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Comment on Filipino-American achievement by Obamas keep WH chef « Audible Smirk

Obamas keep WH chef « Audible Smirk — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 22:56:30 +0000

[...] a prominent Filipino-American. Who said that Ms. Comerford was a prominent Filipino-American? Why, George W. Bush. While answering questions in the Oval Office with President Gloria Arroyo of the Philippines, Bush [...]

Comment on Microsoft says you’re deluded about Vista, or why not Windows Classic? by Microsoft Mojave Experiment is back « Audible Smirk

Microsoft Mojave Experiment is back « Audible Smirk — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 02:38:15 +0000

[...] November 26, 2008 Indeed, if it ever went anywhere. Earlier in the year, Microsoft launched its Mojave Experiment ad campaign to great ridicule in the IT community. Yesterday, I saw a Mojave ad on NBC I believe, [...]

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Comment on About by Sandesh

Sandesh — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 05:09:48 +0000

Nice blog Thomas
keep writing ………..!!!

Comment on Pro and con Palin by michaelhill

michaelhill — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 05:08:34 +0000

Decidedly Pro.
I am a 50 year old white guy who is tired of the good old boys that have screwed up this nation.
My mom wouldn’t screw it up and I feel secure in the thought most other moms wouldn’t either.
I live just outside of DC and I have more than a feeling of what goes on in there after watching it for years, The same guys that advise that dumb ass Bush advised LBJ about Vietnam, Nixon about Watergate and Reagan about the Iran-contra fiasco. It’s the same old guys folks and the old guy point of view sucks. We might as well be living the Cold War again because they still want to talk about pre-emptive strikes, nuclear if necessary. It scares me that we still have dumb fucks with that point of view.
I side with Palin because she is a Washington outsider. If you live in the DC metropolitan area and take a trip to the Midwest you see a different America that what you are told of in the DC area.
The “outside of the beltway” point of view is what America is really all about. When you get a bunch of gray haired old white men that have been in congress or the senate for half of their lives arguing about the means in which tax dollars are to be spent they lose touch with reality and hang on to the same old shit.
Whether they be liberal democrats or conservative republicans they don’t change. One of the things I don’t like about the DC area is it is largely very liberal democrat.
I can sum it up in this phrase – “The closer you get to the government milk the better the free social programs”.

The liberal media has had their fun with Palin and the VEEP debates added to their ignorant frivolty.
As far as experience, OBAMA has been a part time senator the entire time he has been in office. The pablum sucking Kennedys were the first to back him and Ted had a hard on. What this means to all of the OBAMA supporters is he is backed by the almighty DNC. He then picked BIDEN as a running mate and they paired together as two of the most liberal senators in Washington running for pres/vp.
MCCAIN is the old guy that is a Vietnam war vet and still gets no respect for it. My dad was a Vietnam war vet.
MCCAIN seletected PALIN and which is the breath of fresh air to the whole election season.
Most of America has pitted OBAMA against PALIN as that is the most visible part of the campaigns.
The sad part is the news channels have basically written OBIDEN in as president. Given the fact they are all liberal to the core they hope to influence the vote of the entire nation as they keep on with their biased polls and reporting.

Go SARAH.
She will be on capital hill as a senator or in congress if she doesn’t make it as VP. Count on that.

Comment on Broken Britain by James Taylor

James Taylor — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 22:08:41 +0000

Great that our American cousins are picking up the theme.

Britain is broken. There is no doubt about it but there are plenty of questions around the reasons why.

I would say we have failed because the state has been allowed further and further into our lives. Britons are responsibility bi-polar: on one hand they’re responsible for nothing (the behaviour of their children, for instance) and on the other they’re responsible for the minutiae of other people’s lives (teachers take it upon themselves to rifle through children’s school lunchboxes for verboten foodstuffs in the interests of the nation’s health). This has happened because the government has conditioned us to big state intervention using tools like fear and the illusion of protection through things like surveillance and ID cards.

Shrinking the state needs to be a priority for Britain in the coming years. People need to take responsibility for their own lives and the state should trust them to do that. The price of greater trust should be greater penalties for stepping out of line and a greater chance of being brought to justice. We also need to encourage an over-arching British culture similar to the American culture: British multiculturalism has failed completely: people need to come here and stay here on the basis that they’re British (whatever that means) and that they want to be British and enjoy British culture. There’s room for sub-culture but British citizens must be British first and foremost.

The Conservatives — hotly tipped to win the next election — used to believe in these things. We have no idea whether they still do as Brown’s government has gone into meltdown and the Conservatives are too clever to mess it all up by having challenging policies.

I hope that they’re listening and that they will do what is right for our country.

http://brokenbritain.org

Comment on As the Lower 48 faces economic collapse, refugees will flee to Alaska by pacer521

pacer521 — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 14:27:15 +0000

wow

Comment on Greenspan on IT workers by raymondwberg

raymondwberg — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 16:08:04 +0000

I agree with your assessment, and believe that his is very, very off-base. I’m an IT professional, or will be soon, and the reality of the matter is that the gap doesn’t start with us. I’m also very cautious when it comes to statements indicating that “people make to much”. I think the issue is the tax system now, and I believe it needs to be addressed before we move to even more destabilization in the technology field.

Comment on The McDonalds vs The Campbells by thomaslfowler

thomaslfowler — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 12:48:42 +0000

Screen name? I am surrounded by people who visibly smirk. I could imagine them smirking even if I couldn’t see their faces. My other senses kicked in, so I could imagine myself hearing them smirk behind my back. I suppose it is also possible to telepathically smirk as well, though this is not a proven concept.