May 16, 2008
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Sick that fundamentalism has taken hold. Death threats are no the true nature of a free country. The comments make it clear these people are not sane.
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This means we can now decry Bush’s help in recruiting terrorism by not capturing Al Quaeda in Afghanistan, and then by creating a cesspool of recruitment in the mire that is the Iraq War.
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So MS waits it out, looks like it backed away but instead wisely lets the shareholders revolt. Icahn has a track recording of forcing outcomes and interesting to see Cuban get back at the co. that made him a player in the first place
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This is everything wrong with the Republican party, not conservatives, but the RP. It has been taken by fundamentalism and destroys any opposition (they call it unpatriotic/ unchristian thought). McCain gives hope that it will find it’s way again
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Installing WinXP on a macbook sucks, works wonderfully with Fusion but takes up way too much spcae, nifty guide for slimming it down
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I see this often, the trouble kids have over the internet with each other. Had to investigate a few. When adults get in the middle it is pure evil. I hope she does time and we can plaster this on school walls as warning.

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May 15, 2008

As far as Sam is concerned, these could be random shapes, but he does not understand that this is our feeble attempt to force feed academic knowledge at all times of the day to turn him into a super-genius. This is required of all that would like to maintain their good parent status. In order to back off he will have to have grey matter oozing from one of his nostrils and be able to tell us to “relax” in 3 different languages (one of which must be a Latin or Greek, his choice). It is disheartening that despite these efforts he is more entertained by drinking the bath water and yanking his junk. We shall persevere. Dammit.
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May 15, 2008
especially if you are politician using new media to get you where you want to go. Big money presidential politics have learned the good lesson from Deans failed run. Edwards jumped on Twitter early, most of the big names have blogs. [Clinton, McCain] They all have Facebook and Myspace pages. The blogs, instead of writing as obviously ghost written first person, they take “contributions” from supporters, staffers and etc. but it is still just PR snapshots meant to “serve” as internet savvy connection. Then they spam it like there is no tomorrow [like Hillary's twitter is nothing but links to their site], rendering all of its connective goodness useless as you hit the delete but on that “friend”
Obama has had a different spin. His tweets have been absent the fake first person, more informative and far from spammy numbers. They balance between the requisite links back to links to other stuff (beneficial comments) or just simply “We are at…”. They friend you back rather than just gathering a ton of followers and who knows if they actually follow, they have to be checking for the name drop nonetheless. But when I added his campaign account on Flickr to my contact list someone actually wrote back.

Now, to entertain the cynic, it is not truly personal and they obviously haven’t looked at my photos (I checked the stats). Very well could have a rote message that automatically populates my name. But at least they made the effort to manufacture a real sounding message (for my part I believe they actually have a few interns running the web game and really respond) and best of all, they didn’t fake it from Obama. They kept it really, signed by the girl in charge of running the account. It feels more like a real connection. I can’t fool myself that they would let him spend the crazy hours answering back crackpots like me.
But if they could ever figure out how to aggregate that message that I am sure comes back in a real and authenticate way, include it in the coversation on the stump or even tweak policy in response, populist might get a 21st century make over
Just for the hell of it, I asked, via Twitter, if they reply. Will check back if there is a reply.

Update - Obama’s Twitter replied

Cool.
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May 15, 2008
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If you find yourself in need of speciality paper (musica stave, lined, accounting) but just need a sheet, this is the place for you. Print it out on your printer for the cost of your paper (and the ink).
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1. didn’t he endorse HIllary soon after he left 2. I still dig an Obama - Edwards ticket.
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May 14, 2008
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Having been stuck in schools for way too much of my natural life this is something we need to be looking at. Take a look at the box OCPS builds now as schools and how our children will spend the majority of the years 5 through 18.
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In case you are interested in meeting the Obamanator (and lose $250) he is here on May 21st
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May 10, 2008
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Thats right, solve puzzles for science
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The girl is going down. End it gracefully and save 6.4 mill
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I was thinking that things were getting pricey, but it seems it is just a figment of my imagination. I should just listen to .gov more often. Gonna to buy a new TV today since I found out I am actually rich
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Re-grow your junk. For real. A possible pixie dust to allow cells to re-grow rather than scar. The pig bladder thing is weird but cool nonetheless
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Almost as good as when they take them out by ramming their car. Love how he drops HC.
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More pile on

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May 9, 2008

I have never understood advertising or messages on moving vehicles. I can see the point of semi-trucks getting a dose of advert largeness on the side of the trailers. Park em and they are instant billboards. I thought that the “In memory…” messages were too much. Then I was stuck behind the Jesus-mobile.
The message isn’t offensive but the colors are. A color blind person is going to miss at least have the message and wonder why the hell some whack job tossed random laminate letters all over their car. The message repeats incessantly over the entire car like it has the same effect as subliminal messaging. Instead it has the unintended effect of a Crayola box screaming religious mantras at you in I-4 traffic.
I guess this also makes the car a lifetime purchase. I see no getting the decals off after years of baked on sun love from the Florida sky. Plus what happens if this thing totals out. Imagine the message as you drive by the mangled wreck, “Jesus loves you but can’t teach you how to drive”. Maybe there is faith built into the evil repelling nature of the letters. Or just that the wild colors blind the on coming drunk causing them to veer off into the way of some poor lost, unforgiven soul.
I don’t think Jesus had this in mind when he sent is disciples out to the world.
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May 9, 2008
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Runs on air, slick and light UI. Not as crazy powerful as Twhirl (which spazzed out on me) but is my new twitter client. There are AIR issues but this is open source and might crowd source past that
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Please Stop.
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Way cool hack for super charging your handy dandy canon point and shoot. Gonna try it out on my a540
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It is Hillary’s turn to now be MCCain’s best friend. Assclown politicians. Democrats have been handed the election for them to lose. Proving that incompetency is not a red thing

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