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Someone calling himself Mullah Cirac posted a comment to an earlier post on the growing popularity of the war in Iraq. I posted a long reply to the Mullah. Then I checked my comments meta to see if he left legit e-mail and website. I don’t know about the e-mail, but web url he claims as his belongs to a girl from Texas who might be able to kick Cirac’s unholy ass from Mecca to Odessa.

AniMEL writes about “Nazi America.” When I saw the title and started reading, I expected that the mullah had led me to a post that would “prove” America is the great Satan for killing and incarcerating fine young terrorists. But the post goes in a different direction, and it goes there under the pen of a talented story teller. If you read nothing else today, read AniMEL’s Nazi America. She’s obviously the kind of American woman I wrote about in my reply to Mullah Cirac.

***UPDATE***
DOH! I was looking at the wrong comment. Mel, of aniMEL fame, responded reasonably to one of my unreasonable tirades. I thought the url on her comment was the url on Mullah Cirac’s. Everything else I wrote above, though, landed squarely on the nail’s head.

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Many of you know that I’m a big-time Microsoft guy. Still, I have to keep my eye on the competition.

Tonight I decided to try Apple’s Safari for Windows. It’s a beta version, but it’s about the 3rd beta.

I have to admit, it’s impressive.

The Clear Text is a little easier to read than IE7 and miles more readable than FireFox. Performance is excellent. The look, though, is fantastic. Nothing on the screeen that you don’t need–unless you want it.

I know some people like crowding out the content people like me create. They want weather, shopping, bookmarks, history for the past 7 years of browsing, and fudge recipes encircling the meat of their browser. But I like lean. Safari is lean.

I can’t endorse a non-Microsoft tool, but if you’re curious about Safari on Windows, the beta is worth a test-drive.

**UPDATE**
AmerenUE, the electric utility company that flooded a state park by breaking its own resevoir and left tens of thousands without power after a thunderstorm managed to drop my and 1,600 other customers’ power last night at 10:36. By 1:00 a.m., I was awakened by rising pool of sweat in my bed. The power’s back on, now, but I’m wide awake. The more I use Safari, the more I like. This could give IE a run for its money, and it really threatens Firefox by offering a high-quality alternative to IE.

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Sean Hackbarth, the guy who runs The American Mind blog, has jumped onboard the Fred Thompson victory train as a member of the web team.

Congratulations to Sean and to Fred. Both will benefit greatly from the effort, I am sure.

If you’re not with Fred yet, it’s definitely not too late.

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