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Internet Co-inventor Vint Cerf Endorses Obama
SEAActionFund writes "Vint Cerf, Google's Chief Internet Evangelist who also happens to be credited with co-founding the Internet, submitted a video to our AVoteforScience YouTube challenge. In it he discusses the importance of net neutrality and endorses Barack Obama specifically because he supports net neutrality (John McCain does not.)
The AVoteForScience challenge calls upon scientists to upload videos to YouTube explaining who they are voting for and why. The first two videos were by Cerf and the 2008 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry Marty Chalfie. Any Slashdotters game for explaining who they are voting for and why?" Still waiting for one of the campaigns to ask for my endorsement, which is totally available to whichever campaign offers me the better cabinet seat.
Not wanting to start anything but I'm just curious who should be paying for the rape exams if not the people who are actually using them? Sure in an ideal world the rapist would be billed but while I can't recall the exact stats, I do remember that most rapes go unreported and of the ones that do, obviously not all are successfully prosecuted. Therefore someone else needs to foot the bill. Why should that be the general taxpayer? I'm not out raping people and I don't feel that I should have to foot any portion of the bill, through my tax dollars. Then again, I don't think the victim should have to pay either, for obvious reasons.
Maybe we could get the company currently making them to donate the tech and setup a program so prisons could begin making them. And they could make other stuff to sell in order to raise money for the materials for the rape kits. Thereby allowing victims access to the kits at no charge. I fully support putting prisoners to work to better society in whatever ways possible.
How is it that one careless match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole box to start a campfire?
1) Declare a major in veterinary science or animal husbandry.
2) Flunk freshman biology.
3) Transfer.
4) Declare a major in business/finance.
5) Flunk introductory economics.
6) Transfer.
7) Declare a major in communications.
8) Flunk English composition.
9) Transfer.
10) Declare a major in political science.
11) Flunk introductory government.
12) Transfer to a really easy low-tuition college.
13) Declare a major in journalism.
14) Flunk Intro to journalism.
15) Start sleeping with the department chair.
16) Graduate with journalism degree (2.1 GPA)
Looks like smart people are going for Obama, shocking.
Well he is, after all, the chosen one.
You'll have that sometimes...
Wow op was considered insightful. Should we get to obama's only real qualifications? Lets see he is great at running for office. Not that he has ever spent any time there. He is eligible for preference under affirmative action. That pretty much sums him up. Oh and he's clean and articulate too...
No scientist should vote for a man who puts a creationist (ie Palin) as his second in command.
My web domain.
1) please provide a link for the 'charging women to get rape exams' - you imply McCain does so, so you must have a link. Otherwise it's tendentious bullshit.
2) pro-choice - ok, Obama is clearly pro-choice.
3) picking a running mate on tits and ovaries - it's better for a party to propose its presidential candidate based on his skin color? And before you disagree, please let me know how many other first-term senators not named Kennedy are fast-tracked for high political office from day one (in fact, from the opening speech of the LAST presidential campaign's DNC convention), if not simply for his skin color?
4) you're right, he prefers that KINDERGARTNERS take sex-ed. Brilliant. Oh I'm sorry, he did say 'appropriate sex ed' for their age...and that would be what, exactly?
5) economic plan - I'd disagree with you that his plan is coherent, but that's opinion.
Personally, I don't think BHO is a terrorist. He merely works closely with them, socializes with them, launches his political career using their radical contacts and friends, from their living room, and then disingenuously asserts they were merely 'a guy in the neighborhood'. You can bet if McCain was having political parties at the homes of admitted and unrepentant abortion-clinic bombers, that might make the news?
I don't really like McCain too much, but I like Obama far, far less. He's an archetypal left-wing, intellectualist, relativist, everything-about-the-US-sucks, political-correctness-espousing liberal that I personally find tiresome. (And yes, I include a goodly proportion of /. readers as probably in that same demographic.)
FWIW I couldn't give a crap if he's muslim, christian, hindu, or whatever. (I would object to Scientologist, however.) I'd expect any of them to compartmentalize their faith and their governance equally.
-Styopa
"Anyway, I will never vote for a nigger. Period. ... If you libs think you are going to push a fucking rug head into the white house come November"
Wow, neocons like you is what the world is trying to eradicate. Go back to the cave you crawled out from and eat your raw meat. Let civilization move forward.
> You are pathetic.
I notice that you didn't care to dispute anything I wrote. Neither did anyone else. So let me be even more blunt:
Have you bothered to do even the most elementary research on the teachings of Black Liberation Theology?
Do you agree with Black Liberation Theology?
Do you dispute that BHO sat in a 'church' based on Dr. Cone's BLT for twenty years, considered Wright and Phlager to be mentors and titled his 'autobiography'[1] based on a sermon by Wright that was overtly racist?
Do you believe Mr. Obama first met William Ayers in 1995?
Do you actually believe that Mr. Obama didn't know Ayers was a radical? Until the last few months it appeared to be impossible to get Ayers to stop talking about his past to the media. Is it reasonable to believe that neither Ayers nor anyone else close to Mr. Obama told him about Ayers past life as a fugitive? No press clippings on the office walls? No copy of his wife's FBI Most Wanted poster as a treasured relic?
Do you believe Mr. Ayers, who wrote the grant proposal for the CAC would have permitted an unknown person to gain control over the biggest chunk of cash Ayers was ever likely to get his grubby communist hands on? (Note, Ayers described himself as a 'small c communist'.)
Do you believe Mr. Obama could have such extensive ties to ACORN and not know the sort of old retread ex SDS radicals that ran the place? He was hired by precisely such a person as a train the trainers teacher to teach the Alinsky methods of 'community organizing'[2]. Do you actually believe he didn't know that ACORN basically did three things; street theatre, election fraud and subprime mortgages? Mr. Obama lead Project Vote[3] in IL for a time. Election fraud was his JOB description.
And finally, a question I have neen asking Obama supports all year and never get an answer to:
Most candidates for POTUS have done something noteworthy, something to stand out from the run of the mill political type. Name ONE major accomplishment for Senator Obama that recommends him to high office. Hint: getting elected to the Senate against Alan Keyes doesn't count, I could do that and so could you. HIs whole pitch is he is going to totally change everything. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Show me.
[1] There is serious doubt as to whether there was a ghostwriter involved. Nothing Sen. Obama was written since exhibits the quality and/or writing style of his first writing effort.
[2] Community Organizer in the Alinsky school of thought isn't some nice little old lady working a soup kitchen at a homeless shelter. Communist street agitator is closer to the mark.
[3] Project Vote was a wholly owned part of ACORN. Radicals love to create dozens of front groups to keep the ordinary folk from connecting the dots.
Democrat delenda est