No one appeared to notice the item pulled from Apple’s “Fun New Products” Event Coverage today.
Looks like the missing item might have been compared to the MicroSoft’s Origami. Or maybe Apple is waiting for the patents to be awarded.
Conspiracies
The Boxer can’t knit
I mentioned in a previous post that if Sinn Fein was to enter politics that it would be like a boxer entering a knitting contest. Well due to the riots it surely looks like the boxer can’t knit.
By allowing the scumbag thugs of the more violent factions of Sinn Fein to riot, destroy property assault Garda, reporters and anyone else who happened to be in the wrong place. They have shown that they are not motivated to extend the same liberties that allow them to speak, to others of the opposing voice. Demonstrating that their most potent arguments are those of the common bully.
And while the Unionist are laughing it up, their motivations are clear also, confrontation and incitement. Celebrating the victims of the IRA, while not honoring the victims of Unionist violence is equally one sided.
No one is honoring the Flag of the Irish Republic. And even I, as a ‘blow-in’ Irishman, know what they stand for. And anyone who crosses that white line between the the Green and Orange deservers to be instructed in the definition of Peace.
Far Right Wingnuts pull out hair!
This article is probably making the far right pull their hair out.
Bush, Congress clash over ports sale
Lawmakers want to halt UAE takeover; Bush threatens veto
Now who is it that is trying to protect the U..S. from attacks originating from the sea ports? The United Arab Emirates you say. Very interesting, isn’t that where some of the 9/11 bombers call home? Ok, if Bush said it’s Ok.
Now what is the Presidents role in Commercial governance?
An Update: The President of the United States supports Islamic World Domination. Very Interesting George Bush is a closet Muslim
Democracy is philosophically complex
When ever I hear some one proclaiming that they are striving to bring ‘Democracy to the world’ I shutter, and then mark it down as some one else who does not know what they are talking about. The following is an example of why I know they don’t know what they advocate when they say such things.
U.S. and Israelis Are Said to Talk of Hamas Ouster
The professed supporter of Democracy usually means that they support democracy so long as they win, or that the winners believe the same things as, and fall into line with, the speakers own agenda. The U.S. and Israeli politicians believed that the winners in the Palestinian election would be clones of themselves. And that is just not going to happen in a true Democracy.
The previous government in Palestine was corrupt, detached and did not help, or reflect the needs of the people they were elected to work for.
And if you think this is revolutionary, try reading the rest of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, Bill of Rights and the Constitution.
Simpleton minds, hearing simplistic rhetoric often misunderstand what democracy really means. The form of government that the U.S. (and U.K, and most of the western ‘democracies’) exercises, is not a pure democracy, but a republic, with democratic foundations, governed by Laws that prevent Majorities from overturning minority rights. Such things as Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Religion are protections for minorities, they prevent the rule of the mob from overcoming the rights of the minority.
More on Externalities
This is Classic externality, the Oil companies profit, and the the world pays the price. Climate ‘makes oil profit vanish’ This is a misleading headline, it should read “Oil companies Profit, world pay’s climate costs”
Blonds are more Isolationist
Now we know why the republicans fear so much, them poor white folk of the RNC are Blonds.
Blonde children exhibit more fear response?
Details here:
Association of behavioral inhibition with hair pigmentation in a European sample
The New Dark Age
Over at this blog post The Cartoon War
I agree with his “cynical assumption”, I believe this has been orchestrated, and if Muslim’s are feeling increasingly beleaguered, they should get in line.
The greater mass of the general population is increasingly isolated from the functioning of their own governments. Control of events has long since been passed into a very few hands. Partly into the corporate multi-nationals and the ruling elite and partly into their religious proxies in the extremes of both the Muslim an Christian fundamentalist.
The tools are simple, fear and righteousness. Blind obedience, the only condition for membership in the crusade.
But I also believe that while the cartoons were gratuitously inflammatory, you won’t see embassies burnt when the Muslims print holocaust cartoons (which is historic, and not religious). Nor have they when other cartoons printed in Muslims papers deplicting Jews and Christians in an unflattering way have been printed.
We are entering into another dark age where religions rule the minds of the public. And we are ruled by a democratic mob.
Idolizing Cleric’s
It is allowed to Idolize Cleric’s who interpret Muhammad, but it’s not allowed to display a depiction of Muhammad?
This just rings as another religious hypocrisy, as there are no paintings, photos or drawings of Muhammad (that’s forbidden), you can only depict what you believe Muhammad looked like, just like you can depict a laughing Jesus. It’s only someone’s ‘opinion’ of what Jesus, or Muhammad looks like not the real thing.
It’s only an Idol, if you believe that it’s a true representation of what Muhammad, or Jesus, looks like. So if you are motivated to burn down buildings and attack others it’s because that you believe the depiction IS Muhammad or Jesus, and that the depiction desecrates the TRUE image of Muhammad, or Jesus. And that makes no sense at all, as no one has see either of them for thousands of years.
Perhaps that’s why they burn national flags, as if a countries soul is embodied in the fabric somehow.
Perhaps Muhammad was correct, no Icons, no imagined images of him, his cleric’s or his flags. That might make more sense.
If you can’t Stop the Government lying, File Suit.
I love this stuff. This falls under an earlier post I made about using the Civil Courts to preserve the rights of the common citizen from the government and big business. And this covers both.
EFF sues AT&T over U.S. wiretapping program
Discussions here:
Empire Building better than ‘isolationism’
During The State of the Union George Bush declared:
“In a complex and challenging time, the road of isolationism and protectionism may seem broad and inviting, yet it ends in danger and decline,” he said. “The only way to protect our people, the only way to secure the peace, the only way to control our destiny is by our leadership, so the United States of America will continue to lead.”
Read here, that the U.S. will continue to Empire Build the American way. And that minding your own business is now called ‘Isolationism’.
More here
About Peacekeepers, worth a read.
Freedom of the Press is an expensive asset
Sometimes an asset can be a very expensive. But the Danes should be proud of the comments by their Prime Minister here Danes face growing Muslim storm
“The Danish government cannot apologise on behalf of a Danish newspaper. It does not work like that… and we have explained that to the Arab countries. Independent media are not edited by the government,”
Defending the freedom of the press can be a hard thing to do, but a correct one. All things in context, the Danes are free to do what they have elected by their own laws to allow. And extreme reactions to the sovereignty of a nation should not be violated by any nation, or religion.
Freedom of Speech
It has been expressed to me that, Freedom of Speech does not also grant Freedom to be Heard. But what is one without the other. What outrage you can generate when a freedom is taken from you. Some lessons are hard to learn, some loses beyond replacement.
Such are the freedoms granted by the Constitution of the United States of America. Their grant, precious beyond words, their revocations beyond any single president.
A good Abramoff link and the bipartisan lie.
A good link about the true nature of the bribes.
Moral Ethics, what a concept.
You know the world is changing when the Spies have more ethics than the Executive Branch of the government they serve.
An Exotic Tool for Espionage: Moral Compass
I hope they can bring the true American values, and ethical morality that has gone missing as of late.