed tasty adult beverage.

— Spoilers Below — Okay, not really…
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With all the hijinx in the Supreme Court, a lot of citizens are learning the names of some of the more controversial justices.
Though one who falls through the cracks is the most Senior Justice, John Paul Stevens. WaPo has offered the following article.

With Longevity on Court, Stevens’s Center-Left Influence Has Grown

Hattip: Hugh Hewitt
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From Pravda

Russia’s Olympic sponsor makes athletes booze and wear uncomfortable clothes

Hattip: GOP Vixen
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I’ve been tossing around a potential change to Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com the past few weeks.

Several people have expressed some concern over the fact that I only show one day’s worth of posts on the front page.
This is a major diversion from the typical blog, which often show a long list of posts, spanning weeks at a time.

I happen to like the “daily page” format, but I’m wondering if I’m being obstinate in my site design.

Because, after all, I only write this Mindless Banter, its you folks who have to read it.
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…we’re already nearing the 3000th comment?

Okay, I’ll try this synchronism thing.

What you now see is a week’s worth of posts on the front page.

I’ll try it out, and see if I like it or not. (I can always go back with the press of a button)
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Well, I wouldn’t know, I missed the Winter Olympics in Torino. Dispite the endless Google Logo changes celebrating the event.

I missed all the XGames
I missed all the hapless snow insanity.
I missed the figure skating scandal.
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I found this article over at Independent Sources and thought it was amusing, given the current state of affairs with the U.S.S. Iowa and the City of San Francisco.

It seems our friends the Russians have some Battleship Envy (as the BBC reports):
Moscow stung by US warship gaffe
It seems they can’t tell the difference between Soviet Battleships and the mighty-mighty U.S. Battleships.
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The Tampa Tribune has an open letter-plea to the leading potential Democratic Party Candidate for President of the United States.

Hattip: Wizbang
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Saddam Ends Hunger Strike

Hattip: Wizbang

Illiad, over at User-Friendly-dot-org is back to mocking Blogs again.

Its funny, cause its true!
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