Wow! I didn't know that children check their rights at the door, when they stepped onto a government school. Can anyone say, "homeschool"? - Trevor Carpenter
"It's a shame that this man's right to carry a firearm to protect himself was violated by his own country. If he had been afforded that right, he could have defended himself from his attacker." - Trevor Carpenter
"Very interesting that conservative issues aren't dugg as much as all the socialist/commie crap. I guess the left-wing nutjobs don't want to know about impropriety on their side." - Trevor Carpenter
“BREAKING NEWS: I have convinced my Good ol' Boy Republican grandfather and his two buddies to vote for Obama. Now to make sure they don't change their minds in 30 days.”
No way there were real conservatives to begin with... - Trevor Carpenter
*Real* conservatives abandoned Bush, et al in 2006, after Abu Ghraib, Katrina and the greatest increase in Federal spending since the New Deal. - dkb
If I were a Republican, I'd have felt horribly disenfranchised by my party in the 1st year of this current execrable administration. - Donna Mugavero
After having a majority in both houses and the WH, if I was a conservative, I'd be pissed that my party didn't rollback the laws they promised to and enact the ones they promised to. I'd feel played. But that's assuming that I think for myself and not how Fox or Rush tell me how to think. - Faboo Mama
this is breaking news....LOL. what state? - Ruth Ferguson
Ruth, Texas! Jason, I have been working on him for MONTHS. I stopped by to take him a birthday gift and they were griping about the economy and talking about already lived through one Depression and not wanting to live through another and I seized the opportunity. - Trish R
Hey.. I didn't have to do a THING to get that to happen. McCain did it himself. I had a family full of Obama haters who were voting for McCain until he chose his running mate. Saved a LOT of family arguments, that did. - Cyndy
A man can be expert in nothing, but he must be practiced in many things. Skills. You don't have to master them all at once. You simply have to collect and develop a certain number of skills as the years tick by. People count on you to come through. That's why you need these, to start. - Cee Bee
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lol. i don't know how to make a decent martini. this article might help me get ahead in life - Cee Bee
Years ago I read some poem/list of things a man should be able to do. It included splinting a broken leg, and at one point in your life having your own house built. I couldn't find it doing a quick google search but thought this list probably was aware of that poem. I would add to it: being able to do a simple magic trick that makes kids happy. - Marko "Bon" Bon
Well you could call it virtual-reality, it can't be real. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes
And yes I do know VR means Vibration Reduction. :-) - Kol Tregaskes
This is more of a telescope than a lens. If you use that yardstick for comparison, it doesn't look quite as outrageous. If you tried to use this lens for taking pictures tangential to the curvature of the earth, you'd get mostly atmospheric effects, I am guessing. - Phil Glockner
"Oooh, don't put Christian and Neocon in the same context. Neither has anything to do with the other, no matter what you're told. I'm a Christian, a real genuine bible-believing Christian, and I hate what the neo-cons have done to conservativism and the Republican party." - Trevor Carpenter
@Trevor that is a great comment you've made. people assume that neocon = christian - Jonathan Jesse
christians me not *be* them, but they sure tend to vote for them .. i think the reason is they both share an addiction to certainty - Gregory Lent
To the neocon running for office, Christians are a large portion of society that must be convinced to vote for them. To the Christian, the neocon running for office compromised his/her conservative base to appear more moderate. - Trevor Carpenter
Both sides use the tactic. No party has a monopoly on the use of this phrase. The oddity is that two people with completely divergent views can both be putting the country first...doesn't mean both are right, though. But sometimes they are. - Alex "Pew Pew Pew" Scoble
I noticed that, too. Fabulous marketing. - Rahsheen™
Frankly, screw patriotism, screw loyalty and flag pins... let's put the PEOPLE of this country first... We are not an amorphous "country" blob. Some of us are in real trouble... some of us need to get what we deserve. But what we really need is leadership to get us out of this mess. - Lindsay Donaghe
For instance one person can join the military and the other can join a community charity. Both are doing extremely divergent things but both are putting the country first...others above self. - Alex "Pew Pew Pew" Scoble
Their own political self promotion instead of the good of the country. - Paul W. Swansen
Country First has not been seen in politics in this country in 30 years. - Earl E Morningwood
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They ALL put that first... Repubs and Demos. You can't honestly say McCain/Palin want power any less... or have smaller egos! - Lindsay Donaghe
re: Lindsay: One of the reasons we have so many problems today is that we live in a society that believes in 'dash'-Americans: White-, African-, Hispanic-, and so on and so forth. We're not simply 'Americans'. I believe that we should be united, i.e. the 'United' States of America. That's what 'country first' means...we're uniting as a country, and the people of the country are to be put first, rather than the self-interests of the Washington elite. - Stephen Shores
That's what I said, Stephen: "let's put the PEOPLE of this country first". I'm sick of all the political, ego, CYA BS that's going on. I think that every one of the politicians in D.C. has priorities that have nothing to do with what's best for the country, but only what's best for them personally, their career and then their party. We, the people, have no recourse or voice. - Lindsay Donaghe
@Lindsay: it's a code-word (meme?) that is almost impossible to refute (who's not for it?). by simply saying "we're all about 'country first'" you don't even have to *say* the other team is against it - it's just inferred. speech patterns like this are really handy for those who want to invoke emotion and discourage reason. "small-town values" "middle-america" "soccer-mom", etc. all serve the same purpose. all image, no substance. - MikeAmundsen
@Lindsay: the best 'defense' against these 'non-reasoning' code-words is to ask "can you explain what you mean by that?" or "why do you say that?", etc. this is the trick Couric used on Palin with devastating results. - MikeAmundsen
I'd love to ask McCain and Palin (or Obama and Biden, or any of the self-centered, cowardly, ego-maniac, jerks in Congress right now) to explain what they mean. I guarantee that their answer wouldn't be satisfactory but Americans would vote for them anyway. - Lindsay Donaghe
"Absolutely, and if they have the right to have sex, then let them have the right to the consequences! If you want the cake, then you've got to clean the dishes." - Trevor Carpenter
Call it a big fat bill for us and our kids and their kids - Josh Haley
Whoever originally called it a bailout did a grave disservice to this nation. - Alex "Pew Pew Pew" Scoble
Sec. 401. Permanent authority for undercover operations. - Aaron Krug
I like "a salvage operation". On a salvage, you never expect to recover it all, just some of it. - Trevor Carpenter
Sec. 402. Permanent authority for disclosure of information relating to terrorist activities. - Aaron Krug
What are these sections doing in a "rescue operation"? - Aaron Krug
No...It's not a bill for our kids. This will actually generate wealth over time for Americans as the MBS we are buying go back up in value over time, which they will. The downturn in housing prices is a temporary thing. And the guys who originally purchased all these securities aren't getting rich off the bailout. They've already lost money big time on them. We aren't buying them at a premium, we are buying them at today's fair market rate. - Alex "Pew Pew Pew" Scoble
Now, you could argue that there's no way to figure out the fair market rate since no one else wants to buy them, but that's one of the problems of this mess right now. These securities are worth something and not nothing, but because people are so scared of them at the moment, no one is buying them. That's why this rescue operation is important and necessary. It will provide some rationality back into the system that is currently being governed by fear, which is not a good thing for markets. - Alex "Pew Pew Pew" Scoble
how about "true lies" as a term ? Will this bailout actaully generate wealth and the help the poor or create more wealth for the wealthy ?? - Peter Dawson
Does this mean that Wall Street will greet us as liberators? - Mike Lewis
Alex, you beat me to it. How can there be a fair market value for something no one wants? That's like trying to sell a Beta based on the idea that it has value, even though no one wants it. Try buymyshitpile.com - Aaron Krug
It will stop the bleeding. It won't help the poor nor will it create more wealth for the wealthy. The guys that bought these securities originally have already lost their money. - Alex "Pew Pew Pew" Scoble
Just because no one wants these securities NOW doesn't mean they don't have value LATER. We buy them NOW to keep the whole system from collapsing and then we get most if not all of our money back LATER. - Alex "Pew Pew Pew" Scoble
For a good explanation of how we got to this point, This American Life has a very informative episode here: http://bit.ly/NYq9e - Sean O'Maverick
"House members are getting another chance to vote on a bill many would like to avoid: a massive financial rescue that has infuriated millions but is being promoted as critically needed to stave off a deep recession." - http://feeds.cbsnews.com/~r/CB... - Peter Dawson
Rescuing the wooden arrow makers. Bill Handel talked about some of the pork in the Senate bill, but I haven't had time to research it. There is some tax relief for Alaskans in the bill; don't know about Delaware. - Ontario Emperor
Don't call it a BAILOUT, You know we're screwed in the rears...If we don't buy these mortgage backed securities, our economy will suffer a fatality, so don't buy the hype and get behind the salvage operation, or your bank account will suffer from unwanted penetration. - Alex "Pew Pew Pew" Scoble
A rescue operation that never ends. Instead of rescuing cities like New Orleans, the government now rescues big businesses. A salvage operation that puts the US government in business as a salvager, we pay their gas. We make room for the dumping grounds. We pay for the cleanup. We do not bill the ship captain or the company he worked for. Once salvaged, the good stuff that is found is sold back to private business for cents on the dollar. The bad stuff taints our water supply... - Phil Glockner
Sorry, I guess I'm a bit bitter about the whole business today. - Phil Glockner
Any time the government moves to keep a company from going out of business, how is that not a bailout (and a step toward proving Ayn Rand correct, might I add...) - Mark VandenBerg
The point is that bailout has negative connotations that don't serve the public's interest in this instance and don't adequately describe what is being done. Salvage operation is a much better descriptor of what is being proposed. - Alex "Pew Pew Pew" Scoble
It's a socialism for stupid bankers operation. - Morton Fox
“I'm ready to get an iphone, but I'm not at home. Anyone know if I must sync my iPhone with my mac at home, or can I use my powerbook, with same account on iTunes?”
What I'm wondering is if I can purchase and use the iPhone between now and when I get home on Saturday. MUST I sync it with iTunes in order for it to work? Can I put that off until I get home? - Trevor Carpenter
Yes. I did the same thing. I purchased it while on vacation, used it for a couple days, and then sycned it when I got home. - Brian Newman
@Brian Newman, THANKS! Just what I wanted to know. - Trevor Carpenter
Cee Bee, that's close...more of a "that's bad ass" reaction to that Pug...reminds me of the dog in MIB...good effort though, but I still contend the Bambi pics are still an 11 on the Cute Scale... - Live4Soccer
It really is a terrific service, have been running it on all of my PCs for a while now. I just wish they had some more pricing options, I would gladly pay a bit more to get a bit more out of it than just the 50Gb package which is a little high priced per month. - cmiper
main windows competitor is live mesh, which also includes remote controll via RDP over Mesh. Problem Mesh has is that it is MS products only. Benifit is ability to resolve conflicts and Remote Desktop over Mesh without the need to open up a firewall - Jonathan Jesse
started paying them $9.99 for 500 gb yesterday. Google competition is coming sooner or later though! - Sumit Chachra
@Sumit what are you using 500gb for? How are the transfer rates between systems? I have an account but haven't used it a lot. Waiting for my Dell Mini 9 to come and then test Linux/Windows sync through Dropbox - Jonathan Jesse
I use it to sync up documents between my Macbook Pro and Vista desktop. It's *fantastic* in that "where have you been all my life?" sort of way. I might get the 50 GB plan and start using it for some larger files, but I think the upstream will prove too crippling for that. - Eric
I should add, another viable option for anyone looking into this sort of thing is Jungledisk + your own Amazon S3 account. Somewhat cheaper than the $10/month dropbox wants, though it doesn't have the automagic syncing that dropbox offers. - Eric
@Sumit - it's 50GB for $9.99 not 500GB. ;-) - cmiper
not exactly like dropbox but hmm http://oosah.com/ is 1TB for uh hum FREE now if they would only fix the flickr integration. - adolfo foronda
@cmiper, I too wish they had larger options. I want it primarily to back up my photography. Maybe my iTunes library too. These combined are 660 gigs, today. - Trevor Carpenter
@cmiper my bad! 50gb for $9.99 !! @Jonathan I am using it for keeping a backup of all my itunes songs, videos, codebase (have mercurial repository too) etc. It syncs lazily, specially for big files, but does the job. The web interface could be nicer, but the Mac integration is pretty sweet! - Sumit Chachra
Yet another fundamental difference between "us" and "them". - Trevor Carpenter
I think Obama's comment was regarding the fact that a majority of the middle class in the US is hurting badly financially and he made a point to talk about what he would do to try to fix this and McCain didn't specifically mention the middle class at all. I don't see how this could be considered 'classist'. - Jeff P. Henderson
and is the majority of the middle class in the us hurting badly? - Gregory Lent
Well, other than high gas prices, I'm not hurting. However, I spend my money wisely and don't take on financing that is beyond my income. So, my prudence and good stewardship has kept me from the fear in our economy. You reap what you sow. - Trevor Carpenter
"Typical HuffPost crap! They are the blog equivalent to Michael Moore. They take snippets of information, form it together into whatever they want it to look like, then present the end result as fact. Just silly." - Trevor Carpenter
i meant to look at this list the other day but (what? no Marc Canter?!?) didn't look at it until just now... [scrolls through list] [sees "Karim"] LOL n-no, noooo... there must be some kind of mistake... this list was supposed to be the "High Signal, Low Noise" list... m-must be a mistake... :-D - Karim
Karim: your noise is high signal. :-) - Robert Scoble
Thanks Glen...too bad...I'll add a ROOM with all of your feeds!! and post a link to the room later...about to go out for dinner cuz i am now really hungry!! ha, ha!! - Susan Beebe
"He's got the ability to transcend borders and bring hope to Ottawa, too.
Canada, the election is here and it's time we had a dynamic alternative to the same old Conservative, Liberal, NDP, and Bloc ideas and players. It's time to really shake things up.
Show your willingness to embrace Change. Support Barack Obama as our new hope on Parliament Hill." - ☺ Cecily ☺
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Does anyone believe that Canada and the United States *won't* be politically related at some time? No, I don't, either. - Chris Baskind
I would SO love this. Write in campaign? - Abby Martin
I thought Canada was already socialistic, how would that be change for them? - Jeff Quinton
@Jeff .. socialistic?? ya .. okay .. and you probably think the permafrost line starts at the 49th parallel and our winter form of transportation is all by dog sled. - Steven Hodson
true, the US has gotten too socialistic as well since FDR.... - Jeff Quinton
Looks like Canadians like Kool Aid too - Peter Simard
Cecily, are you proposing that we share him? I could live with that. :0 - ha3rvey (That One)
