Due to him being black, he was the one best able to get across the message of "I'm not Bush." And then he proceded to be pretty much like Bush in various areas, only even more incompetent.
I use logic and history. I suggest you begin to do the same.
You mean how Gore tried to steal the election through the classic "Recount until the Democrat wins" strategy, but was rebuffed by the Supreme Court? You mean how the efforts of the networks to stop votes in heavily Republican Western Florida by declaring Gore the winner over votes in the East, where polls had closed, didn't work even though it cost Bush 7,500-15,000 votes? You mean how the Democrat effort to have military (mostly pro-Bush) ballots thrown out wasn't enough? How about ACORN's widespread voter registration fraud in 2004? How about the Black Panthers intimidating white voters in 2008? Obama even paid them back by having Holder basically drop what was a clear-cut, strong case against them.
Using logic and history, you'd know both parties equally use dirty tricks to try to steal elections.
If only Wyden didn't completely disregard the Second Amendment. His support of hate crimes legislation (creating "protected classes") and more extensive cell phone wiretapping are also troubling.
But at least more than others he's a good mix rather than a party-line lackey.
It's about the cushy position given to him for 12 years at University of Chicago Law School as a lecturer for constitutional law. His colleagues at the school didn't find him to be particularly engaged, as he had other priorities at the time, namely his political career.
His connections were gained while doing community organizing work in Chicago. I have to admit, he is extremely smooth. He'd do anything, pretend to believe anything, live a complete lie, just to get ahead.
Simply torch a copy of the Constitution in front of the class and say "Do whatever the hell you want. Class dismissed."
OTOH, I'm not sure he actually ever taught a class. He was given a position there to write his book, then to give him credibility while he furthered his political career. Sweet deal, money for nothing, if you have the connections to get it.
This is one of my big disappointments with him. I was hoping we'd reach such a landmark with a strong, effective president. Instead, well, look at what we got, the weak community-organizer-in-chief. Looking back, if only Ryan's private divorce matters hadn't been aired, allowing Obama to run effectively unopposed for the Senate, Herman Cain could have been the first.
Same with a female president. I would love to have one, but I hope it's not Hillary, or Bachmann or Palin for that matter. I don't see any others on the horizon either.
When you buy late in a product's lifecycle, expect the support to not last as long. The the last iPhone 3G update was 2 1/2 years after release, and it was three years until it couldn't handle the latest OS. Even the last buyers had a year until they were behind on the current OS.
I bought the Android phone two months after its release. Some months later it got an update to a version of Android that was released at the same time I bought the phone. It never received an update to the Android version released six months after the phone. It was behind when it hit the market, and it stayed behind.
Official Android support sucks in comparison to Apple.
I have an Android phone that was an official software upgrade orphan less than six months after it was introduced. IOS 5 supports hardware a couple years old.
"our struggle will end only when this entity [Israel] is obliterated"
That is the official position of Hezbollah. And they are by no means alone in their thinking. The only reason such an achievement is "far from being true in terms of practicality" is because of the Jewish actions you are complaining about, and the support of Israel by the US.
the oppression of the Palestinians and minority groups in Israel
What justifies the "oppression" of Palestinians is the constant terrorist attacks against Israel. I have an idea, why don't the Palestinians as a whole rise up against terrorism, denounce it, remove from office anyone remotely related to or supporting terrorism? How about they turn in everyone they know related to terrorism? I'm sure that would convince the Israelis of their sincerity. No, they elect Hamas, which has a stated goal of the elimination of Israel, with the whole area being ruled under an Islamic state.
As far as minority groups in Israel itself, get back to me when Jewish minorities in Arab Muslim countries have even near the legal status afforded to minorities in Israel.
At the same time, it's understandable that many Jews, and the people as a whole, are still reeling from the prosecution in the hand of Christians-led authorities in the last 20 centuries, and the Holocaust.
And the violence committed by the Muslims in Palestine after WWI, and the pogroms experienced by the Jews forced out of Muslim nations after WWII.
The Jews know what happens when they are a minority in a modern Muslim land. The only way to prevent that from happening is by establishing solid security in their own land.
I've never had a problem in years of using Time Machine.
Apple took some basic technologies: inodes in the file system, the Spotlight search and indexing system (to keep track of what's been updated), and put a brain-dead easy to user interface on it. Now you can browse through your backups as if you were browing through your file system. Even better, it enables one-click restore of everything (including user accounts and applications) when reinstalling the OS.
Does it break occasionally? I guess it might. Nothing in computers is 100% perfect. But it was revolutionary as far as getting users to do backups without even having to understand a thing about backups.
But as usual, the first to make the whole concept work together so well even the average brain-dead consumer has no problem using it to its potential.
Look at Time Machine. We've had differential backups for years, "shadow copy" in Windows even. But Time Machine just rolls it all up to work perfectly with no learning curve.
Those aren't the ones mainly causing the problems. The ones who are causing trouble can't state a religious tradition past about 1,300 years ago.
BTW, what if the US sold some land in Iraq to the Japanese after the 2003 war...?
Did you not notice "Caliphate"? That's the leader of the Muslim world, not some recent invader. The only people who could complain it wasn't their land to sell would be the Malmuks, and they haven't been in power there for about 500 years.
I can't turn back the clock and see how it would happen, but I wonder they wouldn't have been, if not the Jews took Palestine by force like that.
Palestinians currently live IN Israel, no problem. What I wonder is whether the Muslims would accept a Jewish "right of return" in exchange for a Palestinian "right of return." No I don't actually. I think we both know the answer to that one. I doubt any rational person thinks Syria would peacefully accept the repatriation of 30,000 Jews and their descendants after the Jewish population has already been virtually eliminated there.
2) the Israelis had a stronger military force and better strategies than the Arab armies
I think it's this one. Plus there's the "fighting for your very survival" aspect. Similarly, the Russians were never very good invaders, but exceptional defenders.
The Israeli Declaration of Independence stated that "the State of Israel would ensure complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion, race or sex, and guaranteed freedom of religion, conscience, language, education and culture".
Then Israel being a Jewish state is no problem. In fact, there have been Arab Knesset members since it started. See any Jews in positions of authority in Muslim countries?
Again, it's in my opinions that you're over-generalizing, as if you've held country-wide census.
The UN itself was complaining about this.
But I think it's wrong for Israel the state to continually oppress the Palestinians, and they are not allowed to defend themselves, as if every Jew is a patron saint and every Palestinian (Muslim) is a terrorist
The Jews haven't exactly been angels in this. However, they are dealing with forces that literally want them wiped from the face of the Earth. So forgive them if they don't trust that those tunnels only bring in food and medical supplies, and bulldoze the entrances. Forgive them if they retaliate for rocket attacks, and kids get killed because the Muslims sent them to dismantle the rockets.
If one day, some people from the opposite of Alaska come and take your land, expulse you and your family from your homes, make you live in tents (which later become brick houses), kill your cousin who fight against them, all the while telling you that their ancestors had lived in North America 2000 years ago
That's not quite how it worked there. Jews have continuously lived there for thousands of years. Around a hundred years ago more started moving back, the Caliphate was cool with it, even sold much of that land to Jews. The Ottomans welcomed the prosperity the immigration would bring. In fact, the Caliphate had a fairly decent policy regarding the whole thing and relations between Muslims and Jews.
But then the Caliphate fell, and the locals took over. Back when Jews were still a tiny minority, Muslims were rioting over their immigration and attacking their settlements. The Haganah was formed to protect Jews from these attacks, such as Jaffa, Hebron, and Safed.
Of course immediately upon creation of the tiny Jewish homeland at the edge of of a Muslim sea, the combined might of several surrounding Muslim countries tried to wipe them out. The land Israel holds today is the result of repelling that and later invasions.
In addition, you continually see cited the Palestinian refugees, several hundred thousand fled or expelled from Israeli-controlled areas. What about the Jewish refugees? Almost a million were expelled or forced to flee violence and oppression in most of the Arab Muslim countries. Jews were killed in pogroms in most Arab countries, their rights rescinded, property confiscated, forced to flee.
Today fewer than 10,000 remain. Many Arab countries can be proud to claim themselves Judenrein, ethnically cleansed of Jews, no stain of Jewish blood remaining where there were before tens or hundreds of thousands.
Like I said, no equivalence.
BTW, I think it's Hamas' official stance to refuse to acknowledge Israel's right to exist...? The PLO and PA have long accepted the fact that there's a state called Israel here in Palestine. They don't agree that it's a "Jewish state" though.
Many just want all the Jews out, no recognition. The best you get is as you say the Palestinian Authority refusal to recognize Israel's right to exist as a Jewish state. They simply cannot have it, since it offends their sense of religion. Forget the Muslim states surrounding Israel (and constituting a persistent threat to Israel's security), this one Jewish state cannot be allowed.
But even that is a very recent concession, not sincere IMHO. They're still teaching their kids that Jews have no historical claim to the area, that it was always Muslim.
Did you know there was even an uproar in Palestine over the UN wanting to mention the Holocaust in their schools in Palestine? Its mere mention as one of the founding reasons for the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights was considered offensive. No sympathy for Jews allowed when they are trying to teach the kids that the Jews are the powerful evil oppressors (especially when the Palestinian Muslims were complicit in said Holocaust).
To deter and punish terrorist acts in the United States and around the world, to enhance law enforcement investigatory tools, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
So although it was sold to the public as an anti-terrorism bill, it's right up front that they plan to use it for regular law enforcement too. A lot of other bills have a list of "whereas" in the beginning, listing the reasons and intent of the bill.
Of course none of this matters at all. The intent and history of the Second Amendment is brain-dead clear, but that doesn't stop people from trying to reinterpret it to rid themselves of a right they don't personally like. The 4th is pretty clear too, but it gets reinterpreted so that the contents of your cell phone aren't somehow equivalent to "papers and effects." And there's drug war property seizures in the face of the 5th's "nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law." You see, the legal action is against the property, not the person, so his rights don't come into play. I am not kidding, the cases read like "U.S. Government v. $10,000."
If the law or amendment is inconvenient to those currently in power, regardless of even the explicitly stated intent and clear history, they will simply reinterpret it so that it no longer is a problem for them.
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Due to him being black, he was the one best able to get across the message of "I'm not Bush." And then he proceded to be pretty much like Bush in various areas, only even more incompetent.
You mean how Gore tried to steal the election through the classic "Recount until the Democrat wins" strategy, but was rebuffed by the Supreme Court? You mean how the efforts of the networks to stop votes in heavily Republican Western Florida by declaring Gore the winner over votes in the East, where polls had closed, didn't work even though it cost Bush 7,500-15,000 votes? You mean how the Democrat effort to have military (mostly pro-Bush) ballots thrown out wasn't enough? How about ACORN's widespread voter registration fraud in 2004? How about the Black Panthers intimidating white voters in 2008? Obama even paid them back by having Holder basically drop what was a clear-cut, strong case against them.
Using logic and history, you'd know both parties equally use dirty tricks to try to steal elections.
His supporters are fanatical, irrational worshippers.
Never before have I seen a less qualified person elected on such a wave of baseless enthusiasm.
It makes the irrational right-wing Reagan worship look downright sane.
That's not very likely to happen whether we replace him with a Republican or a Democrat.
If only Wyden didn't completely disregard the Second Amendment. His support of hate crimes legislation (creating "protected classes") and more extensive cell phone wiretapping are also troubling.
But at least more than others he's a good mix rather than a party-line lackey.
It's about the cushy position given to him for 12 years at University of Chicago Law School as a lecturer for constitutional law. His colleagues at the school didn't find him to be particularly engaged, as he had other priorities at the time, namely his political career.
His connections were gained while doing community organizing work in Chicago. I have to admit, he is extremely smooth. He'd do anything, pretend to believe anything, live a complete lie, just to get ahead.
Simply torch a copy of the Constitution in front of the class and say "Do whatever the hell you want. Class dismissed."
OTOH, I'm not sure he actually ever taught a class. He was given a position there to write his book, then to give him credibility while he furthered his political career. Sweet deal, money for nothing, if you have the connections to get it.
This is one of my big disappointments with him. I was hoping we'd reach such a landmark with a strong, effective president. Instead, well, look at what we got, the weak community-organizer-in-chief. Looking back, if only Ryan's private divorce matters hadn't been aired, allowing Obama to run effectively unopposed for the Senate, Herman Cain could have been the first.
Same with a female president. I would love to have one, but I hope it's not Hillary, or Bachmann or Palin for that matter. I don't see any others on the horizon either.
But it apparently can mean "I haven't bothered to read the post."
I have a recent post that's been swinging wildly between Troll and Informative based on whether people have read the actual text vs. just the title.
You don't have to buy his products.
Also, Jobs was actually right at times.
Carrier and manufacturer. Neither officially supported Android 2.2.
He's just been deallocated.
When you buy late in a product's lifecycle, expect the support to not last as long. The the last iPhone 3G update was 2 1/2 years after release, and it was three years until it couldn't handle the latest OS. Even the last buyers had a year until they were behind on the current OS.
I bought the Android phone two months after its release. Some months later it got an update to a version of Android that was released at the same time I bought the phone. It never received an update to the Android version released six months after the phone. It was behind when it hit the market, and it stayed behind.
Official Android support sucks in comparison to Apple.
As in 6 months from the time the phone hit the market, Anrdoid 2.2 came out and was never supported on the phone.
iOS 5 is supported on the 3GS, which was released over two years ago.
I'm not going to a place where people will hate me because of where I'm from, the Great Satan.
Even worse, I'm not even one of the supposedly protected people of the book. I'm supposed to be converted or killed by the faithful.
I have an Android phone that was an official software upgrade orphan less than six months after it was introduced. IOS 5 supports hardware a couple years old.
So "Salvage 1" couldn't have happened?
Am I the only one who remembers that show?
Does this sound familiar.
That is the official position of Hezbollah. And they are by no means alone in their thinking. The only reason such an achievement is "far from being true in terms of practicality" is because of the Jewish actions you are complaining about, and the support of Israel by the US.
What justifies the "oppression" of Palestinians is the constant terrorist attacks against Israel. I have an idea, why don't the Palestinians as a whole rise up against terrorism, denounce it, remove from office anyone remotely related to or supporting terrorism? How about they turn in everyone they know related to terrorism? I'm sure that would convince the Israelis of their sincerity. No, they elect Hamas, which has a stated goal of the elimination of Israel, with the whole area being ruled under an Islamic state.
As far as minority groups in Israel itself, get back to me when Jewish minorities in Arab Muslim countries have even near the legal status afforded to minorities in Israel.
And the violence committed by the Muslims in Palestine after WWI, and the pogroms experienced by the Jews forced out of Muslim nations after WWII.
The Jews know what happens when they are a minority in a modern Muslim land. The only way to prevent that from happening is by establishing solid security in their own land.
I've never had a problem in years of using Time Machine.
Apple took some basic technologies: inodes in the file system, the Spotlight search and indexing system (to keep track of what's been updated), and put a brain-dead easy to user interface on it. Now you can browse through your backups as if you were browing through your file system. Even better, it enables one-click restore of everything (including user accounts and applications) when reinstalling the OS.
Does it break occasionally? I guess it might. Nothing in computers is 100% perfect. But it was revolutionary as far as getting users to do backups without even having to understand a thing about backups.
But as usual, the first to make the whole concept work together so well even the average brain-dead consumer has no problem using it to its potential.
Look at Time Machine. We've had differential backups for years, "shadow copy" in Windows even. But Time Machine just rolls it all up to work perfectly with no learning curve.
One for each parent, one for each kid. That way the trophies and such stay separate.
If you read the article, the module was dropped to the moon to be destroyed on impact. In any sane world, such action relinquishes any claim.
Those aren't the ones mainly causing the problems. The ones who are causing trouble can't state a religious tradition past about 1,300 years ago.
Did you not notice "Caliphate"? That's the leader of the Muslim world, not some recent invader. The only people who could complain it wasn't their land to sell would be the Malmuks, and they haven't been in power there for about 500 years.
Palestinians currently live IN Israel, no problem. What I wonder is whether the Muslims would accept a Jewish "right of return" in exchange for a Palestinian "right of return." No I don't actually. I think we both know the answer to that one. I doubt any rational person thinks Syria would peacefully accept the repatriation of 30,000 Jews and their descendants after the Jewish population has already been virtually eliminated there.
I think it's this one. Plus there's the "fighting for your very survival" aspect. Similarly, the Russians were never very good invaders, but exceptional defenders.
Then Israel being a Jewish state is no problem. In fact, there have been Arab Knesset members since it started. See any Jews in positions of authority in Muslim countries?
The UN itself was complaining about this.
The Jews haven't exactly been angels in this. However, they are dealing with forces that literally want them wiped from the face of the Earth. So forgive them if they don't trust that those tunnels only bring in food and medical supplies, and bulldoze the entrances. Forgive them if they retaliate for rocket attacks, and kids get killed because the Muslims sent them to dismantle the rockets.
You'd think anything purposely designated to be left on the Moon is about as abandoned as property can get.
That's not quite how it worked there. Jews have continuously lived there for thousands of years. Around a hundred years ago more started moving back, the Caliphate was cool with it, even sold much of that land to Jews. The Ottomans welcomed the prosperity the immigration would bring. In fact, the Caliphate had a fairly decent policy regarding the whole thing and relations between Muslims and Jews.
But then the Caliphate fell, and the locals took over. Back when Jews were still a tiny minority, Muslims were rioting over their immigration and attacking their settlements. The Haganah was formed to protect Jews from these attacks, such as Jaffa, Hebron, and Safed.
Of course immediately upon creation of the tiny Jewish homeland at the edge of of a Muslim sea, the combined might of several surrounding Muslim countries tried to wipe them out. The land Israel holds today is the result of repelling that and later invasions.
In addition, you continually see cited the Palestinian refugees, several hundred thousand fled or expelled from Israeli-controlled areas. What about the Jewish refugees? Almost a million were expelled or forced to flee violence and oppression in most of the Arab Muslim countries. Jews were killed in pogroms in most Arab countries, their rights rescinded, property confiscated, forced to flee.
Today fewer than 10,000 remain. Many Arab countries can be proud to claim themselves Judenrein, ethnically cleansed of Jews, no stain of Jewish blood remaining where there were before tens or hundreds of thousands.
Like I said, no equivalence.
Many just want all the Jews out, no recognition. The best you get is as you say the Palestinian Authority refusal to recognize Israel's right to exist as a Jewish state. They simply cannot have it, since it offends their sense of religion. Forget the Muslim states surrounding Israel (and constituting a persistent threat to Israel's security), this one Jewish state cannot be allowed.
But even that is a very recent concession, not sincere IMHO. They're still teaching their kids that Jews have no historical claim to the area, that it was always Muslim.
Did you know there was even an uproar in Palestine over the UN wanting to mention the Holocaust in their schools in Palestine? Its mere mention as one of the founding reasons for the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights was considered offensive. No sympathy for Jews allowed when they are trying to teach the kids that the Jews are the powerful evil oppressors (especially when the Palestinian Muslims were complicit in said Holocaust).
Even the Patriot Act is prefaced with
So although it was sold to the public as an anti-terrorism bill, it's right up front that they plan to use it for regular law enforcement too. A lot of other bills have a list of "whereas" in the beginning, listing the reasons and intent of the bill.
Of course none of this matters at all. The intent and history of the Second Amendment is brain-dead clear, but that doesn't stop people from trying to reinterpret it to rid themselves of a right they don't personally like. The 4th is pretty clear too, but it gets reinterpreted so that the contents of your cell phone aren't somehow equivalent to "papers and effects." And there's drug war property seizures in the face of the 5th's "nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law." You see, the legal action is against the property, not the person, so his rights don't come into play. I am not kidding, the cases read like "U.S. Government v. $10,000."
If the law or amendment is inconvenient to those currently in power, regardless of even the explicitly stated intent and clear history, they will simply reinterpret it so that it no longer is a problem for them.