Standard Mischief

So I understand that the DNC, and the Obama and Clinton campaigns are trying to broker a deal to deal with the unfortunate stripping of delegates from rogue states Florida and Michigan. I say unfortunate because after all, the Democratic party is the party of the downtrodden, the discriminated and the disenfranchised, remember? The Democratic party is the party of count every vote, right?

Rumor has it that the deal is that they will seat all the delegates with half a vote. That’s not good enough. If Hillary is really going for broke because she thinks she can’t possibly wait eight years for another shot at being President, she’s got nothing to lose by playing her Ace in the Hole. You know, the race card.

Hillary ought to demand no less than Three-Fifths of a vote for every delegate.

I know I could put up some actual content, but I decided that was too much work, hence this post. What I’m trying to do is text a fix for a WordPress feature that is flaky on my hosting account, the future post.

I can’t link to the private forum where the fix was discussed, but I can link to trac.wordpress.org. It’s Ticket #3742. It’s an update to wp-includes/cron.php. I have no idea if anyone outside of my host is having issues with the future post feature, but there you go. We’ll see if this shows up bright and ugly at 8:00 AM Eastern.

My php-fu is weak. I have only the most vague idea of what’s wrong with the codebase. Some suggest that this might also fix my trouble with trackbacks.

Update: That worked. I can see how a bad cron.php might be the root of all my hosting problems.

There’s an economic theory that’s been floated around lately that says even if the US economy goes in the dumps for a little while, the rest of the world is big enough and robust enough to “decouple” itself from the USA and stay strong.

Soldiers fire on food riot crowds (Somalia)

Tens of thousands riot in Mogadishu in eruption of anger over food prices

Stores impose limits as rice stocks shrink (New Zealand)

Toronto feeling effects of global rice shortage

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Global Growth Slows, UBS Says (Update1)