I was a Mac guy but I was alienated by all of the changes that Jobs made when he returned. I began my PC-ward move around the time of the iMac. In two years, you'll wonder what it was about Macs that had you hooked.
As a black Republican, I have an additional observation on 3.
Many, though certainly not all, Democrats subject black people to the quiet racism of lower expectations.
Like when Clarence Thomas spoke against racial quotas, the response was "WHAT? Black people need those! How do you think you got where you are?" which is a racist assertion. Their claim that Clarence Thomas was only successful because of affirmative action shows that they believe, deep down, that black people aren't capable of excellence and that they can't succeed unless the bar is lowered for them.
All black conservatives are treated with similar disdain by liberals. I find it amusing that the charge that gets levelled at them is always a variation of the stereotype about black male sexuality. Clarence Thomas was accused of sexually harassing Anita Hill. Herman Cain was accused of sexually harassing a female employee. Allen West's sexual demands of his ex wife. The people who claim to champion the cause of the downtrodden minority are the first to resort to stale stereotyping to assassinate the character of members of that minority when they're in the way.
Yes, this is what I was referring to by the apoligists.
Congress deserves the bulk of the blame for setting up the system under which such abuses are possible but that doesn't remove any of the culpability from the man who actually begins to engage in abuses of power.
Somehow, George W Bush managed to fight the temptation to do this but now that Obama has succumb, it's not his fault.
If you are even a tiny bit fiscally conservative, you must hate Reagan's and Bush Jr.'s policies, they were both responsible for the largest deficits the US has ever seen (Bush Jr. tax cuts and wars are in large part responsible for ongoing deficits too).
Bush's tax cut lead to increased revenue. The deficit increased because of the wars and yes, even those of us who were even the least bit fiscally conservative were opposed.
I don't understand this notion the Republicans have of embracing the extremes views to get past the primaries then adopting a more moderate viewpoint for the general election.
I reject the frame that one has to be "extreme" to win the Republican nomination, but I'll explain the situation to you.
Republicans tend to be more conservative than Democrats. The primary voters are the most conservative of the conservative party and in today's political climate, no Republican can win the primaries without being 1. Pro-Life 2. Pro-Second Amendment 3. Pro-Free Market. It's a free country and people can believe whatever they want, but you will not get the Republican nomination without getting on board with our principles. This is why Giuilini can't win the Republican nomination, he'd be much better off as a Democrat.
Most of us don't buy "he is really this moderate you will like. He only said those things in the primaries to get elected" to try and get those of us closer to the center to vote for the candidate. After all, we also know you are saying to those on the extremes that "he really is as extreme as he was in the primaries. He is only appearing moderate in order to win the election."
What's funny is the number of Republicans, myself included, who didn't vote for Romney because we didn't believe his late-in-life conservative conversion was sincere. Ted Kennedy said it best when he said that he was Pro-Choice and Romney was multiple-choice.
I'm a core conservative voter and there was nothing Romney could do to convince me and those like me that he was all of a sudden Pro-life, pro-second amendment and opposed to socialized medicine when he has spent the previous thirty years of his public life on the opposite side.
This is commonly repeated, but it's simply not true.
There tend to be two types of people who believe this, first at the people who were going to vote for Obama anyway; many of them were voting for Obama because he was black but didn't want to be honest about that so they had to latch on to some reason why they were supporting a first term Senator with no foreign policy experience. The second group is the establishment Republican-type who wants to purge the party of social conservatives, these are people who would probably be aligned with the Democrats if it weren't for tax policy.
Sarah Palin saved McCain from an embarrassing defeat. He lost with her, he would have been destroyed without her.
Exit polls showed that 60 percent of voters said that Sarah Palin was a factor in their decision on who to vote for, and of those people 56% of them voted for McCain.
What's it going to take for people to realize that Obama is just as bad as and in many ways worse than Bush?
I swear, Obama could issue an executive order mandating that they suck a dick and the apologists would just shrug and say "Yeah, but Bush would have made us swallow!"
It would be grand if people only had to live with the consequences of the policies they support.
Do you really think they wouldn't be able to afford him? This is a new Star Wars movie being made by Disney, they can and will spend whatever amount of money they need to get whatever it is they want, and they'll still turn a profit even if it sucks.
He certainly doesn't need the money like some of the others but if he's expecting a 10 million dollar payday, he must be going senile. Sean Connery can still command top dollar, but Ford? That's just not going to happen?
I understood her frustration. As an actress, people expected her to be 23 forever. On top of that, the years of hard drinking took a toll on her body and face so she aged TERRIBLY. I was hurt, personally hurt when I saw what all those years of drinking did to what I once regarded as one of the most beautiful women ever.
Card's a Mormon and by and large, I find their beliefs to be a bit nutty. It's pure bullshit that his beliefs are being used to deny him work.
He holds the same position that Barack Obama claimed to hold just two years ago, but the same people who are upset with Card have been worshipping Obama since 2008.
ARs don't require heat treatment. Surface coatings, such anodization are not done for durability, they're done for aesthetics. The AR receiver isn't subjected to very much stress. That's why they can be made out of aluminum and polymers.
Having said that, I expect this to be banned, with the NRA's support. Not because of safety regulations or what have you, but because the NRA's purpose is to get people buying more guns, and if you can print a gun for effectively nothing, they're not going to be all that enthused about the idea.
You've been listening to too much Chris Matthews and Rachel Maddow. The NRA doesn't sell guns.
Let me know when the geniuses over at Google finally figure out how to release a version of Chrome that has a fucking menu bar. Until then, I'll stick to FireFox and Opera.
Are you really suggesting that the party that couldn't keep Todd Akin from talking like a dumb-ass about rape was able to orchestrate an international conspiracy to fabricate evidence of WMDs in Iraq and keep it quiet for a decade?
Either the Republicans who voted for the war were just as misled as the Democrats or they all were in cahoots to push unnecessary wars.
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From my perspective, a Romney win would have been worse than an Obama win.
If Romney had won, we couldn't run a real conservative until 2020. Since Obama won, we'll get another chance in 2016.
LK
I was a Mac guy but I was alienated by all of the changes that Jobs made when he returned. I began my PC-ward move around the time of the iMac. In two years, you'll wonder what it was about Macs that had you hooked.
LK
As a black Republican, I have an additional observation on 3.
Many, though certainly not all, Democrats subject black people to the quiet racism of lower expectations.
Like when Clarence Thomas spoke against racial quotas, the response was "WHAT? Black people need those! How do you think you got where you are?" which is a racist assertion. Their claim that Clarence Thomas was only successful because of affirmative action shows that they believe, deep down, that black people aren't capable of excellence and that they can't succeed unless the bar is lowered for them.
All black conservatives are treated with similar disdain by liberals. I find it amusing that the charge that gets levelled at them is always a variation of the stereotype about black male sexuality. Clarence Thomas was accused of sexually harassing Anita Hill. Herman Cain was accused of sexually harassing a female employee. Allen West's sexual demands of his ex wife. The people who claim to champion the cause of the downtrodden minority are the first to resort to stale stereotyping to assassinate the character of members of that minority when they're in the way.
LK
Yes, this is what I was referring to by the apoligists.
Congress deserves the bulk of the blame for setting up the system under which such abuses are possible but that doesn't remove any of the culpability from the man who actually begins to engage in abuses of power.
Somehow, George W Bush managed to fight the temptation to do this but now that Obama has succumb, it's not his fault.
Enjoy that dick.
LK
If you are even a tiny bit fiscally conservative, you must hate Reagan's and Bush Jr.'s policies, they were both responsible for the largest deficits the US has ever seen (Bush Jr. tax cuts and wars are in large part responsible for ongoing deficits too).
Bush's tax cut lead to increased revenue. The deficit increased because of the wars and yes, even those of us who were even the least bit fiscally conservative were opposed.
LK
If you vote for the lesser of two evils, you'll surely get it.
Exactly! That's why didn't vote for Obamney last time. I cast a protest vote.
LK
Don't forget $1.29/gallon gasoline. Man, 2001 sucked!
LK
I don't understand this notion the Republicans have of embracing the extremes views to get past the primaries then adopting a more moderate viewpoint for the general election.
I reject the frame that one has to be "extreme" to win the Republican nomination, but I'll explain the situation to you.
Republicans tend to be more conservative than Democrats. The primary voters are the most conservative of the conservative party and in today's political climate, no Republican can win the primaries without being 1. Pro-Life 2. Pro-Second Amendment 3. Pro-Free Market. It's a free country and people can believe whatever they want, but you will not get the Republican nomination without getting on board with our principles. This is why Giuilini can't win the Republican nomination, he'd be much better off as a Democrat.
Most of us don't buy "he is really this moderate you will like. He only said those things in the primaries to get elected" to try and get those of us closer to the center to vote for the candidate. After all, we also know you are saying to those on the extremes that "he really is as extreme as he was in the primaries. He is only appearing moderate in order to win the election."
What's funny is the number of Republicans, myself included, who didn't vote for Romney because we didn't believe his late-in-life conservative conversion was sincere. Ted Kennedy said it best when he said that he was Pro-Choice and Romney was multiple-choice.
I'm a core conservative voter and there was nothing Romney could do to convince me and those like me that he was all of a sudden Pro-life, pro-second amendment and opposed to socialized medicine when he has spent the previous thirty years of his public life on the opposite side.
LK
This is commonly repeated, but it's simply not true.
There tend to be two types of people who believe this, first at the people who were going to vote for Obama anyway; many of them were voting for Obama because he was black but didn't want to be honest about that so they had to latch on to some reason why they were supporting a first term Senator with no foreign policy experience. The second group is the establishment Republican-type who wants to purge the party of social conservatives, these are people who would probably be aligned with the Democrats if it weren't for tax policy.
Sarah Palin saved McCain from an embarrassing defeat. He lost with her, he would have been destroyed without her.
See this.
Exit polls showed that 60 percent of voters said that Sarah Palin was a factor in their decision on who to vote for, and of those people 56% of them voted for McCain.
LK
I'm a life long conservative Republican and even I didn't vote for Romney.
If Romney had won and was behaving like Obama is, I'd be every bit as outspoken in my opposition.
LK
What's it going to take for people to realize that Obama is just as bad as and in many ways worse than Bush?
I swear, Obama could issue an executive order mandating that they suck a dick and the apologists would just shrug and say "Yeah, but Bush would have made us swallow!"
It would be grand if people only had to live with the consequences of the policies they support.
LK
Do you really think they wouldn't be able to afford him? This is a new Star Wars movie being made by Disney, they can and will spend whatever amount of money they need to get whatever it is they want, and they'll still turn a profit even if it sucks.
He certainly doesn't need the money like some of the others but if he's expecting a 10 million dollar payday, he must be going senile. Sean Connery can still command top dollar, but Ford? That's just not going to happen?
LK
I understood her frustration. As an actress, people expected her to be 23 forever. On top of that, the years of hard drinking took a toll on her body and face so she aged TERRIBLY. I was hurt, personally hurt when I saw what all those years of drinking did to what I once regarded as one of the most beautiful women ever.
LK
Are you?
Card's a Mormon and by and large, I find their beliefs to be a bit nutty. It's pure bullshit that his beliefs are being used to deny him work.
He holds the same position that Barack Obama claimed to hold just two years ago, but the same people who are upset with Card have been worshipping Obama since 2008.
LK
ARs don't require heat treatment. Surface coatings, such anodization are not done for durability, they're done for aesthetics. The AR receiver isn't subjected to very much stress. That's why they can be made out of aluminum and polymers.
LK
If you do all of that, you no longer have an AR. Just some unassembled AR parts.
LK
Would it make you feel better if I had called it the "gun-rights advocates subculture"?
You know what I'm referring to . Why pick nits?
LK
Having said that, I expect this to be banned, with the NRA's support. Not because of safety regulations or what have you, but because the NRA's purpose is to get people buying more guns, and if you can print a gun for effectively nothing, they're not going to be all that enthused about the idea.
You've been listening to too much Chris Matthews and Rachel Maddow. The NRA doesn't sell guns.
LK
If you're not paying attention. I'm not going to waste my time on you.
Google for Chris Kyle and Keith Ratliff.
LK
I wouldn't be surprised if this guy met with an unfortunate accident.
There has been a lot of that happening recently in the gun-rights subculture.
LK
Calling someone a "hater" only means you can not rationally rebut their argument.
Or that you don't think their argument is worth the effort necessary to rebut it.
LK
Let me know when the geniuses over at Google finally figure out how to release a version of Chrome that has a fucking menu bar. Until then, I'll stick to FireFox and Opera.
LK
You're rationalizing.
Are you really suggesting that the party that couldn't keep Todd Akin from talking like a dumb-ass about rape was able to orchestrate an international conspiracy to fabricate evidence of WMDs in Iraq and keep it quiet for a decade?
Either the Republicans who voted for the war were just as misled as the Democrats or they all were in cahoots to push unnecessary wars.
LK
I guess you missed my previous post on this thread where I clearly indicated that I'm not a white American.
LK