ron paul explains it all
May 15, 2008
Perhaps you’ve scoured the web for hope and understanding of just how exactly the United States was ripped from the hands of reasonable and thoughtful people. Then you have probably pondered how it is that fairness, privacy and equality were abolished in America.
An educated person can track down most of the dominos and replay their fall over and over. It only takes a lot of time, but very little effort on the internet.
But if you do seek this knowledge, and in the process you read the comments of hired propagandists and average joe-brainwasheds out there, you’re likely to become extremely depressed. Surely, you might think, the enablers of these criminals must notice that the future is bleak… and the ignorant will finally see the light. But reading comments on blogs and news articles will make you realize that the slim majority is bathed in the light of misunderstanding and self-destruction. I suspect it’s because these lemmings have given their loyalty so fiercely to the lying criminals in the White House and on the Hill for so long out of ignorance and/or fear, that they are not comfortable abandoning the lunacy, no matter what evil has come to pass — even at their own peril. And besides, changing positions would require admitting prior mistakes.
And perhaps you even know one of these defenders of the Wrong in control of the country and cannot fathom how someone you actually know and care about, cannot see and understand the reality in front of us. You might get so flustered from the sheer disbelief that anyone could actually defend the lying treasonous thieves holding office, you can’t find a quick and easy way to recap how the country came to this tipping point.
Well, there’s no need for anymore frustration and a flustered inability to make your point… because Ron Paul did it for you:
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congrats to max & cheez
May 13, 2008
If you don’t know about the adorable and often hilarious site I Can Has Cheezburger?, you probably don’t know LOLCat. So let me bring you up to speed…
LOLCat is the language of animals that is a human created mash-up of the poor English spelling and grammar found rampant throughout the web, and the internet-speak of abbreviations and shortcuts. Make sense? I know, not really. You kind of have to see it for yourself and just feel it.
There are classics that started it all, like the cat that said longingly to the camera “I can has cheezburger?” And there are the classics that have evolved into a whole new cyber-culture reference, like Ceiling Cat. This omnipotent kitten even inspired an LOLCat translation of the Bible. Just check out this excerpt of how the Book of Genesis begins in LOLCat:
Oh hai. In teh beginnin Ceiling Cat maded teh skiez An da Urfs, but he did not eated dem.
2 Da Urfs no had shapez An haded dark face, An Ceiling Cat rode invisible bike over teh waterz.
3 At start, no has lyte. An Ceiling Cat sayz, i can haz lite? An lite wuz.
4 An Ceiling Cat sawed teh lite, to seez stuffs, An splitted teh lite from dark but taht wuz ok cuz kittehs can see in teh dark An not tripz over nethin.
5 An Ceiling Cat sayed light Day An dark no Day. It were FURST!!!1
Well after watching passively for a few months, I got a particularly nice snap of Max & Cheez and decided to throw my hat in and write an LOLCat for my boys. I happened to do it right when Jones Soda was having a contest for an LOLCat to be on their bottles.
Well, Max & Cheez were in the top five finalists but did not win. Needless to say, we got a free case of soda featuring my first LOLCat (click to see larger):
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microsoft’s ooxml victory
April 19, 2008
Microsoft’s complex and pseudo open but kind of private Open Office XML (OOXML) document format has been officially approved as the new international standard by the ISO. The much simpler, already available, and completely open source challenger Open Document Format (ODF) has been betrayed and ignored in the process. In fact, Microsoft already lost this battle, but bought themselves a do-over after they’ve had time to apply some extra muscle and sling around some cash giveaways to buy country votes. Sure enough, the initial decision was overturned and now the computing industry will be tethered to Microsoft for at least another 20 years. And it’s all thanks to treachery, voter fraud, bribery, ignorance, and big money.
Congratulations regular joe and small companies, you lose again. UNLESS, you refuse to accept it. Tell everyone you know to ignore the ISO and follow the path of justice. Use ODF.
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obama’s wright speech
April 19, 2008
I can’t say enough about how refreshing it was to hear this speech by Barack Obama. To have a politician speak to us as if we were adults, is something new to me, and I’m not a kid. Of course, not all of us will appreciate direct and elevated speech, but that is the world we live in, and we have little choice in the matter.
First of all, not everything Jeremiah Wright says is appropriate or acceptable, especially in the world outside of his church — a church that many people cannot relate to or understand. But he does have more thoughtful and complete arguments than the sound bites the media and YouTube have played. Context is often an excuse, but in this case, it removes a lot of the teeth and adds a lot of the sense. And besides, if you are an middle-class to upper-middle-class black person in Chicago, odds are good Trinity is your church. Pinning narrowly clipped comments that were lifted from two speeches out of probably a hundred thousand in 30 years to a politician that is a member of the congregation, is simply ridiculous.
Why don’t I just let Obama say it himself:
For we have a choice in this country. We can accept a politics that breeds division, and conflict, and cynicism. We can tackle race only as spectacle - as we did in the OJ trial - or in the wake of tragedy, as we did in the aftermath of Katrina - or as fodder for the nightly news. We can play Reverend Wright’s sermons on every channel, every day and talk about them from now until the election, and make the only question in this campaign whether or not the American people think that I somehow believe or sympathize with his most offensive words. We can pounce on some gaffe by a Hillary supporter as evidence that she’s playing the race card, or we can speculate on whether white men will all flock to John McCain in the general election regardless of his policies.
We can do that.
But if we do, I can tell you that in the next election, we’ll be talking about some other distraction. And then another one. And then another one. And nothing will change.
That is one option. Or, at this moment, in this election, we can come together and say, “Not this time.” This time we want to talk about the crumbling schools that are stealing the future of black children and white children and Asian children and Hispanic children and Native American children. This time we want to reject the cynicism that tells us that these kids can’t learn; that those kids who don’t look like us are somebody else’s problem. The children of America are not those kids, they are our kids, and we will not let them fall behind in a 21st century economy. Not this time.
And he wrote every word of this speech himself.
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clinton’s tactics
April 19, 2008
The Clinton campaign’s behavior has been disgusting. Hillary and Bill Clinton have both been elevating McCain while trying to destroy Obama.
With primary math and reason not on her side, it’s led to whispers that she has a rather sinister plan. Some say she is choosing to tear apart her Democratic challenger as much as she can, for as long as she can, to bring about a disastrous McCain Presidency. And in 2012 she expects to ride in to save the country from the nightmare of four more Bush years with a big “I told you so.”
I have no problem with her running the race to the end, it’s in the spirit of democracy. But to be so nasty to her fellow party challenger while praising the other party’s candidate that she’s giving a great big head-start to… there’s definitely some twisted logic at work.
But whatever the truth may be, her lies, her viciousness, her secrecy, and her divisiveness are all confirming what many have been shouting from the rooftops for months: she will sink the party for her own power without hesitation.
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