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Imperialist aggressors must be defeated, or the whole world loses.

This really is a full service blog.

A lot of Dems talk about what the media tells them to talk about. Not helpful.

I like you, you’re my kind of trouble.

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

A last alliance of elves and men. also pet photos.

If you’re pissed about Biden’s speech, he was talking about you.

Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?

DeSantis transforms Florida into 1930s Germany with gators and theme parks.

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

Let’s finish the job.

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

Jesus, Mary, & Joseph how is that election even close?

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

We’ll be taking my thoughts and prayers to the ballot box.

This has so much WTF written all over it that it is hard to comprehend.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

I’m pretty sure there’s only one Jack Smith.

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  2. 2.

    WaterGirl

    Can anyone tell me how RSS feeds work in Safari? Last time I looked into it, it seemed that Safari couldn’t handle RSS feeds, so I have never used them.

    But, damn, the maddowblog is so annoying since the redesign that it definitely provides some incentive for trying this!

  3. 3.

    RAM

    Immediately after I read your bit about not being able to cut and paste from the NYT site, I went over and cut and pasted just fine. Course I’ve got a Mac running Firefox, but it worked in Safari, too.

  4. 4.

    Betty Cracker

    I can cut and paste from the NYT just fine — running Chrome on Windoze. I’m a subscriber; I wonder if that makes a diff?

  5. 5.

    Walker

    @WaterGirl:

    You used to be able to handle RSS feeds in Safari. But it was buggy and never worked well. The Mountain Lion release removed that feature.

  6. 6.

    gene108

    Direct TV is dropping the Weather Channel as of midnight today. I guess Comcast-NBC wanted to charge too much.

    Anyway the folks at Weather Channel periodically remind viewers to contact Direct TV to keep them on the satellite provider.

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    Keith G

    Now that I have several of the cool mobile devices, I want to again start using a desktop (that would not be on a desk). For many years I have been laptop only, using externals to supplement storage.

    Since I have been away from this type of equipment, I have no idea what the state of the tech is. My needs are managing a rather large music library and now a growing video collection. And, like everyone else, I stream from all the usual suspects.

    I swear I will start online gaming, but quite frankly, I might never make the time (the last game I played/owned was Myst II). So, high end gaming abilities can be purchased some other time.

    Since for the first time in many years, I am paying medical insurance premiums (and happy to do that) I need to keep my costs as low as possible.

    Y’alls insight would be greatly appreciated.

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    dmsilev

    Looking at the NewsMax headline list, I see that Christie appears to have lost that set of lunatics. Of course, now that Dick Morris has weighed in, it appears that Christie will ultimately survive this.

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    dmsilev

    @Keith G: Music and video of course means storage. I’d recommend a desktop with two drives, a relatively small (128 GB would be fine) SSD for the OS and your applications, and a 2 or 3 TB magnetic HD for all of your data. If your video collection starts to fill the latter, start plugging in USB drives. For anything except for 4K video, USB should be fine.

    For light gaming, the GPUs built into current-generation CPUs are actually reasonable. If you think you will want to get into something heavier, make sure that your system has at least one free PCIe slot (preferably an x16 slot) and that the power supply for the system can deal with an extra 50-100 W of load associated with a mid-range discrete GPU board.

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    JPL

    @gene108: Since I have an antenna, I don’t have the Weather Channel but do have Weather Nation. Weather.com and Wunderground provide me with more accurate information than Weather Nation. I’m surprised that Direct TV is supporting Weather Nation when I can watch it for free.

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    rikyrah

    Ever since they moved Benen to Maddow…it has fucking sucked!

    There were a couple of weeks where all I got was the error message.

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    Vlad

    That’s a big improvement for Benen. If there were a way to make all the text visible on one page, without needing to click to expand, it’d be just about perfect.

    It makes me sad that the layout from the Carpetbagger Report, which goes all the way back to 2008, is so much better than the current one on Maddow’s site.

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    Andy

    Here’s a nice little RSS app for OS X: http://www.rockysandstudio.com/apps/rss-notifier. It’s available for free at the App Store. I’ve been using it on OS X Mavericks since the horrible, terrible MSNBC site launched. Simple to use, nicely integrated, no major issues so far. It isn’t a reader, it sits on the menu bar, notifies the user of new articles and will open articles in Safari. There are paid upgrades that provide a notification bar and stand-alone news reader, neither of which I’ve seen any need to purchase.

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    Betty Cracker

    @rikyrah: The whole MSNBC redesign sucks, in my opinion. The site is no longer usable as a breaking news hub, and I cannot fathom why they made the comments sections so complex and fucked up. The number of “Be the First to Comment” notes on articles makes me think I’m not the only one who hates it.

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    MomSense

    @rikyrah:

    There were a couple of weeks where all I got was the error message.

    Now if MSNBC were in the private sector and had a CEO who was engaged and made sure that the website redesign went off without a hitch, they would never have had these glitches.

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    WaterGirl

    @jehrler: I had no idea there was such a thing as a stand-alone RSS app. I will look into it.

    If anyone here has a good recommendation for the Mac, I hope you will let me know. Thanks.

    Edit: and I see this question was answered, even before I asked it. Wow, you guys really are good!

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    Comrade Mary

    Here’s your pedant moment for January 13, 2014.

    Guys, you are COPYING and pasting from web sites, not CUTTING and pasting because all the text is still there on the web site.

    You can only cut and paste from documents you control. Not someone else’s web site.

    Thank you.

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    WaterGirl

    @Andy: Do the articles open in Safari using the format from the original site? Because that’s what I’m trying to get away from. Hate the new slow ugly awful site for the steve benen blog.

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    StringOnAStick

    @gene108: We get the other national weather channel, but it sucks compared to The Weather Channel. We aren’t paying for cable anymore either, just using an antenna for local channels and internet/Roku for anything else, so I guess we truly do get what we pay for. I do miss TWC though.

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