Shelley Powers shares how to get started using MySQL with prepare statements and why you would want to do so.
McCain: Same-sex marriage ban is un-Republican
Damn straight. McCain lays it down (CNN).
The Republican party of today is not the Republican party as I understood it to be: The party to keep the government off our backs and that attempts to govern the least. No, the Republican party of today is not only on our backs, but in our libraries, schools, credit card statements, and bedrooms.
Try Roller, It’s Easy
It is easy. If your’re writing/developing/investigating using a weblogging CMS,
there is just no excuse not to try it.
PHP 5.0 Is Out
Read more about it at php.net.
Involver
Music For America launches Involver: A national concert series to encourage voter registration and youth involvement in politics.
Paper Wars
A fun little flash annimation. via Rogi.
Nationwide “Computer Ate My Vote” Day of Action
Take part today to show you want action taken to ensure your vote gets counted the way you want it to. I will be at the JFK Plaza (Love Park) event.
People Are More Important Than Ideas And Principles
Read “Even The Rich Woman”, a dramatized version of Jesus, Judas, and the anointing at Bethany. As slacktivist says, “It’s about wealth, poverty, generosity, justice and, to borrow a phrase from Dallas Willard, how it’s important to try to do the right thing without hurting anybody.” Reading this makes me think I think I take too much after Judas.
Call/Write Your Congressman and Senators NOW
Congressman Ron Lewis has submitted a bill that will allow Congress to overturn decisions by the Supreme Court: H. R. 3920.
This bill is a fundamental threat to the system of government the founding fathers of this country worked so hard to achieve. This is a fundamental threat to our freedom. This is a fundamental threat to the American idea.
Ron Lewis should be thrown out of office for such an insult to the founders and the blood that’s been shed to defend the system they set up. The system might not be perfect – but it is far better than anything else the world has ever seen. To reduce the third branch of the government in such a reckless way cannot be permitted.
It MUST NOT be allowed to pass. If it does, in the dead of night, expect your freedoms to be whittled away. One by one.
Sharing A Vision Vs. Sharing Division and Fear
Tonight see Kerry and Edwards on be on 60 Minutes.
Read this Sunday’s Washington Post interview with Kerry and Edwards.
Great quote: “”The value of truth is one of the most central values in America, and this administration has violated” it”. This administration obviously can’t handle the truth. Witness their firing of U.S. Park Police Chief Teresa Chambers (CNN) when she voiced concerns that security couldn’t be upheld with the budget cuts they are facing.
Read this Sunday’s New York Times interview with Kerry and Edwards. The New York Times interview is more in depth than the Washington Post one I mentioned. Read the full transcript.
Contrast with how the GOP is “playing dirty”, trying to personally attack Kerry and Edwards instead of commenting about their takes on the issues, and it’s enlightening. Read more about the techniques the GOP is using in “Playing Dirty” by Joshua Green in The Atlantic.