This is practically reason enough not to vote for McCain, he finds a lack of knowledge to be a source of pride and humor. Enjoy!
I love apple, I absolutely adore my macbook and I think OS X is an extremely superior operating system to any version of windows or linux that I have used, however apple is extremely wrong. They continue to be wrong however. When upgrading iTunes they have forced safari onto windows users and while it is a better browser in my opinion it is still wrong, and even when they remedied that, they didn’t because safari was still auto checked in the update. I remembered these instances when I was on my vista machine today and noticed a new icon that I had never seen before.
The icon for mobileme (or is it mobile me?), apples anticipated update to .mac, it sounds like a wonderful service in many ways just definitely not for me so I knew I didn’t download this. So who did? I know I have updated iTunes on the machine recently, and I think Safari may have been updated as well, either way I am certain it was apple who initiated the download and install without asking me at all (or giving me a way to remove it).
So what does it do? For those with mobile me, it’s an entry into the service and for those that NEVER WANTED IT IN THE FIRST PLACE well it’s an ad, so much so that the learn more button simply links you to apple.com/mobileme. It’s a bad move by apple, but hey maybe they will get a few more customers for mobile me, but it won’t be me.
Now if you’ll excuse me I have to get back to the products I received from apple today and monitoring the shipping of a new macbook.
I am such a hypocrite….
Everyone and their mom seems to be doing wordle’s these days for various issues, and if not its a twitter text cloud of your most used phrases. What is a wordle you might ask? well wordle lists it is “a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text.“, in other words it is anything that you want it to be, you feed it lists of words it will spit a wordle back at ya. At first I bucked the wordle trend, but I finally gave in to the temptation and here is my wordle, if you want to give in and make your own last.fm wordle you can easily create one.
In this election we are presented with non stop negative stories, “don’t vote for them because of [fill in the blank issue]“, rather than “vote for me because of my stance on [fill in the blank issue]“. I always figured if you went to the political parties web sites it would be a little more nuanced and positive about both their candidates and politics, boy was I wrong.
At gop.com you are presented with the above image, a fairly well designed site for the Republican Party, however what you are not presented with is much about their candidate.
Sure we have one graphic linking you to a post about Sen. McCain’s policy about climate change, but that is only one issue that relates to him, compared to six negative links about Obama. Those links are as follows:
However, the Democrats are not much better.
Sure they are better in the count of positive postings compared to negative, however at democrats.orgthey only have one more positive story about their nominee, and that is only due to the fact that they have a large graphic dedicated to their new nominee.
Their first two links are dedicated to McCain bashing, and the last link is about correcting what they now see as a past discretion, only the third link can be seen as truely positive, that would be the link about “Change We Can Believe In”.
I am not naive, I know elections are always about the horror the other side would bring, but I thought someone some where would try to appeal to our sense of good, rather than our sense of evil. I posted this to show that this is not the fact, at least at the home of our two major political parties.
How could an article entitled State Supreme Court may give gays a medical victory make me angry, I wondered.
Upon reading it, I now know. The case stems from a woman who wanted to have a baby with her partner and the medical office she was a patient of denying her service, they say because she was an unwed mother, she says because she happened to be lesbian. Unfortunate but not all that surprising unfortunately. The part that set me off was to follow however.
Chief Justice Ronald M. George, asked a lawyer for the doctors whether they could refuse to treat patients of their ethnic backgrounds.
Kenneth R. Pedroza, who represented the North Coast Women’s Care Medical Group replied “the answer would seem to be yes.”
Why must we accept peoples religious bigotry? This argument appears to say that slavery would be okay, if it were a deeply held religious belief. What else could we excuse? We have shown in this country that certain “deeply held religious beliefs” are not acceptable, ie. polygamy, why can’t stomp out what can be only referred to as discrimination.
Religion is a wonderful thing for some people, but it should be used as a tool to bring people from all walks of life together, not as a tool to further push us apart.
The “hussein thing”, “he’s a muslim”, and my favorite “we’ve got a problem with the blacks”. Thanks West Virginia for bringing the class.
Oh and don’t miss the douche off at the end its great
This was on the latest SNL and I thought it was pretty apt about Hillary…
