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I have many and extremely varied interests, ranging from [[Judaism]] to [[Ultimate (sport)|Ultimate]] to [[Genealogy]], and, as I live in the [[Washington, D.C.|DC]] area, [[politics]], particularly US politics (both current events and history).  And more!<br><br><br>
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== Greetings ==

Today is {{CURRENTDAYNAME}}, {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTDAY}}, {{CURRENTYEAR}}.  It's {{CURRENTTIME}} (UT).  

Wikipedia currently has {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} articles.

==Today's Pic of the Day==
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== Useful Links ==

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=== General Editing ===

*[[Wikipedia:Five pillars|The five pillars of Wikipedia]]
*[[Wikipedia:How to edit a page|How to edit a page]]
*[[Wikipedia:Help|Help pages]]
*[[Help:Editing]]
*[[Help:Table]]
*[[Wikipedia:Tutorial|Tutorial]]
*[[Wikipedia:How to write a great article|How to write a great article]]
*[[Wikipedia:Manual of Style|Manual of Style]]
**[[Wikipedia:Manual of Style (biographies)]]
*[[WP:TM]] useful templates

=== Images, Copyright, Etc. ===

*[[Wikipedia:Uploading images]]
**[[Special:Upload|Upload File]] (note: campaign site pix fall under <nowiki>{{Promotional}}</nowiki>)
***then <nowiki>[[Image:Richard_Boucher.jpg|200px|Richard Boucher|right]]</nowiki>
*[[WP:ICT]] Image copyright tags
*[[WP:PIC]] Picture Tutorial
**[[WP:EIS]] Extended Image Syntax (syntax notes only)

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=== Tools ===

*[[Wikipedia:Tools]]
**[[User:Interiot/Tool2/code.js|Interiot's Edit Counter]]
**[http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate edit counter]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts]]
*[[Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation popups]] -- very valuable -- I use this one all the time now

=== Policy ===
*[[Wikipedia:NPOV tutorial]]
*[[Wikipedia:Wikipedia_is_not_a_dictionary|Not a Dictionary]]
*[[WP:BLP]]  Bio of Living Persons
*[[Wikipedia:No original research|No original research]]
*[[Wikipedia:External_links]]

=== Misc ===

Redirect - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Redirect http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Redirect] <nowiki>#REDIRECT [[NAME OF PAGE 2]]</nowiki><br>
[[Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style]]<br>
Upload - [[Special:Upload]]<br>
[[Wikipedia:Policies_and_guidelines|Wikipedia:Policies_and_guidelines]]

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=== Vandalism, Protection, Afd, Etc. ===

*[[WP:RFPP]]
*[[WP:AIV]]
*[[WP:RFI]] (watchlist section)
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrator_intervention_against_vandalism&action=edit&section=1 Report here] <nowiki>{{vandal|username_or_ip}} optional brief reason for listing (keep it short) -- ~~~~</nowiki>
** but after giving a warning <nowiki>{{blatantvandal|[name of article]}}</nowiki>
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Template_messages/User_talk_namespace List of vandalism warnings]
*Dealing with Vandalism - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Dealing_with_vandalism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Dealing_with_vandalism]<br>
*Spam project - [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Spam]]<br>
*Spam message - <nowiki>{{subst:spam1}}</nowiki><br>
*[[WP:Spam]]
*[[WP:Articles for deletion]]

=== Congressional Templates ===

See <nowiki>[[Category:Succession templates]]</nowiki>, particularly
:[[Template:USRepSuccessionBox]] and
:[[Template:U.S._Senator_box]]

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{{US House succession box |
  state=Texas |
  district=22 |
  before=[[Ron Paul]] |
  start=1984
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{{U.S. Senator box | 
  state=Washington| class=1 |
  before=[[Slade Gorton]] | 
  start=2001 | 
  alongside=[[Patty Murray]] |
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{{start box}}
{{US House succession box |
  state=Texas |
  district=22 |
  before=[[Ron Paul]] |
  start=1984
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{{U.S. Senator box | 
  state=Washington| class=1 |
  before=[[Slade Gorton]] | 
  years=2001-present | 
  alongside=[[Patty Murray]] |
  after=incumbent }}
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Also:
* <nowiki>{{ushr|Pennsylvania|7|}}</nowiki> gives you "{{ushr|Pennsylvania|7|}}"
* <nowiki>{{CongBio|R000243|(default=name of page)}}</nowiki> gives you "{{CongBio|R000243|name of page}}"

=== External Links: 2006 Election ===
These are some of the links that I frequently use in following the 2006 election.  If you're reading this, and you find other useful ones, please add them!

*For all results in one place, http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2006//pages/results/states/VA/index.html, simply replace "VA" with whatever state you need

*[http://www.cqpolitics.com/ The king - CQPolitics.com]
*[http://www.thegreenpapers.com/ The Green Papers -- excellent reference resource]
*[http://electioncentral.tpmcafe.com/ TPMCafe Election Central - polls and stories]
*[http://tpmmuckraker.com/ TPMMuckraker - scandals]
*[http://electoral-vote.com/ Electoral Vote.com]
*[http://nationaljournal.com/racerankings/house/ Nat Journal's ranked list of most likely seats to flip]
*[http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/writeup/election_2006-21.html Real Clear Politics, ranked list of seats most likly to flip]
*[http://www.centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/ Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball]
*[http://www.cookpolitical.com/races/house/chart.php Cook Political Report]
*[http://unfutz2.blogspot.com/2006/10/election-projections-survey-master.html meta-survey of projections]
*[http://pollster.com Pollster.com]

=== Reference Templates ===

<pre>
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if you need to cite a source twice, give it a name as such: <pre><ref name="Source1">{{cite news | etc. }}}</ref></pre> then to link it again use <pre><ref name="Source1"/></pre>

Also <pre>{{cite web | title=Title | work=Title of Complete Work | url=http://www.example.com | accessdate=2006-06-28}}</pre>

Two columns for references?  <pre>{{reflist|2}}</pre>

See also [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Template_messages/Sources_of_articles Sources of Articles].

== Other Useful Templates ==
*<nowiki>{{subst:lifetime|1904|1991|Greene, Graham}}</nowiki>
*<nowiki>{{birth date and age |1953|12|22}}</nowiki> yields {{birth date and age |1953|12|22}}
*<nowiki>{{DEFAULTSORT:Smith, John}}</nowiki>

== To Do List ==
* [[Bradley Schlozman]] -- good summary [http://tpmcafe.com/blog/specialguests/2007/may/08/tpmtv_guide_tuesday_may_8 here]
* [[Johnnie Burton]] -- part of Abramoff? See [http://thenexthurrah.typepad.com/the_next_hurrah/2007/05/another_key_res.html here]
* Abramoff update, see [http://talkingpointsmemo.com/grandolddocket.php here]
* [[2005 Georgia Voter ID Law]] -- or something entitled something like that
* [[Veco]] scandal -- see [http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/003173.php here]
* Joey Fay, corrupt union official, involved with a number of pols in the 1940's and 1950's
* 495/Beltway: resources to update: lots of links from [http://www.roadstothefuture.com/Capital_Beltway.html here]
* update [[Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act]] to include information about Administration's withholding of accurate cost estimates, see, e.g., [http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0312-01.htm here] and [http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0704/070704cdam2.htm here]
* [[Thomas M. Davis]] - article way too negative
* Ohio Investment Scandal -- apparently Coingate is only one part
** a "[[Coingate]]" box?
** Terrence W. Gasper, former chief financial officer for the workers' comp bureau of Ohio, indicted on charges, among other things, for receiving $25K in laundered money from Tom Noe.  See [http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060601/BREAKINGNEWS/60601032 here].
** two more indicted for alleged BWC bribes [http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060620/NEWS02/606200416]
** more Toledo Blade articles [http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/temaoversikt?Dato=20060620&Kategori=NEWS02&Lopenr=606200416&Ref=AR here]
* reorg [[Jeanine Pirro]]
* [[J. Joseph Curran, Jr.]] with info from [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/07/AR2006050701182.html here].
* Mayors of Newark, start with [[Leo P. Carlin]] and work backwards. [http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/newark.html]
* [[District of Columbia voting rights]]
* [[Frank Rudolph Wolf]] - stub
* [[Jim Moran]] - 
* Congressional Districts, might [[United States House of Representatives, Massachusetts District 1]] be a template? (If anybody knows of a better generic one, please let me know!)
* converting generic succession boxes to <nowiki>{{USRepSuccession}}</nowiki> for US Reps?
* Sprauges, Sprague family; Lodge family (look in political graveyard); Freulinhuysen family page...
** Sprague, see [http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKsprague.htm here], [http://www.bergen.org/jfk/vips.html here], and [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,712341,00.html here].
* It'd be a big project: MZM
* Is it true that [[John F. Kennedy|JFK]] had no tax cuts passed?
:: He proposed tax cuts in 1962; they were passed in 1964. [http://www.enterstageright.com/archive/articles/0301jfk.htm] On a larger subject:  the "Domestic Policies" section of the JFK article seems pretty dismissive. Certainly it's wrong to imply, as strongly as it does, that the tax cuts passed in 1964 owed little to his efforts. [[User:John Broughton|John Broughton]] 15:02, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
:::A quick scan of my old Ency. Britannica noted as accomplishments: Cuban missle crisis, which may have helped lead Kruschev to sign, 10 mos later, the nuclear test ban treaty.  It notes that Congress was indeed wary of his domestic plans (one that passed was the Peace Corps) in part because of the closeness of the election -- but that Kennedy was convinced he would win a 1964 landslide against Goldwater, and get the mandate for the massive tax cut, and civil rights leglislation that he wanted. -- [[User:Sholom|Sholom]] 21:13, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
* RFK campaign missing some good details
* [[Great Society]] is kinda short . . .
* Interesting article at [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/25/AR2006032500025.html], which, if its information were incorporated here, would effect articles on [[Everglades]] and Fla Gov [[John W. Martin]] (where all this is missing), and adding to the following articles where it is mentioned to some degree: [[Lake Okeechobee]], [[1926 Miami Hurricane]], and [[Herbert Hoover Dike]].
* check out [[Template:COTWs]]
* [[Ed Buckham]], [[Jack Abramoff]], [[U.S. Family Network]] (and perhaps [[Tom DeLay]]), need some major updating b/c of the info in this article [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/25/AR2006032501166_pf.html], does the Abramoff template need to include [[U.S. Family Network]]?
* The Chandler Family and the LA Times? [http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-power26mar26,0,536946.story?coll=la-home-headlines]
* Frank Doyle Scholarships

==Trivia==
===various 'landmarks'===
*1st edit: [[Roy Orbison]]
*100th edit [[Talk:Bob Ney]]
*500th edit [[Newark Evening News]] (initial version)
*1000th edit [[Porter J. Goss]]
*1500th edit [[Ed Schrock]] (+ pic)
*2000th edit [[United States House elections, 2006]]
*2500th edit [[Cynthia Matthews]]
*3000th edit [[Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy]]

===some articles I created===
*[[Sharon Mosher]], American geologist
*[[Patricia Herzog]], lawyer in the landmark marital property law
*[[Justin Maxwell]], [[Jonathan Albaladejo]], [[Ross Detwiler]], [[Brandon Larson]] - more baseball players for, at the time, the [[Washington Nationals]]
*[[Judah Nadich]], Rabbi, chair of [[Rabbinical Assembly]], helped [[Holocaust]] victims.
*[[Paul L. Troast]], 1st chair of NJ Turnpike, filed gov candidate
*[[Template:Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy]] and some of the players: [[Monica Goodling]] & [[J. Scott Jennings]]
*[[Leonard Ruben]], long time Montg. County, Md., judge
*[[Margaret Chiara]], [[Daniel Bogden]], two US Attorneys fired
*[[Michael A. Battle]] Director of EOUSA in DOJ (some involvement with [[Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy]]).
*[[1977 Hanafi Muslim Siege]]
*[[Jeralyn Merritt]] - defense attorney, creator of TalkLeft blog
*[[Cathy L. Lanier]] - first female to head (and current) DC Police cheif
*[[Anita Alpern]] - in 1970's, the highest ranking woman in the federal career service
*[[Thomas N. Downing]] Virginia Congressman
*[[Ohio 13th congressional district election, 2006]]
*[[Nevada 2nd congressional district election, 2006]]
*[[California 11th congressional district election, 2006]]
*[[Colorado 5th congressional district election, 2006]]
*[[Joel T. Broyhill]] (congressman)
*[[Arizona 8th congressional district election, 2006]]
*[[Georgia 4th congressional district election, 2006]] ([[Cynthia McKinney]] loses in runoff)
*[[Pennsylvania 7th congressional district election, 2006]] ([[Curt Weldon]] v [[Joe Sestak]])
*[[Virginia 2nd congressional district election, 2006]] ([[Phillip Kellam]] v incumbent [[Thelma Drake]])
*[[John E. Fogarty]] congressman
*[[Phil Hare]] running for Congress
*[[Roger Stillwell]] another character in the [[Abramoff scandal]]
*[[Jack Abramoff/CNMI]]
*[[Christine Jennings]] running for congress in [[Katherine Harris]]'s old seat
*[[Sam Sparks]] federal judge, ruled on one fo [[Tom DeLay]]'s cases
*[[Phillip Kellam]] member of local prominent family, running for congress
*[[Donna Edwards]] local activist, came within a whisker of beating [[Albert Wynn]] in Dem primary in 2006, then beat him, and won the general to become a Congresswoman in 2008.
*[[Balor Moore]] baseball player (first player drafted by the expansion [[Montreal Expos]])
*[[William Pickering (governor)]] of Washington Territory
*[[Lew Anderson]] final actor to portray Clarabell the Clown on Howdy Doody 
*[[Leo P. Carlin]] mayor of Newark
*[[Dave McCurdy]] Congressman from Oklahoma
*[[Andrew Jacobs, Jr.]] and [[Andrew Jacobs]] Congressmen from Indiana
*[[Jonathan H. Wallace]] Congressman
*[[William A. Newell]] Congressman, and governor of two states (NJ and Wash Terr)
*[[Benjamin Franklin Howey]], [[John Runk]], [[Samuel G. Wright]] Congessmen from NJ
*[[George F. Fort]], [[Charles C. Stratton]]  Governors of NJ
*[[Newark Evening News]]
*[[Template:Essex County, New Jersey]]
*[[Camelback Ski Area]], in the Poconos (Pa.)
*[[Richard Warren]] passenger on the [[Mayflower]] (and ancestor of my wife) -- my first article

== Parsha of the Week ==
{{Torah portion}}