There is more than one side to the "iOS walled garden"...Android has had far more security issues than iOS. There are things I don't like about Apple's policies, but they do seem to be slowly getting better.
As to "proprietary connectors"...really? Apple has driven adoption of many of its connectors (some built in collaboration with others) - USB, DisplayPort, Thunderbolt for instance. I wouldn't be surprised to see Lightning become a standard.
Conservatism is just a means to an end. And that end is overthrowing the liberty and prosperity of the American people in order to restore the old way of doing things. A plutocratic class with absolute economic, political and theocratic control over the a disempowerd class of serfs.
That is of course complete BS. Under 0 poverty has skyrocketed. We now have far more people dependent on government than when he took office. The liberals have worked for decades to keep minorities under their thumb with handouts, thereby buying their votes. Talk about serfs...still on the plantation.
The liberals who value justice, personal liberty and prosperity will always oppose you.
"Justice" is not taking stuff away from those who have it and giving it to others. That is called "theft".
"Personal liberty" is antithetical to big, nanny-state government. We who truly love liberty will stop at nothing to preserve it. Modern "liberals" (actually progressives) hate "personal liberty". Judging from your words, you are the exact definition of a "useful idiot".
"Prosperity" is what happens when the government gets out of the way and lets entrepreneurs create and innovate. 0's policies of high taxation and overregulation won't permit the kind of prosperity we need. Not to mention his stupid and shortsighted energy policies.
And we are more numerous and better armed and trained than you would suspect.
LOL! As they say, hope for the best, and plan for the worst. Just remember a lot of country boys know how to survive under rough conditions...and man can they shoot.;-)
Note the many right-wing sources like CNN and ABC News.
I saved the apology tour for last, as I found several quotes you'll no doubt enjoy:
- At a Summit of the Americas, Obama regretted how “at times we sought to dictate our terms.” In an op-ed about policy toward the America’s, Obama declared: “Too often, the United States has not pursued and sustained engagement with our neighbors.”
- Speaking to the Turkish parliament, Obama rationalized: “The United States is still working through some of our own darker periods in our history.”
- Addressing CIA employees about an administration report which castigated the use of enhanced interrogation techniques against terrorist suspects, the President urged: “Don’t be discouraged that we have to acknowledge potentially we’ve made some mistakes.”
- In a speech, Obama denounced the techniques used in the war on terror: “Instead of strategically applying our power and our principles, too often we set those principles aside as luxuries that we could no longer afford. And during this season of fear, too many of us – Democrats and Republicans, politicians, journalists, and citizens – fell silent.”
- In that same address at the National Archives, he went into full apology mode over Guantanamo: “There is also no question that Guantanamo set back the moral authority that is America’s strongest currency in the world. Instead of building a durable framework for the struggle against Al Qaeda that drew upon our deeply held values and traditions, our government was defending positions that undermined the rule of law.”
0's rhetoric and actions have weakened America considerably, which is reflected in the actions of the PRC and Russia in particular.
Just a little research on your part would have done the trick.
However, we're now stuck with 0 for four more long years. I hope you enjoy the disaster that you and the other mindless leeches have ensured.
A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence:
From bondage to spiritual faith;
From spiritual faith to great courage;
From courage to liberty;
From liberty to abundance;
From abundance to complacency;
From complacency to apathy;
From apathy to dependence;
From dependence back into bondage.
Time to focus on thriving personally.
Eventually we'll see if patriotic Americans can somehow right the ship of state, or if in fact the great American Experiment has failed forever. I'm concerned that things will get so bad that the Tree of Liberty will receive plenty of its preferred fertilizer before things look up - and that is likely a best-case scenario.
Every one of your "faults" with Obama is a blatant lie.
BS. Brainwashed much?
Fast and Furious was documented to be a local initiative. And your body count is can not be substantiated.
Yeah, it was such a "local initiative" that it's been directly linked to Eric Holder, and 0 has invoked executive privilege to protect his sorry behind. Note that he criticized GWB on using executive privilege, just another example of the endless hypocrisy he exhibits.
The Univision documentary covered the carnage that this program has caused in Mexico.
There was no Benghazi coverup.
"These are not the droids you're looking for..." Right. To those of us with functioning intellects, it's clear the 0 attempted to blame Benghazi on an "internet video", and for two weeks refused to admit terrorist involvement - even though they knew about it the day it happened. Likewise, it was described as a "spontaneous riot", even though they knew there was no riot. There was a live video feed to the White House straight from Bhengazi.
I suspect 0 is hoping not to be re-elected tonight, as the heat regarding Bhengazi will be blazing.
Obama's financial policies are moderate, and would not produce debt if it wasn't for the traitors who took the Norquist pledge to harm America by refusing to raise taxes when necessary.
Wow, total BS again. Policies that vastly expand the national debt aren't "moderate". As to your tax argument, even 0 had to admit that ending the Bush tax policies would kill whatever anemic recovery that was underway.
Obama is not by any means anti-capitalist.
He certainly is, and his track record of killing businesses, excessive regulation, and wealth redistribution speaks for itself.
There was no apology tour.
You just love revisionist history, don't you? Those of us with extensive collections of 0 pics where he's bowing to foreign leaders know otherwise. His rhetoric (in Egypt for instance) has been clearly apologetic for his perceived failings of American policy.
Obama has taken less vacations in his almost 4 years than Bush averaged for every 2 years.
Again, that is bullshit.
I guess you're not counting golf, or the numerous expensive vacations Moochelle has taken on her own.
You're also not considering that GWB actually worked on many of his "vacations" to his ranch or Camp David.
Come back when you can play with the grown ups, and are capable of making truthful statements or arguments that are even remotely valid. I have plenty of gripes against Obama, but they are founded in reality.
You should try comedy, your attempts at factual argument are full of fail.
R&R look to be doing even better than expected...have a fun night!;-)
How exactly is he more disgraceful than those criminals?
Can you actually explain that?
Sorry it took a bit to respond, I wish I had sooner so more could see it.
First off, GWB wasn't a criminal in any sense of the word. He may have attacked Iraq (along with quite a few other nations) based on faulty intel, but it was intel that was widely believed at the time.
As to Nixon, he was a criminal by virtue of Watergate.
However, 0 trumps both of them easily:
Fast and Furious, which 0 certainly knew of and approved as an anti-gun tactic, has killed hundreds of people, mainly in Mexico. It was a criminally stupid and negligent operation.
The Benghazi coverup is worse than Watergate...and no one died as a result of Watergate.
0's hapless policies have run up enormous debt, far beyond anything rational. It is potentially an existential threat to America.
0's anti-capitalist bias has resulted in policies and regulations that have stifled business growth and economic prosperity.
0's apology tour around the world was something no previous President would have done - they all respected the office and our country too much.
0 has had a lackadaisical approach to his duties, working short hours and spending plenty of time in frivolous pursuits like golf and celebrity-schmoozing.
0 and his wife have partied and vacationed excessively at great taxpayer expense, while the average American has had to cut back during tough times.
I could go on, but that's certainly enough. I also expect eventually the truth will come out regarding 0's shady social security number, and the reason he's spent millions hiding his school records and admission forms.
Um, you lost me here, why would a greedy venture capitalist give a flying fuck about open-source software? I just did a google search and found nothing relating to WTF you just said, or are you just a Romney-troll in disguise? In that case, you still aren't changing my vote, the O's are in for FOUR MORE YEARS bitch.
The 0's are the biggest disgrace in the history of the Presidency.
They'll be out come January, bet on it. Just try not too cry too hard.
R&R '12!!! It's time to get the economy working again!
I suggest you go pick up a low end laptop at about lets say 500 dollars. Hook it up to a display that can run 2560x1600 and tell me how it works out for you playing a game on the native resolution vs the 2560x1600
Gaming versus using the laptop for lots of other pixel-intensive things is apples to oranges. Good 2D performance is much easier to achieve.
Some examples of important, primarily 2D activities are web browsing, reading, and...software development. That last one just might interest Linux a bit.;-)
Aside from all that, you could always run your game at 1/2 resolution (1280x800) and be just as well off as with a crappy display.
"I believe I was speaking, I believe I had the floor"
romney, you are such an asswipe. 4 years of you would be painful. I really hope we don't get screwed like we did with the bush fiasco.
Four years of President Romney will far outshine the past four years. 0 hasn't a clue on how to run a country, nor has he performed as he himself stated he would on the economy or a host of other things. Throw the bum out!
As to the "Bush fiasco" (aside from there not being one), you don't have to worry about that. R&R will win very handily, perhaps to the point of it being a landslide.
Wrap a towel around your head come election night, it may keep it from 'sploding.;-)/P.
It appears to be interpreted by the gun lobby as allowing killing someone after deliberately advancing towards potential harm.
If you think about it (a high standard, apparently) you will find a ton of gray area in that. There are a lot of legal, and quite responsible actions, that fall under "advancing towards potential harm".
The defense has argued that Trayvon was the aggressor and are going to see if his school records and online life back that up. The internet is not some parallel dimension with no relationship to our real lives. If Trayvon was into "Thug Life", MMA, etc... or was suspended for getting into fist fights at school (he was suspended at least 3 times) then this is relevant to the case at hand as it makes the notion that he attacked Zimmerman more believable.
I did see a video from social media that purported to show TM in some kind of HS "fight club". Not good for the prosecution if so.
Of course, the black person wasn't a child, and the white guy was Mexican.
Actually, the white guy is half Peruvian, and half white. Since he was described as a "white Hispanic" I guess we should describe 0bama as a "white African-American".;-)
Who was the aggressor is hard to say, but what is clear is that this wasn't an attempt to rally white folks against blacks.
Right, instead it was an attempt to railroad Zimmerman and derail "stand your ground" and "Castle Doctrine" laws. Fortunately all that looks to have backfired. I'm hopeful that Zimmerman will walk after the first "stand your ground" review, if in fact the evidence that TM initiated violence continues to be supported.
"Stand your ground" is a very reasonable doctrine, it simply allows self-defense without retreating first.
As to 9/11, there was a brief period afterwards where the nation pulled together and the press supported GWB. Before and after that, they hounded him incessantly. For instance, remember all the criticism over gas prices during his second term? Yet here we have gas prices hitting almost $4/gal under 0, with nary a shred of criticism from the fawning, sycophantic press.
I'll get the last laugh though, enjoy President Romney. He will be a big improvement over 0, almost anyone would be...
Well, the context is there in plain english. Perhaps you can point out where I'm wrong.
You're not wrong. The proof is that several 0 administration figures (Carney etc.) refused to state it was an act of terrorism for around two weeks after that, instead claiming that it was a "spontaneous act" that arose from a "demonstration" outside the embassy over an "anti-Muslim movie".
Sadly for 0 and his cohorts, the actual facts have emerged, which do not involve any of the original scapegoats. Instead, it's clear that the administration dropped the ball and failed to recognize the threat from al Qaida on the 9/11 anniversary, leading to the murder of several people including the ambassador. That will not help on election day!
As is often the case, it's not so much the original act that gets you in trouble, it's the coverup. If it had been GWB in power, the press would have been all over it. With 0, not so much...but the truth is slowly coming out.
Romney believes in a completely discredited world view on economics and the role of government.
Nonsense. The discredited, outdated approaches are those espoused by 0bama. He deeply believes in the same type of socialistic approach that's led the PIIGS (Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and Spain) to the brink of bankruptcy. Spain and Greece both currently have unemployment over 20%!
Romney's economic ideas are a proven formula for turning around the economy. He will win, and America will prosper again.
Barrack Obama is terrible at actually playing politics, so even if he knows what he should do he's usually incapable of doing it. He managed to win his previous elections by having stuck to reasonably credible policy proposals, and failing to really deliver, Romney is a compulsive liar, who is used to talking to people who drink the same intellectual kool-aid he does, so he panders to whomever is in front of him with whatever they want to hear, but nothing he says is based in reality.
LOL! 0bama is one of the most mendacious politicians I've ever seen. He spouted several outright lies during the debate last night, and will be called out on them today. Romney wasn't my first choice, and at times he gets things wrong, but compared to 0bama he's a paragon of virtue. Heck, he even gives a substantial contribution to charity - not only does 0bama NOT do that, but he doesn't even help family members living in abject poverty. He's a disgrace on many levels.
Given the choice - and given the '3rd party' choices are basically in the romney camp of completely discredited or impractical world views your best bet is Obama.
0bama is the "best bet" if you want to see America continue to whither for another four years. Luckily, everything is lining up for a Romney landslide come November 6.
And before you, or anyone else thinks that's somehow a sad statement about democracy, that is democracy, everywhere. In canada and the UK we have baby republicans Harper and Cameron, Cameron has been caught in a double dip recession precisely because he bought into the same nonsense the republicans have been spewing, while canada is saved by the price of oil.
No politician wants to preside over hard times, but sometimes it takes some hard times to return to the good times. "Spending your way out of poverty" was a bad idea for the US when the national debt was staggering to begin with. It didn't help that the money was spent exceptionally stupidly, and that increased regulation held the economy back as well. Romney's energy plans alone will boost the US economy substantially by the end of his first term.
In France Sarkozy and Hollande were both looking at ways to radically cut the budget deficit, which in the first place is bad economic policy and hollande wants to do so with a 75% tax on the ultrarich, who can just move to switzerland or monaco.
Exactly! What was your point again? 0bama essentially wants to make the same mistakes as Hollande, perhaps on a smaller scale. Meanwhile, the French are about ready to throw Hollande out.
Angela merkel in germany is pushing for european federalism - which might be good policy- a completely untenable prospect politically in europe, and so on and so on.
The situation in Europe is yet to be resolved, and there will seismic shifts before it's done. The Eurozone may very well fall apart. We'll see over the next year or so.
On the rare occasions politicians are actually capable of looking at and understanding evidence they usually don't know how translate that into actual action.
I think you'll find that Romney and Ryan will be very effective. I'm sure you'll enjoy a more prosperous, powerful and influential America going forward. Right?;-)
You really like the Mac, but although I like it too, if I had to pick Mac or Linux, I'd stick with my Linux machines. But then again, I'm not hugely into eye-candy; I tend to prefer lean and functional, even if it's not as aesthetically pleasing.
I like Linux a lot as well, don't get me wrong. It's sure embodies the spirit of the techie culture more than any other OS!
There is more to the Mac than mere eye-candy though. Fairly consistent user interfaces across apps is a major contrast with the variety of UI kits/conventions on Linux. Drag-and-drop that works just about everywhere is also a nice improvement. I've also become a fan of the MacOS programming model, Obj-C and Xcode, and there's really no Linux equivalent for those.
Most importantly to me, though, is that the Mac is a reasonable target for commercial software. That's good both as a developer and a consumer. iOS development is just icing on the cake!:-)
Off-topic: that's got to be one of the funniest sigs I've seen in a while:)
Thanks, I've used it for quite a while now. What I like most about it is the second-order humor regarding/.ers down-modding unpopular positions that happen to be correct.;-)
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Is Germany a good example of forward-looking energy policy?
No. Nuclear is the way forward, Germany is instead following the siren song of the Green Luddites.
There is more than one side to the "iOS walled garden"...Android has had far more security issues than iOS. There are things I don't like about Apple's policies, but they do seem to be slowly getting better.
As to "proprietary connectors"...really? Apple has driven adoption of many of its connectors (some built in collaboration with others) - USB, DisplayPort, Thunderbolt for instance. I wouldn't be surprised to see Lightning become a standard.
You are accusing me of being what you are. A useful idiot is all you are. Your empty posturing is infantile.
Your thinly veiled threats of violence are foolish.
You assume I am not willing and able to fight back just as hard or harder.
LOL! You are good for some amusement...and that's about all.
Good luck on gaining some true understanding about the real world someday.
I'll let you have the last word, as you seem determined in that department, if nothing else.
Conservatism is just a means to an end. And that end is overthrowing the liberty and prosperity of the American people in order to restore the old way of doing things. A plutocratic class with absolute economic, political and theocratic control over the a disempowerd class of serfs.
That is of course complete BS. Under 0 poverty has skyrocketed. We now have far more people dependent on government than when he took office. The liberals have worked for decades to keep minorities under their thumb with handouts, thereby buying their votes. Talk about serfs...still on the plantation.
The liberals who value justice, personal liberty and prosperity will always oppose you.
"Justice" is not taking stuff away from those who have it and giving it to others. That is called "theft".
"Personal liberty" is antithetical to big, nanny-state government. We who truly love liberty will stop at nothing to preserve it. Modern "liberals" (actually progressives) hate "personal liberty". Judging from your words, you are the exact definition of a "useful idiot".
"Prosperity" is what happens when the government gets out of the way and lets entrepreneurs create and innovate. 0's policies of high taxation and overregulation won't permit the kind of prosperity we need. Not to mention his stupid and shortsighted energy policies.
And we are more numerous and better armed and trained than you would suspect.
LOL! As they say, hope for the best, and plan for the worst. Just remember a lot of country boys know how to survive under rough conditions...and man can they shoot. ;-)
You want to see the tree of liberty watered with the blood of tyrants and patriots?
I don't want it, but it's looking more and more likely...largely due to tools like yourself.
I have news for you, I am a patriot, and you are a tyrrant.
Those words do not mean what you think they mean. If I've ever seen a politician with tyrannical tendencies, it is 0.
I am a proud gun toting American liberal and I will kill to defend my nation from people like you who would see it deconstructed.
LOL! "Your" nation isn't America...you and your kind are the reason for the saying "take back America".
I have a feeling you're going to get an education over the next few years. You need one desperately.
In the meantime, my side is much better equipped and trained. ;-)
I have done quite a bit of research actually.
Right...
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/jun/20/obama-asserts-executive-privilege-over-ff-docs/?page=all
http://abcnews.go.com/ABC_Univision/News/page/univision-news-investigation-operation-fast-furious-weapons-revealed-17352963
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/11/the-benghazi-drip-drip-drip/
http://www.examiner.com/article/retired-officer-obama-watched-benghazi-attack-happen-sources-say
http://dailycaller.com/2012/08/20/more-than-500-economists-5-nobel-laureates-back-romneys-economic-strategy/
http://money.cnn.com/2012/06/25/news/economy/obama-congress-grades/index.htm
http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/tygrrrr-express/2012/oct/2/real-obama-economic-policy-record/
http://www.ijreview.com/2012/07/10891-top-4-most-wasteful-michelle-obama-vacations/ http://obamagolfcounter.com/
Note the many right-wing sources like CNN and ABC News.
I saved the apology tour for last, as I found several quotes you'll no doubt enjoy:
0's rhetoric and actions have weakened America considerably, which is reflected in the actions of the PRC and Russia in particular.
Just a little research on your part would have done the trick.
However, we're now stuck with 0 for four more long years. I hope you enjoy the disaster that you and the other mindless leeches have ensured.
Time to focus on thriving personally.
Eventually we'll see if patriotic Americans can somehow right the ship of state, or if in fact the great American Experiment has failed forever. I'm concerned that things will get so bad that the Tree of Liberty will receive plenty of its preferred fertilizer before things look up - and that is likely a best-case scenario.
Every one of your "faults" with Obama is a blatant lie.
BS. Brainwashed much?
Fast and Furious was documented to be a local initiative. And your body count is can not be substantiated.
Yeah, it was such a "local initiative" that it's been directly linked to Eric Holder, and 0 has invoked executive privilege to protect his sorry behind. Note that he criticized GWB on using executive privilege, just another example of the endless hypocrisy he exhibits.
The Univision documentary covered the carnage that this program has caused in Mexico.
There was no Benghazi coverup.
"These are not the droids you're looking for..." Right. To those of us with functioning intellects, it's clear the 0 attempted to blame Benghazi on an "internet video", and for two weeks refused to admit terrorist involvement - even though they knew about it the day it happened. Likewise, it was described as a "spontaneous riot", even though they knew there was no riot. There was a live video feed to the White House straight from Bhengazi.
I suspect 0 is hoping not to be re-elected tonight, as the heat regarding Bhengazi will be blazing.
Obama's financial policies are moderate, and would not produce debt if it wasn't for the traitors who took the Norquist pledge to harm America by refusing to raise taxes when necessary.
Wow, total BS again. Policies that vastly expand the national debt aren't "moderate". As to your tax argument, even 0 had to admit that ending the Bush tax policies would kill whatever anemic recovery that was underway.
Obama is not by any means anti-capitalist.
He certainly is, and his track record of killing businesses, excessive regulation, and wealth redistribution speaks for itself.
There was no apology tour.
You just love revisionist history, don't you? Those of us with extensive collections of 0 pics where he's bowing to foreign leaders know otherwise. His rhetoric (in Egypt for instance) has been clearly apologetic for his perceived failings of American policy.
Obama has taken less vacations in his almost 4 years than Bush averaged for every 2 years.
Again, that is bullshit.
I guess you're not counting golf, or the numerous expensive vacations Moochelle has taken on her own.
You're also not considering that GWB actually worked on many of his "vacations" to his ranch or Camp David.
Come back when you can play with the grown ups, and are capable of making truthful statements or arguments that are even remotely valid. I have plenty of gripes against Obama, but they are founded in reality.
You should try comedy, your attempts at factual argument are full of fail.
R&R look to be doing even better than expected...have a fun night! ;-)
A bugger disgrace than George Bush?
A bigger disgrace than Richard Nixon?
How exactly is he more disgraceful than those criminals?
Can you actually explain that?
Sorry it took a bit to respond, I wish I had sooner so more could see it.
First off, GWB wasn't a criminal in any sense of the word. He may have attacked Iraq (along with quite a few other nations) based on faulty intel, but it was intel that was widely believed at the time.
As to Nixon, he was a criminal by virtue of Watergate.
However, 0 trumps both of them easily:
I could go on, but that's certainly enough. I also expect eventually the truth will come out regarding 0's shady social security number, and the reason he's spent millions hiding his school records and admission forms.
Um, you lost me here, why would a greedy venture capitalist give a flying fuck about open-source software? I just did a google search and found nothing relating to WTF you just said, or are you just a Romney-troll in disguise? In that case, you still aren't changing my vote, the O's are in for FOUR MORE YEARS bitch.
The 0's are the biggest disgrace in the history of the Presidency.
They'll be out come January, bet on it. Just try not too cry too hard.
R&R '12!!! It's time to get the economy working again!
Er, "interest Linus a bit" (sigh)
I suggest you go pick up a low end laptop at about lets say 500 dollars. Hook it up to a display that can run 2560x1600 and tell me how it works out for you playing a game on the native resolution vs the 2560x1600
Gaming versus using the laptop for lots of other pixel-intensive things is apples to oranges. Good 2D performance is much easier to achieve.
Some examples of important, primarily 2D activities are web browsing, reading, and...software development. That last one just might interest Linux a bit. ;-)
Aside from all that, you could always run your game at 1/2 resolution (1280x800) and be just as well off as with a crappy display.
"I believe I was speaking, I believe I had the floor"
romney, you are such an asswipe. 4 years of you would be painful. I really hope we don't get screwed like we did with the bush fiasco.
Four years of President Romney will far outshine the past four years. 0 hasn't a clue on how to run a country, nor has he performed as he himself stated he would on the economy or a host of other things. Throw the bum out!
As to the "Bush fiasco" (aside from there not being one), you don't have to worry about that. R&R will win very handily, perhaps to the point of it being a landslide.
Wrap a towel around your head come election night, it may keep it from 'sploding. ;-)/P.
And quoting Breitbart is like quoting Fox News.
I'm sure you noticed that Breitbart was referencing a CNN poll, right? Are you arguing that Breitbart tampered with the numbers, or...?
It appears to be interpreted by the gun lobby as allowing killing someone after deliberately advancing towards potential harm.
If you think about it (a high standard, apparently) you will find a ton of gray area in that. There are a lot of legal, and quite responsible actions, that fall under "advancing towards potential harm".
Never mind the eye witnesses that support GZ's version of events...
The defense has argued that Trayvon was the aggressor and are going to see if his school records and online life back that up. The internet is not some parallel dimension with no relationship to our real lives. If Trayvon was into "Thug Life", MMA, etc... or was suspended for getting into fist fights at school (he was suspended at least 3 times) then this is relevant to the case at hand as it makes the notion that he attacked Zimmerman more believable.
I did see a video from social media that purported to show TM in some kind of HS "fight club". Not good for the prosecution if so.
Of course, the black person wasn't a child, and the white guy was Mexican.
Actually, the white guy is half Peruvian, and half white. Since he was described as a "white Hispanic" I guess we should describe 0bama as a "white African-American". ;-)
Who was the aggressor is hard to say, but what is clear is that this wasn't an attempt to rally white folks against blacks.
Right, instead it was an attempt to railroad Zimmerman and derail "stand your ground" and "Castle Doctrine" laws. Fortunately all that looks to have backfired. I'm hopeful that Zimmerman will walk after the first "stand your ground" review, if in fact the evidence that TM initiated violence continues to be supported.
"Stand your ground" is a very reasonable doctrine, it simply allows self-defense without retreating first.
Very substantive criticism there, genius.
As to 9/11, there was a brief period afterwards where the nation pulled together and the press supported GWB. Before and after that, they hounded him incessantly. For instance, remember all the criticism over gas prices during his second term? Yet here we have gas prices hitting almost $4/gal under 0, with nary a shred of criticism from the fawning, sycophantic press.
I'll get the last laugh though, enjoy President Romney. He will be a big improvement over 0, almost anyone would be...
Except for the part where the president detailed his reaction and the moderator confirmed it.
Except both were wrong, with 0 continuing his track record of constant lying.
The moderater also completely violated her duties - she'll never moderate another debate.
Well, the context is there in plain english. Perhaps you can point out where I'm wrong.
You're not wrong. The proof is that several 0 administration figures (Carney etc.) refused to state it was an act of terrorism for around two weeks after that, instead claiming that it was a "spontaneous act" that arose from a "demonstration" outside the embassy over an "anti-Muslim movie".
Sadly for 0 and his cohorts, the actual facts have emerged, which do not involve any of the original scapegoats. Instead, it's clear that the administration dropped the ball and failed to recognize the threat from al Qaida on the 9/11 anniversary, leading to the murder of several people including the ambassador. That will not help on election day!
As is often the case, it's not so much the original act that gets you in trouble, it's the coverup. If it had been GWB in power, the press would have been all over it. With 0, not so much...but the truth is slowly coming out.
Romney believes in a completely discredited world view on economics and the role of government.
Nonsense. The discredited, outdated approaches are those espoused by 0bama. He deeply believes in the same type of socialistic approach that's led the PIIGS (Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and Spain) to the brink of bankruptcy. Spain and Greece both currently have unemployment over 20%!
Romney's economic ideas are a proven formula for turning around the economy. He will win, and America will prosper again.
Barrack Obama is terrible at actually playing politics, so even if he knows what he should do he's usually incapable of doing it. He managed to win his previous elections by having stuck to reasonably credible policy proposals, and failing to really deliver, Romney is a compulsive liar, who is used to talking to people who drink the same intellectual kool-aid he does, so he panders to whomever is in front of him with whatever they want to hear, but nothing he says is based in reality.
LOL! 0bama is one of the most mendacious politicians I've ever seen. He spouted several outright lies during the debate last night, and will be called out on them today. Romney wasn't my first choice, and at times he gets things wrong, but compared to 0bama he's a paragon of virtue. Heck, he even gives a substantial contribution to charity - not only does 0bama NOT do that, but he doesn't even help family members living in abject poverty. He's a disgrace on many levels.
Given the choice - and given the '3rd party' choices are basically in the romney camp of completely discredited or impractical world views your best bet is Obama.
0bama is the "best bet" if you want to see America continue to whither for another four years. Luckily, everything is lining up for a Romney landslide come November 6.
And before you, or anyone else thinks that's somehow a sad statement about democracy, that is democracy, everywhere. In canada and the UK we have baby republicans Harper and Cameron, Cameron has been caught in a double dip recession precisely because he bought into the same nonsense the republicans have been spewing, while canada is saved by the price of oil.
No politician wants to preside over hard times, but sometimes it takes some hard times to return to the good times. "Spending your way out of poverty" was a bad idea for the US when the national debt was staggering to begin with. It didn't help that the money was spent exceptionally stupidly, and that increased regulation held the economy back as well. Romney's energy plans alone will boost the US economy substantially by the end of his first term.
In France Sarkozy and Hollande were both looking at ways to radically cut the budget deficit, which in the first place is bad economic policy and hollande wants to do so with a 75% tax on the ultrarich, who can just move to switzerland or monaco.
Exactly! What was your point again? 0bama essentially wants to make the same mistakes as Hollande, perhaps on a smaller scale. Meanwhile, the French are about ready to throw Hollande out.
Angela merkel in germany is pushing for european federalism - which might be good policy- a completely untenable prospect politically in europe, and so on and so on.
The situation in Europe is yet to be resolved, and there will seismic shifts before it's done. The Eurozone may very well fall apart. We'll see over the next year or so.
On the rare occasions politicians are actually capable of looking at and understanding evidence they usually don't know how translate that into actual action.
I think you'll find that Romney and Ryan will be very effective. I'm sure you'll enjoy a more prosperous, powerful and influential America going forward. Right? ;-)
It's kinda like putting serial numbers on hypodermic needles and making heroin legal enough to sell at Walmart.
Clearly you've never been to a Wal-Mart around here.
Last time I was there, it had M-4 clones from Colt and S&W, and a DPMS AR-10 in 7.62x51 NATO. Not to mention a couple of combat-style shotguns...
You really like the Mac, but although I like it too, if I had to pick Mac or Linux, I'd stick with my Linux machines. But then again, I'm not hugely into eye-candy; I tend to prefer lean and functional, even if it's not as aesthetically pleasing.
I like Linux a lot as well, don't get me wrong. It's sure embodies the spirit of the techie culture more than any other OS!
There is more to the Mac than mere eye-candy though. Fairly consistent user interfaces across apps is a major contrast with the variety of UI kits/conventions on Linux. Drag-and-drop that works just about everywhere is also a nice improvement. I've also become a fan of the MacOS programming model, Obj-C and Xcode, and there's really no Linux equivalent for those.
Most importantly to me, though, is that the Mac is a reasonable target for commercial software. That's good both as a developer and a consumer. iOS development is just icing on the cake! :-)
Off-topic: that's got to be one of the funniest sigs I've seen in a while :)
Thanks, I've used it for quite a while now. What I like most about it is the second-order humor regarding /.ers down-modding unpopular positions that happen to be correct. ;-)
Yep, I'm fairly "impervious to any contrary evidence" because it's crystal clear to me that 0bama and his policies are horrible for the US.
It's time for him to head for his cushy 1% retirement in Hawaii! At least he has some golf skills now...