I've pretty much decided to replace my current wiki with MediaWiki. It's currently password protected and I have to create a skin for it, and I have to do lots of other customization such as shuffling all requests through my dispatcher, as well as upgrading my current wiki database to it -- so I have to learn the database schema.
In any case, this post will be for me to collect links to different bits of documentation I need to customize this thing. And by the way, I must say the install was incredibly easy. I didn't expect that.
Oh my goodness... this page is hilarious!
Power Line: Why they'd like to see him assassinated:
Yet, the rationalization reveals the true source of Bush-loathing -- hatred of the religious and core philosophical underpinnings of western civilization... But if you hate these things, what remains worth defending about the west? The only thing I can think of is its hedonism. That's how the Islamofascists see it too. And they have figured out that, if that's all the west is fighting for, the west will lose.
He links to this article at the Telegraph by Charles Moore: If Bush loses, the winner won't be Kerry: it will be Zarqawi (to read). Of course, don't forget these guys either. And while you're here, see what Putin has to say about this election.
USNews.com: John Leo: The hate-America left (11/1/04) (via IP):
[Andrew Sullivan's comments are] an acknowledgment that a good many Americans don't trust the Democrats to run a war on terror. "Has to be a bipartisan affair" blinks the message that the Democrats, as a national party, often seem detached from that war, not just from the campaign in Iraq.
Many of the doubts that hover over Sullivan's case for Kerry are rooted in the value system widely shared among Democrats: Most people are basically good; wars are caused not by evil motives but by misunderstandings that can be talked out; conflict can be overcome by more tolerance and examining of our own faults or by taking disputes to the United Nations. As a personal creed, these benign and humble attitudes are admirable. As the foundation of a policy to confront terrorists who wish to blow up our cities, they are alarming.
It's great to be reminded of the leftist mindset like this. It's so wacky that you often forget that this is the vision that motivates people on the left.
At the time of the first antiwar marches, Marc Cooper, contributing editor of the very left magazine The Nation, wrote with alarm that "the American left--or at least a broad swath of it--is more alienated from its own national institutions than its counterparts in any other developed nation. . . . What a warning signal," he wrote, "when you cannot tolerate the sight of your own flag." He warned that the perpetrators of 9/11 must not be viewed as avengers of some oppressed Third World constituency and complained that peace marches were sounding the theme that America somehow invited the 9/11 attacks.
Indeed, that blame-America attitude, once confined to the hard left, has been leaching into the soft left and the Democratic Party. A Pew survey last August reported that 51 percent of Democrats and 67 percent of liberal Democrats believe that America might have motivated the 9/11 attacks by doing something wrong or unfair in dealings with other nations. Admittedly, America's strong support for Israel may have influenced the poll. Still, it's astonishing that so many Democrats are willing to point a finger at their own country for the devastation of 9/11. In the poll, most Americans rejected this notion decisively, and Republicans rejected it overwhelmingly.
Sunday, October 24, 2004
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