Mac Menu Symbols
You can get more from your Mac, and use if more efficiently, if you utilize its built in keyboard shortcuts. You can see what these shortcuts are when you click on the menu bar at the top of your Mac’s screen. For example, in the image below, I’ve clicked on “History” in Safari’s menu bar:
If I want to learn the keyboard shortcut for “Back” in Safari, I can see here that I should click on the command key (which looks like a four-leaf clover) and the ”[” symbol. Safari will then go back one page.
However, it’s sometimes mystifying what keys go with what symbols. Over at Dan Rodney’s blog, I found this extremely useful cheat-sheet detailing the symbols that go with the keys.
For example, the option key is that weird ramp looking symbol:
Well said. This president has, through his demonstrated ineptitude, cost America dearly in world standing. Our children’s children will one day read their history books and feel a deep sense of shame. The Iraqis’ children’s children will read THEIR history books and feel a great sense of anger.
As is typical of Don, when he wanders into the world outside of motorcycles, dogs and business he gets it all wrong. In this case 2,974 times wrong.
Despite Alan Greenspan meanderings the conflict is not about oil. It is about nation building and establishing a safe and sane environment where lunatics of any stripe know that attacking America is a swift and sure way to reap the whirlwind on themselves and there families.
It took from 1765 to 1782 to solve the ‘situation’ in America, why would we think it would take just a few weeks to solve the problem in the Mideast.
I would support insurance for children if and when one person can show we a place in the Constitution where such action is legal, under the original wording.
Meanwhile Don, stick to business, dogs and motorcycles.
Well that explains Vermont’s motto…
FREEDOM AND UNITY, unless we have to work for it.
Yeah…we need Socialist computer salesmen running our government.
I agree, never should have started that war in the first place, could have gotten Saddam without starting the war. Did you know that the Sunnis and Shiites have been killing each other for over a thousand years? And stupid Bush thinks he can stop them? They won’t stop until both groups are all dead. We cannot wait for that to happen.
If Bush had given a 100 billion to finding an alternative to oil, we’d be on the way to finding a solution and there’d be no reason for dead American soldiers.
Make no mistake. Iraq is about oil and about Bush & Cheney supporting their political supporters in the oil business.
This debate is about values and about doing the right thing for the majority of the American people. Not helping a few oil-rich buddies.
Don’s right. It is about oil. All the justifications and expectations have proven wrong. We are not saviors, we are a large part of the problem. As President Johnson found out, guns and butter don’t mix.
Bush claims to be a Christian. It is way past time to act as one,
I subscribed to Smalldog for Macintosh information, not lame political rants. I can get all that same hogwash from moveon.org. Smalldog just lost a customer.
None are so blind as those who WILL NOT see.
We have here another dupe of the left and their liberally biased media.
Don should really do some homework.
Main issue… like every other liberal, Don blames Bush for everything. Try to remember this Don… CONGRESS writes the checks.
The president is also NOT in charge of cominhg up with alternative fuel sources. The free market is. One that has been hampered by draconian environmental policies that make it next to impossible to wean ourselves from foreign oil or develop new sources.
1) The health care bill for “the poor children” is a bunch of crap lovingly tied to a military approriations bill by democrats to bog down the war effort. READ THE BILL. It makes this “free” healthcare available to “chlidren” up to 25 YEARS OLD!
I hope I’m not paying for my kids insurance when he’s 25.
2) Your sentence:
“Instead of watching silently as Israel bombs a site in Syria and rattling swords against Iran, perhaps we should be relying upon diplomacy,”
Look what diplomacy did for Neville Chamberlain’s Britain and the rest of the world as he sat by and watched Germany arm up and almost conquer the world.
Why do you think Israel bombed Syria? BECAUSE THEY WERE BUILDING NUKES! Notice how Syria isn’t screaming so loud. If Israel had bombed a civilian target, there would have been press galore. Where is it? There isn’t any because they hit a NUKE LAB and they don’t want the world to know.
Not related… but Syria also just
reported the deaths of Several scientist and military officers who died from an accidental
spill of MX gas.
A weapon of mass destruction. Hmmm… wonder where they got that? They coudn’t possibly have got it from Iraq in the 11 months before the US decided to act upon 11 UN resolutions that the toothless lion UN refused to act upon because they were making too much money off of the “oil-for-food program” that was starving the Iraqi people.
Do I even have to say why Iran needs a spanking? Do you not know that a dog is about to bite you by it’s growling? Iran is now run by the animals who held our embassy workers hostage for
444 days and would kill you just as soon as look at you. Do you think they will listen to diplomacy?
Try to remember Don…When the worldwide islamic caliphate comes, the liberals will be the first to go!
As much as I agree with Don that we are throwing good money after bad in Iraq, I would hasten to point out that the Constitution does make Bush the Commander in Chief of the armed forces. He can order them as he pleases.
By contrast, there is NO Constitutional authority for the Federal Government to implement a national health care system. It is not among the enumerated powers delegated by the states, via the Constitution to fedgov.
Waging a war at the president’s discretion may not be wise, but at least it’s constitutional, unlike a national health care system.
Don, Is there anything a Republican can do that you agree with?
1. The wars in the middle east were not our choosing. We were attacked and due to that our policy rightfully became pre-emptive. Gee, did you also forget the UN authorized the US to go into Iraq. Leftists like you love the UN, wheres the problem?
2. Bush stated on 9/11 the wars that were coming would last far past his presidency. You know what, things that are tough and need to be done will be difficult.
3. If there is a child that needs healthcare let their parents pay for it. Why should my tax dollars support those who refuse to fend for themselves, refuse to take responsibility for themselves or for those too lazy to take care of themselves. Now, if you would have stated to take the money being spent on the war and give it back to the taxpayer, you would then have some credibility.
it must be nice to sit up in your little state that contributes little and second guess those at the big peoples table. Vermont is kind of like France. Always complaining but once someone invades or does you harm, you’ll be crying.
We either kill the terrorists over there or they will be killing people here. Then you’ll be whining about how the President did nothing.
I have been with small dog since it was SmallDoggy.com but I have been shopping elsewhere as I prefer to spend my money with an American company.
I have found that the best way to lose customers is to spout political or religious beliefs no matter what side you are on. Stick to Computers.
It is good that America allows freedom of speech. Otherwise in Iran or any other Muslim nation you could choose, you would be ostracized, or worse, for speaking against their government. Ask the Iraqis who lost relatives by speaking against Sadam. Oh well, at least you don’t publish a website like moveon.org. Your business practices are at least honest, even if your opinions are less so. Politics and big government practices in the US has made way too many enemies without solving much.
Wow the right wingnuts are out in force defending the indefensible.
For bushtards its always about money (for themselves) and in this case its oil-money and stealing money for contract services. Its so weird to watch all the lying going on about how they care about freedom and democracy. And using the U.N. as an excuse, when they have spewed so much venom about in the past. And of course the typical lie tying 9/11 to Iraq.
Yes this mess will last far beyond bush. My children and their children will be stuck with the bill to pay for this disaster. It is a tragedy how this man has disgraced our country’s honor with his premeditated war based on lies. And how he has destroyed so many lives for money.
This will be the legacy he has craved. It will always be Bush’s War.
“If there is a child that needs healthcare let their parents pay for it.”
Wow, what a grinch! I think most children could benefit from healthcare, don’t you? Not just the precious little rich kids. Even children from poor families could benefit from healthcare, and I think we’d probably end up spending less in the long run if we paid some healthcare costs up front so that all kids leave elementary school healthy. Leave no child behind, unless they get diphtheria and can’t go to school because they couldn’t afford the vaccine.
Thank you for posting this! This was very well-said and very much the truth. George Bush and his followers are a complete disaster to the entire human race & the entire planet. Thank you for posting this.
As a european I don’t like to spent my money with “American” companies, especially when the’re waving the stars and stripes.
Nowadays it’s getting more difficult than ever to remember that there are also a lot of “good” americans around.
Keep it up Don, it’s always a pleasure to hear another voice from America.
Thanks.
I follow a couple of right wing sites and read an interesting rebuttal to the “it’s all about oil” argument. The writer explained, “the war in Iraq was not about oil it was about protecting our vital interests” so there you have it.
To address two other points Iran and Syria. First Iran, a theocratic state, there are Muslims who devoutly look forward to the coming of the 12th Imam. Which for Christians is Armageddon. Those who believe that this is the best that can happen will do what they can to hasten his coming and if that means nuclear war in the Middle East then that would bring salvation. Ahmadinejad believes the 12th Imam is yet to come. He claims that he is to personally prepare the world for the coming. In order to save the world, it must be in a state of chaos and subjugation. I personally don’t think this is a good idea. In dealing with a man whose purpose is based on his devotion to his faith neither threats or diplomacy seem to be effective. A simplistic answer is to kill him but we need to understand he is not the only man devoutly holding this belief. Clearly we would be wise not to do things that play into their desires. With regard to Syria I don’t think their motivation is religious but secular. How to deal with them? Perhaps diplomacy will work.
Leave the politics alone, people are interested in information about Macs and are not interested in your politics. As to health care for kids, they are all covered as we speak it’s called Medicaid and it’s free to everyone that can’t afford private coverage. Americans would reather fight these people over there than fight them here in the states and I promise you this, that if we don’t defeat them over there we will be fighting them here with in a few years, they are crazy.
Fight them where? Iraq was not a threat to the United States, until bush invaded the place and destroyed the country. It was this lack of any strategy that left large caches of weapons and munitions unguarded and undestroyed so anyone could pick them up. Any real conservative knows bush is just a pint size lunatic dictator wannabe.
We had no business marketing a war against someone that was no threat to us. And this bit of evil will haunt us for decades if not longer.
As to the real threats, they are in Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. But bush is too buddy-buddy with them to actually do anything. Iran is no threat to the United States. Maybe to Israel, but as they have proven recently with Syria, they can handle it themselves. suadi Arabia on the other hand is still a major funding source for the real terrorists (remember those guys who learned to fly planes without taking off and landing. Not one was an Iraqi or Iranian. 15 of 19 came from Saudi Arabia and the others were from the UAE and Yemen and maybe Egypt.)
Its the Pakistanis who are selling Nuclear know how and technology to any terrorist that has millions to pay for it.
All we are doing there is providing huge quantities of arms to the very people that will use them against us if they have a chance. Its a freaking terrorist factory over there now. All thanks to the lunatic bush. The sooner that mental deficient gets back to mending fences and cutting brush fulltime, the better for the entire world.
Its long past time to end the madness and pull our troops out of Iraq before our military is completely destroyed by Bush’s War.
As they say, ‘if you don’t use it, you lose it.’ It’s important for us to exercise our freedom of speech by discusing the current political actions of our country, and the important issues that face all of us. What is wrong with any person, no matter what their job or profession, using their mind and spending some of their free time to invite discussion with others? It seems that many people today would rather we all not think at all. Some people prefer to threaten or intimidate others into silence, rather than to listen to any differences of opinion. Anyone who actually spends some time trying to understand the complex dynamics of the current war in Iraq – why it was started, why our government is continuing our soldiers’ presence there – and compares that with the equally complex dynamics of our political and economic situation back here at home – anyone who actually spends some time trying to understand all of this, is all the more likely to become an active and constructive member of our society. Or, is it better to make decisions based in ignorance and emotion? Some people are moved to public discourse because they feel threatened, or they feel their ‘team’ or the group they affiliate with are being challenged and they want to come to their defence. They would rather shout down and silence the opposition than entertain the different sides of the issues and possibly learn from that process. Other people are moved to communicate because they want to learn, and they also understand the value of communication to the health of our society and of our nation.
We have here another dupe of the left and their liberally biased media.
If I hear this one more time I’m going to retch. Fox News? Hannity? Savage? Limbaugh? Laura Whats-her-name? etc. All I hear on the radio is HATE THE LIBERALS!!! TRAITORS!!! IDIOTS!!! I’m an independent, but the right wing has the market cornered on hate speech.
And I agree with Don.
wow, republicans get touchy when you talk about the war instead of computers.
Thank You
Don, watch your head it seems some of the conservatives among us are aiming for your head!!!!!!! Watch out! People, must we attack Don so violently. As for the comment “As is typical of Don, when he wanders into the world outside of motorcycles, dogs and business he gets it all wrong.” I know Don and this is a very false statement. He very seldom gets it wrong. I iwll not comment on my politicals views but will say for someone to take a presonal shot at Don is uncalled for. Lets not take low blows everyone. Geez.
Sadly, your political commentary has added nothing new to solving our problems nor the world problems. I prefer getting Apple product infomation from your newsletter.
>Response to XXII
“We have here another dupe of the left and their liberally biased media.
If I hear this one more time I’m going to retch. Fox News? Hannity? Savage? Limbaugh? Laura Whats-her-name? etc. All I hear on the radio is HATE THE LIBERALS!!! TRAITORS!!! IDIOTS!!! I’m an independent, but the right wing has the market cornered on hate speech.”
>Whenever a liberal has a problem with the truth, they call those who say it “hate speech.” Typical.
“And I agree with Don.”
>Of course you do. Because you don’t listen to both sides or do any homework.
I’m curious. Where do you get
your news?
Can you at least answer that honestly?
Don:
You are so far out of it I don’t know where to start to straighten you out! In fact I am sure you are hopeless and so it is a waste of my time to try to help you. My only comment to you is: read our Constitution and try to find justification for you perverted beliefs. If you ever got away from New England and into the real world you might see the light – no I guess not!
I also want ot be removed from your mailing list. I am no longer interested in anything you sell or say.
Ron Paul
Good on you for speaking up. I think that anyone who has a soapbox of any kind who does not use that forum is doing a disservice to the rest of us. Thank you. And give me a socialist computer salesman’s political viewpoints to those of a silver-spoon moron ANY DAY.
Amen. I just watched the documentary Semper Fi about a courageous former Marine who gets it. A Must-watch for anyone who cares at all about truth, honesty, the true American Ideals—the best of what we proclaim to be but for the past 7 years have rarely lived up to as a nation.
One brave Marine who symbolizes the soldiers betrayed by the republican traitors who lied us into an unjust illegal war—if we had more soldiers and leaders like Jeff Key, we would be so much further ahead.
OK, I’ve been to Iraq since the great American war of liberation and have worked with Suni, Shia and Kurdish Iraqis to attempt to rebuild their government and economy.
A few weeks after I arrived, I thought it might take as much as five years to bring about a state of “normalcy.”
After several months, I thought it might take ten years.
Now, three years after I was there, the country remains a war zone, despite the best strategic and tactical plans of the American military, diplomatic corps.
This leads me to think that we might not ever be able to fix it…at least not with military, diplomatic or U.S. administration efforts.
Yes, we may very well be fighting “them” here in the future, because it is obvious, to many of us, that we are not defeating “them” there.
Shall we keep trying the same things, hoping for different results?
I must agree with Don on this issue and it is a shame that the right wing people are so blind they cannot see. Let me remind all of you who speak in favor of the Iraq war, it was a terriorist group made up of a majority of Saudia Arabian citizens who were a larger part of the al Qaida nuts that attack this great nation of our. Iraq did not attack us. So Bush went after bin Laden but stopped short of his capture and the end of the al Qaida and the Taliban only to use the opportunity to create havoc in Iraq. Not we are in a quadmire. Yes, Congress did vote to go to war, at Bush’s insistance that Hussen had WPD’s. Pity we did not find any! So get off your blind soap box right wingers and join the rest of us who have opened our eyes to the mess Bush has made of our country. We now are in the largest debt in the history of this nation. We add to that debt by the second and even if we got out of Iraq today, we would take another lifetime to right the wrong. I for one, will be glad to see Bush go, I just hope our nation can survive another 15 months of Bushism!
I’m with you Don.
It’s a pity that so many people bought into this lie. We will pay for generations and not just in money.
It is the civil obligation of everyone to speak out to save our country from the incompetent fools who have taken it over.
Maybe we can stop them before they attack Iran.
One more thing. Don is not a socialist in my estimation. I think he’s closer to the center than some of the commenters think.
I have to laugh at how scared the right wing is of socialists. It’s like homophobia. Are they afraid that socialists are going to corrupt their children? Is socialism a choice or are people born socialists?
Get real, most civilized countries have thriving socialist parties. Don’t be so frightened, it’s just a philosophy. It has to do with the idea that the government is for the people. Not unlike democracy.
As usual, the left wing’s “solution” to the right wing’s wasting everyone else’s money on things the right wing wants is to demand that the government change by wasting everybody else’s money on things the left wing wants. This is why America is monotonically going to hell, regardless of which party is in power.
Nobody will agree to the best and fairest solution, which is for the government to stop spending other people’s money, period… except in the absolutely minimal and necessary ways explicitly authorized in the Constitution. No “penumbras,” no “living documents,” no “welfare and interstate commerce means anything we say it means”—just the explicit authorizations.
I can’t find the place in the Constitution where the government is put in charge of everybody’s education, everybody’s health care, the development of renewable resources, energy conservation, nutritional advice, drug education, or any of a hundred other issues on which the left is determined to make people into infants and the government into their parents.
Get out of the mindset that “the money is there, all we have to do is spend it in the right place.” Leave the money in the pockets of the people who earned and own it, stop stealing it from them at the point of a gun, and let the people who own the money decide where it is best spent.
Response to XXVII:
We have here another dupe of the left and their liberally biased media.
If I hear this one more time I’m going to retch. Fox News? Hannity? Savage? Limbaugh? Laura Whats-her-name? etc. All I hear on the radio is HATE THE LIBERALS!!! TRAITORS!!! IDIOTS!!! I’m an independent, but the right wing has the market cornered on hate speech.”
>Whenever a liberal has a problem with the truth, they call those who say it “hate speech.” Typical.
>>>Thanks for making my point. What does that say about you? Who is speaking the truth above? Or are all of these right wing radio guys saying the same thing? Who passed out THE TRUTH to you? As I said, I’m an independent. That means I can decide upon issues based upon my own reflection, not that of some radio host. Yet you leap to calling me a liberal, as if it’s the ultimate perjorative for you.
“And I agree with Don.”
>Of course you do. Because you don’t listen to both sides or do any homework.
>>>. And you would know this how? See my last answer. Because you don’t know me at all. Yet you jump to a conclusion based upon putting anyone you think doesn’t agree with you into a mental construct. Do you realize this about yourself?
>I’m curious. Where do you get
your news?
>Can you at least answer that honestly?
>>>Sure. Above you say I don’t listen to both sides. What a joke! I get hard news from my local conservative newspaper and wire services online. For interpretations and opinions, I listen and read the gamut. How would I know about hate radio if I didn’t listen to it? Left and right? (by the way, I invite anyone to listen to Savage, as I do from time to time and tell me that he isn’t the most vituperative guy on the air). I read online opinion pieces all the way from Malkin to Kos and everywhere in between. I then arrive at my own conclusions. I wouldn’t bother with this but for the fact that your response to my original post is so revealing of a mindset that is the greatest danger to this country: a stranglehold on truth, demonizing everyone who disagrees with you, leaping to absurd conclusions, etc. This happens on the right and the left. Fortunately, there are a few of us who pass on drinking from the Kool Aid tub. How about thinking for yourself and joining us?