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Crass Commercialism
2009-06-08 20:12:00
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Does Team Obama Even Know Time It Is?
2009-06-08 17:41:00
Mrs. Clinton, who isn’t exactly the sharpest knife in the drawer, tells her former employee and  television journalwhorist, George Stephanopoulos that the one has somehow passed the “Three AM”‘  test, from Jill Lawerence, Politics Daily: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Sunday morning gave her version of how she came to work for the man who bested her in last year’s bitter primary battle, and what she thinks of him now. She comes out looking great, natch, and so does he. Clinton chose to make her first Sunday show appearance since the campaign — and since becoming President Obama ’s secretary of state — with her husband’s former White House aide, George Stephanopoulos, on ABC’s “This Week.” You won’t be surprised to hear what has happened to Clinton’s onetime doubts about Obama’s ability to protect the nation, famously aired in her primary-season TV ad saying it’s “a dangero...
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Why is This Woman Angry?
2009-06-08 17:00:00
A picture is worth 1000 words, goes the saying.  An e-mail echange with my wife just now:   What’s with the “angry black woman” picture on Matt Drudge’s page? I assume  that’s the French President’s wife(?) with Michelle Obama. What’s with  the ugly face? (Shrug) The woman is perpetually angry, in my observation. Where she directs that anger though, is indicative of something much deeper.  French President Sarkozy is one of those moving Europe to the right while Obama moves us left. There’s been a fair amount of bad vibes off that whole thing as a result, particularly where Mrs Obama is concerned. You may recall it was on account of Mrs Obama that dinner between the Sarkozys and the Obamas  was cancelled. Her anger… perhaps more correctly,  her obvious distaste for Mrs Sarkozy Du Jour, (Carla Bruni) given her relationship with Sarkozy, and all he represents, speaks to something I have long suspected… What f...
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-06-07
2009-06-08 03:00:00
@melissatweets Check comment 92 on yr latest at PJM # @melissatweets Check comment 94 on yr latest at PJM (correction) # @melissatweets When gov runs healthcare yr hlth isn’t the primaary concern -rather how much you cost govt # #TCOT #HHRS #TBRS BitsBlog: Video and comments on Obama Cairo Speech/ Hind-Lick Maneuver: http://bitsblog.florack.us/?p=21192 # BitsBlog Tags: Twitter , Tweet Related posts Nightly Ramble: The “No Little Fish” Edition (0) Nightly Ramble:A Cure?(x2) Where Does It End?;more (0) Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-05-31 (0) Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-04-26 (0) Red State Twitter Hack Proves ‘The Moderate Voice” Isn’t (1)

Dear President Obama
2009-06-07 12:17:00
Represenatatives Steny Hoyer,  Chris Van Hollen and Daniel Maffei have sent a letter to the one: Dear President Obama : We are writing to express our concerns about General Motors’ and Chrysler’s decision to close profitable automobile dealerships across the country, and urge you to ask GM and Chrysler to delay final action on proposed closures pending further review of the decision to consolidate dealerships and the process by which Chrysler and GM selected the dealerships to close. Closing these dealerships will put over 100,000 jobs at risk at a time when our country is shedding jobs at an alarming rate. We also question the criteria being used to determine which dealerships should be closed and the fundamental fairness involved in this effort. It is our view that the market [sic] rather than leaving it up to the manufacturers whose poor leadership contributed to their demise. Furthermore, we believe car dealers will be key players in any effort to revive the American...

Confirmed: Chris Matthews is a Real Blond
2009-06-07 11:41:00
and, he  ought to consider changing it.    Allah Pundit, Hot Air, reports Chris Matthews thinks is “paranoid” to think the Obamatards are control freaksg, who wnat to control every aspect of your peraonal liffe.     On the other toe, Ed Morrisssy, Hot Air, reports the Obamatards want to pry through your medicial records. BitsBlog Tags: Chris Matthews, Hot Air, allah pundit, liffe Related posts Is Dirty Harry Reid Lying? (0) Yet Another Hillary Clinton Dirty Trick (0) Vote Counts: Here’s What I’m Seeing So Far (0) So the Study That Says Bush Lied is Soros Funded? What Else is New? (0) Kill Your Baby, Save the World. But Why Not Go All the Way? (1)
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Sarah Palin Visits Central NY
2009-06-07 03:06:00
In the Syracuse Post -Standard today: The crowd greeted Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin with cheers and applause as she hoped out of her SUV and climbed in the back of a 1959 Cadlilac to start the Founder’s Day parade today in Auburn. Palin was the star attraction, and she didn’t disappoint, waving to the crowd and posing for photos with two Auburn firefighters just before the parade began. “She’s really a lot cuter than on TV,” said Anita Petrosino of Auburn Petrosino was there to see her two granddaughters march in the parade. The sidewalks were jammed nearly shoulder-to-shoulder in many places along Genesee Street as on-lookers jockeyed to get a glimpse of Palin, her husband, Todd, and daughter, Willow. At one point, the trio got out of the car to walk along the parade route. Palin waved and smiled, connecting with the crowd and acknowledging their cheers. … John Adams of Cleveland. Adams and his daughter, Erin, got up at 5:30 a.m. to be in Auburn thi...
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Report From the Frontlines: Little Rock
2009-06-06 23:45:00
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.    I am going to keep this calm because I respect the calm, rational, historically informed, and politically ascute response of the Secure Arkanas rally, from Keep Arkansas Legal: Secure Arkansas organized a rally in rememberance of the first terrorist attack since 9/11. Pvt. William Long was killed and Pvt. Quinton I. Ezeagwula was wounded by Carlos Leon (aka Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad). Channel 11 was the only TV crew out there with a camera, and the AR Dem Gazette sent a reporter and a photographer. The event had several speakers who did a wonderful job. Video footage of them will be uploaded soon. However, the most shocking part of the event was when a muslim fanatic crashed the event. The fanatic drove by and yelled at us, then parked in the parking lot and stood out with a homemade sign yelling anti-American and later anti-Semetic comments. Had this been a ceremony for Tiller, this would have been the top story for...
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Oil: A Casual Observation
2009-06-06 20:35:00
Twenty close of last year, the President Bush told us we are going to start looking seriously at offshore drilling, thus increasing supply,  as a way of bringing down oil prices.  Based solely on that move, worldwide oil prices went through the floor.  Subsequent to the lecture and, President  Obama told us that we were going to be doing any offshore drilling, because we needed to “save the environment”. Since that pronouncement,  the price of oil has doubled. Does anyone suppose that there is no connection, here? BitsBlog Tags: oil price, President Obama, offshore drilling, pronouncement, connection Related posts Nightly Ramble:The Keep On Ramblin’ Edition (0) Well, That Ends the ‘failure’ Argument…. (0) Nightly Ramble: The “Well, Blow Me Down” Edition (2) Obama Continues to Vindicate Bush.. As Predicted (0) How Lame Can You Go? (3)
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For Anyone Still Wondering Why Newsweek is Failing
2009-06-06 20:26:00
Newsbusters’ Kyle Drennen tells us: Newsweek editor Evan Thomas brought adulation over President Obama’s Cairo speech to a whole new level on Friday, declaring on MSNBC: “I mean in a way Obama’s standing above the country, above – above the world, he’s sort of God.” Thomas, appearing on Hardball with Chris Matthews, was reacting to a preceding monologue in which Matthews praised Obama’s speech: “I think the President’s speech yesterday was the reason we Americans elected him. It was grand. It was positive. Hopeful…But what I liked about the President’s speech in Cairo was that it showed a complete humility…The question now is whether the President we elected and spoke for us so grandly yesterday can carry out the great vision he gave us and to the world.” He’s got vid of the event, too. Is there something in the HVAC over there, that brings these kind of drooling comments out? Or is it just that GE, and thereby ...

There. That’s Better.
2009-06-06 02:09:00
I finally got a few minutes to get the logo the way I wanted it. The way the header on this blog has looked for the last week or so is shameful, but such is what happens when life comes at you in the middle of a project.  I’m very lucky David’s been keeping things hopping,   (Thanks as always, David!) …and  that the Rambles this week wrote themselves, pretty much. Once I managed to sit down tonight, I had to take a crash course in a new graphics program and along the way re-acquaint myself with CSS functions as well as WP variables. But it looks pretty good now. Anyone seeng any issues? No tags for this post. Related posts No related posts.

Nightly Ramble:JAF Edition
2009-06-05 22:05:00
Welcome, one and all to the most intense nightly read anywhere on the ’sphere: The BitsBlog Nightly Ramble This is the JAF Edition . (Just Another Friday) Unemployment is up: To the shock of nobody, unemployment is up. This morning’s commerce Dept figures show unemployment at 9.4%. That’s the highest it’s been in over 25 years. Hope and change, you know. At some point, Obama’s not going to be able to blame Bush anymore. The American people have already started to see that the massive spending on the ’stimulus’ didn’t work. The myth of big government spending being the panacea is broken at last. And when the pain starts showing up, they’re going to know who to blame. I take no celebration in that statement. I merely observe. Merkel knows what’s what:  On waking, this morning, I was greeted by the specticle of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, under a full scale schmooze assault from Obama.  It’s not working. It was h...

Taylor Yans Olbermann
2009-06-05 16:42:00
Keith Olbermann attempted to smear Stuart Taylor .    Alas poor Keith.    It is not wise for dull minded person of little wit to pick a fight with their intellectual betters   Taylor gives Olbermann the Martin Yan treatment, slices and dices, here: Olbermann concocted his “hypocrisy” and “fraud” charges by juxtaposing his misrepresentation of what I wrote about Sotomayor with his misrepresentation of what I wrote about Alito. Dishonest. My approach to analyzing both nominees has been the same: Old letters and memos are of some relevance but should not be distorted, and actions as a judge are much more relevant. I quote only Taylor’s conclusion. BitsBlog Tags: alito, martin yan, relevance, fraud charges, Stuart Taylor Related posts It is Hard to a Liberal (3) Nightly Ramble:The Deluxe Cheeseburger Edition (0) Chavez Previews Clinton Adminstration Redux? (0) Nightly Ramble: Day Two (0) Nightly Ramble: The “Yet Another TruckStop&...

NASA Study: Algore is a Fraud
2009-06-05 12:33:00
NASA study links climate change to Solar activity, and human activity,  DailyTeach: Some researchers believe that the solar cycle influences global climate changes. They attribute recent warming trends to cyclic variation. Skeptics, though, argue that there’s little hard evidence of a solar hand in recent climate changes. Now, a new research report from a surprising source may help to lay this skepticism to rest. A study from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland looking at climate data over the past century has concluded that solar variation has made a significant impact on the Earth’s climate. The report concludes that evidence for climate changes based on solar radiation can be traced back as far as the Industrial Revolution.  Now go tell Al Gore to crawl back into his mansion and for Henry Waxman to shove his Carbon Tax up where the Sun never shines. BitsBlog Tags: Henry Waxman, nasa study, hard evidence, goddard space flight center, war...
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Barry Kisses Up to the Frogs (updated And Bumped)
2009-06-05 02:10:00
The dim one explains President Kerry, AP: PARIS -President Barack Obama said Tuesday the American people love all things French and acknowledged his own penchant for Gallic food and wines. In his first interview with a French television channel, Obama heaped praise on the country in an apparent attempted to stamp out any lingering tensions sparked by France’s opposition to the United State’s 2003 invasion of Iraq. “France is one of the most important countries in the world,” the president told I-Tele and Canal Plus, days ahead of a trip that will take him to Normandy and Paris for D-Day commemorations. He said French collaboration was crucial to solving the world’s problems, from climate change to the global recession As the Obama economy continues to crash, Barry shows he understands world history and politics almost  as well as he understands economics.    Sure Uncle Barry says America. not a Christian but rather a Moslem nation, loves all things ...
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Nightly Ramble:The Railroad Station Edition
2009-06-01 22:01:00
Welcome, one and all to the most intense nightly read anywhere on the ’sphere… The BigsBlog Nightly Ramble . This is the Railroad Station Edition . A political shooting you won’t hear about: Jonah Godberg points out an incident I’d not heard of,and I’ll bet most of you haven’t either. Fox News:  DEVELOPING: A gunman opened fire Monday at an army recruitment center in Little Rock, Ark., killing one army recruiter and seriously wounding another, FOX16.com reported. A man in a black SUV drove to the recruitment office and began shooting at around 10:19 a.m., a spokesman with the Little Rock police department told FOX News. The suspect, who immediately fled the scene, was later apprehended approximately four miles from the center with an assault rifle in his vehicle. Little Rock authorities detected a “suspicious device” inside the vehicle and called a bomb squad to the scene, according to FOX16.com.  Now, I’ve already commented ...

Mean While Back in the People’s Republic of Obama
2009-06-01 17:22:00
Words of wisdom mere words from the one, via Useless Toady: I am shocked and outraged by the murder of Dr. George Tiller as he attended church services this morning. However profound our differences as Americans over difficult issues such as abortion, they cannot be resolved by heinous acts of violence. From the Daily Herald: Chicago had seven shooting deaths in 24 hours this weekend, and police say they have no suspects in custody. All seven victims were men in their 20s or 30s, and all were shot to death. That is seven more heinous acts of violence, in addition to the million heinous acts of abortion each year, to which Barack Obama remains stone cold silent. BitsBlog Tags: acts of violence, daily herald chicago, toady, words of wisdom, deaths Related posts Howard Stern Strikes Gold (0) The Great One Responds (1) Memo to Ann Althouse: BO is a Socialist (2) The Balance Act (0) BO’s Waterloo (2)
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Re: Tiller, Et Al
2009-06-01 16:55:00
I haven’t commented on this Tiller thing yet, mostly because  there hardly seems a point in discussing at any length, something that wasn’t “all in”, as yet. You will admit the story broke rather quickly. I didn’t comment on it at all, (here, or elsewhere…) though David did pretty well with it, here, insofar as laying down the facts as they became known. Even from the outset, my instinct was the reaction to the story was overblown… intentionally so.  Myself, I find it hard to get too worked up in either direction for the moment.  I mean, let’s face it, gang… one guy being shot isn’t national news.  It happens quite a few times per day.  It most certainly doesn’t rise to the level of ‘terrorism’ as some put it. The reason the ’sphere are collectively wetting their panties right now, is because the guy shot was an abortionist.  So unreasonably loud was the howl over this one in fact one ca...

Libtard of the Day: Matthew Yglesias (bumped)
2009-06-01 16:00:00
Matthew Yglesias,goes over the deep end: Random murder of civilians in order to coerce political concessions doesn’t have a great track-record. But direct action terrorist violence against abortion providers has, I think, proven to be a fairly successful tactic. Every time you murder a doctor, you create a disincentive for other medical professionals to provide these services. What’s more, you create a need for additional security at facilities around the country. In addition, the anti-abortion protestors who frequently gather near clinics are made to seem much more intimidating by the fact that the occurrence of these sorts of acts of violence. I agree with Yglesias’ point about random violence.    Anti–abortion violence might, or might not, in theory be an effective weapon.  However in practice it is so rare as to virtually non-existent. from NARAL: Since 1993, seven clinic workers - including three doctors, two clinic employees, a clinic escort, and a...
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-05-31
2009-06-01 03:00:00
@PatrickRuffini Not sure I accept that, Pat. Are you saying we shouldn’t respond to the headlon g rush to the left, of the GOP? in reply to PatrickRuffini # @HeyTammyBruce What would the Democrat reaction have been if Bush responsedcorrectly to the NORK threat? Can you say “War Monger?” #TCOT in reply to HeyTammyBruce # RT @TheFlaCracker: Sadly BOTH Bushes while gr8 men to react to “get along” with Libs, needs to stop its why we lose #tbrs #tcot # @goldman Take one picture and copy the element. Hey… ir works for Iran’s missle program… http://bit.ly/15J9AY in reply to goldman # Honor Them, Today. #HHRS #TBRS #RedState #TCOT #BitsBlog http://bit.ly/IAfZD # Frustrated Conservative Base Itching to Take Off the Gloves http://bit.ly/z6K1y # eating at Jim and Ralphs on Manitou # @mkhammer And global warming… it’s raining all the time. # BitsBlog Tags: Tweet, Twitter Related posts Nightly Ramble:A Cure?(x2) Wher...
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George Tiller: RIH (age 67)
2009-05-31 19:54:00
The abortionist known as George Tiller has assumed room temperature, Stan Finger, Wichita Eagle: WICHITA - George Tiller, the Wichita doctor who became a national lightning rod in the debate over abortion, was shot to death this morning as he walked into church services. Tiller, 67, was shot just after 10 a.m. at Reformation Lutheran Church at 7601 E. 13th, where he was a member of the congregation. Witnesses and a police source confirmed Tiller was the victim Neither the numbers nor names Tiller’s victims were available.   My sympathy to Tiller’s victims. Hat tip:  Gateway Pundit. BitsBlog Tags: sympathy, george tiller, reformation lutheran church, police source, wichita eagle Related posts Mike Huckabee: Arkansas Secular Liberal? (2) Death At Yale (0) Sock Puppet At the “debate” (3) Nightly Ramble: “Bang the Drum Slowly” Edition (0) Robertson Endorses Giuliani (Yawn) (0)

Sonia Sotomayor: Quota Queen of the Bronx
2009-05-31 18:17:00
Diversity is not a synonym for affirmative action.   Rather diversity is code speak for bigotry.   Affirmative action is a narrowly tailored remedy for past proven discrimination.   Whereas diversity does away with the requirement to establish past discrimination,    It is  flat out racism, the dubious proposition that merit some attach’s simply by the trait of not being white.    When the ilk of David Duke argue that being white is somehow a virtue, that is racism.   Likewise when Sonia Sotomayor argues that virtue attach’s itself by the like process for not being white, that too is racism. Chief Justice John Roberts: “The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.” Given the Robert’s Remedy, there is no why for a bigot like Sotomayor to ever help move her nation past the question of race.   Further complicating the matter is that  Stotomayor is sexist as well, David D. Kirkpatric...
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Pardon the Dust
2009-05-30 19:53:00
Yeah, I know the logo’s a little scrogged. I’m working on it. No tags for this post. Related posts No related posts.
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Ted Goes Off the Rall
2009-05-30 12:45:00
Ted Rall, State Journal-Register MIAMI - We expected broken promises. But the gap between the soaring expectations that accompanied Barack Obama’s inauguration and his wretched performance is the broadest such chasm in recent historical memory. This guy makes Bill Clinton look like a paragon of integrity and follow-through. No further comment. Addendum:(Eric) Well, heck, I’ll comment. This thing is a case study in liberal politics, this is. It’s apparent that my original comments hold true… There’s no arguing with liberals on a logical basis, because their support for their candidates and for that matter their politics itself, is not based in logic. Thereby, no logic can defeat it.  Think about this, now; “We expected broken promises”? Rall KNEW Obama was lying from the outset, and yet supported him?  What does this say about the truthfulness of Rall himself? In all honesty, it’s nothing that we didn’t already know.  But it&r...

Sotomayor’s Princeton Degree is Not Worth the Paper on Which It is Pr
2009-05-30 01:04:00
Forget the fact that Sonia Sotomayor is both a racist and a sexist.   She is also a hack.    Sotomay0r’s so-called degree from Princeton is not worth the paper on which it is printed, quoting Stuart Taylor, Jr., National Journal: In October 1974, Princeton allowed Sotomayor and two other students to initiate a seminar, for full credit and with the university’s blessings, on the Puerto Rican experience and its relation to contemporary America. Full credit for a class, she taught herself.  Is this what passes for the richness of life experience?    Chalk another one up for Obama’s vetting department. Hat tip and more, Michael Goldfarb, Weekly Standard: I went to Princeton but somehow I never got to teach my own class, or grade my own work. One wonders how Sotomayor judged her work in that class, and whether the grade helped or hindered her efforts to graduate with honors. Ah Mike, the white man’s burden. Sotomayor’s self-granted degree does open...
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Nightly Ramble: The Crossing Edition
2009-05-29 22:05:00
Welcome, one and all to the most intense nightly read anywhere on the sphere; The BitsBlog Nightly Ramble . This is the Crossing Edition . Yes, we’ll hold you up for a few minutes, but at least you’ll have something interesting to look at. Temp Check: John Hawkins has one of his polls up, this time it’s the Rightosphere Temperature Check For May, 2009 An interesting read that pretty much confirms what I’ve been saying about the matters John asks about. Those dirty rich: Fabius Maximus has an interesting writeup today on HIS vision of Reforming America. It’s interesting, that the vision he proclaims is vastly different from than words of The Chosen One. ™ He identifies something that I’ve spoken of here before: Unfortunately, the class that has led America — and done so well during our first two centuries — appears to have lost interest in the project.  They prefer to skim the profits off the top, and hope the ship drifts along in the...

Flash! Visclosky Subpoenaed By Federal Grand Jury
2009-05-29 19:06:00
Rep. Pete Visclosky (D-Ind.) has been subpoenaed by a federal grand jury looking into the PMA Group, a once-high flying lobbying firm that collapsed after a federal raid in November. So says The Politico. Anyone still think this PMA bit isn’t going to play large come 2010 and 2012? BitsBlog Tags: PMA Group, Pete Visclosky Related posts No related posts.
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On Heller, And the 2nd Amendment, And Sotomayor
2009-05-29 17:50:00
First, Doctor Krauthammer: Heller [the Supreme Court ruling that the Second Amendment guarantees gun ownership for individuals] is hardly settled law. It is law in its infancy. It’s a couple years old. And if she is on the court, she might be inclined to revisit it, either overturn it or reinterpret it in a way where it’s weakened beyond measure.   Looking at her ruling on the other Second Amendment case, in which she joined with the majority of the second circuit in saying that it’s settled a law that the Second Amendment doesn’t apply to the states, she’s relying on a case, the Presser case of 1886, which is true. It excludes the application to the states.   However, we have 100 years of Supreme Court rulings since which have established the so-called “incorporation doctrine,” in which all of the first Ten Amendments, the Bill of Rights, are incorporated into the state and are applied to the states.   So it is not only Congress that ca...

Can We Save Ourselves?
2009-05-29 17:16:00
Hanson nails it, this monring, writing in Pajamas Media, from Greece:Victor Davis Hanson Take the economy: the liberal attack on Bush as a reckless spender who increased the debt by $2 trillion is now replaced by ’stimulus’ groupies, who are silent about a staggering $9  trillion of Obama debt to come. Cannot the country, the media-anyone!-see that the amounts of borrowing are so gargantuan that we are talking about massive changes in the US economy and lifestyle? The size and inefficiency of the government will grow. We will have soon some sort of national sales taxes on top on state, local, and federal higher rates, the point being threefold: more recipients and distributors of entitlements mean larger liberal permanent constituents-an institutionalization of the welfare state. The debts are so large that it will require a redistribution of income through higher taxes. When a Paul Krugman writes seriously that California’s financial meltdown (9% sales, 10% income taxes) is ...
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BitsBlog Mobile Edition is Online!
2009-05-29 16:54:00
Even people who have been reading BitsBlog for years may not know this; The BitsBlog Mobile Edition is available on your web=enabled mobile device. Web -enabled cell phones, smart phones, I-Phones, Palm phones, whatever… You’re covered.  The BitsBlog Website looks at your device and provides the best page design for what you’re using, all automatically, with no help from you. Well, you do have to put the address in. And it’s the same address as your regular web browswer at home would use: http://bitsblog.florack.us You’ll know it’s working corectly when the start up screen annouces you’re on the mobile edition. Now you can keep up with BitsBlog, wherever you are. No tags for this post. Related posts No related posts.
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