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Bah... if anything, this nifty cable should help protect his computer from it's own CPU...

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If those sites are what you've been reading then it's no wonder you're worried about the U.S. declining. If find the anti-Bush site particularly interesting. There's a lot of good sound bites in there and there's a grain of truth in every one of them but the author is insinuating a number of cause-effect relationships where there is only correlation. Please, let's not forget about reason. Correlation does not prove causation. It's not just something you use when doing science, it's a foundation of any sound reasoning.

I'm not going to go through everything you posted and rebut each one but I can at least cherry pick a few as examples. For instance, "I set an economic record for the most personal bankruptcies filed in any 12 month period." Or how about, "I set all-time record for the biggest drop in the history of the stock market. " The government does not control the stock market last I checked although they do regulate it. Let's also not forget that when Bush took office we had a highly inflated stock market due to several investors speculating on companies with no serious business plan. But I'm not going to turn around and blame Clinton for that even though that occurred on his watch. Anyone who puts his money into a company with no sound plan is taking a huge risk. Sometimes it pays off. I find it odd that anyone would hold the government responsible for this at all.

Sayers discussed this quite a bit in her excellent book The Mind of the Maker. Why is it that people look to politicians to solve their problems? That is simply not their job. Their job is to keep the government running as in protect the country from invasion and to allow the people in the country to live their lives with as little interference as possible. That's it. If you haven't read The Mind of the Maker you should. It unfortunately gets shoehorned into the theology category so you may find it over in that section of your local bookstore. You can also find various copies of it online since the copyright has long expired. The online copies all have varied levels of transcription errors.

Anyway, getting back to the point, some of the criticisms of Bush are valid. For instance, "I have created the largest government department bureaucracy in the history of the United States, called the "Bureau of Homeland Security " Yeah, he did do that, and I'm not particularly happy about it although I'm not sure that what existed before with various government agencies fulfilling overlapping niches was necessarily better.

Then there's the Olbermann piece. Frankly, I find Olbermann to be as much of a journalist as Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity. He's an opinion maker and there's not necessarily anything wrong with that except for that he tries to pass off his opinion pieces as hard news which in my book makes him a hack.

NBC regularly puts Olbermann on the Nightly News identifying him as a reporter. Every segment he does is absolutely loaded with opinion. Again, there's nothing wrong with being an opinionated journalist but please don't pass it off as hard news reporting. It would be like FNC putting O'Reilly or Hannity on the Fox Report. Not that the Fox Report is unbiased but it is intended to be a hard news pure reporting program, not an opinion/entertainment program. I'm very wary of anyone claiming to do a hard news program. It's impossible for any normal human not to have some level of bias. Better to disclose your bias than to try to keep it in the closet. Sooner or later anyone with half a brain can clearly see what's going on.

I'll start by saying that I don't *want* the US to be in decline. I much prefer a US hegemony to a Chinese hegemony.

I'm just a bit worried about your economy, your human rights and your leader. Oh, and your economy. Oh, and your economy.

By the way, ad hominem attacks are fun, but if a hippy says something true, it's still true no matter what kind of hair they have.

Peter

quick google turned up this

While we're at it...

http://www.bordergatewayprotocol.net/jon/humor/web _animations/flash_anakin.swf

hacking with ramzi
(sorry, windows media)

video conferencing.. the politically correct way to say, streaming porn

Ever see that Sony commercial?

Just call him a cheater.

If this is representive of the citizens of the United States, I pray for us all.

i know this is completely offtopic, but this is a message directly from god. you have to check this out. this is a clear evidence that god is a democrat. he has given us a sign by floridas destruction

had half as many brain cells as the average NASA employee, I wouldn't have to say this.
Sorry world! I apologize on the behalf of the rest of us Americans who do have brains.

Yay! This calls for a celebration!

Slashdot's about to make it to 10,000,000. Are you going to be the one to make post ten millionth post? Get Ready To Party!

Don't copy that floppy!

this reminds me of:
a great hacker...

don't know why, but I find it funny...

Fake Nokia cam-phone ad

This is for the cam-phone, not the phone-cam, but it's damn funny, unless you like cats.

Here is the latest story from an advertising trade rag. Here is the link to the commercial if you just can't wait.