A few days ago I posted a quotation, very slightly edited, to illustrate that all those wingnuts quoting Lincoln to support their goofy positions on dissent and not criticizing a President during a war really have it all wrong. The quote in question was from an address by Lincoln as a Senator to Congress during the Mexican/American war, considered quite the folly at the time. Simply replace the one reference to “Iraq” with “Mexico” and you’ll have Lincoln’s own words on the subject. This is certainly better than the made up “Lincoln” words spoken on the floor of Congress the other day by current Republicans, who have fallen about as far from the father of their party as it is possible to fall.
On a different note, I still haven’t selected a new template for this blog but I am giving a new posting process a try. There is a new Firefox addon called Performancing for Firefox 1.3.5
that sits in the browser, accessible by a simple right mouse click, and allows bloggers to add links to web pages, create blog entries based on pages they find on the web and import images and text easily from web pages as they browse.
A simple right-click and choice of Performancing|Blog this page pops up the Performancing window on the lower half of the blogger and from that point on you can surf anywhere, change from tab to tab and pick information from web pages for citations, dragging and dropping text and images easily into the text entry window. Performancing will then publish it to whichever of your blogs you choose at the push of a button (once you’ve set up the list of blogs and gotten access to them for Performancing, a simply feature with their wizard).
So if you’re reading this it worked.
[edited to add] While I’ll be darned, it worked like a charm, although it doesn’t allow for editing posts so this edit came in as a second post, but that’s a small annoyance and definitely not a show stopper. The ability to post on the fly and cruise for citations is a great feature and one I’m going to enjoy. I’m also guessing it’s one ability the major bloggers have known for a long time but heck, I’m small fry and a strict amateur at this, so I still get to be impressed by the small stuff.
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