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Thank you Onion!!!

Top Story On John McCain Run Out Of Obligation

Jing

I know,… it’s been a while since I’ve made and entry. It’s not because I have had nothing to write about. With the attack on privacy, I especially want to encourage the use of PGP or GPG. In fact, I will be adding my public key to this entry, and will make it a permanent resident on the About Page.

What I’m interested in at this point in time though, is a program project called Jing. People probably know that I use Macs but this particular item is cross platform. It run on Windows as well as Mac.

What exactly is Jing? Watch the video tour on the Jing page. You will be seeing a few more Jing things here, and I’m sure in other places too. This is just an example of a still image:

Imagine if you could do something like this as a video, and imagine that it only took a few seconds to do. Think of the decrease in emails because Read more »

here we go again

I find it interesting that while everybody is all abuzz about Spritzer and whatever her name is, that this curious bit of information about a significant resignation should go unnoticed.

It is no secret that Fallon was in favor of diplomacy and engagement rather than confrontation in dealing with Tehran’s nuclear issue. Once quoted as saying a war with Iran “would not happen on my watch,” the former Navy fighter pilot earned the respect of his staff and the men and women in uniform he commanded, but according to Washington insiders, he also earned a bitter enemy in Vice President Dick Cheney.

Matters came to a head last week when Esquire magazine published an extensive article on Fallon titled, “The Man Between War and Peace.” The article credited Fallon as being almost solely responsible for thwarting Vice President Cheney’s and President George Bush’s plans for a preemptive strike …

This quote is from Tehran Times, but you’ll find the same story in the NY Times.

Ooops, almost forgot… here is the Esquire article.

clinton and winning

Gary Hart makes some interesting comments in his column, over at The Huffington Post:

It will come as a surprise to many people that there are rules in politics. Most of those rules are unwritten and are based on common understandings, acceptable practices, and the best interest of the political party a candidate seeks to lead. One of those rules is this: Do not provide ammunition to the opposition party that can be used to destroy your party’s nominee. This is a hyper-truth where the presidential contest is concerned. By saying that only she and John McCain are qualified to lead the country, particularly in times of crisis, Hillary Clinton has broken that rule, severely damaged the Democratic candidate who may well be the party’s nominee, and, perhaps most ominously, revealed the unlimited lengths to which she will go to achieve power. She has essentially said that the Democratic party deserves to lose unless it nominates her. As a veteran of red telephone ads and “where’s the beef” cleverness, I am keenly aware that sharp elbows get thrown by those trailing in the fourth quarter (and sometimes even earlier). “Politics ain’t beanbag,” is the old slogan. But that does not mean that it must also be rule-or-ruin, me-first-and-only-me, my way or the highway. That is not politics. That is raw, unrestrained ambition for power that cannot accept the will of the voters.

(my emphasis added at the end) I practically quoted the whole article, but there is more. Clinton is, in my opinion, acting more in her own self interest than the interest of the Democratic party or the voters. If you would like to see the Clinton comment, you can view it below.

rove comes back

Lest you think that Karl Rove has disappeared, I found this interesting item at the Chicago Sun-Times, under the A Florida conspiracy? headline:

A footnote: Karl Rove and other prominent Republicans are talking up a McCain-Romney harmony ticket despite personal dislike between the two presidential candidates. Romney also would have to overcome opposition to him going on the ticket by his closest advisers.

More YouTube Testing

This is another test to see if the custom player goes through again.

It should be purple.

Yea!!! It worked.

Cheney wins again

I thought I was going to throwup when I read this article. Who appointed this judge I wonder. It’s just sickening!!!!

Fourth of July

Well, happy fourth. A good day to remember the ideals this nation is built on and examine where the present leadership has taken us. We need to impeach them both.

sicko 3

I saw Michael Moore’s Sicko, today. Another one of those movies that had me either laughing or crying (literally). It’s amazing what we put up with as so called health care, and the path to who’s to blame is clear and straight.

This is a must see movie for anyone who plans on voting in 2008. It’s time the politicians were asked serious, open ended questions… both on the right and left. As the movie says if we can spend trillions for war, then there is money for health care.

buying the war

Much thanks to Peacechick for the link to the Bill Moyers special “Buying the War”. I missed it on television, but now can view the entire show online.