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I’ve been using Twitter as a way to vent more recently than I’ve been using the blog.  Why?  It’s infinitely quicker and if it’s not perfect or well crafted, oh well.  However, if you’ve been reading my past couple of tweets, I’m rather frustrated about the current effort to bail out the financial industry.  Bear […]

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Bear in mind that I’m on the outside looking in; I don’t like either major party.  However, I think that a Obama-Clinton ticket wouldn’t be such a bad thing.  Obama has repeatedly evoked Lincoln throughout the primaries.  A Obama-Clinton ticket would be an interesting parallel that would compare greatly with Lincoln.  In history, Lincoln had […]

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I’ll confess that I’ve kinda drank the “Obama Change” Kool-Aid.  It’s probably my last-ditch effort of not becoming completely jaded by the Federal Government.
Then Tuesday rolled around.  On Memorial Day, Obama made the claim that one of his Uncles helped liberate Auschwitz.  Number of things wrong with that; his mother was an only child and […]

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I wrote a somewhat rambling post that, in a way, showed I was interested in seeing how far Obama could go in the campaign.  I think that with the idiocity that has emerged in the past month in all of the campaigns, that I need to revise my position.  I am, at the moment, not […]

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Two news stories have emerged this week of people (read: a$$holes) who have done something outrageous to either "make people think" or "provoke discussion".  In the first instance, a pentecostal pastor posted a sign in front of his church linking Obama to bin Laden.  In the second instance, a Yale "performance artist" (which, if not […]

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I’ve been keeping track of the internet phenomenon (is that what we’ll call it?) of the war against Scientology by Anonymous/Project Chanology.  If nothing else, it’s good for a laugh every now and then.  The Anonymous youtube videos are fun to watch.  However, I think that it does introduce some interesting questions about both what […]

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As most of you know, my political beliefs are all over the map and don’t really settle down into any of the major political parties.  At the moment, I’ve been really focusing on Democratic politics just because, well, watching them eat their young is a lot of fun.
One of the news  stories this week is […]

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One of the news stories of the day is that there is a letter that is going out to taxpayers to tell you how much your tax rebate is going to be.  People are griping about the fact that it costs $42 million.  If you figure that 1/3 of Americans get a letter, that’s 100 […]

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Yeah.  That’s right.  You.  Thought we wouldn’t catch you, didn’t ya?  Well we did.  You’re in violation of patent number 5,175,857.  Go ahead.  Go to Google patents and see for yourself.  Did any of you ever do a programming assignment involving sorting?  Have you ever sorted a list of strings?  You’ve violated the copyright.  Have […]

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I am one of those ones who likes to think that Google’s purpose is entirely benign and blindly trust them with all of my data.  However, there are times when they can smack you in the face and remind you that they are, in fact, a business.  Not only that, a very dangerous business, run […]

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