Yesterday I planned major visiting. In the best laid plans of mice and men, I had one more little thing to do first. I chatted a Symantec tech rep to find out how to stop Norton Utilities from wiping out my email contacts every time I clean the registry, making me undo to recover the contacts. Little did I know that I would still be in chat with Charlie 4 1/2 hours later. He was a nice enough fellow from India, although I would prefer the job had not been outsourced. He knew about as much about the workings of Windows as I do, making him almost as competent as a 12 year old, but far more competent than the vast majority of tech reps I have encountered. (Blue Host is an exception to that. Those folks are fantastic.) What neither of us realized is that Windows Live Mail stores contact info in a completely separate program, Windows Live Contacts, so we spent hours looking in the wrong place. I replied to comments, but did no visiting. I plan to do so today, God help me!
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today it took me 4:57. To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From Crooks and Liars: Today, the ACLU, the Mexican-American Legal Defense and Education Fund, the National Immigration Law Center, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, ACLU of Arizona, National Day Laborer Organizing Network and the Asian Pacific American Legal Center (a member of the Asian American Center for Advancing Justice) filed a federal lawsuit against the state’s sheriffs and county attorneys, asking the court to find S.B. 1070 unconstitutional. It violates the 14th Amendment’s guarantee of equal protection under the law because it unlawfully invites the racial profiling of Latinos and other people who look or sound "foreign-born." It also violates the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution by interfering with the federal government’s authority to regulate and enforce immigration.
Both claims are completely valid. That gives us almost a 50% chance at success.
From Daily Kos: Quinnipiac offered their final poll in the Keystone State, and they confirmed what everyone else had already suspected: the Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate is too close to call. The Q Poll gives challenger Joe Sestak a statistically insignificant lead of a single point over incumbent Arlen Specter (42-41). Two amazing statistics for a race with this high a profile: on the eve of the election, one in six voters are still undecided. What’s more, a significant number of Specter and Sestak voters (25% of those who have made up their minds) were still persuadable at this late stage of the game.
I hope I’m wrong, but I think the party machine will get out more of their voters, giving Specter a narrow win. In Arkansas, I think Blanche “party of” Lincoln will win without getting the required 50%, forcing a runoff. It’s primary day in Oregon. I mailed my ballot two weeks ago. None of the major races are hotly contested. I predict that all Republican primaries will be won by pigs.
Cartoon:
I hope your week is going better than mine.
2 Responses to “Open Thread – 5/18/2010”
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“Will pander for re-election” LOL. They should all be required to stand out there with that sign, just to show everyone how ridiculous and phony they are.
What a wonderful idea, Tom.